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Felipe G Naveca

I am a microbiologist with experience in classical and molecular techniques applied to the study of human pathogens, mainly threatening RNA and DNA viruses. My research focuses on developing diagnostic tools, molecular epidemiology, and evolution, mostly on emergent and reemergent viruses. My team approaches include genomics and phylogenetic studies to characterize known and unknown viruses; field studies on arboviral emergence in a rural area in the Brazilian Amazon; immunogenetics studies related to susceptibility or resistance against microbial infections; studies on biomarkers of acute viral illness; in vitro & in vivo virus-host interactions and evolution; and SARS-CoV-2 and other respiratory viruses molecular epidemiology. Senior investigator of Fiocruz Amazonas and Deputy Director of Research and Innovation. Member of the Brazilian Society for virology since 1997. Member of the Brazilian network of specialists in Zika and correlated diseases.

Giuseppe Parrella

Dr. Giuseppe Parrella is a Senior Researcher at the Institute for Sustainable Plant Protection of CNR, Italy.

Dr. Parrella's primary areas of expertise include plant virology, specifically with particular reference to bio-molecular characterization, diagnostics and epidemiology. He also considers Phytoplasmas and viroids among his study interests.

Dr. Parrella's current research topics include the study of the biological-molecular variability of the main viruses of horticultural, ornamental and aromatic crops; the development and validation of sensitive and highly specific diagnostic methods for the rapid diagnosis of viruses, with particular reference to emerging or recently introduced viruses and spread throughout the national territory (RT-PCR, cold probes, LAMP, real time RT-PCR, etc. .). Other interests of Dr. Parrella concern the research and characterization of sources of resistance to viruses in wild or cultivated germplasm; the use of beneficial microorganisms and their metabolites in the control of viroses; the identification and characterization of mitochondrial variants of Bemisia tabaci and of the associated geminiviruses and endosymbionts; the study of the impact of phytoviruses on human health.

George N. Pavlakis

MD, University of Athens, Greece
PhD, Syracuse University, NY
Chief of the Human Retrovirus Section of the National Cancer Institute, USA

Interests: HIV pathogenesis, Molecular Biology, gene regulation, Biotechnology, protein engineering, cytokines, Immunotherapy, Vaccines, Nucleic acid vaccines, gene therapy

B. Matija Peterlin

Professor of Medicine, Microbiology and Immunology, UCSF. Finland Distinguished Professor, Virology, U. Helsinki, Finland. Visiting Professor, Insitute of Biochemistry, U. Ljubljana, Slovenia. Member, IJS Postgraduate School, Ljubljana, Slovenia. Also member, Slovenian Academy of Arts and Sciences. Received various awards including the Alexander von Humboldt Prize, and the Ambassador for Science of the Republic of Slovenia.

Brett E Pickett

Dr. Brett Pickett is an Assistant Professor in the Microbiology and Molecular Biology Department at Brigham Young University. He completed his B.S degree in Microbiology from BYU in 2005, his Ph.D. training in Microbiology at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, and his postdoctoral training in Pathology at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas. He then obtained additional experience in industry, and at the J. Craig Venter Institute, where he led investigative studies in viral comparative genomics and the human transcriptional response during viral infection. His research develops data mining methods, applies machine learning techniques, and use advanced statistical workflows to better understand how human cells respond during infection.

Wenbao Qi

Director of Department of Animal Infectious Diseases, College of Veterinary Medicine,South China Agricultural University(SCAU),Guangzhou,China.
Associated Director of National and Regional Joint Engineering Laboratory for Medicament of Zoonoses Prevention and Control, Guangzhou, China.
Focusing on animal influenza viruses and Japanese Encephalitis Viruses(JEV), include (1) The molecular basis of the host range and virulence of influenza viruses, (2) New vaccines of avian influenza viruses(AIV), (3) The evolution of AIVs, (4) Virus protein(AIV,JEV) and host interaction.

Priya Ramesh Prabhu

Priya Ramesh Prabhu is a Postdoctoral research fellow in the Human Biology Division at Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center, Seattle, WA. She is an immunologist with focus on Human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccination. Her expertise is in evaluation of vaccine-induced immune responses. She completed her PhD from Rajiv Gandhi Center for Biotechnology, Kerala, India, working in a Phase IV clinical trial comparing the efficacy of 2 vs 3 doses of quadrivalent HPV vaccine among Indian girls.

Erle S Robertson

Erle S. Robertson, Ph.D., is a Professor at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, and Program Leader of the Tumor Virology Program of the Abramson Cancer Center. Dr. Robertson is a leader in the field of viral oncology. He has served on many national and international committees. He directs a lab which focuses on mechanisms of oncogenesis mediated by infectious agents.

Daniel L. Rock

Formerly a research leader in exotic viral diseases at the Plum Island Animal Disease Center for 15 years, Dr. Daniel Rock has earned international recognition in the areas of infectious disease and molecular pathogenesis of viral diseases. His research has focused on the molecular mechanisms underlying viral virulence and host range, with particular emphasis on high-consequence viral diseases such as foot-and-mouth disease and exotic pox viruses.
Dr. Rock earned a PhD in veterinary microbiology from Iowa State University, Ames. He completed a post-doctoral fellowship in molecular virology at the Wistar Institute, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, and held faculty positions at North Dakota State University, Fargo, and the University of Nebraska-Lincoln before joining the Plum Island Animal Disease Center, New York, in 1989. In 2004 he became a professor with the Department of Pathobiology and Veterinary Science and the Center of Excellence for Vaccine Research at the University of Connecticut, Storrs.

Michael G. Rossmann

The Hanley Distinguished Professor of Biological Sciences, Purdue Univ; Member of the Nat. Academy of Sciences; Foreign Member of the Royal Society of London; Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science; Past Member of the National Science Board. Awards include the Paul Ehrlich & Ludwig Darmstaedter Prize; the Fankuchen Award; the Louisa Gross Horwitz Prize; the Gregori Aminoff Prize; the Stein and Moore Award; the Ewald Prize; the Elisabeth Roberts Cole Award.

Morteza Saki

Dr. Morteza Saki is a researcher within the Department of Microbiology at the Ahvaz Jundishapur University of Medical Sciences,Ahvaz, Iran.

His research focuses on the mechanisms of antimicrobial resistance in ESKAPE Pathogens, especially Klebsiella pneumoniae.

Alison J Sinclair

BSc in Biochemistry from UCL London UK; PhD Cancer Virology at the Imperial Cancer Research Fund, London UK; post-doctoral fellowship at the European Molecular Biology Laboratory in Heidelberg, Germany, researching transcription; post-doctoral fellowship and assistant member of staff at the Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research in London, investigating a transcription factor network in Epstein-Barr virus and cell cycle regulation. Faculty School of Life Sciences at the University of Sussex, UK.