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Speaker-1: Prof. Noriyuki Satoh
Presently a professor at Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology (OIST), Japan. He graduated from Hirosaki University in 1969, Niigata University receiving a master’s degree in 1971, and from the University of Tokyo for his Ph.D. in 1974. For more than 35 years, he conducted research on ascidians at the Kyoto University Department of Zoology. At OIST he launched and leads the Marine Genomics Unit since 2008 and extended his studies from ascidians to other marine animals, such as the corals that abound in the marine environment around Okinawa. To date, he had published more than 250 articles with more than 10,000 total citations and h-index of 54 (Scopus). One of his remarkable finding was on disclosing the molecular mechanisms of notochord formation and genome decoding of marine invertebrates, including tunicates, cephalochordates, and hemichordates. His contribution in the filed have been recognized with numerous honors and field, including Prize of Zoological Society of Japan (1993); Inoue Prize for Science (1994); Prize of Evolutionary Society of Japan (2004); Toray Science and Technology Prize (2004); Alexander Kowalevsky Medal (St. Peterburg Academy of Science, Russia) (2005); Medal with Purple Ribbon (2006) and Edwin Grant Conklin Award (2010).
Speaker-2: Dr. Vijai Kumar Gupta
Dr. Vijai Kumar Gupta has joined as Senior Research Scientist of Biotechnology under Chair of Green Chemistry, headed by Professor Nicholas Gathergood, Chair Professor, Tallinn University of Technology. Before joining TUT, he worked as Lead Researcher in Molecular Glycobiotechnology Group, National University of Ireland Galway, Ireland for about 06+years. He is the “Secretary of European Mycological Association” and also the active member of several societies, academies and commission and received various awards Including-Young Scientist Award, and Outstanding Higher Education Leader Award. He is the elected Fellow and Academic Member of Prestigious, “Mexican Academy of Sciences, Arts, Technology and Humanities, Mexico”; “Indian Mycological Association”, “Mycologocal Society of India”, “National Academy of Biological Sciences, India”; and “Linnaean Society, London, UK”. He is the member of various committee (including IUCN-Fungi and IUCN-CEM), MC member of 02 COST Actions and have been invited for as-External Expert of COST Scientific Committee for 2017. He has edited many books for Wiley-Blackwell; CRC Press; Springer; Elsevier; and CABI. Also, he is the Editor of reputed journals including- “Nature's Scientific Reports”, “BMC Microbiology”, “PLOS One”, “BMC Fungal Biology and Biotechnology”, “Peer J” and having many research & review articles and book chapters in his hand. His work with microbes especially with fungal systems has been complemented by contributions to biotechnology, molecular diversity, disease diagnostic, fungal-plant interaction, biofuel & biorefinery and industrial applications. He has successfully organise good few international conferences and workshops including "Irish Fungal Society International Meeting 2014" and conference on "Cross Kingdom Fungal Biology" in "SEB 2016 Annual Meeting" at Brighton Centre, Brighton (UK).
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