Prof Kutubuddin A Molla, Scientist from ICAR-NRRI Odisha, India. Dr. Molla's areas of specialization are CRISPR/Cas tools development, Precise Genome Editing, Base Editing, Genetic Engineering, Transgenesis, Host-pathogen interaction.
His previous positions were: He was Fullbright Visiting Scholar, Plant Pathology and Environmental Microbiology, Pennsylvania State University, USA (2017-2019). He was the Scientist, Division of Genomic Resources, ICAR-National Bureau of Plant Genetic Resources, New Delhi. He has many publications and book chapters to his credit and is the recipient of many awards and recognitions.

Dr D T Singh is Founder and President, CloudSeq Pte Ltd, Singapore. He did his PhD in Life Sciences from Central University of Hyderabad, India in 1987 and worked as Asst Professor, Dept Molecular Biology and Biotechnology, Pantnagar Univerity, India from 1989-1997. He did his post-doctoral fellowship in Rice Genome Program, Tsukuba, Japan and International Rice Research Institute, Manila, Philippines from 1997-1999 and joined as Senior Scientist, National Research Center on Plant Biotechnology, Indian Agricultural Research Institute (IARI), New Delhi, India from 1999-2002. He was Cofounder and VP of Genvea Biosciences Pte Ltd, Singapore during 2003-2016 and in 2016 he founded CloudSeq Pte Ltd, Singapore. Profile:

He has coordinated a multi-million-dollar Manpower Development Project (Agricultural Biotechnology) funded by Dept. Biotechnology, Govt. India Established a state-of-the-art Genome Informatics Center at Indian Agricultural Research Institute, India heading a team of IT experts and Biology experts for Rice Genome Annotation under an International collaborative project comprising 14 countries

He Joined KooPrime, Singapore as Director, CloudSeq with a vision to make NGS (Next Generation Sequencing) data generation, management and analysis through Cloud and launched CloudSeq Pte Ltd (http://cloudseq.sg) with seed funding from NRF/MDA (Govt. Singapore) and Expara (www.expara.com) Successfully launched myClinGen (www.myclingen.com).

He was nominated for best IT solution by IDA, Singapore in 2016 and for best Cloud based HPC solution by NSCC. He was invited to participate in EUREKA Global stars program sponsored by Enterprise Singapore, wherein 7 EU countries expressed interest to collaborate. He was awarded a prestigious Covid-19 project by NSCC, Singapore.

Kavita completed her undergraduate degree in Physics, Chemistry and Mathematics, from St. Joseph\\\'s College, Bangalore. She then attended the MSc Biotechnology programme at The Maharaja Sayajirao University (MSU), Baroda but left midway to pursue her doctorate at Professor William Chia\\\'s laboratory at the Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology (IMCB, now IMCB-A*STAR), Singapore, King\\\'s College London (MRC Centre for Developmental Neurobiology), London and Temasek Life Sciences Laboratory. Kavita went on to do her Post-doctoral research at Professor Josh Kaplan\\\'s laboratory at the Massachusetts General Hospital (Department of Molecular Biology), Boston, MA. Subsequently, in August 2011, Kavita joined IISER, Mohali. 
After spending more than 7 years in Mohali, Kavita moved back home and is currently gearing up to study aspects of the C. elegans nervous system at The Centre for Neuroscience (CNS) at Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bangalore.
Kavita was a Wellcome Trust-DBT India Alliance Intermediate Fellow and was a recipient of the DBT-Innovative Young Biotechnologist Award. She is currently a Wellcome Trust-DBT India Alliance Senior Fellow and is a recipient of the Janaki Ammal- National Women Bioscientist Award (young category, 2019).

Dr. Debojyoti Chakraborty is presently Senior Scientist at Therapeutic Genome Editing. His lab develops genome editing tools and applies them for identifying, modelling, and correcting disease-causing mutations. His current area of research includes the following:

• Therapeutic Genome Editing for the treatment of genetic disorders
• Engineered Cas systems and their applications in dissecting biological phenomena
• Stem cell derived organoid models for disease modeling

He has many publications in various renowned journals which reflects his immense knowledge and dedication towards Genome Editing.

Dr. Trivedi received her M.Sc. by research degree from National Centre for Biological Sciences, Bangalore and PhD degree from University of Cambridge, UK. Her research at NCBS and Cambridge were focused on Drosophila genetics – Genetic basis of olfactory learning and visual transduction, respectively.  She received the prestigious Gates Cambridge Scholarship for her doctoral studies.  Following this, she did her postdoctoral studies in University of California, and Texas USA in mouse and Drosophila genetics studying intracellular trafficking in rod cells and motor neurons respectively. She has extensively used Drosophila and mouse genetics, including genetic engineering, and transgenesis as tools to understand fundamental biological phenomena. Dr.Trivedi joined CCAMP/NCBS in December 2013 as a technology scientist to develop and establish new technologies in Drosophila Genome Engineering.  As facility-in charge, she provides support to the academia in their research. 

Dr. P Chandra Shekar, presently is a principal scientist at the Centre for Molecular and Molecular Biology. He bags many publications under his name.

He is an Assistant Professor (School of Energy Science and Engineering) and Associate-faculty (P. K. Sinha Center for Bioenergy and Renewables) in Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Kharagpur. His areas of research are Metabolic Engineering and Synthetic Biology; Multi-Omics Systems Biology; 13C Metabolic Flux Analysis; Computer Simulation of Biomolecular Systems and Bio-Energy. He has done his 5-year integrated M.Sc. (Physics) from Department of Physics in 2003 and then PhD, Biophysics & Molecular Biology- Molecular BioPhysics Unit (MBU) from Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore in 2009. He has about 15 yrs of experience followed by various awards and honors in his credits. He also bags 37 Number of papers published in International Journals; 1589 number of Citations Received and 5 papers under review in Journals.

Dr. C Viswanathan, Principal Scientist & Head, Indian Agricultural Research Institute, New Delhi, India, heading Division of Plant Physiology currently. His international experience includes various programs, contributions and participation in different countries for diverse fields of study.  His research interests reflect in his wide range of publications in various national and international journals.He has been awarded by  ICAR Jawaharlal Nehru Award, DST BOYSCAST Fellowship Award,ISPP J.J. Chinoy Gold Medal.

Dr. Siddharth Tiwari has specialization In Plant Molecular Biology and Genetic Engineering. His current area of Research is in “Metabolic engineering of staple crops (banana and wheat) for nutritional-enrichment.” He has contributed to the Scientific Advancement under the following:
a] Marker free transformation procedure for wheat and banana will be explored and developed.
b] Gene editing for target banana genes has been initiated for enhancing the synthesis/stability of carotenoids in banana.

He has in total 28 Publications recognized for his extraordinary work; also he bags many awards for his immense work and dedication towards Molecular Biology and Genetic Engineering.

He is Staff Scientist-V in Dept. of Genetics, Univ. of Delhi South Campus, New Delhi. He has received many Awards and Honors organizations such as DBT, NASI, NAAS. His current area of research is in “Investigating the molecular genetic mechanism of glucosinolates biosynthesis and transport processes in Brassica crops” and in “Intricacies of G-protein signaling in allotetraploid Brassica juncea”. He has 2 patents under his name and received grants from India, US and Europe. He bags around 50 Publications for his excellent work under different topics. He also has contributed his work as in chapters for 2 Books under the headings “Regulation of Glucosinolate Metabolism: From Model Plant Arabidopsi thaliana to Brassica Crops” and “Intellectual Property Rights in Plant Biotechnology: Relevance, Present Status and Future Prospects”.

Dr. Basudev Ghoshal is a Research Scientist at the Summerland Research and Development Centre of the Government of Canada. He has extensive research experience in the field of plant-virus interaction, plant epigenetics and epigenome editing. Dr. Ghoshal acquired his Master’s degree in Botany and gained initial research experience in Plant Biotechnology from the University of Calcutta. He earned his Ph.D. from the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, studying plant-virus interaction in the laboratory of Dr. Hélène Sanfaçon. After completing his Ph.D., Dr. Ghoshal continued his research on plant-virus interaction as a postdoctoral fellow at the University of British Columbia for a short period in Dr. D’Ann Rochon’s laboratory. He then joined Prof. Steven E. Jacobsen’s laboratory at the University of California, Los Angeles in the USA, to pursue another postdoctoral research at the interface of gene regulation, epigenetics, and pathogen interactions. There, he developed expertise in CRISPR-Cas9 technology, transcriptomics, bioinformatics, and next-generation sequencing. As a postdoctoral fellow in the Jacobsen laboratory, Dr. Ghoshal was involved in developing tools for epigenome editing. He has also advanced the use of plant RNA viruses to deliver guide RNAs for epigenome editing. He has published several scientific papers in peer-reviewed journals. Dr. Ghoshal’s long-standing research interest is to generate foundational knowledge and use this knowledge for translational research in the field of plant virology.

Professor KC Bansal is a former Director of the National Bureau of Plant Genetic Resources, Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR), New Delhi. He also spearheaded the National Transgenic Crop Network across various ICAR research institutions.
His research interests include functional genomics and transgenic development for abiotic stress tolerance in plants; developed the first series of transgenic crops with improved tolerance to drought and salt stress. His work on functional characterization of LEA, MYB, sHSP and osmotin gene is well known. The first ABA receptor gene OsPYL10 from an Indian drought tolerant rice landrace was cloned by his lab.
He took an unprecedented initiative to evaluate the entire wheat germplasm (~ 22000 accessions) conserved at the Indian National Genebank, and identified trait-specific reference sets.
Prof. Bansal served as Vice-Chair (Asia), Commission on Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture, FAO, United Nations (2013-15). He is recipient of the Indian Science Congress award conferred on him by the Prime Minister of India, and the Haryana Vigyan Ratna (Highest State Science award).
Prof. Bansal is elected Fellow of the National Academy of Agricultural Sciences, and the National Academy of Science, India. He serves on the Editorial Board of the Plant Biotechnology Journal.

The Qi Lab is working in the forefront of plant genome engineering and synthetic biology. They develop plant genome editing and transcriptional regulation tools based on different platforms such as TALE, CRISPR-Cas9, Cas12a and Cas12b. They disseminate such tools worldwide through Addgene. These tools not only allow for editing plant genomes, but also enable genome reprogramming at the transcriptome level. They apply these cutting-edge tools in both basic and translational research in plants to ensure food security and safety. First, they use these new genetic tools to answer some basic questions in plant immunity and resilience under stressful environments. Second, they apply multiplex genome editing tools to accelerate crop breeding and de novo crop domestication to make high yield, more nutritious and disease resistant crops. Third, they employ CRISPR activation (CRISPRa) and CRISPR interference (CRISPRi) for engineering metabolic pathways, rewiring plant immune responses and developing synthetic switches in plants toward engineering better crops. These goals can not be achieved without collaboration. They are collaborating with other researchers to apply and use these tools in many plant species including rice, maize, wheat, barley, banana, Arabidopsis, Camelina, soybean, cucumber, tomato, potato, carrot, strawberry, poplar, citrus, apple and pear.  Their recent publications can be checked out at Google Scholar.