Ramón y Cajal Universty Hospital, Madrid, Spain
Prof. Fernando Baquero currently serves as a Research Professor at the Ramón y Cajal Institute for Health Research (IRYCIS) in Madrid, Spain, and was the former Head of the Department of Microbiology at the Ramón y Cajal University Hospital. He earned his MD from the Complutense University and PhD from the Autonomous University of Madrid. […]
Faculty of Natural Sciences, Comenius University Bratislava, Slovakia
Prof. Helena Bujdáková, PhD, is a full professor of Microbiology and the Head of the Department of Microbiology and Virology, Faculty of Natural Sciences, Comenius University Bratislava, Slovakia. She is an expert in long-standing research focused on microbial biofilms, particularly those formed by yeasts of Candida spp. and bacteria of Staphylococcus aureus.
Croatia
University of Nottingham, United Kingdom
Emeritus Professor of Molecular Microbiology, School of Life Sciences, University of Nottingham, UK. He has many years of expertise in the study of molecular mechanisms of quorum sensing-based control of gene expression in bacteria, how it influences the behaviour of polymicrobial biofilms and their interaction with the host. He has also been working on the identification of novel antimicrobial targets and coordinated several international antimicrobial programmes with a strong focus on quorum sensing inhibition.
Complutense University, Madrid, Spain
Professor at the Complutense University in Madrid. His research interests focus on the role and function of small plasmids in antimicrobial resistance, the bacterial SOS-response and the 16S rRNA methyltranferases in pathogenic bacteria. Prof. Bruno Gonzalez-Zorn is Professor at the Complutense University in Madrid. He gained his DVM in 1996 and his european PhD in […]
University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
Dr. Luca Guardabassi holds a degree in Veterinary Medicine from the University of Pisa (1994) and a PhD in Veterinary Microbiology from the University of Copenhagen (2000), where he currently serves as Professor of One Health Antimicrobial Resistance. He is a de facto Diplomate of the European College of Veterinary Microbiology (ECVM). Luca is a […]
University of Exeter, United Kingdom
Ivana Gudelj is a Professor of Evolutionary Systems Biology and a co-Head of Biosciences Department at the University of Exeter. Her research combines mathematical and experimental methodologies to understand competition, cooperation and coevolution amongst microorganisms.
University of Veterinary and Pharmaceutical Sciences Brno, Czech Republic
Associate Professor in the field of Food Hygiene and Technology, University of Veterinary and Pharmaceutical Sciences Brno. Her research interests are in the field of food and waterborne diseases, clinical microbiology and antibiotic resistance in both human and animal populations mostly focusing on Staphylococcus aureus and Listeria monocytogenes.
Eliava Institute of Bacteriophages, Microbiology and Virology, Georgia
Dr. Mzia Kutateladze represents the world-renown G. Eliava Institute of Bacteriophages, Microbiology and Virology, headquartered in Tbilisi, Georgia. Currently, she is the Director of Eliava Institute, as well as the President of the Eliava Foundation, a collection of commercial spin-offs. Her scientific background is in microbiology and molecular biology, bacteriophage research and application.
Universidade Católica Portuguesa, Portugal
Manaia is a Full Professor at the Escola Superior de Biotecnologia, Universidade Católica Portuguesa. Her research focuses on the ecology of bacteria and their resistance to antibiotics in the urban water cycle, particularly in wastewater environments.
Biological Research Centre in Szeged Hungary
Csaba Pál started his lab at the Hungarian Academy of Sciences in 2008. He was awarded both the ERC Starting and Consolidator Grants and has raised 5 million Euros for the direct support of his laboratory. Pál had the opportunity to research in Oxford, Heidelberg and Italy. He has more than 90 scientific publications, the […]
University of Ljubljana, Slovenia
Dr. Bojan Papić is a research associate at the Veterinary Faculty, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia. In his PhD dissertation completed in 2020, he investigated the population structure of Listeria monocytogenes from animals and the environment. In his two-year postdoctoral project completed in 2023, he investigated the virulence and genetic diversity of Paenibacillus larvae, a honeybee pathogen. His main area of expertise is molecular microbiology, next-generation sequencing and bioinformatics.
Hungary
Belgium
Prof. Van Dijck studied biology at KU Leuven. After one postgraduate year in Biotechnology, he started his PhD in the Laboratory of Experimental Endocrinology at the faculty of medicine, under the guidance of Prof. Verhoeven. The topic of his PhD was on steroid-hormone regulated gene expression. After a five-year postdoc in the Laboratory of Molecular […]
Slovenia
Central European Symposium on Antimicrobials and Antimicrobial Resistance
