Dr. Pongsak Rattanachaikunsopon is a Professor in the Department of Biological Science at University of Ubon Ratchathani, Thailand. He obtained Bachelor of Science in Radiological Technology at Mahidol University, Thailand and a Master of Science in Anatomy at Mahidol University, Thailand. He earned Ph.D. in Molecular Biology at Lehigh University, Pennsylvania USA. He has been awarded with Professor Sood Saengvichain Award for Best Research and Presentation in 13th Annual Meeting of the Society of Anatomy of Thailand in 1990, Professor Dr. Tab Nilanidhi Foundation Award for the outstanding graduate student in Anatomy in 1991 and Best Government Officer, The Ministry of Education in 2014. He serves as an Editorial board member of more than 10 international Journals.

Prof. Dr. Pongsak Rattanachaikunsopon is interested fields of research are Molecular Biology, Microbiology and Biochemistry. His present research focuses on searching for biological agents such as microorganisms and plants to use as alternatives to control animal and human diseases caused by pathogenic bacteria.

Dr. Youssef Attia is a Professor in the Department of Arid Land Agricultural, King Abdulaziz University, Saudi Arabia. He obtained Bachelor of Agriculture Sciences in Animal Production at Tanta University (June, 1980), Egypt and a Master of Agricultural Science in Poultry Nutrition, Alazhar University (June, 1986), Egypt. He earned Ph.D. in Poultry Production at Zagazig University-Egypt under channel system with University of Georgia, at Athens, USA, He has been awarded the best Poultry Research in Egypt, form the Egyptian Poultry Science Society1995, Alexandria University Scientific Achievement competition award, 1997, The State of Egypt Prize for individuals and organizations (Prize of Dr. Mahmoud Zein El-Din for Poultry Breeding and Diseases 2005), Damanhour University award for Scientific Distinguish, 2011, Shield of Damanhour University for Outstanding Scientific Publishing 2012, King Abdualziz University Award for Scientific Publication 2013, King Abdualziz University Award for Scientific Publication 2014, King Abdualziz University Award for Scientific Publication 2015 and King Abdualziz University Award for Scientific Publication as well as Citation 2016 . He serves as an Editorial board member of more than 10 international Journals.

Prof. Dr. Youssef A. Attia is interested fields of research are poultry nutrition, production, husbandry, physiology and breeding as well as rabbits Nutrition, and Husbandry. His present research focuses on searching for alternative feedstuffs for Poultry and Rabbits feeding, alternative to antibiotic growth promotors, improve tolerance to heat stress, producing of nutritional modified poultry products and improve animal immunity.

Dr. Fahim Aziz El-Dein Mohamed Shaltout is a professor of Veterinary Medicine, Moshtohor, Benha University, Egypt. He was born on August 23,1963 in Egypt, He worked as a Faculty of Veterinary Medicine in Zagazig University-Benha Branch, Egypt from May 1986 to January 1992. His project worjs include Mycological and Mycotoxicological profile Of Some Meat products. Ph.D. Thesis in Meat Hygiene, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Moshtohor, Zagazig University Benha branch, Egypt, 1996 and Studies on Mycotoxins in Meat and Meat by Products. M.V.Sc Thesis Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Moshtohor, Zagazig University Benha branch, Egypt, 1992.

Dr. Fahim Aziz El-Dein Mohamed Shaltout Research interest includes Meat Hygiene, Food Safety, Food Microbiology, Chemical residues in Food. Meat Technology, Food Chemistry, and Mycotoxins in Food.

Prof. Dr. Mario Ciampolini have two Children from Vanna Pastacaldi: Iacopo, orthopedic surgeon, director of a hospital in Sommerset (UK) and Lorenzo, PhD in electronic engineering, currently in the management of ST Microelectronics (Grenoble, FR). I made humanistic studies during the first 7 years after graduation and wrote two Italian books: Human differences and a study on Renassaince. Human differences almost coincides with a relation of Cabanac (Laval University) to the SSIB meeting at Mc Master University, Hamilton 1994. I (born 1933) directed the Gastroenterology Research Unit, a third level referral center in the department of Pediatrics of the University of Florence (Meyer hospital) from 1965 to 2000. In Tuscany I first diagnosed celiac disease by the Watson capsule. I worked at the Cornell University for a joined research with the University of Florence on energy expenditure in children. A long term strategy was designed with Giuliano Parrini, prof. of Physics (Firenze, It), Andrea Giommi, prof. of Statistics (Firenze, It), and Cutberto Garza, Boston College, Rector. Three students came from Amsterdam Medical Center to learn “Initial Hunger (IH)”. The Unit published 150 scientific articles, more than 50 in international Press.Main achievements: Hunger can be taught; and an Initial Hunger Meal Pattern can be constructed (IHMP = Three IH arousals per day). IHMP decreases energy intake, mean preprandial BG, body weight, insulin resistance and fecal energy loss. The sequence of 21 preprandial BG measurements in a week (Mean BG) is stable and comparable through months in the single individual and stratified in population.

Prof. Dr. Mario Ciampolini research of interest includes Loss of hunger sensations as cause of alimentary diabetes and malnutrition.

Prof. Dr. Vidyadhar Jinnappa Aski is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer and Communication Engineering at Manipal University Jaipur, located in northern part of Indian city Jaipur. He received Bachelor of Engineering degree in Electronics and Communication Engineering domain from Visheveshwariah Technological University (VTU), Belagavi, India, and a master degree (MS), in the domain of Control and Embedded Instrumentation from ESIGELEC School of Engineering, Rouen France. Prof. Vidyadhar has also earned another master degree (Msc.Tech), in the field of Embedded Systems and Instrumentation from School of Information Sciences, Manipal Academy of Higher Education (formerly known as Manipal University). Prof. Vidyadhar Aski has many years of academic experience along with industrial experience, worked with various research centers across India and Germany, including ABB, Corporate research center, Ladenburg, Germany. He has been invited as a keynote speaker in many conferences of national and International repute.

Prof. Vidyadhar Aski has wide range of research interests in Engineering and Bio-Science fields includes but not limited to Industrial IoT, Biomedical Engineering, Embedded systems, Wireless sensor area network, Healthcare IoT, Biometric feature analysis etc. His latest research focuses on creating an autonomous healthcare device for disaster management applications.

Dr. Gannu Praveen Kumar is currently working as Professor and Principal in Sahasra Institute of Pharmaceutical Sciences since April 2004. He graduated from H.K.E’s society college of Pharmacy, Gulbarga University in 1997, post graduation from BITS, Pilani in 1999 and doctoral program from Kakatiya University in 2009. He has published in both National and International journals. He received Gem of India award in the year 1999. He was selected as a best academician of Vaagdevi college of Pharmacy in 2002 and of Talla Padmavathi college of Pharmacy in 2011. He visited London, Dubai, Singapore, Malaysia, Spain and USA as invited speaker. He is serving as chief administrator in developing and implementing policies, programs, curriculum activities and budgets in a manner that promotes the educational development of each student and the professional development of faculty.

Prof. Dr. Gannu Praveen Kumar is keen in characterization and screening of Novel drug delivery systems, Advanced drug delivery technology and a special attention on Health and Nutrition. His present research focuses on development and design of nano-formulations and the trouble shooting of challenges in commercialization of product development.

Prof. Singh Presently working in the department of Food Technology of Mata Gujri College, An autonomous body (Estd; 1957) of Punjab, India. He obtained Bachelor’s of Science in Life sciences from Kurukshetra University Kurukshetra, India. Master’s in Food Science & Technology from CDLU, Sirsa, India and Doctorate in Food Engg & Tech from SLIET, Longowal (India). Professor Singh has an experience of working in the field of novel technology i.e. High pressure processing effects on milk and its constituents; he has attended conferences, workshops, seminars and trainings at India and US. So many review, research and popular articles of national and international journal have been assigned to his credit alongwith lists of online MOOCS courses (IIT Kanpur & COL, Canada) awards with distinction. Demonstrated TEQIP sponsored workshop as resource person in KUK, Kurukshetra. He has some text books to his credit as well of food sciences concern also awarded in MOFPI sponsored international conference at JNU, N. Delhi.

Prof. Singh has ongoing practices in the field of by-product utilization and gluten free new product development. Physico-chemical characterization of developed functional foods is their interested fields of research.

Dr. Mariod is a Professor in the Department of Biology at University of Jeddah, KSA. He obtained his Bachelor of Food Science and Technology in Alexandria University, Egypt and a Master of Food Engineering at Gezira University, Sudan. He earned his Ph.D. in Natural sciences at Münster University, Germany. He Considered for inclusion in WHO'S WHO in the World, 28th Edition (2011) by Marquis Who’s Who Publications May 2010, Professor Dr. Mariod worked as visiting professor in IBS/UPM Malaysia 2008-2010 and he obtained TWAS-UNESCO ASSOCIATESHIP –2010-2013 Ref.3240230898 at Research Centre For Chemistry at the Indonesian Institute Of Science (RCChem-LIPI), Bandung 40135, Indonesia. Prof. Dr. Mariod obtained more than 8 Innovations Medals and Awards and 9 Scholarships & Grants. He serves as an Editorial board member of more than 8 international Journals.

Prof. Dr. Mariod interested fields of research are Functional foods and Nutrecuticals, Bioactive compounds extraction, determination, identification and application, Oil & Fat processing technologies, Oil & Fat new sources, Oil stability, Natural antioxidants & antioxidant activity and Food product development.

Prof. S. Nafees Bano is Principal, Hakim Syed Ziaul Hasan Govt. Unani Medical College & Hospital, MPMSU, Jabalpur, M.P. & also Professor & Head, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology.She graduated from Hamdard Tibbi College, Delhi University in 1990 and M.D. in 2008 from National Institute of Unani Medicine, RGUHS, Karnataka . In her 23- year long academic career she has been giving her services as Examiner in various Universities, Supervisor for M.D. theses, Subject Expert in various Selection Boards, Resource Person, Guest Speaker, Guest of Honour, Chairperson in Conferences, Workshops, Training Programmes and Seminars. She is also the chairman of IEC of Clinical Research Unit, CCRUM, Bhopal & Govt. Unani Medical College, Bhopal. She has presented various papers in National & International Conferences and Seminars and delivered talks on women health issues on All India Radio and DD Bhopal. She has many papers and articles published in various national & international journals and various lectures published on You Tube as well.

Prof. S. Nafees Bano is currently involved with different clinical studies relating to women’s health and other current gynaecological conditions challenging women’s health issues.

Prof. Louay Labban has completed his PhD from La Sale University in the USA in 1995 on the effect of polyphenols and isoflavones on the immunomodulation therapy. His postdoctoral studies were done at Lund University in Sweden. Prof. Labban finished his M.Sc from University of Newcastle upon Tyne in England. He has been a professor of clinical nutrition at TeSham Academy since 2016. Before that he taught at A’Sharqiyah University in the Sultanate of Oman and before that, he taught different nutrition courses in several universities in the USA in addition, he also worked for well-known pharmaceutical companies as a head of nutrition assessment team studying the effect of newly developed medications on the nutritional status of patients. He has published more than 35 papers in reputed journals and has been serving as an editorial board member of scientific journals. Professor Labban is affiliated with American Overseas Dietetic Association (AODA).

Prof. Louay Labban research interest is The relationship between vitamin D and type 2 diabetes, The relationship between probiotics and diabetes, The association between physical activity and obesity, The use of herbs such as rosemary in treatment of diabetes and high cholesterol level.

Dr. Tina Cloney is a health and nutrition professor in the Department of Exercise Science & Sport at Millikin University in Decatur, Illinois, USA. Dr. Cloney has a bachelor’s degree in Health, Nutrition, and Dietetics; a master’s degree in Community health, and a doctoral degree in Public Health, Health Education and Health Promotion. He holds three board certifications. She is a board certified registered dietitian, board certified sport specialist dietitian, and a board certified diabetes educator. Before joining Millikin University, He worked for over 20 years in the clinical, community, and executive health setting

Dr. Cloney’s research interests include the role of nutrition and physical activity in disease prevention, disease management, the prevention of injury, sport performance and recovery

Dr. Anjan Borah is a Assistant Professor of the Food Technology and Nutrition Department (FTN), Lovely Professional University, India. He obtained Ph.D in “Food Technology” from Tezpur University, a Central University. He has completed Post Doc from ICAR-Indian Institute of Agricultural Research, New Delhi-12. He is an experienced Reviewer with a demonstrated history of working in the food production industry.

Dr. Anjan Borah is interested in R&D work focused in “Sustainable Development”. His are of interest includes, Food Chemistry, Nanotechnology, Food Safety and Quality. He has expertise in development of RTEBC’s as well as weaning formulations. He is also working on utilization of by-product from fruit and vegetable industry. His present research work on rapid detection of adulterants and contaminants in Food Products has been published in reputed journals like Food Chemistry.

Professor Marinozzi works since 1992 in the area of Food Science and Nutrition. He has held positions in private food companies as well as in some Universities. He also teaches Neurosciences since 1998, which complements the spectrum of human nutrition.

Food Science and Human Nutrition

Dr. Haluk Çağlar KAYMAK is a Professor of Faculty of Agriculture in the department of Horticulture at Atatürk University, Turkey. In June 1998, he graduated in B.Sc Horticulture as Faculty of Agriculture at Gaziosmanpaşa University. He holds his Ph.D. in Plant Physiology in 2006 of Horticulture Department as Faculty of Agriculture at Atatürk University

Vegetables, fatty acids, antioxidant enzymes

Assoc. Prof. Dr. AyÅŸe GÃœNEÅž BAYIR works in the Department of Nutrition and Dietetics at The Bezmialem Vakif University, Istanbul, Turkey. She graduated at The University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna, Austria. Her doctorate was also at the same university. Her research interest is in the area of cancer and nutrition with specialization in natural compounds, nutritional assessment of different human groups including healthy and patients, and probiotic foods. She has served as referee for a number of International and National journals. She has more than 9 years of teaching experience in Medical Biology&Genetics including molecularbiology, Cancer&Nutrition, Principles of Nutrition, General Microbiology, Food Chemistry& Food Microbiology, Food Safety, Hygiene&Sanitation. She has also published more than 100 scientific articles in the peer-reviewed national and international journals and authored or co-authored or editored for books and book chapters.

Food Sciences, Nutritional Sciences

Mustafa ÖZGÜR graduated from Erciyes University Nutrition and Dietetics Department in 2014 with a bachelor's degree. He completed my master's degree in 2017 in Ankara University Nutrition and Dietetics, and my doctorate in 2022. Research Assistant until 2022 at Burdur Mehmet Akif University and then Assist. prof. Dr. I continue my duty. At the undergraduate level, he teaches Nutrition Principles, Sports Nutrition, Nutritional biochemistry, food chemistry, food-drug interaction and other field courses related to nutrition. He have a national level experimental animal certificate. So far, he has participated in academic studies with national and international book-book chapters, research articles and compilation articles and congress presentations.

Nutritional biochemistry, food chemistry, obesity, natural and artificial sweeteners, functional food, biochemistry of nutrition related diseases

Dr. Mohammed Kuddus has completed his PhD in Biotechnology from SHIATS, Allahabad and worked as an Assistant Professor at Integral University, India. At present, he is working as an Associate Professor and Chairman of Biochemistry department at University of Hail, Saudi Arabia. He has published more than 50 research articles in reputed journals along with 10 book chapters; and presented more than 35 abstracts in national/international conference/symposia. He has been serving as an Editorial Board Member and Reviewer of various international reputed journals. He has been awarded Young Scientist Projects from International Foundation for Science, Sweden, and Department of Science and Technology, India.

Dr. Kuddus’s main research area includes biochemistry and microbial biotechnology.

He worked five years in the United States in the area of transplantation (Denver and Pittsburgh) and Oncology (Memorial Sloan kattering Cancer Center, New York). He deepened the following topics, with a small but stronger group of young Researchers: • Biomaterials (up from 70) with particular reference to the healing and wound therapeutics, research on collagen, hyaluronic acid and glycosaminoglycans, hydrocolloids, polyurethanes, chitosan, dimethylpolysiloxane, and more. • NUTRITION, NUTRIGENOMICS AND HEALTH that represent a further field studies and scientific in depth-analysis to minimize the ethical and economic impact of the chronic and degenerative diseases. He created the following SANITY NETWORKS, at the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia: 1) Medico-Cura-Te-Stesso: aimed at promoting the quality of life and the health of the Doctor, with the purpose to improve the empathy, the art, and the relationship doctor-patient. 2) Jurassic Surgery: Surgery of centenarians (He has personally operated 15 cases) to study and enhance everything every factor of longevity in full possession of cognitive and physical functions. 3) Second Opinion: to help the patients with many different types of diseases that have not taken the appropriate and expected benefit from diagnosis and care, offering them concrete possibility in solving the case, or the best possible benefit on their quality of life. 4) Airmo: Research for Comparative Oncology, between man and domestic animals, analyzing the animals with similar human diseases, and from this perspective obtaining appropriate results for the prevention, early detection and treatment of inflammatory diseases and cancer of the human species.

nutrition, oncology, virology, electromedical devices, rare disease

Dr. Cecilia Eugenia Martínez-Sánchez is Professor-Researcher at the Department of Chemical Engineering and Biochemistry of the National Technological Institute of Mexico/Technological Institute of Tuxtepec. She obtained a Bachelor's Degree in Chemical Pharmacy Biologist from the Universidad Veracruzana in Mexico and a Master's Degree in Food Sciences from the Technological Institute of Veracruz in Mexico. She obtained her Ph.D. in Food Sciences at the UNIDA-Technological Institute of Veracruz, México. She belongs to the National System of Researchers of Mexico since 2002, currently with recognition level I in the period 2018-2021. Dr. Martinez teaches in the career of Biochemical Engineering and the Master in Food Science at Technological Institute of Tuxtepec. She is a member of the editorial board of 2 international journals.

Prof. Dr. Cecilia Eugenia Martínez-Sánchez is interested in fields of research are Edible oils and fats, structured lipids and bioactive compounds. Her current research focuses on the extraction of bioactive compounds through the use of pressurized liquids, as well as the bioaccessibility and bioavailability of these compounds in vitro and in vivo.

Maria Dalamagka currently works at the Department of Anesthesia, General University Hospital of Larissa. Maria does research in acupuncture and Anaesthetics. She is PhD medicine , doctor of pain , MD. Editorial board member :Scifed Journal, Pain Medicine and Management, Enliven, Cient Periodique, Journal of Pain Management and Medicine _Longdom, Anesthesia &Pain Research _Scivision, GJNFS, Journal if Pain and Relief. Speaker and organizing committee to conferences as:Pain Research and Management Zurich 2018, 5th international conference Pain Research &Management London 2017, and Vancouver , Canada 2016, Word congress on Pain Medicine and Management Singapore 2019, International Conference on Alzheimers &Neurodegenerative desease Madrid , Spain 2018, scientific federation speaker

Acupuncture Pain Anesthesia

Prof .Dr. Kutikuppala Surya Rao MD.(PGIM), PhD (Andhra University) MNAMS (New Delhi) FHM(CMC Vellore) FRCP(London)FAMS(India)DSc(Hons) has spent most of his medical career in clinical research associated with HIV /AIDS disease. He is Chief Consultant in HIV Medicine at Dr.Kutikuppala SURYA RAO HOSPITALS and RESEARCH CENTER, Visakhapatnam-530 008, Andhrapradesh India. The Government of India awarded PADMASHRI to he is in 2008 the India’s Prestigious civilian award for his outstanding work in the area of treatment and research in Medicine. He is a Gunnies World Record holder in HIV prevention research work for achieving the largest awareness Red Ribbon. In the House of Lords London he received exalted Mahatma Gandhi Samman Puraskar Dr.Rao received a letter of commendation from the World Health Organization H.Q Geneva for his exceptional contribution in reducing the Health care-associated infections (HCAI) in India in this region.

Dr.Surya Rao is a distinguished researcher in the International Medical Circles for the last two decades. He addressed numerous National and International Conferences on the invitation of various International Universities and Institutions and chaired several International conferences on HIV/AIDS. Hepatitis-B, Rabies ,Malaria and Drug abuse. He published 105 research papers in the World renowned medical journals like British Medical Journal (BMJ), Applied Medicine @ UK, Antiseptic, Indian Practitioner, JIMA etc., and 432 articles in popular journals of National and International repute and 8 books. He has been a member, guest editor on several national and international journals of repute.

Assoc.Prof. Moghaddasi has received his Ph.D. degree in Health Information Management and his Post Doc. degree in Medical Informatics at Monash University. His thesis titles in graduate and postgraduate degrees are:1) A Comparative Study on the Mechanisms of Healthcare Information Quality Control for Inpatient in USA & UK: Presenting a Proper Model for IRAN. 2) Portable problem oriented Electronic Health Record (PPOEHR). He works as an associate professor at the College of Paramedical Sciences, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences. He was as a vice president of faculty through 2010 to 2014; and also head of health information technology and management department through 1994 to 2017. He is the president of Iranian Association of Medical Informatics; and member of converging subgroup of Academy of Medical Sciences. Since 1988 he has work experiences in Computer science at Iran University of Medical Sciences; and Azad University of Medical Sciences. Achievements include development of research in all type of Health Informatics and Health Information System Management. He additionally conducts scholarly research activities in the fields of Standards and Assessment of Health Information System; Data Quality; Electronic Health Record (EHR); Health Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery; Health Management and Administration; Mobile Health (M-Health) Software; Electronic Health (E-Health); Clinical Decision Support Systems; and also clinical dashboard. He supervises students' theses and dissertations at master and Ph.D. levels. He has published numerous articles on Health Information Systems and Medical Informatics; and E-health in scholarly journals.

Assoc.Prof. Moghaddasi Research interest include Health Informatics; E-health; M-health; Clinical Decision Support Systems; Semantic Interoperability; Data Quality; Health Information Systems (Design; Evaluation; Standards); Electronic Health Records (EHR); Health Information Systems and Management; Health Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery; Decision Support Systems; Health Administration and Management; Quality; Assessment; Education and Research Methods.

Mohamed Maarouf Ali Zeinhom is an Associate Professor at Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Beni-Suef University. Mohamed Maarouf Ali Zeinhom received his Ph.D. degree in Food Microbiology from Beni-Suef University in collaboration with University of Guelph, ON, Canada in July 2011. Currently, Mohamed Maarouf Ali Zeinhom is a visiting scholar in the School of Mechanical and Materials Engineering at Washington State University, USA. Mohamed Maarouf Ali Zeinhom published more than 20 papers in reputed journals. Mohamed Maarouf Ali Zeinhom scientific interests focus on development rapid and sensitive nano-biosensor for detection of Food borne pathogens.

Food Microbiology, Food Safety, Subclinical mastitis, Probiotics, Essential oils

Dr. Bekir DEMIRTAS is a Assoc. Professor in the Department of Agricultural Economics at University of Hatay Mustafa Kemal, Turkey. He obtained Bachelor of Science in Agricultural Economics at Cumhuriyet University, Turkey and a Master of Science in Agricultural Economics at Cukuroval University, Adana Turkey. He earned Ph.D. in Agricultural Business at Cukurova University, Adana Turkey. He worked as a researcher in Turkey between the years of 1966-2008 the Ministry of Food and Agriculture. After 2008, he started to work in Hatay Mustafa Kemal University Agricultural Economics Department. He worked as a researcher and assistant researcher on the consumption of agricultural products as food. He continues his researches and education in the field of agriculture and food economics.

Dr. Bekir Demirtas is interested fields of research are Food Economics, Consumer Behavior and Preferences. He carries out studies on consumption of organic products, consumer awareness and consumer behavior

Dr. Rohitashw Kumar (B.E., M.E., Ph. D.) is an Associate Professor at College of Agricultural Engineering and Technology, She-e- Kashmir University of Agricultural Sciences and Technology of Kashmir, Srinagar, India. He obtained his Ph.D. degree in the Water Resources Engineering from NIT, Hamirpur and Master of Engineering Degree in Irrigation Water Management Engineering from MPUAT, Udaipur. He got Student Incentive Award-2015 (Ph.D. Research) towards significant contribution in research on modelling of soil moisture management for crop production sub–temperate sub-humid and semi- arid agro-climates by Soil Conservation Society of India, New Delhi. He has also got first prize in India best M. Tech thesis award in Agricultural Engineering in year 2001. He has been graduated from Maharana Pratap University of Agricultural and Technology, Udaipur, India in Agricultural Engineering. He has published over 80 papers in peer-reviewed journals articles, 4 practical manual and 13chapters in books. He guided 8 post graduate students in discipline of soil and water engineering. He handled more than 10 research projects as a principal and co-principal investigators.

Dr. Rohitashw Kumar reach interest are, watershed hydrology, irrigation, modelling of water resources and watershed management.

Dr. Chee Kong YAP is an academician for more than 14 years in UPM and 19 years as a researcher, He has supervised more than 71 undergraduates and 30 postgraduate students (as a Chairman and Member of Supervisory Committee) in the fields of ecotoxicology, environmental biology, environmental sciences, water quality and ecotoxicological genetics. His research area is mainly focused on biomonitoring and monitoring of inorganic pollutants (heavy metals) in the aquatic environment using mollusks and sediments. He has published more than 253 published in refereed academic journals, 2 books, 10 book chapters. Until May 2017, 178 of them have now been indexed in Elsevier’s Scopus with an H-index of 21 (>1621 citations). He has also been invited in honorary as Editorial Board members for more than 20 international academic journals (Scopus) since 2010. In recognition of his scientific achievement and research outputs, his biography has been selected for inclusion in the Marquis Who’s Who in the World.

Dr. Chee Kong YAP research Interest of interest includes ecotoxicology, environmental biology, environmental sciences, water quality and ecotoxicological genetics.

Assoc. Prof. Fayaj L .Pathan is Associate Professor in the Department of Food Science and Technology at MIT Art, Design and Technology University, Pune India. He obtained Bachelor of Science in agriculture at Mahatma Phule Agriculture University, Rahuri, India and a Master of Science in Food Science and Technology at Mahatma Phule Agriculture University, Rahuri, India also Master of Science in Total Quality Management at Sikkim Manipal University, India. He is Pursuing Ph.D. in Food Science from Institute of Chemical Technology, Mumbai, India. For his teaching excellence at MIT College of Food Technology, the management of MIT Art, Design and Technology University, Pune presented him Best Teacher Award and Citation of Honor in Teacher’s Day Celebration on September 05,2017.He serves as an Editorial board member and review board member of more than 5 international Journals.

Assoc. Prof. Fayaj L .Pathan is interested in research related to Non-thermal methods of food preservation particularly in plasma processing of food, New food Product Development, Designing Innovative Equipments for Food Analysis, Innovative food Grain Storage Structures, Recent developments in International Food Laws Food Safety and Quality.

Dr. Zuraini Mat Issa is an Associate Professor in the Department of Foodservice Management at Faculty of Hotel and Tourism Management, Universiti Teknologi MARA, Kampus Puncak Alam, Selangor, Malaysia. She obtained Bachelor of Science (hons.) in Agriculture and Food Science specializing in Food Science at University of Nottingham, United Kingdom and a Master of Science in Food Microbiology at Universiti Putra Malaysia, Malaysia. She earned Ph.D. in Nutrition Programme/Policy at Universiti Sains Malaysia, Malaysia. She has over 15 years of experience in teaching and research in food safety, nutrition, food science and food toxicology. She has been awarded Excellent Service Awards twice by the Universiti Teknologi MARA in 2007 and 2011

Dr. Zuraini Mat Issa’s interested fields of research are Molecular Biology, Food Microbiology, Food Science, Nutrition, Food Safety, Food Toxicology, Foodservice Management and other hospitality research areas. Her present research focuses on multidisciplinary research related to health and well-being and also on food waste management in foodservice and hospitality industries.

Dr. Helena M. Moreno is currently working as researcher at the Institute of Food Science Technology and Nutrition and served as Associate Professor at the Veterinary Faculty, both in Madrid (Spain). She is graduated in Veterinary Science (2001) and in Food Science Technology (2004). Since 2009 she is European PhD on Veterinary Science. She has authored around 30 publications 1 books and 1 chapter book. She has also collaborated in 8 research projects and directed 1 doctoral thesis. She has been awarded by Canon Foundation (2015), by II International Food R&D Brokerage Event (2013) and with the Accesit in Biotechnology, Agrofood and Health Science Prize (2009) to the patent “Method of forming myotomes or myosepta in restructured fish products”.

Dr. Helena M. Moreno research interest is based on in fish muscle valorization, fish muscle and surimi protein gelation and collagen properties and the relationship with muscle physicochemical properties.

Dr. Dheeraj Lamba Graduated from Rajiv Gandhi University of Health Sciences, Karnataka (2004) completed his PG in Musculoskeletal Physiotherapy (2006) and Doctorate in Orthopaedic Physiotherapy (2015). He is an Academician, Researcher, Clinician and provides Community Services in Musculoskeletal Disorders and Orthopaedics conditions in Physiotherapy. He is a clinical teacher and examiner to various universities in India and abroad. As a researcher he has published more than 35 research papers in reputed journals, guided Masters as well as Doctorate students in Physiotherapy. He is a life member of Indian Association of Physiotherapy (IAP) and member of International Parkinson's & Movement Disorder Society (MDS) and Editorial and Reviewer for various reputed journals, having more than 15 years of experience in the field of physiotherapy; currently he is working with the Ministry of Science and Higher Education under United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) as Associate Professor and senior most Clinical Physical Therapist at the Faculty of Physiotherapy, Institute of Health, Jimma University, Jimma, Ethiopia, Africa

Research Interest of Assoc. prof. Dr. Dheeraj Lamba is Musculoskeletal and Orthopaedic conditions in Physiotherapy 1. LBA 2. Plantar Fasciitis 3. Osteoarthritis 4. Myofascial Trigger Points 5. Manual Therapy 6. Neck pain 7. Post-surgical rehabilitation in TKR and THR 8. Pediatrics conditions like CP & Club foot 9. Low-Level Laser Therapy 10. Ergonomics in Musculoskeletal Condition’s

Dr. Roselina has been a lecturer at the Department of Food Technology, Faculty of Food Science and Technology, UPM for 19 years. She has been teaching 15 different courses for the undergraduates and post graduates in the field of Food Science and Technology. She had supervised more than 112 undergraduates and 47 postgraduate students (as a Chairman and Member of the Supervisory Committee) in the field of Food Science and Technology. She has published a total of 124 articles in refereed academic journals with Scopus H index of 17 (Citation: 1128) and Google Scholar H-Index of 21 (Citation: 1707). Dr. Roselina is actively involved in consultancy works with various government or private agencies in on projects related to food science and technology such as the Ministry of Health of Malaysia (MOH), Ministry of Higher Education of Malaysia (MOHE), Padiberas Nasional Berhad (BERNAS), Federal Agricultural Marketing Authority (FAMA), Brahims Food, Central Sugar Refinery Sdn. Bhd., Fonterra Brands Malaysia Sdn. Bhd. and Yeo Hiap Seng (M) Sdn. Bhd. In addition, Dr Roselina is also fully involved with Department of Standards Malaysia through SIRIM Berhad on developing; deliberating and improving several Malaysian Standard (MS) for the food industries. She is the Chairman of the Working Group on Groundnut Specification (WG/A/0-7) and Technical Committee on Sauces and Paste (TC/U/6). She is also the permanent committee member for the Working Group on Sensory Evaluation, Technical Committee on Food for Infants & Children (TC20/25) and the Working Group for ‘Kaya’.

Food Processing, Food Product Development, Sensory Evaluation

Dr. Swapnil Rai did his Ph.D. in Environmental Science on the topic of pesticide accumulation in all the components of environment and in humans from National Institute of Malaria Research and Gurukul Kangri University, Haridwar, Uttarakhand. He joined Mangalayatan University in 2008, presently he is working as Assistant Professor of Environmental Science in Amity University Madhya Pradesh, Gwalior, India. He is a member of review and editorial board of journals of national and international repute and life member of Indian Science Congress Association, Kolkata and Applied Natural Science Foundation, Haridwar.

Dr. Rai worked on pesticide levels in soil, water, sediments, snow, fish, earthworm, food items and human blood and milk in Himalayan region of India. He has published 23 research articles, 01 book and has more than 100 citations for the articles. He is guiding Ph.D. students who are working on heavy metals and pesticides level in different components of ecosystem including food items.

Shahjada Selim did MBBS degree from Rajshahi Medical College, Bangladesh; MD (Endocrinology & Metabolism), BIRDEM Academy under Dhaka University. He has been awarded with FACE in 2016 by ACE and FRSM in 2018 by RSM. He is the organizing secretary of Bangladesh Endocrine Society (BES) and Coordinator of 1st BES-MAYO Advanced Course in Endocrinology 2019. He is now working as assistant professor in the department of endocrinology, Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University, Dhaka, Bangladesh.

Dr Selim has keen interest in clinical research in diabetes & its complications, prevention of diabetes, obesity, osteoporosis and sexual dysfunctions. He has more than 51 articles published in the international reputed journals. He also published four books in Bengali on diabetes and thyroid disorders.

Dr. Soumitra Banerjee (PhD, IIT Kharagpur-India) is working at “Center for Incubation, Innovation, Research & Consultancy” (CIIRC), Jyothy Institute of Technology Bengaluru, Karnataka (India), as Assistant Professor (Food Technology). He had completed B. Tech. (Dairy Technology) from College of Dairy Technology, under Indira Gandhi Agricultural University-Raipur, Chhattisgarh (India). He did his Post Graduation (MS) from Agricultural and Food Engineering Department, under Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, West Bengal (India), with specialization in Food Processing and Preservation. After that, he joined for Ph.D. program under the same department where he had worked on the area of “Mechanization of Cashew Nut Processing”, sponsored by Indian Council of Agricultural Research (New Delhi, India). After completion of doctoral program, he was appointed as Assistant Professor at Food Technology Department, in Jain University (Bengaluru, India). He has years of research, teaching, training experiences and has acquired knowledge in the field of food and dairy processing. He had published papers, book chapters and had presented papers in conferences & symposiums of national and international repute.

Dr. Soumitra Banerjee Research interest includes Dairy Processing, Food Processing, Food Preservation, Nutrition, Food Fortification.

Dr. Ceren Gezer graduated from Department of Nutrition and Dietetics, Faculty of Health Sciences, Hacettepe University in Ankara, Turkey. She recieved MSc and PhD degree from Nutrition and Dietetics ProgrDr. Ceren Gezer graduated from Department of Nutrition and Dietetics, Faculty of Health Sciences, Hacettepe University in Ankara, Turkey. She recieved MSc and PhD degree from Nutrition and Dietetics Program, Institute of Health Sciences, Near East University in Nicosia, North Cyprus. During October 2013-March 2014 she had been as a visiting researcher/PhD student in the Laboratory of Cellular Ageing, Aarhus Universiy in Aarhus, Denmark under the mentorship of Prof. Dr. Suresh I.S. Rattan, the leader of the laboratory. She has working as assistant professor in Department of Nutrition and Dietetics, Faculty of Health Sciences, Eastern Mediterranean University, Famagusta, North Cyprus since September 2015. She has supervised more than 10 MsC and PhD thesis and has published various national-international articles and poster abstracts on Nutrition and Dietetics.am, Institute of Health Sciences, Near East University in Nicosia, North Cyprus. During October 2013-March 2014 she had been as a visiting researcher/PhD student in the Laboratory of Cellular Ageing, Aarhus Universiy in Aarhus, Denmark under the mentorshipDr. Suresh I.S. Rattan, the leader of the laboratory. She has working as assistant professor in Department of Nutrition and Dietetics, Faculty of Health Sciences, Eastern Mediterranean University, Famagusta, North Cyprus since September 2015. She has supervised more than 10 MsC and PhD thesis and has published various national-international articles and poster abstracts on Nutrition and Dietetics.

Dr. Ceren Gezer Research intersts include Functional foods, food chemistry, molecular nutrition, nutritional assesment and eating behaviours, research methods in nutrition and dietetics.

Dr. Canan Birimoglu Okuyan is an assistant professor in the department of public health nursing at Hatay Mustafa Kemal University, Turkey. She earned a Master of Science in the Department of Public Health Nursing from Gaziantep University in 2012. Then, she received her Ph.D. in the Department of Public Health Nursing, Gazi University. During Ph.D., she has studied at the Turku University of Applied Science in Turku/Finland. She worked as a visiting researcher at the Manchester Metropolitan University in Manchester/UK. She serves as an Editorial board member of more than five international Journals

Dr. Canan Birimoglu Okuyan is interested fields of research are Public health nursing, Gerontological and Geriatric Nursing, Health promotion, School health nursing, and Nursing Research. Her work is currently supported by a Grant from the Scientific Research Project Unit of Hatay Mustafa Kemal University.

Dr. Nahla Al-Bayyari is an Assistant professor in human nutrition and dietetics at Al-Balqa Applied University, faculty of Al-Huson University college, department of Nutrition and Food Technology. Graduated from the University of Jordan with a Ph.D in human nutrition and dietetics and a Master in Public Health (Maternal and Child Health Care) and Bachelor degree in Public Health Nutrition from Jordan University of Science and Technology (JUST). After graduation from JUST she worked as a research assistant at JUST and lecturer in higher education associations. Currently she is an assistant professor and a researcher in public health, human nutrition, dietetics, infertility and maternal and child health. She is the author of Public Health and Safety book and several original research articles.

Dr. Nahla Al-Bayyari Research interest includes public health nutrition research projects deals with homocysteine, statins and trace elements topics.

Dr Rohit A works as Assistant Professor in Department Of Community Medicine at JJM Medical College, Davanagere, India. He has obtained his MBBS degree and MD in Community Medcine from Rajiv Gandhi University of Health Sciences , Karnataka, India. He has presented many papers in International and National conference. Dr Rohit has keen interest in research and is working on University funded research project. He has also been part of team that implemented World bank funded Non Communicable Disease project in Davanagere district[ Diabetes, Hypertension and cancer cervix]

Dr Rohit is interested in the field of Non Communicable Disease intervention [diabetes, hypertension and cancer cervix ] at primary health care level. He has also worked as resource person for revised guidelines of prevention to parent to child transmission of HIV and operational research of tuberculosis

Dr. Pasquale Russo obtained his Ph.D. in “Management of Innovation in the Agriculture and Food Systems of the Mediterranean Region”, at the University of Foggia (Foggia, Italy); a Masters degree in “Biotechnology” (Aliter, EIN, Madrid, Spain); and holds a degree in “Food Science and Technology”, at the University of Foggia (Foggia, Italy). He has over ten years experience of microbiological research and food biotechnology. His main area of expertise is in the fields of food microbiology, food biotechnology, and food safety. Pasquale Russo is co-founder of Promis Biotech s.r.l. a spin off incubated at the University of Foggia (Foggia, Italy), mainly active in the field of food biotechnology; selection, characterization and production of yeasts and bacteria for the agro-food sector.

Dr. Pasquale Russo Research interest includes Food microbiology, Food biotechnology, and Food safety. His current research deals with design of autochthonous starter cultures tailored for traditional fermented foods; characterization of probiotic bacteria; formulation of functional foods; antimicrobial activity of food-grade bacteria; detection and control of foodborne pathogenic microorganisms; biofilm formation and control; selection of natural overproducing riboflavin Lactic Acid Bacteria (LAB) strains for the in situ bio-fortification of fermented foods; metagenomic, proteomic, and comparative genomic of LAB; gene regulation under abiotic stress in microorganisms of industrial interest.

Dr. Shaik Abdul Hussain is currently working as Scientist at Dairy Technology Division, ICAR-NDRI, Karnal. He has obtained his B.Tech. (Dairy Technology) degree from Osmania University, Kamareddy, Telangana and Master’s & Doctoral degrees (Dairy Technology) from ICAR-NDRI, Karnal. Dr. Hussain is currently involved in teaching of several under graduate and post-graduate courses of Dairy Technology viz. Market milk, Ice Cream & Frozen Desserts, Advances in Dairy Processing, Rheology of Dairy & Food Products and Product Monitoring & Process Control. Dr. Hussain is presently working in the area of “Developing Functional Dairy Foods by applying Nanotechnology Interventions”. The author has got several awards and fellowships to his credit during his academic career, which include Pratibha Scholarship for 10+2 studies form Govt. of A.P., Gold Medal in B.Tech., Junior Research Fellowship (ICAR-JRF) for pursuing M.Tech. and Senior Research Fellowship (ICAR-SRF) for pursuing Ph.D. Dr. Hussain has guided two M.Tech. students and has authored several research papers, review articles and book chapters.

Dr. Shaik Abdul Hussain Research interest includes Functional dairy foods, Herb supplementation in dairy products, Nano/Micro delivery systems for enhancing the functionality in food products, Probiotic fermented milk products.

Dr. Marco Iammarino is a Food Technologist and Chemical Surveyor. Since 2002, he is a Researcher of Istituto Zooprofilattico Sperimentale della Puglia e della Basilicata (IZS-PB) of Foggia (Italy). Currently, he is employed as Principal Investigator at National Reference Centre for Detection of Radioactivity in Feed and Foodstuff of IZS-PB. He deals about food quality and safety, analytical chemistry applied to food analysis, research & development and analytical methods validation. In particular, he has developed several analytical methods (HPLC, HPIC, CE, LSC, TLC, ELISA) for the determinations of food additives (nitrites, nitrates, sulphites, polyphosphates, organic acids, etc.), radionuclides, mycotoxins, pesticides and drug residues in foods and feed materials. He has published more than 100 articles in peer-reviewed and Academic Journals, Congress Proceedings and books. The H index of Marco Iammarino has reached 10 and citation exceeded 226 (source: Scopus). He has carried out the activity of reviewer for 49 International Journals

Dr. Marco Iammarino Research interest includes Food Safety, Analytical Chemistry, Food Chemistry, Food Science & Technology, Analytical Methods Development and Validation.

Dr. Silvia Di Giacomo received her degree in Pharmacy in 2009 and the title of "PhD in Toxicology" in 2014 at Sapienza University of Rome. Here she worked as Postdoctoral Fellow from 2014 at present. Along these years, she carried out two research period abroad: from November 2012 to May 2013 at the Institute of Pharmacy and Molecular Biotechnology of Heidelberg University (Germany), while from February 2016 to July 2016 at the Department of Physiology and Pharmacology of Salamanca University (Spain). She collaborated to various research projects (2011-2015) and in 2016 she obtained a University grant as a Principal Investigator.

Dr. Silvia Di Giacomo main research interest is to evaluate the possible inhibition by natural substances of the efflux pumps (ABC transporters) involved in multidrug resistance and of the pathways related in their overexpression in cancer cells. She is author of 16 papers published in peer-reviewed journals and referee for several international journals.

Dr Ramana Sundara, PhD (Food Science), MSc (Food Technology), MA (Management), PGCE, BSc (Agriculture) is specialised in agri-food technologies and sustainable nutrition. He is a Fellow and Chartered Scientist of the Institute of Food Science and Technology (UK). Dr Ramana Sundara is a Programme Leader in Agri-food Technology based at the Lincoln Institute for Agri-Food Technology, University of Lincoln. He has been actively involved in food research for over 25 years. His early research work at the Defence Food Research Laboratory (India) was to develop quick cooking and survival rations for Armed Forces. He then worked at the Federal Research Centre for Nutrition, Karlsruhe (Germany) as an Alexander von Humboldt Post-doctoral Research Fellow. Dr Sundara then joined as a Research Scientist at Nestlé Research Centre, Lausanne (Switzerland) in 1995. He subsequently worked as a Group Leader for Confectionery at Nestlé Product Technology Centre, York (Nestle PTC), and responsible for developing and launching new products in various countries. In addition, he also led the External Research Collaborations portfolio at Nestle PTC including the supervision of PhD studentships. He secured around £2m funding from BBSRC, EPSRC, Innovate UK and successfully managed multi-disciplinary projects. He has authored over 50 scientific papers and 6 patents, with an emphasis on chemistry and processing technology of fruits / vegetables, dairy and chocolate products

Dr Ramana Sundara research includes Agri-food Technologies & Nutrition

Dr. Mehmet Akif Sahin has received his MSc degree in Nutrition and Dietetics and continue his Ph.D. degree in Sports Nutrition at University of Chichester (UK) & Hacettepe University (Turkey). His thesis titles in MSc and Ph.D. degrees are: 1) The relationship between diet quality and life quality in adults. 2) Effect of New Zealand blackcurrant extract on walking-induced whole-body fat oxidation in males. He works as a research assistant at Department of Nutrition and Dietetics, Hacettepe University. He had a two project with the collaboration of University of Chichester and Hacettepe University. The project titles are: 1) Effect of New Zealand blackcurrant extract on substrate oxidation and cycling performance in normobaric hypoxia. 2) Effect of Matcha green tea drinks on fat oxidation during brisk walking in females.

Dr. Mehmet Akif Sahin research interests are Sports Nutrition, Ergogenic Aids, Antioxidants, Exercise Physiology, Public Nutrition and Clinical Nutrition

Dr. Alessia Cavaliere was born in 1983. She received her PhD in Agricultural Economics (Doctoral Schools in Innovation technology for agro-food and environmental sciences) at the University of Milan in 2010. At present she is Assistant professor in Agriculture and Food Economics at the Department of Environmental Science and Policy of the University of Milan. She accomplished several teaching activities and has been the supervisor of several students for their theses. At present, she teaches at the University of Milan several classes, namely, ‘Food Economics and European Legislation’, ‘Food Economics and Policy’, and ‘Economics and Innovation in the Food Industry’ for the Master degree in ‘Human Nutrition and Food Science’ and Master degree in ‘Food Science and Technology’. During the PhD she has been visiting researcher at the ‘Centre de recerca en economia i desenvolupament agroalimentari’ CREDA UPC-IRTA of Barcelona (Spain). She presented several works at national and international congresses and she participated as researcher to numerous national and international research projects, among which: Long Life, High Sustainability - Shelf Life Extension as tool of sustainability; CAPINFOOD - Improving the enabling environment and public awareness for innovation in the South-East-European food sector through transnational collaborative’; TRUEFOOD - Traditional United Europe Food’; MOSE4AGROFOOD - Mobile Services for Agro Food’. She has been selected as referee for many international journals and took part to the Local Organizing Committee of the 29th International Conference of Agricultural Economists ‘Agriculture in an Interconnected World’, held in Milan in August 2015

Dr. Alessia Cavaliere main research interests and fields of specialization are related to the study of consumer behavior, the economic aspects of obesity, and information-based food policy.

Dr. Francesco Bimbo holds a Ph.D. from Wageningen University (The Netherlands) and he is currently appointed as a post-doc researcher at University of Foggia (Italy). He received a rigorous training in empirical industrial organization and food marketing during his Ph.D. at Wageningen University as well as during his research experiences in the many institutions during his career at Penn State University (USA) and University of Naples Federico II (Italy). His background also includes a mix of food science and business management acquired during the many vocational periods.The research interests in which Dr. Bimbo is currently .Additionally, he has well-documented records of publications on top published journals in the field of the agricultural economics as well as he has well-documented teaching records in Corporate Finance Management and Business and Finance Management at Wageningen University. Further, he is currently involved in several research projects in collaboration with many European Institutions.involved are two: the first research area is about the organization and the economy of the food-supply chains, with a focus on short food-supply chains. The second area of research is on the economics of credence attributes on food products. Such subjects are explored from different angles, using multiple types of data (e.g., market data, survey data and data collected through the use of virtual simulated reality), data are then analyzed through the use of empirical econometrics approaches.

Dr. Francesco Bimbo Research interest includes Agricultural Economics, Supply Chain, Quantitate Methods for Agriculture.

Dr Thaisa M Cantu-Jungles is a Post-doctoral researcher in the Depatment of Biochemistry and Moleular Biology at Universidade Federal do Paraná, Brazil. She obtained her Bachelor in Nutrition at Pontificia Universidade Católica do Paraná, Brazil. She has earned her master and Ph.D. in Biochemistry at Universidade Federal do Paraná, Brazil with part of her Ph.D. research conducted in the Department of Food Science at Purdue University, USA. She is currently working in the area of structural characterization of carbohydrates from fruits and its applications in the biological field, especially as prebiotic agents. She was awarded by Elsevier best poster prize at the European Polysaccharide Network of Excellence (EPNOE) in 2013 and best oral presentation at the XXV Brazilian Congress of Food Science and Technology (CBCTA) in conjunction with the 10th International Food Symposium of CIGR (International Commission on Agricultural and Food Engineering) in 2016. She has authored several research papers and book chapters.

Dr Thaisa M Cantu-Jungles research interest includes in vitro fermentation models that mimic fermentation in the human gut, prebiotics, biological activities of dietary fibers and the elucidation chemical structure of carbohydrates from diverse sources.

Dr. Jeanette Balindong obtained her BSc degree in Agriculture from the University of the Philippines at Los Baños (UPLB) in 2005, and passed the licensure examination for Agriculture at the same year. She started her research career as a plant pathologist at Marsman-Drysdale Biotech and Research Corporation, Davao del Norte Philippines, and then became a research technician at the International Rice Research Institute (IRRI). Jeanette has various achievements during her tenure at IRRI. She was promoted as a researcher, received a full scholarship from the Rockefeller Golden Rice Project, obtained her MSc degree in Genetics in the UPLB and was hired back as assistant scientist by the institute. Jeanette gained deeper knowledge and practical experiences from working on various projects at IRRI dealing with drought resistance and rice biofortification using lysine, ferritin and iron-transporter genes as well as golden rice. She performed construction of overexpression vectors, gene silencing, DNA sequencing and tissue culture work. Jeanette's research interest has revolved around understanding and managing the different components of plant foods. Within this sphere, her research has encompassed increasing and diverse range of activities. Recently, she worked on rice grain proteins and its role in eating quality and grain breakage as her PhD project. Her research project involves identification of an improved extraction method and use of high performance liquid chromatography to characterise rice proteins, investigation of the relationship between rice grain protein composition and instrumental measures of rice cooking and eating quality, identification of the influence of the rice grain protein composition on HRY and determination whether nitrogen fertilisation impacts on the protein composition, and consequently HRY, in a subset of Australian rice genotypes. She has hands-on experience on molecular biology and analytical chemistry techniques used in plant science, specifically in the field of rice research. Jeanette is currently completing (or addressing minor comments from her examiners and preparing the final copy of her PhD thesis) a PhD degree in Plant Science at Southern Cross University (SCU), Lismore, NSW Australia and was offered an analytical officer position by Analytical Research Laboratory at SCU

Dr. Jeanette Balindong reserch interests are Agriculture and plant science.

Dr. Balkishan Sharma is a Professor in the Department of Community Medicine at Sri Aurobindo Medical College and P. G. Institute, Indore (Madhya Pradesh) India. He secured I Rank (M. Sc. Gold medalist) in Master of Statistics University examination of 1985. Additionally, He obtained a postgraduate degree of Master of Mathematics along with Bachelor of Education. He earned a Ph. D. degree awarded by Vikram University, Ujjain (Madhya Pradesh).He completed basic course in Medical Education Technology and have been invited as a resource person for various National level workshops. Twenty-six research papers have been published so far in international and national indexed journals. He has been served as an editor for six indexed journals and has been reviewing articles for various national and international journals. He attended, invited and presented papers at various forums both National & International levels.

The interested fields of research of Prof. Dr. Balkishan Sharma reserach Interests are biostatistics, stress, blood pressure, nutrition, lactation among post natal mothers, etc. His present research focuses on searching for stress, blood pressure difference and nutritional deficiencies among population and has been establishing significant risk factors helpful in assessment of early diagnosis of sever mortal diseases.

DR. PAUL C. CHIKEZIE is a Research Scientist/Lecturer at the Department of Biochemistry, Imo State University, Owerri, Nigeria. DR. PAUL C. CHIKEZIE holds a Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.) degree in Biochemistry, Master of Science (M.Sc.) degree in Medical Biochemistry/Immunochemistry and Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) degree in Medical Biochemistry, as well as Certificate in Advanced Digital Appreciation. DR. PAUL C. CHIKEZIE has over seventeen (17) years of research and cognitive experience in the academia with one hundred and two (103) scholarly publications, which include scientific articles in reputable international and local learned journals, as well as edited books and book chapter contributions.

DR. PAUL C. CHIKEZIE’s research interests encompass clinical enzymology/toxicology, oxidative stress, phytomedicine, food chemistry/nutritional biochemistry, polyphenol oxidases and haemoglobinopathies with emphasis on sickle cell anaemias.

Mr. Rehan I is Working as a Lecturer in the Department of Applied Physics at Federal Urdu University of Arts, Science, and Technology (FUUAST), Islamabad Pakistan and as a visiting lecturer in School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) ISRA University, Islamabad campus. He secured Bachelor of Science from University of Peshawar, Pakistan and a Master of Science in Physics at Hazara University, Pakistan. He achieved M.Phil in Applied Physics at FUUAST Islamabad, Pakistan. Rehan Imran have been awarded the Best Researcher of the year award (2018) by the Department of Applied Physics. Currently, he is serving as an Editorial board member (Advances in Nutrition and Food Science) Kosmos Publishers USA.

Mr. Rehan I Research interests includes Laser-Matter Interaction, Laser Spectroscopy, and Elemental Analysis.

Dr. Yimer Mihretie Adugna is a Lecturer and junior researcher in the department of Human Nutrition at Kotebe Metropolitan University, Ethiopia. He obtained Bachelor of Science in food science and postharvest technology in Haramaya University, Ethiopia and masters of Science in postharvest technology in Haramaya University, Ethiopia. He worked as lecture in the department of food science and nutrition for five years in Jigjiga University. In his stay of Jigjiga University, he worked many research projects and also he was certified by teaching methodology and statistical software training. He serves as editorial member and as reviewer of many international journals.

Dr. Yimer Mihretie Adugna is interested to many fields of research: food science and nutrition, food processing, human nutrition, food chemistry, postharvest technology, fruit and vegetable processing, meat and meat product processing, nutrition applications, food security, malnutrition, food microbiology and dairy technology. His earlier research project was focused on traditional food processing like making of Injera from different cereals and pulses, and cheese making from camel milk.

Dr. Anitha Vadekeetil is a Research Scientist in Winro Science Research Foundation, Tiruchirapalli, Tamil Nadu, India. She obtained Bachelor of Science in Biotechnology from Calicut University, Kerala, India and a Master of Science in Biotechnology from Bharathidasan University, Tiruchirapalli, Tamil Nadu, India. She earned Advanced Post Graduate Diploma in Plant Genetic Engineering from Madurai Kamaraj University, Madurai, India. She is awarded Doctorate Degree in Microbiology at Panjab University, Chandigarh, India. She has presented her work at various National and International Conferences. She has been awarded Young Researcher Award at 3rd International Conference and Exhibition on Pharmacognosy, Phytochemistry and Natural Products, Hyderabad in 2015, Research Assistant scholarship from Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR), New Delhi for a period of 2011-2014 and with UGC fellowship for completing the course of Post M.Sc. Advanced Diploma in Plant Genetic Engineering for a period of one year (2009-2010). She has published a number of research papers in various reputed international journals.

Dr. Anitha Vadekeetil is interested in the fields of Biotechnology, Microbiology and Molecular Biology. Her present interests are in the area of Biofouling, Biodegradation, and Biomaterials.

Dr. M. Balasubramanyam, (PhD., MNASc., FAPASc) is at present Dean of Research Studies & Senior Scientist at the Madras Diabetes Research Foundation (MDRF), Chennai, India. He obtained his PhD degree in 1987 from Sri Venkateswara University, Tirupati. During 1991 to 1995, he worked as a Post-Doctoral Scientist at the Hypertension Research Center of the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey (UMDNJ), Newark, USA on “Cell signaling & Molecular Medicine aspects with special reference to diabetes’. During 1996-99, he served as a faculty at the Center for Biotechnology, Anna University, Chennai. He joined the Madras Diabetes Research Foundation in 1999 and instrumental in many of its academic developments including infrastructure capacity building for basic/clinical sciences and translational studies. He has over 115 original research publications and many awards to his credit. He edited a few special volumes on recent trends in diabetes research in Current Science as well as Indian Journal of Medical Research. He is also an elected Member of the Asia-Pacific International Molecular Biology Network (A-IMBN), Member of the National Academy of Sceinces (MNASc), Fellow of Andhra Pradesh Akademi of Sciences (FAPASc), Fellow of the Indian Association of Biomedical Scientists (IABMS) and Secretary of the Madras Science Foundation (MSF). He has received the prestigious ‘Endeavour Executive Fellowship’ from the Education Department of Govt. of Australia. Dr.Balu serves as an Expert Committee member in many funding agencies of Govt. of India. He is a strong supporter of all components of DST-INSPIRE programs and served as an Expert Committee Member –Southern Region for DST-INSPIRE Fellows. His laboratory research integrates physiological and pharmacological approaches with biochemical and molecular biological techniques (transcriptomics, miRNA, RNAi, epigenetics, metagenomic, metabolomics) to study mechanisms underlying development and progression of diabetes and its associated complications. Under his leadership, his research team has meticulously utilized and transformed the Diabetes-based epidemiological studies in to successful molecular epidemiology investigations and demonstrated ‘the clinical significance and subclinical relevance of cellular stress signals (oxidative stress, inflammation, ER stress, miRNA dysregulation, accelerated senescence and telomere shortening) in patients with Type 2 diabetes.

Dr. M. Balasubramanyam research interests are Stem cell applications including immunomodulation; Unraveling mechanisms of hyperglycemic memory, Role of Endocrine Disruptors in diabetes; Bioprospecting herbal molecules; Investigations to expose molecular benefits of Yoga; Non-invasive point-of-care (POC) clinical measures and medical devices. He is a visiting fellow of several international institutions including Deakin University, Australia; Seoul National University, South Korea; University of Warwick, UK & Denmark and continues to foster and advance in diabetes research by establishing international collaborative research initiatives. Dr.Balasubramanyam serves as Member Secretary of the Institutional Human Ethics Committee of MDRF for more than a decade. He is an active reviewer of research grants/projects/manuscripts both at the national and international level. Dr.Balu’s team is one of the very strong groups working on Molecular Aspects of Metabolic Disorders in the country.

Dr. Cyanam Anjali Devi is currently working as a visiting Professor, Department of Food and Nutrition, OU, University College for Women (Autonomous), Koti, Hyderabad, India .Member of the working group and technical committees as a representative of the Osmania University and Sri Padmavathi Mahila University. Tirupati Member of working groups and technical committees as representative of Osmania University in conferences related Food Nutrition and Dietetics. Author of 15 publications, , coauthored 10 publications in peer reviewed journals , 10 books , and over 100 publications and international and national journals , conferences proceedings in USA, Australia, Singapore, Indonesia, Amsterdam. Organized, attended workshops, seminars, conferences, Nominated as Member: XIth Plan National Policy Subgroup - All India Coordinated Research Project in Nutrition 2000, State Research Board - Life Sciences by AP State Council for Higher Education, for Award of Padma Sri, associate member of AP Academy of Sciences

Dr. Cyanam Anjali Devi BUILDING A HEALTHY COMMUNITY : Sports Nutrition,therapeutic nutrition, on management diabetes, obesity, tackling undernutrition among children , pregnant and lactating mothers

Dr. Vineeta Sharma is the Principal Consultant at Xpedite Pharma Solutions. Xpedite is a life sciences consulting company dedicated to providing regulatory, clinical data management and scientific writing support to advance treatment for diabetes, cancer and other metabolic disorders. Dr. Sharma holds a PhD from AIIMS, New Delhi and postdoctoral training from University of Michigan and UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospital Oakland. She has published several peer-reviewed articles and book chapters in the field of metabolic disorders, obesity, diabetes, hematology and gene therapy. Over the years her research was mainly focused on metabolic disorders, gene therapy and biomarker discovery. Additionally, Dr. Sharma has also worked in startups, mid-size and fortune 500 companies, and in the areas of R&D, project management, product development, business development, regulatory affairs and clinical trial management. She is an advisor and board of director of life sciences startups

Dr. Sharma’s research interest lies in cancer research, cell and gene therapy, nutrition, obesity and related metabolic or cardiovascular disorders. She is an expert in clinical diagnostics and acts as a liaison between academic research and it’s therapeutic and industrial applications

Dr. Juciano Gasparotto is a researcher in the department of Biochemistry at Federal university of Rio Grande do Sul/Brazil. He obtained Bachelor of Physical Education at University Luterana do Brasil-ULBRA. Post-graduation in physiology of exercise and training prescription by University Gama Filho of Rio de Janeiro/Brazil. Master and PhD in Biological Sciences - Biochemistry at Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul/Brazil. Currently is linked to the national postdoctoral program of CAPES/Brazil

Dr. Juciano is interested fields of research are investigation of neuronal dysfunctions associated with inflammatory processes, Immuno-neutralization of proteins, pharmacological agents, diets, physical exercise, and neuropathologies that the inflammation is involved.

Dr. Muhammad Akram is currently working as Assistant Professor in the Department of Eastern Medicine at Government College University Faisalabad, Pakistan. He has done his Ph.D. from Hamdard University Karachi-Pakistan in 2013. He had experience as a Chairman in the Department of Eastern Medicine and Surgery, University of Poonch, Rawalakot Azad Kashmir from 2015-2017.Dr. Muhammad Akram received many honors and awards during his carrier. He serves as Editor and invited Reviewer of several national and international Journals. He has numerous publications and presentations. And he is acting as an active member of several professional societies.

Dr. Muhammad Akram’s research interest includes Hyperuricemia, Xanthine oxidase inhibition by some selected medicinal plants, Enzyme Inhibition, Study of traditional system medicine (Indusyunic Medicine) Phytochemistry, and poisonous plants. Bioactivity and phytopharmaceutical evaluation of herb drugs and their natural products, Medicinal plants and Clinical trial, Biochemistry, Bioinformatics.

Dr Zoran M Pavlovic received his MD degree in 1992, and board certification in Psychiatry in 2002., both from the Medical School, University of Belgrade, Serbia. He has 25 years of global therapeutic expertise in psychiatry and neurology, in areas of Movement, Cerebrovascular disorders, Alzheimer’s and Frontotemporal Dementia, Neuropathic Pain, Schizophrenia, Major Depression, Bipolar Disorder, Anxiety, ADHD, Substance Use and Impulse Control Disorders. He also has 15 years of CNS international clinical research expertise as a medical investigator, medical monitor, medical advisor and regulatory officer. Dr Pavlovic is a Member of Editorial Boards of several peer-reviewed CNS Journals. Furthermore, he is the author of one of the first articles describing the treatment of antipsychotic-induced weight gain, published in the Official Journal of European Psychiatric Association. Dr Pavlovic is currently working as Nutritional Neuroscience Consultant specialized in Nutritional Cognitive Neuroscience and Nutritional Psychiatry, with scientific focus on Healthy Brain Aging, and effects of nutrition on Cognitive Functioning and Mood at Workplace. Dr Pavlovic is a regular Member of the Nutrition Society."

Dr Pavlovic research interest are Nutraceuticals; Nutritional Cognitive Neuroscience; Nutrient Biomarkers; Nutritional Psychiatry and Workplace Nutrition Interventions.

Dr. Ramamohana R. Appannagari has got very good academic qualifications and completed master’s Degrees in environmental Ecology and PhD from Sri Krishnadevaraya University, Anantapur, Andhra Pradesh and Madras University, Madras (now Chennai) India respectively. Dr. Appannagari has been working for CHEMTEX Environmental &Industrial Hygiene Laboratory, Port Arthur, Texas and rendering environmental services to various clients in and around Golden Triangle and South East Texas. Dr. Appannagari is not only a dedicated professional in Environmental Services but also associated with various Research programs, which are directly related to Environment. I am extremely pleased to record here that he was conferred with the Best worker and proved by himself through active involvement in different Environmental research studies especially Laboratory sample analyses, field studies and samples collection. Dr. Appannagari is an active member in Environmental based organizations like American Water Works Association (AWWA) Environmental Protection Agency(EPA)Texas Environment, Galveston Bay Foundation, Houston Climate Movement and contributing best to keep the Environment safe. Dr. Appanngari demonstrated a value in the field of Environment by doing Research and publishing his findings in National and International Journals. Dr. Appannagari has done survey on Environmental deterioration which is published in International Journal of Applied Research has drawn the attention of many Ecologists to understand water conservation in certain regions of Andhra Pradesh state in India. Some of his notable publications on Environment are “Ecological Imbalances causes and consequences, Environmental policy Transformation in India, Chemical in Food by Journal of Nutrition &Food Science, Biodiversity and its impacts on Agriculture and Human Life by North Asian International Research Journal Consortium etc. Dr. Appannagari has considerable experience in environmental ecology and his experience and knowledge in this field immensely helpful for the better understanding of environmental pollution problems in USA. Dr. Appannagari has multifarious talents and qualifications in the Field of Environment, besides his analytical skills. He is currently rendering analytical services to various clients by reporting organic and inorganic contaminants in the matrices viz., Air, water, soil and sediment samples received from different Industries in around Texas, by using Gas Chromatograph interfaced with Mass selective detector/Flame Ionization Detector and HPLC. Dr. Appannagari’s has also actively participating in community development activities through Red Cross, Texas Gulf Coast Region and Galveston bay Foundation, Houston Climate Movement, Texas Environment for conservation of better Environmental conditions

Dr. Ramamohana R. Appannagari Research of interests is in ecology

Dr. Firoj A. Tamboli is earned Ph.D in Pharmacy from Shivaji University, Kolhapur, India. He is working as Assistant Professor at Bharati Vidyapeeth College of Pharmacy, Kolhapur, Maharashtra, India. He has more than 18 years of teaching and research experience. He has published number of papers in reputed national and international journals and has been Member of APTI. He serves as an Editorial board member of more than 7 international Journals.

: Dr. Firoj A. Tamboli is earned Ph.D in Pharmacy from Shivaji University, Kolhapur, India. He is working as Assistant Professor at Bharati Vidyapeeth College of Pharmacy, Kolhapur, Maharashtra, India. He has more than 18 years of teaching and research experience. He has published number of papers in reputed national and international journals and has been Member of APTI. He serves as an Editorial board member of more than 7 international Journals.

Dr. Sharma is a Neonatologist at Hennepin County Medical Center and Assistant Professor in the Department of Pediatrics at University of Minnesota, USA. He received his medical training at Post Graduate Institute of Medical Sciences in India, and pediatric residencies at Post Graduate Institute of Medical Sciences and at Flushing Hospital Medical Center in NY, USA. Review article “Persistent Pulmonary Hypertension of Newborn," one of the Most Accessed article for the journal with more than 14,000 views and more than 70 citations. This article forms the backbone for the European Society of Neonatology and the University of Southampton postgraduate course on pulmonary hypertension.

Dr. Sharma’s research interests are Transitional Fetal-Neonatal Circulation, Placental Transfusion, Neonatal Hemodynamics, Neonatal Resuscitation, and Neonatal Abstinence Syndrome. His ongoing research title “Clonidine as an adjunct to morphine in the management of term and near-term infants with neonatal abstinence syndrome,” randomized study to see if early initiation of clonidine affects the outcome of infants with Neonatal Abstinence Syndrome

Dr. Saijuddin Shaikh is an Associate in Department of International Health, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, USA. He acquired Bachelor of Science in Physiology at Burdwan University, India and a Master of Science in Physiology at Vidyasagar University, India. He obtained Master in Public Health (MPH) at Mahidol University, Thailand. He earned his PhD in nutrition at Calcutta University, India. He was a Postdoctoral Associate at University of Illinois at Chicago, USA. He is a visiting scientist, Society for Applied Studies, India and guest lecturer at Department of Human Physiology, Vidyasagar University, India. He is a frequent speaker at different scientific seminar, conference and meeting in country and aboard and has been awarded as a best presenter from different conferences. He has several publications in peer review international journals.

Dr Shaikh is interested in the fields of research are public health nutrition and body composition. He has more than 15 years of professional experiences in these research fields. He does also research on adolescent health and nutrition in developing countries. His present research focuses on nutritional supplementation to the women before and during pregnancy and explore the effect of supplementation on birth outcome.

Dr. Carmen Carrero currently work as a research professor at the Simon Bolívar University in Barranquilla, Colombia. He studied Nutrition and Dietetics in Venezuela, then he did Post Graduate in Clinical Nutrition Adult - Child, later he got a Doctorate (PhD) in Health Sciences, he got Diplomas in Breastfeeding Counseling, Research Methodology, realization of articles of research, Parenteral Nutrition, Nutritional Support in critically ill patient, Anthropometric evaluation in children, Adult Obesity and others related to the area in question, he have been a speaker for different Congresses of National and International Nutrition. Work for 22 years as coordinator of nutritional recovery units for undernourished children and coordinate for a long time the nutritional area of critical care units (Enteral and parenteral Nutritional Support), he is a thesis advisor of pre and post-graduate Nutrition and food safety.

Dr. Carmen Carrero Currently Researcher in Adult and Child Clinical Nutrition. In addition, a researcher in breastfeeding. His research and published studies have revolved around the subject in Nutrition, Food, Nutritional State, Nutritional Supplementation in Children and Adults.

Dr. Sarina Md Yusof is a Senior Lecturer at University Technology MARA, Malaysia, was formerly Chair of Postgraduate Studies in Faculty of Sport Science and Recreation. She lectures Exercise Physiology to Postgraduate and Undergraduate students in the faculty as well as Research Methodology. She is actively in research ethics at university level and appointed the Chair of Human Research Ethic at National Sport Institute. She is a GCP certified sport scientist. She earned a bachelor of Education in Physical Education and Master of Science at and a doctorate in Exercise Physiology from the National University of Malaysia

Dr. Sarina’s research interest focuses on therapeutic exercise in combating obesity among females. She is currently involved in genetic studies related to performance.

Dr. Suhas Machhindra Gaikwad was United Nations (UNESCO)Research Head and chairperson or chair at WED-2018 Jinan, China. He is “Internationally renowned Researcher, Scientist Expert in Engineering and Technology “Called as a chairperson for the research conference held in, 2015-2016- 2017-2018 from different parts of world like Sweden, Germany, Japan, Russia, Holland China, Taiwan, Indonesia, Bali, Malaysia and Singapore. He has European Union Doctors Head in Sweden 2017. He Got Best International Researcher Award from ISORD held on Mumbai 2018. He serves as Editorial Board Member for More than 5 international Journals. He serves as Medical Science Reviewer for MBBS Scientific papers

Dr. Suhas Gaikwad intersted filed of reserch are Soft Computing like System Dynamics, Vehicle Dynamics, AHP,ANP, AI(Artificial Intelligence),Clustering ,Data Mining. Dr.Suhas Machhindra Gaikwad

Mr. Naveen Jose is a M Tech Research Scholar in the Department of Dairy Engineering at ICAR-National Dairy Research Institute, Bengaluru. He obtained Bachelor of Technology in Dairy Science and Technology at Kerala Veterinary and Animal Sciences University, Kerala. He has been awarded with Best Outgoing Student Award, CDST (2017), Deans Merit Certificate, NDRI (2017), University Gold Medalist, KVASU (2017).

Mr. Naveen Jose is interested in fields of research such as Dairy Engineering, Dairy Technology, Food Engineering & Technology, Agri Process Engineering, Nutrition. His present research focuses on studying the Engineering Properties and Sorption Behavior Analysis of Dry Crystallized Palada Payasam mix.

Dr. Gajanan P. Deshmukh (Ph. D. Research Scholar) National Dairy Research Institute NDRI-SRS, Bengaluru, India. He obtained Bachelor in Dairy Technology in College of Dairy Technology, Warud (Pusad) at MAFSU University, India and a Master of Technology in Dairy Engineering at SMC College of Dairy Science, Anand at Anand Agricultural University Gujrat, India. Currently he Perceiving Ph.D. in Dairy Engineering at National Dairy Research Institute, ICAR-NDRI-SRS, Bangalore, India. He is Recipients of award winner “Processed Indian Tradition foods PhD Student Research Promotion Program sponsored by Tata Trusts and Nestle in recognition of work on “Design and Development of Mechanical Unit for Dry Crystallization of Palada Payasam Mix”. Also awarded as First Year PhD Bursary (2016-17) cash Prize of 50 Thousand INR sponsored by Tata Trusts and Nestle for the research work of PhD of Program. He attainted and presented posters in many national and international conferences. He Publish 10 Research Paper, 10 Review paper, 2 book chapter, 23 popular article in national and International Journals. He also publish 5 full length paper, and 35 abstracts in International/National Conferences/Seminar/Workshop.

Dr. Gajanan P. Deshmukh is interested fields of research are Dairy Engineering Dairy and Food Technology, Dairy and Food Equipment Design, Food Safety and Quality Management and Food Nutrition. His present PhD. research work focuses on Design and Development of Mechanical Unit for Dry Crystallization of Palada Payasam mix

Dr. Hesam Kamyab is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the Department of Engineering at University Teknologi Malaysia (UTM). He obtained Bachelor of Veterinary Laboratory Science in Islamic Azad University at Mazandaran and a Master of Bioscience and Bioengineering (Biotechnology) at University Teknologi Malaysia (UTM). He earned PhD in Civil Engineering (Environmental Engineering) at University Teknologi Malaysia. He was Awarded the Young Water Professional Awards by International Water Association (IWAYWP) in 2014 at Taipei, Taiwan. Outstanding Reviewer Award in Journal of Cleaner Production (Elsevier) and Clean Technologies Environmental Policy (Springers) in 2017. He was appointed as the Editorial Board Member in Journal of Cleaner Production, Elsevier (IF: 5.651) following his active paper review role. He was appointed as a visiting researcher from University Illinois Chicago (UIC) in 2016. He has a chair in IWA Emerging Water Leader (EWL). He has published more than 50 papers in reputed journals and has been serving as an editorial board member of repute.

Dr.Hesam Kamyab is interested fields of research are Algal Biotechnology, Biofuel, Energy, Waste Water Treatment, Environmental Biotechnology, Bioconcrete-Self healing concrete, Veterinary science, Environmental Microbiology, Biocompost and Biorecycle

Dr. Muhammad Suhail Ibrahim is a Research Scholar at Institute of Food and Nutritional Sciences PMAS Arid Agriculture University Rawalpindi, Pakistan. He Doing PhD from Institute of Food and Nutritional Sciences PMAS Arid Agriculture University Rawalpindi, Pakistan. He passed M. Sc (Hons) Food Technology from University of Agriculture Faisalabad, Pakistan. He had fourteen years of working experience at different position Agriculture department, Banking sector, Monitoring and Evaluation. He obtained first position in Punjab Public Service Commission Examination held for the post of Agriculture Officer. He won gold medal from Habib Bank Limited for getting my targets. I have won merit scholarship throughout my academic career. He also experience of working with different projects initiated by the Agriculture department Government of the Punjab.

Dr. Muhammad Suhail Ibrahim is interested fields of research are functional food, nutraceutical, Nutritional biochemistry. And exploration of indigenous sources for their nutraceutical potential in order to manage the chronic disorder burden.

Dr. Marcello Menapace is a Researcher, Philosopher, Scientist, Medical/Technical Writer and Professional Regulatory Consultant. He has worked in the pharmaceutical industry for over 15 years as a Lead Consultant and Research Scientist for various biotech companies and is a Member of the professional organization TOPRA. He completed his first master’s Degree in Chemistry at the University of Milan (Italy); second master’s Degree in Business Administration (MBA) at the London School of Business and Finance in London (UK) and his PhD in Life Science at the H S University in Philadelphia, USA. He is the Director of M&Ms Consulting Ltd., a high-end consultancy service organization. He has been Honourable Speaker at various international conferences and is currently collaborating with biotech companies to publish other biological and chemical research manuscripts. He serves as editorial board member at the World Academy of Science, Engineering and Technology (WASET) for several disciplines.

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Dr. Alok Raghav is working at Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur as Project Scientist. He obtained Bachelor of Science in Chemistry Hons. at Aligarh Muslim University, India and a Master of Science in Biochemistry with specialization in Enzyme and Fermentation Technology at Aligarh Muslim University, India. He earned Ph.D. in Endocrinology at Faculty of Medicine, J.N Medical College, Aligarh Muslim University, India. He has been awarded several astonishing awards in various National and International conferences. He has published several articles in peer reviewed International Journals. He serves as an Editorial board member of more than 5 international Journals.

Dr. Alok Raghav is interested fields of research are Molecular Biology, Immunology, Food Nutrition, Tissue engineering, Food Toxicology and Biochemistry. His present area includes intensive therapies for diabetes care.

Dr. Isaac Williams Ofosu became a Snr Lecturer (2010) in the Department of Food Science and Technology at Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST), here, in Kumasi-Ghana. His first University education qualification started as a Biochemist. However, he was interested in the Food Sciences so he obtained his Masters in Food Science and Technology (2001). His work as a Lecturer started when he gained lectureship in 2002, having obtained considerable experiences in Ghana Education Service, teaching in high schools. He obtained his PhD in Food Science and Technology (June, 2018) on the topic “Consumption Patterns, Protein Quality and Hazards of Neglected and Underutilized Legumes (NULs) Utilization”. He serves as an Editorial board member and a Reviewer of a number of international Journals.

Dr. Ofosu’s teaching and interests is in the area of Food Systems Chemistry, Toxicology and Risks. Dr. Ofosu has a high passion for food toxicology and food systems risks assessment. He has a proven ability to use probabilistic assessment software for data analyses. In addition, he has a good working knowledge of fuzzy logic and modelling uncertain data and a first rate skills in response surface methods. His immediate research is into the presence of lead(Pb) in the diets of consumers. He is passionately concerned about toxicants and toxins flowing through our food chains and believes that if we build solid food toxicovigilance systems to protect our food sources, we probably shall reduce significantly our hospital bills

Dr. Ioannis K. Karabagias is a Chemistry graduate (Ptychion) of the University of Ioannina (2004). He earned his MSc. in Food Science and Technology from Ioannina University, Chemistry Department, Section of Industrial and Food Chemistry, Ioannina, Greece in 2008, while the year 2007-2008 he fulfilled his army duty. The period 2008-2010 he has worked as a chemist for PIRINAS S.A. crude olive oil industry in his hometown Kalamata, Messinia, Peloponnese, Greece, as teaching personnel in several high schools of Messinia and at the Technical Educational Institute of Kalamata, Department of Food Science and Technology, Laboratory of Chemistry and Biochemistry of Agricultural products. He was also a technical advisor for olive pits barbecue briquettes KLIMIS, VAS. & EK.KOTTARIDI, G.P years 2009-2010. The period 2010-2014 he was a PhD candidate at the University of Ioannina, Chemistry Department, Section of Industrial and Food Chemistry, and earned his PhD in Food Chemistry October 2014. Now he is a Post Doctoral researcher at University of Ioannina, Department of Chemistry, Laboratory of Food Chemistry and Technology. He has published 38 articles in International peer-reviewed Journals and one book chapter. He is a reviewer of more than 20 International peer-reviewed journals. His published work has attracted until now 311 citations (Research Gate metrics), having a Hirsch index=8.The years 2013-2015, he participated in the research project: ’’Authenticity of selected products from Epirus’’, funded by European and Greek funds.

Dr. Ioannis K. Karabagias research interests include: Food Chemistry, Food Authentication, Non Thermal Methods of Food Preservation, Food Microbiology, Food Analysis, Natural Antioxidants of Agricultural products, Nutritional Aspects of Foods, etc.

Dr. Navid Abedpoor is a researcher in the in Royan institute in Cellular Biotechnology lab, Iran. He obtained Bachelor of Science in food science at Khorasgan (Isfahan) Branch, Islamic Azad University, Iran and a Master of Science in Nutrition and sport Khorasgan (Isfahan) Branch, Islamic Azad University, Iran. He has been gotten Grant from National Instituted for Medical Research Development.

Dr. Navid Abedpoor is interested fields of research are Molecular Biology, Nutrition and Sport and Biochemistry. His present research focuses on searching for I am the senior researcher on a project tackling unraveling of the molecular mechanisms of a number of miRNAs, lnc RNA and Circular RNA to progress in diabetic, obesity and inactivity mice that induce with advanced glycation end products.

Dr. Hamza Malik Okuyan is currently a lecturer and a postdoctoral researcher in Hatay Mustafa Kemal University. Dr. OKUYAN earned his Diploma in Biology from the Mustafa Kemal University in 2009. He earned a Master of Science in Histology and Embryology from the Mustafa Kemal University in 2011. he received his Ph.D. from the department of medical biology and genetics at Gaziantep University in 2017. He serves as an Editorial board member of some international Journals.

Dr. H. Malik OKUYAN current works focus on the pathophysiology of osteoarthritis, bone-cartilage development, bone-mineral disorder as well as the molecular mechanism of novel vitamin k dependent proteins in human diseases. He conducts researches on in vitro and in vivo in the department of medical biology. His work is currently supported by a Grant from the Scientific Research Project Unit of Hatay Mustafa Kemal University.

Nutritionist Aradhana Dixit is the owner of Silence speaks…Spoken English and Personality Development Classes and Tutorials, Hoshangabad, India.Silence Speaks… caters to Management studies and caters to doctors, nutritionists for technical knowledge and anyone who wants to develop personality. She obtained Bachelor’s of Home Science, DAVV, Indore. (1993). She did Master’s degree in Food and Nutrition (MHsc) from DAVV, Indore (1996).She has done Diploma in Marketing Management, from AMA, Ahmadabad. She has done Senior Diploma in vocational sciences (kathak) from Prayag sangit samiti, Allahabad. (1984). She has achieved merit positions in academics. The Ministry of Human Resources honored her for her participation in Republic Day Parade, New Delhi.(1993). She has been honored consequently for two years for ‘samaj seva’ at local level. She has served MNCs and Indian Pharmaceutical companies in Brand Management. She has worked on over nutrition and under nutrition.

In Field of Nutrition and Research Nutritionist Aradhana Dixit is interested in field of Food and Nutrition and nutraceuticals.She has remained speaker in various National and International conferences. Has studied “ Effect of Spirulina in children aged 8-12 years”. She has written in various national and international journals. She is an upcoming writer.

Raffaele Pilla, Pharm.D., Ph.D., Doctor Europaeus, received his Master’s degree in Pharmacy at G.d’Annunzio University in Chieti-Pescara, Italy in 2005, where he also served internships at the Cell Physiology Laboratory and Molecular Biology Laboratory. Prior to his degree, he was an Erasmus Student at Faculté de Pharmacie de Reims in Reims, France. He received his Doctor Europaeus in 2010 from Pitié-Salpétrière Institute in Paris, France. Also in 2010, he received his Ph.D. in Biochemistry, Physiology, and Pathology of Muscle at G. d’Annunzio University in Chieti-Pescara, Italy. He was hired as a Postdoctoral Scholar in the Department of Pharmacology and Physiology at the University of South Florida in Tampa, on two research grants respectively funded by the Office of Naval Research (US Navy) and Divers’ Alert Network. He has written and lectured widely on his experiences. He has been involved in ongoing research at the University of South Florida with the use of ketone esters. The initial work, funded by the Office of Naval Research, focused on using ketone esters to prevent CNS oxygen toxicity. He is working to coordinate efforts in the United States and Italy to expand the etone ester research to other conditions such as epilepsy and cancer and its use as an alternative metabolic fuel. He has also served extensively in various international medical missions, orphan and homeless programs, emergency medicine rescue and training, and animal rescue and fostering. He is fluent in Italian, English, French, and Spanish. He has a special interest in journalism and photography, and he enjoys sailing, SCUBA diving, ultralight airplane piloting, soccer, volleyball, jogging, and motorcycles.

Dr. Raffaele Pilla Research interests are Neurology Epilepsy, Brain Cancers, Metastatic Cancers ,Ketone Esters adopted in the metabolic treatment of epilepsy and cancer, Ketogenic Diet administered in patients affected by epilepsy and cancer, Alzheimer’s disease, Glut 1 deficiency syndrome, Traumatic brain injury, Hyperbaric/hypobaric physiology, Hyperbaric/hypobaric chamber

Dr. Richard Kones received his MD degree from NYU School of Medicine, followed by cardiology training. During the course of his academic career he has held teaching appointments and received scholarships, awards, and grants. His work includes over 125 publications medical journals, books, presentations, and lectures. He serves as Fellow/member in various key medical organizations and societies, peer reviews and volunteers as a mentor, educator, and advocate of public health and nutrition advocacy initiatives. Over the years Dr. Kones’ biography has appeared in a number of editions of biographical registries. Among other awards, the American Physiological Society has recognized Dr Kones for sustained years of active service. He is an enthusiastic editor and peer reviewer in his field

Dr. Richard Kones Interests include the role of nutrition in diabetes type 2, hypertension, dyslipidemia, obesity, metabolic syndrome, inflammation, molecular and oxidative mechanisms, and optimizing patient outcomes; risk assessment and reduction; the unfulfilled potential of lifestyle, nutrition, social determinants of health and public health policies in preventing chronic diseases in additional to conventional therapies. A Interests include the role of nutrition in diabetes type 2, hypertension, dyslipidemia, obesity, metabolic syndrome, inflammation, molecular and oxidative mechanisms, and optimizing patient outcomes; risk assessment and reduction; the unfulfilled potential of lifestyle, nutrition, social determinants of health and public health policies in preventing chronic diseases in additional to conventional therapies.

Dr. Jestoni D. Maniago obtained his Doctor in Nursing Science degree at St. Paul University- Philippines and Doctor of Philosophy in Educational Administration major in Educational Administration and Leadership through VAE France. He is a member of the prestigious International Association for Human Caring, Watson Caring Science Institute, Sigma Theta Tau International Honor Society Pi Iota Chapter of Hong Kong Polytechnic University and a fellow of the esteemed International Society for Quality in Healthcare and Royal Institution Singapore. His research outputs on nursing, and higher education has been presented in various international research conferences and fora and received several research distinctions. At present, he is an assistant professor of nursing and serves as the coordinator for master of science in nursing program at Majmaah University, a premier governorate university in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. He serves as an editorial board member for nine international journals and member of the expert clinical advisory panel of NANDA International Inc., USA

Dr. Jestoni D. Maniago research interest intersects between caring science, micro organizational behavior and nursing education

Prof. Dr. Mahendra Pal, Ex-Professor of Veterinary Public Health (UNDP), Addis Ababa University, Ethiopia, is an internationally renowned scientist, and a well known distinguished academician with 612 publications and 8 books. Prof. Pal also worked as Professor and Head, Department of Veterinary Public Health, Anand Agricultural University, India. He is associated as Editor and Member of many online journals. Prof. Pal guided over 67 students at DVM, MVSc, MSc, and Ph.D. level in India and Ethiopia. He is credited to develop Pal’s medium, APRM medium, PHOL stain and Narayan stain for the study of fungi, which are implicated in the clinical disorders of humans and animals. Prof. Pal elucidated for the first time the role of Cryptococcus neoformans in the mastitis of goat and buffalo, Fusarium solani in corneal ulcer of buffalo, Aspergillus fumigatus in rhinitis of camel and mule, Trichophyton verrucosum in dermatitis of deer, and Candida tropicalis in human lung empyema. He has established for the first time the prevalence of Cryptococcus neoformans in the environment of New Zealand, Nepal, and Djibouti. Prof.Pal has reported the first isolation of Candida albicans from mastitic milk,and Trichophyton verrucosum in dermatitis of camel in Ethiopia. Prof. Pal launched the Ph.D. programme for the first time in Veterinary Public Health at Addis Ababa University, Ethiopia and also at College of Veterinary Science, Anand, Gujarat, India. His biography is published in World’s Who and Who. Prof. Pal is recipient of many award including “Distinguished Teacher Award”, “Jawaharlal Nehru Award”, “International Achievement Award”, and “ Life Time Achievement Award”. He delivered series of guest lecturers in medical and veterinary colleges in India, New Zealand, Japan, and Ethiopia. Prof. Pal is the “First Indian Veterinarian” who worked as “JSPS Visiting Scientist” at University of Tokyo, Japan. He is serving as Chief Editor, Editor, Associate Editor, and Member of the editorial board of over seventy online journals. Prof. Pal is “Life Member” of several scientific societies. He is invited by many International Associations to attend the Conference. Considering his immense contribution, Prof. Pal is known as “Father of Veterinary Mycology” in India. Very recently, he launched “Narayan Consultancy” on Veterinary Public Health and Microbiology to give free technical advice to scientists of poor resource countries of the world. In addition, Prof. Pal is doing charitable work for the needy and poor people in various ways from his personal money since 1970.

Dr. Mahendra Pal Research Interests includes Veterinary Public Health, Infectious diseases, Food microbiology, Epidemiology of zoonoses, Diagnosis of fungal infections, Dermatology, Ecology of mycotic pathogens, Food hygiene, Occupational zoonoses, Environmental health, Food safety.

Afees Adebayo Oladejo is an astute researcher in the field of Biochemistry with keen interest in Medical Biochemistry and Immunochemistry. He bagged his Bachelor of Science degree from Ekiti State University, Master’s degree in Medical Biochemistry and Toxicology from Afe Babalola University and Ph.D in Medical Biochemistry and Immunochemistry from Nnamdi Azikiwe University Awka, Nigeria. He has authored several research publications in numerous reputable peer reviewed international Journals. He serves as an Editorial board member and a reviewer for more than twelve international Journals with many certificate of excellence in reviewing to his credit.

The interested fields of research of Afees Adebayo Oladejo are Medical Biochemistry and immunochemistry, pharmacology and Human nutrition. His present research focuses on mechanism of actions of medicinal and nutritive plant parts in relation to chronic diseases. He is a well-trained, articulate and meticulous young researcher with vast experience in various biochemical techniques.

Dr. Nebiyu Lera Alaro obtained his PhD in public health from Central University of Nicaragua (in academic partnership with Texila American University). He is an International Public Health Specialist with more than twelve years of experience in humanitarian affairs associated with Maternal, New born and Child Health (MNCH), Research, Project Monitoring and Evaluation, Health System Strengthening, Quality Assurance and Capacity Building, with teaching/mentoring experience for public health students, staff and volunteers. He worked for Doctors with Africa – CUAMM Lake state, South Sudan as Technical Project Manager where he was responsible for providing leadership and overall guidance in project planning, implementation and monitoring/evaluation including direct technical support; (training and mentoring) to staff, towards achieving effective participatory and sustainable implementation, of primary and secondary health care system at all levels. He presently works Health Support Organaization – THESO as Country Program Director, South Sudan. Dr. Nebiyu has been involved in many public health field works and operational researches. He has research publications on various medical and public health issues to his credit. He is known for commitment to excellence that is evident through all aspects of his work. He is innovative, demonstrates respect for others, passionate about his work and has a strong sense of accountability. His contributions have helped dramatically improve the reproductive health, child health, Expanded Program on Immunization (EPI), surveillance, prevention and treatment of Communicable and Non-Communicable Diseases (NCDs), health promotion, nutrition therapy program (as funded by USAID, HPF, WFP, UNICEF, Japan Plat fourm and Italian Cooperation funds) including evaluation system in South Sudan. The improvements reported in the external quality scores under his leadership have been simply dramatic. Importantly, Nebiyu is dedicated to mentoring students, interns, staff and volunteers.

Dr. Nebiyu research interests include International public health, Maternal, Newborn and Child Health (MNCH), Reproductive Health, Impact evaluation of humanitarian care/interventions, Child nutrition, Vaccine Preventable Diseases (VPDs), Expanded Program on Immunization (EPI) and Disaster management

Dr. Poorna CR Yalagala is a Postdoctoral Research Associate in the Department of Medicine at University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, USA. He earned Ph.D in Biochemistry at CSIR-Central Food Technological Research Institute, India. His long term basic research was deeply focused Synthesis of Lipids, Blending of Dietary Oils, Dietary Studies in Mice, Rats and Rabbits, Lipid Oxidation, Membrane Lipids, Lipid Biochemistry and Lipid Immunology. He is expert in identifying the molecular mechanisms affected by dietary lipids, by using Gas chromatography/ Mass Spectrophotometry, Thin Layer Chromatography, Western Blotting, PCR and Cell Culture experiments etc. His research is also focused in product development, bioactive compounds and nutrition. Currently, he has 14 years of experience and published in 22 research articles in highly reputed journals, recently filed an US patent. He is Life member In Association of Food Scientists and Technologists, India (AFSTI), Nutrition Society of India (NSI), Indian Science Congress Association (ISCA), Society of Biological Chemists (SBC), and student member in American Society of Nutrition, International Society for the Study of Fatty Acids and Lipids (ISSFAL), American Oil Chemists society (AOCS).

Dr. Poorna CR Yalagala is interested in the field of Lipid Nutrition. Currently, he is focusing on synthesis of lysophosphatidylcholine form of omega-3 fatty acids for the prevention and treatment of neurological diseases like Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s, Multiple Sclerosis, Brain Stroke and Depression.

Dr. Reetika Singh working as National-Post-Doctoral fellow (N-PDF) in Department of Biochemistry, University of Allahabad awarded by DST-SERB, New Delhi. She obtained Bachelor of Science in Biology at University of Allahabad and Master of Science in Biotechnology at Chaudhary Charan Singh University, Meerut, UP, India. She has received Doctor in Philosophy in Biotechnology at Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, India. She has visited Zhejiang University, China as Indian young scientist in 2nd BRICS Young Scientist Forum in 2017. She has published nine book chapters with international publishers and several research papers in reputed International Journals. One authored book is under publication from Springer-Nature, India. She has attended several national and international symposia/ conferences and presented her research findings. She is acting as reviewer and editor in many reputed international journals. She is also member of couple of reputed scientific societies in India.

Dr. Reetika Singh is interested fields of research are Natural plant products isolation and characterization, Phytochemicals analysis, Biomedicine, Phytochemistry, Molecular Biology of plants and Nutritional value analysis. Her present research focuses on Pharmacological application of plant based products for the cure of anticancer and anti- HIV activity, anti-diabetic, wound healing.

Dr. Mansur Radjabov in 1989-1994 - studied at the Bukhara Technological Institute of Food and Light Industry 1994-1995 - Engineer of the Department "Fruit and Vegetable Industry" 1995-1997 - Master in the association Urgenchtransgaz 1997-1999 - Seller of Coca-Cola company Urgen branch 2001-2006 - Training master of the department "Fundamentals of Technology" Urgen State University 2006-2009 - Post-graduate student of the Bukhara Technological Institute of Food and Light Industry 2009-2011 - Lecturer at the Basics of Technology Department of Urgen State University 2011-2012 - Lecturer, Department of Chemical Technology, Urgen State University 2012 - Senior Lecturer, Department of Chemical Technology, Urgen State University 2013-2014 - Winner of the Erasmus Mundus "CANEM" grant in Las Palmas University (Spain) 2015-2016. Winner of the grant Erasmus Mundus "SILKROUT" in Padua University (Italy). 2017 to this day - associate professor of the department of food technology

Research Interests of Dr. Mansur Radjabov are primary processing of agricultural products, food safety and food technology

Dr. David J. Waters is Director of the Center for Exceptional Longevity Studies at the Gerald P. Murphy Cancer Foundation in West Lafayette, Indiana, USA. He is Professor Emeritus at Purdue University, where he served as Associate Director of the Center on Aging from 2000 to 2014. Dr. Waters earned his Bachelor of Science in biological sciences (concentration in human nutrition) and Doctor of Veterinary Medicine from Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, USA. He earned a PhD degree in comparative medicine from University of Minnesota, USA. Dr. Waters is internationally recognized as an expert in comparative biomedical research in the interdisciplinary fields of trace mineral nutrition, cancer, and aging who was selected as member of The National Academies of Sciences — Keck Futures Initiative Scientific Panel on Extending Human Healthspan. He is one of 125 fellows recognized worldwide as scientific expert (Biological Sciences Section) by The Gerontological Society of America. Dr. Waters has lectured on the impact of nutrition on cancer and aging at international scientific conferences in the USA, Europe, China, and South America. He is author of more than 100 peer-reviewed manuscripts in a variety of high-impact scientific journals and an award-winning teacher. His 2013 TEDx talk (https://youtu.be/XS9fiDn4Qo8) highlights research on healthy aging and examines how language limits the scientific method and impacts the way we respond to new information.

Dr. David J. Waters has research interest in the fields of aging, cancer, and comparative medicine. His current research focuses on the genetic, nutritional, and environmental determinants of highly successful aging and cancer resistance in humans and companion animals.

Dr. Mukesh Meena is Assistant Professor in Department of Botany, Mohanlal Sukhadia University, Udaipur, Rajasthan, India. He did his post-doctoral research from Department of Biotechnology, Faculty of Science, Hamdard University, New Delhi - 110062, India. His areas of research and work expertise are; plant-microbial interactions, fungal biology, toxic metabolites, plant-pathogen interaction and fungal bio-molecules. He did his M.Sc. (Botany) and Ph.D. (Botany) degree in Department of Botany, Banaras Hindu University. Dr. Meena’s research work is focused on “Physiological and biochemical changes induced in tomato by Alternaria alternata and its phytotoxic metabolites.” Dr. Meena is well versed with culture techniques and taxonomy of fungi as well as various analytical tools relevant to mycopathological research. He is the active member of various scientific societies such as Mycological Society of India (MSI), The Indian Science Congress Association (ISCA), The Association of Microbiologists of India (AMI), Asian PGPR Society of Sustainable Agriculture, and The IRED (Institute of Research Engineers and Doctors). He has been honored with several fellowship awards in his career including Rajiv Gandhi National Fellowship (RGNF), UGC Research Fellowship in Science for meritorious students under the RFSMS Scheme. He has been awarded best paper presentation award in the Fourth International Conference on Advances in Applied Science and Environmental Technology – ASET, Bangkok, Thailand in 2016. Dr. Meena has many peer reviewed publications. He has authored of several research articles/books related to isolation and characterization of fungal toxins, applications of fungal glucose oxidase, fungal toxins, production and technological applications of enzymes from microbial sources, beneficial microbes for disease suppression and plant growth promotion.

Resaerch Interests of Dr. Mukesh Meena are Plant-Microbial Interactions, Fungal Biology, Toxic Metabolites, Plant-Pathogen Interaction, Fungal Bio-Molecules, Plant-Growth Promoting Rhizobacteria (PGPR), Biocontrol, Heavy Metal Stress Management in Plants, Food and Nutrition Science and Technology, and Ecological Aspects

Vlaic (married name Marc) Romina Alina is a Assistant Prof. in the Department of Food engineering at University of Agricultural Sciences and Veterinary Medicine Cluj-Napoca, Romania, Faculty of Food Science and Technology. She has more than 8 years experience in exploitation of food science, development and optimization of functional food products, extraction and analysis of bioactive compounds (polyphenols, volatile oils, natural pigments, vitamins, proteins, fiber, essential fatty acids, sugars), and determination of food products quality parameters. She started the PhD stage (2012-2015) in the field of Agriculture (Title: Research on the assessment of biochemical evaluation for three plum varieties during fruit growth and development

Research Interests of Dr. Romina Alina are Food science, Food technology, Food safety , Biotechnology , Food chemistry , Sensory analysis , Molecular biology, Organic food, Nutrition, Functional Food

- Dr.Ghazi Daradkeh is a clinical dietitian supervisor in nutrition & dietetics department - AL Khor hospital – Hamad Medical Corporation – Qatar. Dr. Daradkeh participated in, national and international conferences as speaker, - Have many publications in international peer review journals, book chapters and author of one scientific book published on 2016 by nova publisher – USA. - Honorary lectures at Sultan Qaboos University - medical nutrition therapy i & ii courses in nutrition & dietetics – under and post graduate students - Coordinate & supervised (ACEND) internship nutrition & dietetics accreditation program at Qatar University since 2012 until now.

Research Interests of Dr. Ghazi Daradkeh are neuro nutrition, antioxidants, nutritional assessment, malnutrition

Mr.A. Poshadri is a National Topper of Food Technology in P. G and Ph. D entrance examinations conducted by ICAR, New Delhi. He has a decade of rich experience in R4D in food processing. Prior to joining in university, he was with R&D division of Bambino Agro Industries Ltd, Hyderabad. He successfully led development projects across diverse product formats of Extruded snacks, Millet's, Sweet Sorghum, Pasta, Noodles, Vermicelli, Instant meal mixes, Pickles, Savoury, RTE-snacks, Spices, Tastemakers and seasonings. Since, 2017 he has been involving in Seed to Plate Nutrition Sensitive Value Chain (NSVC) Developments in Pulses, Tomato and Millets at Tribal areas for sustainable agriculture and food secure future. Notable being his stint into ICRISAT, India. He played a key role in setting up of Food Research Laboratory in International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT) a component of Agribusiness Incubation and Innovation Plat Form (AIP). He also helped start-up companies like Vanjamma Agro Foods, Millinnova, Omshell Foods, and other companies like Marya Day, ABRL through consultation and launched innovative products under different brands. He co-authored 30 research papers and 2 text books. His book on “A Hand book for Food Techno’s” is the Bestselling books of New India Publishing agency, India in Agriculture and Allied sciences

Research Interests of Dr A.Poshadri are Malnutrition; Nutrition sensitive Agriculture; Non dairy Probiotics; Nutraceuticals; Functional foods; Nutrigenomics

Prof. Dr. Gabriela Cristina Chire-Fajardo, is working as researcher and associate professor of the Universidad Nacional Agraria La Molina (UNALM), Facultad de Industrias Alimentarias (FIAL), Departamento de Ingeniería de Alimentos (Peru). She graduated as a Food Engineer and Educator, also PhD in Nutrition and Magister in Food Science. 25-years of experience in cocoa and chocolate area, strong training in research and development of new products. Member of the technical committee for the standardization of cocoa and chocolate at INACAL (Peru). Reviewer of research articles in indexed scientific journals. Languages: English - Spanish – Portuguese.

Research Interest of Prof. Dr. Gabriela Cristina Chire-Fajardo is researching in (1) cacao, chocolate and confectionery technology, (2) optimization of processes, (3) physical and nutritional properties of food.

PhD student in Food, Nutrition and Health (Federal University of Bahia). Master in Food, Nutrition and Health (Federal University of Bahia). Specialist in Clinical Nutrition (Multiprofessional Residency in Health - 2015). Bachelor's Degree in Nutrition from the State University of Bahia (2011). Conducted a Professional Exchange Program in Clinical Nutrition at the University of Porto (Portugal), working in the areas of Endocrinology, Cardiology and Pulmonology at Hospital São João. Experience as a Clinical Nutritionist in a Multiprofessional Nutrition Therapy Team (EMTN) and performance in Homecare and home care focused on Enteral Nutritional Therapy (TNE). Experience in the treatment of morbid obesity in a hospital with a multidisciplinary team. In the moment, substitute professor of the Nutrition Course at the University of the State of Bahia (Clinical Nutrition area) and member of the Nutrition and Epidemiology Research Center at the School of Nutrition at the Federal University of Bahia (Area of cardiovascular risk factors in adolescents)

Risk factors and cardiovascular diseases; Pediatrics; Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis; Enteral Nutrition Therapy; Migraine.

Dr. Ashutosh Ranjan is a Research Associate in the Department of Biological Sciences and Bioengineering at Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, India. He obtained his Bachelor of Science degree in Zoology from Banaras Hindu University and Master of Science degree in Zoology from Banaras Hindu University. He completed his Ph.D. in Zoology from Banaras Hindu University. He was awarded best oral presenter and best research in an international conference on “Functional Biology in Molecular interaction” 2017, held at Lucknow, India. He has earned several recognitions in International and National research conferences and meetings

Dr. Ashutosh Ranjan is interested in the field of GPCR biology, Structural biology, Reproductive health, Endocrinology, Metabolic disorders, Physiology. His current research focuses on exploring structural complexity of GPCRs. His research interest also includes role of neuropeptides in regulation of male and female reproduction during different metabolic abnormalities like obesity and type-2 diabetes, polycystic ovarian syndrome (PCOS) etc.

Food Safety and Microbiology: He has been interested in methods to control, prevent or eliminate pathogenic bacteria associated with food products. He has been interested in developing a research program that centers in the contribution of microorganisms to the safety and quality of food. Research is underway to evaluate the effectiveness of non-thermal process such as ozone in combination with natural ingredients such as organic acids and antioxidants to improve the microbiological quality and reduce the risk of foodborne pathogens in fresh produce. His ultimate goal of my research program is to improve the quality, nutritional values and safety of food products. Food Bioprocess Technology: He has been working with the Department of Bio-system Engineering on the use of bioreactor for the production of food grade products such as organic acids, antimicrobial compounds, amino acids and vitamins using lactic acid bacteria and bifidobacteria. Food Fermentation and Biotechnology: He is manily interested in the impact of probiotic on human health. He would like to use proteomic approach to understand the global changes in protein expression of bifidobacteria and Lactobacillus. His initial observation has shown that these cultures induce a number of proteins when exposed to different growth conditions that have major impact on their functionality as probiotics. This approach would help to better understand how probiotic cultures as functional foods could influence the gut health and eventually human health.

Food microbiology, food safety, fermentation, dairy food technology, probiotics/prebiotics/ synbiotics

Nutritionist for the Zimbabwe Olympic Committee: Medical Commission and St John’s College Zimbabwe. Currently the Editor-In-Chief for Africa Researchers On Nutrition (SIGNS) equipped with nutrition-related writing and editorial skills. Strong belief in expressing nutritional expertise and sharing knowledge through writing evidence based nutrition articles published in various magazines and blogs.

Performance/Sports Nutrition, Clinical Nutrition

Adeniyi Abdulateef is a Public Health Nutritionist with a core-niche for Infant and Young Child Nutrition, Nutrition in Emergency and Community Health. He is 2016 graduate from the prestigious University of Ibadan and a Registered Dietitian and Nutritionist with the Institute of Dietitians of Nigeria (IDN). He is passionate about reducing food insecurity and the fight against malnutrition in Sub-Saharan Africa. Abdulateef is currently employing his expertise and core competencies towards humanitarian activities geared towards ZeroHunger and the improvement of Nutrition and living standards of most vulnerable population by 2030.

Public Health Nutrition, Child Nutrition, Maternal Health.

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Nutrition, Gut Microbioma, Vegetarianism and Veganism, Alzheimer Disease.

Completed a course in Epidemiology for Public Health Specialisation (measuring disease in epidemiology) from Imperial College London, an MSc in Clinical and Public Health Nutrition from University College London and BSc in Nutrition from University of Nottingham. I have worked and in placements as a Nutrition, Dietetics and Gastrointestinal Services Observer for the UCLH NHS Trust and a Health Promotion intern at Healthy Eating Solutions Ltd. I have a growing level of clinical experience with training such as World Food Programme’s Nutrition Situation Analysis, Oxfam’s Technical Project Management in WASH systems and Siobhan Lim’s Good Clinical Practice.

Nutritional epidemiology, poverty, malnutrition, food insecurity, starvation, HIV/AIDS & malaria, water hygiene sanitation (WASH), public health and nutrition

Dr. Pintu Choudhary is currently working as Assistant Professor at Lovely Professional University, Phagwara, Punjab, India. He has completed his Ph.D. and M.Tech. from the Indian Institute of Food Processing Technology, Thanjavur, and Bachelor of Science from G. B. Pant University of Agriculture and Technology, Pantnagar. He is qualified ICAR-NET and received Senior Research Fellowship from Council of Scientific and Industrial Research, India for his doctoral research. He has also qualified for many national level exams with excellent scores, secured national rank 5th in the ICAR-JRF examination and 1st rank in the Junior Food analyst examination conducted by FSSAI, India. He has authored over 10 publications in reputed journals and book chapters. He is also a member of reputed professional bodies and serves as reviewer for esteemed journals. His research area is on nonthermal processing, 3D printing of foods, nanoscale food processing, and plant proteins.

Food Nanotechnology, 3D food printing, Non-thermal processing, Nanoencapsulation, Plant Proteins

Andruța Elena MUREȘAN, Ph.D., Engineer, Assistant Professor – Food Science and Technology Faculty, University of Agricultural Sciences and Veterinary Medicine Cluj- Napoca, Cont ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6260-8730 , PUBLONS https://publons.com/researcher/1478654/elena-andruta-muresan, Personal Web-Site (Full CV and Publication list): https://andrutamuresan.wixsite.com/home, PhD Diploma (2014) USAMV Cluj-Napoca. Title based on the Ministerial Order no. 175 from 7 April 2014, Engineer Diploma (2010) - USAMV Cluj-Napoca, Food Products Engineering, Chemist Diploma (2006) - Babeş Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, Research Project Responsible: 2018 - Project PN-III-P2-2.1-CI-2018-1047 – Alternative technologies for the exploitation of germs and seeds from Cucurbitaceae, Asteraceae and Amaranthaceae families in functional products. 2020-2022 – Project PN-III-P1-1.1-PD-2019-1108 - Investigation of phytochemicals from wild apple species, as well as ancient and modern cultivars: essential knowledge for "nutrafruit" apple breeding; Acronym: Nutra-Fruit, Research Projects Member (6), Publications. ° Main author of 1 Scientific book; 2 International book chapters –co-author, 20 ISI Web of Science publications with impact factor (7 publications as main author). Reviewer for Scientific Journals- 16 Journals ISI Web of Science Core Collection: - Notulae Botanicae Horti Agrobotanici Cluj-Napoca, CyTA, Plants, Horticulturae, Foods, Agronomy - Journal of Food; Current Research in Nutrition and Food Science

Agriculture, Food processing, Food Technology, Food Safety, Functional food, Innovative food, Nutrition, Biotechnology, Food chemistry, Sensory analysis, Molecular biology, Genetically modified foods, Organic food

Daniela Merchant, N.C is a Dietitian and Nutritionist. Author of the book Nutrition for Maternity, Master in Health Sciences, Master in Administration, and candidate for a PhD in Nutrition. He Certified by the Mexican College of Nutritionists, being part of the Board of Directors during the period 2019 to 2021. He performed in all areas of nutrition, but mostly in the clinical area and teaching, including Clínica NAE (www.clinicanae.com). In 2006 he was Head of Dietetics at the INCMNSZ Hospital and in 2008 I started working in the clinical research area at Laboratorios Silanes, a Mexican pharmaceutical company. In 2009 he started my teaching career. I have been Nutrition Director, full time professor and Health Academies President. To date he have taught 25 different subjects and have been a speaker in national and international forums since 2012. he also collaborated in the development and validation of test items for evaluations applied by CENEVAL at undergraduate and certification levels. Additionally, in various social media platforms, I promote nutrition and healthy lifestyle for general population.

Nutrition, Health

Dr Cebirbay is a Assistant Professor in Nutrition and Dietetic Department Selcuk University in Turkey. He obtained his Bachelor of Home Economics and Nutrition Education in 2004 and a Master in Food Hygiene and Techonology in 2007, and he earned his PhD in Food Hygiene and Techonology in 2014 at Selcuk University. He worked as a researcher in two European Union Projects in 2008 and 2012. There are many research articles and reviews on nutrition education, fermentation technology, food pathogens, functional foods, traditional foods, eating awareness, food addiction, diet-nutrition interactions, community nutrition, food service, food production systems, catering in journals scanned as SCI and Web of Science and others.

Nutrition education, fermentation technology, food pathogens, functional foods, traditional foods, eating awareness, food addiction, diet-nutrition interactions, community nutrition, food service, food production systems, catering

Dr. Surya Raj Niraula, has been providing Biostatistics and research services for public health, medical, nursing and dental faculties, researchers and students for over 28 years. He is currently working as an Associate Professor in the College of Human Sciences, Department of Nutritional Sciences, Texas Tech University, Lubbock. Dr. Niraula was an adjunct faculty of Statistics at the Department of Mathematics and Statistics in Sam Houston State University, Huntsville, Texas since 2022. He completed post doctorate (Postdoc) in Biostatistics from University of Washington, USA (Fulbright program, 2013) and doctorate degree (PhD) in Statistics from Central Department of Statistics, Nepal in 2008. He was awarded with ‘Young Scientist Award’ in 2009, Nepal Bidhyabhusan ‘KA’ in 2010 and Honored by the President - Constitutional Assembly, 2011. He is a Professor Emeritus of Biostatistics after serving for 26 years at B.P. Koirala Institute of Health Sciences, Nepal. He has taught Biostatistics for Master/Post Graduate/Bachelors’ Public Health, Nursing and Medical, Dental students. He has been providing consultation services to faculties and researchers of NGOs and INGOs. He has conducted several health researches and disseminated findings through over 106 international and national publications. He has completed 19 research grant projects related to public/community health, epidemiological, nutrition, communicable and non-communicable diseases, mental health (smoking, alcohol, marijuana, drugs, stress, depression, suicide, IPV etc.), experimental/educational intervention, RCT, and oral health. He is an editorial board member and a reviewer of many international journals. He has worked as a consultant for many INGOs and NGOs research. He has presented many conference papers in USA, UK, Italy, Korea, Singapore, Thailand, China, Bangladesh, India and Nepal as an invited speaker and a resource person.

His expertise is in public health and epidemiological studies and interest is perticulary in substance dependent research and its methodology. His current research interest for collaboration in nutrition and public health researches on childhood diabetics and food habit of children, internet addiction, loss of physical activities and obesity/overweight, cancer epidemiology, survival analysis, and inactive life and diets with DM and HTN.

Dr. Zhou serves as an assistant professor in the Department of Nutrition, Food Science, and Packaging. Her academic journey boasts a Master's in Public Health and a subsequent Ph.D. from Virginia Tech in Human Nutrition, Foods, and Exercise. Currently, her pivotal research revolves around identifying the most effective dietary message features. She is keen on enhancing our understanding of how tailored messaging can positively impact the dietary habits of Latinas, aiming for primary breast cancer prevention Dr. Zhou's pedagogical methods emphasize inclusivity, reflecting in courses like Nutrition Education and Counselling. Her Asian heritage has endowed her with invaluable cultural competencies, making her adept at teaching and researching diverse populations. When she's not immersed in her academic pursuits, Dr. Zhou finds solace in outdoor relaxation and relishes the joy of culinary creativity with friends and family.

Food marketing, nutrition education, nutrition communication, public health nutrition, health disparities, food and nutrition policies