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Prof. Dr. Noritaka Nakamichi

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Faculty of Pharmacy, Takasaki University of Health and Welfare, 60 Nakaorui-machi, Takasaki, Gunma 370-0033, Japan
Interests: optimization of drug therapy for central nervous system diseases

Prof. Dr. Katsutoshi Nakayama

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Department of Respiratory Medicine, Akita University Graduate School of Medicine, Akita, Japan
Interests: respiratory medicine; COPD; cellular biology in respiratory medicine; autophagy

Dr. Roberta Nardacci

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Laboratory of Electron Microscopy, National Institute for Infectious Diseases “L. Spallanzani”, IRCCS, Rome, Italy
Interests: cell biology; autophagy; cell death; HIV-1; SARS-CoV-2

Dr. Nihar R. Nayak

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Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, UMKC School of Medicine, Kansas City, MO 64108, USA
Interests: endometrial angiogenesis and bleeding; implantation; pregnancy; contraception; placental function; vascular complications during pregnancy; preeclampsia
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Dr. Taras Y. Nazarko

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Department of Biology, Georgia State University, Atlanta, GA 30303, USA
Interests: autophagy; selective autophagy; pexophagy; lipophagy; glycophagy
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Dr. Akihiko Nishikimi

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Biosafety Division, Research Institute, National Center for Geriatrics and Gerontology, Obu, Aichi 474-8511, Japan
Interests: immunology; cell motility; aging

Prof. Dr. Francina Lozada Nur

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Department Oral Sciences, Division of Oral Medicine, School of Dentistry, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA 94143, USA
Interests: precancerous oral lesions; oral cancer; mucosal inflammatory autoimmune disease diagnosis and management; epidemiology of oral diseases; HIV/AIDS
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Prof. Dr. Michael F. Olson

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Department of Chemistry and Biology, Ryerson University, Toronto, ON M5B 2K3, Canada
Interests: signal transduction; kinase; cytoskeleton; motility; GTPase; cancer
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Dr. Elena Ortona

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Center for Gender Specific Medicine, Istituto Superiore di Sanità, Rome, Italy
Interests: immunity; cancer; autoimmune diseases; estrogens; gender differences
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Dr. Lifeng Pan

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State Key Laboratory of Bio-Organic and Natural Products Chemistry, Shanghai Institute of Organic Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai 200032, China
Interests: structure biology; autophagy; autophagy receptor; selective autophagy; E3 ligase; ubiquitin

Dr. Tej Krishan Pandita

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Department of Cellular and Molecular Biology, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, USA
Interests: DNA damage and repair
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Prof. Dr. Franco Pandolfi

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1. Post Graduate School in Allergy and Clinical Immunology, Catholic University, Rome, Italy
2. Allergy and Clinical Immunology, Fondazione Policlinico Universitario A, Gemelli IRCCS, Catholic University, 00168 Rome, Italy
Interests: clinical immunology; molecular immunology; primary immunodeficiency diseases; acquired immunodeficiencies; T-lymphocytes; cytokines; lymphoproliferative disorders; microbiota; primary and acquired immunodeficiencies; cancer immunology; COVID immunology lymphoproliferative diseases

Prof. Dr. Michele Papa

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Human Anatomy School of Medicine, Università degli Studi della Campania Luigi Vanvitelli, 81100 Naples, Italy
Interests: mental health; Parkinson’s disease; multiple sclerosis; Alzheimer’s disease; addiction; amyotrophic lateral sclerosis; coagulation; thrombin; ischemic stroke; proteinase activated receptors; activated protein c; post-ischemic epilepsy; CNS cancer; neuroscience; neurobiology; neurodegenerative diseases; neurodegeneration; neuron; neurology synaptic plasticity; neural plasticity anatomy; glia
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Prof. Dr. Gianpaolo Papaccio

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Department of Experimental Medicine, Università degli Studi della Campania “Luigi Vanvitelli”, Via Armanni, 5, Naples, Italy
Interests: stem cells; cancer stem cells; cancer stem cells identification and eradication; bone; remodeling; sarcomas; adipose stem cells; differentiation; head and neck cancer
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Prof. Dr. Alessio Papini

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Department of Biology, University of Florence, Via Micheli 3, 50121 Florence, Italy
Interests: plant cell biology; autophagy; programmed cell death; plant anatomy
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Prof. Anant Parekh

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Department of Physiology, Anatomy and Genetics, Oxford University, Parks Road, Oxford OX1 3PT, UK
Interests: calcium signalling; calcium channels; store-operated calcium entry; mitochondria; endoplasmic reticulum; NFAT; gene expression; allergy; asthma

Dr. Jung-eun Park

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Laboratory of Metabolism, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, 9000 Rockville Pike, Bethesda, MD 20892, USA
Interests: centrosomes biogenesis; Polo-like kinase; kinases; cell cycle

Prof. Dr. Vladimir Parpura

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International Translational Neuroscience Research Institute, Zhejiang Chinese Medical University, Hangzhou 310053, China
Interests: gliotransmission; glutamate; astrocytes; glioblastoma multiforme
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Dr. H. Rheinallt Parri

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School of Life and Health Sciences, Aston University, Birmingham B4 7ET, UK
Interests: astrocytes; glia; neurons; thalamus; thalamocortical; astrocyte-neuron signalling; electrophysiology; calcium imaging; stem cell-derived astrocyte

Prof. Dr. Steve Pascolo

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1. Department of Dermatology, University Hospital of Zürich, Gloriastrasse 31, 8091 Zürich, Switzerland
2. Faculty of Medicine, University of Zurich, 8091 Zurich, Switzerland
Interests: mRNA vaccine; RNA therapies; immunotherapies; cancer
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Dr. Francesca Patriarca

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1. Clinica Ematologica e Unità di Terapie Cellulari, Azienda Sanitaria Universitaria Friuli Centrale, 33100 Udine, Italy
2. Dipartimento di Area Medica, Università di Udine, 33100 Udine, Italy
Interests: hematology-oncology; multiple myeloma; hematopoietic stem cell transplantation; cellular therapies
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Dr. Laurens Pauwels

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Department of Biotechnology, Laboratory for Plant Transformation & Gene Editing, Ghent University, 9000 Ghent, Belgium
Interests: maize; wheat; crop biotechnology; plant transformation; agrobacterium; gene editing; CRISPR; haploid induction; jasmonate

Dr. Manuela Pellegrini

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Institute of Biochemistry and Cell Biology, IBBC-CNR, via E. Ramarini, 32, 00015 Monterotondo Scalo, Rome, Italy
Interests: atm; mouse models; A-T; DNA damage; senescence; signaling cascade; genomic stability; lymphoma
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Dr. Piergiorgio Percipalle

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1. Science Division, Biology Program, New York University Abu Dhabi, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
2. Department of Molecular Biosciences, The Wenner-Gren Institute, Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden
Interests: genome organization; gene regulation; chromatin structure and function; nuclear actin and myosin; development and differentiation

Dr. Gislene Pereira

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1. Centre for Organismal Studies (COS), University of Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany
2. German Cancer Research Centre (DKFZ), DKFZ-ZMBH Alliance, Heidelberg, Germany
3. Centre for Molecular Biology (ZMBH), University of Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany
Interests: centrosome; cell division; cell cycle; spindle position checkpoint (SPOC) signaling

Dr. Patrice X. Petit

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Team "Mitochondria, Apoptosis and Autophagy Signalling", Institut de Neurosciences, Université Paris Descartes, CNRS FR 3636, 45 rue des Saints-Pères, 75270 Paris CEDEX 06, France
Interests: apoptosis; autophagy, mitochondria, proteins/lipids interactions in cell death signaling and experimental toxicology
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Dr. W. Matthew Petroll

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The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX, USA
Interests: corneal cell and tissue mechanics; corneal wound healing; corneal imaging; tissue engineering
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Prof. Dr. Luca Pierelli

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1. Immunohematology and Transfusion Medicine, San Camillo-Forlanini Hospital, 00152 Rome, Italy
2. Department of Experimental Medicine, Sapienza University of Rome, 00161 Rome, Italy
Interests: transfusion medicine; hematopoietic stem cell biology and transplantation; mesenchymal stem cell biology; adoptive immunotherapy and innate immunity biology; regenerative medicine
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Prof. Dr. Charles Pilette

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Department of Respiratory Medicine, Cliniques Universitaires St-Luc and institute of Experimental and Clinical Research, Université Catholique de Louvain (UCL), 10 Avenue Hippocrate, B-1200 Brussels, Belgium
Interests: mucosal immunology; respiratory medicine; allergy and pulmonary diseases; IgA; lung epithelium biology
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Dr. Marcello Pinti

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Department of Life Sciences, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Via G. Campi 287, 41125 Modena (MO), Italy
Interests: Lonp1; mitochondria; immunometabolism; mtDNA; multiple sclerosis; cancer metabolism
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