Michael Y. Galperin has received his PhD at the Lomonosov Moscow State University in Russia and postdoctoral training at the University of Louisville and University of Connecticut. He has been at the NCBI Computational Biology Branch since 1996, first as a GenBank Fellow, then Staff Scientist, and currently as a Lead Scientist. He has published more than 170research papers, reviews and book chapters and is an author of a textbook on comparative genomics. He serves as the editor of the Nucleic Acids Research annual Database Issue and editor of the Genomics Updates section in Environmental Microbiology.

Microbial genomics, particularly, reconstruction of biochemical pathways in poorly characterized organisms; COG database.

Chang received his B.S. in 1965 from the National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan, a M.A. in 1968 and Ph.D. in 1972 in Cell Biology from the University of Guelph, Ontario, Canada. He was a Postdoctoral Fellow in Parasitology at Rockefeller University in New York, NY from 1972 to 1974. He held the position of Research Associate from 1974 through 1976, Assistant Professor from 1976 to 1979, and Associate Professor from 1979 through 1983 at Rockefeller University. He joined the faculty at the current university in 1983 as Professor of Microbiology and Immunology.

Massimo Cecaro after completing the high school in humanistic studies, he moved to the University of Camerino, where he got a Master Degree in Veterinary Medicine and in University of Teramo he successfully got the Specialization. Since the age of 14, he has worked as radio speaker, tv presenter and reporter for a wide range of artistic and scientific events. At the age of 24 he obtained a qualification to practice as a Journalist and in 2007 he was admitted to the National Association of Medical Press (ASMI), where he currently hold the position of National Councilor. He is Resident Member of MJA Medical Journalists’ Association (London). He is Member of EFSA's Expert Database. He has been an invited speaker,mentor and chairman at International events in the field of Public Health and Safety in Canada, US, Europe and Asia. He has been author of several scientific works in public health. He is also director in Italy of a prestigious Educational Centre for work safety and public health. He is actively involved in international projects to improve the role of mass-media in medical sciences, and awarded in Philadelphia, Valencia and Las Vegas with International special recognition. He is serving as an editorial member of several reputed journals like: “Journal Food Processing Technology”, “Journal of Veterinary Science & Technology”, and Editor in Chief in the “Occupational Medicine & Health Affairs” and in “Journal of Mass Communication”. He is Reviewer for "Journal od Cancer Science & Therapy”. He is Organizing Commette Member of several International Conferences in US and in Europe.

Gregory A. Buck earned a Ph.D. in the Department of Microbiology and Immunology at the University of Washington in Seattle, and completed his postdoctoral training in molecular parasitology at the Institut Pasteur in Paris. He is director of the Center for the Study of Biological Complexity at VCU, which includes the University’s Genomics, Bioinformatics and High Performance Computing Cores. His current research focuses on microbial and parasite genomics and metagenomics. He has published over 100 papers and chapters in reputed journals and books

Microbial and parasite genomics and Metagenomics.

Menachem Shoham completed his Ph.D in the Weizmann Institute of Science (isreal) and he is currently working in the Case Western Reserve University as an associate professor in the department of Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry and his main research in the laboratory focuses on drug discovery and drug screening to combat infectious diseases. Shoham received many positions and honors and successfully published 57 peer reviewed publications in his research.

Akira Kaji has completed his Ph.D in 1958 at The Johns Hopkins University and did postdoctoral studies from various places including the Rockefeller Institute in New York. He is a professor of Microbiology at Univ. of Pennsylvania. He has published more than 200 papers in reputed journals.

Cory M. Robinson completed his Ph.D in Microbiology from Miami University in 2004. This was followed by postdoctoral studies at the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences under the direction of Dr. Alison O’Brien and at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine under the direction of Jerry Nau. He is currently an Assistant Professor at the University of South Carolina School of Medicine.

Timms is Professor of Microbiology and Director of Research at QUT’s Institute of Health and Biomedical Innovation in Brisbane Australia. He is a nationally and internationally renowned microbiologist with specific expertise in the area of Chlamydia. His laboratory is acknowledged as the leading Australian laboratory and one of the leading groups internationally working on all aspects of chlamydial infections. Timms has published over 170 refereed journal papers and is editor of the journal, Pathogens and Disease

Jong Hyun Ham earned his Bachelor’s degree in agricultural biology and Master’s degree in plant pathology from Korea University in Seoul, Korea. He completed his PhD in plant pathology at Cornell University in 1999. He then worked at University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, University of Wisconsin-Madison and Ohio State University as a post-doctoral fellow and research scientist. He joined Louisiana State University Agricultural Center in 2007 as a faculty member and has worked on molecular genetics and genomics of plant pathogenic bacteria and plant-bacterial interactions at the same position.

Zhan’s primary research interest is to understand microbiological aspects of dental caries and identify protocols that will lead to prevention or elimination of dental caries in children. One of her research focus is on virulence factors of mutans streptococci and other caries-causing bacteria that are related to their transmission or initiation of dental decay. The overall goal of these studies is to identify specific genes in MS that are related to development of dental caries in children and investigate whether these genes can be used to screen children with high risk for antimicrobial treatment and also to develop targeted antimicrobial agent for caries prevention in children. The other aspect of her research is focused on seeking clinical regimens in caries prevention. She has conducted randomized clinical trails to identify effective practical antimicrobial regimens, such as povidone iodine and xylitol products, which may alter caries-causing bacteria challenge and prevent new caries in children. The third aspect oh her research is to study and develop an effective and practical Caries Management by Risk Assessment protocol (CAMBRA) for children. She is also interested in global oral health projects and recently engaged study on investigating the feasibility and efficacy of incorporating oral health education and fluoride varnish program through pediatric immunization clinic in Roatan, Honduras with a joint effort of a multidisciplinary team from UCSF and UC Berkley.

Wanda C. Reygaert is an Associate Professor of Microbiology and Immunology in the Biomedical Sciences Department at Oakland University William Beaumont School of Medicine. Dr. Reygaert earned her B.S. in Biology/Medical Technology from Indiana University, an M.S. in Biology/Microbiology from Purdue University, and a Ph.D. in Molecular Biology from the University of Illinois at Chicago. She has been a member of the American Society for Clinical Pathology (ASCP) since 1993, and a member of the American Society for Microbiology (ASM) since 1999. Dr. Reygaert joined the OUWBSOM as a founding faculty member in the Fall of 2009.

B. Y. Chin attended the United World College of South East Asia Singapore and Lawrence Academy in Groton Massachusetts high school Mount Holyoke College in South Hadley MA, BA Biological Sciences, The Johns Hopkins University ScM Physiology and PhD Toxicological Sciences. She spent her postdoctoral fellowship in Molecular Toxicology at US Department of Energy at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory in Richland WA. Currently she is at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center/Harvard School of Medicine in Boston MA in the Department of Surgery B. Y. Chin is also a member of the Teaching Faculty of the 1st year medical curriculum Anatomy Histology and Physiology at Harvard Medical School. She has published over 30 peer review articles and serves on the Editorial Board of World Journal of Pharmacology and as a guest editor in Current Chemical Biology.

Mohamed K. Fakhr, is currently an Assistant Professor of Molecular Microbiology in the Department of Biological Science at the University of Tulsa, USA. After obtaining his Ph.D. from Oklahoma State University in 2002, Dr. Fakhr, moved to North Dakota State University where he worked as a Postdoctoral Research Associate then a Research Assistant Professor at the Department of Veterinary and Microbiological Sciences. In 2008, Dr. Fakhr moved to Tulsa, where he currently runs an active research program in the area of Molecular Typing and Detection of Foodborne Bacterial Pathogens alongside exploring the mechanisms by which these foodborne pathogens develop resistance to antimicrobials.

Rahul Saxena received his Ph.D. in Biochemistry from the Institute of Microbial Technology, India in 2007, where he made important contributions on the structural-functional characterization of peptide deformylase (PDF), an enzyme involved in post-translational modification of proteins in the pathogenic organism Mycobacterium tuberculosis. He pursued postdoctoral studies at Georgetown University School of Medicine where his research has focused on understanding the role of acidic phospholipids present in the bacterial cell membrane in controlling chromosomal replication spatially and temporarily. Recently he was appointed to the faculty in the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular & Cellular Biology at Georgetown University Medical Center. His findings have been published in several peer-reviewed journals, as well as a portion of his work has been accepted to grant a US patent.