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Achucarro Basque Center for Neuroscience, Department of Neurosciences, University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU), Leioa, Spain
Interests: autophagy; primary cilia; neurons; astrocytes; neurodegenerative diseases; Alzheimer's disease

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Department of Sciences andTechnologies, Scientific Sector: BIO-11 (Molecular Biology) University of Sannio, ViaFrancesco de sanctis, 11, 82100 Benevento, Italy
Interests: biomolecular condensates; centrosomes; ribonucleoprotein granules; intrinsically disordered proteins; aneuploidy; chromosome instability; rare genetic disorders
Department of Pharmacy, Health and Nutritional Sciences, University of Calabria, Via P. Bucci, 87036 Arcavacata di Rende, CS, Italy
Interests: breast cancer; glioblastoma; seminoma; obesity; leptin; aromatase
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Department of Otorhinolaryngology and Head and Neck Surgery, Hallym University, Chuncheon, Korea
Interests: biomaterials; tissue engineering; nanomaterials
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Department of Nutrition, Food and Exercise Sciences, College of Human Sciences, Florida State University, 107 Chieftan Way, BRF 238, Tallahassee, FL 32306, USA
Interests: research interests include understanding distinct mechanisms of sarcolemma remodeling in cardiac disease and how this affects cardiac remodeling and contractility; additional interests include underst

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Department of Civil, Environmental and Natural Resources Engineering, Luleå University of Technology, 97187 Luleå, Sweden
Interests: bioprocess development; metabolic engineering; biomass pretreatment; oleaginous microorganisms; nutraceuticals and value-added products from microalgae; renewable energy; biomass production; biofuels; waste volarization
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Institute for Pharmaceutical Biology and Biotechnology, Heinrich-Heine University, Universitaetsstrasse 1, 40225 Duesseldorf, Germany
Interests: phytochemistry of plant secondary metabolites (isolation and idenfication); sesquiterpene lactones; flavonoids; essential oils; acetophenones; spectroscopy; antimalarial compounds; antitumoral activity; cytotoxicity of plant secondary metabolites; phytotherapy

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Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Medicine, School of Medicine & Health Sciences, The George Washington University, Washington, DC 20037, USA
Interests: DNA damage response; Genome Instability; BRCA1; O-GlcNAc; Glycobiology; posttranslational modifications of proteins

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Institut of Neurosciences, Dept Cell Biology, Physiology and Immunology, Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red sobre Enfermedades Neurodegenerativas (CIBERNED), Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
Interests: traumatic injuries of the nervous system; axonal regeneration; neuroprotection; neuroinflammation; neuropathic pain; epigenetics

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1. South Western Sydney Clinical School, Faculty of Medicine, The University of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW 2052, Australia
2. Ingham Institute for Applied Medical Research, 1 Campbell street, Liverpool, NSW 2170, Australia
Interests: pancreatic cancer; pancreatic cancer related diabetes; exosomes and insulin resistance
Tree-Microbe Interactions Department, Université de Lorraine, INRAE, IAM, Nancy, France
Interests: plant molecular biology; plant-microbe interactions; plant defense peptides; science communication

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1. Institute of Biotechnology, Vilnius University, V. A. Graičiūno 8, 02241 Vilnius, Lithuania
2. Institute of Cardiology, Lithuanian University of Health Sciences, A. Mickeviciaus g. 9, LT44307 Kaunas, Lithuania
Interests: functionalized nanomaterials; targeted cancer treatment; cancer 2D and 3D models; transport in tumor microenvironment
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Department of Biological Sciences, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, MI 49008, USA
Interests: neuroprotection; retinal diseases; neurobiology; neurodegeneration; neuropharmacology; neurophysiology; neurodegenerative diseases; cellular neuroscience; eye diseases; electrophysiology
Yale School of Medicine, Yale University, New Haven, NH, USA
Interests: cancer metastasis and resistance; tumor microenvironment; precision cancer medicine; cancer-targeted therapies; cancer modeling; and cancer epigenetics
Department of Clinical Immunology, Institute of Clinical Laboratory Medicine, Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Medical Molecular Diagnostics, Guangdong Medical University, Dongguan, China
Interests: nanotechnology; cancer; tuberculosis; inflammation; immunity; Chinese medicine
Laboratory of Stem Cells for Tissue Engineering, IRCCS Policlinico San Donato, Piazza Malan 2, 20097 Milan, Italy
Interests: cardiovascular diseases; sialidase Neu3; sialidase inhibitors; sialic acid biochemistry; strategies for cardioprotection
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1. Department of Clinical and Biological Science, University of Torino, 10143 Orbassano, Torino, Italy
2. Candiolo Cancer Institute, FPO-IRCCS, 10060 Candiolo, Torino, Italy
Interests: preclinical and translational oncology research; predictive/prognostic biomarkers; circRNAs-miRNAs-RBP circuits; exosomes; DNA damage response and repair; targeted therapies; syngeneic cancer models and cancer patient-derived xenografts
Independent Radiopharmacy Unit, Department of Organic Chemistry, Faculty of Pharmacy, Medical University of Lublin, PL-20093 Lublin, Poland
Interests: synthesis; antimicrobial activity; anticancer activity; heterocyklic compound; SAR
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1. Laboratory of Growth Regulators, Faculty of Science, Palacky University, 78371 Olomouc, Czech Republic
2. Institute of Experimental Botany of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Olomouc, Czech Republic
Interests: molecular plant physiology; phytohormones; plant hormone signalling; TCS; AHK; cytokinin; auxin; transcriptomics; chemical biology
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Laboratory of RNA Biochemistry, Department of Genetics and Microbiology, Faculty of Science, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic
Interests: translation initiation; eIF4E; IRES; RNA structure; stress granules; ADAR; yeast viruses; paleomicrobiology
Department of Medical Chemistry, Biochemistry and Clinical Chemistry, Faculty of Medicine, University of Rijeka, Rijeka, Croatia
Interests: cisplatin; kidney injury; oxidative stress; autophagy; apoptosis; cancer; MAPK; phytochemicals
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Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Medical College of Georgia, Augusta University, Augusta, GA 30912, USA
Interests: retinal neurodegeneration; cellular senescence; aging; inflammation; oxidative stress; microRNA; diabetic retinopathy; age-related macular degeneration; retinal neovascularization
Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel
Interests: ubiquitin code; structure-function analysis of protein-protein interactions; structural insight into enzymatic mechanisms

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Frederick National Laboratory for Cancer Research (FNLCR), Frederick, MD 21702, USA
Interests: membrane dynamics; small-GTPases; KRAS; kinases; molecular simulations; protein-membrane simulations
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Faculty of Bioscience and Technology for Food Agriculture and Environment, University of Teramo, Via Balzarini, Teramo, Italy
Interests: molecular mechanisms; epigenetics; gene expression; DNA methylation; biomarkers; endocannabinoids
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1. IMPART Network, Dalhousie Medicine, 100 Tucker Park Rd., Saint John, NB E2K 5E2, Canada
2. Women’s Health Research Institute, BC Women’s Hospital + Health Centre, H214 – 4500 Oak Street, Box 42B, Vancouver, BC V6H 3N1, Canada
3. Department of Biomedical Sciences, Ontario Veterinary College, University of Guelph, Guelph, ON, Canada
Interests: molecular basis of heart failure; molecular therapeutics; sex differences in cardiovascular health and disease; menopause
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Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Eugene Applebaum College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences, Wayne State University, Detroit, MI 48201, USA
Interests: drug discovery; medicinal chemistry; anticancer drugs; chemical biology; cancer pharmacology

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CBM Centre de Biophysique Moléculaire, UPR 4301 du CNRS, Orleans, France
Interests: DNA and RNA structure; Transcription; RNA polymerase; RNA-protein interactions; RNA metabolism; Genomics and transcriptomics
Pharmaceutical Sciences, Rosalind Franklin University of Medicine and Science, North Chicago, IL 60064, USA
Interests: drug discovery; medicinal chemistry; pharmacokinetics; hit to lead optimization; protein kinases; protein-protein interactions
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