Professor Su-May Yu Su-May is a Distinguished Research Fellow and Academician at the Institute of Molecular Biology, Academia Sinica in Taipei. Over the course of her career she has developed resources for rice transformation and functional genomics research that have been utilized across the world. She is an elected member of The Academy for the Developing World, Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), and Corresponding Member of the American Society of Plant Biologists (ASPB).

Dr Shuen-Fang Lo Shuen-Fang is an Assistant Research Fellow at the Biotechnology Center, National Chung Hsing University. She has worked on Rice functional Genomics research for more than ten years. Her research interests focus on regulation of GA and ABA signaling, abiotic stress tolerance, and grain yield in rice. She is also in charge of the Taiwan Rice Insertional Mutants population.