Metabolomics & Systems Biology

Greta Petrella has completed his Ph.D. in Chemistry from the University of Rome “Tor Vergata” and is presently a postdoctoral research fellow at the same university. Her Ph.D. thesis received the “GIDRM Ph.D. Graduate Award – 2021”. She has published 11 papers in reputed journals and coordinates the activity of the research team of the NMR Laboratory.

Analytical Techniques in Metabolomics

Bo Cao has his expertise in mechanism exploration of metabolic reprogramming and gastric cancer development. His findings uncover the mechanistic associations between glucose, lipid metabolism and cancer progression, further enriching the proof for the hypothesis of metabolism-driven cancer initiation and progress. They also provide novel diagnostic biomarkers, prognostic factors and therapeutic targets for clinical practice of gastric cancer. The regulatory relationships between noncoding RNAs and critical enzymes by the existing studies of Bo Cao.

Cancer Metabolomics

Ilya B. Tsyrlov Proffesor at Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, USA

Anti-idiotypic antibody

Anil Batta is a professor at Mm Institute of Medical Sciences and Research at India

Metabolomics

Vladimir Tolstikov, Ph.D., is Director of Metabolomics at BERG. He received B.S. and M.S in Organic Chemistry in 1977 from M.V. Lomonosov Institute of Fine Chemical Technology, in Moscow, Russia. He received Ph.D. in Organic Chemistry in 1983 from the Institute of Chemical Means for Plant Protection, Moscow, Russia. He is a pioneer in HILIC separations development applied to Metabolomics. During his career he was working in leading research institutions in USA, Germany, Hungary and Russian Federation. He has joined Eli Lilly and Company in 2012. He is author contributor and participant of 45 conferences, 5 book chapters, and 54 articles

Metabolomics, Systems Biology

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

Dr. Bryan earned his undergraduate Bachelor of Science degree in Biochemistry from the University of Texas at Austin and his doctoral degree from Louisiana State University School of Medicine in Shreveport where he was the recipient of the Dean’s Award for Excellence in Research. He pursued his post-doctoral training as a Kirschstein Fellow at Boston University School of Medicine in the Whitaker Cardiovascular Institute. After a two year post-doctoral fellowship, in 2006 Dr. Bryan was recruited to join faculty at the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston by Ferid Murad, M.D., Ph.D., 1998 Nobel Laureate in Medicine or Physiology. During his tenure as faculty and independent investigator at UT, his research focused on drug discovery through screening natural product libraries for active compounds.

Biochemistry

Petra Perner is the founder and director of the Institute of Computer Vision and Applied Computer Sciences in Leipzig, Germany. Under her leadership the institute developed to one of the leading institutes in basic and applied research in computer vision, data mining, machine learning, case-based reasoning and image databases. She received a diploma degree in electrical engineering in 1981 and a PhD degree in computer science in 1985. In 1989 she finished her habilitation entitled “A Methodology for the Development of Knowledge-Based Image-Interpretation Systems”. Under her guidance highly qualified national and international personnel got trained in the above mentioned high-technology fields through research projects and education programs.

Research Interest Applied Computer Science, Data Mining

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.

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

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

Dr. Vladimir Tolstikov was awarded PhD degree at the age of 28 years from the Institute of Chemical Means for Plant Protection, Moscow, Russia. He is the director of Metabolomics at BERG LLC, USA. He has published more than 60 papers in reputed journals, 5 book chapters and has been serving as an editorial board member of MDPI Metabolites. During his career, he was working in leading research academic institutions and industry including Russian Academy of Medical Sciences, Max Plank Institute, UC Davis, Eli Lilly and Company and others. He is a pioneer in HILIC separations development applied to global Metabolomics. He has participated and contributed to an organization of various international meetings. His current research interests are in the field of AI-guided multi-omics input into the Precision Medicine development.

Metabolism

Preecha P. Yupapin received his B.Ed. in Physics, M.Sc. in Applied Mathematics, PhD in Electrical Engineering from Srinakarinwirote University, Mahidol University and City University of London in 1981, 1983 and 1993 respectively. He was a post-doctor research fellowship in 1994 under the European Community research project. He has been appointed as a visiting professor at Universiti Teknologi Malaysia since 2007. He has been promoted as a Professor of Physics in the Department of Physics, Faculty of Science, King Mongkut’s Institute of Technology Ladkrabang (KMITL), Bangkok, Thailand since 2009. He has authored/co-authored more than 401 published papers in SCOPUS database and 30 chapters and books. He has supervised 70 PhD Students and candidates in both local and international universities. He has also been appointed as an editorial board member and editor in chief of 10 international journals. Professor Yupapin is a member of Thai Institute Physics (TIP), SPIE, OSA senior membership, and was a president of the OSA-Thailand Chapter from 2002-2004.

His research interests are in nanophysics; nano-electronics; spintronics; nano-communication and networks; molecular electronics; nano-medicine and beauty and nano-energy.

Prof. Chan obtained his B.Math. (Hons.) in Computer Science and Statistics in 1984 and M.A.Sc. and Ph.D. in Systems Design Engineering in 1985 and 1989 respectively from the University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada. Soon after graduation, he joined the IBM Canada Laboratory in Toronto, Ontario, Canada as a software analyst and was involved in the development of multimedia and software engineering tools. He joined the Ryerson University as an Associate Professor in 1993 and in 1994, he returned to Hong Kong to join The Hong Kong Polytechnic University where he is currently a Professor in the Department of Computing. Chan’s research interests are in Big Data Analytics, Bioinformatics and Computational Biology, Data Mining, Machine Learning, Evolutionary Computation, Fuzzy Systems, Artificial Intelligence and Software Engineering. He has published 250 research papers in these areas in refereed journals and conference proceedings. He has also served been serving actively as organizer and Program Committee member of numerous conferences in his research areas. Chan’s research has been supported by the Research Grants Council and the Innovation and Technology Commission and the industry. He has been active in “knowledge transfer” through his published work and through consulting and contract research.

Big Data Analytics, Bioinformatics and Computational Biology, Data Mining, Machine Learning, Evolutionary Computation, Fuzzy Systems, Artificial Intelligence and Software Engineering.

Henry M. Sobell completed his studies at Brooklyn Technical High School (1948- 1952), Columbia College (1952-1956), and the University of Virginia School of Medicine (1956-1960). Instead of practicing clinical medicine, he then went to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) to join Professor Alexander Rich in the Department of Biology (1960-1965), where, as a Helen Hay Whitney Postdoctoral Fellow, he learned the technique of single crystal X-ray analysis. He then joined the Chemistry Department at the University of Rochester, having been subsequently jointly appointed to both the Chemistry and Molecular Biophysics departments (the latter at the University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry), becoming a full tenured Professor in both departments (1965-1993). He is now retired and living in the Adirondacks in New York, USA.

Structural Biology, Molecular Biology and Genetics

Dr. Ian James Martins is an Editor/Reveiwer for Open Acess Pub/MDPI journals. Appointed as the Chief Editor for International Journal of Diabetes Research (2014-2018), Research and Reviews: Neuroscience (2016-2018) and Journal of Diabetes and Clinical Studies (2017-2018). BIT Member (BIT Congress. Inc). Scientist for Science Advisory Board (USA) and Academic with Academia.edu. H-index of 43, (ResearchGate STATs (23), Mendeley STATS (20). Scientific research citations accumulated to >3300. Lifetime Membership by International Agency for Standards and Ratings as Fellow. Winner (World Academic Championship -2017) in Diabetes and Medical Science (Nutrition). Conferred with the RICHARD KUHN RESEARCH AWARD-2015 ENDOCRINOLOGY AND METABOLISM.

ENDOCRINOLOGY AND METABOLISM

Athanasios (Sakis) Mantalaris is Professor of BioSystems Engineering in the Department of Chemical Engineering at Imperial College London. He received his PhD (2000) in Chemical Engineering from the University of Rochester. His expertise is in modelling of biological systems and bioprocesses with a focus on mammalian cell culture systems, stem cell bioprocessing, and tissue engineering. He has published over 150 original manuscripts, co-edited one book, and holds several patents with several more pending. He has received several awards including the Junior Moulton Award for best paper by the Institute of Chemical Engineers (IChemE) in 2004. In 2012, he was elected Fellow of the American Institute for Medical & Biological Engineering and in 2013 he was awarded a European Research Council (ERC) Advanced Award.

My research interests lie in the areas of stem cell bioprocessing, tissue engineering and mammalian cell bioprocessing.

Professor Dr. Luisa Maria Arvide Cambra, Spanish is now Professor with Chair at the University of Almería (Spain). She also taught at the University of Granada, Spain. Thirty four years of teaching and researching experience. She is Director of Research Group HUM113-Estudios Filológicos from Program of Research of Andalusian Government, where she has managed and directed several academic and scientific contracts and research projects.She is author of a many works on several aspects of the Arabic science and literature in the Middle Ages, as well as Arabic language and linguistics. She has also participated in different prestigious international scientific conferences and visited many Universities and academic institutions in Europe, United States and Arab countries to teach and research.

Philological studies,Humanities

Assoc Prof Dr Subha Bhassu is currently an academician in Institute of Biological Sciences and has 14 years of experience in teaching in various programs and has develop many course structures that are aligned to the Malaysian MQF programmes for University Malaya (2008-2015) and Inti University College (2000 -2004) and also serve as moderator for Biotechnology courses for INTI University College ( 2008-2015) She is also an Head of Section of Aquatic Molecular Biology and Biotechnology of CEBAR( 2014-current) and associate member of IOES and MRC research centers within University Malaya (2014- current). She is also serves as committee member for International Biosafety Committee Member (IBC) of University Malaya and also auditor for Enforcement committee for Biosafety at the Ministry of Environment and Natural Resources ( 2014-current).

Population Genetics (Animal and Aquatic ) Genomic (Genome Informatics for Eukaryotic System) Inland Fisheries (Ecological Genetics and Morphometric and Conservation genetics) Population Genetics (Genomics, Quantitative Genetics and Evolutionary Biology)

Vladimir Tolstikov, Ph.D., is Director of Metabolomics at BERG. He received B.S. and M.S in Organic Chemistry in 1977 from M.V. Lomonosov Institute of Fine Chemical Technology, in Moscow, Russia. He received Ph.D. in Organic Chemistry in 1983 from the Institute of Chemical Means for Plant Protection, Moscow, Russia. He is a pioneer in HILIC separations development applied to Metabolomics. During his career he was working in leading research institutions in USA, Germany, Hungary and Russian Federation. He has joined Eli Lilly and Company in 2012. He is author contributor and participant of 45 conferences, 5 book chapters, and 54 articles

Metabolomics, Systems Biology

Jaleel Kareem Ahmed has expertise in evaluation in Iron and steel industry . He registered 3 patents in USA , UK and Iraq about using water in iron industry and wax for storage and transportation of Direct Reduced Iron (DRI) , and using wax for carburizing of steel. Also he used chlorophyll as gamma ray absorber to protect Iraqi children from cancer . He used the mechanically red beet juice as scavenger for poisonous heavy metal ions and anticancer and detoxification of urea and uric acid from human body via urine system . In 2013 he awarded Scientific Medal from Iraqi Government . In 2014 he qualified as a member in Who is Who network. He has been Serving as a reviewer of Journal of Advances in Polymer Technology / Thomson Reuters . He take part in 2016 & 2017 for Quality Star (QS ) World University Ranking Supplement for the QS Intelligence Unit .

evaluation in Iron and steel industry,Polymer Technology

Pier Paolo Piccaluga has done MD with honors from Bologna University (1997). He did Specialty in Hematology with honors (2001), PhD in Clinical and Experimental Hematology at Bologna University (2005), Specialty in Pathology with honors at Siena University (2014) and Post-doctoral fellowship at Columbia University, New York (USA). He is a Visiting fellow at Columbia University (USA, 2008) and Kiel University (Germany, 2009), Lecturer in Pathology at Bologna University: 2006-2012. Currently he is appointed as Associate Professor at the Department of Experimental, Diagnostic, and Specialty Medicine, Bologna University Medical School, Italy.

Pathology

Mishra received his B. S (Honors) and M.S degrees from Patna University ( then nicknamed as Oxford of the East) in India and Ph. D Degree from McMaster University. He received his post –doctoral training with the late Nobel Laureate Professor E. L. Tatum at the Rockefeller University. He was a Fellow for Medical Research of the Jane Coffin Child Fund of the Yale University at the Rockefeller University for two years and then Research Associate with Professor Tatum where he initiated his work in what is now called as Proteomics and Matabolomics.

Biological Sciences

Chiun Gung Juo obtained his PhD from Department of Chemistry, National Taiwan University in 1997. After graduation, he worked as an analytical team leader at the Everlight Chemical Industrial Corp. and his team analyzed various industrial products and their formulations to help developing new products, such as photo-resin、CDR、DVD dyes、antioxidants and APIs. In 2001, he changed his job to Institute of Biomedical Science, Academia Sinica and established a proteomic core. The core provided the first ICAT analysis service in Taiwan. After that, he went to Molecular Medicine Research Center of Chang Gung University in 2008. There, he set up a metabolomics Core and my own laboratory. His major research interests were developing reliable analytical platforms for the early stage biomarker discovery of cancers then. Now he is senior scientist in PharmaEssentia Corp. Taiwan. He apply his various experience to help developing the protein drug. Besides, he is also one of the council members of Taiwan Society for Mass Spectrometry Since 2003. The major function of the society is to provide the correct knowledge and training of mass spectrometry for the scientists and researchers in Taiwan.

Mass spectroscopy,Pharmaceutical science

Dr. Joseph Fomusi Ndisang is an Associate Professor in the University of Saskatchewan College of Medicine, Department of Physiology. He received postdoctoral training in Physiology at the University of Saskatchewan College of Medicine from 2000-2005. He obtained a PhD in Pharmacology & Toxicology from the University of Florence, Italy, 2000. He obtained a Doctor of Pharmacy degree from University of Florence, Italy in 1995. He has received several distinguished awards and distinctions including: (i) Fellow of the Canadian Cardiovascular Society (FCCS) in 2016, (ii) Fellow of the American Heart Association (FAHA) in 2011; (iii) Fellow of the International College of Angiology (FICA) in 2007; (iv) Young Investigator Award by International College of Angiology (2007); (v) Young Investigator Award by the American Society of Pharmacology & Experimental Therapeutics-Division for Drug Discovery, Development & Regulatory Affairs (2005); (vi) Young Investigator Award by the Society of Experimental Biology and Medicine (2005); (vii) Caroline tum Suden/Frances A Hellebrandt Professional Opportunity Award for Meritorious Research by the American Physiological Society (2005); and (viii) Recognition Award for Meritorious Research by a Young Investigator by the American Physiological Society (2004). Top 5% of cited authors in journals of Biology and Biochemistry in 2011, by Thomson-Reuters. Currently, Dr. Ndisang is an Editor for Frontiers in Bioscience (impact factor 3.8) and Executive Guest Editor for Current Medicinal Chemistry (impact factor 3.7) He has published more than 64-full length manuscripts in peer-reviewed journals and more than 80 abstracts. Dr. Ndisang has served as external PhD examiner for several universities in Canada, has given more than 30-invited talks, and has also served as peer-reviewer for several reputed journals and granting agencies in United States, United Kingdom, Canada, New Zealand and Poland.

Investigating the role of the heme oxygenase system in hypertension, diabetes (types-1 and -2), and obesity

Prof. Hari Misra is currently Head, Molecular Biology Division, Bhabha Atomic Research Centre, Mumbai, India. For last 27 years, Dr Misra has been working on molecular and cellular responses of bacteria to both oxidative stress and DNA damage effects of gamma radiation. He has identified a novel antioxidant / radioprotector, which is found to be a ubiquitous response regulator from one of the most radioresistant bacterium, Deinococcus radiodurans. Catching tail of this molecule, his group discovered a new type of DNA damage response mechanism that seems to be an alternative to the missing classical LexA/RecA type SOS response in this bacterium. Dr. Misra’s current research interests are “Bacterial Genome Biology, Molecular and Cellular responses to oxidative stress and DNA damage, Molecular Genetics and structure-function of proteins, Metabolic engineering and antioxidant / radioprotector / redox biology. Dr Misra has published ~70 research papers in national and international journals of very high repute, with an aggregate IF ~198 and SCI >1000 (Scopus) and >1400 (Goggle scholar). For these contributions, Dr Misra is bestowed with a number of national /international recognitions / awards like “Indian Science Congress- Platinum Jubilee Lecture Award, Homi Bhabha Science and Technology Award, Sarma Memorial Award, DAE Science and Technology Excellence Award, INS Young Scientist Award”. He is elected member of “Guha Research Conference”. Dr Misra is a fellow of National Academy of Sciences, India (FNASc) and Maharashtra Academy of Sciences (FMASc) and Fulbright-Nehru Senior Fellow. Dr Misra has been visiting Scientist/Professor to Harvard Medical School Boston, UTSW-MC Dallas, LSU, Baton Rogue, Zhijiang University China and Korean Atomic Energy Research Institute, Republic of South Korea. He is a Member of BoS and Ph.D. thesis examiner to a number of highly reputed institutions in India. Dr Misra is a member of the American Society of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (ASBMB), American Society of Microbiologists (ASM), Society of Biological Chemists of India, Association of Microbiologists of India, Environmental Mutagenic Society of India., Indian Society of Cell Biology and Indian Nuclear Society, and has been office bearers of academic societies in India.

Biochemistry and Molecular Biology

Assistant Professor in the Department of Physics, the Graduate Division of Biological and Biomedical Sciences and Emory Antibiotic Resistance Center ,

Genetics, Cell Biology, Developmental Biology