Lia Monica Junie is an MD, Ph D, Professor, from the Microbiology Department of “Iuliu Hatieganu” University of Medicine and Pharmacy, Cluj-Napoca, Romania. She is head of the Department, coordinating also, the activities of both Laboratory Medicine specialty resident doctors and PhD doctor’s thesis in the medicine field. She unfolds a fruitful National and International scientific activity as an experienced microbiologist, having an impressive CV. She is Member in the Board of Scientific Societies, Reviewer in many peer-reviewed journals, Expert of the Ministry of Education and Research and Evaluator. She coordinated research projects, published books and more than 200 scientific articles in prestigious Journals. She organized and attended numerous national, international congresses, as president, member in the Organizing Committees, Invited speaker, Keynote speaker or Chairperson. She unfolds a high level activity after years of experience in research, evaluation, teaching and administration both in hospital and education institutions.

Microbiology pharmacutical science

Robert Penchovsky is an associate professor of genetics, synthetic biology, and bioinformatics and molecular evolution at the Faculty of Biology, Sofia University “St. Kliment Ohridski”, Bulgaria, where he obtained his Master’s degree in biochemistry and molecular genetics, and his аssociate’s degree in applied computer sciences. He earned his Doctoral’s degree in genetics from Cologne University, Germany while researching in the fields of microfluidics and DNA computing for the Fraunhofer Gesellschaft at Schloss Birlinghoven in Sankt Augustin (near Bonn), Germany. Robert did his postdoctoral study in the fields of computational and RNA synthetic biology at Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA. As a research and teaching faculty at the Sofia University since 2010, Robert pioneered the teaching and research in the field of synthetic biology, genomes, and bioinformatics. For more information on his research and teaching activities.

Microbiology

Bergman completed a PhD at MIT and postdoctoral training at the University of Michigan Medical School and The Institute for Genomic Research (TIGR). He is currently the head of the Genomics Department at NBFAC. He has published more than 45 papers in reputed journals and serves on numerous advisory and editorial boards.

Bioforensic

Aneta Nitsch-Osuch, MD, PhD, Assoc. Prof. – a specialist in pediatrics, epidemiology and public health, the head of the Department of Social Medicine and Public Helath, Medical University of Warsaw (Poland). The senior consultant and the head of infection control team at the St Family Hospital in Warsaw. The member of the Polish Family Medicine Society, Polish Society of Pediatricians, Polish Society of Epidemiologists, Central Eastern European Pertussis Awareness Group. The member of the Scientific Board of the National Programme for Influenza Prevention and the member of the National Epidemiology and Bioterrorism Committee. The author of over 200 scientific publications in the field of epidemiology, vaccinology, public health.

The area of interests includes: pertussis as re-emerging disease (epidemiology and prophylaxis), influenza as a problem of public health (epidemiology and prophylaxis), vaccine hesitacy problem, hospital infection control issues, nosocomial infections (epidemiology and prevention), hospital antibiotic policies.

Goletti provides outpatient activity at the UOC of Pneumology directed by Dr. Francesco Nicola Lauria (Padiglione Pontano, ground floor). In this context her primary activity is to follow the patients with tuberculous infection or disease.

Tuberculous Infection

Professor Michel Wolff, head of the medical and infectious resuscitation department of the Bichat-Claude Bernard AP-HP hospital

Influenza

Bruno Pozzetto is head of Mucosal Immunity and Pathogen Agent Group

-Mucosal infection and immunity (notably HIV and Staphylococcus aureus) -CMV and MICI -Care-associated viral and bacterial infections -Molecular diagnosis of infectious diseases

Thierry Naas is part of

Expertise of Enterobacteriaceae Strains

After spending some years as formal employee of Federal Government Laboratories in Canada Kamaleldin Said has moved to McGill University in Montreal where he completed his PhD in molecular microbiology and genomics. He then continued at McGill to work on projects involving molecular typing and comparative genomic hybridizations of pathogens shortly before accepting a contract position at Qassim University, College of Pharmacy as assistant professor. He has published significangly on the development and validation of molecular markers for host- and organ-specific strain typing as well as genome-wide expression profilings for vaccine and therapetuic gene candidates. He is now a visiting scholar at Systems Biology, Carleton University and has many projects underway and many manuscripts ready for publicaton.

vaccines

Amaresh Das had completed his PhD from Calcutta University, India and did postdoctoral researchat the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Georgia. Currently, he works as a microbiologist in the Reagents and Vaccines Services Section, Foreign Animal Disease Diagnostic Laboratory, NVSL, STAS, VS, APHIS, USDA, Plum Island Animal Disease Center, Orient Point, New York. He has published more than 20scientific papers in reputed peer reviewed journals and wrote several chapters in books and proceedings. He also serves as reviewerfor many reputed peer reviewed journals

Vaccines

Iolanda Francolini has obtained a degree in Industrial Chemistry in 2000 from the Sapienza University of Rome. In 2003, she was a visiting scientist at the Center for Biofilm Engineering, Montana, USA. In 2005, she obtained a Ph.D. degree in Chemical and Industrial Processes at the Sapienza University of Rome. She currently serves as a Lecturer in the Science and Technologies of Polymers at the Sapienza University of Rome and performs research on antimicrobial polymers. She has published more than 45 papers in reputed journals and has been serving as an editorial board member for International Journal of Molecular Science.

Biofilms

Joziana Muniz de Paiva Barçante has completed her PhD at the age of 27 years from Federal University of Minas Gerais and postdoctoral studies also from Federal University of Minas Gerais. She is the president of Brazilian Symposium of Neglected Disease and Chief of Staff of Federal University of Lavras. She has published more than 35 papers in reputed journals and has been serving as an editorial board member of repute.

Microbiology

J. Bishara has completed his MD at the age of 26 years from The First Pavlov Medical Institute of Leningrad, Leningrad, Russia. He is the director of Infectious Disease Unit at Rabin Medical Center; Beilinson Hospital, Petah-Tiqva, Israel, a Clinical Full Professor of Medicine at Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel-Aviv University, Israel. He has published more than 108 papers in reputed journals and has been serving as a reviewer of several prestigious journals in the field of infectious diseases.

Infectious diseases.

Neveen Saleh has completed her PhD at age of 34 years from Ain Shams University and has got postdoctoral studies from Massachusetts, Amherst (UMASS) University in Nanotechnology, Chemistry department. She is now amicrobiological researcher in National organization for drug control and research. She has published more than 10 papers in reputed journals.

Antibiotics

Since 2005 - a CSO at XENOTOX, Inc. Have a medical background (M.D., 1970), Ph.D. in Biochemistry (1973), D.Sc. in Molecular Toxicology (1983). Hold progressively responsible positions: Group Leader (74-79), Head of the Laboratory (1979-87), Department Chair (1987-91), all at Russian Academy of Science. In the US: a Senior Scientist at NCI, NIH (1991-95), Professor (since 2010 - visiting) at Mount Sinai School of Medicine (1995-to date). Author of 5 monographs and 250+ peer reviewed publications. By using enzyme-kinetic and inhibitory analyses, pioneered in revealing TCDD-induced CYP1B1 (FEBS Letters, 1987). Invented the recombinant and TCDD-induced microsomal and isolated monooxygenase isoforms CYP1A1 and CYP1A2, to study regulatory effects of bioflavonoids on procarcinogens metabolism in humans (BBA, 1994). Since the discovery of trans-activation effect of TCDD on HIV-1 (BBRC, 1991), have established Xenobiotical Virology, a biomedical discipline dealing with mechanisms of dioxin effects on DRE-containing genes of human viruses, transcription factors and cytokines linked to inflammation and malignancy pathways.

Viruses

Ronald Moss, M.D. has served as the Chief Executive Officer of Ansun Biopharma, Inc. since October 2012, and before that, served as both interim CEO and Executive Vice President of Clinical Development and Medical Affairs at Ansun from 2008 to 2012. Dr. Moss has held various executive positions in the pharmaceutical industry for over 20 years and has played a pivotal role in successfully leading companies through the complexities of drug and vaccine development. Dr. Moss has been involved in drug and vaccine development of products in Infectious Disease, Allergy, Neurology, Dermatology, Oncology, Respiratory, Transplant, and Autoimmunity in both large pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies, including roles at Aventis, Immune Response, Merck, Telos and Vical. He has also authored over 70 scientific publications. Prior to joining industry, he received his M.D. degree from Chicago Medical School, completed a residency in pediatrics at SUNY Stony Brook and completed a fellowship at the National Institutes of Health. He is double boarded in Pediatrics and Allergy and Immunology. He is also a Fellow of the American Academy and American College of Allergy and Immunology

Infectious Disease, Allergy, Neurology, Dermatology, Oncology, Respiratory, Transplant, and Autoimmunity.

Professor Ting-Chao Chou received MS degree in Pharmacology from National Taiwan University College of Medicine; Ph.D. from Yale University, and Postdoctoral Fellowship at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. Joined Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center (MSKCC), became Member 1988-96, and a Professor of Pharmacology at Cornell University Graduate School of Medical Sciences, 1988-2000. He is Honorary Professor at Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences, Beijing and five other universities. He focused in the new drug discovery as the Director of Preclinical Pharmacology Core at MSKCC, where he retired on June1, 2013. His 273 scientific articles have been cited by 15,606 papers (as of 8.31.2014). (Thomson Reuters Web of Science: www.researcherid.com/rid/B-4111-2009). Prof. Chou introduced the “Unified Theory of the Median-Effect Equation of the Mass-Action Law”, and with Prof. Paul Talalay (JHU) in 1984, created the “Combination Index Theorem” for multiple entity dynamics. For one article alone (Chou TC and Talalay P., Adv Enz Regul 22:27-55, 1984), cited by 3,218 articles published in 599 biomedical journals and has become one of four the most broadly cited theoretical articles by journals of all time. Chou's dynamics equations and theory has been extended to illustrate the ancient Chinese philosophy and to advocate Econo-Green Bio-Research. He is Inventor/Co-inventor of 36 U.S. Patents, on Editorial Board of five international scientific journals, and is the founder of PD Science, LLC.

Virology

Dr. Olga S. Latinovic is an assistant professor working at the Institute of Human Virology (IHV) led by Robert C. Gallo, M.D. at the University of Maryland, School of Medicine in Baltimore, MD, USA. Her research focus is on developing novel antiviral therapy strategies using various HIV entry inhibitors, with a particular focus in understanding antiviral synergistic activity and its mechanism between CCR5 antagonists and CCR5 antibodies extensively collaborating with Dr. Robert R. Redfield, MD. Dr. Latinovic wrote the book Micromechanics and Structure of Soft and Biological Materials, and published by Verlag Dr. Muller in 2010, and co-authored the book Handbook of Photonics for Biomedical Engineering published by Springer-Verlag in 2016. Dr. Latinovic lectures Virus Entry course for the grad students at the Department of Microbiology and Immunology at the University of Maryland, School of Medicine.

Viruses

Associate Professor Shubhada Bopegamage, MSc., PhD is a Virologist currently heading the Enterovirus Laboratory and the National Reference Center for Identification of Enteroviruses at the Medical Faculty of the Slovak Medical University in Bratislava, Slovakia. Her work is focussed on the pathogenesis and diagnosis of enteroviruses. She received her BSc. Microbiology degree from Pune, India and MSc. Microbiology degree from Mumbai, India. She got her PhD in Biological Sciences from the Academy of Medical Sciences, Moscow, Russia. She is known in the Enterovirus research since 2005 for her work on the in vivo experimental coxsackievirus oral infection of mice. She is involved in research and teaching and has guided several MSc. and PhD students. She has co-ordinated and has lead several national and international projects as a principal or co-investigator.

Enterovirus and coxsackievirus oral infections.

Dr. Nossik Nikolai N. Graduated from Moscow Medical University, physician. PhD (1960), Doctor of Science ( 1988), professor (1990). In 1968 - 1973 the WHO expert in SEARO (India) on national and international projects on virology and epidemiology. Main activity was connected with poliomyelitis in India and afterwords was conducted to enteroviruses in South-East Asia Region (India, Nepal, Burma, Thailand).In 1975 as a visiting scientist was doing the research study on oncornaviruses at the National Institute of oncology ( Fort Detrick). In 1976 and 1978 as visiting scientist was involved in the study on interferons (ISERM program) in Paris, France.Main scientific interests - antiviral and virucidal preparations, interferons , immunomodulators. He is the head of laboratory of virus ontogenesis in Ivanovsky Institute of virology, “N.F. Gamaleya FRCEM», Moscow, Russia. He has published 3 monographies, 6 books chapters and more than 200 papers in scientific journals.

Main scientific interests - antiviral and virucidal preparations, interferons , immunomodulators. He is the head of laboratory of virus ontogenesis in Ivanovsky Institute of virology, “N.F. Gamaleya FRCEM», Moscow, Russia. He has published 3 monographies, 6 books chapters and more than 200 papers in scientific journals

amal El Sawaf is a Professor of Microbiology and Immunology Medical Research Institute, Alexandria University, Egypt. He is a nationally recognized leader in infectious diseases. He was graduated from the Faculty of Medicine, Alexandria University in 1979. He has obtained his PhD in 1993 and his Post Doctor training course in the Laboratory of Infectious Diseases (Cattedra Di Clinica Delle Malattie Infettive) University of Rome, Tor Vergata. He was appointed as the Head of Microbiology Department in 2008 and the Director of the Medical Technology Center in 2010 and finally, the Dean of MRI. His main fields of research activities are in the clinical aspects pathogenesis and therapy of HCV, HIV and HHV-8 infection and epidemiology and molecular characterization of hepatitis viruses in Egypt. He has acted as a Referee for a variety of national and international scientific journals and as a Referee of research projects of the Alexandria University and of the STDF projects. He is a Member of the American Society of Microbiology, The Egyptian Society of Microbiology and Egyptian Society of Immunologists. He is a Project Leader of several research programs on HCV, HHV and TB

HCV, HHV and TB

Dr.Zenab Torky is an Assistant Professor of Microbiology in the department of Microbiology, Faculty of Science, Ain Shams University, in Egypt. She also worked as a Visiting Scientist in the department of Biological Sciences, University of Louisville, USA. Dr.Zenab has also reviewed and edited many papers for the Food Safety Journal, and participated in two projects with members of the Remold laboratory in University of Louisville, to study the nature and conditions of adaptations of vesicular somatitis virus to a cancer cell line, using molecular biology techniques like genome sequencing and phenotypic characterization of recombinant viruses, to design oncolytic viruses that kill cancer cells, and sampling, genotypic and phenotypic characterization of Pseudomonas bacteria species isolated from human homes, and their pets.

Dr.Zenab’s main research interest is finding a way to protect living cells from viral infection, by studying ways to strengthen the immunity of the host by using natural compounds like antivirals, and studying their effect on viral replication

Dr. Hemida received his Ph.D from University of Guelph, 2009. He pursued his PDF training at the the University of British Columbia (James Hogg iCapture Centre). His research area of interest is “One Health Concept” with special emphasis on emerging viruses/host interaction. Currently, studying the molecular evolution and pathogenesis of MERSCoV in the Middle East. He published more than 40 original Research papers on high impacted journals. Meanwhile, he received several Research grants, prestigious honors and scholarship throughout his academic carrier. Currently, he is a reviewer of many granting agencies as well as editorial board member of many international journals

Study of the molecular evolution and pathogenesis of MERSCoV in the Middle East.

Glenn S Tillotson has over 30 years pharmaceutical experience in pre-clinical and clinical research, commercialization, medical affairs, scientific communications including publication planning strategic drug development, life cycle management and global launch programs. He has been instrumental in the development and launch of ciprofloxacin, moxifloxacin, gemifloxacin, fidaxomicin and several other agents. He is a SVP of Medical Affairs where he is preparing for the launch of solithromycin for community acquired bacterial pneumonia. He has published more than 170 peer-reviewed manuscripts and is on several journal Editorial Advisory Boards including the Lancet Infectious Disease, eBioMedicine, Expert Reviews in Anti-infective Therapy and F1000.

Infectious diseases

Joanna Zajkowska is currently working at Medical University of Białystok, Poland and carries Clinical Research on infectious diseases, especially on tick-borne diseases and nervous system diseases. She is an expert in internal medicine, infectious diseases, public health and epidemiology. She is a Member of ISW-TBE, Wien Austria (International Scientific Working group on Tick-Borne Encephalitis and ESGBOR (ESCMID-European Society of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases). She has published more than 200 papers in reputed journals and serving as a Reviewer in many journals.

Clinical Research on infectious diseases, especially on tick-borne diseases and nervous system diseases

Stef Stienstra is a strategic and creative Consultant in Biomedical Science with a parallel career as a Commander of the reserve of the Royal Dutch Navy. For the Dutch Armed Forces he has responsibility for the counter measures in CBNRe threats and (Medical) consequence management both in a military and a civilian (terrorism) setting. He is a strategic functional specialist for “Health & Environment” of the 1-Civil-Military-Interaction Command (1-CMI) of the Dutch Armed Forces and for 2015 also in the NATO Response Force (NRF), which is in 2015 the responsibility of the 1-German-Netherlands-Corps (1-GNC). In his civil career he works internationally as Consultant or as Scientific Supervisory Board Member for several medical and biotech companies, merely involved in biodefense. He is also a Visiting Professor for Punjab University in Pakistan and Rhein-Waal University in Germany. He has completed his studies in Medicine and in Biochemistry at the University of Groningen in The Netherlands and has extensive practical experience in cell biology, immuno-hematology, biodefense and transfusion medicine. His natural business acumen and negotiation competence helps to initiate new successful businesses, often created out of unexpected combinations of technologies. His good understanding of abstract science combined with excellent skills in the communication of scientific matters to non-specialists, helps him with strategic consulting at top level management.

Ebola

Eugenie Bergogne-Berezin is a Professor of Clinical Microbiology at University Diderot, Paris. She has studied MD in Medicine and PhD in Sciences in the early 1970s. She is a Chief of Department of Clinical Microbiology and research group, University Bichat Claude-Bernard and developed research on Acinetobacter spp., (nosocomial pathogen, pathogenicity, resistance), pharmacology of antibiotics, tissue distribution (lungs, brain, bronchi), research on intestinal ecology, jejunal flora and bacterial adhesion. She is an Adviser to pharmaceutical companies, expert in pharmacology-toxicology for the Ministry of Health, expert for international journals. She has developed a journal Antibiotics, (Elsevier). She has published 6 medical books, many chapters in international infectious diseases books, 200 articles in scientific journals.

Antibiotics

K C Santosh worked as a research fellow at the U.S. National Library of Medicine (NLM), National Institutes of Health (NIH). He worked as a postdoctoral research scientist at the LORIA research centre, Universite de Lorraine in direct collaboration with industrial partner ITESOFT, France, for 2 years. He also worked as a research scientist at the INRIA Nancy Grand Est research centre for 3 years, until 2011. K C Santosh has demonstrated expertise in pattern recognition, image processing, computer vision and machine learning with various applications in handwriting recognition, graphics recognition, document information content exploitation, medical image analysis and biometrics. He published more than 60 research articles, including a book section in encyclopedia of electrical and electronics engineering.

Electrical and electronics engineering

Fernanda De Freitas Anibal had her PhD from University of São Paulo, Brazil in Basic and Applied Immunology. She is a Principal Investigator at Laboratory of Parasitology (Federal University of São Carlos) seeks new tools for the treatment, prevention and diagnostics for infectious diseases. Currently, they are working with two plants and six enzymes and their effects against schistosomiasis mansoni and toxocariasis, about the treatment of the infectious diseases, their group studies effects of plants (extracts) and their isolated fractions in order to evaluate the anti-parasitic and anti-inflammatory effects and for infectious disease prevention, moreover have been working on the evaluation of the proteins of the parasite that has been potential to induce immune responses that decrease the parasite burden.

Immune Responses

Lalit Garg has received his PhD degree from the University of Ulster, UK in 2010. He has received his first degree in Electronics & Communication Engineering from the Barkatullah University, India in 1999 and Postgraduate degree in Information Technology from ABV-IIITM, Gwalior, India in 2001. He is currently a Senior Lecturer in Computer Information Systems at the University of Malta, Malta. He was a Researcher at the Nanyang Technological University, Singapore and at the University of Ulster, UK. His research interests include missing data handling, machine learning, data mining and their applications especially in the healthcare domain. He has published more than 60 technical papers in refereed journals and conferences.

Electronics and communication engineering

Junie Lia Monica is an MD, Ph D, Professor, Head Microbiology Department, "Iuliu Hatieganu" University of Medicine and Pharmacy, Cluj Napoca, Romania. She is a Coordinator of resident doctor’s in the Laboratory Medicine specialty and Leadership PhD doctor’s thesis in Medicine field. She is a Board Member of European professional Societies ESCMID (ESGCP Study Groups), Society of Chemotherapy, Scientia Parasitologica Pro Vita and is a Reviewer of international reviews, Member of International organizations, Director/Coordinator in research projects. She has more than 63 papers published in full in international journals and is an editorial board member of national reviews. She is an Organizer/President, Keynote, Invited Speaker and Chair of International and National Congresses.

Microbiology

Massimo Ciccozzi is a Professor at Istituto Superiore di Sanità

Viruses

Giulio Tarro graduated from Medicine School, Naples University (1962). Research Associate, Division of Virology and Cancer Research, Children’s Hospital (1965-1968), Assistant Professor of Research Pediatrics, College Medicine (1968-1969), Cincinnati University, Ohio. Oncological Virology Professor, Naples University (1972-1985). Chief Division Virology (1973-2003), Head Department Diagnostic Laboratories, (2003-2006). D. Cotugno Hospital for Infectious Diseases, Naples; Emeritus, 2006 -. Since 2007 Chairman Committee of Biotechnologies and VirusSphere, World Academy Biomedical Technologies, UNESCO, Adjunct Professor Department Biology, Temple University, College of Science and Technology, Philadelphia, recipient of the Sbarro Health Research Organization lifetime achievement award (2010). President Foundation de Beaumont Bonelli for Cancer Research

Vaccines

Dr. Amin Fadl obtained his PhD from University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT, USA and completed a postdoctoral training at the University of Texas Medical Branch. Currently he is an Assistant Professor of Microbiology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He has published more than 44 papers in reputed journals.

His research focuses on the molecular pathogenesis, immune and inflammatory responses, and host-pathogen interaction of Salmonella.

Professor John G. Thomas is recognized as an “International Educator and Global Microbiologist “ (www.globalbugs.com) having lectured in more than 43 countries while a clinical microbiologist in pathology , dentistry and medicine for 51 years , He has over 50 publications , multiple book chapters , significant grant support , pending patents and over 100 posters/abstracts at national and international meetings. His sabbatical at Cardiff University , Wales, UK (2007) was a driving influence . He has been a member of the ADA Scientific Advisory Committee for the last 8 years . As Faculty at 6 Universities during his career , he has received Alumni and University awards for research and International Student Mentoring ; retiring from WVU in 2013 after 23 years as Professor Emeritus , he presently is expanding his research/teaching utilizing the advanced resources of the Allegheny Health Network in Pittsburgh ,PA , Carnagie –Mellon University and Mass. Gen. Hospital , Boston , MA, all under the umbrella of his Global Microbiology Consulting .(www.globalbugs.com)

John G Thomas research emphasizing biofilms and medical devices including endotrachs and the connection between oral diseases, VAP and wound infections (“Intellectual Design”) with the recent integration of micro 3-D- bio Printing using bio-plastics and unique Prebiotics (Therapeutic Bacteria ) for intervention.

Professor Gianfranco Donelli obtained his master degree in Biological Sciences from the University of Rome "La Sapienza" in 1966 and since 1967 he has been a researcher at the Italian National Institute of Health (ISS-Istituto Superiore di Sanità ) in Rome, working on molecular biology and ultrastructure of phages and human intestinal viruses. In 1975 he was appointed Director of the Electron Microscopy Unit and in 1979 he was the winner of a public competition for the position of Research Director in molecular biology. In 1982 Professor Donelli founded the Laboratory of Ultrastructures of ISS that has been leaded by him till 1996. In those years his main research interests have concerned many aspects of cellular microbiology, with special reference to the mechanism of action and the pathogenetic role of toxins and other virulence factors of gastrointestinal bacteria. Concerning his teaching activity, Professor Donelli has been invited since 1977 to serve as visiting professor in the Universities of Ancona , Naples, Perugia, Rome and Urbino and in the year 1999, after the winning of a national public competition, he became full Professor of Microbiology. In the two last decades Professor Donelli has been appointed as Vice-President of the Advisory Committee for Biological and Medical Sciences of the Italian National Research Council (1994 - 1999) ; International Affairs Officer of the Italian Society of Microbiology and FEMS delegate (since 2002) ; President of the Society for Microbial Ecology and Disease (2006 - 2009); Vice-Chairperson of the Executive Committee of ESCMID Study Group for Biofilms (2009- 2013); Editor in Chief of Advances in Microbiology, Infectious Diseases and Public Health (since 2015). Starting from 1999 the research activity of Professor Donelli has been mainly focused on biofilm-based healthcare-associated infections and the strategies to prevent and counteract the development of biofilms in the human body. Professor Donelli is author of over 270 full-length papers published on international scientific journals (H-index = 41) and since 2010 he has become Director of the Microbial Biofilm Laboratory at the Fondazione Santa Lucia research hospital in Rome.

Microbial biofilms in healthcare-associated infections and their resistance to antimicrobial drugs Strategies to prevent and counteract biofilm formation on biotic and abiotic surfaces Development of innovative antibacterial and antifungal coatings for medical devices Probiotics as antibiofilm agents.

Massimo Clementi is a full Professor of Microbiology and Virology, University Vita-Salute San Raffaele, Milan, Italy (2001-present) Academic and institutional activity. Director of the Laboratory of Microbiology, San Raffaele Research Institute and Hospital – Faculty of Medicine, Vita-Salute San Raffaele University, Milan, Italy. Director of the Postgraduate School in Microbiology and Virology (2004-2011). Professor of Virology and Microbiology in degree courses of the Faculty of Medicine and in several postgraduate schools. He is a President of the Degree in Medicine and Surgery, Vita-Salute San Raffaele University (2007-2012). Board member of the Vita-Salute San Raffaele University University (2011-2013). Component of commissions of the Faculty, the University, the Lombardy Region, the Ministry of Health-ISS. Vice-Chancellor of the University Vita-Salute San Raffaele (2013 to present). Dean of the Faculty of Medicine, University Vita-Salute San Raffaele University (2010-present). Member of the Academic Senate of the University Vita-Salute San Raffaele, Milan, Italy (since 2004). Scientific Experience. Author of over 300 scientific papers published in international journals, cited in the literature over 5700 times, for a total IF higher than 1500 and an h-index of 40 (Google Scholar). Author of more than 20 review articles by invitation and the author of 5 texts of Microbiology and Virology with educational purposes. Holder of 11 patents (more than half granted in Europe and the United States), mostly antiviral drugs. Holder, in person and with the coworkers, of many research funds of private and public institutions, national and international (MIUR, FIRB, Ministry of Health, ISS-AIDS, the European Community, CNR, ANRS, EEC Foundation, in addition to GSK , Merck, Sanofi-Pasteur). Evaluator of research projects for EU, Ministry of Education, National Research Council, National Institute of Health, Tuscany and Veneto Regions, the Welcome Trust.

He has research interest in microbiology specifically virology and antiviral drugs,infectious diseases,medicine and surgery.

Patricia Poeta, is Full Professor at UTAD, Portugal. PhD in Veterinary Medicine and specialist in Medical Microbiology. Coordinator of the Research Group of Antibiotic resistance and head of Medical Microbiology Laboratory. Director of several doctoral and masters’ theses. Also responsible for research projects funded by private companies and inter-university projects, teaches International courses and Master’s degree. Has published more than 100 articles in journals from the SCI, book chapters, communications at international scientific meetings. Received 16 awards.

Medical Microbiology

Dr.Rao is working as Professor & Head Microbiology and Immunology, and Dean of students affairs in the Avalon University School of Medicine, Curacao.He is having 42 years of experience in this field of microbiology. He has published research papers/articles in international journals.

Dr. Rao is having 42 years of experience in the field of immunology & microbiology.

Chaoqun Yao completed a MD and PhD from Tongji Medical University and University of Georgia, respectively. He pursued post doctoral training at Washington State University and University of Iowa where he was promoted to Associate Research Scientist. He was a tenure-track Assistant Professor at University of Wyoming with a concomitant appointment of Parasitologist at the Wyoming State Veterinary Laboratory. He is currently an Associate Professor at Ross University School of Veterinary Medicine. He has published more than 45 papers inpeer-reviewed journals and has been serving as an editorial board member and adhoc reviewer for many journals.

Mycology, parasitology

B Y Chin received her degree in Physiology and Toxicological Sciences from the Department of Environmental Health Sciences at Johns Hopkins University,Baltimore, Maryland. She continued her research at the Department of Surgery at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston, Massachusetts after completing her Post-doctoral fellowship at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, US, Department of energy in Richland, Washington. She also had a joint Faculty appointment at Harvard Medical School since 2006. She has published over 33 peer review journal articles and is an active member on 3 editorial boards. Currently, she is a Professor of Medical Sciences and Associate Dean of Health Sciences at the International Medical University.

Toxicology and physiology

M Khalid Ijaz received DVM, MSc (Honors) from University of Agriculture, Faisalabad, Pakistan and completed Ph.D. in Microbiology and Immunology in 1985 at University of Ottawa, Canada. He did his post-doctoral work at the Vaccines and Infectious Disease Organization (VIDO), Canada. Currently, he’s Research Fellow at RB, Montvale, N.J. and Adjunct Associate Professor at The City University of New York (CUNY). His research focuses on human pathogenic microbial agents’ spread via the environment and mitigational role of hygiene agents. He is an active member of various scientific organizations including American Society for Microbiology, American Society for Virology, ASTM-International, Association of Professionals for Infection Control and Epidemiology and International Society for Infectious Diseases.

Human pathogenic microbial agents

Irina Magdalena Dumitru is an MD, PhD, Associate Professor, "Ovidius" University, Constanta, Romania, Faculty of Medicine. Senior Specialist in Infectious Diseases at Clinical Infectious Diseases Hospital, Constanta. Director of research and development (2006 – 2010) at Clinical Infectious Diseases Hospital, Constanta, in present I am Director of Research Department at Ovidius" University” Constanta. In recent years I am focused on the parasitological, tropical diseases, chronic hepatitis and HIV/AIDS research. In present I am NCP Health Romania for Horizon 2020 program. I am involved in many research projects, clinical trials and I have published numerous scientific articles (more than 95 papers and chapters in medical science journals and books). I am president of the Romanian Association of Parasitology, Constanta and I am member of many scientific societies (EACS, IAS, BENA, Romanian Association of Infectious Diseases, Romanian Association of Study Liver, Romanian Society of Microbiology).

Tropical infectious diseases

Stef Stienstra is a strategic and creative Consultant in Biomedical Science with a parallel career as a Commander of the reserve of the Royal Dutch Navy. For the Dutch Armed Forces he has responsibility for the counter measures in CBNRe threats and (Medical) consequence management both in a military and a civilian (terrorism) setting. He is a strategic functional specialist for “Health & Environment” of the 1-Civil-Military-Interaction Command (1-CMI) of the Dutch Armed Forces and for 2015 also in the NATO Response Force (NRF), which is in 2015 the responsibility of the 1-German-Netherlands-Corps (1-GNC). In his civil career he works internationally as Consultant or as Scientific Supervisory Board Member for several medical and biotech companies, merely involved in biodefense. He is also a Visiting Professor for Punjab University in Pakistan and Rhein-Waal University in Germany. He has completed his studies in Medicine and in Biochemistry at the University of Groningen in The Netherlands and has extensive practical experience in cell biology, immuno-hematology, biodefense and transfusion medicine. His natural business acumen and negotiation competence helps to initiate new successful businesses, often created out of unexpected combinations of technologies. His good understanding of abstract science combined with excellent skills in the communication of scientific matters to non-specialists, helps him with strategic consulting at top level management.

Ebola

Amr Ismail is an MBBCh, MSc, MD, MACP, FISQua, FABAM, CHPI, Consultant Dermatologist, received his Doctorate of Dermatology in 1998, Faculty of Medicine, Cairo University, Egypt, Fellow of the American Board of Aesthetic Medicine (ABAM), USA, Fellow of International Society for Quality in Healthcare (ISQua), Ireland, Certified Professional Health Performance Improvement, AIHQ, USA, Member of American College of Health Executives (ACHE), USA and Member of American College of Physicians (ACP).

Vaccines for HFMD

Ashok Kapse is a consulting Pediatrician practicing in the city of Surat in the Gujarat state of India, besides owning a private pediatric hospital he is also Head of the Pediatric Department at a prestigious Mahavir Super Specialty Hospital. After finishing graduation (MBBS) he did MD in Pediatrics. Initially he has worked as a Professor of Pediatrics at Medical College Surat, later he opted out for private practice however pursued academic interest. He developed special interest and skill in infectious diseases. He is a recipient of many oration awards and delivered hundreds of lectures on dengue, malaria, typhoid and antibiotic uses across India. He has decorated many a posts in medical fields: President of Surat City Branch of Indian Academy of Pediatrics (IAP), President of Gujarat State Branch of IAP and National President of Infectious Diseases Branch of IAP are few of them. He is an avid Clinical Photographer; his photos figure into various books and atlases including the prestigious atlas of infectious diseases published by American Academy of Pediatrics. He has published umpteen articles in peer reviewed journals.

Pediatric infectious diseases