2012 2nd International Conference on Biotechnology and Environment Management

The conference will be held every year to make it an ideal platform for people to share views and experiences in Biotechnology and Environment Management and related areas. The ICBEM 2012 papers will be published in proceedings, and All the papers will be included in the Engineering & Technology Digital Library, and indexed by EBSCO, CNKI (中国知网), WorldCat, Google Scholar, and sent to be reviewed by Ei Compendex and ISI Proceedings.

One Excellent Paper will be selected from each oral session. The Certificate for Excellent Papers will be awarded in the Welcome Banquet on September 2, 2012.

About 10 papers selected from the registered ones will be published in the International Journal of Environmental Science and Development (IJESD, ISSN:2010-0264) free of charge.

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ICBEE 2012: 4th International Conference on Chemical, Biological and Environmental Engineering

2012 4th International Conference on Chemical, Biological and Environmental Engineering (ICBEE 2012) is the premier forum for the presentation of new advances and research results in the fields of theoretical, experimental, and applied Chemical, Biological and Environmental Engineering. The conference will bring together leading researchers, engineers and scientists in the domain of interest from around the world. 1st to 2nd September 2012 Phuket, Thailand  

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Thailand: International Conference on Medical and Pharmaceutical Sciences (ICMPS'2012) Bangkok

International Conference on Medical and Pharmaceutical Sciences (ICMPS'2012) aimed at presenting current research being carried out in that area and scheduled to be held June 16-17, 2012 at Bangkok (Thailand).. The idea of the conference is for the scientists, scholars, engineers and students from the Universities all around the world and the industry to present ongoing research activities, and hence to foster research relations between the Universities and the industry. This conference provides opportunities for the delegates to exchange new ideas and application experiences face to face, to establish business or research relations and to find global partners for future collaboration.

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Thailand: Annual International Conference on BioInformatics and Computational Biology (BICB 2012)

The aim of this conference is to provide a platform for communication among top notch researchers, practitioners, and students from around the world in different fields of computer science, computer engineering, applied computing and computational biology to discuss the latest advances in the development of computing techniques and their application to life sciences.

The conference will feature original research in all areas of bio-informatics and computational biology, and covering the entire spectrum of underlying computational techniques in topics such as genome analysis sequence analysis, phylogenetics, analysis of high-throughput biological data, systems genetics, population analysis, as well as structural bioinformatics.

• Genome assembly
• Genome and chromosome annotation
• Gene finding, alternative splicing
• Genotype calling.
• EST analysis
• Comparative genomics
• Molecular dynamics and simulation
• Molecular interactions
• Molecular sequence classification
• Molecular sequence & structure databases
• Sequence analysis and clustering
• RNA and DNA structure sequencing
• Phylogeny estimation
• Comparative biological methods
• Population genetics
• Structural Bioinformatics
• Microarrays
• Linkage analysis
• Association analysis
• Population simulation,
• Haplotyping
• Marker discovery
• Systems biology
• Molecular biology
• Pultiscale modeling
• Combinatorics and bioinformatics
• Biological databases & information retrieval
• Bio-ontologies and semantics
• Biological data integration and visualization

• Biological data mining and knowledge discovery
• Informatics & Statistics in Biopharmaceutical Research
• Tools and methods for computational biology and bioinformatics
• Protein modeling
• Proteomics; Protein folding and fold recognition
• Metabolic modeling and pathways
• Evolution and phylogenetics
• Macromolecular structure prediction
• Medical informatics
• Epidemic models
• Structural and functional genomics
• Amino acid sequencing
• Stochastic modeling
• Cheminformatics
• Computational drug discovery
• Experimental medicine and analysis tools.
• Personalized medicine
• Cancer informatics
• Graph theory and computational biology
• Experimental studies and results
• Application of computational intelligence in drug design
• High-performance computing & applications in biology

By : Global Science and Technology Forum
City : Bangkok
Begin date : Monday, March 12, 2012
Country : Thailand
End date : Tuesday, March 13, 2012
  
Web site : http://www.bioinfoconf.org/

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Conference on Anthropology & Sustainability in Asia 2012

The 2012 Conference on Anthropology & Sustainability in Asia invites scholarly interactions among academics, researchers, doctoral students, and representatives from industry, as well as think tanks, non-profit / non-governmental organization professionals to submit proposals.
As the fields of anthropology and sustainability cross over into multiple areas and disciplines, authors are welcome to submit from a range of topics, perspectives, and disciplines. The range of research submissions may include conceptual, empirical, experimental, and case studies.
Under the theme of Anthropological Perspectives on Holistic Sustainability, CASA 2012 welcomes submissions from the following five areas:
Cultural Sustainability
Social Sustainability
Political Sustainability
Economic Sustainability
Archaeology and Sustainability
Sustainability is a term of recent origin with widespread contemporary saliency.  In its popular use, sustainability tends to focus mostly on issues of natural environment.  The lens of environmental sustainability raises questions such as:

• Can the natural world recover from damage caused by human activity at a rate faster than the damage is done?
• Is the use of natural resources at a rate that is compatible with their regeneration?
• What changes in human practice can lead to long-term availability of necessary natural resources?

Anthropological Perspectives on Holistic Sustainability will explore these and related questions, but in a way that considers sustainability beyond its ecological dimensions.  Trends toward broader consideration of sustainability are in place.  The World Bank and other governmental and non-governmental organizations have incorporated the concept of social sustainability into their approaches to development.  The notion of a “triple bottom line” that considers profit, people and planet has entered the private sector discourse on sustainability.  This conference considers the contributions that anthropology can make to expanding the horizons of sustainability.
As is the case with any field of study, application of anthropology brings certain approaches and worldviews to bear on the issue of sustainability.  As sustainability finds its way into business practices, development plans, and government policy, the holistic approach is the most important contribution that anthropology has to offer.  Holism applied to sustainability demands that we ask not only about environmental impacts but also social, cultural, economic, and political ones.  Additionally, holism demands that we examine how components of socio-cultural eco-systems relate to one another systematically. This conference aims to explore holistic sustainability in the following areas:
Cultural Sustainability

• How do varied cultural perspectives have in how we conceptualize the relationship between human beings and the physical world undermine or promote sustainability?
• How can the on-going revitalization of indigenous culture lead to holistic sustainability?  What are the challenges of employing traditional knowledge to achieve sustainability?
• How can diverse religious perspectives invest sustainability with enduring significance that motivates long-term commitment?
• Are changes proposed to make sustainable use of natural resources compatible with the worldview of the people expected to change their behavior?  Are there ways that such changes can be accommodated by the cultural logic of the people?

 Social Sustainability

• In a globe marked by increasing transnational flows of people, how can kin and community structures that support human well-being be maintained?
• Are changes proposed to make sustainable use of natural resources compatible with the family and community life of people expected to change their behavior?  Are there ways that such changes can be accommodated within the flexibility of kin and community structures?

 Political Sustainability

• What do alternative approaches such as food sovereignty have to offer in terms of sustainability?  Do people who have control over their own food production use natural resources in a sustainable way?
• What challenges does entrenched and growing wealth inequality present to sustainability?
• What challenges does persistent gender inequality present to sustainability?
• What sorts of inertia and resistance to movement toward sustainability are found in existing political structures and interests?
• What role does robustly inclusive democracy have in sustainability?
• What challenges to sustainability are presented by weak and failed states?
• What is the role of civil society or the third sector in sustainability?

Economic Sustainability

• What role does addressing negative market externalities have in sustainability?  If the prices of goods and services include (or internalize) all of their social and environmental costs, will the market solve sustainability challenges?
• What sort of economic incentives promote the continuance of unsustainable practices?  How can government and other actors promote material incentives that foster sustainable practices?
• What is the potential for organic food production to generate sustainable livelihoods?
• How well do we understand (and communicate) the costs of continuing unsustainable practices?  What tradeoffs are presented in shifts toward sustainability?
• What roles do risk avoidance and uncertainty have in unsustainable practices?  What are the consequences of asking economically vulnerable people to take on greater risk in the name of sustainability? 

 Archaeology and Sustainability

• What can archaeological examinations of the human past reveal about sustainability? 
• What combinations of political, cultural, social, economic, environmental circumstances generate long-term human presence on the landscape?  What combinations lead to societal collapse?

31 August 2012 to 2 September 2012 Bangkok, Thailand 
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Journal Conference on Environmental Science and Development (JCESD 2012 1st)

2012 1st Journal Conference on Environmental Science and Development (JCESD 2012 1st) aims to provide a forum for researchers,  pactitioners, and professinals from the industry, academia and government to discourse on research and development, professional practice in  environmental science and development. JCESD 2012 1st  will be held in Bangkok, Thailand During April 7-8, 2012. It is one of the leading international conferences for presenting novel and fundamental advances in the fields of environmental science and development. It also serves to foster communication among researchers and practitioners working in a wide variety of scientific areas with a common interest in improving environmental science and development related techniques.
All submissions will be peer reviewed and evaluated based on originality, technical and/or research content/depth, correctness, relevance to conference, contributions, and readability. Submissions will be chosen based on technical merit, interest, applicability, and how well they fit a coherent and balanced technical program. 
All submitted articles should report original, previously unpublished research results, experimental or theoretical, and will be peer-reviewed. Articles submitted to the conference should meet these criteria and must not be under consideration for publication elsewhere. Manuscripts should follow the style of the journal and are subject to both review and editing.

All the registered papers will be published into International Journal of Environmental Science and Development. (IJESD, ISSN: 2010-0264, available at: http://www.ijesd.org/content.htm) by IACSIT Publishing, and distributed at the conference. The journal will be included in the Engineering & Technology Digital Library.

 

Organized by: JCESD
Deadline for abstracts/proposals: 1 February 2012 

 
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International Conference on Advances in Plant Sciences

The main objective of the International Conference on Advances in Plant Sciences (ICAPS) is to showcase advances in botanical research and conservation of plants across the globe. There is an unprecedented development in every field of plan

Deadline for abstracts/proposals: 30 June 2012

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