Dr. Debmalya Barh has obtained MS in Agriculture, Ms in Applied Genetics, M.Tech and M. Phill in biotechnogy and Phd in Genomics. His research interests are Cancer pharmacogenomics and personalized medicine, Human medical genetics and Infectious diseases, Stem cell and molecular medicine, Neutrigenomics, toxicogenomics, plant genomics, Nano-biotechnology, bioinformatics, and systems biology.

Dr. Nicolau Beckmann received his MSc degree in Applied Physics from the University of São Paulo, Brazil in 1986, followed by a Phd degree in Biophysics from the University of Basel, Switzerland in 1990. Currently he is the head of MRI Laboratory, Novartis Institutes for BioMedical Research, Basel, and Assistant Professor in Biophysics at the Biocenter and Pharmacenter, University of Basel, Switzerland....

Dr. Kai-Felix Braun is doing experimental surface science with the emphasis on low temperature scanning tunneling microscopy (STM). Atomic and molecular manipulation with the STM is one of his specializations and main interests next to the spectroscopic investigation of semi/metal surfaces (non/anti/magnetic, superconducting).

Dr. Daniel Janies obtained his BS in Biology from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, and his PhD in Biology in 1995 from the University of Florida, Gainsville. He is Associate Professor at The Ohio State University, Columbus, and a Research Associate at the American Museum of Natural History, New York. His research interests are Phylogenetics, Comparative Genomics, Computational Biology, Beowulf Clusters ...

After receiving his MS in Chemistry in 1983, Dr. Pedro Martinez received his PhD in Molecular Biology from Universitat Autonoma Barcelona in 1990. His research interests focus on the comparative analysis of development in different animal systems, the Evolution of developmental mechanisms, Evolution of genomes and gene regulatory systems, Gene profiling during development and Pattern formation ...

Franco Miglietta PhD, Senior scientist, 1998-present Science Director at the Institute of Biometeorology of CNR in Firenze. He has been working in agricultural research since the early 80s with specialisation in crop and ecological modelling, impact of climatic changes on crops and forests. He has been coordinator of several EU- projects and collaborates with major national and international institutions and programmes ...

Professor Ana I. Proykova obtained her MS in Physics in 1974 from the University of Sofia, followed by a PhD in Physics in 1980. Currently Professor Proykova is the Vice-president of National Council on Nanotechnology, Head of the computational theoretical physics group at the University of Sofia, Member of the Executive Council of the European Physics Society (2008 - at present), Member of the Scientific Committee on Emerging and Newly Identified Health Risks to the European Commission, National Delegate to the European Strategic ...

Dr. Martin Schneebeli studied Environmental Engineering at ETH Zurich, followed by a Dr. sc. at ETH Zurich in soil physics. Since 1991 he has been at the WSL Institute for Snow and Avalanche Research. He is currently Senior Scientist and head of the group "snow physics". He worked on a broad range of subjects (avalanche formation, snow climatology, snow stratigraphy and microstructure of snow)...