Topical Advisory Panel for section 'Bacterial Pathogens'

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Members

CIISA – Centro de Investigação Interdisciplinar em Sanidade Animal, Faculdade de Medicina Veterinária, Universidade de Lisboa, Avenida da Universidade Técnica, 1300-477 Lisboa, Portugal
Interests: bacterial pathogens; infectious diseases models; host-pathogen interaction; vaccine and therapeutic development; targeted drug delivery; immunotherapies
Department of Genetics, Physiology and Microbiology, Complutense University of Madrid, Madrid, Spain
Interests: microbial responses to stress; persistence and survival of pathogens in the environment; role of protists in the ecology and evolution of bacterial pathogens; stress responses and virulence
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Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, Ottawa, ON, Canada
Interests: antimicrobial resistance in food pathogens, and commensal bacteria; molecular aspects of antimicrobial resistance; food microbiology; pathogens including: Salmonella, pathogenic E. coli, entrococci, campylobacter

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1. Institute of Food Safety, Animal Health and Environment “BIOR", Riga, Latvia
2. Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Latvia University of Life Sciences and Technologies, Jelgava, Latvia
Interests: molecular epidemiology of water- and foodborne pathogens; Listeria; Yersinia; Salmonella; Campylobacter; Legionella; antimicrobial resistance
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Laboratory of Pathogen Host Interactions, University of Montpellier, 34095 Montpellier, France
Interests: bacterial pathogenesis (Pseudomonas, Salmonella, Mycobacteria); host-pathogen interaction (macrophages and non-mammalian animal models); antivirulence strategies

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National Reference Laboratory for Sexually Transmitted Infection, Department of Infectious Diseases, National Institute of Health, Avenida Padre Cruz, 1649-016 Lisbon, Portugal
Interests: curable sexually transmitted infections (STI), i.e. Chlamydia trachomatis, Neisseria gonorrhoeae and Treponema pallidum, genomic basis for ecological success and pathogenesis; molecular/genomic epidemiological surveillance and the genomic basis for antimicrobial resistance among curable STI are also utmost themes

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Division of Periodontology, Diagnostic Sciences and Dental Hygiene, Herman Ostrow School of Dentistry of USC, Los Angeles, CA, USA
Interests: microbial diagnosis, genomics and metagenomics of periodontal bacteria, microbial markers for periodontitis, virulence determinants of periodontal pathogens, and clinical periodontics
College of Bioresources, Department Biotechnology & Animal Science, National Ilan University, Yilan City 26047, Taiwan
Interests: antimicrobial peptides (AMPs); host-defense peptides (HDPs); multi-drug resistance (MDR); proteomics; domestic animal pathogens

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Department of Biological Sciences, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Canada
Interests: bacterial pathogenesis; bacterial genetics; phage therapy
1. Department of Biomedical Sciences, University of Sassari, 07100 Sassari, Italy
2. Hospital Pharmacy, Azienda Ospedaliero Universitaria di Sassari, 07100 Sassari, Italy
Interests: antimicrobial resistance in nosocomial clinical microorganisms; infection; antimicrobial activity; essential oils; biofilm; biomaterials; ocular infections; orthopeadics infections
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School of Veterinary Medicine and Science, University of Nottingham, Nottingham, UK
Interests: host/pathogen dynamics in bacterial infections; vaccine development; Streptococcus suis infections; pathogenesis of bovine mastitis; Streptococcus uberis; Streptococcus agalaciae

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Department of Molecular Medicine and Medical Biotechnology, University of Naples Federico II, 80131 Naples, Italy
Interests: antimicrobial agent; antibiofilm agent; anti-virulence agent; biofilm protein; small non-coding bacterial RNA; bacterial repeat proteins; Acinetobacter baumannii pathogenesis; Staphylococcus aureus pathogenesis
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Department of Pathology, NYMC, New York Medical College, New York, NY, USA
Interests: next generation sequencing; bacterial genomics; cancer genomics bioinformatics
Medical Microbiology and Immunology, College of Medicine and Life Sciences, The University of Toledo, Toledo, OH 43606, USA
Interests: host-pathogen interactions; bacterial pathogenesis; outer membrane proteins; tick-borne disease; biodefense; vaccine development
National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), Laboratory of Immune System Biology, Bethesda, MD 20892, USA
Interests: bacterial pathogens; infectious diseases models; host-pathogen interaction; vaccine and therapeutic development; targeted drug delivery; immunotherapies

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Department of Medical Microbiology, Poznań University of Medical Sciences, Wieniawskiego 3, 61-712 Poznań, Poland
Interests: antimicrobial; anitvirus compound
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Department of Biology, Barnard University, New York, NY 11004, USA
Interests: antibiotic resistance; microbial evolution; bacterial metabolism; horizontal gene transfer; plasmid conjugation; mathematical modeling

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School of Animal and Veterinary Sciences, University of Adelaide, Adelaide, SA 5005, Australia
Interests: Salmonella; Campylobacter; food microbiology; poultry; avian diseases; zoonoses; host-pathogen interactions; bacterial metabolism
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Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Eastern Piedmont, Novara, Italy
Interests: biochemistry; structural biology; M. tuberculosis; DNA repair mechanisms
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Microbiology, Biochemistry & Immunology, Morehouse School of Medicine, Atlanta, GA 30310, USA
Interests: chlamydia pathogenesis; infectious disease pathogenesis
Department of Microbiology, Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics, Rutgers New Jersey Medical School, Newark, NJ, USA
Interests: Lyme disease spirochete; Borrelia burgdorferi; syphilis; Pseudomonas aeruginosa

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Institute of Biotechnology, Life Sciences Center, Vilnius University, 10257 Vilnius, Lithuania
Interests: human vaginal microbiota; bacteria Gardnerella; cholesterol-dependent cytolysins; bacterial virulence
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Microbiology and Food Safety Group, School of Biosciences, University of Nottingham, Sutton Bonington, Leicestershire LE12 5RD, UK
Interests: bacterial genetics and molecular biology; applied microbiology and the food industry; analysis of gene expression and use of reporter genes; bacteriophage
Veterinary Medical Research Institute for Piedmont, Liguria and the Aosta Valley, 10154 Turin, Italy
Interests: whole genome sequencing; molecular typing; food-borne pathogens; food-borne outbreak; Staphylococcus aureus; Enterotoxigenic bacteria
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Department of Nursing and Health Sciences, University of New Brunswick, Saint John, NB E2L 4L5, Canada
Interests: infectious diseases; mycobacteria; M. tuberculosis complex; latent tuberculosis infection; nontuberculous mycobacteria; epidemiology; genotyping, diagnostics and drug resistance
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Division of Microbiology, Department of Biology, Friedrich Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg, 91058 Erlangen, Germany
Interests: antimicrobial resistance; bacterial biofilms; cytoskeleton; helicobacter; host-pathogen interactions; novel antimicrobial agents; serine proteases; signal transduction; tight junctions
Department of Biomedical, Surgical and Dental Sciences, University of Milan, 20133 Milan, Italy
Interests: Study of the effects of drugs on the internalization process of Helicobacter pylori; molecular studies of resistance to antimicrobial agents; effect of new molecules against H. pylori in sessile and planktonic form; pathogenicity of H. pylori; antimicrobial susceptibility testing of H. pylori to new synthetized drugs.
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Division of Microbiology, National Center for Toxicological Research, Food and Drug Administration, Jefferson, AR, USA
Interests: biofilm; antimicrobial resistance; food safety
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