Ángel Luis Álvarez Rodríguez is an Assistant Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology at the University of Oviedo (Spain). After receiving a BSc degree in Microbiology (2005) and a MSc in Virology (2007) at the University of Havana (Cuba), he obtained a PhD in Molecular Biology from the University of Oviedo, Spain  (2015). Previous positions include an Instructor appointment at the University of Havana (2005-2009) and a post-doctoral fellowship at the Division of Infectious Diseases, Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School (Boston, USA) (2016-2019). He is a member of the American Society for Microbiology (ASM), American Society for Virology (ASV), World Society for Virology (WSV), the Spanish Society for Virology (SEV), and the Spanish Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (SEBBM). His research interests comprise different virus families including Herpesviridae, Caliciviridae, and Coronaviridae, with a focus in the study of the molecular basis of virus replication, virus-host interactions, virus reverse genetics, and the search for novel antiviral strategies.

Aroa Arboleya is a post-doctoral researcher at the Asturias University Institute of Biotechnology (IUBA), Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Oviedo (Spain). After completing a BSc degree in Biotechnology at the University of Oviedo (2010), she obtained a master’s degree in Virology from the Complutense University of Madrid (2015) and a second master’s degree in Molecular Biology and Biomedicine from the University of Cantabria (2016). She obtained her PhD in Molecular Biology and Biomedicine from the University of the Basque Country (Spain) in 2022. She is the current secretary of the Society of Asturian Biotechnologists  (ASBAS), and also a member of the Spanish Society for Virology (SEV) and the Spanish Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (SEBBM). Her main research focuses on the molecular biology of positive-stranded RNA viruses including caliciviruses and human immunodeficiency viruses.

Fábio A. Abade dos Santos is a postdoctoral-level veterinarian graduated with honors from the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine of the University of Lisbon (Portugal). He holds a joint PhD in Veterinary Sciences and Animal Health by the University of Lisbon and in Molecular and Cellular Biology by the University of Oviedo (Spain). He serves as a professor in the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine of the Universidade Lusófona, since 2023. He teaches and coordinates the subject Pathology and Clinic of Infectious Diseases II. He is a member of the Virology and Immunology committee as well as the communications committee of the American College of Veterinary Microbiologists (ACVM). His research focuses on genetics, reproduction, infectious diseases, and management of wild lagomorphs. He is the founder and CEO of two lagomorph reproduction centers and is also a specialist in artificial intelligence and machine learning applied to veterinary sciences.

Alberto García-Manso obtained a BSc degree in Biochemistry from the University of Oviedo (Spain) and a PhD in Molecular and Cell Biology from the University of Oviedo, in 2014. His PhD work in the laboratory of Prof. Francisco Parra consisted of the generation of several calicivirus cDNA clones and expression systems that paved the way for further development of a rabbit vesivirus reverse genetics system.

Ines Nicieza obtained a BSc degree in Biology from the University of Oviedo (Spain), and currently works as a  lab manager in the Molecular Virology and Parasitology Research Group, at the Asturias University Institute of Biotechnology (IUBA), Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Oviedo (Spain). Her research interest, technical expertise, and main responsibilities comprise protein expression and purification, electrophoresis, inventory stocking ,and cell culture laboratory maintenance. She is also skilled in sample preparation for transmission and scanning electron microscopy and conventional and real-time polymerase chain reaction. She also masters virus-like particles generation, purification and characterization.

Kevin Dalton is an Associate Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology at the Asturias University Institute of Biotechnology (IUBA), Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Oviedo (Spain). Dr. Dalton obtained a BSc degree in Microbiology from the University of Queen’s (Belfast, UK) in 1995, and a PhD from the University of Cambridge (IAH Compton, UK) in 2000. He was a postdoctoral research fellow in the Deptartment of Pathology, School of Medicine at Yale University (USA), and later in the School of Animal and Microbial Sciences, at the University of Reading (UK). He has made seminal contributions to the lagomorph virology field, including the finding and characterization of an emerging variant of rabbit hemorragic disease virus (RHDV) in Spain and the elucidation of the molecular basis of myxoma virus species jump from the wild rabbit to the Iberian hare. His main research interests comprise the molecular aspects of virus replication, virus-host interactions, and the development of novel antiviral strategies and universal vaccines against several lagomorph viral pathogens.

Francisco Parra is a Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology at the Asturias University Institute of Biotechnology (IUBA), Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Oviedo (Spain). He received his MSc. Degree in Biological Sciences from the University of Oviedo in 1975, and his PhD Degree in Biochemistry from the same institution in 1980. He was a postdoctoral research fellow at the Biochemistry Department of the University of Cambridge (UK) between 1980 and 1982, and at the Institute for Animal Health (Compton, UK) in 1985. He is the founder and head of the Molecular Virology and Parasitology Research Group at the University of Oviedo, since 1985. Prof. Parra pioneered in discovering the rabbit hemorragic disease virus (Caliciviridae) as the causative agent of  rabbit hemorragic disease. He is interested in molecular biology approaches applied to the study of relevant animal and human pathogens, mainly parasites and viruses. The main projects of his laboratory focus on the identification, cloning, and heterologous expression of genes from parasite and viral pathogens, aiming to understand the molecular basis of their replication for the rational design of novel antiviral strategies, diagnostics, and vaccines. His main viral targets include caliciviruses, myxoma virus, and herpesviruses.

José M. Martín-Alonso is an Associate Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology at the Asturias University Institute of Biotechnology (IUBA), Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Oviedo (Spain). Dr. Martín-Alonso received a bachelor’s degree in Biology in 1986, and a PhD Degree in Biology in 1990. Since 2008, Dr. Martín-Alonso has taught  Biochemistry and Molecular Biology full-time, to students from the degree in Biochemistry career. Dr. Martín-Alonso has contributed 41 scientific publications with more than 1200 citations and has an h-index of 21. His main research interests fall within Virology and Molecular Parasitology, including catalysis, crystal structures, Escherichia coli, and the study of antioxidant proteins from Fasciola hepatica. Dr. Martín-Alonso played a pivotal role in the discovery, isolation, and characterization a new vesivirus member: the rabbit vesivirus. Within the Virology field, Dr. Martin-Alonso has focused on the study of caliciviruses replication mechanisms and search for novel antiviral targets.