Plant Genomics

Patrizia Galeffi, PhD, senior scientist at ENEA, Italian National Agency for New Technologies, Energy and Sustainable Economic Development. Her main scientific activities are focused on Biotechnology, Plant Genetics and Molecular Biology area: molecular study of genes in durum wheat responding to abiotic stresses; functional genomics, transcriptomics and gene expression profiling in plants; plant biodiversity, in particular cereal diversity; plant transformation and transgenic plants; bioinformatics and statistics applied to agronomical and molecular data; triticale as biomass for bioenergy and bioethanol; antibody molecular biology; antibody engineering; antibodies for plant pathogen resistance; plants as a biofactory to produce antibodies for pharmacological use; molecular design of stable engineered antibodies; nanomaterials. Author of around 40 publications in peer-reviewed journals, active reviewer of several international scientific journals and member of the Panel Editors of “Food, Agriculture and Environment” Journal. Author of 5 Patents, certified Agent for Technology Transfer and member of ENEA Patent Commission.

Her main scientific activities are focused on Biotechnology, Plant Genetics and Molecular Biology area

Aung Htay Naing obtained his Ph.D degree majoring in Horticultural Biotechnology) from Kyungpook National University where he is now working as Research Professor. Since having graduated, he has been serving as editorial members and peer reviewers in international journals scoping for Horticulture, Plant Sciences, and Plant Biotechnology.

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Dr. Lihong Xiao received her master degree in Plant Biology and Molecular Ecology from Inner Mongolia University (IMU), Hohhot, China in 2005, and her PhD degree in Genetics from Capital Normal University (CNU), Beijing, China in 2010. From 2010 to 2014, she started her postdoctoral research at CNU. During the time as a postdoctoral researcher, she spent over two years as a research scholar at Dr. Melvin J. Oliver’s USDA-ARS lab at University of Missouri, USA. She also worked for Shanghai Center for Plant Stress Biology, CAS, China for two years, as a Senior Research Associate in Dr. Jian-Kang Zhu’s lab.

Her research interests are also focused on understanding fundamental mechanisms of plant abiotic stress responses to adverse environments and to explore the mechanisms and its evolution of stem cell maintenance by integrating extensive approaches, including “omics” (small RNA and mRNA transcriptome, proteomics and phosphate-protein, methylome) and whole genome sequencing (WGS) as well as data analysis, genetics, cytology (including light, electron and confocal microscopy imaging), histochemistry, molecular biology, etc.

Dr. Bernard E. Bihain created GENCLIS in 2004. After receiving his Doctorate in Medicine from the Free University of Brussels in 1984, Dr. Bihain began a surgery internship followed by a Postdoctoral Fellow at Columbia University in 1988. Thereafter, Dr. Bihain took a position in 1990 as Assistant Professor of Physiology at the University of Louisiana. He was awarded the position of INSERM Research Director in 1992 and became Professor and Chairman of the Department of Biochemistry, University of Rennes, where INSERM Unit 391 was created in 1994. He then undertook the direction of the Department of Functional Genomics of the genomic company Genset. He has actively contributed to the emergence of genomic technologies. His pragmatism, stemming from his experience as a surgeon, powers the translational activities of GENCLIS. Dr. Bihain has authored over 50 publications in peer-reviewed journals, and his studies are cited in more than 5000 scientific articles.

His pragmatism, stemming from his experience as a surgeon, powers the translational activities of GENCLIS.