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Israel | March 1-5, 2019

Conference Chairman Professor Robert S. Marks

Department of Biotechnology Engineering, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel

STEERING COMMITTEE: Dr. Serge Cosnier, University of Grenoble Alpes, France Prof. Chris Geddes, University of Maryland, Baltimore County, USA Prof. Robert S. Marks, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel INTERNATIONAL ADVISORY COMMITTEE: Prof. Ibrahim Abdulhalim, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel Prof. Redouane Borsali, University of Grenoble Alpes, France Prof. Mustafa Culha, Yeditepe University, Turkey LOCAL ORGANIZING COMMITTEE: Prof. Ariel Kushmaro, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel Dr. Evgeni Eltzov , Volcani Instatute, Israel CONFERENCE SECRETARIAT: Alice Luber, Israel [email protected]

BIOTECNOLOGY &

ENTREPRENEURSHIP

CONFERENCE ISRAEL

BIO-X CONFERENCE HOST


Guest Host Institution

BIO-X CONFERENCE PARTNERS & SPONSORS


We are grateful for the support of our sponsors and partners:

Sponsors: Institutional Partners:

Media Partners:

ECLIPSE DIAGNOSTICS

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BIO-X CONFERENCE NOTE FROM THE CHAIR


A note from the conference chair: We are delighted to host our Bio-X conference series in Singapore, where a special emphasis will be in diagnostic entrepreneurship. It is particularly fitting to do so at the beginning of the year of the dog, our most reliable, effective and kindest known sensor, helping us prevent illegal drug smuggling, detect explosives, pinpoint forensic teams to the location of human remains, discover wildlife scat, locate tasty truffles and we are told, odorous biomarkers for cancer! We are still far, in some areas, from being able to produce diagnostics that would challenge the skills of our canine friends. Be it as it may, we have progressed tremendously, with a lot challenges remaining ahead of us, however, many of us are eager to take them up, and produce diagnostic and monitoring devices for purposes useful to all walks of life. A number of diagnostic changes are predicted to come in the near future in bringing diagnostics to the point-of-care, or in the discovery of a plethora of biomarkers to such challenging diseases as stroke, cancer or psychiatric ones, or even bringing the cloud to the diagnostic world where linking all the disparate kits via the internet of things, would bring monitoring world health into our backdoor. Building artificial intelligence tools to help physicians in their tasks or robots manning the patient sitting rooms are ideas no longer so far-fetched. The race is open not only for multinationals but also creative-intensive start-ups, of which many result from University spin-offs. So, with our modest event, we hope to bring together an interested crowd to foster both new ideas and future collaborations.

Professor Robert S. Marks

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BIO-X CONFERENCE MESSAGE


A message from Dr. Sidney Yee, CEO Diagnostic Development Hub December 26, 2017 Paradigm shifts in the Asian healthcare ecosystem in recent years have led to major transformation in the Asian healthcare system, with the IVD industry witnessing a stellar growth and aggressive update of innovative technologies. Not only was Asia recognized as a market for future growth, significant R&D efforts have been invested by multinational companies (MNCs) to cater to the Asian population. Being amongst the top 10 startup ecosystems globally, Singapore has attracted MNCs and entrepreneurs to drive the technology innovations community. Singapore’s Diagnostics Development (DxD) Hub is a unique diagnostics innovation cluster developer and is poised to lead the entrepreneurial approach to delivering diagnostic solutions globally. The annual international Bio-X conference, traditionally held in Israel, will make its debut in Singapore in 2018. With a theme on Diagnostics, Monitoring and Entrepreneurship, Bio-X 2018 features speakers from over 6 countries, with ample opportunities for academics, industry expertise, investors, government officials and entrepreneurs to network and foster collaboration. Dr. Sidney Yee

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BIO-X CONFERENCE HAPPY CHINESE NEW YEAR


HAPPY CHINESE NEW YEAR

BIO-X CONFERENCE HAPPY CHINESE NEW YEAR


Bio-X is a unique blend of good science with essential networking under convivial settings. Bio-X has now been haunted by ‘usual suspects’ faithfully gathering to share their science and networking in all our Bio-X events. Bio-X events have promoted the exchange of students between international laboratories, increased interest in startup pursuits, set the stage for shared book (and chapters), academic editorials, stimulated more scientific (and now industrial) visits, helped demonstrate to academics ‘live’ stories why patents are important, and helped spark more studies with peer-reviewed publications. All this while making and sustaining friendship in science!

Bio-X name proposed at the conference

2011 Israel NanoSensorPhotonics 2011; November 5-9

Bio-X name inaugurated:

2013 Israel NanoSensorPhotonics 2013; February 8-13

Bio-X name adopted

2015 Israel Negev Global Issues. Bio-X; May 27-June 1

Bio-X name alone

2017 Israel Bio-X; June 4-8

Bio-X name affiliated to Singapore:

2018 Singapore Bio-X Singapore; February 21-24

Bio-X name affiliated to China- Israel

2019 Israel Bio-X China-Israel ; March 1-5

BIO-X CONFERENCE TABLE OF CONTENTS


Bio-X Conference: Committees ............................................................................................ 3

Bio-X Conference: Host......................................................................................................... 4

Bio-X Conference: Partners and Sponsors ............................................................................ 5

Bio-X Conference: Note from the Chair ................................................................................ 7

Bio-X Conference: Opening Message ................................................................................... 9

Bio-X Conference: Objectives and History .......................................................................... 10

Bio-X Conference: At a Glance ............................................................................................ 15

Bio-X Conference: Venues ................................................................................................... 17

Bio-X Conference Program

Day 1: Diagnostics and Monitoring .............................................................................. 19

Day 2: Entrepreneurship ............................................................................................... 31

Day 3: Issues in Diagnostic Entrepreneurship Course ................................................... 39

Day 4: Networking Day ................................................................................................ 41

Speaker Abstracts

Day 1 ............................................................................................................................ 43

Day 2 ........................................................................................................................... 65

Panel Biographies ................................................................................................................ 71

Poster Abstracts .................................................................................................................. 75

Company Flyers .................................................................................................................. 89

Bio-X Conference: List of Participants ................................................................................ 97

Singapore: Navigation and Transportation ........................................................................ 101

Singapore: Plan Your Time ................................................................................................ 103

BIO-X CONFERENCE AT A GLANCE


BIO-X CONFERENCE VENUES


Qumran

Judean desert

Tel Arad

Negev desert

Old City Beer Sheva

Ein Gedi Springs

Judean desert

TECHNICAL PROGRAM MARCH 1-5

Ben Gurion University National Institute for Biotechnology in the Negev

Hod Hotel Dead Sea Israel (Ein Bokek beach dead sea)

SOCIAL PROGRAM MARCH 1-5

Brigade monument Beer Sheva

Dead Sea Judean desert

Masada Judean desert

BIO-X CONFERENCE VENUES


Makhtesh Ramon (Ramon Crater) Mitzpe Ramon

National Center for Mariculture

Eilat

TUTORIAL VENUES MARCH 6-9

Sede Boqer Campus Jacob Blaustein Institutes for desert studding, Sede Boqer

The Interuniversity Institute for Marine Sciences in Eilat (IUI)

Eilat

Agricultural Research Organization, Volcani Center Rishon Letzion

Alpacas farm Mitzpe Ramon

Sunday, March 3rd Venue: Department of Biotechnology Building, Ben Gurion University, Beer Sheva 9:05 AM – 6:45 PM 7:00-8:00 Breakfast at the Hod Hotel

8:30 Depart hotel from Dead Sea

9:50-10:00 Arrival at BGU

10:00 BGU tour

Session 1|

11:00

11:15

Sichan University – BGU, meet at building? Inauguration

Moderator: Levi Gheber? Ph. D., Professor, Head

of Department of Biotechnology Engineering Ben Gurion University,of the Negev, Israel

Co-Moderator: Qun Sun Ph. D., Professor, Head of Department of Biotechnology, Sichuan University, China

Greetings

Taipng Hou- VP Sichan University

Rector, BGU SCU

Signatory (session symbolic)

11:30 Music

Session 2|

12:00 Lunch Buffet Lobby – building 42. at Poster session (ends 17:00)

Session 3|

13:00

China-Israel Biotechnology Forum *By invitation only (Please present in 1-5 slides your general area of work, includes discussion period)

Chair: Robert S. Marks Ph.D., Conference Chair, Professor, Department of Biotechnology

Engineering, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel Co-chair: Qun Sun Ph. D., Professor, Head

of Department of Biotechnology, Sichuan University, China Moderator: Levi Gheber Ph. D., Professor,

Head of Department of Biotechnology Engineering Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Israel

14:00 Sun Qun: Bio-? Ph. D., Professor, Head of

Department of Biotechnology, Sichuan University, China

14:15 Levi Gheber: Bio-Nanotechnology Lab, Ph. D., Professor, Head of Department of Biotechnology Engineering Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Israel

14:30 Honghui Lin, SCU

14:45 Ariel Kushmaro: Bio-Environmental Engineering, Ph.D., Professor, Department of

Biotechnology Engineering, Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Israel

15:00 Huile Gao, SCU

15:15 Hanna Rapaport: Bio- Peptides Engineering Lab Professor, Department of

Biotechnology Engineering, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel

15:30 Kun Jia: Bio-synthetic polymers Lab, UESTC Ph.D., Centre for Applied Chemistry, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, China

15:45 Robert Marks: Bio-sensors Lab, Ph.D.,

Conference Chair, Professor, Department of Biotechnology Engineering, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel

16:00 Yuqing Li, SCU

16:15 Razi Vago, BGU

16:30 Xiaojuan Xu, SCU

16:45 Evgeni Eltzov, Bio-agriculture Lab, Volcan

Institute Ph. D., Researcher, Department of

Postharvest Science of Fresh Fruit, The Volcani Center, Agricultural Research Organization, Israel

17:00 Xu Wenming, SCU Chief Scientist and Co-

Founder, Chengdu PUHUA Technology, Co., China

17:15 Wei-Cai Zheng, SCU

17:30 Wei Huang, SCU

18:00 Bus picks up the participants leaving for the dead sea at the biotechnology building

18:15 Photo op at the Brigade monument with vista of Beer-Sheva

18:45 Departure for hotel

19:45 Arrival at hotel

20:00 Dinner

Session 4|

21:00 Lecture (plenary or history)

Sesion 2|

13:00- 17:00 Posters

1. Development of biosensors for real-time and continuous monitoring of Penicillium digitatum decay development in oranges

Daniel Chalupowicz a, Boris Veltman a,b, Samir Droby a and Evgeni Eltzova

a Department of Postharvest Science of Fresh Fruit, The Volcani Center, Agricultural Research Organization, Bet Dagan 50250, Israel b Department of Biochemistry and food science, Hebrew University

2. Colorimetric stack pad immunoassay for bacterial identification in milk

Reuven Afriat a, Daniel Chalupowicz a and Evgeni Eltzova,* a Department of Postharvest Science of Fresh Fruit, The Volcani Center, Agricultural Research Organization, Bet Dagan 50250, Israel

3. Development of CMOS sensors for diagnosis of a pathogenic fungus in agricultural products

Volev Zamira, Noam Alkana and Evgeni Eltzova,* a Department of Postharvest Science of Fresh Fruit, The Volcani Center, Agricultural Research Organization, Bet Dagan 50250, Israel

Presenter?

4. Development of in vitro toxicity bioassay for agro-nanotechnology products

Boris Veltman a,b, Ekena Poverenovc and Evgeni Eltzova a Department of Postharvest Science of Fresh Fruit, The Volcani Center, Agricultural Research Organization, Bet Dagan 50250, Israel b Department of Biochemistry and Food Science, Hebrew University a Department of Postharvest Science of Fresh Fruit, The Volcani Center, Agricultural Research Organization, Bet Dagan 50250, Israel

Presenter?

Monday, March 4th scientific presentations ? x

8:00 Bus departs Beer Sheva for Dead Sea

7:00-8:00 Breakfast

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Biosensor applications in the agricultural field Evgeni Eltzov, Volcani Institute, Israel Ph.

D., Researcher, Department of Postharvest Science of Fresh Fruit, The Volcani Center, Agricultural Research Organization, Israel

Electrochemical wastewater treatment and its monitoring Olivier Lefebvre, NUS, Singapore Ph.D.,

Assistant Professor, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, National University of Singapore, Singapore

Qun Sun Ph. D., Professor, Head of

Department of Biotechnology, Sichuan University, China

Manipulation of aromatic non-conjugated polymer organization for optical soft nanostructures fabrication Jia Kun, UESTC, China

Filling a niche in cannabis, a business opportunity Luka Fajs, Eclipsedx, USA Ph.D., CEO,

Biosensorix Pte Ltd, Singapore

PhotnicSys: a miniature platform for developing specific sensors, drug discovery and surface analysis Ibrahim Abdulhalim, Ph.D., Professor,

Department of Electro-optics Engineering, Ben-Gurion University, Israel

Session 5| Bio-nanotechnology Session 6| Session 7|

Tuesday, March 5th scientific presentations

12:00 Lunch 13:00 -14:00 Tutorial Student Presentations

Chairpersons: Ron Ramon Ohad Ellert

14:00-16:00 Biotechnology Entrepreneurship Tutorial

Pivot: product from market fit to investor fit Luka Fajs, Biosensorix, Singapore Ph.D., CEO,

Biosensorix Pte Ltd, Singapore

Josph Mocanu, Ph.D., Principal, Life Sciences

and Digital Health, Oliver Wyman Singapore

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