Laryssa Freitas Ribeiro is a professor and coordinator of the veterinary medicine course at Centro Universitário Mário Palmério (UNIFUCAMP) in Monte Carmelo, Minas Gerais. She is also the veterinary coordinator of the Municipal Inspection System (SIM) of the Intermunicipal Consortium Integrated Region for Sustainable Development (RIDES). She graduated from the São Paulo State University (UNESP), Jaboticabal campus. She completed an internship at the same university in the Department of Preventive Veterinary Medicine and Animal Reproduction in the Laboratory for Analysis of Food of Animal Origin and Water. In August 2011, she went to the University of Montreal for a sandwich master's degree and completed her master's degree in just 18 months. In March 2013, she started her doctorate course in veterinary medicine at UNESP, Jaboticabal campus, with a Capes scholarship and Fapesp assistance. She returned to Brazil in September 2015 and completed her doctorate in December 2016.
Prof. Dr. Gabriel Augusto Marques Rossi graduated in veterinary medicine from the Faculty of Agrarian and Veterinary Sciences of Jaboticabal (UNESP/Jaboticabal). He received master's and doctorate degrees in veterinary medicine (preventive veterinary medicine; hygiene and sanitary inspection of food) from the same institution. He was a visiting researcher at the University of Bath, England, during his Ph.D. He is currently a full professor at the University of Vila Velha (UVV), teaching the subjects of hygiene and inspection of products of animal origin, processing of meat and derivatives, processing of milk and derivatives, veterinary epidemiology and environmental sanitation, and general microbiology. He is also a professor in the postgraduate program in animal science.
Prof. Dr. John Morris Fairbrother was awarded a Bachelor of Veterinary Medicine (BVSc) at the Faculty of Veterinary Sciences at the University of Sydney, Australia. He worked as a veterinarian for five years in Australia before starting his Ph.D. at the College of Veterinary Medicine at Cornell University in the United States. After earning his doctorate in 1981, he joined the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine of the University of Montreal, building a research program on pathogenic mechanisms and the control of E. coli of animal origin. In 2003, he co-founded Prevtec Microbia Inc., a biotech derived from the University of Montreal specializing in the development and commercialization of preventive methods in animal production. In 2006, his laboratory was officially named the World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE) reference laboratory for Escherichia coli, becoming an OIE global expert for E. coli. Presently an adjunct professor in the Department of Pathology and Microbiology at the University of Montreal, he is a member of several research groups, including GREMIP, CRIPA, and GREZOSP, and has served on several selection committees for grants and scientific committees. As part of his mandate as an expert from the OIE, Dr. Fairbrother centralized his activities around diagnosis, epidemic surveillance, research, and development, in addition to developing international collaborations on the characterization and monitoring of E. coli.
