赵毓，博士，教授，博士生导师，华中农业大学生命科学技术学院教师，兼任湖北省植物学会理事。美国植物生物学学会、中国植物学会和中国细胞生物学会会员。主要从事水稻器官形态建成遗传基础和表观遗传学方面的研究工作。主持国家自然科学基金、国家重大研发计划、教育部新世纪优秀人才计划、农业部转基因专项和湖北省自然科学基金等项目，在 Plant Cell、PLoS Genetics, Nucleic Acids Research 等学术期刊发表研究论文40余篇。

Dr. Alfredo Cruz-Ramirez has worked with plant cell reprogramming and developmental plasticity for the past 20 years. He was able to identify novel roles for the single Retinoblastoma protein homolog in Arabidopsis thaliana, RBR, both in stem cell asymmetric cell divisions and cell differentiation. He reported that RBR interaction with SCARECROW, a plant-specific transcription factor (TF) , determines cell reprogramming of the cortex-endodermis initial cell and the Quiescent Center in the root stem cell niche of Arabidopsis. Such developmental processes are influenced by the maxima of auxin in the root stem cell niche, a phenomenon that depends on the action of a feed-forward loop that involves the PLETHORA transcription factors (Cruz-Ramírez, etal., 2012, Cell; Cruz-Ramírez etal., 2013, PlosBiol). Such findings were seminal for new discoveries and studies, in some of which he also contributed, on the interaction of RBR with other plant-specific TFs that are key for differentiation processes in diverse tissues and processes (i.e. Matos etal., 2014 eLife; Zhao etal., 2017 New Phytol; Zhou etal., Cell, 2019).  Currently he is a PI at CINVESTAV México leading a research group that studies plant and animal cell reprogramming events and their influence in developmental complexity and phenotypic plasticity.

Masaki Ishikawa received his Ph.D. degree from Nagoya university. The topic of his Ph.D. thesis was Control of plant cytokinesis by a MAP kinase kinase kinase. He was a post-doc researcher at the Rockefeller University to study photomorphogenesis and regulation of flowering time in plants. In 2012, he became an Assistant Professor in Division of Evolutionary Biology, National Institute for Basic Biology, and started his research works on molecular mechanisms underlying cellular reprogramming in land plants. Both plants and animals maintain stem cells that have the capacity to self-renew and to give rise to differentiated cells to build up tissues or organs during development. On the other hand, many differentiated plant cells, unlike animal cells, can be readily reprogrammed into stem cells under both natural and artificial conditions, reflecting the remarkable plasticity of plant cell identity. In the moss Physcomitrium patens, meristems are simpler than those in angiosperms and contain a single apical stem cell. In addition, somatic leaf cells readily reprogram into stem cells by wounding. Using this moss reprogramming system, Dr. Ishikawa aims to elucidate the molecular mechanisms underlying the cellular reprogramming and the evolution of the stem cell regulation in land plants.

王利凯，博士，教授，博士生导师，南京农业大学园艺学院教师。过去主要以拟南芥为研究对象，从基因转录调节和表观遗传修饰两个方面系统揭示了乙烯调控植物生长发育的分子机制。将来拟以菊花为研究对象，对观赏植物采后衰老的分子机理、采后保鲜和品质遗传改良进行研究。在Nat Commun、PNAS、Plant Cell、Curr. Opin. Plant Biol、Small Methods 等杂志发表学术论文20余篇，详情请见：https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/myncbi/1Fq_f12Y95ZAI/bibliography/public/。

博士、副教授、硕士研究生导师，湖北医药学院教师。主要研究方向：植物干细胞稳态、药用植物适应性及药材道地性、天然产物表观遗传药理学。任湖北省药理学会中药药理专业委员会委员、《湖北医药学院学报》第十四届编委、湖北医药学院药用植物及进化遗传学课题组负责人。发表SCI论文20余篇。