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             Prof. Dr.             Bart C. Weimer
         
 
    
        
             Prof. Dr.             Bart C. Weimer
         
     
    
 
        
        
        
                    
        
        
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        Department of Population Health and Reproduction, School of Veterinary Medicine, University of California, Davis, CA 95616, USA
        Interests: systems biology; microbial physiology during infection; genomics; metagenomics; host/microbiome interactions; antimicrobial resistance; bacterial genomic diversity and evolution        
                                                                                                                
                                    
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             Dr.             Wolf-Rainer Abraham
         
 
    
        
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        Department of Chemical Microbiology, Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research, Braunschweig, Germany
        Interests: biofilms; quorum sensing quenchers; biofilm dispersion; immunomodulators; fungal antimicrobials; bacterial phylogeny        
                                                                                                                
                                    
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             Prof. Dr.             Dev P. Arya
         
 
    
        
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        Laboratory for Bio-Organic and Medicinal Chemistry, Department of Chemistry, Clemson University, Clemson, SC, USA
        Interests: medicinal chemistry; antibacterial drugs; nucleic acid recognition
        
                                                                                                                
                                        
 
  
                            
    
        
                    
        
             Prof. Dr.             Vasco Ariston De Carvalho Azevedo
         
 
    
        
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        Institute of Biological Sciences, Federal University of Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte 31270-901, Brazil
        Interests: bioinformatics; reverse vaccinology; probiotic; immunoinformatics; next generation sequencing data analysis; pan genomics; metagenomics        
                                                                                                                
                                    
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             Dr.             Loredana Baccigalupi
         
 
    
        
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        1. Department of Molecular Medicine and Microbial Biotechnology, University of Naples "Federico II" Via Pansini, 5, 80131 Napoli, Italy
2. Department of Biology, University of Naples "Federico II" Via Cinthia 4, 80134 Napoli, Italy
        Interests: bacillus; spore formers; bacterial spores; recombinant spores; spores as delivery system; probiotics; intestinal microbiota
        
                                                                                                                
                                        
 
  
                            
    
        
                    
        
             Dr.             Rémy A. Bonnin
         
 
    
        
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        Team Resist, UMR-1184 (INSERM—Université Paris-Saclay—CEA), LabEx Lermit, Faculty of Medicine, Le Kremlin-Bicêtre, France
        Interests: genetic; genomics; epidemiology; antibiotic resistance; acinetobacter; enterobacterales; horizontal gene transfer        
                                                                                                                
                                    
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             Dr.             Francesca Bottacini
         
 
    
        
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        Department of Biological Sciences, Munster Technological University, Bishopstown, Cork, Ireland
        Interests: gut microbiota; genomics and ecology of bifidobacteria and lactic acid bacteria; probiotics; food microbiology        
                                                                                                                
                                    
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             Prof. Dr.             Margaret L. Britz
         
 
    
        
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        Tasmanian Institute of Agriculture, University of Tasmania, Hobart, TAS 7005, Australia
        Interests: bacterial response to stress; lactic acid bacteria; degradation of toxic pollutants; Actinobacteria; Corynebacteriales; cell surface biology; probiotics        
                                                                                                                
                                    
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             Dr.             Francesco Broccolo
         
 
    
        
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        Department of Clinical Microbiology and Virology, Di.S.Te.B.A., University of Salento, Via Monteroni, 73100 Lecce, Italy
        Interests: infectious disease (herpesviruses, HPV, SARS-CoV-2, coxsackievirus, monkeypox, sexually transmitted infections); antimicrobial resistance; measures to reduce the risk of contagion in hospital environments; endonasal filters for protection against respiratory infectious agents; microbioma        
                                                                                                                
                                    
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             Dr.             Ludmila Chistoserdova
         
 
    
        
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        Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Washington, Box 355014, Seattle, WA 98195-5014, USA
        Interests: methylotrophy; bacterial physiology; microbial ecology; microbial communities; genomics; metagenomics        
                                                                                                                
                                    
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             Prof. Dr.             Cristina Cruz
        
         
 
    
        
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        Centre for Ecology, Evolution and Environmental Changes—cE3c, Facultad De Ciencias, Universidade de Lisboa, Lisbon, Portugal
        Interests: plant physiology; photosynthesis; salt stress; mycorrhiza; algae
        
                                                                                                                
                                        
 
  
                            
    
        
                    
        
             Prof. Dr.             Daniel H. Fine
         
 
    
        
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        Department of Oral Biology, School of Dental Medicine, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, Newark, NJ 07103, USA
        Interests: microbial genetics; pathogenesis; 
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             Prof. Dr.             Ismail Fliss
         
 
    
        
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        Institute of Nutrition and Functional Foods, Universite Laval, Quebec, QC, Canada
        Interests: lactic acid bacteculture; food microbiology; antimicrobial peptides; bacteriocins; antimicrobial activity; food and animal application        
                                                                                                                
                                    
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             Prof. Dr.             Chris Franco
         
 
    
        
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        Department of Medical Biotechnology, College of Medicine & Public Health, Flinders University, Bedford Park, Adelaide, SA 5042, Australia
        Interests: actinobacteria; endophytes; sponge-associated; antibiotics; sea cucumbers; saponins; microalgae; macroalgae
        
                                                                                                                
                                        
 
  
                            
    
        
                    
        
             Prof. Dr.             Oxana V. Galzitskaya
         
 
    
        
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        1. Institute of Protein Research, Russian Academy of Sciences, 142290 Pushchino, Russia
2. Institute of Theoretical and Experimental Biophysics, Russian Academy of Sciences, 142290 Pushchino, Russia
        
Interests: protein folding; bioinformatics and proteomics; aggregation; Alzheimer’s disease; intrinsically disordered proteins; antibacterial peptides        
                                                                                                                
                                    
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             Prof. Dr.             Anton Hartmann
         
 
    
        
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        Department of Biology, Microbe-Host Interactions, Ludwig-Maximilian-University (LMU), München, Germany
        Interests: molecular microbial ecology; microbe-plant interactions; biological control; molecular signals between microbes and plants; relationships between opportunitistic human and plant pathogens and plant growth promoting bacteria; comparative genome analyses        
                                                                                                                
                                    
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             Dr.             Karsten Hazlett
         
 
    
        
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        Department of Immunology and Microbial Disease, Albany Medical College, Albany, NY 12208, USA
        Interests: tularemia; pathogenesis; vaccines; gram negative bacteria; gene expression; protein expression
        
                                                                                                                
                                        
 
  
                            
    
        
                    
        
             Prof. Dr.             Qiushui He
         
 
    
        
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        Institute of Biomedicine, Research Center for Infections and Immunity, University of Turku, Kiinamyllynkatu 10, 20520 Turku, Finland
        Interests: pertussis; diphtheria; vaccines; clinical immunology; toll-like receptors; antibodies; respiratory microbiome
        
                                                                                                                
                                        
 
  
                            
    
        
                    
        
             Dr.             Colin R. Jackson
         
 
    
        
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        Department of Biology, University of Mississippi, Jackson, MS 38677, USA
        Interests: microbial diversity; microbiomes; phyllosphere microbiology; wetland microbial ecology; bacterial biogeography; microbial community ecology
        
                                                                                                                
                                        
 
  
                            
    
        
                    
        
             Prof. Dr.             Zongchao Jia
         
 
    
        
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        Department of Biomedical and Molecular Sciences, Queen's University, Kingston, ON K7N 3L6, Canada
        Interests: biophysics; X-ray crystallography; protein structure; phosphatases; kinases; bacterial effectors; host-pathogen interactions
        
                                                                                                                
                                        
 
  
                            
    
        
                    
        
             Dr.             Antonietta Maoloni
        
         
 
    
        
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        Dipartimento di Scienze Agrarie, Alimentari e Ambientali, Università Politecnica delle Marche, 60131 Ancona, Italy
        Interests: antibiotic resistance; probiotic; microbiological
        
                                                                                                                
                                        
 
  
                            
    
        
                    
        
             Dr.             Olga Muter
         
 
    
        
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        Faculty of Biology, Department of Microbiology & Biotechnology, University of Latvia, 1 Jelgavas Str., LV-1004 Riga, Latvia
        Interests: air biofiltration; biodegradation; ecotoxicity; microbial ecology; soil remediation; wastewater treatment
        
                                                                                                                
                                        
 
  
                            
    
        
                    
        
        
        
                    
        
        
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        Institute for Translational Research in Inflammation (INFINITE), Lille, France
        Interests: human microbiome; inflammatory bowel disease; natural antimicrobials; antibacterial functionalization of biomaterials; methods to study antimicrobial activities        
                                                                                                                
                                    
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             Dr.             Stephen On
         
 
    
        
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        Faculty of Agriculture and Life Sciences, Department of Wine, Food and Molecular Biosciences, Lincoln University, Canterbury, New Zealand
        Interests: Campylobacter; Arcobacter; Helicobacter; diagnostics (detection and identification); Yersinia; molecular epidemiology
        
                                                                                                                
                                        
 
  
                            
    
        
                    
        
             Prof. Dr.             Roger Pickup
         
 
    
        
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        Division of Biomedical and Life Sciences, Faculty of Health and Medicine, Lancaster University, B078 Furness Building, Lancaster LA1 4YQ, UK
        Interests: Crohn’s disease; paratuberculosis; pathogens; environment        
                                                                                                                
                                    
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             Prof.             Daniel S. Pilch
         
 
    
        
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        Department of Pharmacology, Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, 675 Hoes Lane, Piscataway, NJ 08854-5635, USA
        Interests: antibacterial drug design and development; antibacterial drug resistance; bacterial cell division; prodrugs; fluorescence and electron microscopy; calorimetry
        
                                                                                                                
                                        
 
  
                            
    
        
                    
        
             Dr.             Marat R. Sadykov
         
 
    
        
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        Department of Pathology and Microbiology, University of Nebraska Medical Center, DRCII 7067, 985900 Nebraska Medical Center Omaha, Omaha, NE 68198-5900, USA
        Interests: bacterial biofilm development; bacterial metabolism and physiology; bacterial genetics; restriction-modification (RM) systems; mobile genetic elements
        
                                                                                                                
                                        
 
  
                            
    
        
                    
        
        
        
                    
        
        
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        Plant-Bacteria Interactions Laboratory, Dpto. Microbiología del Suelo y Sistemas Simbióticos, Estación Experimental del Zaidín, CSIC, Prof. Albareda Nº 1, E-18008 Granada, Spain
        Interests: beneficial bacteria-plant interactions        
                                                                                                                
                                    
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             Prof. Dr.             Leonardo A. Sechi
         
 
    
        
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        Department of Biomedical Sciences, University of Sassari, Sassari, Italy
        Interests: microbiology; virology; host–pathogen interactions; autoimmunity; infectious diseases        
                                                                                                                
                                    
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        Microbiology-Department of Medicine. School of Medicine, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Madrid, Spain
        Interests: antibiofilm strategies; antibiotic theraphy in infectious diseases; antimicrobial materials and surfaces; mechanism and Evolution of antibiotic resistance; antibiotic action; novel antimicrobail agents; surgical site infection prevention strategies; in vitro and in vivo experimental models; pharmacokinetic and pharmacodynamic of antibiotics