3rd Biology Conference 2020
December 11 - 13, 2020, ICISE, Quy Nhon, Vietnam
December 11 - 13, 2020, ICISE, Quy Nhon, Vietnam
The Third Rencontres de Quy Nhon - Biology Conference 2020 was the fruit of a collaboration between the International Centre for Interdisciplinary Science and Education (ICISE), the multi-university organizing committee Life Science Links, the scientific association Rencontres du Vietnam, the Vietnam-France University (USTH), and highly-reputed industrial partners across the country. With a view to exchanging expertise and initiating potential cooperation in the field of biological sciences in Vietnam, the conference drew the attention of almost 300 high-profile scientists, both national and international, presenting state-of-the-art technologies and the latest discoveries in their research. This annual meeting featured the talks of 16 invited senior scientists, 56 oral presentations, and 127 poster communications in three different sessions as follows.
In the session A, dedicated to medical biotechnologies, there were 19 oral presentations and 42 posters selected from over a hundred abstracts. Participating scientists in this session came from various institutions from all over Vietnam working in medicine-related fields.
In the session B, a total of 19 oral presentations and 42 posters were selected from more than one hundred of submitted abstracts. These researches related to medicinal natural products, biochemistry, bioinformatics and drug development. Together with other sessions, it played an irreplaceable role in life sciences, witnessing the participation of a large audience. A linkage between traditional and modern medicine, particularly in the treatment of cancer, diabetes and infectious diseases, e.g. by means of artificial intelligence, was thoroughly discussed in this session.
The third and final session covered plant biology, high-tech farming, mycology, aquaculture, and environmental biology (Session P). A total of 18 talks and 42 posters were selected from approximately a hundred applicants. The attendants had the opportunity to share knowledge of a wide range of research areas, e.g. effective micropropagation, gene regulatory networks in plant development, molecular markers, environmental biotechnologies to build and develop sustainable aquaculture, bioactivities of plant extraction, as well as plant and microorganism interactions.
To encourage young scientists in their research, a number of prizes were awarded to some of the most impressive presentations in each session.
The prizes for the best oral communications were attributed to Msc. Nguyen Huu Hong Thu from USTH for her talk on the trans-differentiation of human immortalized mesenchymal stem cells (iMSC) by the transcription factor PAX6 and the compound ECDD-S18 (session A), Ph.D. Lam Do Phuong Uyen from the Pham Ngoc Thach University of Medicine with a study on the genome-identified MEP1A gene variants linked to insulin metabolism and vitamin D deficiency in women with polycystic ovary syndrome (session B). Especially, in Session P, several distinguish excellent oral presentations were certified. Actually, it was difficult to classify which was the best one. We very hardest worked with big difficulties. Finally, we thus decided to attribute two most impressive reports. One was the report of Ph.D. candidate Phan Le Ha Nguyen from Tay Nguyen Institute for Scientific Research on “Effects of Silver nanoparticles on micropropagation of strawberry, another was the report of Ph.D. Nguyen Van Binh from the Dalat University on some new achievements in Panax genus research. We were happy also to certify the talk on achievement in microponic culture system in large-scale plantlets production of chrysanthemum of Ph.D. Hoang Thanh Tung from Tay Nguyen Institute for Scientific research.
The best poster awards were conferred upon Ph.D. Le Hoang Duy Minh from the University of Sciences, Hue University for his work on the effects of piper betel leaf extracts on fibroblast and mesenchymal stem cells (session A), Ph.D. Nguyen Thuy Vy from the University of Sciences, VNU-HCMC for the development of HPDB, a web-based platform for Helicobacter pylori genomic data analysis (session B), and Ph.D. Mai Thi Phuong Nga from the University of Science and Technology of Hanoi for her research on dissecting the genetic elements regulating the phosphate use efficiency in a Vietnamese rice collection (session P).
All in all, the conference promotes scientific spirit of both early-career and highly experienced researchers in biology, proving to be a pioneering platform for fruitful collaborations between scientists from different ages and various institutions. Together, we aspire to share and learn from each other in a real scientific atmosphere in the next biology conference in 2021.
Sincerely,
Organizing Team
3rd Biology Conference - Quy Nhon, Vietnam
LifeScienceLinks
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