Chi Zhang  

   Professor in School of Biological Sciences, Center for Plant Science Innovation, Beadle Center for Biotechnology, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, USA. His research mainly focuses on Computational Systems Biology and Bioinformatics. His interest covers broad area including protein structure modeling, protein-ligand binding prediction, biological network analyses, high-throughput biological data analyses, in silico studies of interactions between pathogens and plant cells and gene/protein interaction network in plant cells and many more. He has published >100 papers on the accomplishment of various genome sequencing projects, the avalanche of high throughput "omic'' data, and the increasing number of solved protein structures.

Abraham Allan Degen

  Professor Emeritus, Wyler Department of Dryland Agriculture, Jacob Blaustein Institutes for Desert  Research, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev. He is an environmental physiologist who does research on animal adaptations and production in extensive and intensive management systems under extreme conditions. His research interests including livestock production under desert conditions, energy and water balances in captive and in free-living desert birds and mammals, use of isotopes and time energy budgets in field studies, reproduction in captive and free-living desert mammals and birds, secondary compounds as anti-nutritive agents against grazing herbivores, biotic and abiotic effects on behavioral and physiological responses of animals, host-parasite relationships and reciprocal physiological and immunological effects. He has published more than 100 papers.

Lauchlan Fraser  

  Professor and NSERC Industrial Research Chair in Thompson Rivers University. Professor Dr. Fraser's expertise is in grassland and wetland ecosystems, with a focus on ecosystem reclamation, biodiversity, range management, climate change, and food web theory. Lauch is the Associate Editor of two academic journals (Applied Vegetation Science and Plant Ecology) and chair of HerbDivNet, an international network of over 60 scientists united to explore the drivers controlling herbaceous plant diversity.

Muhammad Khalid Rafiq

  Dr. Muhammad Khalid Rafiq is currently working as Program Leader (Rangeland Management) at National Agricultural Research Center Islamabad Pakistan. Muhammad has successfully completed Commonwealth Rutherford Fellowship at the UK Biochar Research Center (UKBRC), School of Geosciences , the University of Edinburgh in 2020 . Dr. Rafiq did his PhD in Grassland Science from Lanzhou University China.Muhammad does research In Grassland Ecology, Waste Management and Environmental Science.