Jack Pronk
"Exploring the genetic basis for the (in)ability of yeasts and fungi to grow anaerobically"
Head of Department and Full Professor
Delft University of Technology, Netherlands
Jack Pronk is a full professor in Industrial Microbiology at the Delft University of Technology (TU Delft) in the Netherlands. He is fascinated by the microbial performance in industrial processes ranging from beer fermentation to biofuels production. Together with his fellow PI’s within the Industrial Microbiology section at TU Delft, he seeks for the understanding, improvement and extension of microbial biotechnology processes, in many cases based on yeast, by integrating quantitative physiology, genomics, metabolic and evolutionary engineering. He loves teaching and is actively involved in the Leiden/Delft BSc/MSc programmes on Life Science & Technology.
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José Feijó “The genetic puzzles of Plant Glutamate Receptors: searching for functions at the structural level” Full Professor Cell Biology and Molecular Genetics Department University of Maryland, USA José Feijó is a Full Professor at the Cell Biology and Molecular Genetics Department in the University of Maryland, USA. His research is focused on the development of integrated models of apical cell growth and morphogenesis, using the pollen tube as a biological model, ion dynamics as an experimental paradigm and theoretical modeling as an integrative tool. They use Arabidopsis, lily, tobacco and tomato as model species for higher plants, and the moss Physcomitrella as an evolutionary correlate of apical growth evolution. Find out more about his research and publications here. |
Solange I. Mussatto
"Evolving microbial strains for Precision Fermentation of Biomass hydrolysates"
Full Professor
Department of Biotechnology and Biomedicine
Technical University of Denmark, Denmark
Solange Mussatto is a full professor in the Biotechnology and Biomedicine Department and Group Leader in the section for Synthetic Biology at the Technical University of Denmark (DTU). She holds a PhD in Industrial Biotechnology and has over 23 years of expertise in the areas of Biomass Conversion and Biotechnology with focus on the development of new and efficient process technologies and biorefinery strategies for a sustainable conversion of biomass (lignocellulosic materials, food wastes and macroalgae) into bio-based products.
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Rui Martiniano
“Ancient Genomes illuminate eastern Arabian population history"
Lecturer in Human Evolution
School of Biological and Environmental Sciences
Liverpool John Moores University, UK
Rui Martiniano is a Lecturer in Human Evolution at the School of Biological and Environmental Sciences in the Liverpool John Moores University, UK. He is a geneticist working on ancient human DNA at the University of Cambridge in the United Kingdom. He holds a degree in anthropology from the University of Coimbra, Portugal, and a Ph.D. in genetics from Trinity College Dublin, Ireland. The main focus of his work is to investigate past population history by generating and analyzing ancient DNA data from ancient human remains.
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Carlos Canchaya
“The pangenome of Mytilus galloprovincialis"
Associate Professor
School of Biology, University of Vigo, Spain
Carlos Canchaya is an Associate Professor at the School of Biology in the University
of Vigo, Spain. His main research interest involves the comparative genomics field,
having also an extensive experience in bacteriophage and bacterial genomics, eukaryotes, bioinformatics, phylogenomics and ecological genomics. He is currently working on sequencing the genome of the Mediterranean mussel (Mytilus galloprovincialis) and is interested in marine mollusks and their adaptation to the marine environment.
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“The pangenome of Mytilus galloprovincialis"
Associate Professor
School of Biology, University of Vigo, Spain
Carlos Canchaya is an Associate Professor at the School of Biology in the University
of Vigo, Spain. His main research interest involves the comparative genomics field,
having also an extensive experience in bacteriophage and bacterial genomics, eukaryotes, bioinformatics, phylogenomics and ecological genomics. He is currently working on sequencing the genome of the Mediterranean mussel (Mytilus galloprovincialis) and is interested in marine mollusks and their adaptation to the marine environment.
Find out more about his research and publications here.