Dr. Dmitri Davydov has received his Master Degree in biochemistry in 1978 from M.V. Lomonosv Moscow State University and Ph.D. in 1985 from the 2-nd Moscow Medical Institute (now Russian State Medical University). From 1986 to 2000 he led a research group in Moscow Institute of Biomedical Chemistry. In 1991-1993 he also worked as a Guest Researcher in INSERM Unité 310 (Institute de Biologie Physico-Chimique, Paris, France) and in 1997-1998 – in UT Southwestern Medical Center (Dallas, TX). In 1998 he has been honoured with the Annual Award of the Government of Russian Federation in Science and Technology. From 2001 to 2008 he worked in the University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, TX as a Research Assistant Professor, and (from 2006) as a Research Associate Professor. Currently he held a position of Associate Research Scientist in the Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Science, University of California San Diego.

Dr. Davydov studies the mechanisms of function and regulation of the membrane-bound system of microsomal monooxygenase. His research is focussed on the mechanisms of protein-protein and protein-ligand interactions in cytochromes P450, with an emphasis on the dynamics of protein hydration in ligand-induced conformational transitions. The area of his expertise includes mechanistic enzymology of membrane-bound multienzyme systems and allosteric emzymes, kinetics and thermodynamics of protein-protein interactions and inter-protein electron transfer, fluorescence-based techniques applied to protein-protein and protein-ligand interactions, as well as the effect of high hydrostatic pressures on proteins and the use of pressure-perturbation approach in enzymology.

Dr. Rainer E. Glaser, Professor of Chemistry, University of Missouri, Columbia, studied chemistry and physics in Tübingen, at Berkeley, and at Yale.  He is a physical organic chemist with interests in organic ferroelectric materials, several areas of catalysis (iodine catalysis, alkene polymerization), nucleobase chemistry and chemical toxicology, as well as astrochemistry and origin of life.  Glaser has collaborated extensively with chemists, biochemists, physicists, mathematicians, astronomers, educators and journalists.  In 1995, Glaser began his education research with the novel curriculum “Chemistry Is in the News (CIITN)” that he designed for chemistry education of science majors, and since 2008 he has been a leader in the integration of mathematics education with life sciences college curricula.  Glaser was elected AAAS Fellow in 2004 and Fellow of the Royal Chemical Society in 2006.

Reaction Mechanisms, Dative Bonding, Noncovalent Interactions, Alkene Polymerization, Halogen Bonding, Nucleobase Chemistry.

Ravi Radhakrishnan (Associate Professor) obtained his PhD in chemical physics from the Department of Chemical Engineering at Cornell University in 2001. After two postdoctoral assignments in chemical physics and biophysics at MIT and NYU/HHMI, he joined the University of Pennsylvania faculty in 2005.  Dr. Radhakrishnan has appointments in the Departments of Bioengineering, Chemical Engineering, and Biochemistry and Biophysics. His laboratory is involved in developing modeling and simulation protocols using principles from applied mathematics, chemical physics, and molecular biophysics in order to predict single molecule properties as well as signal transduction mechanisms related to cancers. Ongoing projects in Dr. Radhakrishnan’s lab include finding a molecular basis for DNA repair and replication in oxidatively damaged DNA, searching for new paradigms in drug resistance in cancer therapeutics, and optimizing drug delivery protocols by a rational design of microcarriers. His laboratory is currently funded by US National Science Foundation and National Institutes of Health. Dr. Radhakrishnan is the recipient of the Hewlett Packard Young Investigator award and servers on the Editorial Board of the Journal of Biomedical Science and Bioengineering.

Statistical Mechanics; Molecular Systems Biology; Multiscale Modeling

George Pack is Professor of Chemistry and Associate Vice President for Research at the University of Louisville Louisville Kentucky Dr Pack completed his PhD in Biophysics at the State University of New ork at Buffalo in 1973 He did postdoctoral research in Chemistry at the University of Rochester 197475 in Environmental Medicine at NYU Medical Center 197475 and in Genetics at the Stanford University Medical Center 19751978 He was Chair of Chemistry at Louisville from 1998 through 2010 He received the Dean’s Award for Outstanding Departmental Leadership in the College of Arts and Sciences He has been Associate Vice President for Research since April 2007He was on the faculty of the University of Illinois College of Medicine at Rockford from 1978 to 1998He is a member of the Biophysical Society AAAS and the American Chemical Society and chairs the Kentucky DoD EPSCoR committee

Theoretical and Computational Biophysical Chemistry Polyelectrolyte Theory

Xincun Dou, male, born in May, 1981, PhD, professor of the Xinjiang Technical Institute of Physics & Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS). He got his bachelor’s degree from East China Normal University in 2004. Since obtained his doctor’s degree in materials physics and chemistry at Institute of Solid State Physics, CAS in 2009, he has been working in the same institute as an assistant professor till Jul, 2011. During the period of Nov 2009 to Nov 2011, he worked as a research fellow at Energy Research Institute @ NTU, Nanyang Technological University. In Jul 2011, he got his current position. He was engaged in high performance new materials related to energy harvesting and environment protection, such as thermoelectric materials, solar energy harvesting materials, hydrogen storage materials, photocatalyst etc. And at the same time to understand the underlying mechanisms. The device performance is of particular interest. Professor Xincun Dou has received his Ph. D in Institute of Solid State Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) during the period of Sep 2004 to Jun 2009. Currently, he is working as a full professor in the Xinjiang Technical Institute of Physics & Chemistry, CAS. He has authored more than 20 research articles and one book chapter. He has been honored as “Excellent president award of CAS” and “Excellent young scholar award” in C-MRS previously.

Thermoelectric materials, solar energy harvesting materials, hydrogen storage materials, photocatalyst etc.

Dr. Rajender (RAJ) Varma, obtained his PhD from Delhi University in 1976. After postdoctoral positions at Robert Robinson Laboratories, University of Liverpool, UK, he was a faculty member at Baylor College of Medicine, Senior Scientist at Houston Advanced Research Center, and Research Professor at Sam Houston State University prior to joining as senior scientist in the Sustainable Technology Division at US Environmental Protection Agency in 1999. He has ~310 scientific peer-reviewed publications in the areas of expertise, several books and book chapters; ~ 300 papers presented in national and international meetings, and have been awarded 9 US Patents.

He has over 37 years of research experience in management of multi-disciplinary technical programs ranging from natural products chemistry and nanomaterials, to development of environmentally benign synthetic methods using microwaves, ultrasound and alternative solvents. His long term goals are to contribute broad expertise in chemistry to evaluate novel and safer environmental protocols and its impact in human health and environmental sciences.

Dr. K. K. Pant is currently Professor in chemical engineering department at Indian Institute of Technology, (IIT) Delhi. He has published more than 60 papers in various international research journals and currently actively engaged in research areas of application of heterogeneous catalysis for greener environment, catalytic hydrocarbon conversion process, hydrogen fuel generation from renewable energy sources, and biomass conversion and utilization. He is reviewer of several international journals and also the member of several chemical engineering professional societies.

Heterogeneous Green Catalytic Processes for Hydrocarbon Conversion, Bio-fuels

Ram V Devireddy is currently an Associate Professor Mechanical Engineering Department Louisiana State University LSU Baton Rouge LA the Director of Bioengineering Laboratory Mechanical Engineering LSU He has received a PhD in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Minnesota UMNMinneapolis MN in 1999 He completed his Bacheloracute;s degree in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Madras India in 1993 and his Masteracute;sdegree also in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Colorado Boulder CO in 1995 Prior to joining the Mechanical Engineering department at LSU in the Fall of 2001 he was a postdoctoral scholar in the Medical School and the Chemical Engineering Department at UMN Dr Devireddyacute;s research work has been recognized by several best paper awards including awards from the ASME and MRS Prof Devireddy is interested in a wide of variety of biological phenomena at low temperatures with particular emphasis on phase change phenomena His research work has been or is currently being supported by NSF NIH NASA LA Board of Regents the Whitaker Foundation and the LSU system He is serving on the editorial board of Cryobiology and the Open Biotechnology Journal as well as a reviewer for over 30 journals His research record includes over 100 publications including archival journal publicationsbook chapters review articles conference abstracts and proceedings

Bioheat and Mass Transfer, Cryopreservation, Tissued Engineering, Stem Cell Cryobiology, Molecular Dynamic Simulations of Biosystems,Nano-structured Thermo-Electric Materials and Bio-MEMS.

Edward I. Solomon is the Monroe E. SpaghtProfessor of Humanities and Sciences and Professor of Photon Science at SSRL. He received his B.S. from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institutein Chemistry in 1968 and his M.S. and Ph.D. in 1970 and 1972 respectively from Princeton. After his PhD he did postdoctoral work at The Ørsted Institute in Denmark and at Caltech. He started his career at MITin late 1975, became a full professor in 1981, and joined the faculty at Stanford in 1982.Dr Solomon has authored over 600 peer reviewed publications and numerous book chapters. He has been a visiting professor in France, Argentina, Japan, China and India.He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and a Fellow in American Association for the Advancement of Science and the American Chemical Society.

Professor Solomon’s research is in the fields of Physical-Inorganic, Bioinorganic, and Theoretical-Inorganic Chemistry. His focus is on spectroscopic elucidation of the electronic structure of transition metal complexes and its contribution to reactivity. He has developed new spectroscopic and electronic structure methods and applied these to active sites in catalysis. He has made significant contributions to our understanding of metal sites involved in electron transfer, copper sites involved in O2 binding, activation and reduction to water, and in structure/function correlations over non-heme iron enzymes.

Engin Serpersu is a Professor in the Department of Biochemistry Cellular and Molecular Biology at the University of Tennessee Knoxville He has received his Ph D in Biochemistry from the Hacettepe University in Ankara Turkey in 1978 He has completed his B Sc Degree in Chemistry at the Middle East Technical University in Ankara Turkey He received Alexander von Humboldt Fellowship to work as a postdoctoral fellow in the Institute for Biochemistry and Endocrinology at the Veterinary School of Justus Liebig University in Giessen Germany He is serving as an editorial board member of two journals and reviewer of ~15 journals He has published more than 70 papers and review articles and reviewed papers for journals including Nature Nature Structural Biology J Med Chem Biochemistry

Antibiotic ResistanceThermodynamics of enzyme–ligand complexes. Protein structure, function, and dynamics. Isothermal Titration Calorimetry. Role of solvent in enzyme Catalysis. Spectroscopy

Arieh Warshel is a Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry and a Full Member of the USC Norris Cancer Center He received his BS degree in Chemistry Summa Cum Laude from Technion Israel in 1966 and his MS and PhD degrees in Chemical Physics in 1967 and 1969 respectively from the Weizmann Institute of Science Israel After his PhD he did postdoctoral work at Harvard University From 1972 to 1976 he was at the Weizmann Institute and at the MRC Laboratory for Molecular Biology in Cambridge England In 1976 he joined the faculty of the Department of Chemistry at USC Dr arshel has authored over 350 peerreviewed research articles and book chapters two books and several key computer programs He and his coworkers have pioneered the key approaches for simulating the functions of biological molecules including introducing molecular dynamics MD in Biology developing the quantum mechanical/molecularmechanical QM/MM approach introducing simulations of enzymatic reactions developing simulations of electron transfer and proton transfer processes in proteins pioneering microscopic modeling of electrostatic effects in macromolecules and introducing simulation of protein folding Dr Warshel received the Tolman Medal in 2003 has been elected a Fellow of the Biophysical Society in 2000 a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry in 2008 and a Member of the National Academy of Science in 2009

Professor Warshel research area is computer simulation and interpretation of properties of large molecules, with special emphasis on molecules of biological interest. My main topics are:1) Theoretical studies of enzymatic reactions, and computer aided enzyme design.2) Electrostatic effects in biological systems.3) Dynamics and mechanisms of photochemical reactions, including theoretical analysis of the early steps in visual excitation and in photosynthesis.4) Quantum mechanical simulation of chemical reactions in solutions.5) Simulation and analysis of protein folding.6) Calculations of spectroscopic properties of biological molecules.7) Molecular bioenergetics.

2005-present: Joseph A. Waldschmitt Professor of Physics, Lehigh University 1995-2005: Professor of Physics, Lehigh University 1994-1995: Provost, Kenyon College 1988-1994: Dean, College of Arts and Science, Lehigh University 1976-1988: Professor of Physics, Temple University 1985-1988: Director, Center for Advanced Computational Science, Temple University 1983-1985: Director, Institute for Surface and Interface Science, Temple University 1973-1976: Associate Professor of Physics, Temple University 1970-1973: Assistant Professor, Temple University 1968-1970: Visiting Assistant Professor, Temple University 1966-1968: Lecturer in Physics, University of Western Australia

Equilibrium phase transitions. Kinetics of first order phase transitions: nucleation and spinodal decomposition. Thermodynamics and statistical mechanics of self-assembly of particles into desired morphologies. Examples of systems of interest include protein molecules, Janus colloidal particles and Janus nanoparticles. Protein crystallization. Design of smart materials.

Electrical transport, Electron–phonon coupling

Hugo R Arias Associate Professor Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences College of Pharmacy Midwestern University Glendale AZ 85308 USA Assistant Professor of Pharmaceutical Sciences Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences College of Pharmacy Western University of Health Sciences Pomona CA USA Research Assistant Professor Department of Pharmacology and Therapeutics College of Medicine University of Florida Gainesville FL USA Adjunct Investigator National Council of Scientific and Technological Research CONICET Argentina Assistant Investigator National Council of Scientific and Technological Research CONICET Argentina Professional Assistant National Council of Scientific and Technological Research CONICET Argentina He has received a PhD in Biochemistry from the National Southern University Bahía Blanca Argentina in 1990 He has received a Master of Science in Biochemistry from the National Southern University Bahia Blanca Argentina in 1982 He has completed his BA of Science in Biochemistry in the National Southern University Bahía Blanca Argentina in 1982 He has completed his diploma of Chemist in the National Southern University Bahía Blanca Argentina in 1980

Cys-loop ligand-gated ion channels- Nicotinic acetylcholine receptors - Agonists, competitive antagonists, noncompetitive antagonists, positive and negative allosteric modulators Thermodynamics of ligand-receptor interactions, Drug addiction Depression and antidepressants Alzheimer’s disease. Modulation of angiogenesis by nicotinic receptors

Keith K Parker is a member of the faculty Department of Biomedical and Pharmaceutical Sciences BMED The University of Montana UM Missoula Montana Member Center for Structural and Functional Neuroscience CSFN The University Montana He has received a PhD in Pharmacology and Toxicology from the University of California San Francisco UCSF 1978 He has completed a BS in Psychology from Montana State University MSU Bozeman Montana 1972 He is a recipient of the Mershon Award from the Montana Academy of Sciences MAS

Molecular Pharmacology Neuropharmacology Neurochemistry Biochemistry of serotonin (5HT) receptors and related G Protein Coupled Receptors (GPCR) Pharmacology of Natural Products

Jie Zheng is an Associate Professor at University of California School of Medicine Department of Physiology and Membrane Biology Davis California He has received a PhD in Physiology from Yale University in 1998 He has completed his BS in Physiology and Biophysics in 1988 and his MS in Biophysics in 1991 both at Peking University He is serving as cochair of American Heart Association Western States study section ad hoc reviewer for US and international funding agencies reviewer for 14 journals He has received the Grass Foundation Travelling Scientist Award 2009 He has published over 30 publications in Neuron Nature Structural and Molecular Biology PNAS Journal of General Physiology and others.

Neuroscience Membrane Physiology Sensory functions Ion channels Protein structure-function relationship Patch clamping and single-channel analysis Fluorescence imaging and FRET.

Yunzhi PeterYang PhD is an assistant Professor at the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston He received both his PhD and his BS from Sichuan University in China and completed his postdoctoral work at the University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio Dr Yangs research has been funded by NIH DOD nonprofit foundation and industry He has served on 2 journal editorial boards and served as adhoc reviewer for 21 journals

Dr. Yang is interested in developing bio-inspired approaches for biomaterial design and fabrication, bone regeneration, implant devices and cancer treatment.

Juejun Hu is an assistant professor in the Department of Materials Science Engineering at the University of Delaware He received a PhD in Materials Science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge MA in 2009 He completed his BS in Materials Science in Tsinghua University China in 2004 He has published over 20 peerreviewed journal publications and has been awarded 3 US patents He is serving as a reviewer for 11 journals

Optics & Photonics. Glass Materials. Chemical & Biological Sensing Optomechanics Photovoltaics Solid State Lighting

Diploma of Engineering MSc in Material Science/Physics University of Bucharest V Topa advisorPhD in Molecular Physics cum laude M postol advisorInternational Center for Theoretical Physics Trieste Italy Institute of Atomic Physics Bucharest RomaniaDissertation: Offcenter Diffusion Mechanism Postdoctoral training in chemical physics Department Natuurkunde Katholieke Universiteit Leuven Belgium R Silverans and P Lievens mentorsPostdoctoral training in molecular biophysics Department of Chemistry University of Chicago RS Berry mentor

My recent work is focused on 1) understanding how chronic hyperglycemic conditions trigger the impairment of the insulin and islet amyloid polypeptide (IAPP) secretory lines in pancreatic ß-cells and 2) identifying the consequences of this impairment on the heart function. I am also actively involved in studies aiming at (a) water solvation effects in biological system, (b) understanding physical chemistry aspects of cell injury mechanisms and (c) designing clinical approaches for drug delivery.

Biography of Nuri Oncel Prof Dr Nuri Oncel has received his PhD in the University of Twente during the period of 20032007 Currently he/she is working as an Assistant Professor in the University of North Dakota He has authored 19 research articles/books

Scanning Tunneling Microscopy/Spectroscopy, Low dimensional systems, Thin films, Molecular Electronics

Guangyan Zhou Ph D Chemistry Peking University Beijing PR ChinaSupervisor: Dr Lai LuhuaMS Physical Chemistry Tianjin Normal University Tianjin PRChina Supervisor: BS Chemistry Nankai University Tianjin PR ChinaSupervisor: Dr Lin Shaofan

• Strong background in multi-step synthesis, isolation, purification, and characterization of novel compounds for drug discovery.
• Familiar with modern spectroscopic methods such as IR, NMR, and MS,HPLC.
• Adept at using Scifinder, Chemdraw, and other scientific tools.
• Familiar with the UNIX System and molecular modeling programs such as SYBYL, QUANTA, and AutoDock.
• Familiar with chem.-enzymatic synthesis of oligosaccharides using glycotransferases, biochemical methods to determine the activity of industrial enzymes such as amylase, cellulase, and other proteinases.

Biography of Vijaya Kumar Rangari PhD from Chemistry Osmania University Hyderabad IndiaThermodynamic properties of binary nonelectrolyte solutionsMSc 1990 Chemistry Osmania University Hyderabad India

(a) Synthesis and characterization of novel nanoparticles using sonochemical and Microwave techniques. (b) Fabrication and characterization of nanoparticle-polymer nanocomposites for structural applications. (c) Synthesis of nanosized materials with different morphologies using surfactants. (d) Preparation of metal or metal oxide-polymer composite materials by sonochemical and microwave irradiation. (e) Controlled crystal growth studies of metal oxides using sonochemically prepared nanoparticles or nanocomposite polymer materials as seeds for crystalgrowth. (f) Synthesis of amorphous metal or metal oxides and coating of these materials with Cyclodextrins.(g) Effect of Microwave irradiation on epoxy based nanocomposite materials. (h) Fabrication, properties and characterization of epoxy based nanocomposites. (i) Extrusion and mechanical characterization of filaments containing nanoparticle/Carbon nanotube- polymer.

Scientific InvestigatorDepartment of Research and Development

Thermodynamics, Fabrication, HPLC.

Department of Research and DevelopmentWyatt Technology

Electrostatic effects in biological systems

Bristol University Bristol EnglandPhD Food Microbiology 2006Thesis: Studies on the tolerance and survival of Campylobacter populations exposed to stresses encountered during food processing The physiological and genomic response of C jejuini to 6?C was determined using physiological and olecular techniques The affect of exposure to 6°C for 24 hours on the survival of C jejuni strains exposed to 52 and 60°C was determined and analysed using the Weibull model Supervised by Professor T umphreyKey skills: Fatty acid extraction from microbial cells and integration of GC traces microarrays: Campylobacter jejuni 11168 genome analysis of microbial death curves using Weibull model protein extraction both cellular and outer membrane from bacteria analysis of C jejuni STM library developed a number of assays to determine stress response determination of bacterial growth curves using a Lab systems bioscreen etermination of electron transport activity in bacterial cells RNA extraction from bacterial cells

molecular biology and in microbiology; Established techniques such as EMSA

Prof. Kaufmann has received her PhD from Bonn University (Germany) in 1999. Currently, she is working at Purdue University as an Assistant Professor with a joint appointment in Mathematics and Physics. Visiting appointments include the Physics Department of Princeton University. She has authored numerous articles in prestigious journals. Her research is supported by a grant from the National Science Foundation. She has won several teaching prizes since joining the faculty at Purdue.

Integrable systems, Quantum spin chains, Bethe Ansatz, Non-commutative geometric approach to quantum wire networks.

Biography of Marta Anna Orlowska PhD in ChemistryInstitute of Physical Chemistry Polish Academy of Sciences PolandThesis: “Pressure and temperature influence on the phase transitionsin waterstarch emulsions”Advisor: Pr Stanislaw L Randzio MSc in Bioprocess EngineeringWarsaw University of Technology PolandThesis: “Influence of the hydrodynamical stresses on the living cells

Innovative technologies for food processing (high pressure treatment, ultravioletradiation, electrofreezing). physical chemistry, thermodynamics, phase transitions, polymorphism. heat transfer, scanning. transitiometry, calorimetry.physico-chemical properties of biopolymers (starch, lipids) and interactions inmacromolecular systems spectrophotometry.

Mansoura University Faculty of Science Chemistry Department Egypt

Uses of natural polymers in biomedical and environmental applications

Andrea Di Vita Universita di Genova1via Montallegro

Molecular bioenergetics

Biography of Shawn David Wettig PhD Physical Chemistry University of Saskatchewan Saskatoon SKThesis Title: Studies of the Interaction of Gemini Surfactants with Polymers and Triblock Copolymers BSc Chemistry and Physics University of Lethbridge Lethbridge AB

Research in the use of cationic lipid-DNA complexes for DNAtransfection. Training and Management of students and technicians.

Biography of Krzysztof Jozwiak 1Mark G Kuczewski is a Director of Neiswanger Institute for Bioethics Health Policy Stritch School of Medicine Loyola University Chicago Professor of Medical Ethics Stritch School of Medicine Loyola University Chicago adjunct Associate Professor School of Law Loyola University Chicago Adjunct Associate Professor Department of Philosophy Loyola University Chicago He has received a PhD in Philosophy from the Duquesne University Pittsburgh PA in 19831994 He has completed his BA in Psychology in New York University New York NY 1981 He received? Spirit of Dr Martin Luther King Award? From Loyola University Health System and Distinguished Service Award from American Society for Bioethics and Humanities He is serving as an editorial board member of reputed journals and reviewer of 7 journals

Consent for Organ Donation. Spirituality in Clinical Medicine. Theory and Practice of Informed Consent in Biomedical Research. Theory and Practice of Informed Consent in End-of-Life Decision Making.Theory and Practice of Clinical Ethics Teaching, Teaching of Professionalism. Theory and Practice of Web-based Education. Ethical and Political Theory/Methods in Bioethics. Ethics in Rehabilitation Care/Disability Studies. Theory and Practice of the Family & Community in Medical Decision Making. Organizational Ethics.

Dr. Chang-Guo Zhan is Professor of Pharmaceutical Sciences in the College of Pharmacy, University of Kentucky. Dr. Zhan received a Ph.D. in Chemistry from University of Notre Dame and a Ph.D. in Science from Institute for Molecular Science (IMS), Japan. Dr. Zhan performed his postdoctoral research training as a Postdoctoral Research Scientist at Department of Medicine, Columbia University. Dr. Zhan joined the UK College of Pharmacy faculty as Associate Professor in July 2003 and was promoted to Professor in July 2007. Dr. Zhan was elected as Fellow of the American Association of Pharmaceutical Scientists (AAPS) in 2010. Dr. Zhan is a winner of 2005 Emerging Computational Technology Prize, American Chemical Society (ACS) Division of Computers in Chemistry. He has served as Chair of AAPS Computational Drug Design Focus Group and on AAPS National Biotechnology Conference Programming Committee.

Hairong Guan is currently an assistant professor of chemistry at the University of Cincinnati. He received a bachelor’s degree from Peking University in China and a PhD from Columbia University, where he worked in the laboratories of Prof. Jack R. Norton. He was a postdoctoral fellow with Prof. Charles P. Casey at the University of Wisconsin-Madison before starting at the University of Cincinnati in 2007. He has published 18 peer-reviewed papers on organometallic chemistry or homogeneous catalysis. In 2010, he won a US national science foundation CAREER award.

Synthetic inorganic and organic chemistry; Mechanistic organometallic chemistry; Homogeneous catalysis by transition metal complexes; Small molecule activation; Biomass conversion.

Serkan Caliskan is an Associate Professor in Physics Department Fatih University, Istanbul, Turkey. He is also working in BioNanoTechnology Research Development Center funded by Fatih University and State Planning Organization. He has received his PhD from Gebze Institute of Technology Turkey in 2003. He was a postdoctoral researcher in Pohang University of Science and TechnologyPOSTECH South Korea (2003-2004). He worked as a Visiting Assistant Professor in Mississippi State University MS, USA (2004-2006). He was an Assistant Professor in Fatih University, (2006-2009).

Thermodynamic quantities in disordered systems; Spin Polarized Transport (metals and semiconductors), spin FET; Transport in Small World Networks

We use integrated multi-scale computational modeling and biochemical and biological
experimental approaches to investigate the fundamental structural and functional
mechanisms for biomolecular interactions underlying apoptosis and cell adhesion
signaling pathways, develop cancer chemotherapic agents to regulate apoptosis
signaling pathway and design and optimize the novel biomaterials for biomedical
applications. Methodology development for multiscale modeling to study complex
biological systems also continues to be a focus of my research group. The research
outcomes could have applications in tissue engineering/regenerative medicine, cancer,
cardiovascular and orthopedic research fields

Dr. Sedzik visited Japan for two years (1996-1998) through a JSPS Postdoctoral Fellowship. His host researcher was Prof. Uyemura at Keio Univesity. He has furthermore visited Japan on at least two other occasions. In 1998 he spent three months at Tsukuba National Laboratory, hosted by Dr. M. Ataka. Between 1999 and 2000 ha was Visiting Professor at Osaka University. Supported by JSPS via Special Invitation Program, he visited in 2007 Kagoshima University and in 2009 National Institute of Physiological Sciences in Okazaki. Since August 2009, Jan Sedzik is temporary employed by the NIPS, as Guest Professor.

Chemical Engineering; Protein Crystallization

Bidyut R. Mohapatra is a researcher at Dauphin Island Sea Lab, Alabama, USA. He has received his doctorate degree in environmental microbiology from Kochi University, Japan. He has published more than 25 research papers, book chapters, and technical and client reports. His research interests include tracking the microbial diversity and enzymes in extreme environment using different biochemical and molecular methods, and studying the thermodynamics of native and immobilized microbial enzymes.
 

"Tracking the microbial diversity and enzymes in extreme environment using different biochemical and molecular methods, and studying the thermodynamics of native and immobilized microbial enzymes"
 

Biomass and Hidrogen economic
Separation processes using distillation & Extraction liquid-liquid
Memmbranes and adsorption
Process development, cryogenics and gas liquefaction processes