
National Chung Hsing University, Taichung 402202, Taiwan.
Research Interests: emerging infectious diseases; novel microbes discovery; microbial genomics.
Email: pcywoo@hku.hk

Department of Pathology and Immunology, University of Geneva, CH1201 Geneva, Switzerland.
Research Interests: serine proteases and extracellular proteolysis; inhibitors of serine proteases (SERPINs); protein translocation across membranes; genetics of bacteria and phages.
Email: dominique.belin@unige.ch

Prof. Dr. Natália Cruz-Martins
Faculty of Medicine, University of Porto, 4099-002 Porto, Portugal.
Research Interests: evidence-based medicine; phytochemistry; phytopharmacology; drug discovery; natural products biochemistry; bioactive molecules; functional foods; nutraceuticals; fungal and bacterial infections; resistance to antimicrobials.
Email: ncmartins@med.up.pt

Department of Biology, University of Florence, 50019 Sesto Fiorentino, Italy.
Research Interests: antibiotic resistance; bacterial genetics; endophytes; environmental microbiology; gene and genome evolution; molecular evolution.
Email: renato.fani@unifi.it

National Center of Biotechnology (CNB-CSIC), Campus Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, 28049 Madrid, Spain.
Research Interests: coronavirus; virus-host interactions; innate immune response; non-coding RNAs; microRNAs; pulmonary inflammation; viral replication; viral pathogenesis.
Email: isola@cnb.csic.es

Departments of Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, University of Helsinki, 00100 Helsinki, Finland.
Research Interests: epidemiology, diagnostics, and genetics of psyhrotrophic and spore-forming bacteria; Clostridium botulinum; Clostridium perfringens; Listeria monocytogenes; Yersinia enterocolitica; Yersinia pseudotuberculosis; mechanism of psyhrotrophy.
Email: hannu.korkeala@helsinki.fi

Department of Medicine, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, NC 27710, USA.
Research Interests: HIV-associated fungal infection; talaromycosis; mycology.
Email: thuy.le@duke.edu

Department of Biology, Texas A&M University, TX, USA.
Research Interests: coronavirus, arenavirus, and influenzavirus particles; virion proteins; RNA viruses; vaccine-resistant viral strains; phage therapy.
Email: bneuman@tamu.edu

Department of Microbiology, Faculty of Medicine, Chiang Mai University, Chiang Mai 50200, Thailand.
Research Interests: genes involved in virulence; Talaromyces marneffei; antifungal peptides.
Email: monsicha.p@cmu.ac.th

Department of Biology, University of Padua, Padova, Italy.
Research Interests: bacterial genetics and global regulation of gene expression.
Email: roberta.provvedi@unipd.it

Department of Health Sciences, University of Piemonte Orientale “UPO”, Vercelli, Italy.
Research Interests: biomaterials; dental materials; tissue regeneration; tissue engineering; oral medicine; bacterial biofilm; anti-infective technologies.
Email: lia.rimondini@med.uniupo.it

Institute of Neurophysiopathology (INP), Aix-Marseille University, Faculté des Sciences Médicales et Paramédicales, 13005 Marseille, France.
Research Interests: antimicrobial peptides; antibacterial; antibiotics; structure-activity relationships; bacteriocins; drug design; peptide engineering.
Email: sabatier.jm1@libertysurf.fr

Department of Microbiology, School of Clinical Medicine, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China.
Research Interests: clinical microbiology and infection; hepatitis E.
Email: sid8998@hku.hk

Faculty of Dentistry, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, China.
Research Interests: oral microbiology and infection; emerging infectious diseases; novel microbe discovery; microbiome; antimicrobial resistance.
Email: llteng@hku.hk

Department of Hematology, Oncology, and Infectious Diseases, Faculty of Medicine, Fukuoka University, Fukuoka 814-0180, Japan.
Research Interests: travel medicine; clinical infectious diseases; biofilm infection; Klebsiella pneumoniae.
Email: atogawa@fukuoka-u.ac.jp

Department of Biomedical Sciences, University of Sassari, Sassari, Italy.
Research Interests: bacterial pathogenesis; gut microbiota; metaproteomics; metagenomics; clinical microbiology.
Email: uzzau@uniss.it
Department of Clinical Microbiology and Infection Control, The University of Hong Kong-Shenzhen Hospital, Shenzhen, Guangdong, China.
Research Interests: parasitic diseases; pulmonary tuberculosis; viral hepatitis; fungal infection; central nervous system infection.
Email: xingff@hku-szh.org