Prof. Shaodong Guo

USA

Shaodong Guo, Ph.D. is Professor in the Department of Nutrition at Texas A&M University (TAMU), College Station, Texas, USA. He received Ph.D in Physiology from Peking University, China, and completed his postdoctoral medical research trainings at Harvard University. He was an early pioneer in finding Foxo1 in insulin signaling in control of gene expression. Dr. Guo served as senior editor for the Journal of Endocrinology and Journal of Molecular Endocrinology, and editorial board member for Diabetes. His lab research focuses on hormonal signal transduction and insulin resistance, aiming at understanding disease mechanisms and dietary and therapeutic interventions on diabetes and its complications. Working on the gene transcriptional regulation of metabolic homeostasis by insulin receptor substrate proteins (IRS) and the forkhead/winged transcription factor FoxO1, he been funded by American Diabetes Association (ADA), American Heart Association, and the National Institutes of Health of USA for decades. He is the recipient of ADA junior faculty award, career development award, ADA Research Excellence Richard R. Lee Award (2015), and TAMU presidential impact award (2021). His work has been published in numbers of journals including the JBC, Diabetes, Endocrinology, Hypertension, Circulation Research, AJP, MCB, and Nature Medicine, receiving more than 10,000 citations from the Google Scholar with h factor 45.

Giorgia Sarais

Italy

Giorgia Sarais is an associate professor in Food Chemistry (CHIM/10, 03/D1) at the University of Cagliari since 23/12/2019. She obtained her PhD in Pathology and Environmental Toxicology in 2007 at the University of Cagliari, and from 2011 she was a researcher in Food Chemistry (CHIM/10) at the University of Cagliari.
She carries out her teaching activity for Pharmacy on Chemical Toxicological Analysis and Analysis of Drugs 1 undergraduate students. Since 2020, she has been a member of the Biomedical Sciences PhD program’s teaching staff committee at the University of Sassari. Her technical expertise includes methods to study food safety and quality, focusing on nutritional, toxicological and process innovation aspects. The primary interest deals with the valorization of traditional Sardinian food products (wine, aromatic plants and their derivatives, olive oil), their food waste and by-products, with particular attention to metabolites that show antioxidant and nutraceutical properties (phenols, carotenoids, etc).
Health benefits and sustainable extraction methods have been evaluated for plant food-derived bioactive components. Informative metabolomic analyses by LC-MS-QTOF, LC/MS/MS, HPLC, GC/MS, and ICP techniques have focused on identifying and quantifying targeted or untargeted metabolites to obtain sample intrinsic information for their competitiveness and innovation. Her research activity, carried out in collaboration with public institutes (European Universities, CNR), national and international research groups, and private companies, has been financed by competitive funding. Prof. Sarais has been part of several research projects and is the author of 66 papers in peer-reviewed international journals with impact factor on ISI and Scopus (author h-index = 22 and citation n° = 1489, Scopus 10/04/2025), and co-authored 3 book chapters.

Prof. Elango Ayyasamy

India

Prof. Elango Ayyasamy is an eminent veterinarian and Founder Dean of the Veterinary College and Research Institute, Tamil Nadu Veterinary and Animal Sciences University (TANUVAS), Salem, India, with over 30 years of distinguished academic, research, and administrative excellence. Specializing in Dairy Microbiology, his pioneering research focuses on probiotic functional foods, antimicrobial resistance (AMR) and food safety. A Fellow of prestigious national bodies including the National Academy of Veterinary Science, Indian Dairy Association and the National Academy of Dairy Science, he has published 133 research papers in peer reviewed journals, filed 5 patents, authored 16 books, and organized 30 national and international conferences. Prof. Elango’s outstanding contributions have been recognized with 64 prestigious awards and medals, including the state-level Tamil Nadu Scientist Award (TANSA), the Dr. Verghese Kurien Medal and the Best Teacher Award of TANUVAS.

Oliver Micke

Germany

Head of the department of radiotherapy and radiation oncology, and clinical director of the Franziskus Hospital Bielefeld, Germany, teaching hospital of the Hannover Medical School (MHH).

He is president of the German Magnesium Society and chairman of the German Working Group “Trace Elements and Electrolytes in Radiation Oncology” and associate editor of “Trace Elements and Electrolytes”- Official Organ of the "Society of Magnesium Research", Germany, and German Working Group “Trace Elements and Electrolytes in Radiation Oncology” AKTE, Germany.

He authored more than 270 publications in peer reviewed scientific journals and has been invited as speaker at national and international meetings.