| IB1 | Advanced and innovative technics in industrial biobio-separation, and bio-detection (biosensors) | 
| IB2 | Bioresources, Biorefinery and Biomaterials (bio-active compounds, biofuels, fine chemicals) | 
| IB3 | Biocatalysis (future microbes and enzymes) | 
| IB4 | Advances in immobilisation | 
| IB5 | Novel processing (e.g. Microbial fuel cells) | 
| IB6 | From small to large (Nano-biotechnology, scale-up/scale down, large-scale production) | 
| IB7 | Environmental biotechnology | 
| IB8 | Biofilms in industry and biomedicine | 
| IB9 | Microalgal Biotechnology |