Aijun Wang

Professor;

Engineering extracellular vesicles and lipid nanoparticles for targeted delivery (Theranostics 2022 & Bioact Mater. 2023);

University of California, Davis, USA

Brett VanVeller

Associate Professor;

New peptide bond isosteres provide more intuitive hydrogen-bonding rules (J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2022);

Iowa State University, USA

Bruce Shapiro

NCI Scientist Emeritus;
Former Senior Investigator and Head of RNA Structure and Design Section;

A Brief History of My Time: The Path from RNA Structure Prediction and Analysis to RNA Nanobiology (Nano Lett. 2014 & Nanoscale 2020 & Molecular Therapy - Nucleic Acids. 2020);

NIH/NCI Center for Cancer Research, USA

Cheemeng Tan

Associate Professor;

Designer Artificial Micro-Nano Devices: Fusing Synthetic Biology and Nanoengineering (Nature Communications 2020);

University of California, Davis, USA

Chunyan Wang

Associate Research Scientist;

Structural insights into inner core remodeling of bacteriophage T7 during infection initiation (Nature Microbiology 2019);

Yale University, USA

Daniel Binzel

Research Assistant Professor;

Controlled siRNA and miRNA delivery by exosomes to overcome drug resistance in cancers (ACS Nano 2019 & Nature Nanotech 2018);

The Ohio State University, USA

David Lilley

Professor & Fellow of Royal Society;

Expanding the chemical limits of RNA catalysis (Nat Chem Biol. 2017 & Cell Chem Biol. 2017);
 
University of Dundee, UK

Deepak Koirala

Assistant Professor;

Structural basis for RNA structure-mediated enteroviral genome replication (Nucleic Acids Res. 2018 & Nature Chemical Biology 2022);

University of Maryland, Baltimore County, USA

Dmitri Kudryashov

Professor;

Under the influence: reversal of the actin filament motor polarity by Vibrio VopF/VopL effectors(Nature Structural & Molecular Biology 2022);

The Ohio State University, USA

Dorothy Hawkins

Postdoctoral Research Associate;

The HK97 Packaging Termination Assembly (Nature 2023 & Nucleic Acids Research 2023);

University of York, UK

Elisa Franco

Professor;

Building artificial RNA organelles via phase separation (Nature Chemistry 2019);

University of California at Los Angeles, USA

Emil Khisamutdinov

Associate Professor;

Toehold-Mediated Shape Transition of Nucleic Acid Nanoparticles (Nanomaterials 2018 & ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces 2023);
 
Ball State University, USA

Gino Cingolani

Professor;

Nuclear Import of Hepatitis B Virus (HBV) nucleocapsid (Nat Commun. 2017 & Biophysical J 2019);

The University of Alabama at Birmingham, USA

Haichen Wu

Professor;

Nanopore-based protein sequencing (JACS 2011 & Anal Chem. 2016);

Institute of High Energy Physics, CAS, China

Haoyun Yang

On behalf of Dr. Mark Foster;
Senior Researcher;

Nearest-neighbor cooperativity in the Bacillus ring-shaped trp RNA binding attenuation protein (TRAP) from protein engineering and cryo-EM (PNAS 2017 & Biophysical Journal 2017);

The Ohio State University, USA

Hirohide Saito

Professor;

Synthetic RNA and RNP technologies to manipulate cells (Nat Commun. 2017);

Kyoto University, Japan

Hiroyuki Noji

Professor;

Molecular mechanism of Maxwell’s demon-like inhibitor, IF1 of mitochondrial ATP synthase (Science 2011, Nat. Commun. 2014 & Sci Rep. 2015);

University of Tokyo, Japan

Holland Cheng

Professor;

Noninvasive PPM: cryoEM-guided design of a modular biocapsid for precision and personalized nanomedicine (Cell 1995 & Journal of Structural Biology 1996 & Nanomedicine 2016);

University of California, Davis, USA

Hui Wei

Professor;

Nanozymes for translational medicine: several cases of studies (Nat. Commun. 2019 & Chem. Soc. Rev. 2019);

Nanjing University, China

Irina Artsimovitch

Professor;

Oligomerization as a stress response mechanism (Nucleic Acids Research 2022);

The Ohio State University, USA

Janusz Bujnicki

Professor, Member of Academia Europaea, Exec. Editor of Nucleic Acids Research;

RNA 3D structure and interactions (Nucleic Acids Res. 2016 & PLoS Comput Biol. 2021);

International Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology in Warsaw, Poland

Jing Jin

On behalf of Dr. Wah Chiu;
Senior Scientist;

Structural insights into the modulation of coronavirus spike tilting and infectivity by hinge glycans (Nature Microbiology 2022);

Vitalant Institute - UCSF and Stanford University, USA

Joanna Sztuba-Solinska

Principal Scientist;

Connecting the dots: how RNA biology dictates mRNA vaccine efficacy (Journal of Imaging 2022);

Pfizer Inc.

Juan Luis Vivero-Escoto

Professor;

Multimodal Mesoporous Silica Nanoparticles for the Efficient Delivery of Nucleic Acids to Treat Cancer (Journal of Controlled Release 2022);

University of North Carolina – Charlotte, USA

Kai Jin

On behalf of Dr. Peixuan Guo;
Graduate Student;

RNA nanoparticles solubilize and targeted deliver hydrophobic SN38 for colorectal cancer treatment;

The Ohio State University, USA

Karin Musier-Forsyth

Professor;

How a two-nucleotide difference in a 9.4 kilobase genome dictates HIV-1 viral RNA fate (J. Biol. Chem. 2018 & J. Virol. 2018);

The Ohio State University, USA

Kevin Li

Professor;

Ocular Delivery of Angiogenesis-inhibiting RNA Nanoparticles (Pharmaceutical Research 2023);

University of Cincinnati, USA

Kirill Afonin

Professor;

Locking and unlocking biological functions of extracellular proteins with immunoquiescent nucleic acid nanoparticles (Nano Letters 2018 & Nucl. Acids Res. 2017);

University of North Carolina – Charlotte, USA

Li-Qun (Andrew) Gu

Professor;

RNA-small molecule interaction study in the nanopore (ACS Nano 2017 & Nat Commun. 2017 & PNAS 2023);

University of Missouri, USA

Madeline Sherlock

Scientist;

Viral RNA structures induce downstream reinitiation through dynamic ribosome interactions (RNA 2021 & Science 2021);

New York Structural Biology Center, USA

Margaret Bohmer

On behalf of Dr. Peixuan Guo;
Graduate Student;

Confirmation of a Hexameric Stoichiometry of Motor pRNA Using a Chimeric pRNA Derived From Two Bacteriophages (iScience 2022);

The Ohio State University, USA

Michelle Scott

Professor;

How do specific small nucleolar RNAs promote cancer proliferation and survival? (Nucleic Acids Research 2023);

Université de Sherbrooke, Canada

Morgan Chandler

Scientist;

3D Model Systems for Developing Therapeutic Nucleic Acids (Small 2022);

MIMETAS Inc.

Nikolay Dokholyan

Professor;

NanoComputing Agents: Hacking Cellular Behavior (Science Advances 2023);

Penn State, USA

Nils Walter

Professor;

A nascent riboswitch helix acts as fulcrum to integrate ligand, template, polymerase and cofactor signals for robust transcription regulation (Nature Communications 2022 & Nature Structural & Molecular Biology 2023 & Nature Reviews Nephrology 2023);

University of Michigan, USA

Peixuan Guo

Professor & Director of Center for RNA Nanobiotechnology and Nanomedicine;

Phi29 DNA packaging motor and RNA nanotechnology (Nat Nano
technol. 2010, Nat Nanotechnol. 2011 & Nat Nanotechnol. 2018);

The Ohio State University, USA

Rajgopal Govindarajan

Professor;

Increased renal elimination of endogenous and synthetic pyrimidine nucleosides in concentrative nucleoside transporter 1 deficient mice (Nat Comm. 2019 & Nat Comm. 2021 & Nat Comm. 2023);

The Ohio State University, USA

Renata de Freitas Saito

Researcher;

Anticoagulant RNA-DNA biomolecular platform for the management of cancer-associated thrombosis (Nanomedicine 2021);

University of Sao Paulo, Brazil

Richard Lease

Research Scientist;

Optimized nucleic acid structured-antisense fingerloop probes for improved target-mismatch discrimination, increased antisense length, and selectivity (ACS Synth. Biol. 2017);

The Ohio State University, USA

Robert Batey

Professor;

Flipping the script: understanding riboswitch regulatory mechanisms from the perspective of their expression platform (ACS Chem. Biol. 2023);

University of Colorado, Boulder, USA

Robin Stanley

Senior Investigator;

SARS-CoV-2 Nsp15 Can’t Take Its Eyes off U (Structure 2017 & RNA 2018);

National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, USA

Sarah Woodson

Professor;

Co-transcriptional assembly of RNA (PNAS 2014 & PNAS 2016);

 Johns Hopkins University, USA

Shi-Jie Chen

Professor;

An Enhanced Knowledge-Based Approach for Screening RNA-Targeted Drugs (RNA 2017 & PNAS 2016 );

University of Missouri, USA

Shuo Huang

Professor;

Multi-scale Nanopore Analysis (Nature Nanotechnology 2022 & Nature Methods 2023 );

Nanjing University, China

Tae Jin Lee

Assistant Professor;

 Extracellular vesicle based Targeted modulation of tumor suppressive miRNAs in glioblastoma (Mol Ther. 2017);

University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, USA

Tianmin Fu

Assistant Professor;

Molecular mechanisms of Holliday junction branch migration catalyzed by an asymmetric RuvB hexamer (Nature 2023);

The Ohio State University, USA

Walter Zahurancik

On behalf of Dr. Venkat Gopalan;
Postdoctoral Researcher;

Modulation of Archaeal Ribonuclease P Ribozyme Activity by Temperature- and Metal-ion–dependent Phase Separation (Methods in Enzymology 2021);

The Ohio State University, USA

Wayne Miles

Associate Professor;

Conversion of Chemical Antagonists into Small Cell Lung Cancer Ligands for RNA Nanoparticle Delivery (Nucleic Acids Research 2022);

The Ohio State University, USA

Xiaoming (Shawn) He

Professor;

Cold Responsive Nanotechnology-Potentiated Cryoimmunotherapy for Combating Cancer Metastasis (Nat Nanotechnol. 2019 & Nat Commun. 2023);

University of Maryland, USA

Xiaoting Zhang

Professor;

 Overcoming Breast Cancer Therapeutic Resistance by RNA Nanotherapeutics (ACS Nano 2017 & Cancer Res. 2018);

University of Cincinnati, USA

Ya-ming Hou

Professor;

Reading RNA modifications by an RNA-dependent RNA polymerase (Nucleic Acids Res. 2018 & RNA 2018);

  Thomas Jefferson University, USA

Yan Zhao

Professor;

Molecularly Imprinted Nanoparticles (MINPs) as Highly Selective Artificial Receptors and Enzymes (ACS Nano 2023);

  Iowa State University, USA

Yi-Tao Long

Professor;

Nanopore and Nanoelectrochemical Biosensors (Nature Chemistry 2023 & Nature Nanotechnology 2022);

Nanjing University, China

Youdong Mao

Professor;

Watching molecular machines in action by AI-enhanced 4D cryo-EM (Nature 2019 & Mol. Cell 2017);
 
Peking University, China

Yuanpei Li

Professor;

One-component new-chemical-entity nanomedicine for cancer treatment (Nature Nanotechnology 2020);

University of California, Davis, USA