Subject Classification
Omes and Omics
genomics, functional genomics, pharmacogenomics, oncogenomics, chemogenomics, toxicogenomics, nutrigenomics, epigenomics, metagenomics, proteomics, pharmacoproteomics, phosphoproteomics, synthetic genomics and proteomics, genomic medicine, RNOmics, transcriptomics, metabolomics, interactomics, methylomics, phenomics, viromics, algal, fungal, and bacterial omics, immunomics, cellomics, organelle-omics, physiomics, cytomics, kinomics, glycomics, lipidomics, receptoromics, plant-omics, transgenomics, integrative omics, other omes and omics
Biomarker and Molecular basis of diseases
Biomarkers in clinical, medical & pharmaceutical research, disease biomarkers, new biomarkers, drugs exposure, genetic effect, biomarkers applications, metabolic, membrane, receptor and immunological disorders, biochemistry of differentiation disorders, tissue damage and aging.
Molecular medicine
Gene therapy, molecular structural analysis, genetic epidemiology and molecular and clinical pharmacology, prevention, diagnosis and treatment of human diseases, human biology and path physiology, gene technology
Pharmacology and Pharmacodynamics
Pharmacometrics, Computational & statistical animal model, pharmacodynamic data., anti-infective drugs, biopharmaceuticals, cancer pharmacology, cardiovascular pharmacology, drug safety & toxicology, endocrine & metabolic pharmacology, gastrointestinal pharmacology, genitourinary & renal pharmacology, immunopharmacology & Inflammation, molecular & cellular mechanisms, neuropharmacology, pharmacokinetics & drug metabolism, respiratory system pharmacology, social impact of pharmacology, pharmacovigilence, pharmacoepidemiology, pharmacometrics, and population pharmacology
Molecular cell biology
Molecular biology of eukaryotic and prokaryotic cells, cellular morphology and function, genome organization, regulation of genetic expression, morphogenesis, and somatic cell genetics, stem cells
Molecular physiology, psychology, and neuroscience
Mechanisms of physiological control, structure and function of cell membranes, contractile systems, cellular organelles, and membrane channels, transporters, and pumps, integrated regulation of cellular function, mechanisms of signal transduction, development, gene expression, cell-to-cell interactions, and the cell physiology of patho-physiological states, pre-clinical and clinical research at the cellular, molecular, integrative, epidemiological, translational, clinical, imaging, psychopharmacology, and treatment outcome levels, molecular structure, function, and development of the nervous system, molecular, cellular, systems and cognitive neuroscience, as well as psychophysics, computational modeling and diseases of the nervous system.
Applied Microbiology and Immunology
Biodegradation & biodeterioration, biofertilizers & biopesticides, biopolymers & biosurfactants, mushrooms, secondary metabolites (antibiotics, amino acids, vitamins, organic acids, etc), anaerobic microbiology, mycology, microbial ecology & biodiversity, composting & vermicomposting, agricultural microbiology, food microbiology, virology, immunology, antigen-antibody, Immunogenic techniques, biomining, antibody engineering, T-cell therapies, therapies exploiting innate immunity (e.g. complement) nucleic acid vaccines, computational analysis.
Biophysics and Biochemistry
Structure & dynamics of biological macromolecules; membrane biophysics and ion channels; cell biophysics &organisation; macromolecular assemblies; biophysical methods & instrumentation; advanced microscopics, system dynamics, biocatalysis, enzymes & industrial enzymes, protein chemistry & engineering, protein targeting, peptide mapping, biophysics, cellular & molecular biology, chemical biology, computational chemistry, biochemical mechanisms, bioenergetics
Structural biology
structural analysis of living material, molecular and supermolecular structure, light microscopy including confocal microscopy, all types of electron microscopy, X-ray diffraction, nuclear magnetic resonance, scanning force microscopy, scanning probe microscopy, and tunneling microscopy, digital image processing, computational insights into structure, structural organization of cells and tissues, their membranes, compartments, organelles and supramolecular assemblies, to the structure and conformation of proteins and nucleic acids from the molecular to the atomic level
Computational biology
Mathematical modeling and simulation, distributed and parallel biological computing, designing biological databases, pattern matching and pattern detection, dinking disparate databases and data, new tools for computational biology, relational and object-oriented database technology for bioinformatics, biological expert system design and use, reasoning by analogy, hypothesis formation, and testing by machine, management of biological databases
Bioinformatics and Systems biology
Reverse engineering of biological circuits, data mining methods for genomics & proteomics, signal processing theory & techniques for systems biology, modeling and simulation of biological networks, nanotechnology in genomics and proteomics, sequence analysis, information theoretic approaches to genomics and proteomics, microarray image and data analysis, noise models in high-throughput technologies, integration of heterogeneous data, bioinformatics; algorithms; data disconsolation, modeling and systems biology: kinetics-based models and constraints-based models
Plant and Agri-biotechnology
Crop improvement (resistance to stress, disease, pests), nutraceuticals, forest biotechnology, gene-containment strategies, agricultural biotechnology (cellular, chromosomal, enzymatic, genetic, and fermentation engineering) of plants, animals, and relevant microorganisms (including nitrogen fixing bacteria and pathogens), and related biochemistry and structural analysis
Animal biotechnology
Identification and manipulation of genes and their products, stressing applications in domesticated, animals, cell and molecular biology, immunogenetics, transgenic animals, and microbiology
Environmental biotechnology
Bioremediation, bemoaning, phytoremediation, monitoring, aerobic and anaerobic digestion, biotransformation, biofiltration, biosorption of heavy metals, effluent treatment, environmental bioengineering, solid waste management, waste water treatment, environmental chemistry, environmental biology, ecology, environmental health and toxicology, geosciences
Nano-biotechnology
Nanomaterials for use in drug delivery or as therapeutics, nanomaterials for use in industrial biotechnology, nano sensors, nanosystems for imaging molecules and cells, nano-technologies for biology and medicine, micro- and nano- fluidics, scanning probe microscopy in biology and medicine, nano-mechanics, biological microelectromechanical systems (Bio-MEMS) , self-assembly of biological molecules, structure and dynamics of surfaces and thin films of biological and synthetic polymers, quantitation of molecular interactions, technologies for detection and analysis of individual biological molecules, chemical sensitivity on a nanometre scale, high throughput biological assays and their miniaturization, arrays of biological molecules, novel materials for biomedical applications, biocompatibility of materials, molecular engineering
Bio-engineering and bio-processing
Enzyme systems and their applications, including enzyme reactors, purification, and applied aspects of protein engineering, animal-cell biotechnology, including media development, applied aspects of cellular physiology, metabolism, and energetic, biocatalysis and applied enzymology, including enzyme reactors, protein engineering, and nanobiotechnology, biothermodynamics, biofuels, including biomass and renewable resource engineering, miomaterials, including delivery systems and materials for tissue engineering, bioprocess engineering, including kinetics and modeling of biological systems, transport phenomena in bioreactors, bioreactor design, monitoring, and control, biosensors and instrumentation, computational and systems biology, including bioinformatics and genomic/proteomic studies, environmental biotechnology, including biofilms, algal systems, and bioremediation, fundamental and applied aspects of food biotechnology, metabolic and cellular engineering, plant-cell biotechnology, spectroscopic and other analytical techniques for biotechnological applications, synthetic biology, tissue engineering, stem-cell bioengineering, regenerative medicine, gene therapy and delivery systems
Drug discovery
Target discovery, rational drug design, combinatorial and parallel synthesis, medicinal chemistry, key compound classes, natural products, high-throughput screening, novel therapeutic approaches to disease states, micro arrays, bioinformatics and chemo informatics, absorption, distribution, metabolism and elimination (ADME), pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamics, pharmacology, drug delivery, biopharmaceuticals, vaccines, clinical trial evaluation, regulatory issues
High throughput screening and Imaging techniques
Plant biotechnology, Marine biotechnology, Modern biotechnology, Leather biotechnology, Agronomy, Systems biotechnology, High-Throughput and microarray technologies, Synthetic biology and metabolic engineering, Translational biotechnology, Methods and advances, Biosafety, Biotech ethics, Biopharmaceutics
Translational therapeutics and Clinical trials
Clinical therapeutics and risk management, clinical studies in all therapeutic areas, outcomes, safety, and programs for the effective, safe, and sustained use of medicine, nature, action, efficacy, and evaluation of therapeutics, translational, predictive and personalized medicine, new therapeutic modalities including gene and cell therapies, human investigation and clinical trials.
Molecular evolution and speciation
Structure and function of proteins, nucleic acids and other macromolecules, structure and function of multi-component complexes, DNA replication, repair and recombination, chromatin structure and remodeling, transcription, RNA processing, translation, regulation of transcription and translation, functions of noncoding RNAs, protein folding, processing and degradation, sorting and trafficking of proteins and RNA, signal transduction and intracellular signaling, membrane processes, cell surface proteins and cell-cell interactions, molecular basis of disease.
Climatology and Space biology
Agricultural and forestry climatology, bioclimatology, climate data quality and instrumentation, environmental climatology, hydroclimatology, human dimensions of climate risk and socioeconomic impact assessments, and climate services administration
Cosmic prebiotic chemistry, planetary evolution , search for planetary systems and habitable zones, origins, evolution and distribution of life, extremophile biology and experimental simulation of extraterrestrial environments, life Detection in our solar system and beyond, technologies and space missions for astrobiology, and planetary protection, human expansion, ecosystems beyond Earth and terraforming, intelligent life and societal aspects of astrobiology
Renewable energy resources and recycling
Biofuel, biomass & bioenergy, microbial fuel cells, Renewable energy sources, feedstock utilization, agronomy, Bioprocessing & value added products/byproducts, crop improvement, nutraceuticals, forest biotech, Photovoltaic technology conversion, solar thermal applications, wind energy technology, materials science technology, energy conservation in buildings, climatology and meteorology (geothermal, wave and tide, ocean thermal energies, mini hydro power and hydrogen production technology), socio-economic and energy management
Intellectual Property Rights
IPR news, patent news, copyright and trademark news, key patents, and other issues
Life science market economics
Medical devices and market potential, agricultural and food production, consumption and trade, rural development, and resource use and conservation, multiple roles of agriculture, trade and development, industrial organisation of the food sector, institutional dynamics, consumer behaviour, sustainable resource use, bioenergy; agricultural, agri-environmental and rural policy.
Entrepreneurship and Commercialization
New venture creation, opportunity recognition, marketing of innovative technologies, strategic dimensions of growth, the entrepreneur as manager of a growing company, financing company growth, internationalization and growth, the acquisitions process of a growing company, teaching entrepreneurship, strategic alliances, new forms of organization, women and entrepreneurship, entrepreneurial behaviour in large organizations, entrepreneurship in developing countries, making allies in business, ethics, the entrepreneur and the company
Technology transfer
Management practices and strategies toward technology transfer, external environment that affects these practices and strategies including public policy developments, regulatory and legal issues, and global trends.
Basic Botany, Zoology, and Physiology
Plant biology (structure, function, development, diversity, genetics, evolution, systematics),ecology and ecophysiology; conservation biology and biodiversity; forest biology and management; cell and molecular biology; paleobotany; reproductive biology and genetics; mycology and pathology; and structure and developmentphytogeography for plants, cyanobacteria, algae, fungi, and lichens
Anatomy, behaviour, ecology, physiology, genomics, developmental biology, systematics and genetics, including phylogenetics, integrative approach to the study of animal form, function, development and evolution, neurobiology, functional morphology, evolution and development, ecological physiology, and cell biology, hysiology, new physiological principles or mechanisms at the molecular or cell membrane, single cells, tissues or organs and on systems physiology, neuroscience, experimental study of the brain and interdisciplinary fields, cellular neuroscience, mathematical analysis of brain function, computational neuroscience, biophysics of brain imaging and cognitive psychology