2^nd International Conference on Molecular Biology , Nucleic Acids & Molecular Medicine August 30-31, 2017 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA

Tahir Tahirov has received his Master of Science degree in metallophysics from Kiev Polytechnic Institute (Ukraine). During doctoral training in crystallochemistry in the Chernogolovka branch of the Semenov Institute of Chemical Physics (Russia) he discovered a new class of organic superconductors with two incommensurate crystal lattices. His career in structural biology has started during postdoctoral training in Tsing Hua University (Taiwan) where he solved the first crystal structure of protein. He continued his studies as a researcher at the Himeji Institute of Technology, Osaka University and the Yokohama City University School of Medicine, and then as a team leader at the RIKEN Harima Institute. At the age of 43 Dr. Tahirov became a Full Professor at the Eppley Institute for Research in Cancer and Allied Diseases, University of Nebraska Medical Center. He has published over 120 research articles (50 in physics and chemistry and the rest in structural biology). He is one of the leading experts in structural studies of human DNA replication machinery.

Human DNA Replication machinery

Zhongwei Li has completed his PhD at the age of 29 years from Chinese Academy of Sciences and postdoctoral studies from University of Connecticut Health Center and Yale University School of Medicine. He is Professor of Biomedical Science and Interim Associate Dean for Faculty Affairs of Charles E. Schmidt College of Medicine at Florida Atlantic University. He has published more than 50 papers in reputed journals and has been serving as an editorial board member of repute.

His research primarily focuses on RNA damage control and prevention of human diseases.

Hideko Kaji has received her PhD from Purdue University and currently working as a Professor in the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology. She is Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science since 2011. She is having more than 50 publications. Her research interest includes translation (protein synthesis) from aminoacyl tRNA.

Her research interest includes translation (protein synthesis) from aminoacyl tRNA.

Dr. Eric Kmiec is the Founder and Director of the Gene Editing Institute at the Helen F. Graham Cancer Center & Research Institute at Christiana Healthcare System with faculty appointments at the University of Delaware, the Wistar Institute and Georgetown University Medical School. His laboratory is widely recognized for its pioneering efforts in gene editing and supported by the National Institute of Health for over 22 years. Dr. Kmiec has also received funding from the High Q Foundation, Hereditary Disease Foundation, the American Cancer Society and a variety of biotechnology companies. He has authored over 150 peer-reviewed journal publications as primary or senior author, numerous review articles and edited several books on gene therapy. Dr. Kmiec has founded two biotechnology companies (Kimeragen , now Cibus in San Diego California, and Orphagenix LLC). Dr. Kmiec was selected as Eminent Scholar at Marshall University in 2011.

Gene editing, gene therapy

J. Thomas McClintock, a forensic scientist who specializes in DNA analysis founded DNA Diagnostics, Inc. in 1993. Dr. McClintock is also a Professor and Director of Forensic Sciences in the Department of Biology and Chemistry at Liberty University in Lynchburg, VA where he teaches courses in forensic sciences and microbiology. Dr. McClintock has evaluated and provided expert guidance for approximately four hundred criminal and civil cases in 18 states, three U.S. territories, and three European countries, where DNA analysis was performed. Dr. McClintock has taught numerous training seminars and Workshops.

DNA Analysis, DNA typing