Prof. Dr.  Dominique Belin

Department of Pathology and Immunology, University of Geneva, CH1201 Geneva, Switzerland.

Research Interests: serine proteases and extracellular proteolysis; inhibitors of serine proteases (SERPINs); protein translocation across membranes; genetics of bacteria and phages.

Prof. Dr.  Natália Cruz-Martins

Faculty of Medicine, University of Porto, 4099-002 Porto, Portugal.

Research Interests: evidence-based medicine; phytochemistry; phytopharmacology; drug discovery; natural products biochemistry; bioactive molecules; functional foods; nutraceuticals; fungal and bacterial infections; resistance to antimicrobials.

Prof. Dr.  Renato Fani

Department of Biology, University of Florence, 50019 Sesto Fiorentino, Italy.

Research Interests: antibiotic resistance; bacterial genetics; endophytes; environmental microbiology; gene and genome evolution; molecular evolution.

Prof. Dr.  Fengbiao Guo

School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Wuhan University, Wuhan, China.

Research Interests: bioinformatics; biopharmaceutics; microbiology; molecular biology and biochemistry; genomics.

Dr.  Mª Isabel Sola Gurpegui

National Center of Biotechnology (CNB-CSIC), Campus Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, 28049 Madrid, Spain.

Research Interests: coronavirus; virus-host interactions; innate immune response; non-coding RNAs; microRNAs; pulmonary inflammation; viral replication; viral pathogenesis.

Prof. Dr.  Hosni Hassan

Department of Poultry Science (Microbiology), North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC 27695, USA

Research Interests: microbiology/infectious diseases; salmonella vaccines; synbiotics and immune responses; molecular biology; microbiome; metabolome; free radicals in biology and medicine.

Dr.  Yu-tsung Huang

Department of Laboratory Medicine, National Taiwan University Hospital, National Taiwan University College of Medicine, Taipei, Taiwan.

Research Interests: microbiology; internal medicine; bacteremia; immunology; antibiotics.

Prof. Dr.  Hirokazu Kimura

Department of Health Science, Gunma Paz University, Takasaki-shi, Gunma Prefecture, Japan.

Research Interests: epidemiology; virology; infectious diseases.

Prof. Dr.  Hannu Korkeala

Departments of Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, University of Helsinki, 00100 Helsinki, Finland.

Research Interests: epidemiology; diagnostics; and genetics of psyhrotrophic and spore-forming bacteria; Clostridium botulinum; Clostridium perfringens; Listeria monocytogenes; Yersinia enterocolitica; Yersinia pseudotuberculosis; mechanism of psyhrotrophy.

Dr.  Thuy Le

Department of Medicine, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, NC 27710, USA.

Research Interests: HIV-associated fungal infection; talaromycosis; mycology.

Dr.  Hsin-Fu Liu

Department of Medical Research, MacKay Memorial Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan.

Research Interests: phylogenetic analysis; virology; evolution.

Prof. Dr.  Benjamin W. Neuman

Department of Biology, Texas A&M University, TX, USA.

Research Interests: coronavirus; arenavirus; and influenzavirus particles; virion proteins; RNA viruses; vaccine-resistant viral strains; phage therapy.

Dr.  Monsicha Pongpom

Department of Microbiology, Faculty of Medicine, Chiang Mai University, Chiang Mai 50200, Thailand.

Research Interests: genes involved in virulence; Talaromyces marneffei; antifungal peptides.

Prof. Dr.  Roberta Provvedi

Department of Biology, University of Padua, Padova, Italy.

Research Interests: bacterial genetics and global regulation of gene expression.

Dr.  Lia Rimondini

Department of Health Sciences, University of Piemonte Orientale “UPO”, Vercelli, Italy.

Research Interests: biomaterials; dental materials; tissue regeneration; tissue engineering; oral medicine; bacterial biofilm; anti-infective technologies.

Dr.  Jean-Marc Sabatier

Institute of Neurophysiopathology (INP), Aix-Marseille University, Faculté des Sciences Médicales et Paramédicales, 13005 Marseille, France.

Research Interests: antimicrobial peptides; antibacterial; antibiotics; structure-activity relationships; bacteriocins; drug design; peptide engineering.

Dr.  Siddharth Sridhar

Department of Microbiology, School of Clinical Medicine, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China.

Research Interests: clinical microbiology and infection; hepatitis E.

Dr.  Jade L.L. Teng

Faculty of Dentistry, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, China.

Research Interests: oral microbiology and infection; emerging infectious diseases; novel microbe discovery; microbiome; antimicrobial resistance.

Dr.  Atsushi Togawa

• 1. Accociate Professor, Department of Hematology, Oncology, and Infectious Diseases, Faculty of Medicine, Fukuoka University, Japan.
• 2. Director, Division of Infection Control, Fukuoka University Hospital, Japan

Research Interests: travel medicine; clinical infectious diseases; biofilm infection; Klebsiella pneumoniae.