Enzyme systems and their applications, including enzyme reactors, purification, and applied aspects of protein engineering
Animal-cell biotechnology, including media development
Applied aspects of cellular physiology, metabolism, and energetics
Biocatalysis and applied enzymology, including enzyme reactors, protein engineering, and nanobiotechnology
Biothermodynamics
Biofuels, including biomass and renewable resource engineering
Biomaterials, including delivery systems and materials for tissue engineering
Bioprocess engineering, including kinetics and modeling of biological systems, transport phenomena in bioreactors,
bioreactor design, monitoring, and control
Biosensors and instrumentation
Computational and systems biology, including bioinformatics and genomic/proteomic studies
Environmental biotechnology, including biofilms, algal systems, and bioremediation
Metabolic and cellular engineering
Plant-cell biotechnology
Spectroscopic and other analytical techniques for biotechnological applications
Synthetic biology
Tissue engineering, stem-cell bioengineering, regenerative medicine, gene therapy and delivery systems