8^th Clinical Microbiology Conference October 26-28, 2017 Paris, France

Bergman completed a PhD at MIT and postdoctoral training at the University of Michigan Medical School and The Institute for Genomic Research (TIGR). He is currently the head of the Genomics Department at NBFAC. He has published more than 45 papers in reputed journals and serves on numerous advisory and editorial boards.

Bioforensic

Aneta Nitsch-Osuch, MD, PhD, Assoc. Prof. – a specialist in pediatrics, epidemiology and public health, the head of the Department of Social Medicine and Public Helath, Medical University of Warsaw (Poland). The senior consultant and the head of infection control team at the St Family Hospital in Warsaw. The member of the Polish Family Medicine Society, Polish Society of Pediatricians, Polish Society of Epidemiologists, Central Eastern European Pertussis Awareness Group. The member of the Scientific Board of the National Programme for Influenza Prevention and the member of the National Epidemiology and Bioterrorism Committee. The author of over 200 scientific publications in the field of epidemiology, vaccinology, public health.

The area of interests includes: pertussis as re-emerging disease (epidemiology and prophylaxis), influenza as a problem of public health (epidemiology and prophylaxis), vaccine hesitacy problem, hospital infection control issues, nosocomial infections (epidemiology and prevention), hospital antibiotic policies.

Goletti provides outpatient activity at the UOC of Pneumology directed by Dr. Francesco Nicola Lauria (Padiglione Pontano, ground floor). In this context her primary activity is to follow the patients with tuberculous infection or disease.

Tuberculous Infection

Professor Michel Wolff, head of the medical and infectious resuscitation department of the Bichat-Claude Bernard AP-HP hospital

Influenza

Bruno Pozzetto is head of Mucosal Immunity and Pathogen Agent Group

-Mucosal infection and immunity (notably HIV and Staphylococcus aureus) -CMV and MICI -Care-associated viral and bacterial infections -Molecular diagnosis of infectious diseases

Thierry Naas is part of

Expertise of Enterobacteriaceae Strains

After spending some years as formal employee of Federal Government Laboratories in Canada Kamaleldin Said has moved to McGill University in Montreal where he completed his PhD in molecular microbiology and genomics. He then continued at McGill to work on projects involving molecular typing and comparative genomic hybridizations of pathogens shortly before accepting a contract position at Qassim University, College of Pharmacy as assistant professor. He has published significangly on the development and validation of molecular markers for host- and organ-specific strain typing as well as genome-wide expression profilings for vaccine and therapetuic gene candidates. He is now a visiting scholar at Systems Biology, Carleton University and has many projects underway and many manuscripts ready for publicaton.

vaccines

Amaresh Das had completed his PhD from Calcutta University, India and did postdoctoral researchat the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Georgia. Currently, he works as a microbiologist in the Reagents and Vaccines Services Section, Foreign Animal Disease Diagnostic Laboratory, NVSL, STAS, VS, APHIS, USDA, Plum Island Animal Disease Center, Orient Point, New York. He has published more than 20scientific papers in reputed peer reviewed journals and wrote several chapters in books and proceedings. He also serves as reviewerfor many reputed peer reviewed journals

Vaccines

Iolanda Francolini has obtained a degree in Industrial Chemistry in 2000 from the Sapienza University of Rome. In 2003, she was a visiting scientist at the Center for Biofilm Engineering, Montana, USA. In 2005, she obtained a Ph.D. degree in Chemical and Industrial Processes at the Sapienza University of Rome. She currently serves as a Lecturer in the Science and Technologies of Polymers at the Sapienza University of Rome and performs research on antimicrobial polymers. She has published more than 45 papers in reputed journals and has been serving as an editorial board member for International Journal of Molecular Science.

Biofilms

Joziana Muniz de Paiva Barçante has completed her PhD at the age of 27 years from Federal University of Minas Gerais and postdoctoral studies also from Federal University of Minas Gerais. She is the president of Brazilian Symposium of Neglected Disease and Chief of Staff of Federal University of Lavras. She has published more than 35 papers in reputed journals and has been serving as an editorial board member of repute.

Microbiology

J. Bishara has completed his MD at the age of 26 years from The First Pavlov Medical Institute of Leningrad, Leningrad, Russia. He is the director of Infectious Disease Unit at Rabin Medical Center; Beilinson Hospital, Petah-Tiqva, Israel, a Clinical Full Professor of Medicine at Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel-Aviv University, Israel. He has published more than 108 papers in reputed journals and has been serving as a reviewer of several prestigious journals in the field of infectious diseases.

Infectious diseases.

Neveen Saleh has completed her PhD at age of 34 years from Ain Shams University and has got postdoctoral studies from Massachusetts, Amherst (UMASS) University in Nanotechnology, Chemistry department. She is now amicrobiological researcher in National organization for drug control and research. She has published more than 10 papers in reputed journals.

Antibiotics