Lynnette Ferguson obtained her D.Phil. (Oxon) (the equivalent of a PhD) from Oxford University, working on the subject of DNA damage, DNA repair and mutagenesis in yeast. After her return to New Zealand, she began working as part of the Auckland Cancer Society Research Centre, using mutagenicity testing as a predictor of carcinogenesis, with particular focus on the New Zealand situation. In 2000, she took on a 50% role as Head of a new Discipline of Nutrition at the University of Auckland. In more recent years, she has considered the interplay between genes and diet in the development of chronic disease, with particular focus on Inflammatory Bowel Disease, a cancer-prone condition, and also in prostate cancer. As programme leader for the multidisciplinary-multi organisation Nutri-genomics New Zealand, she worked with a range of others to bring nutrigenomics tools and potential to the New Zealand science scene. She has supervised more than 40 students to the successful completion of B. tech, MSc or PhD. Her laboratory regularly supervises 2-3 summer students each year. She is the author or co-author of more than 350 peer reviewed publications as chapters in books or articles in international journals. She serves on the Editorial Boards of several major journals.

Professor Mohammed Farid obtained his PhD and MSc in Chemical Engineering from the University of Swansea, Wales and his BSc in Chemical Engineering from the University of Baghdad. He was the founder of the Department of Chemical Engineering at the University of Basrah in 1983. Since then, he worked as a full professor in the Jordan University of Science and Technology, the University of Science Malaysia and Professor at University of Auckland Farid has received a number of international awards such as the Matsumae International Fellowship from Japan (1986), a prestigious prize for being the most active in research in the University of Basrah (1990), the Hisham Hijjawi Award for Outstanding Scientific Achievement in Research in Jordan (1993) and the Marie Curie Fellowship, from European Union (2010) for his exceptional contribution to research on energy storage. In 2010, he was short listed and came in the third place for the IChemE Innovator of the Year Award – sponsored by NES in the UK, and has been invited to a large number of international conferences as a keynote speaker. iN 2015, he was awarded the IAEF Lifetime Achievement Award in Food Engineering. He is a member of the editorial board of twenty international journals and has been invited to join a number of scientific committees of international conferences.He is a world leader in energy storage with phase change and has provided significant contribution to the field worldwide. His research expertise covers many other important areas such as the thermal and non-thermal processing of food processing, biofuel and waste management

After retiring from CSIR-CFTRI as Chief Scientist during 2013, worked as an Emeritus Medical Scientist (ICMR) at University of Mysore and retired as a Professor (April, 2021) under DBT sponsored Food Science Project, Gauhati University. Published ~ 85 research papers ,inventor of several processes, one Patent was commercialized to 30 industries. Handled several National & International projects. Guided 75-80 B.Tech M.Sc, M.Tech students for their Dissertation and Investigation problems and produced 8 Ph.D candidates, including INSA, African countries, Korean candidates. Faculty member and Course Co-ordinator of M.Sc Food Technology, HRD courses at CFTRI. Recipient of several awards, delivered several invited lectures, innumerable oral lectures, and presented 70-80 posters at National & International level. Serving Food Safety Standards of India, New Delhi, at different capacities. Also served as a member of Research Advisory Committee, ICAR-Central Institute of Post Harvest Engg and Technology, Ludhiana, Punjab.

Lisa Herzig received her Bachelors of Science in Community Health Nutrition from Georgia State University, Master’s degree from University of New Mexico in Nutrition, and her Doctorate degree in Humanities from the California Institute of Integral Studies with a concentration in transformational learning and change. She is a registered dietitian nutritionist and certified diabetes care and education specialist. Dr. Herzig is the Didactic Program in Dietetics Director and coordinates the undergraduate nutrition and dietetics program at Fresno State for the newly designated BS in Human Nutritional Sciences. Additionally, Dr. Herzig is the graduate coordinator for the Food Science and Nutrition Department. Her practice specialties include: diabetes management, weight management, clinical nutrition and dietetics, Personalized Nutrition and employee wellness. In her spare time, she likes to travel, ski, and bike ride.

Dr. Shabnam Pooya joined the Fresno State faculty in the fall of 2016 after receiving her Ph.D. degree focusing on the effects of methyl donor deficiency (vitamin B12 and Folate) during pregnancy and lactation on myocardial and hepatic tissue metabolism in rats. As a post-doctoral research fellow at the Medical College of Wisconsin (Milwaukee), she studied vasculogenesis and brain development biology, neuro-stem cell signaling and metabolism in the department of Developmental Vascular Biology Program. She also conducted post-doctoral fellow research at the Cincinnati Children's Hospital Division of Oncology in brain developmental biology, neuro-stem cell and glial cells signaling and metabolism.

Dr Md Monoarul Haque was born in 1983 at Dhaka, Bangladesh. He was awarded PhD in 2019. He got NOMA Grant from University of Oslo, Norway for research. Besides he got one year teaching & research fellowship Funded by USAID Developing Next Generation of Public Health Experts Project. He is a member of Geneva Foundation for Medical Education and Research. He has number of publications in International Open Access peer reviewed index journals. As a young scientist he is expert on editorial writing also and already lot of editorial has been published. At present he is working as Assistant Professor, Department of Public Health, Fareast International University. His research interest is ethnic child nutrition.

Prof. TahaRababah has completed his PhD at the age of 31 years from University of Arkansas/ Fayetteville (USA) in 2004. He has published more than 120 papers in reputed journals and has been serving as an editorial board member of repute in several national and international journals. His research interests in food processing engineering and flavor chemistry; design and fabrication of food processing in different factories; chemical and physical food processing engineering; identification and characterization of phytochemicals; sensory science.