Bik Kwoon Tye received her Bachelor’s Degree from Wellesley College in 1969, a Master’s Degree from the University of California, San Francisco in 1971, and a Ph.D. from MIT in 1974. She finished her Postdoctoral training at the Stanford University in 1977. She was a Senior Member of the HKUST Jockey Club Institute for Advanced Study from 2018-22. She is Professor emeritus and Professor of Graduate School at Cornell University. She uses diverse approaches that involve cross-disciplinary collaborations to address problems in DNA replication in eukaryotes. She is a member of the US National Academy of Sciences.

Yuanliang Zhai received his Ph.D. in Biochemistry from the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) in 2010. After graduation, he worked as a postdoctoral fellow in the Division of Life Science at HKUST from 2011 to 2013 and then as a Research Assistant Professor from 2013 to 2018. He is currently an Associate Professor in the Division of Biological Sciences at The University of Hong Kong. His research interests mainly focus on molecular mechanisms of organization and regulation of eukaryotic DNA replication by using genetics, biochemistry, and super-resolution imaging approaches including super-resolution localization microscopy and advanced cryo-electron microscopy.