MEET THE SPEAKERS
Speakers

Aled Edward Lloyd Roberts
Microbiology & Infectious Diseases Group, Swansea University,
United Kingdom

Alex Brand

Alexandre M. Anesio

Alyson Rogério Ribeiro
Department of Analytical Chemistry, Institute of Chemistry University of Campinas,
Brazil
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Andreas Brune

Andrew Edwards
MRC Centre for Molecular Bacteriology and Infection, Imperial College London,
United Kingdom
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Andrew Millard

Anita Marchfelder

Anne Willems

Annie Tsong

Ariane Briegel

Athanasios Typas

Beatrix Fahnert

Beatriz Navarro

Benedek G. Plosz

Birgit Mitter

Brian D. Robertson

Brian P. Hedlund

Carles Ubeda
Fundación para el Fomento de la Investigación Sanitaria y Biomédica de la Comunidad Valenciana,
Spain
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Carol Munro

Carsten Suhr Jacobsen

Catrin Moore

Christoph Wittmann

Christophe d’Enfert

Craig MacLean

Dan I. Andersson

Daniel Wilson
Big Data Institute, Nuffield Department of Population Health, Uni. of Oxford,
England, United Kingdom
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Danilo Ercolini

Daphne Stapels

Davide Bulgarelli

Debbie Lindell

Detmer Sipkema

Diane E. Griffin
Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health,
United States

Dina Grohmann

Douwe van Sinderen

Eddy Smid

Eduardo Rocha

Elizabeth Whittaker

Eric Beitz
Pharmaceutical and Medicinal Chemistry, Christian-Albrechts-University of Kiel,
Germany
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Eugene D. Shapiro

Felix Rey
Institut Pasteur, Paris, and CNRS, Paris,
France

Frédéric Carlin

Frederic Laurent

Geertje Van Keulen

George Shinn

Gordon Ford
Innovate UK Ageing Society, Health and Nutrition,
United Kingdom

Grzegorz Wegrzyn

Hans-Georg Koch
Institute of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Faculty of Medicine Albert-Ludwigs University Freiburg,
Germany
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Holger Daims

Iain Sutcliffe

J. Christian Pérez

Jan Steensels

Jan Tommassen

Janet K. Jansson

Jay Hinton
University of Liverpool,
United Kingdom

Jean-Michel Claverie

Joanna Verran
Manchester Metropolitan University,
United Kingdom

John Morrissey

John van der Oost
Wageningen University,
Netherlands

John W.A. Rossen
Department of Medical Microbiology and Infection Prevention, University Medical Center Groningen,
Netherlands
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Jongsik Chun

José R Penadés

Josep Casadesús

Joseph A. Christie-Oleza

Julia A. Vorholt

Julian R. Marchesi

Karen Maxwell

Karen Polizzi

Karin Holmfeldt

Katherine R. Duncan

Kathleen Scott

Katja Seme
University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Medicine Institute of Microbiology and Immunology,
Slovenia
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Kerwyn Casey Huang
Department of Bioengineering, Stanford University,
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Knut Drescher

Laura Sanchez

Leen Baert
Nestlé Research, Lausanne,
Switzerland

Leo Eberl

Linda Dixon

Luis Ángel Fernández

Luisa Barzon

Maite Muniesa

Maria Zambon
Public England,
United Kingdom

Marike Palmer

Marnix Medema

Martin Spiess

Martin Tangney

Matthew J.G Eldridge

Matthias Fischer

Mazhar Adli

Mecky Pohlschroder

Michael Sauer
Department of Biotechnology, BOKU University of Natural Resources and Life Scien,
Austria
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Michael Skurnik

Michiel Vos
European Centre for Environment and Human Health Environment and Sustainability Institute,
United Kingdom
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Mike Dempsey

Mike Peck

Nathalie Q. Balaban

Nicola J Williams

Nigel P. Minton

Pamela Yeh

Pascale Cossart

Pascale Daran-Lapujade

Patrick J. Brennan

Paul Cos

Paul W. O’Toole

Pete Mills

Philippe Vandenkoornhuyse

Rémi Fronzes

Rich Boden

Robert Fagan

Roland Brosch

Rolf Müller

Ross Fitzgerald

Rossana Coda
Department of Food and Nutrition, Helsinki Institute of Sustainability Science University of Helsinki,
Finland
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Ruedi Aebersold

Samir Dervisevic

Sara Jabbari
School of Mathematics and Institute of Microbiology and Infection University of Birmingham,
United Kingdom
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Sarah Coulthurst

Sarah Lebeis

Slavena Vylkova

Sonja-Verena Albers

Stan JJ Brouns
Kavli Institute of Nanoscience, Department of Bionanoscience, Delft University o,
Netherlands
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Stanley Brul

Steve Busby

Stineke van Houte

Supinya Piampongsant

Susumu Sakata

Svetlana N. Dedysh
Winogradsky Institute of Microbiology, Research Center of Biotechnology Russian Academy of Sciences,
Russia
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Tâm Mignot

Teresa Alvarino Pereira

Thomas E. Hanson
School of Marine Science and Policy & Delaware Biotechnology Institute University of Delaware,
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Thorsten Allers

Tom Ellis
Imperial College Centre for Synthetic Biology, Imperial College London,
United Kingdom
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Ute Römling

Vera Meyer

Víctor de Lorenzo

Victor Sourjik

Willie Wilson

Wolf-Dietrich Hardt

Xin Zhou
Institute of Microbiology and Infection, school of Biosciences University of Birmingham,
United Kingdom