Plenary Speakers
Prof. MD Rezaul Karim
Professor and Chair, Laboratory of Cancer Biology, Department of Biotechnology and Genetic Engineering, Jahangirnagar University, Bangladesh
Plenary Speaker & Career Development Panel Discussion Speaker
Area of expertise: Cancer biology
Past JSPS research fellow at Kyoto University
Assoc. Prof. Ming-Yi Chou
Associate Professor, Department of Life Science, National Taiwan University, Taiwan
Plenary Speaker & Career Development Panel Discussion Speaker
Area of expertise: Animal behavior, neurobiology
Career Development Panel Discussion Speakers
Assoc. Prof. Mariko Sasaki
Associate Professor, National Institute of Genetics, Japan
Area of expertise: Gene amplification mechanisms
Dr. Ivana Duic Urushibata
Scientist, xFOREST Therapeutics Co., Ltd., Japan; GSB alumni
Area of expertise: RNA-targeted drug discovery
Dr. Marco Visentini Scarzanella
Head of Retail Science, Amazon Japan
Area of expertise: data science, machine learning
Post-doctoral researcher, Institute for Genome Stability in Ageing and Disease, Medical Faculty, University of Cologne, Germany; Cologne Excellence Cluster for Cellular Stress Responses in Aging-Associated Diseases (CECAD), University of Cologne, Germany; GSB alumni
Dr. Shoma Ishikawa
Area of expertise: DNA damage response, telomere, cytoplasmic DNA
Judges
- Student oral presentation session 1
Prof. Mineko Kengaku
Lab of Developmental Neurobiology
Assoc. Prof. Peter Carlton
Lab of Chromosome Function and Inheritance
Assoc. Prof. Makoto Hayashi
IFOM and Kyoto University Joint Research Laboratory, Graduate School of Medicine
Assoc. Prof. Spyros Goulas
Institute for the Advanced Study of Human Biology (ASHBi)
Junior Assoc. Prof. Kelvin Hui
Center for iPS Cell Research and Application (CiRA)
- Student oral presentation session 2
Assoc. Prof. Yuhei Goto
Lab of Cell Cycle Regulation
Assoc. Prof. Hiroshi Kanda
Lab of Genetics
Assoc. Prof. Ming-Yi Chou
Department of Life Science, National Taiwan University
Asst. Prof. Fabian Raudzus
CiRA, Graduate School of Medicine
Dr. Marco Scarzanella
Amazon Company, Japan
- Student oral presentation session 3
Prof. MD Rezaul Karim
Department of Biotechnology and Genetic Engineering, Jahangirnagar University
Assoc. Prof. Knut Woltjen
Center for iPS Cell Research and Application (CiRA)
Assoc. Prof. Mariko Sasaki
National Institute of Genetics, Japan
Dr. Shoma Ishikawa
Medical Faculty, University of Cologne
Dr. Ivana Duic Urushibata
xFOREST Therapeutics Co., Ltd.