**About the Editors**

#### **Yuki Fujii**

Dr. Yuki Fujii has been Associate Professor at Nagasaki International University (Sasebo, Nagasaki, Japan) since 2022, and was Senior Assistant Professor (2017–2022) and Assistant Professor (2012–2016). He obtained a PhD in 2010 at Yokohama City University under the direction of Prof. Y. Ozeki (see below), an expert on marine lectins. He was a postdoctoral Visiting Scientist in 2006 at The Biomembrane Institute (Seattle, WA, USA; PI: Prof. Sen-itiroh Hakomori), where he studied cancer cell surface expression of Lex glycosphingolipid. At Nagasaki International University, he has identified a series of glycan-binding specificities of marine lectins using Frontal Affinity Chromatography Technology (FACT), leading to the discovery of lectins that cause cancer cell apoptosis. His ongoing collaborations with overseas researchers are focused on the development of these lectins as post-antibody drugs using next-generation techniques.

#### **Marco Gerdol**

Dr. Marco Gerdol has been Assistant Professor (RtdB) at University of Trieste (Italy) since 2015. He obtained a BA in Functional Genomics at the same university in 2008, and a PhD in Environmental Biology in 2012, and continued as a postdoctoral fellow in the Applied and Comparative Genomics group (Dept. of Life Sciences) from 2012 to 2014. His research has been focused mainly on genomics of non-model marine invertebrate species, with an emphasis on bivalve mollusks, which are important "sentinel" organisms for biomonitoring, and useful models for comparative immunological studies. His recent (2019–2022) publications have been focused on the study of the mussel pan-genome, characterized by massive gene presence-absence variation, which he further investigated in a number of follow-up studies targeting different families of immune-related genes. His group uses genomic and transcriptomic tools to study the evolution of immune systems in marine invertebrates.

#### **Yasuhiro Ozeki**

Prof. Dr. Yasuhiro Ozeki is Professor at Yokohama City University, Japan. He is a lectinologist and a graduate of Meijo University (Nagoya, Japan). Dr. Ozeki obtained his PhD at Fujita Health University (Toyoake, Japan) in 1992, and was an NIH Fellow in 1994–95 at The Biomembrane Institute (Director: Prof. Sen-itiroh Hakomori) and University of Washington, Seattle, WA, conducting glycobiological studies. From 2005 through to the present, he has supervised five Ph.D. students from Japan and Bangladesh. He has been invited as an external examiner of five Ph.D. dissertations from different Univs in India since 2008. He served as Guest Editor of Special Issues ("Marine Glycobiology, Glycomics, and Lectins", "Marine Glycomics", and "Marine Glycomics 2.0" of the journal *Marine Drugs*; and "Recent Advances in Carbohydrates", as well as "Glycosides, and Nucleosides for Biological and Computational Research" of the journal *Molecules*).
