Scope
The world’s economic future rests largely on the so-called bio-economy: the production of renewable biological resources and their conversion into food, bioenergy, and products via the innovative and efficient use of technologies derived from industrial biotechnology. Many industrial sectors may benefit, including industrial biotechnology and bioenergy, chemicals, medicine, agriculture, and environmental remediation. In this context, the TC8.4 focuses on academic research and industrial development in all major areas of biosystems and bioprocesses in which methods and tools, including:
- Multi-scale and multi-omics data integration, dynamics and modeling
- Parameters and state estimation
- Fault diagnosis and monitoring
- Data mining tools
- Sensors
- Feedback control
- Scheduling, coordination, optimization
are applied, among others, to:
- Monitoring and feedback control of (photo)bioreactors
- Observers and software sensors for estimation of kinetic rates
- Microalgae production processes
- Wastewater treatment processes
- Bioenergy
- Systems biology for (red, green, blue, and white) biotechnology
- Food engineering
- Biological networks inference and modeling (signaling, regulation, metabolic)
- Kinetic modeling of metabolic pathways
- Optimization of fluxes in metabolic networks (metabolic flux analysis)
- Dynamic regulation of gene expression and metabolic pathways
- Synthetic biology: (re)design of synthetic gene devices and systems to perform new functions
- Modelling and control of microbial communities
- Analysis, identification, and control of biologically motivated nonlinear systems