Guests

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