Prof Dr Frédéric CADET (PEACCEL, Paris, France): Vice President Research & Development. Ph.D (specialization in: Protein Engineering, Data mining, Biosimulation). From 2004 to 2008, as an “Executive School, University & Research Commissioner”, he managed a budget of 1.3 billion Euros and was responsible for 32,000 employees. Former Chairman of the ERA Nets (European Research Area Networks) NetBIOME. He has developed pioneering research activities in bioinformatics. Author of over 70 publications and referee for 17 international scientific journals. Co-Founder of the company Peaccel (Protein Engineering Accelerator: http://www.peaccel.com). Organizing Committee Member for « 2nd International Conference on "Genetic and Protein Engineering”, November 14-16, 2016 Atlanta, USA.

Specialization in: Protein Engineering, Data mining, Biosimulation

Dr. Mead leads the research and development efforts for the Company’s research use only products. He earned a Ph.D. in Physiology and Biophysics at the University of Illinois–Champaign/Urbana. Dr. Mead is the inventor of TA cloning and is the co-author of forty four publications

Protein Engineering, Biotechnology, Molecular Biology

Ram Samudrala is Professor and Chief, Division of Bioinformatics, State University of New York, Buffalo researching multiscale modeling of atomic, molecular, cellular, and physiological systems, with an emphasis on protein and proteome structure, function, interaction, design, and evolution. His work has led to more than 115 publications in journals such as Science, Nature, PLoS Biology, the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, and the Journal of the American Medical Association. Samudrala joined the University of Washington faculty in 2001 (where he remains an Affiliate Professor) after completing his doctoral research with John Moult at the Center for Advanced Research in Biotechnology in 1997, and his postdoctoral research with Michael Levitt (2013 Nobel in Chemistry) at Stanford University in 2000, which resulted in him making some of the best predictions at the first three community-wide assessment of protein structure prediction (CASP) experiments. In 2002, he received a Searle Scholar Award which funds exceptional young scientists, was named one of the world's top young innovators (TR100) by MIT Technology Review in 2003, and was selected to present the University of Washington New Investigator Science in Medicine Lecture in 2004.

Molecular and Population Genetics, Developmental Biology, Bacterial Physiology, Plant Structure Function and Systematics, Evolution, Developmental Biology, Chemistry of Nucleic Acids, Protein Chemistry and Enzymic Catalysis, Protein Structure and Function, Cell Biology, and Biophysics and Theoretical/Computational Biology.

Xiao-Qing Qiu has completed his PhD in 1991 from Emory University and postdoctoral studies from Albert Einstein College of Medicine at NYC in 1996. He is the director of Lab. of Biomembrane & Membrane Proteins and full Professor of Sichuan University. He has published more than 10 papers in reputed journals. Mainly engaged in developing a novel fusion-peptide antibiotic, pheromonicin, against drug-resistant pathogens. 56 related patents have been approved by China, US, and other countries patent offices.

Protein Engineering, Genetic Engineering,

Victor Tsetlin has received his Ph.D in 1973, from 1996 he is a Professor and from 2006, he is a Corresponding Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Head of the Department. Awards & honors: -Winner of State Prize of USSR -Alexander von Humboldt Prize winner

Neurosignaling, Bio-organic Chemistry, Protein Neurotoxins