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Rustem Abuzarovich Ilyasov is a doctor of sciences (D.Sc.) in the Institute of Biochemistry and Genetics (IBG), Ufa Federal Research Centre, Russian Academy of Sciences (Ufa, Russia). Born in Ufa, Russia, in 1980, he received a Ph.D. in 2006 and D.Sc. in 2016 in IBG. He worked as a postdoctoral fellow in Incheon National University (Incheon, Korea) in 2017-2019. His major is population genetics, genomics, taxonomy, and molecular evolution of honey bees Apis mellifera and Apis cerana.

Hyung Wook Kwon is a professor at the Department of Life Sciences in Incheon National University (INU) and a director of Convergence Research Center for Insect Vectors since 2016. He was born in Euisung, South Korea in 1968 and received a Ph.D. from the Department of Entomology and neuroscience of the University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona, USA in 2002. He was a postdoctoral fellow in Vanderbilt University working on insect olfactory neurobiology until 2009. He also was an assistant professor of Seoul National University as a World Class University project where he fully sequenced genome information of Asia honeybee, Apis cerana. Currently, he is running the lab of Sensory Neurobiology and Brain-Science in INU, working on behavioural, neural, and molecular mechanisms underlying social behaviours of honeybees and mosquitoes. His research focuses on the genomics study of species diversity of honey bees.