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Agriculture, Dairy & Animal Science

Kiro Petrovski

Affiliation: School of Animal and Veterinary Science, The University of Adelaide, Roseworthy, SA 5371, Australia

Interests: cattle health; herd health; mastitis; antimicrobial susceptibility; colostrum; predictability of health events using precision technologies

Agronomy

Łukasz Stępień

Affiliation: Department of Plant-Pathogen Interaction, Institute of Plant Genetics, Polish Academy of Sciences, 60-479 Poznań, Poland

Interests: fungal genetics; Fusarium; molecular biology; mycotoxins; plant pathogens; secondary metabolism

Fabrizio Araniti

Affiliation: Locality Feo di Vito, Department AGRARIA, University Mediterranea of Reggio Calabria, 89124 SNC, Reggio Calabria, Italy

Interests: allelopathy; secondary metabolites; essential oils; weed management; plant nutrition; metabolomics; mode of action; chemical interaction; bio-herbicides

Biochemistry & Molecular Biology

Gerald Audette

Affiliation: Department of Chemistry and the Centre for Research on Biomolecular Interactions, York University, Toronto, ON M3J 1P3, Canada

Interests: protein structure & function; bacterial secretion systems; protein dynamics; protein engineering

Tatiana Armeni

Affiliation: Department of Clinical Sciences, Università Politecnica delle Marche, Ancona, Italy

Interests: cell biology; glutathione and thiols; redox signal trasduction; antioxidants; glyoxalase system; mitochondria; molecular biology and genetics.

Patrícia Rijo

Affiliation: CBIOS Lusófona's Research Center for Biosciences and Health Technologies, Campo Grande 376, 1749-024 Lisbon, Portugal

Interests: natural product chemistry; phytochemistry; medicinal natural products; antimicrobial; plectranthus; sustainability

Vsevolod V Gurevich

Affiliation: Department of Pharmacology, Vanderbilt University

Interests: Arrestins Structure-function, G protein-coupled receptors, Signal transduction, Desensitization Trafficking

Biology

Birgitta Dresp

Affiliation: Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), ICube Lab UMR 7357 CNRS, Université de Strasbourg, F-67081 Strasbourg, France

Interests: cognitive neuroscience; brain; cognitive psychology; behavior; perceptual learning and memory; neural networks; consciousness; philosophy of artificial intelligence; principles of unsupervised learning; computing and philosophy

Biophysics

Adrian Neagu

Affiliation: Department of Functional Sciences, Victor Babes University of Medicine and Pharmacy Timisoara, Piata Eftimie Murgu No. 2-4, 300041 Timisoara, Romania

Interests: biophysical theory and modeling; multicellular self-assembly; three-dimensional (3D) bioprinting; tissue engineering

Biotechnology & Applied Microbiology

Nikolaos Labrou

Affiliation: Laboratory of Enzyme Technology, Department of Biotechnology, Agricultural University of Athens, Gr-11855, Athens, Greece

Interests: enzyme biotechnology; molecular enzymology; enzyme engineering; therapeutic enzymes; protein downstream processing; enzyme biosensor; enzybiotics; algae biotechnology; cosmetics; structure-based drug design; immobilized enzymes; enzyme biotechnology; regulatory affairs; intellectual property.

Francisco Solano

Affiliation: Department of Biochemistry, Molecular Biology and Immunology, School of Medicine, University of Murcia. 30100 Murcia, Spain

Interests: polyphenols; flavonoids and other antioxidants; oxidative stress and ros; antibiotics and secondary metabolism; melanin structure; function and biotechnological applications; Enzymology; tyrosinase and related proteins; copper proteins; amino acid metabolism; neurochemistry and catecholamines; nutritional biochemistry

Cell & Tissue Engineering

Adrian Neagu

Affiliation: Department of Functional Sciences, Victor Babes University of Medicine and Pharmacy Timisoara, Piata Eftimie Murgu No. 2-4, 300041 Timisoara, Romania

Interests: biophysical theory and modeling; multicellular self-assembly; three-dimensional (3D) bioprinting; tissue engineering

Cell Biology

Tatiana Armeni

Affiliation: Department of Clinical Sciences, Università Politecnica delle Marche, Ancona, Italy

Interests: cell biology; glutathione and thiols; redox signal trasduction; antioxidants; glyoxalase system; mitochondria; molecular biology and genetics.

Vsevolod V Gurevich

Affiliation: Department of Pharmacology, Vanderbilt University

Interests: Arrestins Structure-function, G protein-coupled receptors, Signal transduction, Desensitization Trafficking

Hieronim Jakubowski

Affiliation: Department of Microbiology, Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics, Rutgers New Jersey Medical School, Newark, NJ 07103, USA

Interests: genetic code; protein biosynthesis; tRNA synthetase; error-editing mechanisms; prebiotic chemistry; evolution of life; sulfur metabolism; homocysteine; protein modification; mTOR/autophagy; cardiovascular disease; Alzheimer's disease

Food Science & Technology

Ana Marta Gonçalves

Affiliation: Marine and Environmental Sciences Centre, Faculty of Sciences and Technology, University of Coimbra, 3004-517 Coimbra, Portugal

Interests: fatty acids; proteins; amino acids; carbohydrates; fibres content; ecotoxicology; aquatic ecology; trophic webs; microplastics

Theodoros Varzakas

Affiliation: Department of Food Science and Technology, University of Peloponnese, Antikalamos 24100, Kalamata, Greece

Interests: food technology; food engineering; food safety; food quality; extra virgin olive oil; mycotoxins

Antonello Santini

Affiliation: Department of Pharmacy, University of Naples Federico II, Via D. Montesano 49, 80131 Naples, Italy

Interests: food chemistry; safety; food safety; nutraceuticals; nanonutraceuticals; recovery from byproducts of the food indystry; food contaminants; food supplements; contaminants; risk assesment; mycotoxins and secondary metabolites; chemistry and food education; food analysis; analytical chemistry; novel techniques for sustainable products; bioavailability; mechanism of action of nutraceuticals and nanonutraceuticals

Michael Kontominas

Affiliation: Department of Chemistry, University of Ioannina, 45500 Ioannina, GREECE

Interests: food chemistry; food analysis; analytical aspects of packaging and non thermal methods of food preservation, food authentication

Beniamino Cenci-Goga

Affiliation: Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Università degli Studi di Perugia, 06123 Perugia, Italy

Interests: antibiotic resistance; dairy; antibiotics; bacteriology; microbial molecular biology; dairy science; animal production; molecular microbiology; PCR; applied microbiology; meat safety; food microbiology; veterinary medicine

Immunology

Philippe Gasque

Affiliation: 1. EPI Research Unit (Pharmacoimmunological Studies), University of la Réunion, 97400 St Denis, La Réunion, France 2. Biology Pole, Clinical Immunology Laboratory and experimental ZOI, LICE-OI, CHU Bellepierre, Felix Guyon, St Denis, La Reunion, France

Interests: immunology; neuroimmunology; inflammation; infectious disease; cancer

Antonella Prisco

Affiliation: Istituto di Genetica e Biofisica "Adriano Buzzati Traverso" (IGB), CNR, Naples, Italy

Interests: Immune response, Immunological memory, Antibody, Lymphocytes, Vaccine, In silico modeling, Polymer Models of Chromatin

Microbiology

Gerald Audette

Affiliation: Department of Chemistry and the Centre for Research on Biomolecular Interactions, York University, Toronto, ON M3J 1P3, Canada

Interests: protein structure & function; bacterial secretion systems; protein dynamics; protein engineering

Milva Pepi

Affiliation: Department of Integrative Marine Ecology, Stazione Zoologica Anton Dohrn, Villa Comunale, 80121 Napoli, Italy

Interests: microbiology of coastal and lagoon areas; pathogenic microorganisms and public health; sustainability; bacteria of biogeochemical cycles; microbial metabolisms and valorization of agro-industrial substrates in circular economy contexts

Ravinder Nagpal

Affiliation: Nutrition and Integrative Physiology, Florida State University, Tallahassee, USA

Interests: microbiome; functional foods; prebiotics; probiotics; gut health; gut-brain axis; aging.

Mycology