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Mitchell S Stark

For the past 20 years I have been actively working in the field of melanoma and naevi genomics. I have worked and performed my PhD candidature based at the QIMR Berghofer Medical Research Institute (1999-2015) and in 2015 I relocated as a Research Fellow in the Dermatology Research Centre, The University of Queensland Diamantina Institute. Over this time I have been working towards understanding the aetiology of melanoma, studying gene dysregulation during tumour progression along with predisposition to melanoma in families with high risk for melanoma development. My research group (genomics and miRNA biomarker discovery) based within the Dermatology Research Centre (UQDI) is currently engaged in miRNA biomarker and genomics research for early detection in melanoma, skin cancer (SCC), as well as non-small cell lung cancer.

Ursula Stochaj

Associate Professor in the Department of Physiology at McGill University, Montreal.
Research interests: protein and RNA transport, nuclear function and organization, stress, signaling, chaperones, nanobiology, stem cell biology, microscopy, quantitative image analysis, high-throughput screening.

Maria Patrizia Stoppelli

Maria Patrizia Stoppelli is currently Research Director at Institute of Genetics and Biophysics, National Research Council, Naples (Italy). She has worked in prestigious Institutions like the NIH-NCI, Bethesda, Md and the MIT, Cambridge, MA and developed an internationally recognised research profile in tumour cell migration and invasion with over 65 publications and 2 patents to her name. In 2014, Dr Stoppelli qualified as Full professor in General and Clinical Biochemistry.

Anne Marie Strohecker

Assistant Professor Departments of Cancer Biology and Genetics and Surgery, The Ohio State University

We are interested in mechanisms of autophagy regulation, with a focus on discovering how to modulate the pathway for optimal therapeutic benefit. Current projects are focused on the identification of novel autophagy regulators and their functional relevance for lung tumorigenesis

Jeffrey A Stuart

Associated Professor and Chair of Biological Sciences.

The goal of my research program is to gain a better understanding of the molecular mechanisms underlying longevity. Mitochondria, via their contribution to energy metabolism, cell death pathways, and redox regulated signal transduction pathways, are thought to be important effectors of longevity. We use a comparative approach to study these in mammalian species, including those that are exceptionally long-lived. We are also exploring the ability of small molecules including selective estrogen receptor modulators and phytoestrogens to modulate mitochondrial function and affect aging and longevity.

Vasanta Subramanian

Vasanta Subramanian is currently an Associate Professor in Vertebrate Developmental Genetics and Stem cell Biology. Her research focus is in three main areas- (1) Polycomb group genes, signalling and embryonic development (2) stem cells and reprogramming and (3) stem cell and transgenic mouse models for neurodegenerative diseases.She is a Fellow of theRoyal Society of Biology.

Keiko Sugimoto

Group leader at RIKEN Plant Science Center. Editorial Board Member of Cell Reports, The Plant Cell, Genes to Cells, Plant and Cell Physiology, and Frontiers in Plant Science

William J. Sullivan Jr

Associate Professor of Pharmacology & Toxicology, Microbiology & Immunology at Indiana University School of Medicine. Editorial board of Eukaryotic Cell. Counselor for Division AA (Free-Living, Symbiotic and Parasitic Protists), American Society for Microbiology.

Qing-Yuan Sun

Professor of Reproductive and Developmental Biology, vice-president of Chinese Society of Zoology, president of Chinese Society for Cellular and Molecular Microscopy, Secretary General of Chinese Society of Reproductive Biology, and former director of the State Key Laboratory of Reproductive Biology, Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences.

Awards and Honors:
- Distinguished Young Scientist of The Chinese Academy of Sciences (1999);
- Grants for Outstanding Young Scientists from National Natural Science Foundation of China (2002);
- National Award for Distinguished Scholars Returned From Abroad (2003);
- Distinguished Youth of The Chinese Academy of Sciences (2003);
- National Award for Outstanding Young Scientists (2004);
- National Award for Outstanding Post-Docs (2006);
- National Natural Science Prize (Second) (2006)
- BHP Billiton Supervisor Research Award, Graduate School of Chinese Academy of Sciences (2007)
- The Outstanding Researcher during the National 11th Five-Year Plan, Ministry of Science and Technology (2011)
- The First Prize for Science and Technology Progress, National Population and Family Planning Council (2011)

Gyorgy Szabadkai

Senior Lecturer, Department of Cell & Developmental Biology, University College London. Co-Founder of the Consortium for Mitochondrial Research at UCL.

Dunxian Tan

Assistant professor/research at the University of Texas health Science Center at San Antonio USA. Associate Editor in Chief of the Journal of Pineal Research.

Xiaotian Tang

Dr. Xiaotian Tang is now an assistant professor (ZJU100 Young Professor) at Zhejiang University. He was a postdoctoral associate at Yale School of Medicine. His research interests include vector-borne diseases of animals and plants, and arthropod-pathogen-host interactions. He is also interested in evolutionary biology of arthropods.

He has over 40 publications in high-quality peer-reviewed journals, including Cell, PLOS Biology, eLife, Cell Reports, and Science Translational Medicine. He has served as academic or review editor for 4 journals and reviewer for over 20 journals.