Speaker

Ruijun Tian

Professor at Southern University of Science and Technology, Shenzhen, China.

Prof. Ruijun Tian is a professor in the Department of Chemistry at SUSTech. He serves as the vice president of CNHUPO and is co-leading the new technology sub-project of the π-HuB International Project. He received several awards including the National Distinguished Young Scholar (NSFC). His research focuses on proteomics-related method development, and their applications in biomedical fields such as cell signaling and tumor micro-environment. He has published over a hundred papers in Nature, Nat. Chem. Biol., PNAS, Mol. Cell. Proteomics, and Anal. Chem.

Jeremy Herrera

Assistant Research Professor, University of Colorado, Anschutz Medical Campus, Aurora, USA.

Jeremy Herrera is currently an Assistant Research Professor at the University of Colorado. His goal is to become an expert in the unbiased analysis of proteins (e.g., spatial proteomics) in lung fibrosis. Utilizing the power of spatial proteomics, he intends to understand the crosstalk between epithelial cells and fibroblast to define novel mechanisms of fibroblast activation.

Björn Krenz

Head of Department, Plant Viruses, Leibniz Institute DSMZ-German Collection of Microorganisms and Cell Cultures Gmb, Braunschweig, Germany.

Björn Krenz is head of the Department of plant viruses at Leibniz Institute DSMZ. He has an extensive research background from the University of Stuttgart to Cornell University, USA. He previously led the "VirusInteract" group at DSMZ and has contributed to key publications in virology.

Axel Hochstetter

CEO: Life on a Chip, Sappemeer, The Netherlands.

Axel Hochstetter studied chemistry at the University of Ulm and earned his PhD at the University of Basel, where he investigated the motility of trypanosomes. He developed microfluidic components and used highly focused lasers as optical tweezers. Since then, he has researched applications of microfluidics in single-cell, tissue and biopsy analysis. In 2021, he founded "Life on a Chip," a company offering consulting services and rapid prototyping, providing clients and partners with cost-effective, tailored hardware for their research needs.

Mark Kühnel

Group leader at UKA RWTH Aachen, Institute for Pathology. Associated PI in the German center for lung research (DZL), Aachen, Germany.

Mark Kühnel's main focus lies on the role of macrophages in non-neoplastic pulmonary diseases, especially the regulation of aberrant mechanisms of lung repair and regeneration leading to progressive pulmonary interstitial lung diseases (PF-ILDs).
During his 10 years at Hannover Medical School, Mark has published over 50 scientific articles on various disease entities. He has extensive experience in correlative omics 7 Histopathology analysis in many respiratory diseases. His most recent success was the identification of intussusceptive neoangiogenesis in COVID-19 as a specific molecular trait of SARS-CoV-2 infection in human patient. Currently, his group specialises in the spatial analysis of cell subpopulations in ILDs.

Hongbo Jia

Microscopy Core Facility Manager at Combinatorial NeuroImaging Core Facility, Leibniz Institute for Neurobiology, Magdeburg, Germany.

Hongbo Jia, PhD., leads the microscopy core facility service at the Leibniz Institute for Neurobiology (Magdeburg, Germany) and in parallel consults an engineering lab at the Suzhou Institute of Biomedical Engineering and Technology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences which builds advanced optical tools for measuring neural network activities at single-cell and sub-cellular precision in intact living brains.
 

Samer Alokaidi

Scientific associate in the Department for Experimental Physics at the Saarland University, Saarbrücken, Germany.

Samer Alokaidi is a scientific associate in Professor Karin Jacobs' research group at the Department of Experimental Physics, Saarland University. He studied biomimetics at Westfälische Hochschule Bocholt (B.Sc., 2019) and biophysics at Saarland University (M.Sc., 2024). He is currently pursuing his doctoral studies.