1. Biotechnology: Innovations, Translation and IPR    

• Innovations in Biotechnology
• Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities and Threats (SWOT) in biotechnology
• Industry-academia collaborations
• Technology Transfer
• Biotechnology patents, IPR and licensing issues
• Skill development, Global partnerships
• Design, Innovation, Skill Development, Startups : A way forward
• Biosafety Regulations; Intellectual Property Rights
• Ethical Issues
• Nanomedicine for Diasease diagnosis & therapy
• Targeted Drug Delivery and nanocarriers
• Biological and medical nano devices

2. Nano Biotechnology: A revolutionary Approach

• Nano-toxicology
• Toxicology and risk assessment of nanomedicine systems
• Microfluidics in nanomedicine and nanobiology
• Nanofabricated Devices
• Translational Dimensions of Nanobiotechnology in various sectors

3. Food and Agriculture Biotechnology    

• Agriculture, Environment and Biotechnology
• Agro-bioprocessing Technology, Agro-industry
• Livestock, Pests and Aquaculture
• Recombinant DNA Techniques
• Indigenous Food Production, GM Foods
• Plant, People and Environment
• Transgenic Plants and Crops
• Functional Food and Nutritional Supplements
• Translational Genomics and Genomics-assisted Breeding
• Plant Microbe Interactions
• Food Microbiology
• Plant Stress Physiology and Molecular Biology
• Nutrient regulation/Nutritional Biology
• Food Standards,Safety and Security
• Innovative strategies for sustainable agriculture

4. Medical Biotechnology: A Translational Perspective

• Biopharmaceutical Manufacturing
• Biomaterials
• Clinical Research/Clinical trials
• Biomedical and Rehabilitation Devices and Biosensors
• Biomedical imaging and Biosignal Processing, Biomedical robotics, Biometrics
• Discovery platforms, Target identification and validation
• Biomarker research
• Biologics, biosimilars and immunogenicity
• Vaccine biology
• Cell based therapies
• Immune regulation and immune deficiency disorders
• Toxicogenomics, Disease genomics
• Pharmacogenomics and personalized medicine
• Biofilm and Quorum sensing
• Microbial Drug Resistance

5. Environment Biotechnology    

• Microbial Diversity
• Photosynthetic Microorganisms, Cyanobacteria and Microalgae
• Agriculture and soil microbiology
• Environmental, marine and aquatic microbiology
• Geo-microbiology
• Bioremediation; Bio-monitoring
• Biotechnology for Environmental Sustainability
• Bioprospecting, Biodiversity, Traditional Knowledge, Sustainable development
• Environment Applications of Marine Biotechnology; Bio products and Bioactive Compounds
• Waste Management
• Medical, veterinary and pharmaceutical microbiology

6. Industrial Biotechnology

• Microbial Technology and its applications
• Industrial Microbiology
• Fermentation Processes
• Bio-fuels and Bioenergy
• Enzymes and Innovations
• Synthetic Biology and Sustainable Productivity
• Fermentation and Metabolic Engineering
• Natural Products and Special Chemicals
• Bioengineering and Downstream processing

7. Bioinformatics and Computational Biology    

• Structural bioinformatics
• Pharmacoinformatics and computer-aided drug design
• Systems biology
• Mathematical modeling in biosciences
• Information and communication technologies (ICT) tools in biology
• Database technologies, machine learning and data mining
• Comparative Genomics