Enzymology and Molecular Biology

Karsten Haupt studied Biochemistry at the University of Leipzig, Germany. In 1994, he obtained a PhD in Bioengineering from Compiègne University of Technology, France. He then spent several years as a research fellow at Lund University, Sweden, where he worked on synthetic affinity materials with Klaus Mosbach. Back in France he was a researcher at INSERM, Paris, before joining the University of Paris 12 as an associate professor. In 2003, he was appointed full professor of Nanobiotechnology at Compiègne University of Technology, France, where he is now the Head of the CNRS Institute for Enzyme and Cell Engineering. His present research interests include affinity technology, chemical and biosensors, molecularly imprinted polymers and synthetic receptors, biomimetic polymers and nanostructured materials for biomedical applications. Karsten Haupt is also holding positions as an Adjunct Professor at the University of Sonora, Hermosillo, Mexico, at the University of Arizona Tucson, USA, and at Jiangsu University, China. He is one of the founders of the French company PolyIntell (now Affinitech).

Affinity technology, chemical and biosensors, molecularly imprinted polymers and synthetic receptors, biomimetic polymers and nanostructured materials for biomedical applications

Hirata has completed his Ph.D. in 1977 from Hokkaido University and did postdoctoral studies at SUNY, UT, and Rutgers in the USA. He is a professor emeritus of IMS in Japan. He has published more than 250 papers in reputed journals.

Hydrophobic interactions, thermodynamic properties, X-ray diffraction study, statistical mechanics theories,thermal fluctuation.

Matt Perugini completed his Ph.D. in 2002 at the University of Melbourne in Australia. In October 2004, he was awarded the Young Biophysicists Award by the Australian Society for Biophysics largely for his contribution to the study of protein-protein and protein-lipid interactions during his Ph.D. and early post-doctoral studies. In 2005, Matt was awarded an Australian Postdoctoral Fellowship by the Australian Research Council (ARC), and in the same year, moved to the new Bio21 Institute at the University of Melbourne. During his tenure at the Bio21 Institute, Matt was awarded the 2007 Applied Biosystems Edman Award by the Australian Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, an inaugural ARC Future Fellowship in 2009, and was promoted to Reader in 2010. In January 2012, A/Prof Perugini moved his laboratory to the new $100 million La Trobe Institute for Molecular Science, La Trobe University. At La Trobe, A/Prof Perugini serves as the Director of the Comprehensive Proteomics Platform, which is a multi-dimensional facility incorporating gas, solution and crystal phase technologies spanning protein sequencing & identification, structural biology, biomolecular interactions, and bioinformatics.

structure, function, regulation, and inhibition of enzyme antibiotic & herbicide targets functioning in lysine biosynthesis

Prof. Jiang is currently leading the Laboratory of Molecular Biophysics and Cell Physiology at the Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences of University of Florida (UF), and serves as a Faculty Director of Electron Microscopy at the Institute of Cross-disciplinary Biotechnology Research (ICBR) of UF. His current research is centered on lipid-dependent gating effects and molecular players in regulated secretion. Dr. Jiang obtained his PhD in 2002 from the Department of Cellular and Molecular Physiology at Yale University School of Medicine, working with Dr. Frederick Sigworth. He initiated the implementation of spherically constrained reconstruction (SCR) by imaging membrane proteins in small vesicles. Dr. Jiang finished his postdoctoral training in molecular biophysics and structural biology with Dr. Roderick Mackinnon in 2007 before taking an Assistant Professorship position at UT Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas, Texas. While in Dallas, he worked on the development of chemically functionalized nm-thick carbon films, discovered the mechanism of filament-based signal amplification in the innate immune response against RNA viruses, studied membrane-induced pore formation by human C-type Lectin and VopQ proteins, and advanced the concept for lipid-dependent gating of Kv channels. He has published 25 papers in international journals. He is the recipient of the NIH EUREKA award in 2009, the Junior Faculty travel award from GRC Molecular and Cell Biology of Lipids in 2011 and the AHA National Innovative Award in 2012.

lipid-dependent gating effects and molecular players in regulated secretion

Ayse Ezgi Ünlü completed her Ph.D. in 2012 at Ankara University in Turkey. Between 2014-2015 she did a postdoctoral study at Institute of Technical Biocatalysis, Technical University of Hamburg, Harburg in Germany (Grant by TUBITAK). She is currently working at Biotechnological Research Group in the Department of Chemical Engineering, Ankara University. She has worked on different projects related with the synthesis of Naproxen; a member of NSAIDs, production of lipase by Candida rugosa and also proteomic analysis of the isoenzymes, the production of crucial antioxidant enzymes; catalase and superoxide dismutase by Rhodotorula glutinis, the synthesis of catechin and rutin, two important flavonoids, using green solvents. Currently, she is working on the use of green solvents on the different type of enzymatic reactions and extraction systems.

Enzymatic polymerization, Green solvents, Enzyme and protein productions, Fermentation, Proteome analysis, Experimental design

Dr Laurent Désaubry is a CNRS research director in the University of Strasbourg in France (website: http://desaubry.u-strasbg.fr/) and adjunct professor at Tianjin University of Science and Technology (TUST) in China. In 1992, he received a Ph.D. degree in medicinal chemistry from Strasbourg University. Next, he worked as a postdoctoral fellow at SUNY at Stony Brook, USA. He made another post-doctoral internship in Prof. Pierre Chambon’s laboratory before to get a CNRS Research Senior Scientist at the University of Strasbourg-CNRS. He was promoted CNRS research director (corresponds to full professor) in 2014, and became also professor at TUST in 2015. He has published more than 70 publications and has been serving as an editorial board member of Frontiers in Chemistry, Medicinal Chemistry, Advances in Oncology Research and Treatments and The Open Medicinal Chemistry Journal.

Innovations in Enzymology and Molecular Biochemistry

Dr. Yildiz has completed his PhD at the age of 30 years from the Middle East Technical University and he did postdoctoral studies from Institute of Chemistry at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Department of Chemistry at University of California Berkeley, Center for Molecular Protein Science at Lund University and Institute for Applied Biosciences at Technical University of Applied Sciences Wildau. Dr. Huseyin Bekir YILDIZ is affiliated to Department of Metallurgical and Materials Engineering, KTO Karatay University, where Dr. Yildiz is currently working as Professor. He is also the director of Graduate School of Engineering and Natural Sciences at the same university. He has published more than 50 papers in reputed journals and has been serving as an editorial board member of repute.

Materials science, Biosensors, Biochemistry