**About the Editors**

**Sergio Costa Oliveira** is Professor in Immunology at the Department of Biochemistry and Immunology of the Federal University of Minas Gerais (UFMG), where he is the Head of the Laboratory of Immunology of Infectious Diseases composed of 20 members from among graduate students, post-docs, and technicians. In 2009, Prof. Oliveira was elected member of the Brazilian Academy of Science. He has over 220 peer-reviewed publications with more than 6000 citations. Prof. Sergio C. Oliveira is internationally recognized for his scientific accomplishments studying the host immune response against the bacterial pathogen Brucella abortus, agen<sup>t</sup> of the worldwide zoonosis termed brucellosis.

**Guillermo Giambartolomei**, Biochemist, earned his Ph.D. degree in Immunology at the University of Buenos Aires and performed his postdoctoral training at Tulane University, USA. He is Assistant Professor of Immunology at the School of Medicine at the University of Buenos Aires (UBA) and Principal Investigator at the National Council of Research of Argentina (CONICET). He is the Head of the laboratory of Immunity and Immunopathology against intracellular bacteria at the Institute of Immunology, Genetics and Metabolism (INIGEM) (CONICET-UBA) and acts as Vice-Director of INIGEM. In 2014, he acted as President of the Argentine Society of Immunology (SAI). His areas of interest in the field of brucellosis are innate immunity, bacterial determinants of immunopathology, and mechanisms of immune escape.
