Topical Advisory Panel

Members

Artificial Intelligence Lab, Department of computer science, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, 1000 Brussels, Belgium
Interests: machine learning; epidemic modelling; prevention strategies
Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering, Sookmyung Women's University, Seoul, Republic of Korea
Interests: systems biology; synthetic biology; virus genomes; virus engineering; virus detection
Department of Food Safety and Infection Biology, Norwegian University of Life Sciences, P. O. Box 8146 Dep, N-0033 Oslo, Norway
Interests: food microbiology; Bacillus cereus/Bacillus licheniformis; enterotoxins; spores; Listeria monocytogenes; Shiga toxin producing E. coli
Univ Lyon, Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1, CNRS, INRAE, VetAgro Sup, UMR Ecologie Microbienne, F-69622 Villeurbanne, France
Interests: fungal ecology; fungal diversity (metataxogenomic and functional diversity); mosquito-microbiota interactions; mycobiota; Asian tiger mosquito
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School of Biotechnology, Jiangnan University, Wuxi 214122, China
Interests: metabolic engineering; synthetic biology; living cell imaging; industrial microorganism
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State Key Laboratory of Conservation and Utilization of Subtropical Agro-Bioresources, South China Agricultural University, Guangzhou 510642, China
Interests: plant biology; plant stress physiology; plant resistance against different stresses; abiotic and biotic stresses; heavy metal stresses; phytohormones; plant autophagy; plant biotechnology; plant genome editing; CRISPR/Cas9; nanoparticles; plant-bacteria interaction
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Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, UMR MNHN-CNRS 7245, 12 rue Buffon, 75231 Paris CEDEX 05, France
Interests: cyanobacteria; cyanotoxins; ecotoxicology; blooms; metabolomics

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1. Nutrição e Metabolismo, Faculdade de Ciências Médicas/NOVA Medical School, Universidade NOVA de Lisboa, Lisboa 1169-056, Portugal
2. CINTESIS-Center for Health Technology Services Research, Faculdade de Ciências Médicas/NOVA Medical School, Universidade NOVA de Lisboa, Lisboa 1169-056, Portugal
Interests: gut microbiota; gut microbiome; diet; Mediterranean diet; functional foods; polyphenols obesity; diabetes; high-fat diet induced obesity; clinical trials; fecal microbiota transplant (FMT)
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School of Biological and Medical Physics, Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology, 141700 Dolgoprudny, Russia
Interests: natural products; antimicrobial drugs development; antibiotic resistance; longevity and aging
1. Santiago de Compostela Health Research Institute (IDIS), Complejo Hospitalario Universitario de Santiago de Compostela (CHUS), Santiago, Spain
2. Galápagos NV, 2800 Mechelen, Belgium
Interests: proteomics; tuberculosis; inflammatory diseases; aging; high throughput analysis; phosphoproteomics
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Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Biosustainability, Technical University of Denmark, 2800 Kgs. Lyngby, Denmark
Interests: systems biology; big -omics data; analytical chemistry; adaptive laboratory evolution (ALE); machine learning; mechanistic modeling; laboratory automation

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SynthSys & Institute of Molecular Plant Sciences, School of Biological Sciences, University of Edinburgh, King's Buildings, Edinburgh EH9 3BF, UK
Interests: cyanobacteria; photosynthesis; synthetic biology
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1. Laboratory of Microbiology Signals and Microenvironment (LMSM EA 4312), University of Rouen Normandy, F-27000 Evreux, France
2. Research Federations NORVEGE Fed4277 & NORSEVE, Normandy University, F-76821 Mont-Saint-Aignan, France
Interests: epigenetics; adaptation; pathogens; cytotoxicity; bacterial secretion systems; Pseudomonas fluorescens
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Unit of Nutritional Physiology, Department of Biomedical Sciences, University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna, 1210 Vienna, Austria
Interests: gut microbiota; maturation; gut physiology; gut health; diet–gut microbiota–host interactions; livestock animals
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UMR ASTRE CIRAD-INRAE, Centre for Research and surveillance on Vector-borne diseases in the Caribbean, Domaine de Duclos, Prise d’eau, 97170 Petit Bourg, Guadeloupe, France
Interests: secretion systems; effectors; intracellular bacteria; interaction
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First Department of Paediatrics, Infectious Diseases and Chemotherapy Research Laboratory, Medical School, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, “Aghia Sophia” Children’s Hospital, 11527 Athens, Greece
Interests: pediatric infectious diseases; molecular microbiology; diagnostics; immunology and pathogenesis of infectious diseases; vaccines
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Department of Biotechnology and Life Science, Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology, Koganei, Japan
Interests: enzyme/microbe screening techniques; microbial diversity; seaweed degrading microbes; depolymerizing enzymes; metabolic pathways; genetic variance
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Departments of Pathology & Immunology and Internal medicine, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX 77030, USA
Interests: clinical molecular diagnostics and translational medicine; sexually transmitted infections; mycoplasma; HIV/AIDS pathogenesis, diagnostics, and drug resistance; opportunistic infections; necrotizing fasciitis & soft tissue infections; respiratory infections
Department of Food, Environmental and Nutritional Sciences, Università degli Studi di Milano, Via Celoria 2, 20133 Milano, Italy
Interests: industrial fermentations; Zymomonas; Saccharomyces cerevisiae; bacteriocins; natural antimicrobials; food shelf-life; dough leavening; fungal metabolites
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iBET, Instituto de Biologia Experimental e Tecnológica, Oeiras, Portugal
Interests: plant-growth-promoting bacteria; plant-microbe interactions; microbial biotechnology; microbial ecology; genomics
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1. Department of Infection, Immunity and Inflammation, University of Leicester, Leicester, UK
2. Department of Molecular and Cellular Bioscience, University of Leicester, Leicester, UK
Interests: Mycobacterium tuberculosis; actinobacteria; protein kinase; structural biology; central metabolism; antibiotic biosynthesis

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Department of Food Technology, School of Agricultural Technology and Food Technology and Nutrition, Technological Educational Institute of Peloponnese, Peloponnese, Greece
Interests: dairy microbiology and technology; fermented foods; food metagenomics; physiology and genetics of lactic acid bacteria; microbial genomics
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Department of Microbiology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Thessaly, Larissa, Greece
Interests: antimicrobial resistance; resistance mechanisms; carbapenemase; mobile genetic elements (MGEs); whole-genome sequencing (WGS)
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i3S - Instituto de Investigação e Inovação em Saúde, Universidade do Porto, Porto, Portugal
Interests: yeast genetics; mitochondrial biology; OXPHOS; cell signalling; cell death; aging; drug screening

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Faculty of Health Sciences, Calisia University, 62-800 Kalisz, Poland
Interests: probiotics; gut microbiota; antimicrobial activity; pathogen overgrowth; Clostridium infections
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Microbial Resource Management, Institute of Microbiology, University of Innsbruck, Innrain 52, 6020 Innsbruck, Austria
Interests: anaerobic fungi; soil; biogas; environmental microbiology; microbial diversity; molecular microbial ecology; water quality
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Department of Biosystems Engineering, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ 85721‑0038, USA
Interests: metagenomics; phage-host interactions; mobilome; gut microbiome
Aquatic Ecology Group, Department of Architecture, Design and Urban Planning, University of Sassari, 07100 Sassari, Italy
Interests: phytoplankton; morpho-functional traits; environmental changes; phytoplankton-zooplankton interactions; intraspecific variability
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Department of Medicine, Karolinska Institutet, BioClinicum:J5:30, Akademiska Stråket 1, Karolinska Institutet, 17164 Solna, Sweden
Interests: immunology; infection; cytomegalovirus; human cytomegalovirus; oncogene viruses in cancer
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