The 3rd International Conference on Biosciences (The 3rd ICoBio)

Abstract

INTRODUCTION OF The 3rd ICoBio 2019 It is undeniable that Biosciences play a pivotal role in every aspect of life. Currently, biosciences have been translated into various inter and trans-disciplinary fields which in turn lead to practical solutions to global issues occurs in the disruptive era of industrial revolutions 4.0. Indeed, today we are facing serious issues including food and feed security, energy scarcity, healthcare issue, global warming, and others. Integration of biological field with engineering, information technology, economy, and social sciences may serve as potential strategies to combat such challenging issues.The International Conference on Biosciences (ICoBio) is a biannual international conference organized by the Department of Biology, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, IPB University, Indonesia, since 2015. This conference is designed to facilitate academicians, researcher, students, and practitioners related to the field of biosciences worldwide to gather and share information, ideas, knowledge, and research results as well as to strengthen research network and collaboration in a fruitful scientific environment. The 3rd ICoBio 2019 was taking the theme “Innovation in Biosciences towards Industrial Revolution 4.0”. The 3rd ICoBio 2019 was held on August 8th, 2019 in Bogor, Indonesia. This conference was intended to gain insight into current trends in research and development related to biology, such as interdisciplinary approaches that are important for understanding the biology and its applications. This 3rd ICoBio 2019 event also became the framework of an existing collaboration between Department of Biology, IPB University with Kasetsart University, Thailand; Universiti Putra Malaysia, Malaysia; and Georg-August Universität Göttingen, Germany. It also served as a step towards building collaboration with Flinders University, Australia and Keio University, Japan.The 3rd ICoBio 2019 was attended by speakers and participants from several countries including Thailand, Malaysia, Germany, Australia, Japan, and Indonesia. Twenty hundred and three participants attended the event and among them presented their research interests via oral (87) and poster (60) presentations. The presenter’s manuscripts were bases and reviewed into 84 published papers in IOP Proceeding Series. Research topics were divided into six main groups focusing on Biodiversity, Conservation Ecology, Climate Change (Group A), Bioactive Compounds, Bioprospecting, Drug Discovery (Group B), Sustainable agriculture, farming technology (Group C), Industrial Biology, Bioprocess, Biosensors (Group D), Techno-biology, Bioengineering, Epigenetics (Group E), Computational Biology, Bioinformatics, Synthetic Biology (Group F).The 3rd ICoBio 2019 was also supported by the Ministry of Research, Technology and Higher Education, and the International Collaboration Office of IPB University for financial support. There were also contribution from the company partners such as PT Pandu Bioscience, PT Biogen Scientific, PT Genetika Science, and PT Elokarsa Utama.