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Michael Otto, Ph.D Biography   Dr. Otto received his M.S. in biochemistry in 1993 from the University of Tübingen, Germany. In 1998, he earned his Ph.D. in microbiology from the same institution. Dr. Otto joined the Laboratory of Human Bacterial Pathogenesis in July 2001 as a principal investigator. In 2008, he became a tenured senior investigator and moved his laboratory to the NIH Bethesda main campus. He is currently chief of the Pathogen Molecular Genetics Section in the Laboratory of Bacteriology at NIAID.  He has published more than 200 papers in reputed journals and has been serving as an editorial advisory board member of PLoS Pathogens, Infection and Immunity, and the Journal of Bacteriology, among others. Major Areas of Research Staphylococcal infection and colonization Bacterial interactions with the host and the host microbiota Antibiotic resistance in Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) Biofilm development and infection

Zhou Yiting, Ph.D Biography  Dr, Zhou Yiting is Professor and Assistant Dean at School of Medicine, Zhejiang University.  His research interest includes Myogenesis and tenogenesis. Differentiation of skeletal muscle progenitors into multinucleated myotubes is a multi-step process that undergoes dramatic morphological changes and genetic reprogramming. The main focus of his lab is to elucidate molecular mechanisms for spatialtemporal regulation of myoblast differentiation and muscle regeneration. In addition, we are also interested in signaling pathways controlling insulin/IGF signaling. Current effort is geared towards (1) identifying the roles of phase separation in modulating insulin/IGF pathway and (2) delineating the roles of metabolic reprogramming in regulating cell fate decision.  

Nguyen Viet Tuan, Ph.D Biography  Dr. Nguyen Viet Tuan finished his Master of Applied Science at QUT, Brisbane and his PhD at University of the Sunshine Coast with multiple transcriptomics projects in aquaculture (fish/crustaceans). He is currently employed as a Research Scientist in Computational Biology at Agriculture Victoria Research, based in AgriBio building, Melbourne. His primary task at the moment is to assist with the analyses of genotyping data and sequencing data to further advance Australia dairy cows industry. His interests lies the application of Next Generation Sequencing (NGS) in agriculture species (mostly non-model species including prawns, fish.., and up to date, dairy cows), investigating gene expression profiles on different external conditions, physiological and sexual orientation of organism… He is also very interested in Long read sequencing platforms and single cell RNA-seq. His ResearchGate account can be found at https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Tuan_Nguyen33

Vinod Scaria, MD Biography  Vinod Scaria is a clinician and computational biologist. His laboratory is interested in understanding the function, organization and regulation of vertebrate genome, and how genomic variations could potentially impact them. He is also involved in creating novel methods and resources for analysis and annotation of genomes and understanding the functional impact of genomic variations. He has been part of pioneering collaborative genomics projects aimed at understanding the South Asian and Middle Eastern genome diversity. He has been part of the whole genome sequencing and analysis projects including the Indian, Sri-Lankan and Malaysian genome projects and is a member of the HUGO Pan-Asian Population Genomics Initiative (HUGO-PAPGI) task-force. He is also the co-founder of the Genomics for Understanding Rare Disease: India Alliance Network (GUaRDIAN), which is the pioneer and one of the largest networks of clinicians and researchers in India working on rare genetic diseases. He has adopted novel and creative strategies, such as the use of artificial intelligence, social media, and the participation of a large number of undergraduate students in collaborative genomics projects. His research interests are:  Genomics of Rare Genetic Diseases Computational Biology on non-coding Functional RNAs Pharmacogenomics of global populations  

Jaime Martinez-Urtaza, Ph.D Biography  Dr Jaime Martinez-Urtaza is Distinguished Beatriz-Galindo Senior Professor in the Department of Genetics and Microbiology, UAB. He has previously worked at the University of Santiago de Compostela, the European Centre for Disease Control (ECDC), the University of Bath and CEFAS in the UK. He is an honorary professor at the University of Exeter (UK) and a visiting professor at the University of Southampton (UK), the University of the Frontier (Chile) and the Center for Food Research and Development-CIAD (Mexico). He is also a scientific advisor to the National Institutes of Health of Peru and an expert on FAO and WHO for water and foodborne diseases. His work covers different aspects of molecular epidemiology and the effects of climate on infectious diseases with a particular interest in the study of water and foodborne diseases. A central theme in his research is the fusion of different scientific disciplines such as molecular biology, microbiology, population genetics, oceanography, climate science and epidemiology, to decipher the occurrence and transmission of infectious diseases. In recent years, he has devoted much of his activity to the application of advanced genomic tools to identify new aspects in the evolution, transmission and dispersal of human pathogens in connection with natural events or activities associated with the activity human.