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Prof. Dr. Jean E. Crabtree

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Molecular Gastroenterology Section, Leeds Institute of Biomedical and Clinical Sciences, Wellcome Trust Brenner Building, St. James's University Hospital, Leeds LS9 7TF, UK
Interests: Helicobacter pylori; host-pathogen interactions in gastrointestinal tract; infection and gastrointestinal cancer; mucosal immunology
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Prof. Dr. Maria Elena De Lima

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Faculdade Santa Casa de Belo Horizonte – Programa de Pós Graduação em Medicina e Biomedicina, Belo Horizonte, Brazil
Interests: toxins; biotechnology; spider venom; antimicrobial toxins; toxins and pain; anticancer toxins; toxins and therapeutic; arthropod toxins; animal venoms; toxin active in erectile function
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Dr. Marie-Yasmine Dechraoui Bottein

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Université Côte d’Azur, CNRS, UMR 7035 ECOSEAS, Nice, France
Interests: food safety; food security; sustainable development; harmful algal blooms; contaminants; risk management; capacity building; marine biotoxins
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Prof. Antimo Di Maro

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Department of Environmental, Biological and Pharmaceutical Sciences and Technologies (DiSTABiF), University of Campania ‘Luigi Vanvitelli’, Via Vivaldi 43, 81100 Caserta, Italy
Interests: protein purification; protein structure; ribosome-inactivating proteins (RIPs); ribotoxin-like proteins (RL-Ps); structure-function relationship
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Dr. José Diana Di Mavungu

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Department of Bioanalysis, Ghent University, 9000 Ghent, Belgium
Interests: mycotoxins; fungal secondary metabolism; fungal metabolomics; Aspergillus flavus; aflatoxins; pharmaceutics; deoxynivalenol; food; mass spectrometry
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Dr. Juan José Dorantes-Aranda

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Marine Biology Department, Centre Scientifique de Monaco, 98000 Monaco, Monaco
Interests: harmful algal blooms; aquatic toxicology; biotoxins; detection methods; seafood safety; climate change
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Prof. Dr. Dirk Dressler

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Head of Movement Disorders Section, Department of Neurology, Hannover Medical School, Carl-Neuberg-Str. 1, D-30625 Hannover, Germany
Interests: botulinum toxin therapy; dystonia; functional movement disorders; movement disorders; neuropsychology

Dr. Michel Dugon

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Venom Systems & Proteomics Lab, School of Natural Sciences, Ryan Institute, National University of Ireland Galway, H91 TK33 Galway, Ireland
Interests: evolution of venom systems; ultrastructure of venom systems; arthropod venom; arachnids; therapeutics from venom; bioassay

Dr. Michelle Dunstone

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Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Monash University, Melbourne 3800, Australia
Interests: pore forming proteins; pore forming toxins; cryo-EM; crystallography; structural biology; MACPF/CDC family; beta-pore forming proteins
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Dr. Thomas Durek

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Institute for Molecular Bioscience, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, QLD 4072, Australia
Interests: disulfide-rich peptide and protein toxins from animal venom and plants; Urticaceae; chemical synthesis; 3D structure; X-ray crystallography; NMR; biosynthesis; postttranslational modification; mass spectrometry; proteomics; pharmacology; ion channels; GPCRs

Prof. Dr. Christine Edwards

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Robert Gordon University, Garthdee House, Garthdee Road, Aberdeen AB10 7QB, Scotland, UK
Interests: cyanotoxins; bioremediation; nature-based water treatment; advanced oxidation processes; bioactive peptides; purification and analysis
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Prof. Dr. Simon Edwards

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Crop and Environmental Sciences, Harper Adams University, U.K.
Interests: epidemiology and control of Fusarium species; mycotoxin mitigation strategies; molecular diagnostics of mycotoxigenic fungi

Prof. Dr. Juan Ferré

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Instituto de Biotecnología y Biomedicina (BIOTECMED), Department of Genetics, Universitat de València, Burjassot, 46100 València, Spain
Interests: understanding the biochemical and genetic bases of insect resistance to Bacillus thuringiensis toxins; to study the mode of action of Vip3 insecticidal proteins
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Prof. Dr. José Miguel Ferreras

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Department of Biochemistry, Molecular Biology and Physiology, Faculty of Sciences, University of Valladolid, E-47011 Valladolid, Spain
Interests: ribosome-inactivating proteins (RIPs); immunotoxins; protein synthesis inhibition; ribotoxins; structure–activity relationship
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Prof. Dr. Carmela Fimognari

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Department for Life Quality Studies, Alma Mater Studiorum-University of Bologna, Corso d’Augusto 237, 47921 Rimini, Italy
Interests: anticancer pharmacology; natural products; in vitro studies; apoptosis; cell death; non-canonical cell death; genotoxicity
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Prof. Mary Fletcher

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Queensland Alliance for Agriculture and Food Innovation (QAAFI), The University of Queensland, Health and Food Sciences Precinct, Coopers Plains, QLD 4108, Australia
Interests: natural toxins; toxin characterization; phytotoxins; analytical methods; toxin degradation; food safety
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Prof. Dr. Yukako Fujinaga

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Department of Bacteriology, Graduate School of Medical Sciences, Kanazawa University, Kanazawa 920-8640, Japan
Interests: Clostridium botulinum; botulinum toxin; clostridial neurotoxins
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Prof. Dr. Tibor Fülöp

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1. Nephrology, Department of Medicine, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, SC 29425, USA
2. Medical Services, Ralph H. Johnson VA Medical Center, Charleston, SC 29401, USA
Interests: dialysis; CRRT; electrolytes; transplant
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Prof. Dr. Maciej Gajęcki

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Department of Veterinary Prevention and Feed Hygiene, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, University of Warmia and Mazury, Oczapowskiego 13, 10-718 Olsztyn, Poland
Interests: mycotoxins; detection; feed; mycotoxicosis; diagnostics; animal pathology; human pathology
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Dr. Jacob Galan

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Department of Human Genetics, School of Medicine, University of Texas Rio Grande Valley, One West University Blvd, BRBII Building, Brownsville, TX 78520, USA
Interests: proteomics; snake venom; molecular toxinology
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Prof. Dr. Gianni Galaverna

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Department of Food and Drug, University of Parma, Parco Area delle Scienze, 17/a 43124 Parma, Italy
Interests: chromatography, mass spectrometry, metabolomics, food analysis, food safety, mycotoxins
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Prof. Dr. Harald Genth

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Institute of Toxicology, Hannover Medical School, D-30625 Hannover, Germany
Interests: clostridium difficile toxins; large clostridial glycosylating toxins; actin cytoskeleton; cell motility; cytoskeletal proteins; infection; signaling; Rho; Ras
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Dr. Antonella Giannantoni

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Department of Medical and Surgical Sciences and Neurosciences, Functional and Surgical Urology Unit, University of Siena, 53100 Siena, Italy
Interests: functional urology; female urology; neuro-urology; oncological urology
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Dr. Francesco Giansanti

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Department of Life, Health and Environmental Sciences, University of L’Aquila, 67100 L’Aquila, Italy
Interests: transferrins; lactoferrin; ovotransferrin; saporin; ADCs
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Dr. Jéssica Gil-Serna

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Department of Genetics, Physiology and Microbiology, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Madrid, Spain
Interests: mycotoxins; fungi; biocontrol; microbial detoxification

Dr. Paola Giorni

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Department of Sustainable Crop Protection (DiProVeS), Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Via Emilia Parmense, 84, 29122 Piacenza, Italy
Interests: mycotoxigenic fungi; fungal ecology; fungal competition; use of natural compounds; food waste reuse; mycotoxins containment; development of new anti-fungal strategies
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Dr. Claudia Goetsch

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Department of Internal Medicine I–Cardiology, Medical Faculty, RWTH Aachen University, 52074 Aachen, Germany
Interests: cardiovascular; calcification; vascular; valvular; mechanism; extracellular vesicles; oxidative stress; bone-vascular-axis; chronic kidney disease
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Dr. Bruno Goud

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Department of Cell Biology and Cancer (UMR CNRS 144), Institut Curie, 26 rue d'Ulm, 75248 Paris cedex 05, France
Interests: small GTPases; secretory pathway; Golgi complex; intracellular transport; cell biology, biophysics；toxin-host interactions; molecular mechanisms of intracellular bacterial toxins

Prof. Dr. John D. Groopman

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Bloomberg School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA
Interests: aflatoxins and mycotoxins in human health; environmental health sciences; chemical carcinogenesis; environmental carcinogenesis; chemoprevention; cancer prevention and control
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Prof. Dr. Philippe Guerre

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ENVT, Université de Toulouse, INP, UR Mycotoxicologie, F-31076 Toulouse, France
Interests: mycotoxins; contaminants; animal toxicology; analytical toxicology; oxidative stress; sphingolipids; toxicokinetics; metabolism of toxic substances; drug-metabolizing enzymes
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