8th MDPI Guest Editor Club 2025 | Medicine & Pharmacology Session
Meet Our Speakers
Prof. Dr. Grzegorz Węgrzyn
Department of Molecular Biology, Faculty of Biology, University of Gdansk, Poland;
Grzegorz Wegrzyn has graduated from the University of Gdansk, Poland. In 1987, he obtained an MSc degree in biology and a 1991 PhD degree in molecular genetics. His PhD thesis was focused on the regulation of DNA replication in starved cells. Then (in 1991), he was a research fellow at the Department of Biochemistry, University of Nottingham Medical School (UK), where he worked on the mechanisms of gene expression regulation in bacteria. In 1992, he was a post-doctoral researcher at the Center for Molecular Genetics, University of California at San Diego (USA), where he investigated the regulation of viral DNA replication. Since 1996, he has been a Professor and Head of the Department of Molecular Biology at the University of Gdansk (Poland). He is a member of the American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, the American Society for Microbiology, the Society for Experimental Biology and Medicine, and the International Society for Plasmid Biology. He is an editor of several scientific journals, including FEMS Microbiology Reviews, Microbial Cell Factories (Editor-in-Chief), Metabolic Brain Disease (Deputy-Chief-Editor), Plasmid, Scientific Reports (Senior Editor), and Acta Biochimica Polonica (Editor-in-Chief).
Prof. Dr. Consolato M. Sergi
University of Alberta (AB) and University of Ottawa (ON), Canada;
Children’s Hospital Eastern Ontario, Ottawa, Canada;
Consolato M. SERGI is the Chief of Anatomic Pathology at the Children's Hospital of Eastern Ontario, and full professor of Pathology and Pediatrics at the University of Alberta, Canada. He obtained his MD degree with honors (1989) and specialization in Pediatrics (1993) at the University of Genoa/Gaslini Children’s Hospital. He subsequently specialized in Pathology at the University of Heidelberg, Germany (2001) and received the Honorary Clinical Reader title at the University of Bristol, UK (2002). He completed his Ph.D. (Habilitation) at the University of Innsbruck, Austria (2004) and MSc Public Health in Austria (2007). Dr. Sergi has successfully passed his Canadian MD credentials and his Fellowship exam in Anatomic Pathology (FRCPC) at the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons in Ottawa, Canada (2013). He focused on cholangiopathies, metabolic liver diseases, gut/bile microbiome, hepatic tumors, bonce cell biology, and organ transplantation in his research. Dr. Sergi welcomed more than 100 graduate MSc/Ph.D. students, fellows, undergraduate and summer students with on-going teaching in Genetics and Pathology. Dr. Sergi is a Consultant of Carcinogenesis in Experimental Animals at the WHO/IARC, Lyon, France. Dr. Sergi has >300 peer-reviewed PubMed publications (hindex: 23, RG-score: 44.26, > 2,500 citations). He identified the apoptosis’s role in the ductal plate malformation of the liver, characterized the sialidosis, and found two different new genes, i.e., WDR62, which encodes a centrosome-associated protein (Nat Genet 2010) and OTX2, mutations of which can contribute to dysgnathia (J Med Genet 2012).
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Dear Colleagues,
MDPI would like to invite all Guest Editors, as esteemed experts in their respective disciplines, to participate in the 8th MDPI Guest Editor Club. This forum intends to highlight exciting topics in a comprehensive but efficient manner to allow Guest Editors to present their experience and discuss their achievements.
The Guest Editor Club will bring together a group of multi-disciplinary Guest Editors from all over the world to present and exchange ideas reported in Special Issues. We have, therefore, put together this platform to aid in your interactions with the journal, leading you through the most important aspects of the role and providing information on what you can expect from the process of editing a Special Issue. We are pleased to provide an exciting opportunity for all of our brilliant Guest Editors to propose and develop new approaches, exchange perspectives, and encourage new lines of research, with a focus in publishing under the Medicine & Pharmacology subject.
We will record the lectures, with prior consent from the lecturers, and deposit them in our online database. We will continue to build this database with brief introductions and summaries of topics and open an online discussion group for each GE. We hope that this event is of interest to you, and we welcome you to join us at this forum.
We are very much looking forward to seeing you at the 8th MDPI Guest Editor Club 2025.
Date: 20 November 2025
Time: 7:00 pm CET | 1:00 pm EST
Webinar ID: 832 6951 1670
Webinar Secretariat: journal.webinar@mdpi.com
In this section, you will find the recordings of this webinar to watch, re-watch and share with your colleagues!
Bacteriophages and Phage-Derived Enzymes as Antibacterial Agents
Guest Editor: Prof. Dr. Grzegorz Węgrzyn
Deadline for submission: 30 November 2025
Soft Tissue Sarcoma: From Diagnosis to Prognosis
Guest Editor: Prof. Dr. Consolato M. Sergi
Deadline for submission: 31 January 2026
Utilization of Liquid Biopsy in Cancer Diagnosis and Management 2025
Guest Editor: Prof. Dr. Consolato M. Sergi
Deadline for submission: 31 March 2026