Hsiao-Chun Huang Institute of Molecular and Cellular Biology , National Taiwan University

1. Hsiao-Chun HuangInstitute of Molecular and Cellular Biology, National Taiwan University Dr. Hsiao-Chun Huang received her Ph.D. degree in Systems Biology from Harvard Medical School in 2010. After graduation, she worked as a postdoctoral research fellow at the Institute of Biomedical Sciences, Academia Sinica. She joined the Institute of Molecular and Cellular Biology at National Taiwan University, where she is currently an assistant professor since August 2012. She is interested in using multidisciplinary approaches encompassing quantitative single-cell imaging, molecular biology, computational modeling and synthetic approaches to understand how pathway architectures give rise to interesting cellular behaviors, including cell-cell variability. • 2011 - 2012 Postdoctoral Fellow in Institute of Biomedical Science, Academia Sinica2005 - 2010 Ph.D. Systems Biology, Harvard Medical School, USA2003 - 2005 M.S. Electronics Engineering, National Taiwan University, Taiwan1999 - 2003 B.S. Electroics Engineering, National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan

2. WeimouZhengInstitute of Theoretical Physics, Academia Sinica • Wei-MouZheng received his B.S. degree in Physics from Peking University, China. He was a visiting scholar at the Center for Statistical Mechanics, University of Texas at Austin from 1981 to 1987, during which period he obtained his Ph.D. degree in Physics from the Free University of Brussels, Belgium (supervised by Prof. I. Prigogine). He is Professor of Theoretical Physics at the Institute of Theoretical Physics, Academia Sinica. His research interests cover quantum mechanics, statistical physics, nonlinear dynamics, and bioinformatics. • 1981- 1987a visiting scholar, • the Center for Statistical Mechanics, University of Texas at Austin198* - 198*Ph.D. University of Brussels, Belgium • 198*- 198*B.S. Peking University, China

3. Kazuharu ArakawaInstitute for Advanced Biosciences, Keio University • Dr.Kazuharu Arakawa received his Ph.D. degree in Bioinformatics from Keio University in 2006. After graduation, he worked as a research associate at the Institute for Advanced Biosciences at Keio University. He is currently a project assistant professor since 2009. His research interest is bioinformatics and system biology. For example, bacterial genome sequence analysis, metabolomics, G-language system, etc. Recently, he focuses on transomic analysis of Hypsibiusdujardini, which is "the strongest species all over the world". • 2009 - Project Assistant Professor, Keio University2007 - 2009Research Associate, Institute for Advanced Biosciences, Keio University2006 - 2007JSPS Research Fellow(PD)2006 Ph.DGraduate School of Media and Governance, Keio University • 2004- 2006JSPS Research Fellow (DC1)

4. Sunghoon KimCollege of Pharmacy, Seoul National University • Dr. Sunghoon Kim received his Ph.D. degree in molecular biology and biochemistry from Brown University, USA in 1991. After graduation he did his post-doc at MIT biology till 1994. He was a associate professor at Sungkyunkwan university in Korea 1994 from to 2001. From 2001 to now, he is a professor in department of molecular medicine and biopharmaceutical sciences Graduate school of convergence science and technology and college of pharmacy, Seoul National University, Korea. He is now also the director of Medicinal Bioconvergence Research Center, leading the project of drug target discovery and technology innovation. • His main research interest are 1. integrated biology for drug target discovery, 2. convergence research of science and technologies for the innovation of drug discovery, 3 cancer systems biology • 2001 -Professor, College of Pharmacy, Seoul National University, Korea1994 - 2001Associate Professor, Department of Biological Science, • SungkyunkwanUniversity, Korea • 1991- 1994Post- doc fellow at MIT biology, USA • 1986 - 1991 Ph.D. Molecular Biology and Biochemistry, Brown University, USA • 1981 - 1983M.D. Biotechnology ,Korea Institute of Science and Technology, Korea1977 - 1981 B.S. College of Pharmacy, Seoul National University, Korea

5. Takashi ItoDepartment of Biophysics and Biochemistry, • Graduate School of Science, The University of Tokyo • Dr. Itohreceived his M.D. (1984) and Ph.D. (1990) from Kyushu University, Japan. After his postdoctoral training at UC Berkeley, he joined the Human Genome Center at the University of Tokyo as Assistant Professor in 1992. He was promoted to Professor of the Cancer Research Institute at Kanazawa University in 1999. He then moved to the Department of Computational Biology (2003) and the Department of Biophysics and Biochemistry (2009) at the University of Tokyo. • Dr. Itoh performed a first comprehensive two-hybrid analysis of the yeast proteome as a pioneer of interactome analysis. He also performed a large-scale full-length cDNA analysis to reveal unexpected complexity of the yeast transcriptome. He has been also interested in epigenomics to develop unique methods for imprinted gene hunting, allelic methylation analysis, one-hybrid screening for methylated DNA-binding proteins, and highly sensitive whole-genome bisulfite sequencing. Professor Itoh has published many important Papers on epigenetics and other biological phenomenon. He is a wet-lab researcher with an outstanding appreciation of the role computation can play in biology, and experience advising graduate students in a multi-disciplinary department. In short, a perfect speaker to foster new collaborations between experimental and computational scientists. • 2009Professor, Graduate School of Science, The University of Tokyo • 2003Professor, Graduate School of Frontier Sciences, The University of Tokyo 1999Professor, Cancer Research Institute, Kanazawa University • 1999Associate Professor, Institute of Medical Science, The University of Tokyo1992 Research Associate, Institute of Medical Science, The University of Tokyo1991Postdoctoral Research Fellow, The University of California at Berkeley • 1990Doctor of Medical Science from Kyushu University • 1987Research Associate, Institute of Tropical Medicine, Nagasaki University1984M.D. Graduated, Faculty of Medicine, Kyushu University