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received his BSc degree in Medical Technology from King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah. His master and PhD were awarded (with commendation) from the University of Aberdeen, United Kingdom in Biotechnology. Currently, he is working as an assistant professor of Biotechnology and Molecular Genetics at King Abdulaziz University, Faculty of Applied Medical Sciences. Dr. Alhadrami has enough experience in the development, characterisation, and optimisation of several bioluminescence SOS-lux based biosensors for mutagenicity, carcinogenicity and toxicity assessment. He has significant experience in the field of Biosensors, Tissue Engineering, Microfluidics, Lab-on-a-chip, Medical Biotechnology and Nanbiotechnology. He has supervised several master students and taught undergraduate and postgraduate students at both the University of Aberdeen and King Abdulaziz University. Dr. Alhadrami has several publications in international peer-reviewed journals (for further details and research collaboration, please refer to the CV of Dr. Hani Alhadrami).

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Dr.Remya Mohanraj earned her doctorate from Bharathiar University, India. Her area of research includes plant tissue culture, hytochemical analysis and isolation of therapeutic biomolecules from medicinal plants. She has been teaching college students for more than 18 years and has held several leadership roles viz. head of the department, course director and assistant registrar. She has served in the academic council and board of studies and facilitated curriculum development and curriculum changes. In addition, she had initiated and significantly contributed to the development of various laboratories and is a recipient of multiple grants. Dr. Mohanraj is a reviewer and editorial board member in various International scientific journals. In addition to the above, her scientific contributions encompass multiple published articles in journals, presentations in scientific conferences, editing and authoring books & book chapters. She is currently a Faculty in the Department of Biology and OER coordinator, Houston Community College, Houston, Texas, USA.

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Yilan Liu got her Master of Natural Science and PhD in Biochemical Engineering at Chinese Academy of Sciences, China. She conducted post-doctoral training at University of Nebraska-Lincoln, U.S and University of Toronto, Canada. Between 2021 and 2022, she conducted Research Associate at University of Toronto. Yilan Liu joined the Department of Chemical Engineering as an Assistant Professor at the University of Waterloo in 2023. In Liu’s lab for synthetic biology and sustainable development (LSS), research focuses on harnessing synthetic biology to deliver products and services that contribute to sustainable development.

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Farahnaz Fahimipour, Periodontology Class of 2022, was born and raised in the historic city of Yazd in the middle of Iran. As her first outstanding achievement, she received the Khwarizmi Presidential National Award for young innovators when she was 17 years old. Through a combination of her love for treating patients and a passion for art, she chose to pursue dentistry. She received her Doctor of Dental Medicine from Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences (SBMU), Tehran. During her time at SBMU, she worked as a research fellow in the field of craniomaxillofacial tissue engineering and trained on developing tissue mimetic biomaterials for stem cell therapy and growth factor delivery.

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Wanting Niu is an assistant professor of Biomedical Engineering, and BME undergraduate program director at Regis College, USA. She received her Ph.D. in Biomedical Engineering (Biosensors) from Zhejiang University, China, then did her postdoctoral training in Tissue Engineering at VA Boston Healthcare System, and Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School. She has published 40+ papers in peer-reviewed journals, several book chapters, and presented her work in various international conferences.

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Prof. Barakat received his PhD in biophysics from the University of Alberta in 2012 followed by a postdoctoral fellowship in the lab of the Nobel Laureate, Professor Michael Houghton, for two years. During his career, Dr. Barakat received numerous awards including the CIHR and AIHS postdoctoral fellowships, the prestigious UofA dissertation award, the ACRI Studentship and many distinction awards throughout his undergraduate and graduate studies. Dr. Barakat is also the editor of a number of journals. Dr. Barakat's lab is supported by different funding agencies including the Alberta Cancer Foundation, Li Ka Shing Applied Virology Institute, Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council (NSERC), Li Ka Shing Institute of Virology and IC-IMPACTS Centres of Excellence. Dr. Barakat is also the CEO & co-founder of HEKA Therapeutics Inc. and co-founder of ACHLYS; two spinoff companies devoted to drug discovery of immune checkpoints small molecule inhibitors and predicting off-target toxicity of new compounds in drug discovery.

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Arwa Mo'men El-Habbaa is a bioinformatics specialist who works at Colors Medical Lab, a leading provider of medical laboratory services in Egypt. She has a master's degree in bioinformatics from Cairo University and a bachelor's degree in biotechnology from Helwan University. She has over five years of experience in applying bioinformatics tools and techniques to various biological and medical problems, such as gene expression analysis, genome annotation, phylogenetic analysis, and drug discovery. She has also participated in several research projects and published papers in international journals. She is proficient in using various bioinformatics software and programming languages, such as R, Python, Perl, Bioconductor, BLAST, ClustalW, and MEGA.

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My doctoral research is based on evolutionary immunogenetics, biochemistry and biophysics of FcGRI, and an interest in its role in sepsis. Current module leader for Biochemistry and Health, Risk & Environment at the University of Northampton. Also, SARS-CoV2 analyst for Northampton General Hospital pathologies.

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Saifeldeen M. Ibrahim is a dedicated research assistant and bioinformatics instructor at the Bioinformatics Department within the Agriculture Genetic Engineering Research Institute (AGERI) | ARC, Giza, Egypt. Additionally, he serves as a Bioinformatics Assistant (Consultant) at the International Center for Agricultural Research in the Dry Areas (ICARDA) | CGIAR. He earned his BSc degree in Agricultural Biotechnology from the Biotechnology Department at the Faculty of Agriculture, Al-Azhar University, Cairo, Egypt. Currently, Saifeldeen is pursuing his MSc degree in Biotechnology with a specialization in Bioinformatics at the same faculty. He has actively contributed to multiple projects in the field of plant biology. His primary focus lies in plant genomics and transcriptomics. In genomics, his keen interest centers around genome-wide identification studies, genome-wide association studies (GWAS), and the comprehensive process of whole genome sequencing, including assembly and annotation. Within the realm of transcriptomics, he demonstrates a strong inclination towards identifying biomolecular markers and investigating expression patterns through RNA-seq data analysis and differential gene expression (DGE) analysis. Furthermore, his expertise extends to single-cell RNA sequencing (scRNA-seq). In metagenomics, he holds experience in amplicon sequencing, particularly in the analysis of 16S ribosomal RNA (16S rRNA) data. Currently, Saifeldeen is actively involved in groundbreaking research focused on the genome-wide identification of the NAC gene family in Brassica napus and its response to drought stress. This research aims to uncover crucial insights into plant resilience mechanisms, potentially paving the way for innovative strategies in crop improvement under adverse environmental conditions.

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My passion is cure Type1 Diabetes by transplantation of beta cells. Presently I am working to generate Neo-beta cells for imminent transplantation in Type 1 Diabetes patients with minimum immunosuppression. I have developed a protocol for the conversion of somatic cells into insulin producing cells within 14 days-which is completely unheard of so far. I have dealt with the problem of organ shortage in end stage organ failure patients. Due to having physiological and anatomical similarities pigs are considered as good donors for islets. I have dealt with the problem of innate and adaptive immunity mediated xeno-islet rejection of pig organs in non-human primates models. To avoid of prevailing use of life long immune suppression, I have developed transgenic pigs expressing human derived natural immune suppressor molecules using CRISPR-CAS9 mediated knock in. Those pigs are considered as Stealth Donor Pigs for the transplantation of pig organs in Pig to monkey xenotransplantation models. For the first time I have proven that pig islet derived miR375 can be used as a strong predictor to figure out post- transplant islet engraftment.Before that, I have worked on epigenetics of FoxP3 in regulating the immune suppression in leprosy patients. Molecular cross-talk of FoxP3 with HDAC7, 9 and HAT turned out to be crux of this mechanism. This study redefine the fact that FoxP3 can act both as a transcriptional repressor and transcriptional inducer.

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Muhammad Mazhar, a doctoral student at Guizhou University China, is leading this research project, which is expected to be completed by the next year. The present study focuses on the investigation of Adzuki beans and their endogenous components, including the determination of their glycemic index, phenolic profile, and fermentation by human gut microbiota. Additionally, this research aims to explore the genomics and metabolomics of fermented beans. The findings of this study are expected to provide valuable insights into the nutritional and health benefits of Adzuki beans and their potential as a functional food source. The combined effects of endogenous components of adzuki beans will be evaluated for type 2 diabetes patients.

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Born in Havana, Cuba in 1962, graduated in Physics in 1985, working for the Microelectronics Industry, as head of final control investigations degradation production of electronic components, working for the Electronics Industry, department of reliability, characterization work performed Luma-Chroma plate worker Research Institute of Metrology, work Challenges of Metrology in Cuba in the era of nanotechnology. Work published in the ISO TC 229, ISO TC229 / IEC 113, required for conformity assessment of research and nano-scale productions Tool page. Master of Science. Currently my research is directed towards an analysis of the chains of traceability that are needed in the industrial revolution that we are experiencing the Convergences of technologies, which is approaching the Quantum revolution with the objective of the evaluation of conformity, of a sustainable way, with a minimum of environmental impact and with social responsibility.

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