Structural Biology

Prof. Dong-Qing Wei is a professor of bioinformatics in the Department of Bioinformatics and Biostatistics, College of Life Science and Biotechnology, Shanghai Jiaotong University and editor-in-Chief of Interdisciplinary Sciences- Computational Life Sciences. Prof. Wei’s research is in the general field of bioinformatics with more than 250 journal papers, 9 monographs with 5000 SCI citations and an H factor of 47. Prof. Wei is best known for contributions to the development of molecular simulation tools and statistical models with applications to a wide range of chemical, physical and biological systems, from electrolytes, to polar liquids, to ferroelectric liquid crystals, to combined Quantum Mechanical/Molecular Mechanical (QM/MM) systems, to membrane proteins and protein-ligand and protein-protein complexes applied to computer aided drug design.

Prof. Dong-Qing Wei has research interest in the fields of Bioinformatics, Bio-statics, Computational Biology, Molecular Simulations, Computer Aided drug-designing.

Dr. Kuo-Chen Chou is the founder of Gordon Life Science Institute. He is also a Distinguished High Impact Professor and Advisory Professor of several Universities. As of August 2017, Professor Chou has published over 560 papers with h-index of 127 in the fields of computational biology and biomedicine, protein structure prediction, low-frequency internal motion of protein/DNA molecules and its biological functions, diffusion-controlled reactions of enzymes, as well as graphic rules in enzyme kinetics and other biological systems.

Professor Chou’s is a distinguished professor having interest in Genomic Medical Research,Biology, Biochemistry, Computational Biology, Biomedicine, Protein Structure Prediction.

Salvador Ventura is Full Professor and Head of the Protein Folding and Conformational Diseases Laboratory at Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona. Work at his lab focuses on protein folding, misfolding and amyloid formation, with special emphasis on their impact on protein homeostasis and conformational disorders. He has contributed with more than 170 research articles to these topics. He has been a postdoctoral fellow at EMBL-Heidelberg and visiting scientist at Harvard Medical School (US) and Karolinska Institutet (Sweden).

Protein folding, misfolding and amyloid formation, with special emphasis on their impact on protein homeostasis and conformational disorders.

Dr. Kikuchi has completed his PhD from Osaka City University and postdoctoral studies in Cornell University. Now, he is a professor of Department of Bioinformatics in Ritsumeikan University.

Dr. Takeshi Kikuchi is interested in developing a new technique to predict 3D structural properties of a protein.

Artur Gora received Ph.D. degree in Chemistry in 2002 from the Jagiellonian University in Poland. In 2004 he was awarded a JSPS fellowship, and from 2004 to 2006 he was working at the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology in Japan. From 2010 to 2013, he has been Marie Curie fellow at the Loschmidt Laboratories of the Masaryk University in Brno, Czech Republic. He is a leader of Tunneling Group focused on protein engineering, drug design and software development facilitating molecular dynamic simulations results analysis and interpretation. Since 2016 he is the vice Director of Biotechnology Centre, Silesian University of Technology in Poland.

Water tracking as an alternative method for tunnels search in proteins core.

Dr. Noureddine Benkeblia is a Professor of Crop Science and Head of the Laboratory of Crop Science, Department of Life Sciences, Faculty of Science and Technology, University of the West Indies Mona Campus, Jamaica. He holds a B.Sc., M.Sc. and a Ph. D in Agriculture from the National Agronomic Institute, Algiers (Algeria), and a Ph.D. in Crop Sciences from Kagoshima University (Japan). He is also Director and Coordinator of the Agricultural Programmes at UWI-Mona.

Dr. N. Benkeblia main research areas are (i) environmental stresses and physiology and biochemistry of crops, (ii) pre- and postharvest metabolomics of fresh crops, and (iii) postharvest metabolism of fresh crops. Prof. N. Benkeblia has an extensive research and teaching experience in horticultural sciences, and has a strong expertise in crop sciences, particularly tropical and sub-tropical fruits and vegetables. Prof. N. Benkeblia has over 25 years teaching experience at undergraduate, graduate and postgraduate levels in Algeria, France, Japan and Jamaica.

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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