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Prof. Dr. Olivier A. E. Sparagano

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Department of Public Health and Infectious Diseases, Jockey Club College of Veterinary Medicine and Life Sciences, City University of Hong Kong, Kowloon Tong, Hong Kong, China
Interests: vector-borne diseases; animal parasitology; one health; vaccine development; molecular diagnostic; prevention and treatment; poultry diseases; pathogens
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Dr. Peter Speck

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College of Science and Engineering, Flinders University, Bedford Park, SA 5042, Australia
Interests: herpes viruses; bacteriophages

Prof. Dr. Barbara Spellerberg

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Institute of Medical Microbiology and Hygiene, University Hospital Ulm, 89081 Ulm, Germany
Interests: pathogenicity mechanisms; streptococci; antimicrobial peptides

Prof. Dr. Adrie J.C. Steyn

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1. Department of Microbiology, School of Medicine, The University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL 35294, USA
2. Africa Health Research Institute, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban 4001, South Africa
Interests: Mtb bioenergetics; energy metabolism; immunometabolism; human TB pathogenesis; host gasotransmitters
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Prof. Dr. Tatsuo Suzutani

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Department of Microbiology, Fukushima Medical University School of Medicine, 1 Hikarigaoka, Fukushima 960-1295, Japan
Interests: molecular biology; infection biology and antivirals of herpes simplex virus; varicella-zoster virus and cytomegalovirus

Dr. Michelle Tate

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Hudson Institute of Medical Research, Centre for Innate Immunity and Infectious Diseases, Clayton, Victoria 3168, Australia
Interests: influenza virus; innate immunity; immunopathology

Prof. Dr. Nigel Temperton

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Viral Pseudotype Unit, Medway School of Pharmacy, University of Kent, Kent ME4 4TB, UK
Interests: emerging viruses; viral pseudotyping; neutralisation assays; serology
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Dr. Justin Thornton

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Department of Biological Sciences, Mississippi State University, Mississippi State, MS 39762, USA
Interests: Streptococcus pneumoniae

Dr. Vjekoslav Tomaić

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Division of Molecular Medicine, Ruđer Bošković Institute, 10000 Zagreb, Croatia
Interests: human papillomaviruses; DNA tumor viruses; oncoproteins and tumor suppressors; ubiquitin and proteasome; cancer; cervical cancer; cell polarity
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Prof. Dr. Francesca J. Torriani

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School of Medicine, University of California, San Diego, CA 92093, USA
Interests: hepatitis C infection; hepatitis B infection; HIV; healthcare associated infections; infectious diseases
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Dr. Stephen Tristram

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Laboratory Medicine, School of Health Sciences, University of Tasmania, Tasmania 7250, Australia
Interests: respiratory pathogens – particularly Haemophilus influenzae; antibiotic resistance – particularly when associated with B-lactamases or altered penicillin binding proteins; natural transfer and dissemination of antibiotic resistance genes

Dr. Silvia M. Uriarte

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Department of Surgery, University of Louisville, Baxter I Bldg., Room 221F, 570 South Preston St., Louisville, KY 40202, USA
Interests: neutrophil effector functions; oral pathogens; periodontitis; innate immunity; innate immune evasion strategies by oral pathogens

Dr. Eeva Vainio

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Natural Resources Institute Finland (Luke), Natural Resources Unit, Forest Health and Biodiversity, Latokartanonkaari 9, 00790 Helsinki, Finland
Interests: ecology of forest fungi and their viruses
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Dr. Magriet van der Nest

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Department of Biochemistry, Genetics and Microbiology, Forestry and Agricultural Biotechnology Institute (FABI), University of Pretoria, Pretoria, South Africa
Interests: Fusarium; filamentous ascomycete fungi

Dr. Vijayakumar Velu

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Emory Vaccine Center, Yerkes National Primate Research Center, Emory University, Atlanta, GA, USA
Interests: HIV; SIV; tuberculosis; viral hepatitis; vaccine; immunology; pathogenesis
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Prof. Dr. Ramesh Vemulapalli

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School of Veterinary Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, USA
Interests: brucellosis; Brucella; vaccines; zoonotic diseases; molecular diagnostics
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Prof. Dr. Olivier Verneau

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Cefrem, Université de Perpignan, 52 Avenue Paul Alduy, 66860 Perpignan Cedex, France
Interests: parasites as markers of host evolutionary history

Dr. Fabrizia Veronesi

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Department of Veterinary Medicine, University of Perugia, Perugia, Italy
Interests: food-borne zoonotic pathogens; water-borne zoonotic pathogens; vector-borne pathogens of domestic and wild-life animals; lungworms of companion animals; enteric protozoan parasites of small animals and ruminants
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Dr. Anna Maria Vettraino

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Department for Innovation in Biological, Agro‐food and Forest systems (DIBAF), University of Tuscia, Viterbo, Italy
Interests: plant pathology; disease epidemiology; detection; management strategies
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Prof. Dr. Fernando Villalta

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School of Medicine, The City University of New York, New York, NY 10031, USA
Interests: Chagas disease; host–pathogen interactions; immunity; drug and vaccine discovery
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Prof. Dr. Jun Wang

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Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Dalhousie University, Canadian Center for Vaccinology, IWK Health Centre Halifax, Halifax, NS, Canada
Interests: chlamydial; cellular immunology; B cells; inflammation; IL-17; vaccinology; tumour immunology
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Dr. Angus C. Wilson

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Department of Microbiology, New York University, School of Medicine, New York, NY 10016, USA
Interests: mechanisms of herpesvirus latency and reactivation; control of viral gene expression; virus-host interactions
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Prof. Dr. Charles Wondji

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1. Department of Vector Biology, Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, Pembroke Place L3 5QA, Liverpool, UK
2. Centre for Research in Infectious Diseases (CRID), Yaoundé, Cameroon
Interests: tropical diseases such as Malaria, Lymphatic Filariasis and Dengue; mosquitoes; malaria vectors; dengue vectors Aedes aegypti and Ae albopictus; the Lymphatic filariasis vector Culex quinquefasciatus
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Prof. Dr. Zongfu Wu

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College of Veterinary Medicine, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing 210014, China
Interests: Streptococcus suis; Streptococcus pasteurianus; bacterial pathogenesis; bacterial RNA regulation; bacterial molecular epidemiology; antibiotic resistance; vaccines
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Dr. Pengyan Xia

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School of Basic Medicine, Peking University, Beijing 100191, China
Interests: innate immunity; pattern recognition

Prof. Dr. Youhua Xie

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Key Laboratory of Medical Molecular Virology, Department of Medical Microbiology and Parasitology, School of Basic Medical Sciences, Shanghai Medical College, Fudan University, Shanghai, China
Interests: pathogenesis of hepatitis B virus; antiviral research

Prof. Dr. George S. Yap

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Department of Medicine, New Jersey Medical School, Rutgers University, Newark, NJ 07101, USA
Interests: cellular microbiology; immunology; infectious disease; signal transduction

Prof. Dr. Tai Soon Yong

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Department of Environmental Medical Biology, Institute of Tropical Medicine, College of Medicine, Yonsei University, Seoul 03722, Republic of Korea
Interests: parasitology (epidemiology, immunology, molecular biology); tropical medicine; allergy; laboratory research; clinical

Prof. Dr. Nobuko Yoshida

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Departamento de Microbiologia, Imunologia e Parasitologia, Escola Paulista de Medicina, Universidade Federal de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil
Interests: parasite-host cell interaction; cellular and molecular mechanisms involved in protozoan parasite invasion of mammalian cells

Dr. Jianxin You

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Department of Microbiology, University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA, USA
Interests: cancer immunotherapy; oncogenic virus-driven tumorigenesis; DNA tumor viruses; tumor virology

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