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A-B
	Christof M. Aegerter Physics Institute and Institute for Molecular Life Sciences, University of Zurich Zurich, Switzerland Expertise: Physical Biology, Biological Physics, Disordered Systems, Multiple Scattering, Foams, Granular Matter, Non-equilibrium Physics, Anderson Localization
	Irina U. Agoulnik Herbert Wertheim College of Medicine, FIU Baylor College of Medicine Expertise: Steroid receptors, their coregulators, and cell signaling in endocrine malignancies
	Aamir Ahmad Oncologic Sciences, Mitchell Cancer Institute Mobile, Alabama, USA Expertise: Cancer Health Disparity, Metastasis, Drug Resistance, Epithelial-mesenchymal transition (EMT), miRNAs, Epigenetics, Cancer Stem Cells, Personalized Cancer Medicine
	Sunil Ahuja Professor of Medicine, Micro/Immunology, South Texas Veterans Health Care System and University Health Science Center San Antonio, Texas, USA Expertise: Genetics, genomics and epidemiology of human diseases, especially HIV and allergy
	Irving C. Allen Assistant Professor, Biomedical Sciences and Pathobiology, Virginia Tech University Blacksburg, Virginia, USA Expertise: Immunology, Innate Immunity, Host-Pathogen Interactions, Cancer, and Animal Models
	Juan Antonio Añel Universidade de Vigo and University of Oxford Vigo, Spain and Oxford, UK Expertise: Physics of climate and atmospheric sciences
	Alessio Avenanti Associate Professor, Department of Psychology, University of Bologna Italy Expertise: Cognitive neuroscience, Brain stimulation methods in humans
	Vipul Bansal Director, Ian Potter NanoBioSensing Facility, Leader, NanoBiotechnology Research Laboratory (NBRL), School of Applied Sciences, RMIT University Melbourne, Victoria, Australia Expertise: Nanobiotechnology and materials chemistry for biosensing, drug-delivery, theranostic, imaging and catalysis
	Jean-Claude Baron INSERM U894, Centre de Psychiatrie et Neurosciences, Hôpital Sainte-Anne and Université Paris 5 Paris, France Expertise: The pathophysiology of stroke and dementia using mainly imaging and behavioral measures in both patients and rodent models
	Bernhard Baune Professor of Psychiatry, Chair of Discipline of Psychiatry, School of Medicine, University of Adelaide Adelaide, Australia Expertise: Psychiatric neuroscience, mood disorders, cognitive function, neuroimmunology
	Matthew Bogyo Department of Pathology and Microbiology and Immunology, Stanford University Stanford, California, USA Expertise: Design, synthesis and applications of small molecule probes of enzyme function
	Ben Bond-Lamberty Joint Global Change Research Institute College Park, Maryland, USA Expertise: Forest ecology, boreal forests, carbon cycling, disturbances, modeling
	Amanda Schurle Bruce Assistant Professor, Psychology, University of Missouri-Kansas City Kansas City, Missouri, USA Expertise: Clinical psychology, pediatrics, neuroimaging, decision neuroscience, obesity, motivation
	Vladimir Brusic Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Boston University USA Expertise: Bioinformatics, Health Informatics, Immunology, Vaccines, Computer Modeing, Machine Learning, Data Mining, Data Analytics
	Emmanuel A. Burdmann Division of Nephrology, University of São Paulo Medical School São Paulo, Brazil Expertise: Epidemiology, mechanisms, diagnostic and treatment of acute kidney injury

C-F
	Patrick Callaerts Laboratory of Developmental Genetics, VIB & Katholieke Universiteit Leuven Leuven, Belgium Expertise: Developmental (neuro)genetics, behavioral genetics, Drosophila, evo-devo
	Eric Cascales Professor, Institute of Structural Biology and Microbiology, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Aix-Marseille Université Marseille, France Expertise: Macromolecular systems, Cell envelope biogenesis, Molecular Microbiology, Bacterial Secretion Systems, Protein Targeting and Transport
	Han Y.H. Chen Professor, Department of Natural Resources Management, Lakehead University Ontario, Canada Expertise: Forest Ecology, Plant Diversity, Ecosystem Functions, Climate Change Impact on Forests
	Mark Cookson National Institutes of Health Bethseda, Maryland, USA Expertise: Molecular biology of proteins related to inherited Parkinsons' disease
	Nils Cordes Professor of Molecular and Cellular Radiobiology, Dresden University of Technology OncoRay - National Center for Radiation Research in Oncology Dresden, Germany Expertise: Radiation biology, cell-extracellular matrix interactions, integrins, growth factor receptors, signaling, invasion, chromatin
	Ben Cowling School of Public Health, University of Hong Kong Hong Kong Expertise: Influenza virus epidemiology
	Peter Csermely Semmelweis University, Department of Medical Chemistry Budapest, Hungary Expertise: Network topology, network dynamics, protein-protein interaction networks, protein structure networks, signaling networks
	Gemma Elizabeth Derrick Health Economics Research Group, Brunel University Uxbridge, Middlesex, UK Expertise: Research evaluation, research and innovation policy, bibliometrics/scientometrics, evidence-based policymaking, societal and scientific impact, societal returns from research, evaluation frameworks, public health and medical research, research dynamics and science communication.
	Andrew DeWan Assistant Professor, Epidemiology and Public Health, Yale School of Public Health New Haven, Connecticut, USA Expertise: Genome-wide association and sequencing studies of asthma, preeclampsia, sepsis
	David Dowdy Assistant Professor, Epidemiology, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health Expertise: Tuberculosis, diagnostic epidemiology, mathematical modeling, implementation science, health economics
	Oliver Eickelberg Chairman, Comprehensive Pneumology Center (CPC), Ludwig-Maximilians-University and Helmholtz Zentrum München; Director, Institute of Lung Biology and Disease (iLBD), Helmholtz Zentrum München; Vice Chairman, German Center for Lung Research (DZL); Professor of Medicine, Division Experimental Pneumology, Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich Expertise: Respiratory medicine, signal transduction, extracellular matrix dynamics
	Hany A. El-Shemy Biochemistry Department, Cairo University Giza, Egypt Expertise: In the fields of plant biotechnology and medicinal plants (Molecular Biology)
	Alistair Evans Senior Research Fellow, School of Biological Sciences, Monash University Australia Expertise: Evolutionary morphology, teeth, mammals, functional morphology, evo-devo, vertebrate paleontology, morphometrics
	Tim Friede Professor of Biostatistics, Department of Medical Statistics, University Medical Center Göttingen Göttingen, Germany Expertise: Clinical biostatistics including clinical trial design and systematic reviews / meta-analyses

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	Ferenc Gallyas Jr. Professor, Department of Biochemistry and Medical Chemistry, University of Pecs Medical School Hungary Expertise: Mechanisms of cell death, mitochondrial events, intracellular signalling, PARP, HSP
	Stephen D. Ginsberg Associate Professor, Nathan Kline Institute and New York University School of Medicine Orangeburg, New York, USA Expertise: Degenerative mechanisms within vulnerable neurons in human brains and models
	Lise Lotte Gluud Hvidovre Hospital Denmark
	John P. Hart Director, Research & Collections Division, New York State Museum Albany, New York, USA Expertise: Agricultural evolution, paleoethnobotany, late prehistoric archaeology, northeastern North America
	Kenji Hashimoto Professor of Division of Clinical Neuroscience, Chiba University Center for Forensic Mental Health Chiba, Japan Expertise: Neuroscience; Mental Health; Schizophrenia; Mood disorder; Substance abuse; Biomarker; Brain-derived neurotrophioc factor; Oxidative stress; D-Amino acids
	Joshua L. Heazlewood Joint BioEnergy Institute, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Expertise: The role of metabolic partitioning in plant growth and development using integrated systems approaches
	Berthold Heinze Austrian Federal Research Centre for Forests BFW Vienna, Austria Expertise: Tree molecular genetics, plant genomics, Chloroplast DNA, genetic conservation
	Susanne Hempel Behavioral Scientist, Evidence-based Practice Center, RAND Corporation Santa Monica, California, USA Expertise: Systematic reviews, meta-analysis, critical appraisal, healthcare quality improvement, individual differences
	Jörg D. Hoheisel Head of Division, Functional Genome Analysis, Deutsches Krebsforschungszentrum Heidelberg, Germany Expertise: Functional genomics, proteomics, biotechnology, immunoassays, synthetic biology
	K. David Hyrenbach College of Natural and Computational Sciences, Hawai'i Pacific University Kaneohe, Hawai'i, USA Expertise: Oceanic conservation, marine mega-vertebrates, oceanography, pelagic biogeography, marine debris
	Mark Isalan Reader in Gene Network Engineering, Department of Life Sciences, Imperial College London London, UK Expertise: Systems and synthetic Biology; protein engineering; zinc fingers; genome editing.
	Christopher James Johnson Research Biologist, USGS National Wildlife Health Center Madison, Wisconsin, USA Expertise: Animal Research and Welfare; Prion Diseases; Environmental Persistence of Pathogens
	Andrew H. Kemp Invited International Visiting Professor, University of São Paulo; Associate Professor, University of Sydney Expertise: Biological psychology - neuropsychiatry - affective neuroscience - public health - epidemiology
	Kornelius Kupczik Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology Leipzig, Germany Expertise: Anatomy, Musculoskeletal System, Evolutionary Ecology, Paleontology, Paleoanthropology, Paleontology

L-M
	Jerson Laks Coordinator of the Alzheimer's Disease Center, Institute of Psychiatry, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro Brazil Expertise: Geriatric psychiatry, dementia, depression, cognition, neuropsychology, Alzheimer's, caregiver, elderly, psychiatry.
	Alfred S. Lewin Professor, Molecular Genetics and Microbiology, University of Florida Gainesville, Florida, USA Expertise: Gene therapy of inherited and age-related retinal degeneration.
	Alejandro Lucia Professor in Exercise Physiology and Senior Researcher, Universidad Europea and Research Institute (i+12) Madrid, Spain Expertise: Physical activity and health/disease, exercise and genetics
	Kathrin Maedler Islet Biology Laboratory, Center for Biomolecular Interactions University of Bremen Germany Expertise: We investigate novel pathways to protect survival and function of insulin producing beta-cells in diabetes
	Mercedes Susan Mandell Professor with Tenure, Anesthesiology, University of Colorado Aurora, Colorado, USA Expertise: Clinical studies in liver transplantation
	David McCormick Senior Vice-President and Director, Life Sciences, IIT Research Institute Chicago, Illinois, USA Expertise: Cancer prevention, toxicology, preclinical drug discovery and development, non-ionizing radiation
	James Meador Environmental Toxicologist, Northwest Fisheries Science Center, NOAA Fisheries Seattle, Washington, USA Expertise: Toxicology, dose metrics, bioaccumulation, environmental chemistry, metabolic disruptors, fisheries, invertebrate biology
	Adina Merenlender Department of Policy and Management, University of California, Berkeley Expertise: Conservation biologist: landscape field studies, spatially explicit modeling, environmental stewardship
	Alex Mesoudi Associate Professor of Cultural Evolution, University of Exeter Cornwall, UK Expertise: Cultural evolution, social learning / cultural transmission, gene-culture coevolution, evolutionary psychology
	Claudia Mettke-Hoffmann Reader in Animal Behaviour, School of Natural Sciences and Psychology, Liverpool John Moores University UK Expertise: Cognitive ecology animal personality research birds
	Lyle Moldawer University of Florida College of Medicine Gainesville, Florida, USA Expertise: Acute renal failure, Antigen processing and recognition, Antigen-presenting cells, Autoimmune diseases, Bacterial diseases, Clinical immunology, Dermatology, Diagnostic medicine, Genetics, Genomics, Immunology, Inflammation, Microbiology, Multiple organ dysfunction syndrome, Proteomics, Pseudomonas infections, Renal critical care, Sepsis, Staphylococcal infection, Transplantation, Veterinary medicine
	Partha Mukhopadhyay National Institutes of Health Rockville, Maryland, USA Expertise: Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Nephrology, Cardiovascular system, Oncology, Molecular Biology, miRNA

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	Olivier Neyrolles Institute of Pharmacology & Structural Biology, CNRS-University of Toulouse France Expertise: Tuberculosis and host-pathogen interactions
	Douglas Nixon Chairman of the Department of Microbiology, Immunology & Tropical Medicine,The George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences Washington, DC, USA Expertise: HIV-1 infection, T cell immunity, common variable immunodeficiency disorders
	Joseph P.R.O. Orgel Associate Professor of Biology, Physics and Biomedical Engineering, Illinois Institute of Technology Expertise: Extracellular Matrix, collagen structure, fibrous proteins, X-ray diffraction, brain imaging
	Madhukar Pai Professor of Epidemiology & Director of Global Health Programs, McGill University Montreal, Quebec, Canada Expertise: Improving the diagnosis and management of tuberculosis in high-burden countries
	Alexander Panfilov Universiteit Gent Gent, Belgium Expertise: Computational biology, Musculoskeletal system, Cardiovascular anatomy, Biomechanics, Biophysics, Computer modeling, Medical physics, Cardiology, Myocardial infarction, Arrhythmia
	Wayne A. Phillips Professor, Division of Cancer Research, Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre Melbourne, Australia Expertise: Cancer biology, PI3K pathway, Barrett's oesophagus, oesophageal cancer, preclinical models
	Adam Ratner Associate Professor, Pediatrics, Columbia University New York, New York, USA Expertise: Infectious diseases, pediatrics, congenital and perinatal infections, pore-forming toxins
	Marty Roop Professor, East Carolina University Brody School of Medicine Greenville, North Carolina, USA Expertise: Bacterial pathogenesis, prokaryotic biology and gene regulation, bacterial metal homeostasis
	Cheryl S. Rosenfeld Expertise: Epigenetics, animal models, DOHaD, and behavior.
	Luis Schang Professor, University of Alberta Edmonton, Canada Expertise: Chemical virology to study viral entry, gene expression and chromatin dynamics
	Harald H.H.W. Schmidt Head of Department, Maastricht University, Pharmacology Maastricht, Limburg, Netherlands Expertise: Cardiovascular pharmacology and drug discovery
	Christian Schönbach Immunoinformatics Research Team, Advanced Genome Information Technology Research, RIKEN Yokohama Institute, RIKEN Genomic Sciences Center (GSC) Yokohama, Kanagawa, Japan Expertise: Genomics, transcriptomes, biological data management, molecular genetics, mouse, subcellular organelles, gene expression, immunology, major histocompatibility complex
	Guy J-P. Schumann NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Water and Carbon Cycle Group Expertise: Remote Sensing, Microwave, Radar, Flood Hydrology, Hydrodynamics, Digital Elevation Model
	Neil R. Smalheiser Expertise: Neuroscience, psychiatry, genomics, small RNAs, informatics, text mining, scientific discovery
	Peter Sommer Head of Scientific Affairs, French-German Advanced Translational Drug Discovery Center Alsace, France Expertise: Viral host factors, viral pathogenesis, viral restriction factors, retroviruses
	Cordula M Stover Senior Lecturer, University of Leicester Leicester, United Kingdom Expertise: Mouse models of sepsis and tumour, knockout genetics, inflammation, metabolic syndrome, clinical studies (endocrine, autoimmune)

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	Christian Taube Department of Pulmonology, Leiden University Medical Center The Netherlands Expertise: Pulmonary medicine, asthma, COPD, airway inflammation, obstructive lung disease
	Thomas Thatcher Research Assistant, Professor of Medicine, University of Rochester Medical Center Rochester, New York, USA Expertise: Lung inflammation and disease focusing on fibrosis and cigarette smoking
	Brett D. Thombs Professor, Faculty of Medicine, McGill University and Senior Investigator, Lady Davis Institute for Medical Research, Jewish General Hospital Montreal, Quebec, Canada Expertise: Psychosocial issues in chronic illness, RCTs, diagnostic tests, evidence synthesis
	Praveen Thumbikat Department of Urology, Northwestern University Chicago, Illinois, USA Expertise: Inflammation, immunity, pain and host-pathogen mechanisms in urologic diseases.
	Rochelle Tractenberg Department of Neurology, Georgetown University Medical Center Washington, D.C., USA Expertise: Research methodology; measurement/outcomes; for higher education and biomedical sciences
	Derya Unutmaz Professor of Microbiology, Pathology and Medicine, NYU School of Medicine, Langone Medical Center New York, New York, USA Expertise: Dissecting the mechanisms of human immune response and regulation
	Sten H. Vermund Institute for Global Health, Vanderbilt University Nashville, Tennessee, USA Expertise: Infectious disease epidemiology, especially HIV, HPV, STI, parasites, child health
	Per Westermark Department of Genetics and Pathology, Uppsala University Uppsala, Sweden Expertise: Neurodegenerative diseases, Amyloid research
	Gayle E. Woloschak Departments of Radiation Oncology, Radiology, and Cell and Molecular Biology, Robert E. Lurie Comprehensive Cancer Center, Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University Chicago, Illinois, USA Expertise: Nanotechnology interfaces with biology, radiation biology, molecular biology, imaging
	Gavin Woodhall Professor of Neuropharmacology, Aston University Birmingham, United Kingdom Expertise: Neuronal networks, epilepsy, animal models, human tissue, ethics
	Shin Yamazaki Research Associate Professor, Neuroscience, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center Dallas, Texas, USA Expertise: Chronobiology and Circadian Rhythms