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Instituto de Investigação e Inovação em Saúde (i3S), Universidade do Porto, Porto, Portugal
Interests: antimicrobial peptides; hepcidin; antibiotic resistance; iron metabolism; iron overload; anemia; erythropoiesis; innate immunity; fish immunology; bacterial, viral and parasitic diseases
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Paul G. Allen School for Global Animal Health, Washington State University, Pullman, WA 99164, USA
Interests: antibiotic use; antibiotic resistance; low- and middle income countries; sub-saharan africa; informal settlements; community research; hospital research; epidemiology; public health
Structural Biology Research Center, Institute of Materials Structure Science, KEK/High Energy Accelerator Research Organization, Tsukuba, Japan
Interests: protein structure; membrane protein; transporter; X-ray crystallography

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Centro Interdisciplinar de Investigação Marinha e Ambiental (CIIMAR), Universidade do Porto, 4099-002 Porto, Portugal
Interests: bioinformatics; cheminformatics; algortihm development; comparative and functional genomics; biotechnology and peptide drugs search and design
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i3S - Instituto de Investigação e Inovação em Saúde, Universidade do Porto, 4200-135 Porto, Portugal
Interests: health sciences; clinical, environmental and food microbiology; one health; food safety; pathogens and opportunistic bacteria; molecular epidemiology; resistance to antibiotics; tolerance to metals and biocides; mobile genetic elements; bacterial typing methods (conventional and high-throughput methodologies); human microbiome; chronic kidney disease; infection and systemic inflammation
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College of Pharmacy, Graduate School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Ewha Womans University Seoul 03760, Korea
Interests: MRSA; bacterial persisters; antibiotic development; host-pathogen interaction; high-throughput screening

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Department of Microbiology, Medical School, AHEPA University Hospital, S. Kiriakidi 1, 546 36 Thessaloniki, Greece
Interests: antimicrobial resistance; carbapenemase producing bacteria; multidrug resistant bacteria; surveillance of antimicrobial resistance; Acinetobacter baumannii infections; Klebsiella pneumoniae infections
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Department of Medicine II, Liver Center Munich, University Hospital, LMU Munich, 81377 Munich, Germany
Interests: antimicrobial resistances; bacterial pathogenesis; non-antimicrobial approaches; bacterial infections and liver dieseases; macrophages and phagocytosis.

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University of Florida College of Medicine, Department of Health Outcomes and Biomedical Informatics, Gainesville, FL, USA
Interests: breastfeeding; electronic health records; biomedical informatics; pediatric obesity; multi-omics
Department of Medicine and Surgery, Laboratory of Microbiology and Virology, University of Parma, Parma, Italy
Interests: antimicrobial peptides; serum protein-derived peptides; infectious diseases; anti-infective peptides; anti-biofilm peptides; structure-function relationship of AMP
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Centre for Medical Education, Cardiff University, Cardiff, UK
Interests: primary care; respiratory tract infection; antibiotic prescribing; antimicrobial stewardship; antimicrobial resistance

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International Iberian Nanotechnology Laboratory, Braga, Portugal
Interests: bacteriophages; bacteriophage proteins; bacterial infections; diagnostic tools for bacterial infections; lab-on-chip devices
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Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
Interests: AHR; innate immunity; host-pathogen interactions; host directed therapy
Dipartimento di Scienze Biotecnologiche di Base, Cliniche Intensivologicheicatt.it e Perioperatorie, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Rome, Italy
Interests: microbiology; micology; virology; graphene; endodontic infections

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University of Oviedo, Oviedo, Asturias, Spain
Interests: streptomyces; secondary metabolites; development; antibiotics; biotechnology; microbiology
Institute of Nutraceuticals and Functional Foods (INAF), Laval University, Quebec, QC, Canada
Interests: antibiotics; antibio-resistance; alternatives to antibiotics; extended-spectrum beta-lactamases (ESBL); enterobacteria; pathogenic bacteria; bacteriocins; antimicrobial compounds; probiotics; food microbiology; food safety
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Institute for Animal and Environmental Health, Centre for Infection Medicine, Department of Veterinary Medicine, Freie Universität Berlin, Berlin, Germany
Interests: antimicrobial resistance mechanisms; bacterial stress response; resistance evolution; persisters; horizontal gene transfer; cross-resistance; antimicrobial peptides; biocides; bacteriophages; drug interactions; evolutionary microbiology; systems microbiology; One Health
Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Teikyo University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan
Interests: antibiotics; antimicrobial agents; antibiotic resistance; antimicrobial resistance; chemotherapy; bacterial genetics; bacterial genomics; bacterial pathogenesis; bacteriology; biochemistry and molecular biology; genetics and genomics; immunology; infectious diseases; lactic acid bacteria; medical microbiology; molecular microbiology; microbiology

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Institute of Biomembranes, Bioenergetics and Molecular Biotechnologies (IBIOM) of National Research Council of Italy, Bari, Italy
Interests: microbiota; probiotics; prebiotics; nutrition; metabolism
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Dipartimento di Scienze Biomediche e Biotecnologiche, Università degli Studi di Catania, Torre Biologica via S. Sofia, 97, 95123 Catania, Italy
Interests: polyetheresulfone; ZnO; chemical bath deposition; electrospun mats; antibacterial action
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Department of Pharmacy, University of Huddersfield, Huddersfield, West Yorkshire, UK
Interests: antimicrobial stewardship
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Department of Medicine and Health Sciences, University of Molise, Campobasso, Italy
Interests: epidemiology; infectious diseases; antimicrobial resistance; antibiotics resistance determinants; healthcare infections; hygiene; infection prevention and control; surveillance; biostatistics; public health interventions
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Faculté des Sciences et Technologies, UMR 8576 CNRS, Unité de Glycobiologie Structurale et Fonctionnelle, Cité Scientifique - Bât. C9, 59655 Villeneuve d'Ascq, France
Interests: lipidomic; glycomic; bacterial motility; adhesins
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Department of Biological Sciences, Faculty of Science, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB T2N 1N4, Canada
Interests: antimicrobial resistance; biofilm; host-pathogens interactions; molecular microbiology, metal-based antimicrobials; wound infection; wound healing; bacterial omics
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Department of Infectious Disease, MRC Centre for Molecular Bacteriology and Infection, Imperial College London, London, UK
Interests: bacteriophages; plasmids; mobile genetic elements; phage taxonomy and phylogeny; microbial and phage genomics; microbial signalling nucleotides; antimicrobial resistance; gram positive bacteria; foodborne and plant bacterial pathogens; biological control

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Biodiversity and Epidemiology of Bacterial Pathogens, Institut Pasteur, Paris, France
Interests: enterobacteriaceae; Klebsiella pneumoniae; antimicrobial resistance; virulence; population structure; epidemiology and surveillance; bioinformatics; antibiotics; evolution; transmission; One Health

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1. School of Medicine, Division of Social Medicine, University of Crete, Crete, Greece
2. School of Health and Related Research, Section of Public Health, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, UK
Interests: medical statistics; epidemiological methods; healthcare epidemiology; infection control; antimicrobial resistance; infectious disease surveillance; public health
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Dermatological Clinic- Department of Clinical and Molecular Sciences, Polytechnic University of the Marche Region, Ancona, Italy
Interests: antibiotic resistance; antimicrobial peptides; quorum sensing inhibitor; infected wounds; wound healing; biofilm; Staphylococcal infections
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School of Health Science, College of Health, Massey University, Wellington, New Zealand
Interests: heavy metal resistance; antibiotic resistances; genetics of antimicrobial resistance
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Department of Medical and Clinical Microbiology, Pavol Jozef Šafárik University in Košice Faculty of Medicine, Kosice, Slovakia
Interests: antibiotic resistance; gramnegative bacteria; nosocomial infections
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