Keynote Speakers
Prof. Dr. William Paul Quick
International Rice Research Institute, Philippines |
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Prof. Paul is the leader of the C4 research project based at IRRI. He is responsible for the day to day operation of C4-related research activities at IRRI and also for managing and coordinating the global C4 rice program. He has over 100 publications in peer-reviewed journals; five of which have been cited greater than 200 times and he has an average citation over 30 for all publications. He has written five major book chapters and edited one book. His research demonstrated the direct link between the light and dark reactions of photosynthesis, which led to non-intrusively investigate this process using modulated chlorophyll fluorescence. This work was highly cited in literature and opened a new field in plant photosynthesis, particularly in plant stress biology. Plant stress biology has seen development of these ideas directly applied to agriculture and horticulture. Paul discovered thiol-regulation of the photosynthetic ATPase and its mechanism of action, resulting in the publication of five papers in the prestigious journal Biochimica et Biophysica Acta. His work on the coordination of photosynthesis with the metabolism of sucrose and starch, and the identification of the enzymes responsible for regulation photosynthetic carbohydrate partitioning has been central to the development and exploitation of this relatively new field of plant biotechnology. Recognition for this work is shown by the award of an Overseas Visiting Senior Research Fellowship by CSIRO in Australia (1996) to work on the genetic improvement of Sugar Cane.
Dr. Madan Babu
MRC-Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge, United Kingdom |
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Dr. M. Madan Babu heads the Regulatory Genomics and Systems Biology group at the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge, UK. His group investigates how regulation is achieved at multiple levels of complexity in cellular systems and how this influences evolution of organisms and their genome. Towards this objective, he primarily uses computational approaches, such as sequence analysis, structure analysis and evolutionary analysis, and develops novel integrative approaches, that use expression data, comparative genomics analysis, network analysis, genomic variation and phenotype data. More recently, his group also exploits yeast genetics to uncover the molecular origins of cell-to-cell variation in expression level of genes in genetically identical cell populations. He carried out studies on the structure, evolution and dynamics of transcriptional regulatory networks by employing a combination of computational approaches. For this work, he was awarded the Max Perutz Prize for outstanding PhD research in 2004. He subsequently received an NIH International Visiting Fellowship to work at the NCBI, USA where he defined general principles of the organization of biological networks. He returned to the UK to become an independent Group Leader at the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology in 2006, was elected as a Schlumberger Research Fellow at Darwin College, Cambridge in 2007 and was appointed as a Programme Leader in 2010. Dr. Madan Babu is a Director of Studies at Trinity College, Cambridge, an Executive Editor at Nucleic Acids Research, an Associate Editor at Molecular BioSystems and a member of the HUGO council and F1000. He has published over 100 papers, reviews and chapters (h-index: 37) and has received several awards including the Biochemical Society’s Early Career Award (2009), EMBO Young Investigator Award (2010), British Genetics Society’s Balfour Award (2011), Royal Society of Chemistry’s Molecular BioSystems Award (2011), the Biochemical Society’s Colworth Medal (2014) and the Protein Science Young Investigator Award (2014) from the American Protein Society.
TriSys Speakers
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China
Prof Dr Luonan Chen, Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS)
Prof Dr Weidong Tian, Fudan University
Prof Dr Hui Lu, Shanghai Jiao Tong University
Prof Dr Louxin Zhang, NUS
Korea
Prof Dr Sunghoon Kim, Seoul National University (SNU)
Prof Dr Daehee Hwang, Daegu Gyeongbuk Institute of Science and Technology (DGIST)
Assoc Prof Dr Jung Kyoon Choi, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST)
Dr Daehyun Baek, Seoul National University (SNU)
Dr Hojung Nam, Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology (GIST)
Japan
Prof Dr Katsuhisa Horimoto, Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST)
Dr Takatsugu Hirokawa, Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST)
Dr Koh Takeuchi, Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST)
Prof Dr Luonan Chen, Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS)
Prof Dr Weidong Tian, Fudan University
Prof Dr Hui Lu, Shanghai Jiao Tong University
Prof Dr Louxin Zhang, NUS
Korea
Prof Dr Sunghoon Kim, Seoul National University (SNU)
Prof Dr Daehee Hwang, Daegu Gyeongbuk Institute of Science and Technology (DGIST)
Assoc Prof Dr Jung Kyoon Choi, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST)
Dr Daehyun Baek, Seoul National University (SNU)
Dr Hojung Nam, Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology (GIST)
Japan
Prof Dr Katsuhisa Horimoto, Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST)
Dr Takatsugu Hirokawa, Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST)
Dr Koh Takeuchi, Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST)
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