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Karina Xavier is a Principal Investigator at GIMM. She studies interspecies cell-to-cell communication in bacteria and its role in beneficial and hostile interactions in multispecies bacterial communities. Her work includes elucidation of the molecular mechanisms involved in bacterial quorum sensing and their role in shaping gut microbiota composition.
Luis Teixeira is a Principal Investigator at CBR. His lab studies host-microbe symbioses using Drosophila as a model system. He is interested not only in how viruses, Wolbachia and gut microbiota interact with flies but also how these microbes influence each other.
Ned Ruby is a Faculty Associate at the California Institute for Technology. He studies the role of bacterial behavior and physiology in the beneficial colonization of host tissues. He uses the natural squid-vibrio model of symbiosis to address how the partners communicate with each other at the molecular level.
Laila Partida-Martinez is the director and principal investigator at Cinvestav-Irapuato. She is interested in fungal-bacterial interactions, plant-microbe interactions, microbial ecology and natural products produced by microorganisms.
Howard Ochman is a Professor at the University of Texas at Austin, TX, USA. He is interested in the evolution and adaptation of microbial genomes and how genome structure affects bacterial lifestyle. He is also interested in co-evolution of microbiota bacteria with primate hosts, including humans.
Spencer Nyholm is a Professor at UCONN. His lab works on the mechanisms by which animal hosts and microbial symbionts communicate with an emphasis on how components of the innate immune system may influence these interactions.
Sean Meaden is a BBSRC Discovery Fellow. His work is focused on the interactions between bacteria and their viruses, and the ecological and evolutionary processes that shape such interactions.
Nancy Moran is a Professor at the University of Texas at Austin. Her research focuses on the evolution of symbiosis between multicellular hosts and microbes. Her work has a strong emphasis on genome evolution of bacterial symbionts of insects.
Margaret McFall-Ngai is a faculty associate at California Institute of Technology in Pasadena and a staff scientist at the Carnegie Institution for Science. Her research focuses on understanding host responses to interactions with beneficial microbes. Using the squid-vibrio model, she explores this question at spatial, molecular and mechanistic levels.
Waldan Kwong is a Principal Investigator at GIMM. His research focuses on the ecology, evolution, and function of microorganisms. To understand the diverse ways microorganisms have evolved to interact and thrive in their environments, he uses a multitude of approaches, from classical microbiology to high-throughput genomics and animal models, such as social bees and corals.
Rob Knight is a Professor at UCSD. Rob studies evolution of the composition of metabolites, genomes, and communities in different ecosystems, including the complex microbial ecosystems of the human body. He has developed main computational and experimental techniques used worldwide to study these processes.
Karen Guillemin is a Professor at the University of Oregon. Her working interests are host-microbe systems in development and disease. Karen pioneered the use of zebrafish to study host-microbe interactions, including the influence of the gut microbiome on development, metabolism, and immunity.
Maria Gloria Dominguez-Bello is a Professor of Microbiome and Health at Rutgers University. She studies the development of gut microbiota in the early life of mammalian hosts, including humans, and is also interested in how human populations' lifestyle and diet shape their microbiota.
Ilana Gabanyi is a principal investigator at GIMM. Her studies focus on the microbiota-gut-brain axis and the direct interactions between gut-bacterial signals and brain neurons.
Takema Fukatsu is a Prime Senior Researcher at the Bioproduction Research Institute, AIST. He uses experimental evolutionary approaches to study associated mechanisms and functions of microbial symbioses in insects.
Nicole Dubilier heads the Symbiosis Department, as a Director at the MPI for Marine Microbiology, and is a professor at the University of Bremen. Her research has provided a critical contribution to marine microbiology and ecology by showing how wide-spread symbioses between marine invertebrates and bacteria are.
Thomas Bosch is Senior Professor of Zoology at the University of Kiel, Germany. He is an evolutionary developmental biologist and has been working for many years on the evolution of the immune system, in particular the role of microorganisms in the evolution and development of animals and humans. In 2016 he founded the Collaborative Research Center 1182 “Origin and Function of Metaorganisms” at Kiel University. He uses Hydra as a model system to understand the evolution of host-microbe interactions.
Martin Blaser serves as the Henry Rutgers Chair of the Human Microbiome and as Director of the Center for Advanced Biotechnology and Medicine at Rutgers University. His current research interest focuses on the role of the human microbiome in early life development and the mechanisms of diseases.
Jewelna Akorli is a Principal Investigator and Wellcome Trust Intermediate Fellow at the University of Ghana. Her work centers on mosquito-associated endosymbionts and variations in vector competence in natural mosquito populations.
Aileen Berasategui - Molecular and Chemical Ecology of Symbiotic Interactions. Aileen Berasategui is an Assistant professor at the Vrije University Amsterdam, Netherlands. Her research focuses on the chemical ecology and evolution of insect-microbe symbioses, currently focusing on the interaction between fungi, insects, and their host plant.