Keynote Speakers

Seiya Imoto, Ph.D

Institute of Medical Science

University of Tokyo, Japan

Dr. Seiya Imoto earned his Ph.D. in Mathematical Sciences from Kyushu University in 2001, after completing his undergraduate studies in Mathematics in 1996. He began his academic career as a JSPS Research Fellow in 1999, and subsequently joined the Human Genome Center at the Institute of Medical Science, the University of Tokyo, as a postdoctoral fellow and later as an assistant professor in 2001. In 2015, he was appointed Professor at the Institute of Medical Science, the University of Tokyo. Since 2016, he has also served as an advisor on medical statistics to the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare (MHLW). In 2020, he assumed the role of Director of the Human Genome Center. His research focuses on the computational analysis of large-scale genomic data from humans and commensal microbes, with the aim of pioneering innovations in genomic medicine.

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Denis Shields, Ph.D

School of Medicine

University College Dublin, Ireland

Prof Denis Shields main teaching interests are in developing skills of data analysis, data interpretation and critical thinking in students faced with complex biological datasets. Aside from working in universities (UCD, TCD, RCSI, Southampton), he has also worked in industry, in the computational analysis of clinical datasets (ICON Clinical Research, and Surgen Ltd), and maintain contacts with industry, including my role as a member of the Enterprise Ireland funded Food for Health centre, which works with dairy industry partners. He is strongly interested in interdisciplinary research uniting computational and experimental approaches, and to promote this, he is the Director of the UCD Bioinformatics Centre; and Director, of the UCD Bioinformatics and Systems Biology PhD Programme. He is also Head of Node for Elixir Ireland (see elixir-europe.org) and his publications have been extensively published and cited with >20,000 citations and a H-index of 69.

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Wen-Hsiung Li, Ph.D

Biodiversity Research Center

Academia Sinica, Taiwan

Professor Wen-Hsiung Li is a Distinguished Research Fellow at the Biodiversity Research Center, Academia Sinica, Taiwan, and a world-renowned scientist in evolutionary biology, genetics, genomics, and bioinformatics. He received his Ph.D. in Applied Mathematics from Brown University in 1972 and completed postdoctoral training in genetics at the University of Wisconsin. He previously served on the faculty of the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston and later at the University of Chicago, where he held the James D. Watson Professorship. Professor Li has made pioneering contributions to molecular evolution and genome research, establishing fundamental theories that have shaped modern evolutionary genomics. He is a member of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences and Academia Sinica, and a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. His honors include the Balzan Prize, the Mendel Medal, the Presidential Science Prize of Taiwan, and the Motoo Kimura Award, recognizing his lifelong contributions to evolutionary genetics.

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Muh-Hwa Yang, M.D, Ph.D

Institute of Clinical Medicine

National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University, Taiwan

Specialty: Cancer biology, Clinical oncology, Medical Oncology, Hematology, Head and Neck Cancer

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More invited speakers will be announced in due course.

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