Immunological Sequelae of SARS-CoV-2 Pregnancy Infection and Long COVID-19

Jae U. Jung Cleveland Clinic, USA

Chair : Jin Hyun Ahn (Sungkyunkwan University School of Medicine)

Viruses/Vaccines

• Jae U. Jung is Betsy B. deWindt Professor, Chair of Cancer Biology Department, Director of Infection Biology Program, and Director of Global Center for Pathogen and Human Health Research at Lerner Research Institute, Cleveland Clinic. He provides leadership and key collaborative expertise needed for assembly of interdisciplinary teams focused on large scale research projects directed towards the problem of world- threatening pathogens. Dr. Jung’s research concerns emerging virus, virus-induced cancer, anti-viral immunity, and vaccine development and stabilization.

Metagenomic Inference of Acquisition Paths for Novel Members of Human Microbiomes

Jill F. Banfield UC Berkeley, USA

Chair : Jong-Chan Chae (Jeonbuk National University)

Geomicrobiology

• Jillian Banfield is a Professor in the Department of Environmental Science, Policy, and Management at the University of California, Berkeley. She leads the Microbial Research initiative within the Innovative Genomics Institute, is affiliated with Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. Prof. Banfield concerns structure and functioning of microbial communities shaped by the geochemistry of their surroundings by application of the culture-independent approaches (metagenomics, community proteomics).

Bio-digital Fusion to Establish Biofoundry Technology and Accelerate Cell Factory Development

Akihiko Kondo Kobe Univ., Japan

Chair : Sunghoon Park (UNIST)

Synthetic biology

• Akihiko Kondo is a Professor in the Graduate School of Science, Technology and Innovation at Kobe University and is also appointed as a team leader of the cell factory research team at RIKEN institute (Yokohama). His research area includes the development of various platform technologies such as cell surface display systems, metabolic pathway design tools, metabolic analysis technologies, genome editing, and long-chain DNA synthesis technologies, and applications of those technologies to build various microbial cell factories. He has published more than 570 peer-reviewed international papers.

Personalized Medicine Based on Deep Human Phenotyping

Eran Segal Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel

Chair : Heenam Kim (Korea University)

Microbiome / Data-driven personalized nutrition

• Eran Segal is a computational biologist and a Professor at the Weizmann Institute of Science in Israel. He is one of the leading scientists who integrate information from microbiome, nutrition, and genetics with extensive experience in machine learning, computational biology, and high-throughput genomic data analyses. He is also a pioneer researcher who conceptualized and proved personalized nutrition based on the microbiome. His research shows how we can develop basic research into translational research which can benefit people with diseases.

The Co-evolution of Anti-CRISPRs and CRISPR-Cas Systems

Alan R. Davidson Univ. of Toronto, Canada

Chair : You-Hee Cho (CHA University)

Bacteriophages / anti-CRISPR

• Alan R. Davidson is a Professor in the Department of Biochemistry at University of Toronto. His research focuses on elucidating fundamental mechanisms of phages and phage-related entities during phage-bacteria interactions and using this knowledge to design tools to improve human health. He has investigated the bacterial systems to resist phage attacks as well as how phages overcome these systems. In particular, he recently discovered the anti-CRISPRs, proteins produced by phages that inhibit diverse CRISPR-Cas systems, which can be harnessed as off-switches for CRISPR-based genome editing systems.

Determinants of RNA Function

Kangseok LeeChung-Ang Univ., Korea

Chair : Kyu-Ho Lee (Sogang University)

MSK2021 Academic Research Awardee

The Evolution and Progress of the Translational Research and Its Implication in the Clinical Development of the New Therapeutic Agents

Alan (SungKu) ChoiIldong Pharmaceutical Co., Korea

Chair : GwangPyo Ko (Seoul National University)

NamChul HaSeoul National University

Utilization of Protein Structure Prediction

• Oct 30 (Sun) 10:00~12:00

TaeKwon Lee Yonsei University

R Course - Basic

• Oct 30 (Sun) 16:00~18:00

SangCheol ParkMyongji Hospital

Beginner’s Guide to the Bacterial Genome Analysis

• Oct 31 (Mon) 09:00~11:00

TaeKwon LeeYonsei University

R Course Workshop – Advanced

• Oct 31 (Mon) 14:00~16:00

Heejin JinSeoul National University

Statistics for Microbiologist

• Nov 1 (Tue) 09:00~11:00