Anatoly D. Altstein is a Virologist. He studied problems of viral carcinogenesis, development of viral vaccines, biotechnology and origin of genetic mechanisms. Now, he is a Main Scientist of Institute of Gene Biology and N F Gamaleya Federal Scientific Center of Epidemiology and Microbiology and also Professor of I.M. Sechenov 1st Moscow State Medical University. He has published more than 100 papers in international and Russian journals and has been serving as an Editorial Board Member of the “Molecular Genetics, Microbiology and Virology” journal (Moscow, Russia).

Bernard Lopez has completed his PhD at the age of 27 years from University of Lyon I and postdoctoral studies from Curie Institute (Paris), followed by a sabbatical from and Brandeis university (Waltham, Ms, USA). He is first class research director at CNRS (French state organisation for basic research). He has published more than 70 papers in reputed journals and has been serving as a scientific advisor of many organizations

Dr. Karim Mekhail is a tenured Associate Professor and Canada Research Chair at the University of Toronto. His group studies the impact of spatial genome organization, non-coding RNA-DNA hybrids, and the environment on genome expression and stability. He is also interested in exploring the role of these processes in aging, neurodegeneration and cancer while pursuing commercialization avenues. Dr. Mekhail received numerous awards including the Canada Governor General Gold Medal in the Sciences, Maud-Menten New Investigator Prize, and Lap-Chee Tsui Prize. Dr. Mekhail moved to Toronto after completing his postdoctoral fellowship at Harvard Medical School and the Howard Hughes Medical Institute.

Investigating how proteins found in yeast and human cells affect how DNA is organized.

WT Godbey is an Associate Professor of Engineering at Tulane University, and is the Director of the Laboratory for Gene Therapy and Cellular Engineering, in addition to being a member of the Tulane Cancer Center

Gene Therapy and Cellular Engineering

Dmitry M. Kolpashchikov completed his PhD at Novosibirsk Institute of Bioorganic Chemistry, Novosibirsk, Russia in 1999. He conducted postdoctoral studies at National Institute of Genetics, Mishima Japan and Columbia University at the City of New York. He is a faculty member at Chemistry Department at the University of Central Florida since 2008. His research interests include development of hybridization probes, DNA computation and DNA nanotechnology.

Aspects of chemistry and biochemistry of nucleic acids and nucleic acids binding proteins