The list of invited speakers includes:
Last Updated: 17/6/08

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Ueli Aebi
Professor and Director, Ph. D., Dr. H.C., M.E. Muller Institute,
Biozentrum, University of Basel, SWITZERLAND
Reuven Agami
Associated Professor at the Division of Tumor Biology,
The Netherlands Cancer Institute Amsterdam,
ΤΗΕ NETHERLANDS
Sidney Altman
Professor, Department of Molecular, Cellular and
Developmental Biology, Yale University
New Haven, CT, USA
Shoshy Altuvia
Professor, Department of Molecular Genetics and Biotechnology,
The Hebrew University - Hadassah Medical School
Jerusalem, ISRAEL
Arturo Alvarez - Buylla
Heather and Melanie Muss Professor,
UCSF School of Medicine, San Francisco, CA, USA
Garabed Antranikian
Prof. Dr. rer. nat. Dr h. c., Institute οf Technical Microbiology,
Hamburg University οf Technology
Hamburg, GERMANY
Angelo Azzi
President of the IUBMB Executive Committee
Vascular Biology Laboratory,
JM USDA-HNRCA at Tufts University
Boston, MA, USA

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Antonella Bandiera
Assistant Professor, Department οf Biochemistry,
Biophysics and Miclomolecular Chemistry,
University οf Trieste
Trieste, ITALY
Naama Barkai
Department οf Molecular Genetics,
Weizmann Institute οf Science
Rehovot, ISRAEL
Ralf Bartenschlager
Department οf Molecular Virology,
Institute οf Hygiene, University οf Heidelberg
Heidelberg, GERMAN
Marc Henrik Baumann
Research Director, Associate Professor, Protein Chemistry,
Proteomics and Peptide Synthesis and Array Unit,
University of Helsinki
Helsinki, FINLAND
Miguel Beato del Rosal
Director, Centre de Regulaci Genόmica
Barcelona, SPAIN
Guenter Blobel
Jr Professor, Investigator, HHMI, Laboratory of Cell Biology,
The Rockefeller University, Howard Hughes Medical Institute
New York, NY, USA
Sir Tom Blundell
Professor, Department Of Biochemistry,
University of Cambridge
Cambridge, UK
Elisabeth Bock
Professor in Cell Biology, Protein Laboratory,
School of Medicine, University of Copenhagen,
Copenhagen, DENMARK
Johannes L. Bos
Department of Physiological Chemistry and Centre for
Biomedical Genetics, University Medical Center Utrecht
Utrecht, THE NETHERLANDS
Enrique Brandan
Full Professor, Chairman, Department of Cell and Molecular
Biology, Faculty of Biological Science, CRCP, CARE,
Catholic University of Chile, Santiago, CHILE
Myles Brown
Professor of Medicine, Medical Oncology Department,
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Harvard Medical School
Boston, MA, USA
Margaret Buckingham
Department of Developmental Biology, CNRS URA 2578,
Institut Pasteur, Paris, FRANCE
Maria Helena Bueno da Costa
Leader of Laboratόrio de Lipossomas e Microesferas,
Centro de Biotechnologia, Instituto Butantan
Sao Paulo, SP, BRAZIL

C
Elizabeth Canty
Wellcome Trust Centre for Cell-Matrix Research,
Faculty of Life Sciences, University of Manchester
Manchester, UK
Maria Carmo-Fonseca
Professor and Excecutive Director, Department of Molecular
Medecine, Institute of Molecular Medicine,
Faculty of Medecine, University of Lisbon
Lisbon, PORTUGAL
Elias Castanas
Professor of Experimental Endocrinology, Department of
Laboratory Medicine, School of Medicine, University of Crete
Director of the Endocrinology Laboratory, University Hospital
of Heraklion, GREECE
Ugo Cavallaro
Group Leader, PhD, IFOM - FIRC Institute of
Molecular Oncology, Milan, ITALY
Jean - Pierre Changeux
Emeritus Professor, Institut Pasteur, Paris, FRANCE
Sheue -Yann Cheng
Section Chief, Gene Regulation Section, National Cancer
Institute, National Institute of Health, Bethesda, MA, USA
John A. Cidlowski
Chief, Laboratory of Signal Transduction, National Institute of
Environmental Health Sciences, National Institutes of Health
Research Triangle Park, NC, USA
Brian Clark
Professor, Department of Molecular Biology, Aarhus University
Αarhus C, DENMARK
Peter R. Cook
EP Abraham Professor of Cell Biology, Sir William Dunn
School of Pathology, Medical Sciences Division,
University of Oxford, Oxford, UK

D
Hannelore Daniel
Prof., Dr., Technical University Munich,
Molecular Nutrition Unit, Freising, GERMANY
Fernando de la Cruz
Professor of Genetics, Department of Molecular Biology,
University of Cantabria, Santander, SPAIN
Wouter De Laat
Department of Cell Biology, Erasmus MC
Rotterdam, NETHERLANDS
Anne Dell
Professor of Carbohydrate Biochemistry,
Department of Life Sciences, Imperial College
London, UK
Panos Deloukas
Senior Investigator in Human Genetics,
The Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute
Hinxton, Cambridge, UK
Zixin Deng
Professor of Microbial Genetics, College of Life Science and
Biotechnology, Shanghai Jiaotong University
Head of the Key Laboratory of Microbial Metabolism under
the Chinese Ministry of Education, Shanghai, CHINA
Emmanouil T. Dermitzakis
Investigator, The Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute
Hinxton, Cambridge, UK
Dennis E. Discher
Professor, Molecular and Cell Biophysics and
NanoBio-Polymerase Laboratory, University of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia, PA, USA
Christopher M. Dobson
Professor, Department of Chemistry, University of Cambridge
Cambridge, UK
Denis Drainas
Professor of Biochemistry and Head of the Department of
Biochemistry, School of Medicine, University of Patras
Patras, GREECE
Constantin Drainas
Professor, Department of Chemistry, University of Ioannina
Ioannina, GREECE
Gideon Dreyfuss
Professor, Hpward Hughes Medical Institute / University of
Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA, USA
Arnold J.M. Driessen
Professor, Department of Microbiology, Groningen
Biomolecular Sciences and Biotechnology Institute and
Zernike Institute for Advanced Materials,
University of Groningen, Haren, THE NETHERLANDS
Dannie Durand
Associate Professor, Department of Biological Sciences &
Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University,
Pittsburgh, PA, USA
Jerzy Duszynski
Professor of Biochemistry, Director, The Nencki Institute of
Experimental Biology, Polish Academy of Sciences
Warsow, POLAND
Michael J. Dye
Sir William Dunn School of Pathology, University of Oxford
Oxford, UK
Elaine Dzierzak
Erasmus University Center, Erasmus Stem Cell Institute
Rotterdam, THE NETHERLANDS

E
William Earnshaw
Professor and Wellcome Trust Principal Research Fellow,
University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK
Anastassios Economou
Professor, Institute of Molecular Biology and Biotechnology,
FORTH, Heraklion, GREECE
Jane Endicott
Professor of Structural Biology, Department οf Biochemistry,
Oxford University, Oxford, UK
Anne Ephrussi
Group Leader, European Molecular Biology Laboratory
Heidelberg, GERMANY
John E. Eriksson
Professor of Cell Biology, Department of Biology,
Abo Akademi University, Turku, FINLAND
Athanasios Evangelopoulos
Athens, GREECE

F
Napoleone Ferrara
M.D., Genentech Fellow, Department of Molecular Oncology,
Genentech Inc., USA
Sergio Ferreira
Professor of Biochemistry, Institute of Medical Biochemistry,
Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Chairman, PABMB
Rio de Janeiro, BRAZIL
Theodore Fotsis
Professor of Biological Chemistry, Laboratory of Biochemistry,
School of Medicine, University of Ioannina, GREECE
Thomas Fox
Professor, Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics,
Cornell University, New York, NY, USA
Emmanuel G. Fragoulis
Chairman, 33rd FEBS Congress and 11th IUBMB Conference
Professor, Head, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular
Biology, University of Athens, GREECE
Michael R. Freeman
Director, Harvard Urological Diseases Research Center,
Children's Hospital Boston
Professor of Surgery (Urology), Harvard Medical School
Boston, MA, USA
Peter Friedl
MD, PhD, University of Wuerzburg
Nijmegen, THE NETHERLANDS
Bertrand Friguet
Professor, Universitι Paris 6 - UPMC, LBBCV, EA 3106,
Universitι Paris 7, Paris, FRANCE
Laura S. Frost
Professor and Chair, Department of Biological Sciences,
University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, CANADA

G
Spyridon Georgatos
Stem Cell and Chromatin Group, The University of Ioannina,
School of Medicine and the Biochemical Institute of Ioannina,
GREECE
John Georgatsos
Emeritus Professor of Biochemistry, Department of
Chemistry, University of Thessaloniki, GREECE
Levi A. Gheber
Lecturer, Department of Biotechnology Engineering, Faculty
of Engineering Sciences, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
Beer-Sheva , ISRAEL
Magdalena Goetz
Director, Institute of Stem Cell Research, Helmholtz Zentrum
Munchen, German Research Center For Environmental
Health (GMBH), Munich, GERMANY
Efstathios S. Gonos
Director of Research, National Hellenic Research Foundation,
Institute of Biological Research and Biotechnology
Athens, GREECE
Achilleas Gravanis
Professor of Pharmacology, Department of Pharmacology,
School of Medicine, University of Crete, Heraklion, GREECE
Hinrich Gronemeyer
Directeur de Recherche, Department of Cell Biology and
Signal Trasduction, Institut de Gιnιtique et de Biologie
Molιculaire et Cellulaire, Illkirch, FRANCE
Tilman Grune
Professor, University of Hohenheim, Stuttgart, GERMANY
Lars Groth Grunnet
MSc, PhD Student, Steno Diabetes Center
Gentofte, DENMARK
Apostolia Guialis
Research Director, RNA Processing Program, Institute of
Biological Research and Biotechnology,The National Hellenic
Research Foundation, Athens, GREECE
John Gurdon
University of Cambridge, Wellcome Trust Cancer Research
UK, Gurdon Institute, Cambridge, UK
Jan-Ake Gustafsson
Professor, Department of Biosciences and Nutrition,
Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, SWEDEN

H
Antonis Hadjivassiliou
Athens, GREECE
Alan Hall
Professor, Memorial Sloan - Kettering Cancer Center
New York, NY, USA
Vincent Hascall
Department of Biomedical Engineering (ND20),
Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine
Cleveland, OH, USA
Artemis G. Hatzigeorgiou
Principal Investigator, Institute of Molecular Oncology BSRC
Alexander Fleming, Vari, GREECE
Polydefkis Hatzopoulos
Professor, Laboratory of Molecular Biology,
Agricultural University of Athens, GREECE
Karsten Haupt
Professor, Laboratory of Enzyme Technology,
Universitι de Technologie de Compiθgne
Compiθgne, FRANCE
Alan Hinnebusch
Laboratory of Gene Regulation and Development,
National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MA, USA
Konrad Hochedlinger
Assistant Professor of Medicine, Harvard Stem Cell Institute,
Centre for Regenerative Medicine and Cancer Centre,
Boston, MA, USA
Jules A. Hoffmann
President of l'Academy of Sciences, Paris, Research Director,
Institut de Biologie Moleculaire et Cellulaire,
Strasbourg, FRANCE
Harry Holthofer
National Centre for Sensor Research / Bioanalytical Sciences,
Dublin City University, Dublin, IRELAND
Alan Rick Horwitz
Principal Investigator, Horwitz Laboratory,
Department of Cell Bioogy, University of Virginia
Charlottesville, VA, USA
David E. Housman
Professor of Biology, Massachusetts Institute of
Technology (MIT), Cambridge, MA, USA
Martin J. Humphries
B.Sc., Ph.D., F.Med.Sci., Faculty of Life Sciences,
The Wellcome Trust Centre for Cell-Matrix Research,
The University of Manchester, Manchester, UK
Tim Hunt
PhD, Cancer Research UK, Clare Hall Laboratories
Herts, UK
Nancy Hynes
Senior Group Leader, Friedrich Miescher
Institute for Biomedical Research, Basel, SWITZERLAND

I
Prof. Dirk Inze
Scientific Director,
VIB Department of Plant Systems Biology, UGent
Gent, BELGIUM
Dr. Elisa Izaurralde
PhD, Max Planck Institute for Developmental Biology
Tubingen, GERMANY

J
Dr. Stefan Jentsch
Director, Department of Molecular Cell Biology,
Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry
Martinsried, GERMANY

K
Fotis C. Kafatos
President of the European Research Council (ERC)
Imperial College London, UK
Angelos Kanellis
Associate Professor, Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences,
Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, GREECE
Domna Karagogeos
Associate Professor, IMBB & University of Crete Medical
School, Heraklion, GREECE
Nikos Karamanos
Professor of Biochemistry and Organic Biochemical Analysis,
Department of Chemistry, University of Patras, GREECE
Nesrin Kartal - Ozer
Professor, Faculty of Medicine, Department of Biochemistry,
Marmara University, Istanbul, TURKEY
Chiaki Kato
Senior Scientist, Japan Agency for Marine Earth Science and
Technology, Yokosuka, JAPAN
Masayoshi Kawaguchi
Associate Professor, Graduate School of Science, University
of Tokyo, JAPAN
Renι F. Ketting
Group Leader, Hubrecht Institute
Utrecht, THE NETHERLANDS
Brigitte L. Kieffer
Research Director, INSERM, Group Leader, IGBMC,
Illkirch, FRANCE
Leif A. Kirsebom
PhD, Professor, Uppsala University, Uppsala, SWEDEN
Walter Kolch
Professor of Molecular Cell Biology, The Beaston Institute for
Cancer Research & Institute for Biomedical and Life
Sciences, University of Glasgow, UK
Fragiskos Kolisis
Professor, Director of the Institute of Biological Research and
Biotechnology, National Hellenic Research Foundation
Athens, GREECE
George Kollias
Director Biomedical Sciences Research Centre "Alexander
Fleming" Vari, GREECE
Dimitris Kontoyiannis
Group Leader/Grade B Researcher, Institute of Immunology,
Biomedical Sciences Research Center (BSRC) "Alexander
Fleming", Vari, GREECE
Angela Kraemer
Professor, Department of Cell Biology, Sciences III,
University of Geneva, SWITZERLAND
Dimitrios Kyriakidis
Director & Chairman, National Hellenic Research Foundation
(NHRF), Athens, GREECE
Nikos Kyrpides
Genome Biology Program, DOE Joint Genone Institute,
Walnut Creek, CA, USA

L
Angus Lamond
Division of Gene Regulation and Expression, Welcome Trust
Biocentre, University of Dundee, Dundee, UK
Florian Lang
Professor, Dr. of Medicine, Department of Physiology,
University of Tuebinger, Tuebinger, GERMANY
Steven J. Leeder
Marion Merrell Dow Chair in Pediatric Pharmaogenomics
Professor, Pediatric & Pharmacology, University of
Missouri, Kansas City
Courtesy Professor, Pediatrics & Toxicology, University of
Kansas, School of Pharmacy
Adjunct Professor, Pharmacology, Toxicology and
Therapeutics, University of Kansas Medical Center, MO, USA
Ellis Levin
MD and Professor, UC-Irvine and The Long Beach VAMC
Long Beach, CA, USA
Bing Lim
Stem Cell and Developmental Biology, Genome Institute of
Singapore
Associate Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School
Boston, MA, USA
Robbie Loewith
Group Leader/ Professor, Department of Molecular Biology,
University of Geneva SWITZERLAND
Elias Lolis
Associate Professor, Yale University School of Medicine
New Haven, CT, USA
Reinhard Luehrmann
Professor Dr., Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry
Gottingen, GERMANY

M
Eckhard Mandelkow
Professor, Dr., Max Planck Unit for
Structural Molecular Biology, Hamburg, GERMANY
Tom Maniatis
Professor of Molecular and Cellular Biology,
Harvard Univeristy, USA
James L. Manley
Department of Biological Sciences, Columbia University,
New York, NY, USA
Matthias Mann
Professor and Director, Max-Planck Institute for Biochemistry,
GERMANY
Richard S. Mann
Professor, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular
Biophysics, Columbia University, New York, NY, USA
Rebecca Matsas
Research Director & Head, Laboratory of Cellular and
Molecular Neurobiology, Hellenic Pasteur Institute
Athens, GREECE
Penelope Mavromara
Hellenic Pasteur Institute, Athens, GREECE
John McCarthy
Professor, Manchester Interdisciplinary Biocentre,
University of Manchester, UK
Tom Misteli
Ph.D., National Cancer Institute, NIH, Bethesda, MA, USA
Attila Mocsai
Associate Professor, Department of Physiology,
Semmelweis University School of Medicine
Budapest, HUNGARY
Maurice M. Moloney
SemBioSys Genetics Inc, Calgary, AB, CANADA
Alfonso Mondragon
Professor, Department of Biochemistry, Molecular Biology and
Cell Biology, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, USA
Martin Montecino
Professor, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology,
School of Biological Sciences, University of Concepcion
Concepcion, CHILE
Nikos Moschonas
Professor, Department of Medicine, University of Patras
Patras, GREECE
George Mosialos
Associate Professor, Institute of Immunology, BSRC, Al.
Fleming and Department of Biology, Aristotle University of
Thessaloniki, GREECE
Maria Manuel Mota
Instituto de Medicina Molecular, Lisbon, PORTUGAL

N
Jens Nielsen
Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering, Chalmers
University of Technology, Gothenburg, SWEDEN
Stephen C. Noctor
Assistant Professor-In-Residence, Department of
Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, University of California,
Davis the M.I.N.D., Institute, Sacramento, CA, USA

O
Rolf Ohlsson
Department of Development & Genetics, Evolution Biology
Centre, Uppsala University, Uppsala, SWEDEN
Nikos Oikonomakos
Director, Institute of Organic and Pharmaceutical Chemistry,
National Hellenic Research Foundation (NHRF)
Athens, GREECE
Steve Oliver
Cambridge Systems Biology Centre, Department of
Biochemistry, University of Cambridge School of Biological
Sciences, Cambridge, UK
Stuart H. Orkin
Professor and HHMI Investivator, Department of Pediatric
Oncology, Harvard Medical School and HHMI
Boston, MA, USA
Valerio Orlando
Dulbecco Telethon Institute, Institute of Genetics and
Biophysics CNR, Naples, ITALY
Nazmi Ozer
Department of Biochemistry, Faculty of Medicine,
Hacettepe University, Ankara, TURKEY

P
George Palaiologos
Laboratory of Biological Chemistry, Medical School,
University of Athens, GREECE
Nickolas Panopoulos
Professor, Department of Biology, University of Crete
Institute of Molecular Biology and Biotechnology (IMBB),
Foundation for Research and Technology - Hellas (FORTH)
Heraklion, GREECE
Joseph Papamattheakis
Professor of Molecular Biology, Department of Biology,
University of Crete, Heraklion, GREECE
Israel Pecht
Secretary General of FEBS, Department of Immunology,
The Weizmann Institute, Rehovot, ISRAEL
Piergiorgio Percipalle
Department of Cell and Molecular Biology,
Medical Nobel Institute, Karolinska Institutet
Stockholm, SWEDEN
Matthias Peter
Professor, Insitute of Biochemistry, ETH Zurich
Zurich, SWITZERLAND
Nikolaus Pfanner
Professor, University of Freiburg, Freiburg, GERMANY
Alexander Pintzas
Research Professor, Head, Laboratory of Signal Mediated
Gene Expression, Institute of Biological Research and
Biotechnology, National Hellenic Research Foundation
Athens, GREECE
Ana Pombo
Dr, MRC Clinical Sciences Centre, Imperial College School
of Medicine, London, UK
Carol Prives
Professor, Columbia University, Department of Biological
Sciences, New York, NY, USA
Elena Puerta - Fernandez
Department of Molecular, Cellular and Developmental
Biology, Yale University, New Heaven, CT, USA

Q
Jean-Pierre Quivy
Equipe Genevieve Almouzni, UMR 218 CNRS - Institut Curie
Paris, FRANCE

R
Laurence Rahme
Associate Professor of Surgery, Microbiology & Molecular
Genetics, Harvard Medical School, Massachusetts General
Hospital, BOSTON, MA, USA
Nikolaus Rajewsky
The Max-Delbrόck-Centre for Molecular
Medicine Berlin-Buch, GERMANY
Kirsi Rilla
PhD, University of Kuopio, FINLAND
Marina V. Rodnina
Professor, Dr., Institute of Physical Biochemistry University of
Witten/Herdecke, Witten, GERMANY
Bernard Roizman
Professor Viral Oncology Labs, the University of Chicago,
Chicago, IL, USA
Antonis Rokas
Assistant Professor, Department of Biological Sciences,
Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, USA
David Romero
Head Programme on Genome Engineering, Professor in
Molecular Genetics, Centre for Genomic Sciences, UNAM,
Cuernavaca, MEXICO
Daniela Rotin
Senior Scientist & Professor of Biochemistry, Programme in
Cell Biology, The Hospital for Sick Children
Toronto, ON, CANADA
Klemens Rottner
Cytoskeleton Dynamics Group, Helmholtz Centre for Infection
Research (HZI), Braunschweig, GERMANY

S
George Salmond
Professor, Department of Biochemistry,
University of Cambridge, UK
Roland Schuele
Prof., Dr., Klinikum der Universitaet Freiburg,
Zentrale Klinische Forschung (ZKF), Freiburg, GERMANY
Giorgio Scita
Professor, IFOM Foundation, University of Milan School of
Medicine San Paolo, Milan, ITALY
Constantine E. Sekeris
Emeritus Research Professor, National Hellenic Research
Foundation (NHRF)
Professor Emeritus of Biochemistry, Faculty of Medicine,
University of Athens, GREECE
Brian Shoichet
Professor, Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry,
University of California, San Francisco, CA, USA
Gerard G.S. Siest
Equipe Inserm "Genetique Cardiovasculaire" du CIC 9501,
Universitι Henri Poincarι Nancy, FRANCE
Virginijus Siksnys
Prof., Dr., Institute of Biotechnology, Vilnius, LITHUANIA
Edith Sim
Professor, Medical Sciences Division,
Department of Pharmacology, University of Oxford
Oxford, UK
Martin Simkovic
Assistant Professor, Department of Biochemistry &
Microbiology, Faculty of Chemical & Food Technology,
Slovak University of Technology
Bratislava, SLOVAK REPUBLIC
Tommaso Simoncini
MD, PhD, Department of Reproductive Medicine and Child
Development, University of Pisa, ITALY
Theodor Sklaviadis
Associate Professor, Laboratory of Pharmacology,
Department of Pharmacy, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
Thessaloniki, GREECE
Maryna Skok
Palladin Institute of Biochemistry
Kyiv, UKRAINE
Frank Skorpen
Professor, Faculty of Medicine, Norwegian University of
Science and Technology, Trondheim, NORWAY
Vladimir P. Skulachev
Director / Professor, Department of Bioenergetics,
A.N. Belozersky Institute of Physico-Chemical Biology,
Moscow State University, Moscow, RUSSIA
Dieter Soll
Professor, Department of Molecular Biophysics and
Biochemistry, Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA
Nahum Sonenberg
Professor, Department of Biochemistry, MCGILL University
Montreal, QC, CANADA
Hans Spelbrink
Dr., Institute of Medical Technology, University of Tampere
Tampere, FINLAND
Nancy Standart
Dr., Department of Biochemistry, University of Cambridge
Cambridge, UK
Dimitri Stathakos
Dr. Biochemist, Emeritus Professor, Institute of Biology,
National Centre for Scientific Research 'Demokritos'
Athens, GREECE
Thomas A. Steitz
Professor, HHMI, Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA
Joan A. Steitz
Sterling Porfessor of Molecular Biophysics and
Biochemistry, Yale University
Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute
New Haven, CT, USA
Gregory Stephanopoulos
W.H. Dow Professor of Chemical Engineering &
Biotechnology, Department of Chemical Engineering,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA
Reinhard Sterner
Professor, Institute of Biophysics and Physical Biochemistry,
University of Regensburg, GERMANY
Christos Stournaras
Professor, Faculty of Medicine, University of Crete
Heraklion, GREECE
Hendrik G. Stunnenberg
Professor, Department Of Molecular Biology, NCMLS
Nijmegen, THE NETHERLANDS
Anne O. Summers
Professor of Microbiology, Department of Microbiology,
University of Georgia, Athens, GA, USA
Jesper Svejstrup
Researcher, Cancer Research UK, Herts, UK

T
Iannis Talianidis
Dr., Institute of Molecular Biology & Biotechnology FORTH,
BSRC "Al.Fleming" Vari, GREECE
Keiji Tanaka
Laboratory of Frontier Science, the Tokyo Metropolitan
Institute of Medical Science, Tokyo, JAPAN
Naoyuki Taniguchi
Endowed Chair Professor, Institute for Microbial Disease,
Osaka University and Advanced Science Institute, RIKEN,
Wako, JAPAN
Kjetil Taskιn
Professor of Medicine, Director, The Biotechnology Centre
of Oslo and Centre for Molecular Medicine Norway, Nordick
EMBL Partnernship, University of Oslo, NORWAY
Nektarios Tavernarakis
Principal Investigator, Associate Professor,
Institute of Molecular Biology and Biotechnology
Heraklion, GREECE
Joyce Taylor - Papadimitriou
Professor, Breast Cancer Biology Group,
King's College London, School of Medicine
London, UK
Rolf Thermann
Dr., European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL)
heidelberg, GERMANY
George Thireos
Research Professor, Director, Institute of Molecular Biology
and Biotechnology, FORTH, Heraklion, GREECE
Christopher M. Thomas
Professor, School of Biosciences, The University of
Birmingham, Edgbaston, Birmingham, UK
Janet Thornton
Professor/ EBI Director, European Bioinformatics Institute,
The Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Cambridge, UK
Kostas Tokatlidis
Professor, Institute of Moecular Biology and Biotechnology
(IMBB)-FORTH, Department of Metarials Science and
Technology, University of Crete, Heraklion, GREECE
Laszlo Tora
Dr., IGBMC/CNRS, Illkirch, FRANCE
Asterios Tsiftsoglou
PhD, Professor of Pharmacology, Department of Pharmocognosy-
Pharmacology, School of Pharmacy, Aristotle
University of Thessaloniki, GREECE
Constantin Tsiganos
Professor of Biochemistry, Department of Chemistry,
University of Patras, GREECE
Photini -Effie Tsilibary
MD, PhD, Anatomy Cellbiologist, Dr., Institute of Biology,
N.C.S.R "Demokritos", Athens, GREECE
Orestes Tsolas
Athina, GREECE
Mykhaylo A. Tukalo
Professor, Institute of Molecular Biology and Genetics,
National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Kiev, UKRAINE
George Tzanakakis
Associate Professor, School of Medicine, University of Crete
Heraklion, GREECE
Socrates Tzartos
Professor, Head of Laboratory Department of
Biochemistry, Hellenic Pasteur Institute, Athens, GREECE

U
Axel Ullrich
PhD, Professor, Director, Department of Molecular Biology,
Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry, Martinsried, GERMANY

V
Saskia M. van der Vies
Professor of Biochemistry, VU University Medical Center
Amsterdam, THE NETHERLANDS
Ajit Varki
Distinguished Professor of Medicine & Cellular & Molecular
Medicine Co-Director, Glycobiology Research and Training
Centre Coordinator, Project Explaining the Origin of Humans,
Associate Dean for Physician - Scientist Training University of
California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA, USA
Herve Vaucheret
Principal Investigator, Laboratoire de Biologie Cellulaire,
Institut Jean-Pierre Bourgin, INRA, Versailles Cedex, FRANCE
Israel Vlodavsky
PhD, Professor, Cancer and Vascular Biology Research
Centre, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, The Ruth
and Bruce Rappaport Faculty of Medicine, Haifa, ISRAEL
Constantinos Vorgias
Dr.Rer.Nat., Associate Professor of Biochemistry, Department
of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Faculty of Biology,
University of Athens, GREECE

W
Gerlind Wallon
Deputy Executive Director, Programme Manager, Young
Investigator Programme, Installation Grants and Women in
Science, EMBO, Heidelberg, GERMANY
Lori Wallrath
Associate Professor, Department of Biochemistry,
University of Lowa, Iowa City, IA, USA
Jacques-Henry Weil
General Secretary, International Union of Biochemistry and
Molecular Biology (IUBMB), Professor, Institut de Botanique
Strasbourg Cedex, FRANCE
Hans V. Westerhoff
Manchester Centre for Integrative Systems Biology, the University
of Manchester and Netherlands Institute for Systems
Biology, Free University, Amsterdam, THE NETHERLANDS
Gunilla T. Westermark
Associate Professor, Department of Cell Biology,
University of Linkφping, Linkφping, SWEDEN
Eric Westhof
IBMC-CNRS, Universitι Louis Pasteur
Strasbourg Cedex, FRANCE
Matthias Wilmanns
Dr., European Molecular Biology Laboratory
Hamburg, GERMANY