Takumasa Kondo is Senior Researcher at Corporación Colombiana de Investigación Agropecuaria (Agrosavia), Centro de Investigación Palmira, Valle del Cauca, Colombia. He received BSc and MSc degrees from Tokyo University of Agriculture (Japan); PhD degree in Entomology from Auburn University, Alabama, U.S.A. Studies integrated pest management (IPM) of insect and mite pests of tropical fruit crops, with special interest in insects of economic importance and taxonomy of Coccomorpha. Editor in chief of the journal Revista Colombiana de Entomología and Ciencia y Tecnología Agropecuaria (2016-2021); and subject editor of several journals, including Neotropical Entomology, Revista Brasileira de Entomologia and Zookeys. Member of the Editorial Board of Fronteras de la Ciencia and Entomologia Experimentalis et Applicata. He has published more than 170 scientific papers, including books and book chapters. Dr. Kenneth B. Storey, Ph.D., F.R.S.C., is a Professor of Biochemistry at Carleton University in Ottawa and holds the Canada Research Chair in Molecular Physiology. He received his B.Sc. from the University of Calgary and his Ph.D. from the University of British Columbia. Ken is a world leader in the field of biochemical adaptation. He uses tools of enzymology, protein chemistry and molecular biology to identify the adaptations of gene regulation and enzyme structure/function that support amazing animal phenomena including hibernation, freezing survival, estivation and anoxia tolerance. Ken is a prolific author and speaker - he has over 600 publications to his name and has given hundreds of talks around the world. Recently Ken won the 2010 Flavelle medal in Biological Sciences from the Royal Society of Canada and the 2011 Fry medal from the Canadian Society of Zoologists.