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Prof. Dr. Ivan Kreft

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Research Department, Nutrition Institute, Ljubljana, Slovenia
Interests: epigenetics; buckwheat; flavonoids; selenium
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Dr. Stefanie Krick

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Pulmonary, Allergy and Critical Care Medicine, Division of Pulmonary, Allergy and Critical Care Medicine, 1900 University Blvd. Tinsley Harrison Tower, Suite 422, Birmingham, AL 35294, USA
Interests: pulmonary medicine; pulmonary physiology and cell biology; aging research
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Dr. Susanne M. Krug

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Institute of Clinical Physiology/Nutritional Medicine, Charité–Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany
Interests: tricellulin: function, regulation, structure, and clinical impact; the interplay of the impaired tight junction and the subjacent immune cells in inflammation; the role of the tricellular tight junction in inflammatory bowel diseases; inflammatory bowel diseases: barrier defect via IL-13 and tricellulin; tricellular tight junction as a pathway for macromolecules; drug absorption enhancement by targeting the tricellular TJ; neuropathic pain resolution by nerve barrier sealing and netrin-1
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Prof. Dr. Seung-Yup Ku

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Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Seoul National University Hospital, Seoul National University College of Medicine, 28 Yonkeun-dong, Chongno-gu, Seoul 110-744, Republic of Korea
Interests: RNA; ovarian; uterus
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Prof. Dr. Kamil Kuca

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Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Science, University of Hradec Králové, 50003 Hradec Králové, Czech Republic
Interests: toxins; drug design and development; antidotes for pesticide and nerve agent intoxications; Alzheimer’s disease; detergents as disinfectants, decontamination means; nanotechnology; health economics and pharmacoeconomics
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Prof. Dr. Yasusei Kudo

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Department of Oral Molecular Pathology, Tokushima University Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, 3-18-15 Kuramoto, Tokushima 770-8504, Japan
Interests: head and neck cancer; cell cycle; ubiquitin-proteasome pathway; invasion; metastasis; oral pathology
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Prof. Ujendra Kumar

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Faculty of Pharmaceutical sciences, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada
Interests: Neuroscience, GPCR, breast cancer and Pharmacology
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Prof. Dr. Hiroki Kuniyasu

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Department of Molecular Pathology, Nara Medical University, Kashihara, Nara 634-8521, Japan
Interests: cancer; metabolic syndrome; cachexia

Prof. Dr. Martin Kupiec

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The Shmunis School of Biomedicine & Cancer Research, Tel Aviv University, Ramat Aviv, Tel Aviv 69978, Israel
Interests: Saccharomyces cerevisiae; Schizosaccharomyces pombe; yeast; genome stability; DNA repair; telomeres
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Dr. Biji Theyilamannil Kurien

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The Arthritis and Clinical Immunology Program, Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation, University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center, Oklahoma City, OK 73104, USA
Interests: systemic lupus erythematosus; Sjögren’s syndrome; prolidase deficiency; free radical biology; experimental urolithiasis; curcumin and other curcuminoids; dietary supplements; microgravity
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Dr. Toshihide Kurihara

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Laboratory of Photobiology, Department of Ophthalmology, Keio University School of Medicine, 35 Shinanomachi, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo 160-8582, Japan
Interests: retina; hypoxia response; myopia; optogenetics
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Prof. Dr. Maciej Kurpisz

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Department of Reproductive Biology and Stem Cells, Institute of Human Genetics, Polish Academy of Sciences, 60-479 Poznan, Poland
Interests: stem cells; male infertility; human genetics; reproductive immunology
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Dr. Irina M. Kuznetsova

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Laboratory of Structural Dynamics, Stability and Folding of Proteins, Institute of Cytology, Russian Academy of Sciences, 4 Tikhoretsky Ave., 194064 St. Petersburg, Russia
Interests: amyloid fibrils; thioflafin T fluorescence; equilibrium microdialysis; globule and intrinsically disordered proteins; proteins aggregattion; macromolecular crowding; membraneless organelles
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Prof. Dr. Julia Kzhyshkowska

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Institute of Transfusion Medicine and Immunology, Mannheim Institute for Innate Immunoscience (MI3), Medical Faculty Mannheim, Heidelberg University, 68167 Mannheim, Germany
Interests: transcriptional, epigenetic, and metabolic programming of macrophages and their precoursors—corculating monocytes; tumor immunometabolism; macrophage biomarkers of therapy resistance; new molecular targets for TAM reprogramming in solid tumors
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Dr. Chiara Laezza

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Institute of Endocrinology and Experimental Oncology, IEOS CNR, Via Pansini 5, 80131 Naples, Italy
Interests: mevalonate pathway; prenylation proteins; cannabinoid and cancer; cell cycle; cancer-related biochemical pathways; cell proliferation; cell signaling; breast cancer; glioblastoma multiforme
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Prof. Dr. Hon-Ming Lam

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School of Life Sciences, The Chinese University of Hong Kong; Institute of Environment, Energy and Sustainability, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China
Interests: climate-smart and sustainable agriculture; plant and agricultural biotechnology; genomic studies on crop–environment interaction
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Prof. Dr. Rosa M. Lamuela-Raventos

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1. Department of Nutrition, Food Science and Gastronomy-XARTA-INSA-UB, School of Pharmacy and Food Science, University of Barcelona, 08028 Barcelona, Spain
2. Consorcio CIBER, M.P. Fisiopatología de la Obesidad y Nutrición (CIBERObn), Instituto de Salud Carlos III (ISCIII), 28029 Madrid, Spain
Interests: polyphenols; carotenoids; Mediterranean diet; health; diabetes; cardiovascular; processing; cooking; sofrito; tomato; wine
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Dr. Senentxu Lanceros-Mendez

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BCMaterials, Basque Center for Materials, Applications and Nanostructures, UPV/EHU Science Park, 48940 Leioa, Spain
Interests: multifunctional materials; smart materials; energy storage; energy harvesting; sensors; actuators
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Dr. Jessem Landoulsi

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Laboratoire de Réactivité de Surface, CNRS, Sorbonne Université, 4 place Jussieu, F-75005 Paris, France
Interests: surface analysis; biointerfaces; biomineralization; protein adsorption; enzymes; polyelectrolyte multilayers

Prof. Dr. Sigrun Lange

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Tissue Architecture and Regeneration Research Group, School of Life Sciences, University of Westminster, London W1W 6UW, UK
Interests: peptidylarginine deiminases; extracellular vesicles; regenerative medicine; central nervous system; stem cells; mucosal immunity; innate immunity; complement system; host-pathogen interactions; comparative immunology; autoimmunity; chronic inflammation
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Dr. Deborah A. Lannigan

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Departments of Pathology, Microbiology & Immunology, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, TN 37232, USA
Interests: breast cancer; signaling pathways; mammary gland homeostasis
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Prof. Dr. Luigi Maria Larocca

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Fondazione Policlinico Universitario A. Gemelli, IRCCS, Dipartimento di Scienze della vita e Sanità Pubblica, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, 00168 Roma, Italy
Interests: molecular pathology; neuro-oncology; hematopathology; molecular diagnosis in oncology
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Dr. Hamed Laroui

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Department of Biology, Center Diagnostics and Therapeutics, Georgia State University, Atlanta, GA 30303, USA
Interests: drug delivery; nanovesicles; non-alcoholic fatty liver; intestinal inflammation
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Prof. Dr. Tomasz Laskus

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Department of Adult Infectious Diseases, Medical University of Warsaw, 01-201 Warsaw, Poland
Interests: infection disease; hepatitis C virus (HCV); hepatitis

Dr. Chiarelli Laurent

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Department of Biology and Biotechnology “Lazzaro Spallanzani”, University of Pavia, 27100 Pavia, Italy
Interests: antitubercular; Mycobacterium tuberculosis; Mycobacterium abscessus; drug resistance
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Dr. Giovanni Laviola

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Istituto Superiore di Sanità, Center for Behavioural Sciences and Mental Health, Rome, Italy
Interests: ontogeny of behaviour; developmental psychobiology and psychopharmacology; adolescence; early stress; neurodevelopmental disorders; gene-environment interaction; animal models

Prof. Dr. Steven R. Laviolette

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Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology, University of Western Ontario, London, ON N6A 5C1, Canada
Interests: drug addiction; schizophrenia; neurodevelopment; anxiety and mood disorders; post-traumatic stress disorder; psychopharmacology
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Prof. Dr. Olga Lavrik

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Institute of Chemical Biology and Fundamental Medicine, Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, 630090 Novosibirsk, Russia
Interests: molecular biology; structural biology; cancer research
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Dr. Carlo C. Lazado

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Nofima, Norwegian Institute of Food, Fisheries and Aquaculture Research, 1430 Ås, Norway
Interests: fish mucosal immunology; fish health and welfare; sustainable aquaculture; peripheral clocks; interplay between immunity and circadian rhythm; mucosal health; oxidative stress
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Prof. Dr. Michael Lazarus

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International Institute for Integrative Sleep Medicine (WPI-IIIS), University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba, Japan
Interests: sleep; motivation; arousal; sleep function; neural circuits; opto-biology/pharmacology
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