Angela Giangrande is a full professor (DR1 CNRS) at the Institut de Génétique et de Biologie Moléculaire et Cellulaire, Strasbourg, FRANCE. She is a member of the Society of Neuroscience and of the Genetics American Society. She is also a USIAS fellow (University of Strasbourg Institute for Advanced studies).
Professor of Computational Biology, Faculty of Biology, Medicine and Health, University of Manchester. Manages the miRBase database of microRNA sequences. Founded the Rfam RNA families database. Interested in RNA structure, function and evolution.
Professor of Plant Developmental Genetics and Assistant Director of the Institute of Plant Biology of the University of Zurich. Co-leader of the University Research Priority Program "Evolution in Action: from Genomes to Ecosystems". Past-President of the Zurich-Basel Plant Science Center. Recipient of the various fellowships, the Amerbach Award, a Searle Scholarship, and Awardee of an ERC Advanced Grant. Elected member of EMBO and the German Academy of Science Leopoldina.
Dr. Aarti Gupta is a Research Scientist at the Institute of Genomics for Crop Abiotic Stress Tolerance (IGCAST), Texas Tech University.
She obtained her Ph.D in Plant Genetics and has expertise in the area of plant stress biology and plant molecular biology
Emeritus Prof. of the Department of Zoology, University of Cambridge. Made a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1971, and knighted in 1995. He served as Master of Magdalene College, Cambridge, from 1995 to 2002. Awards include the 2012 Nobel Prize, the 1989 Wolf Prize in Medicine, the 2009 Albert Lasker Basic Medical Research award, the 1968 Scientific Medal of the Zoological Society, the 1987 Emperor Hirohito International Prize for Biology, & the 2001 Conklin Medal.
PhD in Neurobiology (UCL, UK), two post-docs in cellular neuroscience and stem cell biology (KCL, UK and Karolinska Institute, Sweden), appointed as a Neuroscience Lecturer at Imperial College London, UK and I have recently become one of its first Senior Teaching Fellows. For full information see my LinkedIn profile at https://www.linkedin.com/in/anitahall1 .
Associate professor, Section of Orthodontics and Dentofacial Orthopedics, Faculty of Dental Science, Kyushu University, Japan.
Received his D.D.S (1998) and Ph.D. (2002) in Dentistry from Tohoku University, Japan.
Postdoc at NIDCR/NIH in the U.S. from 2004-2007.
Physician Scientist for patients with cleft lip/palate and/or other congenital anomalies.
Research: biomineralization, extracellular matrix proteins in teeth, tooth movement, and congenital anomalies.
I am a developmental biologist interested in craniofacial morphogenesis and malformation. Our current research focuses on understanding cellular and molecular mechanisms underlying midfacial and calvarial development.
Professor of Molecular Plant Physiology at the University of Cologne, Germany, and Principle Investigator at the Cluster of Excellence on Plant Sciences (CEPLAS). My current research interests center on photomorphogenesis and light signaling in Arabidopsis.
Researcher in evolution and development, pioneered amphioxus as a stand-in for the ancestral chordate, Past chair of the Evo-devo division of the Society for Integrative and Comparative Zoology.
Shanjin Huang is a Professor of Plant Biology at Tsinghua University, Beijing, China. His lab is interested in studying the structure and functions of the cytoskeleton using model plants Arabidopsis and Rice as the experimental systems.
CNRS Research Director and group leader in the Laboratory of Plant Reproduction and Development at the Ecole Normale Supérieure de Lyon, France. Royal Society of London University Research Fellow, then lecturer at the University of Edinburgh, UK from 2000-2010.