Editorial

Dear Colleagues,

It is our great pleasure to welcome you to the abstract volume of the ‘European Biotechnology Congress 2020’ which held live at Vienna House Diplomat Prague on September 24–26, 2020 which allowed speakers and attendees to participate virtually at the same time.

The content and all the abstracts went under strong peer-review process by expert reviewers which was coordinated by EBTNA according to rules regulated by EBTNA which is the organizer of this conference (not by Journal of Biotechnology and Biotechnological Equipment and not according to Journal of Biotechnology and Biotechnological Equipment’s regular peer-review process).

We hope that this issue will keep you updated on the latest developments in Biotechnology.

Munis Dundar        Oscar Vicente

Editor           Tommaso Beccari

Ivana Marova

Deputy Editors

‘European Biotechnology Congress 2020’, September 24–26, 2020 in Prague, Czechia European Biotechnology Thematic Network Association Editorial team which worked on this content

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Executive Committee of EBTNA	Chairman of National Scientific and Organizing Committee
Munis Dundar	Ivana Marova
Oscar Vicente	National Scientific and Organizing Committee
Donald Martin	Martin Weiter
Tommaso Beccari	Tomas Ruml
Miklos Kellermayer	Katerina Demnerova
Martin Koller	Jiri Doskar
Ratnesh Lal	Jaroslav Turanek
Robert Marks	Stanislav Obruca
Ivana Marova	Adriana Kovalcik
Adam Mechler	Ales Gavenda
Dana Tapaloaga	Daniel Pohludka
Polona Znidarsic-Plazl	Petra Matouskova
	Andrea Haronikova
	Hana Alexova
	Andrea Nemcova
	Vaclav Brazda
Editor	Deputy Editors
Munis Dundar	Tommaso Beccari
	Oscar Vicente
	Ivana Marova

Assistant Editors

Arslan Bayram

Mehmet Sait Dundar

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Coordinators of EBTNA
Albania	Ariola Bacu	Iran	Mohammad Amin Hejazi
Australia	Adam Mechler	Italy	Fabrizio Bruschi
Austria	Martin Koller	Kazakhstan	Alma Kokhmetova
Azerbaijan	Ilham Shahmuradov	Kosovo	Bajram Berisha
Belarus	Alexander Kilchevsky	Latvia	Anna Zajakina
Belgium	Vincenzo Costigliola	Lithuania	Daumantas Matulis
Bosnia and Herzegovina	Lejla Pojskic	Macedonia	Dijana Plaseska- Karanfilska
Brasil	Paolo Bartolini	Moldova	Serghei Sprincean
Bulgaria	Dancho Danalev	Morocco	Noursaid Tligui
Canada	Satya Prakash	Netherlands	Mark Nuijten
Chile	Francisco Fuentes	Norway	Ole Kristian Greiner- Tollersrud
China	Jie Chen	Pakistan	Attya Bhatti
Croatia	Anita Slavica	Poland	Ewa Lojkowska
Cuba	Jose Carlos Lorenzo	Romania	Dana Tapaloaga
Czechia	Ivana Marova	Russia	Victor Revin
Ecuador	Andres Izquierdo Romero	Scotland	Nikolai Zhelev
Egypt	Helal Moussa	Serbia	Viktor Nedovic
Estonia	Lembit Nei	Siberia	Alla B. Salmina
France	Michel Salzet	Slovakia	Juraj Krajcovic
Georgia	Teo Urushadze	Slovenia	Polona Znidarsic Plazl
Germany	Brigitte Schmitz	Spain	Oscar Vicente
Greece	Anargyros Moulas	Turkey	Munis Dundar
Hungary	Miklos Kellermayer	Ukraine	Yaroslav Borysovych Blume
Iceland	Reynir Arngrímsson	United States of America	Ratnesh Lal
India	M. N. V. Prasad

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	Honorary Members of EBTNA
Fabrizio Bruschi	Peter Brian Gahan	Juraj Krajcovic
Constantine Arvanitakis	Brunetto Chiarelli	Mark Nuijten
Vincenzo Costigliola	Hans Eichinger	Gary Henehan
Jan Turna	Stanislav Stipek	Matteo Bertelli
Rossie Betcheva	Helena Gill	Michele Maffia
Magdolna Szente	Michel Salzet	Riccardo Magni
Colette Creusy	Anita Slavica	Luigi Magni
Brigitte Schmitz		Jill Gartland

Reviewers and International Scientific Committee

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Adam Mechler	Fabrizio Bruschi	Michele Maffia
Adriana Kovalcik	Francisco Fuentes	Miklos Kellermayer
Alexander Kilchevsky	Gary Henehan	Munis Dundar
Alla Salmina	Helal Moussa	Nikolai Zhelev
Alma Kokhmethova	Ines Swoboda	Noursaid Tligui
Anargyros Moulas	Isabel Belo	Ole Kristian Greiner-Tollersrud
Andrea Nemcova	Ivana Marova	Oscar Vicente
Andres R. Izquierdo Romero	Iza K. Radecka	Paolo Bartolini
Anita Slavica	Jaroslav Turanek	Petra Matouskova
Ariola Bacu	Jiri Doskar	Polona Znidarsic-Plazl
Attya Bhatti	Jose Carlos Lorenzo	Ratnesh Lal
Bajram Berisha	Juraj Krajcovic	Robert Marks
Dana Tapaloaga	Lejla Pojskic	Satya Prakash
Dancho Danalev	Lembit Nei	Stanislav Obruca
Daumantas Matulis	M. N. V. Prasad	Stanislav Miertus
Dijana Plaseska Karanfilska	Mark Nuijten	Tommaso Beccari
Donald Martin	Martin Koller	Vaclav Brazda
Elisabetta Albi	Michel Salzet	Victor Revin

Scientific Secretariat

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	Arslan Bayram
	Mehmet Sait Dundar

Prof. Mariapia Viola Magni EBTNA Best Oral Presentation Award

1st Place

Engineering the interior and exterior of Pseudomonas putida for biotechnological processing of lignocellulosic substrates

Pavel Dvorak

2nd Place

Mechanical properties of three-dimensional microenvironment activate specific mechano-sensing circuits in MCF-7 breast cancer cells

Sara Sergio

3rd Place

Lead tolerance of Aspergillus alliaceus isolated from green turtle nesting site

Esra Deniz Candan

EBTNA Best Poster Presentation Award

1st Place

Genetic diversity of castor based on RAPD, SCoT and SSR markers

Zelmira Balazova

2nd Place

The new PII protein PotN from Lactobacillus hilgardii interacts with transcriptional factor, the ATPase subunit of polyamine ABC transporter and ketoacid dehydrogenase subunit

Zalina I. Iskhakova

3rd Place

New fungal luciferin analogs: optimized synthetic approach

Maria S. Lyakhovich

Kevan Gartland European Best Biotechnology Product Award 2020

Probione (Czechia)

Special Award for The Best Anti-Covid Product

Endovir Stop (Dr. Matteo Bertelli, Italy)

Special Award for Research Contribution in Physiology of Reproduction

Dr. Bernard Fioretti (Italy)