Name: Dr. Yu Pan
Affiliation: College of Animal Science and Technology, Shihezi University, Shihezi, China
Homepage: https://stb.mae.edu.cn/site/expert/10697.html
Interests: antibiotic resistance; pharmacology; microecology; biochar

Name: Dr. Weishuai Zhai
Affiliation: College of Veterinary Medicine, China Agricultural University, Beijing, China
Homepage: https://cvm.cau.edu.cn/art/2025/10/28/art_41956_961.html
Interests: antibiotic resistance; MDR; Klebsiella pneumoniae; tigecycline resistance; mcr

Name: Dr. Elina Margarida Ribeiro Marinho
Affiliation: 2C2T—Center for Textile Science and Technology, University of Minho, Minho, Portugal
Homepage: https://2c2t.uminho.pt/people/
Interests: organic synthesis; heterocyclic chemistry; NMR; medicinal and pharmaceutical chemistry; polymer chemistry; materials; graphene; fibers; biocompatible materials; nanomaterials; green synthesis

Name: Dr. Giusy Tassone
Affiliation: Department of Biotechnology, Chemistry, and Pharmacy, University of Siena, Siena, Italy
Homepage: https://docenti.unisi.it/it/tassone
Interests: structural biology; X-ray crystallography; inorganic chemistry; β-lactamases; antibiotic resistance; cancer research; enzyme inhibition mechanisms; Heat shock protein 90; 14-3-3; bioinorganic chemistry; glutaminyl cyclase; bile acid binding protein; RNA

Name: Dr. Ramesh M. Chingle
Affiliation: National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA
Homepage: https://ccr.cancer.gov/chemical-biology-laboratory/fellows
Interests: organic chemistry; medicinal chemistry; bioorthogonal chemistry; heterocyclic chemistry; organocatalysis; transition metal catalysis; asymmetric catalysis; cycloaddition reactions; macrocycles; drug conjugates; peptides and peptide mimetics; solid phase peptide synthesis; native chemical ligation; post-translational modifications; NMR spectroscopy; mass spectrometry; bioimaging

Name: Dr. Carola Mauri
Affiliation: Microbiology and Virology Unit, A. Manzoni Hospital, Lecco, Italy
Homepage: https://www.asst-lecco.it/dipartimento-area-dei-servizi/microbiologia-e-virologia/
Interests: bacteriology; antimicrobial resistance; antimicrobial Stewardship; clinical microbiology; bloodstream infection; new diagnostic approaches; infection control

Name: Dr. Luciana Di Gregorio
Affiliation: ENEA—Italian National Agency for New Technologies, Energy and Sustainable Economic Development, Rome, Italy
Homepage: https://agrifood.sostenibilita.enea.it/en/people/luciana-gregorio
Interests: agri-food microbiology; food safety and quality; microbial communities; antimicrobial strategies and bio-based solutions; biotechnology and sustainability; advanced molecular techniques; one health approach; biofilm control.

Name: Dr. Angelo Roberto Raccagni
Affiliation: Vita-Salute San Raffaele University, Milan, Italy
Interests: HIV; PrEP; STIs; gonorrhoea; chlamydia; syphilis

Name: Dr. Raffaele Scarpellini
Affiliation: University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy
Homepage: https://www.unibo.it/sitoweb/raffaele.scarpellini
Interests: antimicrobial resistance; companion animals; surveillance; hospital-acquired infections; veterinary medicine; antimicrobial stewardship

Name: Dr. Kate McCarthy
Affiliation: University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia
Interests: antibiotics; blood stream infection; infection control

Name: Dr. Aoife Fleming
Affiliation: School of Pharmacy, University College Cork, Cork, Ireland
Homepage: https://research.ucc.ie/en/persons/aoife-fleming/
Interests: antimicrobial prescribing; antimicrobial stewardship in primary, secondary care, and long-term care; qualitative research methods; point-of-care testing

Name: Dr. Benti Deresa Gelalcha
Affiliation: The University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN, USA
Homepage: https://utia.tennessee.edu/person/?id=18152&utm
Interests: antimicrobial resistance; molecular epidemiology; genomics

Name: Dr. Sveva Di Franco
Affiliation: Department of Women, Child and General and Specialized Surgery, University of Campania “LuigiVanvitelli”, 80138 Naples, Italy
Homepage: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0399-2677
Interests: antibiotics; antimicrobial; antimicrobial resistance; antimicrobial lock therapy; critical care; intensive care unit

Name: Dr. Vuyolwethu Khwaza
Affiliation: Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Science and Agriculture, University of Fort Hare, Alice 5700, South Africa
Homepage: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=2sR-i3gAAAAJ&hl=en&oi=ao
Interests: natural product chemistry; organic synthesis; hybrid compounds; antimicrobial compounds; anticancer compounds; phytochemicals and their derivatives; medicinal chemistry

Name: Dr. Fernando Guzman-Chavez
Affiliation: Faculty of Chemistry, National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), Mexico, Mexico
Homepage: https://quimica.unam.mx/perfil/fernando-guzman-chavez/
Interests: natural products; synthetic biology; cell-free systems; genome editing; CRISPR-Cas; synthetic microbiology; microbial engineering; RiPPs

Name: Prof. Dr. Yaron Bar-Lavie
Affiliations: 1. Critical Care Division, Rambam Health Care Campus, Haifa 3109601, Israel
2. Ruth and Bruce Rappaport Faculty of Medicine, Technion, Haifa 3525433, Israel
Homepage: https://www.rambam.org.il/en/?catid=%7Bdb727c7f-3210-4290-a782-85f74b89b61c%7D&itemid=%7B5b518910-3141-4966-b2b8-33656a3b4ab4%7D
Interests: anesthesiology; critical care medicine; neurosurgery; critical care nursing

Name: Dr. Óscar Mencía-Ares
Affiliation: Department of Animal Health, Universidad de León, León, Spain
Homepage: https://portalcientifico.unileon.es/investigadores/97716/detalle
Interests: antimicrobial resistance; biofilm; genomics; microbiology; microbiome; veterinary pathogens; zoonosis

Name: Dr. Seref Akay
Affiliation: Department of Pharmacy, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
Homepage: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6829-1279
Interests: nanomaterials; biomaterials; antibacterial coating; biofilm

Name: Dr. Daniela Araújo
Affiliation: National Institute for Agrarian and Veterinary Research, Porto, Portugal
Homepage: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9830-0367
Interests: microbiology; new therapies; antimicrobial resistance

Name: Dr. Ana Cristina Oliveira Afonso
Affiliation: LEPABE—Laboratory for Process Engineering, Environment, Biotechnology and Energy, Faculty of Engineering, University of Porto, Rua Dr Roberto Frias, 4200-465 Porto, Portugal
Homepage: https://www.cienciavitae.pt/portal/A917-804D-9CE1
Interests: antibiofilm agents; biofilm formation; cell–cell interaction; coaggregation; microscopy; multispecies biofilms; phytochemicals; structural microbiology

Name: Dr. Ylenia Pieracci
Affiliations: 1. Department of Pharmacy, University of Pisa, Pisa, Italy
2. Department of Agriculture, Food, and Environment, University of Pisa, Pisa, Italy
Homepage: https://www.scopus.com/authid/detail.uri?authorId=57226013054 
Interests: pharmaceutical biology; phytochemistry; essential oil; volatile compounds; aromatic plants; food plants

Name: Dr. Carmen Mejías Padilla
Affiliation: Universidad de Sevilla, C/Virgen de África, 7, E-41011 Seville, Spain
Homepage: https://prisma.us.es/investigador/8473
Interests: environmental analytical chemistry; LC-MS/MS; emerging pollutants; antibiotics; chromatographic techniques; method development

Name: Dr. Laura Martín
Affiliation: Universidad de Sevilla, C/Virgen de África, 7, E-41011 Seville, Spain
Interests: analytical chemistry; analytical methods; extraction; chromatography-mass spectrometry; antibiotic determination; antibiotic contamination; food safety; environmental fate; bioaccumulation; antibiotic removal

Name: Dr. Joya-Rita Hindy
Affiliation: Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH, USA
Homepage: https://doctor.webmd.com/doctor/joya-rita-hindy-557a2128-09f7-4a57-bcbb-401b987c8c95-overview
Interests: infectious diseases; bacteremia; infective endocarditis; antimicrobial resistance; antimicrobial stewardship; epidemiology; Staphylococcus aureus; MRSA; invasive fungal infections

Name: Dr. Sinn Kay Olivia Chan
Affiliation: Columbia University, New York, NY, USA
Interests: infectious disease; antimicrobial resistance; epidemiology; policy implementation

Name: Dr. Emanuele Valeriani
Affiliation: Sapienza University of Rome, Umberto I Hospital of Rome, Rome, Italy
Interests: infectious disease; antibiotics; venous thrombosis; arterial thrombosis; antithrombotics

Name: Dr. Gabriele Melegari
Affiliation: University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Modena, Italy
Homepage: https://www.aou.mo.it/flex/FixedPages/Common/CV.php/L/IT/K/1?ID=51-91086
Interests: biomarkers in intensive care delirium

Name: Dr. Alexia Barbarossa
Affiliation: Department of Pharmacy-Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Bari “Aldo Moro”, 70125 Bari, Italy
Interests: microbiology; medicinal chemistry; natural products; antimicrobial resistance

Name: Dr. Peddro Rodríguez-López
Affiliation: Eco2CHEM, Faculty of Health Sciences, Universidad San Jorge, Zaragoza, Spain
Interests: antimicrobial resistance; food safety; high throughput sequencing; foodborne pathogens; animal health; one health; bacterial communities

Name: Dr. John Yun Niu
Affiliation: The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China
Homepage: https://facdent.hku.hk/people/professoriate-staff/profile/niuyun
Interests: caries prevention and management; antimicrobial peptides; fluoride research

Name: Dr. Nuno Guimarães
Affiliation: Faculty of Engineering of the University of Porto, Porto, Portugal
Homepage: https://lepabe.fe.up.pt/n_guimaraes.html
Interests: antisense; nucleic acid mimics; delivery vectors; antimicrobial resistance; biofilm modulation

Name: Dr. Zixin Peng
Affiliation: China National Centre for Food Safety Risk Assessment (CFSA), Beijing, China
Homepage: https://yzbss.pumc.edu.cn/basicinfo/tutorinfo/tutordetail/w2024048004
Interests: foodborne pathogen; surveillance; antibiotic resistance; pathogen prevalence

Name: Dr. Alessandro Bellato
Affiliation: Department of Veterinary Sciences, University of Turin, 10124 Turin, Italy
Homepage: https://www.veterinaria.unito.it/do/docenti.pl/Show?_id=albellat#tab-profilo
Interests: veterinary microbiology; veterinary epidemiology; antimicrobial-resistance; dairy cow mastitis

Name: Dr. Kazuhiro Ishikawa
Affiliation: Tokyo Medical University, Tokyo, Japan
Homepage: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2502-6955
Interests: infectious disease; antimicrobial resistance; immunocompromised host; HIV; cancer; febrile neutropenia; mycobacterium species; systematic review; real-world data; machine learning

Name: Dr. Chiara Fanelli
Affiliation: University of Sassari, Sassari, Italy
Homepage: https://ch.linkedin.com/in/chiara-fanelli-934852292
Interests: infections in critically ill patients; infection prevention and control (IPC); MDRO; viral hepatitis; COVID-19; solid organ transplantation

Name: Dr. Carla Laria
Affiliation: Department of Neuroscience, Reproductive Sciences and Dentistry, Audiology Section, University of Naples Federico II, Napoli, Italy
Homepage: https://www.docenti.unina.it/carla.laria
Interests: audiology; hearing pathophysiology; deafness therapy; speech and voice pathophysiology; auditory processing disorders; auditory neuropathy

Name: Dr. Giuseppe Sangiorgio
Affiliations: 1. Department of Biomedical and Biotechnological Sciences, University of Catania, Catania, Italy
2. Laboratory of Clinical Immunology & Microbiology, National Institute of Health (NIH), National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), Bethesda, MD 20892, USA
Homepage: https://www.niaid.nih.gov/research/notarangelo-research-group
Interests: microbiology; immunology

Name: Dr. Stefano Stracquadanio
Affiliation: Department of Medicine and Surgery, “Kore” University of Enna, Enna, Italy
Homepage: https://uke.it/ateneo/organizzazione/faculty#:~:text=Stracquadanio%20Stefano
Interests: microbiology; antimicrobic resistance; phage therapy; Alternative strategies; Acinetobacter baumannii

Name: Dr. Yang Wu
Affiliation: College of Medicine, University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, NE 68198, USA
Homepage: https://www.linkedin.com/in/yang-w-3389299b
Interests: antibiofilm; drug delivery; biomaterials

Name: Dr. Yuan Li
Affiliation: 1. College of Animal Science and Technology & College of Veterinary Medicine, Zhejiang A&F University, Hangzhou 311300, China
2. Beijing Key Laboratory of Detection Technology for Animal Derived Food Safety, Beijing Laboratory for Food Quality and Safety, College of Veterinary Medicine, China Agricultural University, Beijing 100193, China
Homepage: https://cast.zafu.edu.cn/info/1075/2382.htm
Interests: antibiotics; bio-recognition materials; antibody; veterinary drug residue testing

Name: Dr. Yaojie Gao
Affiliation: State Key Laboratory of Microbial Metabolism, School of Life Sciences and Biotechnology, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China
Homepage: https://life.sjtu.edu.cn/en/t/index/kxyjen
Interests: natural products biosynthesis; chemical biology; metabolic engineering; enzyme engineering; synthetic biology; X-ray crystallography; CRISPR-Cas gene editing

Name: Dr. Xueliang Zhao
Affiliation: College of Veterinary Medicine, China Agricultural University, Beijing, China
Interests: AMR; zoonosis; food safety; public health; OMVs; one health

Name: Dr. Tomi Obe
Affiliation: University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, AR, USA
Homepage: https://poultry-science.uark.edu/people/faculty/uid/toobe/name/Tomi+Obe/
Interests: salmonella; campylobacter; food safety; antimicrobial resistance; bacterial stress adaptation; sanitizer tolerance; biofilm; poultry processing

Name: Dr. Sílvia Alexandra Macedo Arantes
Affiliation: HERCULES Laboratory & IN2PAST Associate Laboratory, University of Évora, Évora, Portugal
Homepage: http://orcid.org/0000-0001-8779-9828
Interests: antimicrobial compounds; antibiotic alternatives; natural products and essential oils; applied microbiology; multidrug-resistant microorganisms; molecular microbial characterization (NGS, RNA-FISH); eco-friendly antimicrobial approaches; cultural heritage biodeterioration

Name: Dr. Santos Ramírez-Carreto
Affiliation: Institute of Chemistry, National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), Mexico City, Mexico
Interests: antimicrobial peptides; pore-forming proteins; biotoxins; protein engineering; transcriptomics; proteomics; bioassays; bionanotechnology

Name: Dr. Francesca Piras
Affiliation: Department of Veterinary Medicine, University of Sassari, Via Vienna 2, 07100 Sassari, Italy
Homepage: https://www.uniss.it/it/ugov/person/485
Interests: Salmonella enterica; yersinia enterocolitica; food safety; antimicrobial resistance; sequencing

Name: Dr. Matteo Calcagnile
Affiliation: Department of Experimental Medicine, University of Salento, Via Monteroni, 73100 Lecce, Italy
Homepage: https://www.unisalento.it/scheda-utente/-/people/matteo.calcagnile
Interests: bacteriology; molecular biology; actinomycetales; genomic; metagenomic

Name: Dr. Arindam Naha
Affiliation: Department of Molecular Physiology and Biological Physics, University of Virginia School of Medicine, Charlottesville, VA 22903, USA
Homepage: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6255-7152
Interests: bacterial cell biology; AMR; RNA-mediated regulation; host–pathogen interactions; gut dysbiosis

Name: Dr. Marco Coppi
Affiliations: 1. Department of Experimental and Clinical Medicine, University of Florence, Florence, Italy
2. Clinical Microbiology and Virology Unit, Florence Careggi University Hospital, Florence, Italy
Homepage: https://cercachi.unifi.it/p-doc2-2023-0-A-2c323d2e322c-0.html
Interests: antimicrobial resistance; AMR; Klebsiella pneumoniae; metallo-β-lactamases; β-lactamase inhibitor resistance; nosocomial outbreaks; plasmid-mediated resistance; fosfomycin resistance; molecular detection systems; antimicrobial susceptibility testing; carbapenemases; NDM; KPC

Name: Dr. Ilaria Baccani
Affiliation: Department of Experimental and Clinical Medicine, University of Florence, Florence, Italy
Homepage: https://cercachi.unifi.it/p-doc2-0-0-A-3f2b3b3238282f-0.html
Interests: antimicrobial resistance; oxazolidinone resistance; gram-positive; carbapenemases; acquired resistance mechanisms; novel antimicrobial strategies; antimicrobial susceptibility testing; antimicrobial photodynamic therapy

Name: Dr. Ingrid Maribel Leon Moreno
Affiliation:  Veterinary Pathobiology Department, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX 77843, USA
Homepage: https://vetmed.tamu.edu/pda/members/
Interests: antibiotic resistance; dust; environment; one health; mitigation

Name: Dr. Jingqi Chen
Affiliation: van der Donk Lab, Roger Adams Laboratory & the Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL 61801, USA
Homepage: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0750-8539
Interests: ribosomally synthesized and post-translationally modified peptides (RiPPs); lanthipeptide; natural product; biochemistry; molecular microbiology; synthetic biology

Name: Dr. Margherita Cacaci
Affiliation: Dipartimento di Scienze Biotecnologiche di Base, Cliniche Intensivologiche e Perioperatorie, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Largo A. Gemelli 8, 00168 Rome, Italy
Homepage: https://docenti.unicatt.it/ppd2/it/docenti/48402/margherita-cacaci/profilo
Interests: microbiology; biofilm; fungal infection; anti-biofilm; nanomaterials; biofilm-related infecitons; fast diagnosis; molecular biology; bacterial and fungal virulence

Name: Dr. Hafiz Abdul-Aziz
Affiliation: Faculty of Medicine, University of Queensland Centre for Clinical Research [UQCCR], The University of Queensland, Brisbane 4006, Australia
Homepage: https://clinical-research.centre.uq.edu.au/profile/2357/hafiz-abdul-aziz
Interests: antibiotics; pharmacokinetics/pharmacodynamics (PK/PD); prolonged infusion; therapeutic drug monitoring; critically ill; extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO); pneumonia

Name: Dr. Adamantia Kouvela
Affiliation: Department of Biochemistry, School of Medicine, University of Patras, 26504 Patras, Greece
Interests: RNA; antibiotics; tRNA; riboswitches; non-coding RNAs; tRNA modifications

Name: Dr. Christina N. Banti
Affiliation: Section of Inorganic and Analytical Chemistry, Department of Chemistry, University of Ioannina, 451 10 Ioannina, Greece
Homepage: https://myweb.uoi.gr/shadjika/Hadjikakou_10.htm#_Post_Doctorate_Researchers-Collabor
Interests: bioinorganic chemistry; biological inorganic chemistry; medicinal chemistry

Name: Dr. Flavia-Liliana Turcu
Affiliation: Department of Nephrology and Dialysis, Saint John Clinical Emergency Hospital University of Medicine and Pharmacy Carol Davila, Bucharest, Romania
Interests: medicine; nephrology

Name: Dr. Vanessa Natália dos Santos Silva
Affiliation: University of Trás-os-Montes and Alto Douro, Vila Real, Portugal
Homepage: https://www.cienciavitae.pt/portal/0610-A130-B5D2
Interests: antimicrobial resistance; epidemiology of genetic lineages; bacterial biofilms; multi-omics

Name: Dr. Javier Feito
Affiliation: Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Madrid, Spain
Homepage: https://produccioncientifica.ucm.es/investigadores/352098/detalle
Interests: antimicrobial; probiotic; genetics; microbiology; bacteriocin; food safety; fish; aquaculture; bacteria; biology; gene

Name: Dr. Aleksandar Cojkić
Affiliation: Department of Clinical Sciences, Swedish University of Agricultural Science, Uppsala, Sweden
Homepage: https://publications.slu.se/?file=pers/show&cid=54828076
Interests: veterinary medicine; reproduction; reproductive biotechnology; bacteriology; antimicrobial resistance

Name: Dr. Giuseppe Guido Maria Scarlata
Affiliation: Department of Health Sciences, University of Catanzaro “Magna Graecia”, Catanzaro, Italy
Interests: gut-liver axis; gut microbiota; fatty liver disease; viral hepatitis; COVID-19, antimicrobial resistance

Name: Dr. Francesco Pellegrini
Affiliation: Department of Veterinary Medicine, Infectious Diseases Section, University of Bari, Bari, Italy
Homepage: https://sidilv.org/comitato-di-genomica/
Interests: antimicrobial compounds; veterinary infectious diseases; zoonoses; molecular epidemiology of AMR

Name: Dr. Ziba Najmi
Affiliation: Department of Health Sciences, Center for Translational Research on Autoimmune and Allergic Diseases-CAAD, Università del Piemonte Orientale UPO, Novara, Italy
Homepage: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ziba-najmi-94a8aa27a/
Interests: antibacterial; bacterial biofilm; biomaterials evaluation; natural products

Name: Dr. Verena Zerbato
Affiliation: Infectious Diseases Unit, Clinical Department of Medical, Surgical, and Health Sciences, University Hospital (ASUGI), Piazzale dell’Ospedale n° 1, 34100 Trieste, Italy
Interests: enterococcal infections; campylobacter; C. difficile; DTR infections; antimicrobial resistance

Name: Dr. Alessia Pardo
Affiliation: Dentistry and Maxillofacial Surgery Unit, Department of Surgery, Dentistry, Pediatrics and Gynecology (DIPSCOMI), University of Verona, Piazzale L.A, Scuro 10, 37134 Verona, Italy
Interests: dental hygiene; oral health; non-surgical periodontal therapy; topical agent; laser; photodynamic therapy; periodontal pathogens

Name: Dr. Minhyeok Cha
Affiliation: Environmental Microbial and Food Safety Laboratory, Agricultural Research Service, United States Department of Agriculture, Beltsville, MD 20705, USA
Homepage: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=j1dCzi0AAAAJ&hl=en
Interests: antimicrobial resistance; food safety; agriculture; food science; food technology; food ethics

Name: Dr. Pamela Bailey
Affiliation: Christiana Care Health System, Wilmington, DE, USA
Homepage: https://doctors.christianacare.org/provider/pamela-louise-bailey/5846293
Interests: antimicrobial stewardship; healthcare epidemiology

Name: Dr. Liusheng Lei
Affiliation: Northwest A&F University, Xi’an, China
Interests: animal farm; antibiotics; antibiotic resistance gene; microbiome; risk

Name: Dr. Gosha Wojcik
Affiliation: School of Health and Social Care, Edinburgh Napier University, 9 Sighthill Court, Edinburgh EH11 4BN, UK
Homepage: https://napier-repository.worktribe.com/person/360440/gosha-wojcik
Interests: behaviour change interventions; development of complex health interventions; antimicrobial resistance; prescribing behaviours; person-based approach; use of artificial intelligence in healthcare; digital health interventions; eHealth

Name: Dr. Samson Oladokun
Affiliation: Department of Poultry Science, College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, Texas A&M University, College Station, TA, USA
Homepage: https://poultry.tamu.edu/people/oladokun-samson/
Interests: microbiome; gut health; host–pathogen interaction; poultry

Name: Dr. Zahid Hussain
Affiliation: Faculty of Health, University of Canberra, Bruce, ACT 2617, Australia
Homepage: https://academics.rmit.edu.au/zahid-hussain
Interests: dosing of antibiotics in obesity; antimicrobial stewardship (AMS)

Name: Dr. Vulcanescu Dan
Affiliation: Department of Microbiology, “Victor Babes” University of Medicine and Pharmacy, Eftimie Murgu Square 2, 300041 Timisoara, Romania
Homepage: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1046-7272
Interests: COVID-19; lab; medicine; microbiology; microbial resistance

Name: Dr. Dégi János
Affiliation: Department of Infectious Diseases and Preventive Medicine, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, University of Life Sciences “King Mihai I”, 300645 Timişoara, Romania
Interests: infectious diseases in animals; antimicrobial resistance; bacterial zoonoses; veterinary public health; epidemiology; veterinary education; innovative teaching methods

Name: Dr. Angelo Immordino
Affiliation: Otorhinolaryngology Section, Biomedicine, Neuroscience and Advanced Diagnostics Department (BiND), University of Palermo, 90100 Palermo, Italy
Homepage: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3414-6492 
Interests: otorhinolaryngology; clinical immunology and inflammatory disease modulation; public health and vaccinology; personalized and precision medicine

Name: Dr. Giuseppe Pipitone
Affiliation: Infectious and Tropical Diseases Unit, A.R.N.A.S. Civico-Di Cristina-Benfratelli, 90100 Palermo, Italy
Homepage: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3408-4877 
Interests: antimicrobial stewardship; C. difficile; infections in surgery; bacteremia; hepatology; pulmonology; ultrasound in infections

Name: Dr. Alexandre Henrique dos Reis-Prado
Affiliation: Endodontic Section, Department of Restorative Dentistry, School of Dentistry, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte CEP 31270-901, MG, Brazil
Interests: regenerative endodontics; tissue engineering; systematic reviews/meta-analysis; hydrogels; in vivo models; drug delivery systems

Name: Dr. Sharath Tippur Narayana Iyengar
Affiliation: Department of Basic Medical Sciences, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN 47907, USA
Homepage: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5348-3526 
Interests: biotechnology; sepsis; microfluidics; microbiology; antibiotic susceptibility testing; anti-microbial resistance; point of care diagnostics (POC); flow cytometry; spectroscopy; microscopy; immunology; cancer diagnosis; PBMCs; immunophenotyping

Name: Dr. Azam Ali Sher
Affiliations: 1. Comparative Enteric Diseases Laboratory, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI 48824, USA
2. Comparative Medicine and Integrative Biology Program, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI 48824, USA
Homepage: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2607-1291 
Interests: antibiotic resistance; microbial genomics; genomic epidemiology; multi-omics

Name: Dr. Sung Jin Bae
Affiliation: Department of Emergency Medicine, Chung-Ang University Gwangmyeong Hospital, Chung-Ang University College of Medicine, Seoul, Republic of Korea
Homepage: https://gh.cauhs.or.kr/home/medical/profView.do?deptNo=86&profNo=338&empNo=01364
Interests: emergency medicine; geriatrics; frailty; sepsis; antibiotic stewardship; post-cardiac arrest syndrome; biomarkers; clinical prognosis prediction

Name: Prof. Dr. Gorka Santamarina García
Affiliation: Lactiker Research Group, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Faculty of Pharmacy, University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU), Paseo de la Universidad 7, 01006 Vitoria-Gasteiz, Spain
Interests: dairy products; fermented food; metagenomics; metabolomics; antibiotic residues; antibiotic resistances

Name: Dr. Davi da Silva Barbirato
Affiliation: Department of Basic and Oral Biology, Faculty of Dentistry of Ribeirão Preto, University of São Paulo (FORP/USP), Av. Café, S/N-Ribeirão Preto, São Paulo 14040-904, SP, Brazil
Homepage: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0527-6092
Interests: periodontics; periodontal medicine; stomatology; oral and maxillofacial surgery; basic sciences

Name: Dr. Manlio Santilli
Affiliation: Department of Innovative Technologies in Medicine and Dentistry, University “G.d’Annunzio” of Chieti-Pescara, Chieti, Italy
Interests: digital dentistry; CAD-CAM; oral health; prosthodontics; oral surgery; dental implant

Name: Dr. Juan García Díez
Affiliation: Department of Veterinary Sciences, School of Agrarian and Veterinary Sciences, University of Trás-os-Montes e Alto Douro, 5001-801 Vila Real, Portugal
Homepage: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6930-0728
Interests: food safety; HACCP; food microbiology; food technology; meat and meat products; veterinary public health; veterinary epidemiology; zoonoses; veterinary biosecurity

Name: Dr. Selene Rebecca Boncompagni
Affiliation: Department of Experimental and Clinical Medicine, University of Florence, 50134 Florence, Italy
Homepage: https://orcid.org/0009-0002-4807-4343
Interests: microbiology; antimicrobial resistance

Name: Dr. Umme Laila Urmi
Affiliation: School of Optometry and Vision Science, University of New South Wales (UNSW), Sydney, Australia
Homepage: https://research.unsw.edu.au/people/miss-mst-umme-laila-urmi
Interests: cationic antimicrobial peptides; antivirals; bacteria; viruses

Name: Dr. Vacaroiu Ileana Adela
Affiliation: Department of Nephrology, Faculty of Medicine, Carol Davila University of Medicine and Pharmacy, 020021 Bucharest, Romania
Homepage: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7342-6040
Interests: CKD; dialysis; AKI; glomerular diseases; diabetic kidney disease

Name: Dr. Shyam Kumar Mishra
Affiliations: 1. School of Optometry and Vision Science, Faculty of Medicine and Health, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
2. Department of Microbiology, Institute of Medicine, Tribhuvan University, Maharajgunj Medical Campus, Kathmandu, Nepal
Homepage: https://research.unsw.edu.au/people/mr-shyam-kumar-mishra-baishnab
Interests: clinical microbiology; medical parasitology; haematology; medical bacteriology; medical mycology

Name: Dr. Elena Iuliana Maciuca
Affiliation: Institute of Infection, Veterinary and Ecological Sciences, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, UK
Homepage: https://ecvmicro.org/blog/profile/dr-elena-iuliana-maciuca/
Interests: veterinary microbiology; antibiotic resistance; ESBL; MRSA; plasmids; public health

Name: Dr. Gi Yong Lee 
Affiliation: Department of Molecular Microbiology and Immunology, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA
Homepage: https://uscmmi.com/hyungjineohlab/lab-members/
Interests: microbiology; antimicrobial resistance; one health; multiomics

Name: Dr. Andrea Visca
Affiliation: Department for Sustainability, Italian National Agency for New Technologies, Energy and Sustainable Economic Development, ENEA Casaccia Research Center, 00123 Rome, RM, Italy
Homepage: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1795-3532
Interests: one health; soil microbiome; emerging contaminants; agri-food chain; environmental biotechnology; bioinformatics

Name: Dr. Theodoros Karampatakis
Affiliation: Department of Clinical Microbiology, University Hospital Kerry, V92 NX94 Tralee, Ireland
Homepage: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0928-3193
Interests: multidrug-resistant Gram-negative bacteria; molecular epidemiology; antimicrobial resistance; infection control measures

Name: Dr. Aditi Deshpande
Affiliation: Center for Global Infectious Disease Research, Seattle Children’s Research Institute, Seattle, WA, USA
Homepage: https://www.seattlechildrens.org/research/research-institute/careers/invent-at-seattle-childrens/invent-postdoc/scholars/
Interests: antibiotic resistance; bacteria; antimicrobial resistance; novel drugs; Mycobacterium tuberculosis; drug discovery; Clostridioides difficile

Name: Dr. Andrea Cona
Affiliation: Department of Infectious Diseases, Mediterranean Institute for Transplantation and Advanced Specialized Therapies (IRCCS ISMETT), Via Ernesto Tricomi 5, 90127 Palermo, Italy
Homepage: https://tts.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=1437&catid=116
Interests: solid organ transplant; infectious diseases; antimicrobial stewardship; antimicrobial resistance; carbapenem-resistant enterobacterales

Name: Dr. Bruno Dutra da Silva
Affiliation: Center for Food Analysis (NAL), Technological Development Support Laboratory (LADETEC), Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Homepage: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5042-5742
Interests: food microbiology; natural compounds; microbiology; meat science

Name: Dr. Eva Torres-Sangiao
Affiliation: Clinical Microbiology Laboratory, University Hospital Marqués de Valdecilla, Researh Institute IDIVAL, 39001 Santander, Spain
Homepage: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1227-6437
Interests: immunology; proteomics; microbiology; bacteriology; antibiotics; mechanisms of resistance

Name: Dr. Daphne Lianou
Affiliation: Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, University of Thessaly, 43100 Karditsa, Greece
Interests: biofilm; coxiella; dairy; Listeria; staphylococci; treatment

Name: Dr. Gloria Bua
Affiliation: Laboratory on Implant Infections, IRCCS Istituto Ortopedico Rizzoli, Bologna, Italy
Interests: medical microbiology; pathogen-host interactions; antimicrobials; biofilm;  implant-associated infections

Name: Dr. Veronica Panichi
Affiliation: Laboratorio di Immunoreumatologia e Rigenerazione Tissutale, IRCCS Istituto Ortopedico Rizzoli, Bologna, Italy
Interests: bioactive compounds; antimicrobial peptides; periprosthetic joint infection; anti-inflammatory and immunomodulatory compounds; pro-regenerative compounds

Name: Prof. Dr. Alvaro-Afonso Francisco Javier
Affiliations: 1. Diabetic Foot Unit, University Podiatric Clinic, Faculty of Nursing, Physiotherapy and Podiatry, Complutense University of Madrid, 28040 Madrid, Spain
 2. San Carlos Clinical Hospital Health Research Institute (IdISSC), 28040 Madrid, Spain
Homepage: https://produccioncientifica.ucm.es/investigadores/143656/detalle
Interests: pharmaceutical development; diabetic neuropathy; wound healing; biomechanics; wounds; orthotics; pharmaceutics; diabetic foot; diabetic foot infection; diabetic foot osteomyelitis

Name: Dr. Eugene Yeung
Affiliations: 1. Faculty of Medicine, Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada
2. Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Continuing Pharmacy Professional Development, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada
Homepage: https://pathology.ubc.ca/2025/02/24/yeung-eugene/
Interests: blood culture diagnostics; antimicrobial resistance and susceptibility testing; interprofessional collaboration; diagnostic microbiology; emerging pathogens; healthcare education

Name: Dr. Iancu Ionica
Affiliation: Department of Infectious Diseases and Preventive Medicine, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, University of Life Sciences “King Mihai I”, 300645 Timişoara, Romania
Homepage: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8913-4942
Interests: infectious diseases in animals; zoonotic diseases; preventive veterinary medicine; veterinary public health; antimicrobial resistance; epidemiology; poultry

Name: Dr. Seeprarani Rath
Affiliation: Center for Dermal Research, Rutgers University-New Brunswick, New Brunswick, NJ, USA
Homepage: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2216-1238
Interests: pharmacokinetics/pharmacodynamics; bioavailability/bioequivalence; modeling and simulation; population pharmacokinetics; formulation; characterization; topical and transdermal

Name: Dr. Drashti Daraji
Affiliation: Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, IL 60115, USA
Interests: medicinal chemistry; organic synthesis; computational chemistry

Name: Dr. Kodjovi D. Mlaga
Affiliation: The Microbiome and Mucosal Defence Research Unit, Institut de Recherche Clinique de Montréal, Montreal, QC H2W 1R7, Canada
Homepage: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3162-0371
Interests: clinical microbiology; food microbiology; molecular microbiology; tuberculosis infection; infectious disease; epidemiology

Name: Dr. Irena Reil
Affiliation: Laboratory for Bacterial Zoonoses and Molecular Diagnostics of Bacterial Diseases, Department for Bacteriology and Parasitology, Croatian Veterinary Institute, 10000 Zagreb, Croatia
Homepage: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2198-557X
Interests: bacterial zoonoses; antimicrobial susceptibility testing; one health

Name: Dr. Jiaqi Lu
Affiliation: U.S. Food and Drug Administration, 10903 New Hampshire Ave, Silver Spring, MD 20993, USA
Homepage: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8389-4817
Interests: analytical chemistry; NMR; protein/peptide therapeutics

Name: Dr. Bassam Elgamoudi
Affiliation: School of Pharmacy and Medical Sciences, Griffith University, Brisbane, Australia
Homepage: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6372-5197
Interests: microbiology; molecular biology; spatial biology

Name: Dr. Ionela-Larisa Miftode
Affiliations: 1. Faculty of Medicine, University of Medicine and Pharmacy “Grigore T. Popa”, 700115 Iasi, Romania
2. Clinic of Infectious Diseases, “Sf. Parascheva” Clinical Hospital of Infectious Diseases, 700116 Iasi, Romania
Interests: antibiotic resistance; urinary tract infections; carbapenem-resistant Enterobacterales; multidrug-resistant bacteria; healthcare-associated infections

Name: Dr. Zhi Geng
Affiliation: Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering, The University of Chicago, 5640 South Ellis Avenue Chicago, College Station, IL 60637, USA
Homepage: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0790-1595
Interests: immunotherapy; vaccine; SARS-CoV-2; phage display

Name: Dr. Andrea Laconi
Affiliation: Department of Comparative Biomedicine and Food Science, University of Padua, Padua, Italy
Homepage: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0102-7021
Interests: genome engineering; next generation sequencing; reverse genetics; PCR; bacteria