Welcoming Letter

I would like to personally welcome each of you to the 12 th Asian Federation of Biotechnology Regional Symposium 2020 (12 th ARS 2020). Biotechnology has been applied in our human civilization for a long time since the era of ancient to modern biotechnology. It helps us in many aspects to create a better life and livelihood of the human-being. Biotechnology is one of the revolutionize science, has offered modern medical devices for diagnostic and preventive purposes, which include rapid diagnostic test kits, vaccines and radio-labeled biological therapeutics used for imaging and analysis, especially for early detection of Emerging Infectious Diseases (EIDs). EIDs are those diseases which are becoming a global threat that needs One Health approach working in multi-sectoral. In agriculture, many technologies including herbicide-tolerate crops, nutritionally enriched food plants, cross breed farm animal to get the superior genetic, and many more have been developed through biotechnology research, genetically modified crops, including molecular farming. The application of biotechnology in agriculture has resulted in benefits to farmers, producers, consumers, also for medical purposes, such as golden rice safe a million of baby world wide. Biotechnology has helped to make both insect pest control and weed management safer and easier while safeguarding crops against disease. The use biotechnology is not limited only in human, animal health, and agriculture, but also in environmental health, clean manufacture, food processing, bio-defense and bio-terrorism, public safety, and many more. The world biotechnology is an exciting area in which to work and study, and we will continue to meet and bring inspired people together in forums like this, to ensure our community remains at the cutting edge.

The 12 th ARS 2020 will be a great symposium for sharing the latest insights of academic and research results as well as to experience the unique environment of one of cultural city of Yogyakarta, a city which has been at the heart of the artistic, cultural, and scientific development in Indonesia.

We thank you for your participation and looking forward to seeing you soon in
Yogyakarta, Indonesia.

Sincerely,
Prof. Dr. Wayan T. Artama, DVM.
The Chairman of 12 th ARS 2020