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Sonia LONGHI is Director of Research at the Center for the National Scientific Research (CNRS). Since 2005 she is the head of the “Structural Disorder and Molecular Recognition” group within the AFMB laboratory, Marseille. She obtained a PhD in molecular biology from the Universitá degli Studi of Milan in 1993. She got a HDR in structural virology from the University of Aix-Marseille I in 2003. Her scientific focus is on health relevant intrinsically disordered proteins (IDPs) and the mechanistic and functional aspects of the interactions they establish with partners. To date, she has authored 145 scientific publications and edited a book on measles virus nucleoprotein. She also co-edited (with Prof. Vladimir Uversky) a book on the experimental approaches to characterize IDPs and a book on structural disorder within viral proteins (Wiley).

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Keith DUNKER received a master degree in Physics in 1967 from the University of Wisconsin, and a PhD in Biophysics in 1969. He was a post-doctoral fellow at Yale University from 1969 to 1973, then a Research Associate in Virology at the Sloan Kettering Center for Cancer Research in New York from 1973 to 1975. Subsequently, he was Assistant professor, Associate Professor and Professor in Biochemistry at the Washington State University from 1975 to 2003. In 2003 he took a position as director of the Center for Computational Biology and Bioinformatics and as a Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology at the Indiana University where he spent the following years and where he has today a position as Emeritus. He authored ~320 papers and more than 30 books. He is a highly cited researcher with a h-index of 106 and more that 52, 000 citations. In 2021 Keith Dunker received an award from the International Society for Computational Biology as “a pioneer of the development and application of statistical and computational methods to understand the prevalence, the patterns of evolution, and the functional repertoire of intrinsically disordered proteins across all domains of life”.