13^th International Conference on Metabolomics and Systems Biology October 11-12, 2018 Hilton Zurich Airport Hohenbuehlstrasse 10, 8152, Opfikon, Switzerland

Gerald C. Hsu received an honorable PhD in mathematics and majored in engineering at MIT. He attended different universities over 17 years and studied seven academic disciplines. He has spent 20,000 hours in T2D research. First, he studied six metabolic diseases and food nutrition during 2010-2013, then conducted research during 2014-2018. His approach is “math-physics and quantitative medicine” based on mathematics, physics, engineering modeling, signal processing, computer science, big data analytics, statistics, machine learning, and AI. His main focus is on preventive medicine using prediction tools. He believes that the better the prediction, the more control you have.

Preventive medicine using prediction tools

Leads scientific laboratory using structural biology tools including NMR spectroscopy to discover protein ligands, functions and exploitation routes. Specialization in proteins involved in membrane recognition, genetic diseases, oncoproteins and microbial pathogenesis. Interests in drug discovery, membrane nanoparticles, and technologies for understanding and exploiting interactions of proteins and organelles.

Specialties: structural biology, NMR spectroscopy, drug discovery, cancer mechanisms, SME collaborations, industrial partnerships, scientific infrastructure, regional and city strategic development

Mishra received his post –doctoral training with the late Nobel Laureate Professor E. L. Tatum at the Rockefeller University and Ph. D Degree from McMaster University.He received his B. S and M.S degrees from Patna University ( then nicknamed as Oxford of the East) in India. Later he joined the University of South Carolina Molecular Biology Group and Chairman of the Microbiology dept in the Medical School and remained as Professor of Genetics in the Dept. of Biological Sciences. He was also a Visiting Professor at the Max Planck Institute for Molecular Biology in Heidelberg, Germany and in Genetic Institute of Greenwood, SC. In addition to a large number of articles published in leading journals, he has published two books by John Wiley & Sons of New York, one on Proteomics in 2010; this book has been endorsed by Nobel Laureate Professor Gunter Blobel. Dr Mishra is also on the Board of Journal, Proteomics & Bioinformatics.

Metabolomics & Proteomics

Boris Zaslavsky graduated in Analytical Chemistry from the Moscow State University. He holds a PhD and a DSc (USSR Academy of Sciences), was a scientist at USSR Academy of Sciences (1971-1991), Visiting Fellow at Cornell University Medical School (NYC, 1991-1992), and KV Pharmaceuticals (1993-1994), Argonne National Laboratory (1994-1995). He is the founder of Analiza, Inc. (1996-present) and Cleveland Diagnostics (2014-present), where serves as a Chief Scientific Officer. He published 1 monograph, over 120 scientific papers, and 7 patents. His research interests are development of analytical applications of aqueous two-phase partitioning, new clinical tests for early cancer detection and other applications, role of water in biology, and protein-water interactions.

Systems Biology

Petra Perner (IAPR Fellow) is the director of the Institute of Computer Vision and Applied Computer Sciences IBaI in Leipzig, Germany. She received her Diploma degree in electrical engineering and her PhD degree in computer science for the work on “Data Reduction Methods for Industrial Robots with Direct Teach-in-Programing”. Her habilitation thesis was about “A Methodology for the Development of Knowledge-Based Image-Interpretation Systems". She has been the principal investigator of various national and international research projects. She received several research awards for her research work and has been awarded with 3 business awards for her work on bringing intelligent image interpretation methods and data mining methods into business.

Computational Systems Biology

K. Ogata has completed his PhD at the age of 27 years from Yokohama City University in 1992 and postdoctoral studies from RIKEN tsukuba institute. In 1997, He became the leader of the regulation of protein function project, Kanagawa Academy of Science and Technology (KAST), and from 2001,the professor and chair person of Department of Biochemistry, Yokohama City University Graduate School of Medicine.He has published papers in JMB, PNAS, NSMB, and Cell, and had been serving as an editorial board member of BBRC (2009-2010)

Metabolomics

Tao Huang has been the Director of Bioinformatics Core Facility at Institute of Health Sciences, Shanghai Institutes for Biological Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences since 2014. From 2012 to 2014, he was a Postdoctoral Fellow at Department of Genetics and Genomics Sciences, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York City, USA. His research interests include bioinformatics, computational biology, systems genetics and big data research. He has published over 100 articles in peer-reviewed journals. His works have been cited for 3138 times with an h-index of 26 and an i10-index of 64. He has been independent reviewer for about 30 journals. He is Editor for Book Computational Systems Biology - Methods and Protocols of Springer, Guest Editor for BBA Molecular Basis of Disease, BBA General Subjects, Artificial Intelligence in Medicine, BioMed Research International, Combinatorial Chemistry & High Throughput Screening and Computational and Mathematical Methods in Medicine.

Bioinformatics

Dr. Vladimir Bondarenko is Assistant Professor at Georgia State University, USA. He did his Ph.D. Physics and Mathematics, Moscow State University , Russia , 1990. Dr. Bondarenko's research interests include dynamical systems, neuronal and cardiac cell models, neural networks, models of cardiac arrhythmias, ion channel models.

Systems Biology