Steering Committee
General Chairs
Antonio Giordano
Director & Professor of the Sbarro Institute for Cancer Research and Molecular Medicine and Center for Biotechnology, College of Science & Technology, Temple University, Philadelphia, USA
“Chiara fama” Professor, Department of Medicine, Surgery & Neuroscience, University of Siena, Italy
Program Chairs
Giulia Guerriero
Topical Chief Editor, Euro-Mediterranean Journal for Environmental Integration (Springer)
Associate Editor, Chemosphere (Elsevier)
Associate Editor, European Zoological Journal (Taylor & Francis)
Associate Editor, specialty: Biodiversity, Frontiers for Young Minds (Frontiers)
Department of Biology, University of Naples Federico II, Naples, Italy
Society of Reproduction and Comparative Endocrinology (SRBCE)
Asia and Oceania Society of Comparative Endocrinology (AOSCE)
President of the Interdepartmental Research Center for Environment, IRCEnv (CIRAm), University of Naples Federico II, Naples, Italy
Walid Elfalleh
Editorial Board Member, Grain & Oil Science and Technology (Elsevier)
Director of Internships & Deputy Director, Higher Institute of Applied Sciences and Technology of Gabes (ISSATGb), University of Gabes, Tunisia
Energy, Water, Environment and Process Laboratory, National Engineering School of Gabes (ENIG), University of Gabes, Tunisia
Publications Chairs
Scientific Relations Chairs
General Supervisor
Nabil Khélifi
Ministerial Advisor for Scientific Publishing
Expert Publisher & Journal Development Manager
Recipient of the Africa Green Future Leadership Award (Mauritius, 2016)
Recipient of the Saudi Society for Geosciences Award (Saudi Arabia, 2020)
DAAD Alumni Fellow, Germany
GEOMAR Kiel Former Researcher, Germany
Springer Former Senior Publishing Editor, Germany
Organizing Committee
Conference Coordinators
Attila Çiner
Topical Chief Editor, Arabian Journal of Geosciences (Springer)
Professor, Eurasia Institute of Earth Sciences, Istanbul Technical University, Türkiye
Visiting Professor, Faculty of Geography, University of Barcelona, Spain
Conference Managers
Sahbi Moalla
Journal Coordinator, Euro-Mediterranean Journal for Environmental Integration (Springer)
ISET, University of Sfax, Tunisia
Mourad Amer
Founding Editor of ASTI Series (Springer/IEREK), Germany
IEREK, Alexandria, Egypt
Scientific Committee
All abstracts and extended abstracts (short proceedings papers) submitted to MedLIFE-24 will undergo an evaluation and selection process by the track chairs in collaboration with technical committee members.
Some tracks still require chairs, and anybody can apply to the MedLIFE Scientific Committee. The prerequisites include a strong global network to promote the conference and a Scopus h-index greater than 15.
The track chairs listed below will have first priority as editors of the MedLIFE proceedings (see Publications). The proceedings editors will be granted free admission to the conference.
If you meet the prerequisites and want to contribute scientifically to the conference, please send an email with the subject line "MedLIFE Chair" to contact@med-life.org.
MedLIFE-24 is running these Conference Tracks. Please click below for more information on each track’s co-chairs:
1. Track Chairs: Agricultural Biology
2. Track Chairs: Astrobiology
Jesús Martínez-Frías
President, International Association for Geoethics (IAGETH)
Member of NASA-MSL, ESA-ExoMars and NASA-Mars2020 and the BIOMEX project (ISS)
Editor-in-Chief, Geosciences (MDPI)
Institute of Geosciences — IGEO (CSIC-UCM), Madrid, Spain
3. Track Chairs: Bacteriology
Federica Carraturo
Mediterranean and Middle East Universities Network Agreement (MUNA)
Department of Biology, University of Naples Federico II, Naples, Italy
Centro Servizi Metrologici e Tecnologici Avanzati (CeSMA), University of Naples Federico II, Naples, Italy
4. Track Chairs: Biotechnology
5. Track Chairs: Biochemistry
6. Track Chairs: Bioinformatics & Biological Data Science
7. Track Chairs: Biolinguistics
8. Track Chairs: Biological Anthropology
9. Track Chairs: Biological & Biomedical Engineering
10. Track Chairs: Biological Oceanography
Zhihua Zhang
Editor-in-Chief of Int. J. Big Data Mining for Global Warming (World Scientific)
Associate Editor of Environ. Dev. Sustain. (Springer)
Associate Editor of EURASIP J. Adv. Signal. Process. (Springer)
Associate Editor of Int. J. Climate Change Strat. & Manag. (Emerald)
Editorial Board Member of Earth Science Informatics (Springer)
Member of Education Committee of International Coral Reef Society
Shandong University, China
James Crabbe
Fellow of the Society of Biology (UK)
Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society (UK)
Fellow of the Linnean Society (UK)
Former Chair of Education Committee of International Coral Reef Society
Wolfson College, Oxford University, UK
11. Track Chairs: Biomechanics
Su Shiung Lam
Professor, Institute of Tropical Aquaculture & Fisheries (AKUATROP) of UMT, Malaysia
Higher Institution Centre of Excellence (HICoE) for Future Food: Sustainable Shellfish Aquaculture, Ministry of Higher Education, Malaysia
Christian Sonne
Invited Specialist, IUCN Polar Bear Specialist Group (PBSG)
Editor-in-Chief, Environmental Pollution (Elsevier)
Editor-in-Chief, Environmental Advances (Elsevier)
Section Editor, Heliyon (Cell Press)
Section Editor, Wildlife Biology (The Nordic Society Oikos)
Associate Editor, Environmental Research (Elsevier)
Associate Editor, Reviews of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology (Springer)
Editorial Board Member, Environment International (Elsevier)
Editorial Board Member, Data in Brief (Elsevier)
Department of Bioscience, Arctic Research Centre (ARC)
Danish Centre for Environment and Energy (DCE)
Faculty of Science and Technology, Aarhus University, Roskilde, Denmark
12. Track Chairs: Biophysics
Jörg Enderlein
Third Institute of Physics – Biophysics, Georg August University, Göttingen, Germany
Cluster of Excellence “Multiscale Bioimaging: from Molecular Machines to Networks of Excitable Cells” (MBExC), The University Medical Center Göttingen (UMG), Göttingen, Germany
13. Track Chairs: Biosustainability
14. Track Chairs: Botany
15. Track Chairs: Cancer Biology & Oncology
Natasha Kyprianou
Recepient of Research Excellence Award, Distinguished Mentor Award, Distinguished Research Scholar Alumna, Williams Prostate Cancer Research Excellence Award (American Urologic Foundation), Excellence in Urologic Research Award (Society for Women in Urology), Chopin Award (European Association of Urology), and Distinguished Service Award & Meritorious Research Award (Society for Basic Urologic Research)
Johns Hopkins Society of University Scholars induction
Professor and Vice-Chair for Research, Department of Urology, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, USA
Tisch Cancer Institute at Mount Sinai, New York, USA
Department of Oncological Sciences, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, USA
16. Track Chairs: Cell Biology
17. Track Chairs: Circular Bioeconomy
Antonis A. Zorpas
Editor, Chemical Engineering Journal (Elsevier)
Associate Editor, Case Studies in Chemical and Environmental Engineering (Elsevier)
Associate Editor, Energy Nexus Water Food Power (Elsevier)
Associate Editor, Arabian Journal of Geoscience (Springer)
Associate Editor, Waste Management and Research: The Journal for a Sustainable Circular Economy (SAGE)
Lead Guest Editor, Euro Mediterranean Journal of Environmental Integration (Springer)
Director of Chemical Engineering and Engineering Sustainability Laboratory, Open University of Cyprus, Nicosia, Cyprus
18. Track Chairs: Ecology & Environmental Biology
19. Track Chairs: Endocrinology
Giulia Guerriero
Topical Chief Editor, Euro-Mediterranean Journal for Environmental Integration (Springer)
Associate Editor, Chemosphere (Elsevier)
Associate Editor, European Zoological Journal (Taylor & Francis)
Associate Editor, specialty: Biodiversity, Frontiers for Young Minds (Frontiers)
Department of Biology, University of Naples Federico II, Naples, Italy
Society of Reproduction and Comparative Endocrinology (SRBCE)
Asia and Oceania Society of Comparative Endocrinology (AOSCE)
President of the Interdepartmental Research Center for Environment, IRCEnv (CIRAm), University of Naples Federico II, Naples, Italy
20. Track Chairs: Enzymology
Dianyu Yu
Director of China Oils and Fats Association
Vice Supervisor of Heilongjiang Association for Food Science and Technology
Executive Director of Heilongjiang Soybean Association
Director of Heilongjiang Nutrition Society
School of Food Science, Northeast Agricultural University, Harbin, China
21. Track Chairs: Ethology
22. Track Chairs: Evolutionary Biology
Piotr Tryjanowski
Hans Fischer Senior Fellow, Institute of Advanced Study, Technical University of Munich, Garching, Germany
Chair of Ecoclimatology, Technical University of Munich, Freising, Germany
23. Track Chairs: Food Bioscience
Walid Elfalleh
Editorial Board Member, Grain & Oil Science and Technology (Elsevier)
Director of Internships & Deputy Director, Higher Institute of Applied Sciences and Technology of Gabes (ISSATGb), University of Gabes, Tunisia
Energy, Water, Environment and Process Laboratory, National Engineering School of Gabes (ENIG), University of Gabes, Tunisia
24. Track Chairs: Genetics
25. Track Chairs: Histology & Histopathology
26. Track Chairs: Immunology
Fatima Laraba-Djebari
Vice-President, Algerian Academy of Sciences and Technology (AAST)
Laboratory of Cellular & Molecular Biology, Faculty of Biological Sciences, University of Science and Technology Houari Boumediene (USTHB), Algiers, Algeria
27. Track Chairs: Marine Biology
Francesco Tiralongo
Ente Fauna Marina Mediterranea, Scientific Organization for Research and Conservation of Marine Biodiversity, Avola, Italy
National Research Council, Institute of Marine Biological Resources and Biotechnologies, Ancona, Italy
28. Track Chairs: Medical Sciences & Technology
Gilberto Sammartino
Associated Editor of International Journal of Dentistry (Hindawi)
Full Professor of Oral Surgery, Dean of Dental School, Head of School of Specialization in Oral Surgery, and Head of Program of Oral and Reconstructive Surgery at the University of Naples Federico II, Naples, Italy
Delegate for the International Activities of the University of Naples Federico II, Naples, Italy
Department of Neuroscience, Reproductive and Odontostomatological Sciences, University of Naples Federico II, Naples, Italy
29. Track Chairs: Microbiology
30. Track Chairs: Molecular Biology
31. Track Chairs: Mycology
Amin Mousavi Khaneghah
Faculty of Agro-Industry, Chiang Mai University, Chiang Mai, Thailand
Department of Fruit and Vegetable Product Technology, Prof. Wacław Dąbrowski Institute of Agricultural and Food Biotechnology – State Research Institute, Warsaw, Poland
32. Track Chairs: Neurosciences
Rachid Soulimani
Responsible for the teaching of Neurosciences-Toxicology, Disease and Prevention in University of Lorraine, Metz, France
Laboratoire de Conception, Optimisation et Modélisation des Systèmes (LCOMS) / Neurotoxicologie Alimentaire et Bioactivité,
University of Lorraine, Metz, France
33. Track Chairs: Paleontology & Paleobiology
34. Track Chairs: Pathology
Antonio Giordano
Director & Professor of the Sbarro Institute for Cancer Research and Molecular Medicine and Center for Biotechnology, College of Science & Technology, Temple University, Philadelphia, USA
“Chiara fama” Professor, Department of Medicine, Surgery & Neuroscience, University of Siena, Italy
35. Track Chairs: Pharmaceutical Sciences & Pharmacology
Frank A. Redegeld
Editor, Journal of Pharmacological Sciences (Elsevier)
Review Editor, Frontiers in Molecular Mucosal Immunity (Frontiers)
Division of Pharmacology, Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Faculty of Science, Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands
36. Track Chairs: Phycology
37. Track Chairs: Physiology
Giuseppe Valacchi
SFRR-Europe President Elect (Society of Free Radical Research - Europe)
Recipient of Entelligence Award (Actelion), Exposome Award, University of Ferrara Bronze Medal, “Doctorate Honoris Causa” in Biochemistry and Pharmacy (University of Buenos Aires), Clinical Research Award (SFRR-E), “Paladin of Health” (Italian Ministry of Public Health and Education), and “Faculty Scholar” Award (North Carolina State University) Plants for Human Health Institute, Animal Science Department, North Carolina State University, North Carolina Research Campus, Kannapolis, NC, USA
Department of Environmental and Prevention Sciences, University of Ferrara, Ferrara, Italy
Department of Food and Nutrition, Kyung Hee University, Seoul, Republic of Korea
38. Track Chairs: Population Biology
39. Track Chairs: Quantum Biology
40. Track Chairs: Reproductive Sciences
Gail S. Prins
Director of Urologic Research, Departments of Urology, Pathology and Physiology, College of Medicine, University of Illinois Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA
Co-Director, Chicago Center for Health and Environment (CACHET), School of Public Health, Chicago, IL, USA
41. Track Chairs: Structural Biology
42. Track Chairs: Synthetic Biology
Laura Segatori
Medical Innovation Award, Institute of BioSciences and Bioengineering, Rice University (2010)
NSF CAREER Award (2013)
Professor, Department of Bioengineering, Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, Department of Biosciences, Rice University, Houston, TX, USA
43. Track Chairs: Systems Biology
Nektarios Tavernarakis
Research Director (Neurogenetics and Ageing Laboratory) at the Institute of Molecular Biology and Biotechnology (IMBB)
Elected Corresponding Member, Academy of Athens
Elected Member, Scientific Council of the European Research Council (ERC), European Institute of Innovation and Technology (EIT) Governing Board, European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO), German National Academy of Sciences (Leopoldina), European Academy of Sciences and Arts, and Academia Europaea
Recipient of ERC Advanced Investigator Grants, Innovation-Supporting ERC Proof of Concept Grants, EMBO Young Investigator Award, Alexander von Humboldt Foundation Research Award, Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel Research Award, Bodossaki Foundation Scientific Prize for Medicine and Biology, Empeirikeion Foundation Academic Excellence Prize, Research Excellence Award of the Foundation for Research and Technology-Hellas, BioMedical Research Award of the Academy of Athens, Galien Scientific Research Award, Helmholtz International Fellow Award, International Human Frontier in Science Program Organization (HFSPO) Long-Term Postdoctoral Fellowship, Honorary Education Business Award, and Dr. Frederick Valergakis Post-Graduate Research Grant Program Academic Achievement Award of the Hellenic University Club of New York, NY, USA
Former Director, Institute of Molecular Biology and Biotechnology Foundation for Research and Technology, Heraklion, Greece
Professor of Molecular Systems Biology & Director of the Graduate Program on BioInformatics, Medical School of the University of Crete, Heraklion, Greece
44. Track Chairs: Theoretical Biology
45. Track Chairs: Toxicology
Michèle Bouchard
Department of Environmental and Occupational Health, University of Montreal, Montreal (Qc), Canada
46. Track Chairs: Virology & Parasitology
47. Track Chairs: Zoology
48. Track Chairs: Integrated Life Science Topics
Orish Ebere Orisakwe
African Centre of Excellence for Public Health and Toxicological Research (ACE-PUTOR), University of Port Harcourt, Choba, Nigeria
Advanced Research Centre, European University of Lefke, Lefke, Northern Cyprus, Mersin, Turkey
Technical Committee
All abstracts and extended abstracts (short procedure papers) submitted to MedLIFE-24 will undergo an evaluation process by members of the Technical Committee (with an h-index higher than 8). All members will receive certificates of appreciation. The most cooperative members will be invited to serve as MedLIFE-24 Proceedings Editors, and their names will be published on this website shortly before the conference.