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.

David Mead is CEO and CoFounder of Varigen Biosciences Corp and founder of Lucigen Corp. Dr. Mead earned a Ph.D. in Physiology and Biophysics at the University of Illinois–Champaign/Urbana, and is co-author of fifty-five publications, co-inventor on ten patents, and the inventor of TA cloning. Dr. Mead has been involved with three major functional metagenomics projects looking for new polymerases from boiling hot spring viruses, new CAZymes from thermal habitats, and novel natural products from soil microbes.

Victor Tsetlin has got both his Ph.D. degree in chemistry (1973) and D. Sci. degree (1987) at the Shemyakin-Ovchinnikov Institute. He was Head of the Laboratory of Neuropeptide Receptors (1987-2009) and now a Head of the Department for Molecular Basis of Neurosignaling. He was elected a Professor (1996) and corresponding member of the Russian Academy of Sciences (2006). The awards: Russian State Prize in Science and Technology (1985), the Humboldt Prize (1992). He worked as an invited scientist at the Uppsala University, Sweden (1979), Imperial College, London (1983-1984), Institute of Protein Research, Osaka (1992-1993), Free University of Berlin (1993-1994). He published about 200 papers, including those in PNAS, Neuron, Nature Str. Mol. Biol, J.Biol. Chem., J. Neurochemistry, Sci. Rep. and other. The year 2000-2011, a member of the Advisory Board of the FEBS J., from 2013 till present - a member of the Advisory Board of the Biochem. J.

Neurosignaling, Bio-organic Chemistry, Protein Neurotoxins

Abdellah Salhi is a Professor of Operational Research currently based at the University of Essex. He has completed his Ph.D in 1989 from Aston University and was a postdoc over many years at The University of Leeds, School of Informatics, The University of Edinburgh, School of Mathematics and Statistics, and The University of Southampton, Department of Electronics and Computer Sciences. He was the Head of the Department of Mathematical Sciences from 2010 to 2016. He led and leads a number of funded projects. He has supervised a number of MSc and PhD students. He is currently supervising 9 PhD students on topic ranging from modelling and solving operations as arise in container ports to the design and implementation of novel Nature-inspired algorithms for complex optimization problems and the analysis and implementation of Lanczos-type algorithms and optimization and search population based methods. He has published more than 80 papers in reputed journals and serves as an editorial board member of repute. He has attended several international conferences as a plenary speaker, keynote speaker, honorable guest, or just as an ordinary participant.

D.L.Savithramma has completed her PhD at the age of 35 years from University of Agricultural Sciences, Bangalore, India and postdoctoral studies as a Biotechnology National Associate from Indian Institute Science, Bangalore, India. She is a Professor of Genetics and Plant Breeding at University of Agricultural Sciences, Bangalore, India, one of the premier Agricultural University in India. She has published more than 70 papers in reputed journals and has released seven varieties in Vegetable cowpea, seed cowpea, Peanut and Chrysanthemum

Dr Abbas Amini is an assistant professor at the Australian College of ACK and Western Sydney University, and the member of graduate supervisory board. After obtaining PhD, he conducted research with other Australian universities, as a postdoctoral research fellow at Monash and Deakin Universities, and as a senior research fellow at the University of Melbourne. His fine outcomes have been presented in high impact factor journals, e.g., Nature publication group, and a recent published book in 2016. Abbas is the editor of ten reputed journals, and the committee member of 20 international conferences.

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