Nick Campbell
Associate publisher and executive editor, NPG Nature Asia-Pacific, Australia
Research Interest
Online science publishing and science communication particularly in the field of genetics, molecular cell biology and medical research
Profile
Nick Campbell has a broad research background in population and evolutionary genetics, which started with an honours degree from the University of Adelaide and continued during his PhD in Peter Baverstock’s group at Southern Cross University. His postdoctoral research was in Steve Barker’s group at the Institute for Molecular Bioscience and School of Molecular and Microbial Sciences at the University of Queensland. He joined Nature Publishing Group (NPG) in 2001. He has had a variety of editorial and publishing roles at NPG, including stints as an editor on Nature Reviews Genetics, executive editor in charge of NPG’s academic journals in genetics and launch publisher for the Omics Gateway. Presently Nick leads NPG’s academic journal publishing program in the Asia-Pacific.

John Mattick
Professor of Molecular Biology, Institute for Molecular Bioscience, University of Queensland, Australia
Research Interest
Genomics, non-coding RNA, evolution and the development of multicellular organisms and brain development and function
Profile
John Mattick is professor of molecular biology and an Australian Research Council Federation Fellow. He did his training at the University of Sydney and Monash University in Melbourne. He has worked at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, the CSIRO Division of Molecular Biology in Sydney, and at the Universities of Cambridge, Oxford, Cologne and Queensland. He was Foundation Director of the Australian Genome Research Facility and the Institute for Molecular Bioscience. He is a member of the Council of Scientists of the Human Frontier Science Program (HFSP) and of the Governing Council of the Asia-Pacific International Molecular Biology Network (A-IMBN).
www.imb.uq.edu.au/

Jeongbin Yim
Professor of biochemistry , Seoul National University, South Korea
Research Interest
Biosynthesis and function of a class of compounds known as pteridines
Profile
Jeongbin Yim is now professor of biochemistry at Seoul National University. He received his PhD degree from MIT in 1975 and completed his postdoctoral training at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, where he was later appointed as a member of staff. Yim served as the director of the Institute of Molecular Biology and Genetics, founding director of the Bio-MAX Institute at SNU, president of the Korean Microbiological Society, the Molecular Biological Society, and was the recipient of the Korea Science Award from the government. Since 2003, Yim has been serving as the president of the Asia-Pacific International Molecular Biology Network (A-IMBN).
http://yim.snu.ac.kr

Dangsheng Li
Professor; deputy editor-in-chief of Cell Research, Shanghai Institutes for Biological Sciences, China
Research Interest
Nuclear hormone receptors, transcriptional regulation, apoptosis and cancer biology
Profile
Dangsheng Li received his BS from the University of Science and Technology of China in 1988. He went to the USA for his graduate work in 1989, and received his PhD in Molecular Biology from Cornell University Medical College in 1995. After graduation, he worked as a postdoctoral fellow and research scientist at NYU Medical Center. In 2004, he joined Cell as an associate editor. He returned to China in 2006 to take the position of deputy editor-in-chief of Cell Research.
http://www.cell-research.com/news/Curriculum.pdf

Tasuku Honjo
Executive member, Council for Science and Technology Policy, Cabinet Office, Japan
Research Interest
Molecular mechanism for antibody memory
Profile
Tasuku Honjo graduated from Kyoto University Faculty of Medicine in 1966 with an MD. After obtaining his PhD in biochemistry, he spent four years in the USA as a postdoctoral fellow, first at the Carnegie Institution of Washington (with D. Brown), and then in NIH (with P. Leder) where he initiated studies on immunoglobulin genes. He worked at Tokyo University, and then at Osaka University before returning to the Department of Medical Chemistry at Kyoto University. He also served as dean of the Medical School. At present, he is professor of the Department of Immunology and Genomic Medicine, Kyoto University.
http://www.med.kyoto-u.ac.jp/E/grad_school/introduction/1513/

Zhangliang Chen
President, China Agricultural University, China
Research Interest
Biotechnology
Profile
Zhangliang Chen received his PhD from Washington University, division of Biology and Biomedical Sciences in 1987 and majored in plant molecular biology and biotechnology. He then returned to China and was appointed as associate professor, professor and director of the National Key Laboratory of Protein Engineering and Plant Genetic Engineering. He also served as department chair and dean of the College of Life Science and vice president of Peking University. At present, he is a professor and the president of China Agricultural University.
http://www.cau.edu.cn

Edison Liu
Executive director, Genome Institute of Singapore, Singapore
Research Interest
Molecular biology of breast cancer and cancer genomics
Profile
Edison Liu received his bachelor's degree in chemistry and psychology and his MD from Stanford University. This was followed by an internship and residency in internal medicine at Washington University, St. Louis, clinical cancer fellowships at Stanford University and the University of California at San Francisco and post-doctoral studies at the University of California at San Francisco in the laboratory of J. Michael Bishop. He held the position of Professor of Medicine, Biochemistry, Epidemiology and Genetics at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill from 1987 to 1996, and from 1996 to 2001, he was a director of the Division of Clinical Sciences at the National Cancer Institute (USA). In 2001, Liu assumed the position of executive director at the Genome Institute of Singapore. Liu has contributed over 220 articles, reviews and book chapters to the scientific literature. Liu received the Leukemia Society Scholar Award (1991–1996), the Brinker International Award for basic science research in Breast Cancer (1996), the Rosenthal Award from the American Association for Cancer Research (2000) and the President’s Public Service Medal for his work in helping Singapore resolve the SARS crisis.
http://www.gis.a-star.edu.sg