Organizing and Program Committees

2024 Co-Chairs

• Silvia Penuela, PhD Associate Professor, University of Western Ontario, Canada
• James Smyth, PhD Associate Professor, Virginia Tech, USA

Advisory Committee

• Brant Isakson, PhD, University of Virginia, USA
• Samy Lamouille, PhD, Virginia Tech, USA
• Scott Johnstone PhD, Virginia Tech, USA
• Rob Gourdie, PhD, Virginia Tech, USA
• Dale Laird, Western University, USA
• Leigh-Anne Swayne, PhD, University of Victoria, British Columbia

Scientific Program Committee Co-Chairs

• Samy Lamouille, PhD, Virginia Tech, USA
• Scott Johnstone PhD, Virginia Tech, USA

Scientific Program Committee Members

• Scott Johnstone, Committee Organizer, Virginia Tech, USA
• Samy Lamouille, Committee Organizer, Virginia Tech, USA
• Brant Isakson, Organizing Committee, UVA, USA
• Jorge Contreras, Professor, University of California, Davis, USA
• Patricia Martin, Reader, Glasgow Caledonian University, UK
• Brenda Kwak, Professor, Universite De Geneve, Geneva
• Dale Laird, Professor, Western University, Canada
• Rob Gourdie, Professor, Virginia Tech, USA
• Anaclet Ngezahayo, Professor, Leibniz University Hannover, Germany
• Leigh Ann Swayne, Professor, University of Victoria, Canada
• Maria Mayan, Head of Research Group, CellCom Research Group, Spain
• Trond Aasen, Senior Investigator, Vall Hebron University, Spain
• Justin Lathia, Professor, Case Western/ Cleveland Clinic, USA
• Maria Dagli, Professor, University of Sao Paulo, Brazil
• Jessica Esseltine, Assistant Professor , Memorial University Newfoundland, Canada
• Jennifer Fang, Assistant Professor, Tulane University, Los Angeles , USA
• Ying Yang, Assistant Professor, University of South Florida, USA
• Zhi sheng, Assistant Professor, Virginia Tech, USA
• Hung-I Yeh, Principal Investigator, Department Medicine, Mackay Memorial Hospital, Taiwan
• Kyle Cowan, Assistant Professor MD, University of Ottawa, Canada
• Huawei Zhang, Chair/ Professor, Southern University of Science and Technology, China
• Eliana Scemes, Professor, New York Medical College, USA
• Fabio Mammano, Professor, University of Padua, Italy
• Alex Lohman , Associate Professor, University of Calgary, Canada
• Samar Sayedyahossein, NIH Scientist, National Institutes of Health, Baltimore, Iran/USA
• Joe Stains, Professor, University of Maryland, USA