Viney Aneja is a Professor in the Department of Marine, Earth, and Atmospheric Sciences, North Carolina State University. He obtained his B. Tech. degree in Chemical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, India; and MS and Ph.D. degrees from the Department of Chemical Engineering, N. C. State University, Raleigh, N.C.Before joining the faculty of the Department of Marine, Earth, and Atmospheric Sciences at N. C. State in 1987, he conducted and supervised research at Corporate Research and Development, General Electric Company, New York, and Northrop Service, in Research Triangle Park in the areas of environmental engineering and separations technology. In 2001 he was also appointed Professor of Environmental Technology, Department of Forestry and Environmental Resources. In addition, he has been a visiting professor at the University of Uppsala, Sweden in 1979; at Jawahar Lal Nehru University in New Delhi, India in 1980; and at the Arrhenius Laboratory in Stockholm, Sweden in 1985. The U.S. Secretary of Agriculture appointed him as a member of the U.S. Agricultural Air Quality Task Force. He is a member of the US Environmental Protection Agency’s Science Advisory Board Environmental Engineering Committee, and also a member of the US EPA’s SAB Integrated Nitrogen Committee. He is a Member Representative of the University Corporation for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO.

Natural and anthropogenic emissions of nitric oxide, ammonia, and sulfur compounds and demonstrated the important roles of these substances in ozone formation and gas-to-particle conversion. Atmospheric photochemical oxidants in the North Carolina mountains

Present professional position: Professor, Department of Biochemistry and Applied Biosciences, Faculty of Agriculture, University of Miyazaki. Masahiro Sakai has done his Bachelors form Miyazaki University in 1981, In 1982 Exchange student, Department of Microbiology, Oregon State University (Supervised by Dr. J.L. Fryer); In 1983 M.Sc. from Miyazaki University (Supervised by Dr. T. Aoki); in 1991 Ph.D. from Tokyo University (Supervised by Dr. H. Wakabayashi)
And proffessional experience include,1985-1992 Research Associate, School of Fisheries Sciences, Kitasato University; 1992-1994  Assistant Professor, School of Fisheries Sciences, Kitasato University; 1993 Visiting Assistant Professor, Institute of Medical
Sciences, Fujita Health Science University (Supervised by Dr. Y. Kurosawa);  1994-1997 Assistant Professor, Faculty of Agriculture, Miyazaki University;  1995-1996   Visiting Scientist, Marine Laboratory, Aberdeen, Scotland, UK (Supervised by Dr. A.E. Ellis); 1997-2004  Associate Professor, Faculty of Agriculture, Miyazaki University;  1998-Visiting Professor, Institute of Applied Microbiology, harbin, China; 2004-present Professor, Faculty of Agriculture,  University of Miyazaki;  
2004, 2005,2008, 2010   Chair, Department of Biochemistry and Applied Biosciences, Faculty of Agriculture,  University of Miyazaki.
 

Fish immunostimulants, Immunoregulation of hormone in fish, Fish cytokines, Fish diseases diagnosis and Shrimp diseases.

Ming Li is a Professor at Horn Point Laboratory, the University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science. He obtained his B. Eng. degree from Hohai University, China and Ph.D degree from University of Oxford, United Kingdom. After working at the University of Victoria and Institute of Ocean Sciences in Canada, he moved to the University of Maryland in 2001. His research spans several areas of oceanography: coastal and estuarine circulations, biological-physical interactions, air-sea interaction and turbulent mixing. A central theme of his current interdisciplinary research is the impact of climate change/variability on estuaries and coastal oceans. He has authored 50 peer-reviewed publications and received 15 research grants. He has served on panels at NSF, NOAA and EPA, and has been a reviewer for several oceanographic journals. He has organized a number of sessions and workshops at national and international conferences. He is a member of American Geophysical Union, Oceanography Society and American Meteorological Society.

Estuarine and coastal dynamics, air-sea interaction, numerical ocean modelling, turbulent mixing processes, biological-physical interactions, and marine pollution.

Dr. Soslau graduated from Queens College, Queens, NY in 1965 with a BA degree and majored in Chemistry. He then entered the University of Rochester Medical School, NY where he worked towards his PhD in Biochemistry. His research focused on the development of the cytochrome system in the metamorphosizing Polyphemus moth. He graduated in 1970 and joined the research group of Dr Margit Nass at the University of Pennsylvania delving into the biochemistry and ultra-structure of mitochondria. In 1975 Soslau joined the faculty of Hahnemann Medical School where he moved up the ranks from assistant professor to full professor and subsequently to Vice Dean. The name of the school and association with other schools has changed through the years and we are now known as Drexel University College of Medicine.

Dr. Soslau\\\' s research in the laboratory has focused primarily on varying aspects of human platelet biochemistry. The anucleated platelet, derived from the normal fragmentation of the megakaryocyte cytoplasm, along with the coagulation cascade plays a central role in hemostasis. Several different physiological agonists induce platelets to aggregate forming a protective clot with the coagulation-induced fibrin at sites of vascular injury. Selected platelet agonists (thrombin) and surface receptors have long been pharmacologic targets for regulating platelet activation and reducing abnormal hemostatic events, thrombosis. We have shown that there are three distinct thrombin receptors on human platelets that could be activated by different physiological forms of thrombin. These different forms of thrombin respond differentially to many clinically employed antithrombotic drugs that had been presumed to inhibit all levels of thrombin-induced platelet aggregation. Understanding how each form of thrombin and their respective thrombin receptors work in the activation of platelets is crucial to fine tuning the clinical regulation of hemostasis and thrombosis.

W. Randy Brooks is a Professor of Marine Biology at Florida Atlantic University. He earned his master and PhD degrees from the Florida State University. He also served as a Visiting Researcher at Duke University Marine Laboratory, North Carolina. He has reviewed journal articles for the following publications: Acta Oecologica, Animal Behavior, Behaviour, Biological Bulletin, Helgoland Marine Research, Invertebrate Biology, J. Marine Biological Association, U.K., Caribbean Journal of Science, Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology, Marine Biology, Marine Ecology Progress Series, Marine and Freshwater Behavior & Physiology, Marine and Freshwater Research, Symbiosis. He has reviewed grant proposals for both NSF and NOAA.

Behavioral/physiological ecology of marine organisms,  
Coral reef conditions  
Behavioral interactions among echinoderms and symbiotic crabs; 
Predator/prey interactions

Robyn E. Hannigan’s career in analytical geochemistry began at the College of New Jersey where she earned her B.S. in Biology in 1988. She completed her master’s in and doctoral degrees in Earth and Environmental Science at the University of Rochester focusing on high temperature trace element chemistry. During her post-doctoral fellowships at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution and at Old Dominion University she leveraged her expertise in high temperature chemistry into collaborative research projects with biologists and oceanographers. Hannigan’s research has developed unique analytical techniques and technologies to evaluate the relation between biogenic mineral chemistry and the chemistry of the water and sediment in which these organisms live.  In 2007, she received the American Chemical Society Medal for encouraging disadvantaged students into careers in the chemical sciences. She is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and Geological Society of America and an Aldo Leopold Leadership Fellow. Her research and student mentoring have been highlighted by SACNAS, AAAS, and the NSF. She is currently Professor and Chair of the Department of Environmental, Earth, and Ocean Sciences at the University of Massachusetts at Boston.
 

Marine and Estuarine Geochemistry, Biomineralogy, Saline lake geochemistry

 

Dr. Quinton White received his B.S. degree from N.C. Wesleyan College and his M.S. degree from the University of Virginia. Dr. White joined the faculty at Jacksonville University in 1976, having completed his Ph.D. at the University of South Carolina at the Baruch Institute for Marine Biology and Coastal Research. In 1978, he established the major in marine science at Jacksonville University and served as chair of the Department of Biology and Marine Science from 1991-94. He was appointed Chair of the Division of Science and Mathematics in 1994. In August 2000 he was appointed Interim Dean of the College of Arts and Science and in April 2001 he was appointed Dean. In July, 2008, he was named Executive Director of the Marine Science Research Institute and charged with development and construction of this 32,000 sq. ft. LEED certified facility. The MSRI opened in July 2010. The MSRI will be an interdisciplinary institute that focuses on the St. Johns River and other marine environments. Dr. White is chair of the JU Campus Sustainability Committee and is developing a campus wide sustainability policy and program.He has been active in marine science education, and research concerning the St. Johns River and the impact of man on marine ecosystems. His marine science research has taken him to China, South America, the Galapagos Islands, the Bahamas and Australia. While most of his research is done on the surface of the sea, he has been down to 1,500 feet in the Johnson-Sea Link submersible to do research on deep-sea crabs. Dr. White has written numerous research and technical papers or reports and received grants and contracts to support marine research at JU. Currently he is conducting research on manatees and king mackerel. Dr. White serves as a consultant with the City of Jacksonville Waterways Commission on manatee and water quality issues.

Marine ecology, Marine education, Manatees and Crustacean physiology.

Mary E. Rumpho-Kennedy, Professor of Biochemistry, at University of Maine.As a plant physiologist/biochemist, Mary’s research focuses on the unusual association between algal (Vaucheria litorea) chloroplasts and a marine mollusc (Elysia chlorotica), resulting in photosynthetic sea slugs. Her lab is conducting research to characterize the symbiont plastids and demonstrate horizontal gene transfer between the algal nucleus and the sea slug.

Solar powered sea slug, Marine Science, Biochemistry

Richard A. Snyder has received his PhD in Zoology at the University of Maryland in 1989. Currently, he is a Professor of Biology and Director of the Center for Environmental Diagnostics and Bioremediation at the University of West Florida. has authored 26 research articles and book chapters, and 13 technical reports. He is a member of the American Society for the Advancement of Science, The Estuarine Research Federation, the Society of Protozoologists, and the American Society for Microbiology.

Microbial ecology, water quality, pollution, and plant community ecology.

M. James C. Crabbe is a Professor of Biochemistry at the University of Bedfordshire.I am also a Supernumerary Fellow of Wolfson College, Oxford University (where I have been a Fellow since 1979), and Visiting Professor at the University of Reading, and at Beijing Normal University and at the International Business Faculty of BNU in Zhuhai in China. Before becoming Dean, I was Head of the School of Animal and Microbial Sciences and Professor of Protein Biochemistry at the University of Reading. In 2008 I won the Great Contributors to China Creative Industries Award, presented at the Diaoyutai State Guesthouse in Beijing, and in 2006 won the 6th Aviva/Earthwatch International Award for Climate Change Research. My research has resulted in over 150 research publications in refereed journals, 51 books, book chapters and articles in books, 14 items of commercial software, and numerous invitations (four in 2010) as Plenary or Keynote speaker at international conferences. In the last year, I have published over ten papers, including those in the highly rated journals PNAS and PLOS One. I am a member of the Peer Review College and Panel member of the Natural Environment Research Council (NERC), Scientific Advisor to the Earthwatch Institute, Patron of Coral Cay Conservation, Member of Arts Interlink, Fellow of the Council, and Trustee of the Guild of Benevolence, of the Institute of Marine Engineering, Science & Technology, Vice-Chair of Governors of Central Bedfordshire Further Education College Corporation, and Chairman of Trustee Directors of the Charity for Access Ability and Communications Technology (AACT). I have served on the Peer Review College of the EPSRC, the College of Experts of the MRC, and the Pool of Experts of the BBSRC. I am a SCUBA dive instructor level 1, and have produced several classical recordings, one of which won an award, and have worked in BBC TV and Radio, and on the Science and Art programme of the Wellcome Trust.

Coral reefs and climate change, Capacity building, Reef growth and ecology.

Ulrich Kutschera is a Full Professor and head of the Department of Plant Physiology and Evolutionary Biology at the University of Kassel, Germany, and a Visiting Professor in the Department of Plant Biology, Carnegie Institution for Science, Stanford, California, USA. He earned his Ph.D. at the University of Freiburg, Germany. Currently, he is working in Germany and the United States. He has published eight textbooks on Plant Physiology and Evolutionary Biology (in German), and is the author of ca. 190 scientific publications, inclusive of contributions in Nature and Science ,and the description of several new leech species. He is listed in Who is Who in the World, Wikipedia and other sources. Kutschera is Editorial Board Member and Associated Editor of the following journals: Theory in Biosciences; Evolution, Education and Outreach; Plant, Signaling & Behavior; Journal of Applied Botany; Annals of the History and Philosophy of Biology and Lauterbornia. In addition, he served as Vice President of the German Association of Biologists (VBiO) and is the chairman of the Section of Evolutionary Biology in the VBiO.

Plant development; Symbiotic bacteria; Molecular phylogenetics and evolution of annelids; History and philosophy of biology.

Vítor Vasconcelos is Professor at the Department of Biology the Faculty of Sciences , Porto University and the head of the Laboratory of Ecotoxicology, Genomics and Evolution (LEGE) at the Marine and Environmental Research Center (CIIMAR) of Porto University, Portugal. He earned his Ph.D. at University of Porto (UP), Portugal. Currently, he is a member of the Board of Directors of CIIMAR and responsible for the Science out-reach program. He has published 95 Reviewed papers and he was author of 5 book chapters. He has been teaching experience of more than 25 years being the director of the MSc course on Toxicology and Environmental Contamination (UP). He is one of the members in Task Force - Marine and Freshwaters Toxins – of the Association of Official Analytical Chemists- AOAC International. He is also the National Contact (Portugal) of CYANONET- Global Network for the Hazard Management of Cyanobacterial Blooms and Toxins in Water Resources, of the International Hydrology Programme da UNESCO He served as a reviewer of more than 120 peer-reviewed journals in the area of environmental toxicology and eutrophication. He organized 18 international conferences and gave 50 invited talks.

Eutrophication and its consequences. Marine ecotoxicology. Natural toxins, production, diversity and effects.

Giacomo Zaccone is Full Professor, field BIO/06 Comparative Anatomy and Cytology, Dept. of Animal Biology and Marine Ecology, University of Messina Author of 200 papers mainly published in international authoritative journals. These papers also comprise many invited chapters appeared in both journals and books. Membership International Prize for Biology (Nominator) Member of the most important international scientific society. He served as a reviewer 27 international journals in the area of cell biology. Book Series Editor Fish Neurobiology and Immunology.

Sympathetic and parasympathetic innervation of the gill in fishes, Nervous regulation of cardiovascular system in primitive and teleost fishes.

Pierangelo Luporini is full professor of zoology the Department of Environmental Sciences at the University of Camerino, Italy. He earned his Ph.D. at the University Pisa, Italy. He has published more than 100 reviewed papers, and was author of numerous reviews and book chapters. He has been teaching experience of more than 30 years in systematics and evolution of invertebrates and in protozoology. He served as secretary of the Italian Society of Zoology and as president of the Italian Society of Protozoology. He served as a reviewer of peer-reviewed journals in the area of cell biology and protistology. He organized European conferences and workshops on protistology and ciliate biology.

Biodiversity and biology of eukaryotic microorganisms; Adaptive biology and evolution of Antarctic microfauna.

Jaana Bamford is a professor in molecular biology in the Department of Biological and Environmental Science at the University of Jyväskylä, Finland. She earned her Ph.D. at the University of Helsinki, Finland and currently, she is also the adjunct professor at the University of Helsinki. She has published about 65 reviewed papers and was an author of 17 book chapters. She has a teaching experience in genetics, microbiology, virology and microbial evolution more than 30 years. She is a member of American Society for Microbiology and serves as a vice head of the Research Council in Biological and Environmental Science in the Academy of Finland. She has served as a reviewer of peer-reviewed journals in the area of biochemistry, microbiology and virology. She organized three conferences.

Virus structures, Virus and bacterial ecology, Virus evolution, Virus-host interaction, Genomics, Marine and fresh water biology.

China Yonghong Liu obtained his BS and MS degrees from the Changchun College of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Jilin province China, and then he went to Korea and received a PhD degree from the Pusan National University, Busan, Korea under the guidance of Professor Jee H. Jung. He undertook postdoctoral research with Nobutoshi Murakami at Osaka University, Osaka, Japan and Pedro Abreu at the New University of Lisbon, Lisbon, Portugal, before returning to China to take a position as a senior scientist in 2006 at the South China Sea Institute of Oceanology, Chinese Academy of Sciences. Currently, he is working as vice-director of Guangdong Key Laboratory of Marine Materia Medica.

My research field mainly concerns about the biogeochemical cycling of nutrients and persistent organic pollutants (POPs) in estuarine and coastl ecosystems. Recently, my work is particularly focused on the nitrogen transformation processes (e.g. nitrification, denitrification, dissimilatory nitrate reduction to ammonium, anaerobic ammnoum oxidation) and their interactions with microorganisms in marine environments.

Xiaohua Douglas Zhang is the Associate Director in Department of Biometrics Research, Merck Research Laboratories, West Point, Pennsylvania, USA. He earned his Ph.D. at Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA. He has published 38 Reviewed papers, and he was author of a single-authored book and 2 book chapters. He served as Executive Member in Biopharmaceutical Section of American Statistical Association. He was one of the members in American Statistical Association, International Society for Computational Biology, International Society for Biopharmaceutical Statistics, Drug Safety Executive Council, International Association of Engineers, and Institute of Mathematical Statistics. He served as a reviewer of peer-reviewed journals (including Nature, Nature Methods, Bioinformatics, BMC bioinformatics, BMC genomics, Journal of American Statistical Association, Annals of Human Genetics et al) in the area of high-throughput screening and data analysis, bioinformatics and statistics. He organized 11 conferences. He received many awards like Merck Award for Exceptional Accomplishments, Merck Award for Excellence, Charlie Sampson Poster Award.

Data analysis in high-throughput Screening; Data analysis in genome-scale RNAi research; Data analysis in high-throughput RT-qPCR; Data analysis in expression profiling.

Anthony D. Wright is Associate Professor of Pharmaceutical Sciences in the College of Pharmacy, at the University of Hawaii at Hilo, USA. He earned his Ph.D. in Organic Chemistry at James Cook University, Townsville, Queensland, Australia. He has co-authored 170 peer reviewed original research articles, 8 review articles, and 4 book chapters. He has been a teacher for his whole career which spans over 30 years, and includes experience in the classroom and laboratory alike, in five different countries and on three continents. He is a Fellow and the Royal Chemical Society and a member of the American Chemical Society and the American Society of Pharmaconosy. He serves as a reviewer of peer-reviewed journals in all areas relating to Natural Products Research with an emphasis on marine and microbial products, and NMR method development and application. He received a number of awards including an ETH (Zurich, Switzerland) PhD., scholarship and the American Society of Pharmacy Young Investigator Awardee

cultivation of macro- and micro-organisms, Detailed NMR investigations of their natural product components through to biological testing, and all of the physical and biological science in between, in particular the search for biologically active and chemically unusual/novel natural products and everything this implies.

Dr. Tang is an Associate Professor in the Virginia Institute of Marine Science, College of William & Mary, USA. He earned his Ph.D. at University of Connecticut. He has published over 50 peer-reviewed papers, and has more than 7 years of teaching experience. He is a member of the American Society of Limnology and Oceanography, and Sigma Xi Scientific Research Society. He has served as a reviewer of peer-reviewed journals in the area of marine biology, oceanography and microbial ecology. He received many awards such as University of Connecticut Edward Victor Gant Scholarship and Andres J. Nalwalk Memorial Award, The William & Mary Alumni Fellowship Award, Robert and Sara Boyd Term Distinguished Associate Professorship, and Humboldt Research Fellowship for Experienced Researcher.

Experimental, observational and modeling approach to plankton and microbial ecology.

Eurico D’Sa is an Associate Professor in the Department of Oceanography and Coastal Sciences, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA. He obtained his B.E. and M.S. degrees in Electrical Engineering from University of Bombay, and the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India. He received his Ph.D. degree from the Department of Marine Sciences, University of Southern Mississippi. Before joining Louisiana State University in 2004, his professional experiences include working as a Research Scientist/Research Associate at NASA Stennis Space Center, the University of South Florida, and at the NOAA Office of Research and Applications (on a National Research Council Fellowship). His lab at LSU is conducting research in marine optics, ocean remote sensing and bio-optical algorithm development for ocean color satellite sensors with a focus on the northern Gulf of Mexico and the Bering Sea.

Optical properties of estuarine and coastal waters Satellite remote sensing Study of ocean biogeochemical processes using optical measurements and remote sensing Monitoring and observational work in the coastal environment.

Research focuses on fish behavior and fishing gear, and sustainable utilization of fisheries resource of Northeastern US and beyond. This includes the use of flume tank simulations, computer simulations, sea trials, underwater video observations, and statistical methods to understand fish behavior near fishing gears and in their natural habitat. My research extends to the application of fish behavioral knowledge to fishing gear designs and operations to reduce bycatch, discards and impact of fishing on the seabed and other marine resources.

Javier Alcantara-Carrio was born in Madrid in 1971. He is graduated in Marine Sciences in 1994 and Ph.D. in 1999 at the Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria (Canary Islands, Spain), both with excellent qualifications. He was lecturer from 1998 to 2002 at the Dept. of Marine Geosciences of the Universidad de Vigo (Spain), lecturer from 2002 to 2004 at the Dept. of Civil Engineer of the Universidad Aflonso X el Sabio, in Madrid, and associate professor in the Dept. of Basic Sciences and Oceanography of the Universidad Católica de Valencia (Spain) from 2004 to present, where is the coordinator of the Marine Geology and Physical Oceanography research area, the secretary of the School of Sciences and the secretary of the Research Institute of Environmental and Marine Sciences. He has participated in 48 research projects in coastal geomorphodynamics, sediment transport, physical oceanography and natural hazards, including dune fields, beaches and continental shelf areas of Canary Islands, Galicia Rias, Cantabrian Sea, Western Mediterranean, Cuba and Caribbean and Pacific coast of Colombia, among other regions. During the last years he was the head of several oceanographic surveys in the Gulf of Valencia (Western Mediterranean) and he was also the coordinator of the Latin-American Network in Remote Sensing Applied to Coastal Hazards Prevention from 2007 to 2010, promoted from the Latin-American Program of Science and Technology for the Development. He is author of more than 50 research publications, including papers, chapters of books and some books, as well as 65 communications in international or national conferences. He has edited also some issues of journals of the SCI and books. 

Coastal Sedimentary Processes. Coastal Erosion. Natural Hazards. Geomorphological Evolution of the Litoral and the Continental Shelf. Climatic Variability in the Quaternary and Present Climatic Change.

Markus Frederich is an Associate Professor in Marine Sciences at the University of New England in Biddeford, Maine. He obtained his Masters degree from the Technical University of Darmstadt, Germany and his PhD from the Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research, University of Bremen, Germany. Before joining the faculty at the University of New England in 2003 he was a research fellow at the Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School in Boston, MA. He conducted research at the Station Biologique de Roscoff in France, at the Instituto de la Patagonia, Universidad de Magallanes in Punta Arenas, Chile, and at the Mount Desert Island Biological Laboratory in Salisbury Cove, Maine. He has authored 11 research articles, several of them together with undergraduate students as co-authors He is serving as a review editor for the Journal Frontiers in Aquatic Physiology and reviewed manuscripts for many leading journals such as the Journal of Experimental Biology, Marine Ecology Progress Series, Biological Bulletin, and others. He also reviewed grant proposals for NSF and NOAA and served on an NSF review panel. He is a member of the American Physiological Society and the Mount Desert Island Corporation.

His research interest is invertebrate stress physiology. In his research he applies methods of physiology and molecular biology to elucidate cellular mechanisms that limit tolerance of temperature, salinity or hypoxia stress.

Dr. Ali Ishaque is an Associate Professor of Environmental Science at University of Maryland Eastern Shore (UMES), Princess Anne, MD since August 2005. He is also the coordinator of the Graduate Toxicology Program, Coordinator of UMES-Salisbury University (SU) Environmental Science Dual Degree Program and Group Leader for Environmental Science at UMES. Prior to UMES in August 2001, he was a Post-doctoral Research Associate at Free University of Brussels (VUB), Belgium and Jackson State University (JSU), Jackson, MS.

I am an Associate Professor and Surgeon in the Department of Otorhinolaryngology – Head & Neck Surgery in Universiti Sains Malaysia.  I  held a number of professional posts in the national level over the years. I have published and presented in many scientific papers, both at the national and international level. I am also actively involved in services to many international professional communities as invited speakers and presenters. To date, I have organized more than 20 conferences with roles and responsibilities from organizing committee to organizing chairperson. I have contributed significantly to the successes of symposiums and workshops in my University and the Malaysian Society of Otorhinolaryngologists-Head and Neck Surgeons (MSO-HNS) Meetings.

General Medicine, General Ear, Nose and Throat Disorder.

Stephen Jewett is a Research Professor of Marine Science at University of Alaska Fairbanks, USA. He earned his Ph.D. at the University of Alaska Fairbanks. He has published 87 peer-reviewed papers, including four book chapters. He served as a reviewer of peer-reviewed journals in the area of contaminants, benthic and fisheries ecology and Arctic ecosystems. He is an active member of the American Academy of Underwater Sciences and the American Fisheries Society. His awards include the 2004 Wildlife Society Publications Award for Outstanding Monograph, 2004 Emil Usibelli Distinguished Research Award, and 2006 Fulbright Scholar at Catholic University of the North, Coquimbo, Chile.

Marine ecology.

She is a chair, Division of Science and Mathematics, Jacksonville University. She earned her PhD in University of South Carolina. She has done her BA in Biology at University of Virginia; MS at Marine Science    University of South Carolina, and Ph.D. at Marine Science    University of South Carolina. Her professional experience includes Post Doctoral Fellow, at Dept. Biological Sciences, University of South Carolina, Post Doctoral Research Associate at Dept. Biology, University of South Florida and then, worked as faculty in Jacksonville University from 1989 to present. She recieved University Service Award 2002-2003 at Jacksonville University. She is an active member in American Association for the Advancement of Science, Association for Women in Science (Jacksonville Chapter, co-President 1993 - 2000), Southeastern Estuarine Research Society and Estuarine Research Federation (co-Chair, Research for Undergraduates section of 2001 Meeting Steering Committee).     

 

Marine Science, Biological Oceanography, Physiological Ecology, Regeneration in Invertebrates

Nicholas Meskhidze is an assistant professor in Department of Marine, Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, North Carolina State University, USA. He earned his Ph.D. at Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta. He has authored or co-authored more than 20 peer reviewed papers and participated in over 70 national and international conferences. He has been teaching experience of more than 4 years. He has several scientific awards, invited reviews, editorials and presentations and served as a lead guest editor of special journal issue of advances in meteorology. He is a member of American Geophysical Union (AGU), American Association for Aerosol Research (AAAR) and American Meteorological Society (AMS). He is also a regular panel participant at EPA and NSF and served as a reviewer of peer-reviewed journals in the area of atmospheric chemistry and biogeochemistry.

Regional and global climate modeling; Parameterization of terrestrial and marine organic aerosol emissions for regional air quality and global climate models, Global scale modeling of micronutrient transport (with the emphases on bioavailable iron) to the oceans using 3-D chemistry transport models,Evaluation of the human impact on marine ecosystem productivity and carbon cycle, Measurements of trace gas emissions from different phytoplankton species, Application of remotely sensed data (MODIS, MISR, CALIPSO) for exploring potentially important interactions between marine aerosols, ocean productivity, clouds and climate.

Dr. Becks career in ecological immunology began at the University of the State University of New York where he earned his B.S. in Biology in 1982. He completed his doctoral degrees in 1994 at the State University of New York - Stony Brook focusing on Cellular and Molecular Pathology. The focus of Becks research is to investigate the evolution of the immune system. His laboratory is applying contemporary techniques of biochemistry and molecular biology to an important emerging field in biomedicine: the evolution of the immune system. His investigations build upon the discoveries that key immunoregulatory mechanisms that function in the mammalian immune response appear to be present in phylogenetically distinct marine invertebrate species. His long-term goals are to unravel the defense reactions employed by invertebrates. He has been the Principal Organizer/Chairperson of 2 international research conferences on the evolution of the immune system. He is currently an Associate Professor in the Department of Biology at the University of Massachusetts at Boston.

His current research projects include (1) The isolation and characterization of antimicrobial peptides and lysozyme in the body fluids and mucus secretions of Ctenophores (Leidy’s Comb Jellyfish; Mnemiopsis leidyi) and Cnidaria (Moon Jellyfish, Aurelia aurita); (2) The isolation and characterization Toll-like receptors in Mnemiopsis leidyi and Aurelia aurita; (3) Uncovering the basic features of the cellular immune responses of the sea urchin Diadema antillarum.

Dr. Huan Zhang has received his PhD in Tokyo University of Fishery. University during the period of 1989-1995. Currently, he is working as Research Assistant Professor in University of Connecticut He has authored 53 research articles/books.

My research is focused on molecular biology/functional genomics of marine organisms including fish, copepods, dinoflagellates and other marine phytoplankton (microalgae). Current research can be summarized as: Molecular genetics/genomics of dinoflagellates, Molecular markers to study dispersal and population dynamics of harmful algae, Zooplankton diet diversity in the natural environment, Saxitoxin tolerance and sodium channel mutation in copepod Acartia hudsonica.

Dr. Lawrence E. Schaufler is currently a Research Chemist with the U.S. Department of Commerce within the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), as part of the National Marine Fisheries Service and the Alaska Fisheries Science Center, located at the Ted Stevens Marine Research Institute in Juneau, Alaska. Dr. Schaufler earned dual B.S. degrees from the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, CA in Biology and Chemistry, and received his Ph.D. from the University of Washington in Seattle, WA in the areas of protein biochemistry and molecular biology. His research with NOAA over the past 8 years has focused on the bioenergetic characterization of various species and their trophic relationships, as well as the use of fatty acid signatures in stock identification, prey elucidation, and related topics. Dr. Schaufler served as the chairman for the local American Chemical Society (ACS) section in 2007-8, and is a key organizer in various outreach events such as the Intel Southeast Alaska Regional Science Fair. He has also served as president and director for nonprofit organizations in the Juneau community, and is a founding member of the Southeast Alaska RiteCare Program, helping children address speech and language disorders, at no cost to the parents.

Lipid class and fatty acid characterization of marine mammals, fish, and zooplankton, Proximate and bomb calorimetric analyses and bioenergetic studies, Ocean acidification and related ecological impacts Zinc finger specificity and protein-DNA binding complexes.

Dr. Hao Yu is an Assistant Research Scientist at Chesapeake Biological Laboratory, University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science, Maryland, USA. He earned his Ph.D. in Fisheries at Virginia Tech in 2010. His research focuses on temporal and spatial fish population dynamics in aquatic ecosystems. He is a member of American Fisheries Society, International Association for Great Lakes Research, and American Association for the Advancement of Science.

Fish population dynamics, Sampling design for field survey, Application of GIS and spatial statistics in ecology.

Yawei Luo is currently a postdoctoral investigator at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution. He obtained his B.S. degree in Ocean University of China in 2000 and M.S. degree in Peking University, China in 2003. After that, he went to U.S. and earned a Ph.D. degree from Brown University-MBL graduate program in 2009.

Yawei Luo is interested in using data synthesis, numerical modeling and data assimilation to study marine ecosystem and biogeochemistry and the impact of climate change, specifically in nitrogen fixation, heterotrophic bacteria, dissolved organic matter, ocean acidification and phytoplankton-nutrient interaction.

Wen Long grew up in Wangcheng District, suburb of Changsha City, Hunan Province, China. Northern Hunan is China’s heartland for farming and Wen, at his youth, was essentially growing rice year after year with his parents, during which he developed interests in studying the nature. In 1993, Wen was selected to go to Tianjin University for college majoring mechanics, where he also took electrical engineering as a minor, which helped him understand how computers work. Prof. Jianhua Tao introduced Wen Long into the field of hydrodynamics in 1995. Since then Wen has been working on applications of computational fluid mechanics with a focus on hydrodynamics. In 2000, Wen was admitted to The University of Delaware Center for Applied Coastal Research to study coastal and ocean engineering with a dissertation on wave and sediment transport under the supervision of Dr. James T. Kirby. During the 6 years at UD, Wen Long produced a suite of widely used water wave and sediment transport models, which are open source and bundled in CoastalSpace available on Source Forge.

Nearshore Wave Current Modeling; Coastal/Estuarine/River Water Quality Modeling Biogeochemical Cycles; Sediment Transport Modeling, Computational Hydrodynamics Environmental Fluid Mechanics.

My research is concerned primarily with the behavior of coastal sedimentary systems and coastal groundwater hydrology. My students and I are working with the dynamics of coastal processes, exploring, now, the role of infragravity waves and edge waves in modulating coastal conditions especially the occurrence of rip currents. We are involved with monitoring programs for ocean beaches to investigate shoreline changes, beach dynamics and responses to storms. Other research is being done on wakes of large ships moving across shallow harbors. Field work also is undertaken to quantify the seepage of groundwater across the sea floor especially around oceanic islands as well as to investigate the global impact of coastal groundwater seepage.

Dr. Cheng Siong Chin received the Ph.D from Nanyang Technological University (NTU) in 2008. He has a M.Sc. (Distinction) in Advanced Control from The University of Manchester in 2001 shortly after he received his B.Eng. (Hons) in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering (Mechatronics Specialization). He was a Lecturer in Mechatronics Engineering at Temasek Polytechnic in Singapore. He had also involved in a research funded project with British Gas Asia Pacific and NTU on design of a semi-autonomous marine vehicle for oil and gas companies in 2003. He currently holds three U.S. Patents. He is a CEng, EUR ING, MIET and SMIEEE.  He is authoring a book titled “Applied Control Engineering using MATLAB” by Bentham Science Publisher and is a Member of the Editorial Advisory Board of The Mediterranean Journal of Measurement and Control. His expertise is in the areas of modelling, simulation, control systems design of marine vehicle systems such as AUV/ROV/surface vessel.

Modelling, Simulation, Control systems design and implementation of marine vehicle systems such as AUV/ROV/surface vessel, Process simulation and control of ship systems, Numerical computation simulation and analysis, Engineering education for engineering systems design.

Lecturer, Economics & Regional Development Group, School of Management, Plymouth Business School / Marine Institute, University of Plymouth, since October 2007; Visiting Fellow, Environment Department, University of York, January - September 2007; Research Fellow, Centre for Environmental Economics and Policy in Africa (CEEPA), 2002-2006: Lecturer in the economics of natural resources management, CEEPA; 2002, 2003, 2004, 2006: Research Associate, International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED), UK; 2002: Post-Doctoral Research Fellow, University of York, 2000 – 2002: Research Associate, University of York, UK; 19997 – 2000: Senior Research Assistant, Institute of Statistical Social and Economic Research, University of Ghana; 1991 – 1993: Research Assistant, Faculty of Education, University of Cape Coast, Ghana.

Marine resource economics; Economics of renewable energies; Economics of climate change agriculture, and adaptation; Economic of sustainability; Macroeconomic policies, trade and deforestation; Economics of conservation and biodiversity; Foreign direct investment (FDI); Aid and development.

Andrew McMinn graduated from Sydney University with first class honours in 1978. He gained his PhD from Macquarie University (Sydney) in 1985. He was awarded a DSc from the University of Tasmania in 2006 and a Graduate Diploma of Language in Japanese in 2010. After working for ten years with the NSW Geological Survey in Sydney, working on Recent and Quaternary phytoplankton palaeoecology, he moved to Tasmania in 1991. Prof McMinn was one of the foundation staff members at the then recently established Institute of Antarctic and Southern Ocean Studies (IASOS) at the University of Tasmania. In May 2002 he become Director of that institute. Prof McMinn has spent 14 field seasons in the Antarctic, three at the Australian station, Davis, three Marine Science voyages and eight seasons at the New Zealand station, Scott Base. He has also had four field seasons in the Arctic with the Norwegians and five on sea ice in northern Hokkaido.

Most of my research work over the last twenty years has been focused on sea ice ecology and environmental change. I have investigated the ecology, biochemistry, production and photo physiology of the sea ice microbial communities. In particular, I pioneered the in situ use of micro sensors in polar environments. My work has also included an examination of the effects of UV, work that was subsequently published in Nature.

Cherie A. Motti is a Research Scientist at the Australian Institute of Marine Science, Australia. She earned her Ph.D. in Natural Products Chemistry at Griffith University, Australia. Cherie’s research focuses on use of spectroscopic techniques including FTMS, LC-MS and LC-MS/UV-SPE-NMR to investigate the role of chemical signalling in the establishment of symbioses, in coral recruitment and in disease and stress response. She has co-authored 39 peer reviewed original research articles and 1 book chapter. She is a member of the American Society for Mass Spectrometry, the Australian and New Zealand Society for Mass Spectrometry, the Australian and New Zealand Society for Magnetic Resonance and the Principal Investigators Association. She has served as a reviewer of peer-reviewed journals in the areas of natural products (terrestrial, microbial and marine), NMR, MS and hyphenated method development, chemical ecology and metabolomics, as well as grant proposals for NSF (USA) and NRF (Sth. A).

Marine natural products chemistry (bioassay-guided isolation, structural elucidation using NMR and MS based technologies) Marine chemical ecology (chemical signalling) Metabolomics (disease and stress response).

Chief Executive Officer, Australian Institute of Marine Science (2004 – 2011)); Deputy Chief - Research, CSIRO Marine Research (2001 – 2004); Senior Principal Research Scientist, CSIRO Marine Research (1997-01); Senior Principal Research Scientist, CSIRO Division of Fisheries (1995-1997); Principal Research Scientist, CSIRO Division of Fisheries (1990 – 95); Principal Research Scientist, CSIRO Division of Fisheries (1989 – 90). Senior Research Scientist, CSIRO Division of Fisheries (1988 – 89); Research Fellow, Botany Department, University of British Columbia, Canada (1987); Senior Research Scientist, CSIRO Division of Fisheries 1985 – 86); Research Scientist, CSIRO Division of Fisheries (1983-85); Environmental Consultant to the Australian Government, Department of Transport and Construction, Brisbane International Airport Redevelopment (1983).

Development of culture techniques for commercially important crustaceans (particularly larval and juvenile stages), Development of captive breeding techniques for marine ornamental fish Tropical copepod biology and culture techniques, Crustacean nutrition, digestive physiology and formulated feed development, Toxicology of nutrients to commercially important crustaceans Ecophysiology and behaviour of marine larvae and juveniles; biological rhythms, Aquaculture recirculating systems and effluent water treatment through advanced filtration techniques and Aquaponics.

Dr. Swapan K. Ghosh is a Foreign Postdoctoral Researcher (FPR) in the Supramolecular Science Laboratory at RIKEN, Wako, Japan. Before joining RIKEN, Dr. Ghosh was a research scientist at the Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology (JAMSTEC). He earned his Ph.D. in Soft Condensed Matter Physics in 1997 from Hiroshima University. He received his M. Sc. in Physics (1992) from Dhaka University, Bangladesh. Dr. Ghosh received many awards including Japanese Government Scholarship (Monbukagakusho), JSPS Post-doctoral Fellowship for Foreign Researchers, and Bulletin of the Chemical Society of Japan (BCSJ) award. Dr. Ghosh has published about 25 peer-reviewed papers, a book chapter and presented his works in more than 20 international conferences. Dr. Ghosh is a member of American Chemical Society, The Society of Polymer Science, Japan and the Physical Society of Japan. He has served as a reviewer of several journals including The Journal of Physical Chemistry.

Transport phenomena and surface forces in extreme environment, intelligent soft matter, organic-inorganic memory devices.

Motoki Takagi is the Researcher in Biomedicinal Information Research Center (BIRC), Japan Biological Informatics Consortium (JBIC), Japan. He earned his Ph.D. at the University of Tokyo, Tokyo. He has published 73 reviewed papers, and he was author of 5 book chapters. He was one of the members in Japanese Society for Bioscience, Biotechnology, and Agrochemistry, The Society for Actinomycetes Japan. He served as a reviewer of peer-reviewed journals in the area of Natural Chemistry and Biosynthesis.

Natural Chemistry, Biosynthesis, Chemical Biology, Anti-Cancer drug, Research for the development of new drugs

Elena Sarropoulou, young researcher in the Department of Genetic and Molecular Biotechnology at the Institute of Marine Biology and Genetics belonging to the Centre For Marine Research. She performed her dissertation at the Max-Planck- Institute Tuebingen and received her PhD from the Eberhards-Karls-Unverstitaet, Tuebingen, Germany. She has published peer-reviewed papers, and she was author of one book and one book chapter. She has been teaching experience of more than 5 years. She served as a reviewer of peer-reviewed journals in the area of molecular biology and Genomics. She organized 2 conferences and several workshops.

Functional Genomics approach for marine fish species studying the immune and stress response as well as development and sex determination. Gene expression studies of novel genes for Perciformes including their regulatory mechanisms, paralogues as well as splice forms in the light of Evolutionary Biology.

Ming-Yi Sun’s career in Marine Science began at the Ocean University of China where he earned his M.S. in Marine Chemistry in 1982. He completed his doctoral degrees in 1992 at the State University of New York - Stony Brook, focusing on Sediment Early Diagenesis and Organic Geochemistry. The focus of his research is to investigate the biogeochemical cycling of organic compounds in marine ecosystems. His laboratory is applying molecular techniques of lipid biomarkers and their compoundspecific isotope compositions to an important emerging field in environmental biogeochemistry. His investigations build upon the discoveries of degradation mechanisms and rates of specific compounds under various environmental conditions. His longterm goals are to unravel the impacts of global climatic and environmental changes on organic carbon cycling in marine systems. He has been the Principal Organizer/Chairperson of 3 international research conferences on the estuarine and coastal oceanography. He is currently Professor in the Department of Marine Sciences at the University of Georgia.

Biogeochemical cycling of organic matter in marine systems
Sediment diagenesis
Impact of global climate change on ecosystems
Applications of lipid biomarkers
Isotope geochemistry
Costal oceanography
Environmental pollution

Dr. Soultana Zervoudaki is a Researcher at the Institute of Oceanography in Hellenic Centre for Marine Research -H.C.M.R. She assumed her duties in December 2006. Dr. Soultana Zervoudaki has participated in more than 30 funded research projects, 11 of which she coordinated the plankton group. She is member of CIESM Zooplankton Group, ICES Zooplankton ecology working Group, and REMPEC for ballast water management. She has collaborated with several laboratories: National Enviromental Research Institute (Denmark), University of Gothenburg (Sweden), Institute of Oceanology (Russia), University of Lecce (Italy), University of Vigo (Spain), IFM-GEOMAR (Germany), METU (Turkey), Institut de Ciències del Mar (Spain).

mesozooplankton ecology,  taxonomy, horizontal and vertical distribution of mesozooplankton communities, seasonal and interannual variability of mesozooplankton in coastal and offshore areas and influence of environmental parameters (hydrology, food availability and pollution) to mesozooplankton. In addition, her research involve physiology of major groups of mesozooplankton Copepod egg production, faecal pellet production of copepods and tunicates, grazing of copepods and tunicates using different methods, effect of toxic phytoplankton on the grazing and production of copepods, estimation of carbon flow in the pelagic food web and vertical carbon flux resting eggs of zooplankton in the sediment and copepod response on ocean acidification.

I am a conservation biologist and ecologist with a particular interest in marine vertebrates. My research has largely focused on the effects of global change and environmental factors on sea turtles´ embryonic development and their hatching success. To achieve this, I have used a range of field and experimental techniques, which allowed me to address a number of fundamental questions and applied conservation and management problems. I have actively participated in all aspects and phases of important projects involved in the Atlantic Ocean sea turtle conservation in Colombia, Panama and Cape Verde. 2010 Ph.D. (Salamanca, Spain).

Nanomedicine: Nanopolymers encapsulated inactivated, DNA, and plasmid vaccines on fish immune system. Nanodrug release, zeta potential, FTIR,DSC,AFM,SEM,TEM,XRD,HPLC,GC-MS,LC-MS,NMR measurement.

Elisabetta Tosti is senior scientist at the laboratory of Animal Physiology and Evolution of the marine biology institute “Stazione Zoologica”, Naples, Italy. She is contract Professor in the University of Naples. She is founder of the Italian Society of Embryology Reproduction and Research “ SIERR” . She served as a reviewer of 15 different peer-reviewed journals in the area of Cell Biology and Reproduction . She served as a reviewer for the “National Science Foundation” for grant assignment. She is member of the editorial board of the International Journal “ Marine Drugs” and Guest Editor of a special issue. She is member of the editorial board of the International Journal “ Journal of Cell Biology and Genetics”. She has been tutor of 7 degree thesis, 3 PhD thesis, and 5 post-doc fellowships. Invited speaker at numerous international conferences and seminars. She has organized conferences and Master Courses. She has published 55 reviewed papers, is author of 9 invited reviews, 6 book chapters, one book and is Editor of an E- book.

Her generalist expertise is in the field of Reproduction and Early Developmental Stages of marine animals and mammals. Her specialist expertise is on physiology of gametes maturation, activation and fertilization with specific emphasis on the electrical events occurring at the plasma membrane. Recently she has started to investigate the impact of marine pollution, xenobiotics and marine natural products on the reproductive processes and development of marine animals.

Born 1962, Fernando Rubino is Full-time Researcher at the Institute for Coastal Marine Environment (IAMC) of the Italian National Research Council (CNR). He serves as a reviewer for peer-reviewed journals in the field of Marine Biology and he is author of more than 90 scientific publications, mainly on international journals, 10 technical reports and editor of 2 books. He is a member of many scientific societies, including the American Society of Limnology and Oceanography (ASLO). Currently he is the Head of the Laboratory of Plankton Ecology at the section of Taranto of the IAMC and his main research activity is on the role of resting stages produced by planktonic species on plankton dynamics in marine coastal waters.

Biodiversity, Marine Plankton Ecology, Plankton Resting Stages, Alien Species.