Emmanuel Mic. Drakakis received the B.Sc. degree (1st Class Honours) in Physics and the M.Phil. degree (1st Class Honours) in Electronic Physics and Radioelectrology from Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Macedonia, Greece, and the Ph.D. degree in analogue IC design from the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering at Imperial College London, U.K. under the supervision of Dr. Alison Payne. During his PhD he was sponsored by the Micro-Electronics Research Center of LM Ericsson-Stockholm (one of eight in the world at the time). Currently he is Reader in Bio-Circuits and Systems in the Department of Bioengineering at Imperial College London. In the Department of Bioengineering he has founded the Bioinspired VLSI Circuits and Systems Group whose research focuses on “Circuits for and from Biology”. He has authored or co-authored a large number (>120) of peer-reviewed journal and conference papers and several book chapters. Dr. Drakakis has received many prizes for research excellence and is involved in several cross-disciplinary research projects. In the past he has served as Guest Ass.Editor for IET El.Letters and as Subject Editor for the International Journal of Electronics – Taylor & Francis. He has also served as an Associate Editor in IEEE publications, including TCAS1 and TCAS2. He is currently an Associate Editor for IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Circuits and Systems and an Associate Editor for Frontiers in Neuromorphic Engineering.

Microprobes for Medicine & Biology
Spatiotemporal Physicochemical Monitoring of (Stem) Cell Cultures
Bionic Ear and Cochlear Implant Processors
Memristors
Ultra Low power Cytomimetic Circuits
Vision Processors - Cellular Nonlinear/Neural Networks
Optolelectronic Chips for Retinal Stimulation
Log-domain Ultra Low Power VLSI processing for biomedical applications
Hyperbolic-sine Ultra Low Power Ultra High Dynamic Range VLSI Processing for Biomedical Applications
Ultra Low Power (Bio)Sensor Interfacing Techniques
Short-range RF links
Biomimetic Si-Neurons & Synapses
Pulse Oximetry

Dr. Anja Nohe is an associate professor in the Department of Biological Sciences at the University of Delaware. She received her PhD in Chemistry in 2000. After a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Western Ontario in Canada, she accepted a first faculty position at the University of Maine in Chemical and Biological Engineering. In 2008 she relocated to the University of Delaware. She is a member of several editorial boards and her research is currently funded by the National Institute of Health.

Novel imaging approaches such as AFM and the family of Image Correlation Spectroscopy to define cellular processes during stem cell differentiation and skeletal formation. Moreover, utilizing novel techniques and tools such as real time imaging and nanoparticles, she focuses on protein dynamics in cells as well as on protein distribution in mice.

Dr. Ivan Gout has been working in the field of signal transduction in normal cells and its dysregulation in cancer for more than 20 years. He has a strong research (111 papers in peer-reviewed journals, H-Index 52) and patent (10 world-wide patents) portfolio and run two drug discovery programs aimed at developing small molecule inhibitors, targeting ribosomal S6 kinase and Aurora A kinase.

There are two major areas of interest: a) regulation of cell growth, metabolism and proliferation via the mTOR/S6K pathway; b) the role of Coenzyme A and its derivatives in cellular metabolism and gene expression. The development of novel diagnostic and therapeutic approaches for cancer is the ultimate goal of his research, which is pursued through collaboration with academic and industrial partners.

Dr. Jeffrey Zheng has completed his Ph.D in 1994 from Monash University. He is the Professor and Head at Department of Information Security, School of Software, Yunnan University from 2004. He has published more than 200 papers in national and international conferences, reputed journals and serving as an editorial board member of Information Acquisition.

Exploring mystries of noncoding DNA/RNA mechanism to use variant logic construction.

Dr. Juan A Rosado is a Lecturer in Physiology in the University of Extremadura (Department of Physiology). He obtained the degree in Veterinary Medicine in 1994 and was awarded with the First National Award for studies of Veterinary Medicine. After his PhD he worked in the Department of Physiology of the University of Cambridge for two years and then returned to the University of Extremadura.

His topic of interest is the field of calcium signalling, specially the mechanisms underlying the activation and regulation of store-operated calcium entry. Dr. Rosado is actually a member of the Editorial Board of different journals including the Journal of Biological Chemistry or Biochimica et Biophysica Acta-Molecular Cell Research.

Dr. Nirmal Shetty is the Director of Shri Krishna Research Centre, Mumbai, India. He graduated from Madras Medical College, India, and studied Acupuncture in Shanghai, China. He is also a Consulting Acupuncturist for over two decades, and is associated with Cumballa Hill Hospital, Inlaks General Hospital and Shanti Avedna Cancer Hospice.

His study focuses on innovative theoretical research at the interface, with the objective of giving a new perspective to inheritance of chromosomes. The study hopes to open new fields of research in future that may help in finding solutions to some genetic disorders and cancer.

Dr. Max Lab graduated medically from the University of Witwatersrand,South Africa. He was awarded a British Council Scholarship,to join the Nobel Laureate Sir Andrew Huxley’s department, at University College London. He moved to Physiology in Charing Cross Hospital,obtainingUniversity of London PhD and MD, and a Wellcome Trust Fellowship. He went on to the National Heart and Lung Institute, Imperial College London –jointly in the Imperial Centre for Experimental and Translational Medicine and the London Centre for Nanotechnology.He has received several research awards, many invitations for “Keynote” International lectures and workshops, and has published widely.

Professor Max Lab was fortunate in having been a major contributor to the establishment of Mechanoelectric Transduction or coupling (MEC)- Mechanosensitivity (stretch) in heart. He has received several research awards, many invitations for “Keynote” International lectures and workshops, and has published widely.

Dr. Fawzy M. Salama has completed his PhD at the age of 30 years from Institute of Botany, Azerbaijan Academy of Sciences – USSR ( 1978). Professor in Plant Ecology since 1989. He was the Head of Botany Department for 6 years. Scientific missions in Sussex University in UK, Tübengin and Bremen Universities in west Germany, Södertön University in Sweden. He has published more than 70 papers in scientific journals and conferences and has been serving as an editorial board member.

Vegetation of inland Eastern Desert wadis, Eco-physiology of desert plants, Drought resistance, Halophytes, Waste water pollution and Plant communities.

Dr. Bozinovski obtained his degrees from University of Zagreb, Croatia. Currently he is professor of Computer Science at South Carolina State University. He teaches courses on Biocomputing/Bioinformatics, Neuroinformatics, Robotics, and Artificial Intelligence. His pioneering achievements in computer science and systems biology include 1) solving the delayed reinforcement learning for neural networks (1981), introducing emotion in neural networks learning (1982), proposing relations between robotics and genetic engineering (1985), proposing robotics and flexible manufacturing metaphor for genetics (1987), proposing operating systems and systems software metaphor for genetics (2000), controlling robots using brains signals only (1988), proposing mathematical model that explicitly relates behavior, emotion, and motivation (2002 and 2003), and proposing the concept of Engineered Psychology to replace the concept of Artificial Intelligence (2008). He obtained two million-dollar grants from NSF, one on Neuroscience and Brain-Computer Interface as PI (2005), and on one on Biorobotics and Biofabrication as Co-PI (2009).

Biocomputing/Bioinformatics, Neuroinformatics, Robotics, and Artificial Intelligence.

Dr. Qingsong Ye, obtained his DDS, MDS,PhD (Ortho.),PhD (Med. Sci.) from China and the Netherlands. He is a Diplomate of Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh in Orthodontics, elected fellow of Royal Society of Medicine, UK, foundation member and coordinator of the orthodontic postgraduate program at James Cook University, AU.

He has published about 40 articles with high impact factor and co-authored a P/G textbook entitled Evidence-based Stomatology. He is also an ARC DECRA Fellow, and founder and leader of the Craniofacial and Orthodontic Research (CORE) group. He is Associate Editor of the Journal of World Federation of Orthodontists (JWFO) and Journal of Investigative and Clinical Dentistry (JICD), President of the Asia Pacific Orthodontic Forum, regular referee for international journals and grants.

Dr. Del Río Hernández obtained his PhD in Chemistry (best thesis award) from the Computense University in Madrid. Following this, he completed a period of postdoctoral training in the US. He worked at Columbia University of New York as a research fellow first, and as a Research Associate, later. He currently leads the Cellular and Molecular Biomechanics group in the Department of Bioengineering at Imperial College London (http://biomechanicalregulation-lab.org). He is a European Research Council fellow and an Editorial Board member of several journals.

We combine nanotechnology, and celular & molecular biology tools with biophysical and bioengineering approaches to investigate how mechanical stimuli regulate the behavior of cells and molecules in physiological conditions and in cancer. Dr. del Río Hernández is a leader in the field of mechanobiology and has published numerous papers in high profile journals such as Science, PNAS, and the Journal of Molecular Biology. His pioneering research in the field of mechanotransduction showed how mechanical forces can unfold protein domains to expose cryptic sites and to trigger downstream signaling pathways. This research has been selected by Thomson Reuters as one of the most influencial in the field of biology and biochemistry.

Cuong Cao is currently a Lecturer in Advanced Micro- and Nanodiagnostics within Institute for Global Food Security, Queen’s University Belfast, UK.

His research interest includes exploration and exploitation of multifunctional micro- and nanostructures, plasmonics-based biosensing platforms (SPR, LSPR, SERS), and integrated point-of-care analyses with a particular emphasis on detecting and identifying pathogens, biomarkers, food and environment toxins.

Sep. 1969 – Sep. 1972 Faculty of Physics, Azerbaijan State University, Baku, Azerbaijan Degree Awarded: Awarded State Scholarship for Undergraduate Study at the Moscow State University Sep. 1972 - Feb. 1976 Department of Biophysics, Faculty of Physics, Moscow State University, Moscow, USSR Degree Awarded: Diploma for physicist (MSc equivalent) Specialization: Biophysics Dissertation Project Title: ESR studies of the Paramagnetic Centers in the Photosynthetic Processes. Apr. 1976 - Apr. 1979 Post - Graduate education, Department of Biophysics, Faculty of Physics, Moscow State University, Russia Degree Awarded: “Candidate nauk” in Physics and Mathematics (PhD) Dissertation Project Title: ESR Studies of The Primary Reactions of Photosynthesis May1991 – March 1992 Post - Graduate education, Department of Biophysics, Faculty of Physics, Moscow State University, Russia Degree Awarded: “Doctor nauk” in Physics and Mathematics, (Ecology and Biophysics) Dissertation Project Title : Mechanism of UV effect on the membrane systems

Biophysics, Ecology, Life Science, Membranology, Environmental Biophysics.