New Horizons in Evolution

Authors

Solomon P. Wasser Haifa University, Haifa, Israel. Solomon P. Wasser is a world leader in medicinal mushrooms study and fungal evolution, taxonomy, and biodiversity, especially in higher Basidiomycetes mushrooms. He has introduced 226 new scientific names for fungi, including 42 species of higher Basidiomycetes species. He has also developed and patented new dietary supplements with immunomodulating, cholesterol lowering, antidiabetic, antioxidant, and radical scavenging activities. He is founder and editor-in-chief of International Journal of Medicinal Mushrooms, Algologia, and International Journal on Algae and is an author and coauthor of 600 scientific publications, including 57 books and 15 patents. Milana Frenkel-Morgenstern Bar-Ilan University, Ramat Gan, Israel. Milana Frenkel-Morgenstern completed her PhD at the Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel in 2006. She made her first postdoc in the lab of Prof. Uri Alon in Systems Biology in the Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel, and the second postdoc in the lab of Prof. Alfonso Valencia in the Spanish National Cancer Research Centre (CNIO), Spain. She has published more than 40 papers in reputed journals and serving as an editorial board member of repute. She is a founder of special scientific Art in Science competition at the international Bioinformatics conferences since 2008, a chair of the ISCB affiliated Israeli Bioinformatics group, and a head of the "Cancer Genomics and BioComputing in Complex Diseases" group in the Azrieli faculty of Medicine, Bar-Ilan University. Her group has developed unique protocols for the cell free DNA isolation and its analysis using unique and patented techniques, the group in working in evolution of protein interaction networks.