Speakers
ICBIC 2021 Confirmed Plenary Speakers
The ICBIC20 Program Committee are pleased to announce the following speakers have confirmed their participation at the Conference. More invited speakers will be confirmed shortly.
Professor Nigel Robinson
Durham University, UK
Professor Ivana Ivanović-Burmazović
Department of Chemistry and Pharmacy, Germany
Zijian Guo
Nanjing Unversity, China
Professor Elizabeth Nolan
Department of Chemistry, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USAPlease Note: Subject to Change.
Professor Nigel Robinson
Durham University, UK
Professor of Biomolecular Sciences, Department of Chemistry and Department of Biosciences, Durham University (2013 to the present day). Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry (2013). Professor of Genetics (Molecular Genetics) in the Medical School of Newcastle University (1994 to 2011). Royal Society University Research Fellowship, Durham and Newcastle Universities (1987 to 1995). Postdoctoral staff member and Postdoctoral Fellow (Natural Environment Research Council Fellowship and Directors-funded Fellowship) Los Alamos National Laboratory, USA (1984 to 1987). Liverpool University, UK, Ph.D. Biochemistry (1981-1984) and B.Sc. Life Science (1981).
Professor Ivana Ivanović-Burmazović
Department of Chemistry and Pharmacy, Germany
Ivana Ivanović-Burmazović was trained in Inorganic Chemistry as an (under)graduate student at the University of Belgrade, Serbia, where she worked as Assistant Professor. She received her Habilitation at Friedrich-Alexander University, Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU), Germany, became the Chair of Bioinorganic Chemistry and was a speaker of the Emerging Field “Medicinal Redox Inorganic Chemistry”. Having a synthetic and mechanistic background her goal is to design metal complexes that can trigger bioinorganic redox signaling through interactions with O2, O2-, H2O2, NO, ONOO-, H2S, CO2, and could be used as enzyme mimetics, biological tools, unconventional pharmaceuticals and catalysts of environmental and energy relevance. Besides syntheses the group applies high-pressure/low-temperature stopped-flow, electrochemistry, NMR and cryo-spray MS studies.
Zijian Guo
Nanjing Unversity, China
Zijian Guo is a professor of chemistry at the Nanjing University, China. He received his PhD degree from the University of Padua, Italy in 1994 and worked as a postdoctoral research fellow at Birkbeck College, University of London and a research associate at the University of Edinburgh from 1994 – 1999. He joined the School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering at Nanjing University since 1999 and served as the dean of the school and the director of the State Key Laboratory of Coordination Chemistry. He was elected to the fellow of the Chinese Academy of Sciences in 2017. His major research interest focuses on the design and application of fluorescent sensors for bioinorganic species and the design, mechanistic studies and targeted delivery of metal-based drugs.
Professor Elizabeth Nolan
Department of Chemistry, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA
Elizabeth M. Nolan is a Professor of Chemistry at MIT. She pursued her graduate studies with Professor Stephen J. Lippard at MIT and her post-doctoral studies with Professor Christopher T. Walsh at Harvard Medical School. Her current research interests address the chemistry and biology of human innate immunity and microbial pathogenesis. Her lab employs the toolkits of biological chemistry, inorganic chemistry, and microbiology to decipher the interplay between the human innate immune system and microbes, and to conceptualize and evaluate new strategies for preventing and treating microbial infections.
