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.

Biocatalysis, Plant Biochemistry , Agricultural Biotechnology , Industrial Oil Crops

Thirty years experience in biology. Lipscomb Distinguished Professor of Agriculture at Arkansas State University. Previously, Associate Vice Chancellor for Research and Technology Transfer at ASU. Program Director in Molecular and Cellular Biosciences at the National Science Foundation. Leader in forming one of the world's foremost transgenic plant research groups at ProdiGene, a plant biotechnology start-up company. Director of the cell biology group for plant production of therapeutic proteins at Pioneer Hi-Bred International, a Fortune 500 Company. Internationally recognized for research program and associated expertise as evidenced by over 75 publications and patents as well as invitations to speak nationally and internationally.

Biofuels & Biobased Products, Feedstock Processing, Bioinformatics, Plant Genetics/Breeding, Plant Cell Walls, Plant Made Industrial/Pharmaceutical Proteins, Plant Tissue Culture

Dr. Guido Krupp (Ph.D.) is CEO and president of AmpTec GmbH. In 1981 he received his Ph.D. degree (Würzburg University & Max-Planck-Institute Martinsried). From 1983 to 1987 he was post-doc at Yale University. From 1987 to 2002: research group leader at Kiel University. Founder of artus GmbH (year 1998) & AmpTec GmbH (year 2005). Research interests: nucleic acid technology with focus on RNA, plant pathogens (viroids), ribozymes and telomerase. More than 60 publications, editor of Ribozyme Biochemistry & Biotechnology, and of Telomeres, Telomerases & Cancer, in the editorial board of Biotechnology Annual Review; SAB member of Orthogenics AS, Tromso, Norway.

Nucleic acid technology with focus on RNA, Plant Pathogens (viroids), Ribozymes and Telomerase

Sandeep K. Vashist is the Head of Immunodiagnostics at Hahn-Schickard-Gesellschaft für angewandte Forschung e.V. (HSG-IMIT) and Laboratory for MEMS Applications, Department of Microsystems Engineering (IMTEK), University of Freiburg, Germany. He was the Bioanalytical Scientist at Bristol-Myers Squibb Company, Dublin, Ireland (2006-2009) and the Team Leader at NUS Nanoscience and Nanotechnology Institute, Singapore (2009-2012) after completing his Ph.D. from Central Scientific Instruments Organisation, India (2006). His research outputs include many successful technology transfers, several in vitro diagnostic and point-of-care technologies, over 80 publications in high impact factor journals and numerous patents, book chapters, and publications/talks in international conferences. He has constantly received highly prestigious fellowships and awards for scientific research excellence and innovation. Besides, he is acting as the Editorial Board and Executive Editor for several reputed journals (such as NPG’s Scientific Reports, Elsevier’s NPBR and MDPI’s Diagnostics).

His research interests include in vitro diagnostics, biosensors, point-of-care testing, nanotechnology, and smartphone-based personalized healthcare monitoring and management.

lan Chet has completed his PhD in Microbiology at the Faculty of Agriculture of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in Rehovot. He has published 390 articles, edited five books and holds 38 patents. He has served as a Dean of the Faculty of Agriculture and Vice President of the Hebrew University. Later, he was the President of the Weizmann Institute of Science and nominated “Institute Professor”. He was also a Visiting Professor at Harvard, Colorado State, Cornell, Rutgers and Lund Gottingen Universities. He was awarded with many prizes, among them, the Max-Planck, the Israel prize and the Wolf Prize. He has also received the Officer’s Cross of the Order of Merit of Germany and the Legion of Honor of France. Furthermore, he was recognized with an Honorary Doctorate from Lund, Haifa and Naples Universities. He is a Member of the Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities, the European Academy of Sciences and Academia Europea. He held the previous position of Deputy Secretary General at the Secretariat of the Union for the Mediterranean.

His research concerns with the biological control of plant disease using environment-friendly microorganisms, focusing on the basic, applied, and biotechnological aspects of this field.

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

Molecular Endocrinology Molecular Genetics Apoptosis cancer

Jose M. Guisan is full Professor at Spanish Research Council (CSIC) since 2001. He obtained Ph. D. in Biochemistry from University Autónoma of Madrid in 1979. He has published more than 400 papers in books and Journals (in more than 90 % as corresponding author) , 25 patent applications, and 36 PhD Theses supervised, 200 foreign students supervised.

Enzyme Engineering Engineering of Enzyme Biotransformations

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

Molecular Endocrinology Molecular Genetics Apoptosis cancer

Dr. Emmanuel (Mano) Loeb is a graduate of The School of Veterinary Medicine, Utrecht University, Netherlands and a qualified expert (IL Diploma) veterinary pathologist with published papers. He has 12 years of experience in experimental pathology and he is constantly improving his skills through continuous profession development. In his work, he takes part in annual professional meetings such as the ESVP and follows The Society of Toxicologic Pathology (STP) recommendations. He established new methods in the laboratory such as “free floating sections” for immunofluorescence staining, and developed translation tools from pathological hallmarks to histological end point. Dr.Loeb is also teaching pathology at the veterinary school of Koret (Hebrew University).

Immunofluorescence Staining, Veterinary Medicine, Pathology

Dr. Sukanta Mondal is currently working as Principal Scientist at ICAR-National Institute of Animal Nutrition and Physiology, Bangalore, India. He received his Ph. D. in 2006 from Indian Veterinary Research Institute, Bareilly, India and did postdoctoral assignment from University of Laval, Canada. He has been working in the field of molecular endocrinology, reproductive genomics and stress physiology for last 20 yrs. His major research interests includes maternal recognition of pregnancy, cloning, characterization and expression of genes, molecular characterization and expression of hormone receptors, understanding of mechanism that regulate ovarian follicular development etc. He has published over 55 papers in various National and International journals of repute and delivered invited lectures in different conference throughout the country. He has been bestowed with several fellowships including National Scholarship, Government of India, S J Jindal Trust fellowship, Junior Research Fellowship (NDRI) and Senior Research Fellowship (IVRI). Dr. Mondal’s work in hormone receptor and buffalo genomics has been recognized nationally and has received several prestigious awards like Rashtriya Gaurav award (2014), Prof. G. P. Talwar Midcareer Scientist award (2014), Prof. G. K. Pal award (2013), Fellow of Indian Chemical Society (2013), Fellow of Society for Applied Biotechnology (2012), Fellow of Indian Association of BioMedical Scientitsts (2010), Dr. K. Anji Reddy award (2011), Prof. P. B. Sen Memorial Oration award (2008), Biotechnology Overseas Associateship award (Long term, 2007-08), ISSRF Young Scientist Award (2006), Indian Science Congress Association Award (2002; 2007) etc.

Maternal recognition of pregnancy, cloning, characterization and expression of genes, molecular characterization and expression of hormone receptors, understanding of mechanism that regulate ovarian follicular development

Andreia de Araújo Morandim Giannetti has completed his PhD at the age of 30 years from Paulista State University (UNESP) and postdoctoral studies from Paulista State University (UNESP). She is a teacher at the FEI University Center. She has published more than 18 papers in reputed journals and has been serving as a reviewer in several renowned journals.

Biotechnology, Enzymes

Biologist with a managerial experience in multicultural work environment and an extensive training for Clinical Research Associate position undertaken at mibeg-InstituteMedicine, Cologne. Pro-active and results-oriented personality with an excellent proficiency in both interpersonal and intercultural communication.

ICH-GCP, AMG, Clinical Trials