
Thomas McKeon
Board Member
International Society for Biocatalysis and Agricultural Biotechnology
USA
Biography
Thomas McKeon has received his PhD in Biochemistry at UC Berkeley with Postdoctoral Research in Plant Biochemistry at UC Davis. He has over 100 publications, mostly in Plant Lipid Enzymology and Molecular Biology. He is an Editor and author for the book chapter “Industrial Oil Crops”. He is an Editor for Biocatalysis and Agricultural Biotechnology (BAB), a Board Member for American Oil Chemists Society (AOCS) Biotechnology Division and International Society for Biocatalysis and Agricultural Biotechnology (ISBAB). He has organized conferences for ISBAB and for US-Japan Natural Resources (UJNR) Food and Agriculture Panel.
Research Interest
Biocatalysis, Plant Biochemistry , Agricultural Biotechnology , Industrial Oil Crops
Biography
After receiving her Ph.D. (U Arizona, Tucson, AZ) and completing a 3yr postdoctoral fellowship (Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA), she investigated the role of proteases and inhibitors in health and disease at Rutgers University. She shifted her focus to developing tomorrow’s innovators by engaging students in hands-on projects of their own design that would benefit society. A description of these 400+ projects and their rationale have been made accessible to the public at large through digital media.
Research Interest
Developing tomorrow’s innovators by engaging students in hands-on projects of their own design that would benefit society.
Biography
Fuad Fares has completed his D.Sc studies at the Faculty of Medicine, Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, and postdoctoral studiesat the Department of Molecular Biology and Pharmacology, School of Medicine, Washington University, St. Louis Missouri. He is the director of the Department of Molecular Genetics at Carmel Medical Center and associated professor at the Department of Human Biology, University of Haifa. He has published more than 75 papers in reputed journals and serving as a member of the Israel Council for Higher Education. He is the inventor of designing long-acting recombinant proteins and the initiator of PROLOR Biotech company
Research Interest
Molecular Endocrinology Molecular Genetics Apoptosis cancer