Dr. Abhishek Prasad
Dr. Abhishek Prasad
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Department of Pathology, UT Medical Branch at Galveston, Galveston, TX 77555, USA
Interests: arboviruses; filoviruses; innate immunity; micro-RNA; RNAi; bats; henipaviruses; hemorrhagic fever viruses; emerging infectious diseases
Dr. Eduard Puente-Massaguer
Dr. Eduard Puente-Massaguer
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Department of Microbiology, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York City, NY 10029, USA
Interests: virus-like particles; vaccines; influenza; production of vaccines; viral vectors; non-viral vectors
Dr. Sergey Pustylnikov
Dr. Sergey Pustylnikov
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GreenLight Biosciences, Medford, MA 02155, USA
Interests: T cells; dendritic cells; vaccines; influenza; SARS-CoV-2
Dr. Naveen Kumar Devanga Ragupathi
Dr. Naveen Kumar Devanga Ragupathi
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Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering, The University of Sheffield, Sheffield, UK
Interests: antimicrobial resistance; microbial genomics and phylogenomics; biofilms and host interactions
Dr. Janina Rahlff
Dr. Janina Rahlff
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Centre for Ecology and Evolution in Microbial Model Systems (EEMiS), Department of Biology and Environmental Science, Linnaeus University, 391 82 Kalmar, Sweden
Interests: virus-host interaction; bacteriophage; viromics; prokaryotic adaptive immunity; molecular and cell biology; gene expression
Dr. Aurelie Rakotondrafara
Dr. Aurelie Rakotondrafara
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Department of Plant Pathology, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI 53706, USA
Interests: elucidate how +ssRNA plant viruses parasitize the host translation apparatus to synthesize their proteins; dissect how these plant viruses avoid or subvert host defenses
Dr. Alexey Rakov
Dr. Alexey Rakov
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Central Research Institute of Epidemiology, 3A Novogireevskaya Street, Russia, 111123
Interests: salmonella; microbiology; molecular epidemiology; genomics; bacteriology; yersinia
Dr. Torben Sølbeck Rasmussen
Dr. Torben Sølbeck Rasmussen
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Department of Food Science, Faculty of Science, University of Copenhagen, 1958 Frederiksberg, Denmark
Interests: bacteriophages; gut microbiota; animal models; metabolic syndrome; virome
Dr. Celia F. Rodrigues
Dr. Celia F. Rodrigues
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TOXRUN—Toxicology Research Unit, Cooperativa de Ensino Superior Politécnico e Universitário—CESPU, 4585-116 Gandra PRD, Portugal
Interests: bacteria; fungi; cell wall; infection; oxidative stress; chemical/biochemical analysis; bioavailability; immune response; in vivo; drug susceptibility; genes regulation; cell biology; microfluidics; fish; pharmacotherapy; nutraceuticals
Dr. Nanda Kishore Routhu
Dr. Nanda Kishore Routhu
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Vaccine Research Center at Yerkes, Microbiology and Immunology, Emory University, Atlanta, GA 30329, USA
Interests: virus-host interactions; antiviral compounds; vaccines; protein-protein interactions; mass spectrometry identification of proteins; virus glycosylation; positive-sense single-stranded RNA virus; TB vaccines
Dr. Kasi Viswanatharaju Ruddraraju
Dr. Kasi Viswanatharaju Ruddraraju
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Department of Medicinal Chemistry and Molecular Pharmacology, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN 47907, USA
Interests: drug discovery; infectious diseases; medicinal chemistry; metastatic breast cancer; mycobacterium tuberculosis (mtb); protein tyrosine phosphatases (PTPs)
Dr. Pranav Sahu
Dr. Pranav Sahu
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Laboratory of Ecological Plant Physiology, Global Change Research Institute, 60300 Brno, Czech Republic
Interests: climate change; molecular biology; plant virology; plant sciences; plant pathogens
Department of Veterinary Services, Municipality of Jerusalem, Ashkar Gabi 2 Road, Jerusalem 9414109, Israel
Interests: zoonoses; parasitology; tropical diseases; diagnostics; epidemiology
Dr. Luis Alberto Sanchez Vargas
Dr. Luis Alberto Sanchez Vargas
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Institute for Immunology and Informatics, University of Rhode Island, 80 Washington Street (Shepard Building), 3rd Floor, Providence, RI 02903-1803, USA
Interests: immunology; T cells; B cells; dengue virus; Zika; NK cells
Dr. Sanjay Sarkar
Dr. Sanjay Sarkar
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Department of Genetics, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC 27599, USA
Interests: animal and human viruses; alphavirus; coronavirus; antiviral drug discovery; vaccine development; innate immunity; host-pathogen interaction; animal models of alphavirus, coronavirus, arterivirus; quantitative-trait loci (QTL); host-genetic variation
Dr. Sergio Villanueva Saz
Dr. Sergio Villanueva Saz
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Veterinary Faculty, Zaragoza University, 50013 Zaragoza, Spain
Interests: vector-borne disease; dog; cat; Leishmania; infectious diseases in smal animals; diagnostic; veterinary parasitology in small animals; veterinary medicine; ferret; small animal; dermatology; SARS-CoV-2
Dr. Samantha Schlachter
Dr. Samantha Schlachter
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Department of Biology, Saint Elizabeth University, 2 Convent Road, Henderson Hall Room 112C, Morristown, NJ 07960, USA
Interests: Borrelia burgdorferi; lyme disease; babesia microti; Borrelia; babesia
Prof. Dr. Martin Schmidt
Prof. Dr. Martin Schmidt
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Biochemistry and Nutrition, Des Moines University, Des Moines, IA 50312, USA
Interests: metabolism and stress resistance in Candida albicans; medical education, curriculum development and assessment
Dr. Yang Shen
Dr. Yang Shen
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Laboratory of Food Microbiology Institute of Food, Nutrition and Health, ETH Zurich Schmelzbergstrasse 7, LFV B18 CH-8092 Zurich, Switzerland
Interests: bacteriophage; phage-bacteria-host interplay; bacterial surface chemistry; cell wall hydrolases; antimicrobial agents
Dr. Zhenyu Shen
Dr. Zhenyu Shen
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Veterianry Medical Diagnostic Laboratory, College of Veterinary Medicine, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO 65211, USA
Interests: zoonotic; animal pathogens
Department of Infectious, Parasitic and Immune-Mediated Diseases, Istituto Superiore Di Sanita, 00161 Rome, Italy
Interests: plasmodium; parasite culture; parasite biology; parasitic diseases; molecular parasitology
Dr. Arif Jamal Siddiqui
Dr. Arif Jamal Siddiqui
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Department of Biology, College of Science, University of Hail, Hail 55476, Saudi Arabia
Interests: parasitic diseases; plasmodium; immune behaviors; immune responses
Institutt for Oral Biologi, Det Utdanningsvitenskapelige Fakultet, UiO Institutt for pedagogikk, 0316 Oslo, Norway
Interests: oral biology; bacteriology
Dr. Shakti Singh
Dr. Shakti Singh
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Infection and Immunity, The Lundquist Institute, Torrance, CA 90502, USA
Interests: immunity, vaccine and immunotherapeutic development against infectious pathogens; host-pathogen interactions
School of Chemistry and Molecular Biosciences, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, QLD 4072, Australia
Interests: flavivirus infection; virus-host interactions; miRNAs; noncoding RNAs; systems biology of viral infection and bioinformatics
Dr. Zachary Stromberg
Dr. Zachary Stromberg
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Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA 99354, USA
Interests: foodborne pathogens; gastrointestinal pathogens; Escherichia coli; viruses; equine encephalitis viruses; influenza viruses
Dr. Nicola Alberto Valente
Dr. Nicola Alberto Valente
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Department of Periodontology, University of Cagliari, School of Dental Medicine, 09124 Cagliari, Italy
Interests: implantology; periodontology; laser dentistry
Dr. Beatriz Vidana Mateo
Dr. Beatriz Vidana Mateo
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Bristol Veterinary School, University of Bristol, Bristol BS40 5DU, UK
Interests: zoonoses; host-pathogen interactions; infectious diseases and immunopathology; viral respiratory pathology; viral neuropathology
Dr. Marek Walczak
Dr. Marek Walczak
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National Veterinary Research Institute, Partyzantow 57 Avenue, 24-100 Pulawy, Poland
Interests: ASF; ASFV; African swine fever; swine diseases; fish diseases
Prof. Dr. Lei Wan
Prof. Dr. Lei Wan
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School of Chinese Medicine, College of Chinese Medicine,
China Medical University, Taichung 40402, Taiwan
Interests: Myopia; age-related macular degeneration; inflammation; galectin