Topical Advisory Panel

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Comparative Biology and Experimental Medicine Former Research Associate, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB T2N 1N4, Canada
Interests: prion diseases; prions; prion-infected cells; animal model; autophagy

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Swine and Poultry Infectious Diseases Research Center (CRIPA), Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, University of Montreal, Saint-Hyacinthe, QС J2S 2M2, Canada
Interests: porcine viruses; coronaviruses; vaccines; PEDV; PRRSC; mink viruses; antivirals
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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

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Team Systemic Autoimmune Diseases, CNRS UMR 5164 - University of Bordeaux, 33076 Bordeaux, France
Interests: host-pathogen interaction; airway remodeling; innate immunity; systemic sclerosis
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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Unit of viral genetics, Department of Animal health,Istituto Zooprofilattico Sperimentale del Mezzogiorno, Portici, Naples, Italy
Interests: virology; animal genetics; molecular biology; food safety; enteric viruses

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Institute of Virology, University Hospital Essen, Essen, Germany
Interests: hepatitis B virus; HDV coinfection; viral reactivation; viral variability; acute liver failure
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Clinical Cooperation Unit Virotherapy, German Cancer Research Center, Im Neuenheimer Feld 242, 69120 Heidelberg, Germany
Interests: parvoviruses; oncolytic viruses; cancer; cancer virotherapy; cancer viroimmunotherapy
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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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Department of Entomology, Fralin Life Science Institute, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, VA 24061, USA
Interests: arboviral epidemiology; mosquito surveillance; sero-surveillance; molecular biology; molecular genetics; arbovirology; phylogenetic analyses
Institut für Virologie, Zentrum für Infektionsmedizin, Freie Universität Berlin, Berlin, Germany
Interests: herpesviruses; virus; herpesvirus–cell interactions; entry; cell-to-cell spread; immune evasion; in vitro models; pathogenesis
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Department of Infectious Diseases, College of Veterinary Medicine, University of Georgia, Athens, GA 30602, USA
Interests: RNA viruses; micro RNAs; exosomes; biomarkers
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Department of Epizootiology, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, University of Warmia and Mazury in Olsztyn, Oczapowski Street 13, 10-719 Olsztyn, Poland
Interests: infectious diseases of farm animals; zoonoses; microbiology and molecular epidemiology
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Department of Veterinary Sciences, University of Wyoming, 1174 Snowy Range Road, Laramie, WY 82070, USA
Interests: internal parasites of zoonotic relevance or with importance for production animals and wildlife; experimental and epidemiological studies into Apicomplexan parasites; ruminant and avian Eimeria species; Toxoplasma gondii; Cryptosporidium; gastrointestinal roundworms in domestic and wild ruminants
Department of Pediatrics, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, TX, USA
Interests: molecular mechanisms underlying the pathogenesis and host immune responses associated with RSV and hMPV infections; respiratory tract infections; antiviral pathways; viral evasion mechanisms; sncRNAs
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Associate Professor, Department of Agricultural, Food and Environmental Sciences, University of Perugia, Borgo XX Giugno 74, 06121 Perugia, Italy
Interests: fungi; Fusarium; mycotoxins; cereals; Fusarium head blight; wheat; barley; qPCR
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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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The Interuniversity Messerli Research Institute of the University of Veterinary Medicine, Medical University of Vienna and University of Vienna, Veterinaerplatz 1, 1210 Vienna, Austria
Interests: recombinant antibody; comparative immunology; immunotherapy; cancer; allergy; comparative oncology

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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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Department of Anesthesiology, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN 37232-2520, USA
Interests: innate immunity; immunometabolism; macrophages; neutrophils; monocytes; trauma; sepsis; toll-like receptors; immunosuppression; nosocomial infection; immune signaling; trained immunity

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Centro Interdisciplinar de Investigação Marinha e Ambiental (CIIMAR), University of Porto, Avenida General Norton de Matos, S/N, 4450-208 Matosinhos, Portugal
Interests: marine invertebrate pathology; immune response; bivalves, mollusc host-parasite interactions; development of biomarkers for disease resistance in marine organisms

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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
Department of Biologic Sciences, University of Alaska Anchorage, Anchorage, AK, USA
Interests: emerging viruses; pathogenic avian influenza A (HPAI) viruses; H5N1; HPAI viral polymerase complex; viral RNA; influenza, HIV, and human infections
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School of Science, Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology University, PO Box 71, Bundoora Victoria 3083, Australia
Interests: aquatic animal health; molecular diagnostics; blood flukes; trematodes; scuticociliates
Laboratory of Pathology, School of Veterinary Medicine, Faculty of Health Sciences, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, 54627 Thessaloniki, Greece
Interests: involve pathology (gross, histopathology and immunohistochemistry) related to: aging brain, neurodegeneration (Scrapie); domestic animal infectious and parasitic diseases (e.g. SRLVs, PRRSV, Mycoplasma hyopneumoniae, Toxoplasmosis, Leishmaniasis), IBD's
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United States Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases, Frederick, MD 21702, USA
Interests: hantavirus disease; virology; animal models; infectious diseases; vaccines; therapeutics

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Virology, Amiens University Medical Center, Universite de Picardie Jules Verne (UPJV), Amiens, France
Interests: hepatitis C virus; hepatitis E virus

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School of Health Sciences, Massey University, Auckland 0632, New Zealand
Interests: molecular diagnostics; infectious disease; sexually transmitted infections; viral haemorrhagic fevers; point of care diagnostics; human papillomavirus; cervical cancer screening; capacity building; antimicrobial stewardship
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National Reference Centre for Herpesviruses - Associated laboratory, GHU AP-HP.Sorbonne Université, Virology Department, Pitié-Salpêtrière Hospital, Sorbonne Université, Inserm UMR_S1136, 75013 Paris, France
Interests: virology; herpesviruses; genetic diversity; antiviral resistance; viral pathogenesis
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