Monocytes and Macrophages in Development, Regeneration, and Disease

Dr. Malgorzata Kloc: Prior to completing her postdoctoral training in Canada, Dr. Kloc was a tenured Associate Professor in the Department of Zoology at the University of Warsaw, Poland. She also served as a Research Associate in the Department of Biology at Carleton University in Ottawa, Canada. While completing her postdoctoral training, Dr. Kloc earned the AHFMR Research Award from the University of Calgary and the MRC Biotechnology Training Award from Dalhousie University. She joined the University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center as a Research Scientist in the Department of Molecular Genetics in 1987, and became an Associate Professor in the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology there in 2006. Dr. Kloc joined the Houston Methodist Research Institute in 2008. Currently, Dr. Kloc is the Weill Cornell Professor of Cell and Molecular Biology at The Houston Methodist Hospital and the Adjunct Professor at Department of Genetics, University ofTexas, M D Anderson Cancer Center.

Dr. Jacek Z. Kubiak is the Research Director (Professor) at the French National Research Institute CNRS in Rennes, France. His research is devoted to molecular mechanisms of early embryo development, cell cycle regulation, stem cells, cancer cells and the role of macrophages in the innate immune response. He is the author of over 180 highly cited scientific articles and the editor or co-editor of 10 books. He has graduated from the Warsaw University, Poland and worked at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA, Marine Biological Laboratory in Woods Hole, USA and in Jacques Monod Institute in Paris, France. He collaborates with research institute WIM-PIB in Warsaw, Poland combining stem cells, wound healing and cancer research with the prospective in medical applications. Since the COVID-19 outbreak, he co-ordinates an international research group focused on SARS-CoV-2 infection in paediatric patients and he follows up this research field.

Marta Halasa earned her PhD in medical and health science from the Medical University of Lublin, Poland, in 2022. Her research during her doctoral studies focused on epigenetic modifiers, particularly histone deacetylases, and their impact on cancer progression and metastasis. During her PhD, she completed a long-term internship at the University of Turku, Finland, where she gained expertise in 3D cell techniques. She also undertook an internal internship at the Military Institute of Medicine in Warsaw, Poland, where she investigated cell-gene therapy in Alzheimer's disease. After completing her PhD, she obtained a postdoctoral fellow position at the Houston Methodist Research Institute, USA. Currently, her research focuses on investigating the role of macrophages in chronic transplant rejection.

Dr. Malgorzata Kloc：在完成她在加拿大的博士後訓練之前，Kloc 博士曾是波蘭華沙大學動物學系的終身副教授。她還曾擔任加拿大渥太華卡爾頓大學生物學系的研究助理。在完成博士後訓練期間，Kloc 博士獲得了卡爾加里大學的 AHFMR 研究獎和達爾豪斯大學的 MRC 生物技術培訓獎。她於1987年加入德克薩斯大學 M.D. 安德森癌症中心，擔任分子遺傳學系的研究科學家，並於2006年成為該系的副教授。Kloc 博士於2008年加入休士頓衛理醫院研究所。目前，Kloc 博士是休士頓衛理醫院的韋爾康奈爾細胞與分子生物學教授，以及德克薩斯大學 M.D. 安德森癌症中心遺傳學系的兼任教授。

Dr. Jacek Z. Kubiak 是法國雷恩法國國家研究院 CNRS 的研究主任（教授）。他的研究專注於早期胚胎發育的分子機制、細胞週期調控、幹細胞、癌細胞以及巨噬細胞在先天免疫反應中的角色。他是超過180篇高被引科學文章的作者，並擔任10本書的編輯或共同編輯。他畢業於波蘭華沙大學，曾在美國威斯康辛大學麥迪遜分校、美國伍茲霍爾海洋生物實驗室以及法國巴黎的雅克·莫諾研究所工作。他與波蘭華沙的 WIM-PIB 研究所合作，結合幹細胞、傷口癒合和癌症研究，並探索其在醫療應用中的前景。自 COVID-19 疫情爆發以來，他協調了一個專注於兒科患者 SARS-CoV-2 感染的國際研究小組，並持續跟進該研究領域。

Marta Halasa 於2022年在波蘭盧布林醫科大學獲得醫學與健康科學博士學位。她在博士研究期間專注於表觀遺傳修飾因子，特別是組蛋白去乙醯化酶，及其對癌症進展和轉移的影響。在攻讀博士學位期間，她在芬蘭土爾庫大學完成了一個長期實習，獲得了3D細胞技術的專業知識。她還在波蘭華沙的軍事醫學研究所進行了內部實習，研究阿茲海默症中的細胞基因療法。完成博士學位後，她在美國休士頓衛理醫院研究所獲得博士後研究員職位。目前，她的研究專注於調查巨噬細胞在慢性移植排斥中的角色。