Professor, MD, PhD, Lia Monica Junie, from the Microbiology Department of “Iuliu Hatieganu” University of Medicine and Pharmacy, Cluj-Napoca, Romania. She is head of the Department, coordinating also, the activities of both Laboratory Medicine specialty resident doctors and PhD doctor’s thesis in the medicine field. She unfolds a fruitful National and International scientific activity as an experienced microbiologist, having an impressive CV. She is Member in the Board of Scientific Societies, Reviewer in many peer-reviewed journals, Expert of the Ministry of Education and Research and Evaluator. She coordinated research projects, published books and more than 200 scientific articles in prestigious Journals. She organized and attended numerous national, international congresses, as president, member in the Organizing Committees, Invited speaker, Keynote speaker or Chairperson.

Infectious Diseases and Microbiology

Prof. Paul M. Tulkens, MD, PhD serves as Academic Advisor at Achaogen, Inc. He served as Advisor and Consultant of SelectX Pharmaceuticals, Inc. He started his scientific career as a cell biologist and biochemist working in the laboratory of Prof. C. de Duve, Nobel Laureate, where he made significant contributions to understanding of membrane movements during endocytosis, including receptor recycling, and in the development of models of acquired lysosomal storage disorders. He then moved to the study of the cellular and renal toxicity of aminoglycoside antibiotics, the mechanism of which he greatly contributed to decipher and for which he pioneered in reducing the clinical impact by promoting the now widely used once-daily dosing approach. From then on, he expanded his studies on antibiotics (macrolides, fluroquinolones) and intracellular infections (mainly S. aureus but more recently also P. aeruginosa). He also developed the science of pharmacodynamics and pharmacokinetics for optimising the use of antibiotics. He was amongst the founding members and was President of the International Society of Antiinfective Pharmacology. He is a Professor, Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Universite Catholique de Louvain. Until 2010, he was full professor of Pharmacology and Drug Development at the French speaking Catholic University of Louvain (Brussels, Belgium) and professor of Human Biochemistry and Biochemical Pathology at the University of Mons (Mons, Belgium). He is an invited and emeritus professor of medicine and pharmacy departments at Universite catholique de Lovain, Belgium. He has published more than 230 scientific papers and continues, with his laboratory, to develop basic and applied approaches to the study of antibiotics and bacterial infections. He serves as a Member of Clinical Advisory Board of Kenta Biotech Ltd. Dr. Tulkens studied at Catholic University of Louvain, Belgium.

Pathophysiology of lysosomes, Antibiotic toxicity, Pharmacodynamics, pharmacokinetics, Bacterial Persistence, Biofilms, Intracellular Infections

Provorov Nikolai completed his PhD at the age of 26 from All-Russia Research Institute for Agricultural Microbiology. He is the deputy director in research of All-Russia Research Institute for Agricultural Microbiology. Provorov Nikolai published over 20 papers in reputed international journals and has been serving as an editorial board member of international journal Annals of Applied Biology. The scope of his expertize includes: evolutionary genetics of symbiosis, mathematical simulation of population dynamics, genetic construction of symbiotically active microbes.

Agricultural Microbiology

I am researcher from Federal University of Sergipe/Brazil. I concluded my PhD in 2013 and my research line is about human papillomavirus infeccion in women and male partners. I published papers in reputed journals. My technical production is available in: http://lattes.cnpq.br/5891504776117256

HPV