Call for Abstracts Information for the 4th AfroBiotech Conference

Deadline to Submit: Friday, July 14

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• Review the themes/topics listed below. You will be prompted to select one of the topics during the submission process.
• Access the submission portal
• Click on "Begin Submission" under the "General Submissions" or "Poster Session" header. The system will ask you to login with your AIChE credentials.
• Don't have a login? No problem! Click on the blue hyperlink that says "Guest Account" to submit your abstract.

Conference Topics

This  year the organizing commitee has selected the below listed themes/topics:

Health Topics

• Regenerative Engineering: Tissue engineering is the central theme of this session. This area includes technologies at the interface of material science, directed cell differentiation, and developmental biology.
• Health and Medical Applications: Technologies that advance our understanding of human and animal disease and represent the future of injury and disease treatment, e.g. rational design of drugs, drug delivery, etc., will be featured in this session. 
• Cell Systems Engineering: This session will feature the discovery of biomarkers and unique cell features, as well as technologies such as genetic reporters, biomaterials, and devices to characterize or control cell populations such as the immune system and the microbiome.

Basic Bioengineering Topics

• Synthetic and Computational Biology: This area includes investigations of molecular biology within computer and machine engineering frameworks. Featured work will include biological circuits and state machines, and foundational tools to enable their construction.
• Nucleic Acid and Genome Design: This session will feature the latest technologies and applications that are focused on synthetic DNA and RNA, gene delivery, and genome editing (e.g. CRISPR, TALEN, ZNF).
• Bioengineering and Our Community: Work featured in this session will focus on the connection of the African-American community and Diaspora with biotechnology products (as inventors and consumers) and development of the bioeconomy.

Poster Session

• Posters should address one or more of the session themes to be considered for the AfroBiotech poster session.