Florent Moulière:
Amsterdam UMC, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Department of Pathology, Cancer Center Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
Florent Moulière is a group leader and assistant professor at the UMC Amsterdam. His interests are tailoring new technologies and multi-omics analysis to study the biology of circulating nucleic acids. He received his Msc. in bioengineering from the University of Nimes and a Ph.D. in molecular biology from the University of Montpellier, France. He worked at the Rosenfeld Lab in Cambridge (Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute) between 2013 and 2018. He developed methods to improve the sensitivity of liquid biopsy in difficult pathological contexts (early detection and brain tumours).
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Andrea Franzetti:
Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Università degli studi di Milano-Bicocca , Italy
Andrea Franzetti is a group leader and Assistant professor at the Dept. of Earth and Environmental Sciences (DISAT), University Milano-Bicocca. He is a world-renowned lecturer in bioinformatics, genomics and transcriptomics applied for bioremediation of contaminated groundwater and soil. He is actively involved in several bioinformatics courses in Europe and Latin America to teach recent tools for analysing the data from high-throughput next-generation sequencing (NGS). His work led to several publications (> 80 papers) highly cited by the scientific community. Thanks to close collaboration with numerous stakeholders, he is leading several bioremediation projects in Europe.
Liana Fattore :
National Research Council of Italy, Institute of Neuroscience, Cagliari, Italy
Liana Fattore is a PI at the Institute of Neuroscience, National Research Council of Italy (IN-CNR). Awarded by several National and International Fellowships, Travel Grants and Awards (SIF, SINS, ECNP, ISN-ESN, BPS) and currently leads preclinical research on the neurobiology of drug abuse and behavioral dependences at the Department of Biomedical Sciences, Division of Neuroscience and Clinical Pharmacology, University of Cagliari, Italy. Her main fields of research focus primarily on addictive disorders, pathological dependences and behavioral dyscontrol, and include the study of potential risk factors that may enhance vulnerability to addiction, like age and genetic background. Other research interests include neuropsychopharmacology, behavioral pharmacology, neurobiology of natural and drug reward, new designer and Internet drugs.
Steve J Charette :
Department of biochemistry, microbiology and bio-informatics, Université Laval, Quebec, Canada
Steve J. Charette is a professor in the department of biochemestry, microbiology and bio-informatics (Université Laval, Quebec, Canada), where he has been since 2008. He has done two postdoctoral fellows in Swiss, from 2002 to 2003 at the University of Zürich and from 2003 to 2007 at the University of Geneva. He obtained his Ph.D. in Molecular/cellular biology from the “Université Laval” in 2002. He is a molecular/cellular biologist and a biochemist affiliated to the “Institut de biologie intégrative et des systèmes (IBIS)”’. He is working with protist since 2003 and has developed broad expertise on host-pathogen interaction and identification of virulence factors of pathogenic bacteria. He is also conducting research on antibiotic resistance genes and potential alternatives to antibiotics.
Imen Lassadi :
Department of Biochemistry, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK.
Imen Lassadi obtained her Phd in 2011 from Paul Sabatier University in Toulouse before a successful postdoc within Pasteur Institute Paris working on how the chromatin context around a double strand break affects the repair mechanism. Since 2016 Dr. Lassadi moved, as research associate, to the biochemistry department, Cambridge University, UK. She is mainly interested in the study of genome architecture and the role that chromatin organisation and epigenetics play in the control of cellular mechanism such as gene expression and gene stability. She is also working with a fantastic model, Dinoflagellates, that seem to have an alternative mechanism for DNA packing and genome organisation.
Sophien Kamoun
Group Leader, The Sainsbury Laboratory, Norwich Research Park, UK
Sophien Kamoun is passionate about plant pathogens, effectors, genomics, and evolution.
His group studies how filamentous plant pathogens, such as the Irish potato famine pathogen Phytophthora infestans, infect plants, and the plant processes that are modulated by these pathogens.
the aim is to exploit state of the art findings on pathogen genomics and effector biology to develop novel disease resistant crops.
His group studies how filamentous plant pathogens, such as the Irish potato famine pathogen Phytophthora infestans, infect plants, and the plant processes that are modulated by these pathogens.
the aim is to exploit state of the art findings on pathogen genomics and effector biology to develop novel disease resistant crops.
Rayda Ben Ayed:
Laboratory of Molecular and Cellular Screening Processes, Center of Biotechnology of Sfax, Tunisia.
Rayda Ben Ayed obtained her PhD in 2013, from the Faculty of Sciences of Sfax, Tunisia, working on olive oil analysis and traceability through innovative molecular approach. Rayda works since that in the Center of Biotechnology of Sfax and she is developing new multidisciplinary tools and systems for agri-food products traceability. Dr. Ben Ayad has developed among others projects a database named OGDD Olive Genetic Database Diversity (http://www.bioinfo-cbs.org/ogdd/): a microsatellite markers' genotypes database of worldwide olive trees for cultivar identification and virgin olive oil traceability. Rayda received several national and international awards, including a podium for the best innovative project (UNIVENTURE 2015-Tunisia) and the women scientist of the year, 2018 Tunisia.