Plenary Speaker
Dr. John Chu
Affiliation:
Assistant Professor, Department of Chemistry, National Taiwan University, Taiwan
Field of Expertise:
Chemical Biology, Natural Products, Bioinformatics

Dr. Sudesh Kumar
Affiliation:
Professor of School of Biological Sciences, USM, Malaysia
Consultant, RIKEN, Japan
Chief Editor of Malaysian Journal of Microbiology
Fellow of Academy of Sciences Malaysia
Field of Expertise:
Microbiology, Genetics and Polymer Chemistry of Microbial Polyesters (Bioplastics)

Dr. Eiji Yoshihara
Affiliation:
Principal Investigator, The Lundquist Institute at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center, USA
Assistant Professor, David Geffen School of Medicine at University of California, Los Angeles, USA
Field of Expertise:
Metabolism, Physiology, Gene expression, Bioinformatics, Bioengineering

Career Development Discussion Panelists
Dr. Yalcin Pisil
Affiliation:
Researcher, Primate Model Experimental Research Center for Infectious Diseases, Institute for Frontier Life and Medical Sciences, Kyoto University
Field of Expertise:
Virology, Immunology, Structural Biology, Neutralizing Antibody, SARS-CoV-2, HIV

Dr. Shiho Hirose
Affiliation:
Capitalist, AN Venture Partners
Field of Expertise:
Tumor Immunology

Dr. Fumi Kubo
Affiliation:
Team Leader, RIKEN Center for Brain Science
Field of Expertise:
Interdisciplinary Science & Engineering, Biological Sciences, Neuroscience-general-related, Function of nervous system-related, Animal physiological chemistry, physiology behavioral biology-related

Dr. Kelvin Hui
Affiliation:
Specially-appointed Junior Associate Professor, Research Promoting Office at the Center for iPS Cell Research and Application (CiRA), Kyoto University
Field of Expertise:
Editing scientific manuscripts and grant proposals, teaching science writing and presentation classes, coordinating academic events and international collaborations, and organizing career and professional development workshops and seminars for students and postdocs
