2013 Bangkok International Conference on Biological Engineering & Natural Science (BBENS'2013)
25-27 January, 2013, Bangkok, Thailand

Keynote Speeches

Saturday, Jan 26th 2013

10:30 am, Room GAMMA

Everything Should Be Made as Simple as Possible, but not Simpler

Prof. Peter J. Morton, Chinese Culture University

13:10 pm, Room GAMMA  

Discovery, Development and Delivery of Biologicals for Cancer Therapy

Prof. Crispin R. Dass, Victoria University

Everything Should Be Made as Simple as Possible, but not Simpler

Peter J. Morton

Center for Language Teaching and Learning,

And Department of Economics

Chinese Culture University       

                                                                                 

ABSTRACT:

Many metrics have been developed to track the increasing complexity of the language used throughout primary and secondary education. In advertising, public safety and military communication, these formulas help guide writers towards an appropriate balance between the subject matter they want to transmit and the audience they wish to reach. This paper extends that analysis to the university level, in order to estimate the costs and benefits of language complexity among academic authors in the social sciences and business. People in academics generally must compete to make fine distinctions and communicate complex ideas. We find evidence that more experienced authors are able to simplify the language they use, and that the more prestigious academic journals seem to encourage simpler language. But when we look for a direct association between complexity measures and rates of citation by other scholars, the evidence is much weaker and seldom statistically significant. We conclude that the pressure for simplicity of expression is mainly imposed editorially by journals rather than by the preferences of end readers in their selection of material for citation. A possible explanation is proposed. The findings are especially relevant to younger academics whose writing style is still malleable, and to non-native English speakers who may have greater-than-average difficulty reading and writing complex passages. If English is to serve as a shared language for scholars during the coming years, it will be desirable to eliminate those features of English that serve to block communication rather than facilitate it.

Discovery, Development and Delivery of Biologicals for Cancer Therapy

Crispin R. Dass

School of Biomedical and Health Sciences,

Victoria University, Australia 

Cancer is a group of diseases characterised by an uncontrolled growth of cells in the body.  These lesions, if not treated, grow until they become life-threatening or fatal.  Traditionally, surgery has been the main form of tumour control, though this is not performed where the growth is deep-seated in the body or located at a site where surgery could itself be life-threatening.  Alternatives to, or assisting surgery, are chemotherapy and radiotherapy.  However, these two traditional forms of cancer therapy, whilst curative in some cases, are usually suboptimal due to harmful effects to the healthy parts of the body.  To address this, there is a global push to find compounds that are effective against neoplastic cells, but less harmful against normal healthy cells , of the body.  Pigment epithelium-derived factor (PEDF) is one mo, , , , , , , , , lecule that we are looking at which has antiangiogenic, direct anticancer and cell differentiation properties.  Dz13 is another which has significant anticancer activity specifically via activation of caspase-2.  Currently, we are also looking at ‘green’ biopolymer, chitosan, for its effects on cancer and tissue regeneration.   

Biography    

Crispin R. Dass has 18 years of cell and molecular biology research experience, mainly focusing on oncological R&D.  His research is on systems at various levels – in silico, in vitro, in vivo, ADME/Tox, clinical, and also with biomedical education.  He has worked on projects for Johnson & Johnson, GlaxoSmithKline, Amgen, and Novartis.  His extensive experience is documented in his 135 papers to date, with a h-index of 30, and ~2700 citations, and publications in Nature Medicine, Journal of the National Cancer Institute, Biomaterials, Nucleic Acids Research, Cancer, and Journal of Controlled Release. He is currently on the editorial board of 4 journals in his field, and has been invited to chair sessions and to give plenary lectures at national and international conferences.  Based currently in St Albans (Melbourne, Australia), he has research links with Thailand, Fiji, USA, China, South Korea, Japan, Iran and India.    

The conference Final Program has been announced.

We do NOT accept any requests for modifying the author’s information after 5 January, 2013. Thanks for your cooperation.

Notably, if your payment is made after Jan. 5, your paper may NOT be included in the conference proceedings.

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Executive Administrator,

Conference Secretariat

January 25: Pre-registration (15:00-17:00)

January 26-27: Oral/Poster Sessions (8:30-16:30)

BBENS'2013 an interdisciplinary international conference that invites academics and independent scholars and researchers from around the world to meet and exchange the latest ideas and views in a forum encouraging respectful dialogue. BBENS'2013 serves as an outstanding platform that gathers all the relevant communities and domains together, an international forum for researchers and industry practitioners to exchange the latest fundamental advances in the state of the art and practice of Biological Engineering and Natural Science. Related domain experts and scholars will discuss academic issues, seize future development opportunities, master the subject developing tendency and exchange the latest researches and academic thinking. Experts, practitioners and policy makers from all around the world will present the latest innovations and advances on Biological Engineering and Natural Science, share the experience and insights, forecast the trends and opportunities, and discuss the policy, economics and social implications.

If you have any question please feel free to contact us via email: bens@bbens.org

Basic Conference Rates 
Early Bird Registration USD:400 Before December 15th, 2012 
Regular Registration USD:450  After December 15th 2012 onwards 
Audience Registration USD:250 
Committees of BBENS USD:380

Note, no matter the paper is single authored or multi-authored, if you would like to have the paper published in the proceedings, you need to pay registration fee US$400 for each paper. However, in case that the paper is multi-authored and more than one author would like to participate in the conference, each participant needs to pay the registration fee. Every registered participant will get a copy of conference proceedings in CD-ROM format and admission to all conference sessions, welcome lunches, and coffee breaks.

Publishing Opportunities: Authors of accepted abstracts will have the opportunity of publishing their associated paper in the official conference proceedings, and a selection of papers will be considered for inclusion in the internationally reviewed Journal of Ecology and The Natural Environment (JENE), Journal of Biophysics and Structural Biology (JBSB), The International Journa, l of Genetics and Molecular Biology (IJGMB), Biotechnology and Molecular Biology Reviews (BMBR), International Journal for Biotechnology and Molecular Biology Research (IJBMBR). For more information about the journal, , CLICK on th, e ite, , , m, s above.

About JENE
Journal of Ecology and The Natural Environment (JENE) (ISSN:2006-9847) is an open access journal that provides rapid publication (monthly) of articles in all areas of the subject such as biogeochemical cycles, conservation, paleoecology, plant ecology etc.

The Journal welcomes the submission of manuscripts that meet the general criteria of significance and scientific excellence. Papers will be published shortly after acceptance. All articles published in JENE are peer-reviewed.

The Journal of Ecology and The Natural Environment (ISSN:2006-9847) is published twice every month (one volume per year) by Academic Journals.

About JBSB
Journal of Biophysics and Structural Biology (JBSB) (ISSN 2141 - 2200) is an open access journal that provides rapid publication (monthly) of articles in all areas of the subject such as Structure and Dynamics of Protein Networks, Membranes in Motion, Structure and Stability of Biomacromolecules, Atomic and Molecular Data and Their Applications etc.

The Journal welcomes the submission of manuscripts that meet the general criteria of significance and scientific excellence. Papers will be published shortly after acceptance. All articles published in JBSB will be peer-reviewed.

The Journal of Biophysics and Structural Biology (JBSB) is published monthly (one volume per year) by Academic Journals.

About IJGMB
The International Journal of Genetics and Molecular Biology (IJGMB) (ISSN:2006-9863) is an open acc, ess journal that provides rapid publication (monthly) of articles in all areas of the subject such as DNA and RNA, Influence of risk factors on onset of hyperlipidemia in people with cerebrovascular insult, Study of proteinase activity of Lactobacillus plantarum etc.

The Journal welcomes the submission of manuscripts that meet the general criteria of significance and scientific excellence. Papers will be published shortly after acceptance. All articles published in IJGMB are peer-reviewed.

The International Journal of Genetics and Molecular Biology (ISSN:2006-9863) is published monthly (one volume per year) by Academic Journals.

About BMBR
Biotechnology and Molecular Biology Reviews (BMBR), a new broad-based review journal, is an open access journal that was founded on two key tenets: (1) to publish the most exciting, cutting-edge reviews in all areas of applied biochemistry, industrial microbiology, genomics and proteomics, and metabolic engineering, and (2) to provide the most rapid turn-around time possible for reviewing and publishing. It is our hope these articles will serve teaching and reference tools.

Biotechnology and Molecular Biology Reviews (ISSN 1538-2273) is published monthly (one volume per year) by Academic Journals.

About IJBMBR
International Journal for Biotechnology and Molecular Biology Research (IJBMBR) is an open access journal that provides rapid publication (monthly) of articles in all areas of the subject such as Green energy from chemicals and bio-wastes, Studies in the graft copolymerization of acrylonitrile onto cassava starch by ceric ion induced initiation, Antimutagenic activity of aqueous extract of Momordica charantia, Ethnomedicinal plants and other natural products with anti-HIV active compounds and their putative modes of action etc.

The Journal welcomes the submission of manuscripts that meet the general criteria of significance and scientific excellence. Papers will be published shortly after acceptance. All articles published in IJBMBR are peer-reviewed.