BASTIAANSE COMMUNICATION - Key Persons
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- Member of the Advisory Board
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After finishing his studies animal sciences in Wageningen, the Netherlands, Arie Kies worked as a general nutritionist (all species) for Hendrix' Feeds, then the largest private feed compounder of the Netherlands. Subsequently, he worked with Rhône Poulenc Animal Nutrition in France as a pig nutrition researcher. His work was mainly related to amino acids, vitamins, and antibiotic growth promoters. In 1992, he joined DSM, where he worked in the feed enzyme area. He was the first to develop "matrix-values" of phytase for digestible amino acids and energy utilisation in pigs and poultry, which was instrumental to make the enzyme economically applicable. On this topic, he wrote his PhD-thesis in 2005. Subsequently, he worked for 11 years in human nutrition, mainly in relation to nutrition for athletes and elderly people (focused on protein) and for lactose intolerants. In 2015, he moved again to animal nutrition, as application research manager for the EMEA region. His main task is to manage a large research programme involving 10 PhD students and postdocs, at different universities, on gut health. He is based at Wageningen University, where he is also a guest professor at the Animal Nutrition Group.
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- Member of the International Advisory Committee
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- Associate Professor at the Centre for Agricultural Sciences
Dr Celso J.B. Oliveira is associate professor at the Centre for Agricultural Sciences at the Federal University of Paraiba, Brazil. Dr Oliveira has been working with research, education, and extension activities related to zoonosis and public health, with a focus on integrated food safety, epidemiology of foodborne pathogens and mitigation of antimicrobial resistance. His research interests are related to the epidemiology of antimicrobial resistance in the human-animal-interface, the understanding of the dynamics of antimicrobial resistance in the food chain, and on-farm factors associated with the maintenance and dissemination of antimicrobial resistance determinants in the animal production systems. Dr Oliveira is co-founder of the ICOPHAI global consortium - an initiative launched in collaboration with the Ohio State University in order to build capacity low income regions, such as semi-arid North-eastern Brazil, in order to mitigate problems of global significance, for example antimicrobial resistance. Dr Oliveira is currently a member of the board of the National Council for Scientific and Technological Development (CNPq) in the area of veterinary medicine, and the Veterinary Subcommittee of the National Antimicrobial Susceptibility Testing Committee for Brazil (BrCAST).
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- Member of the Advisory Committee
- U.S. Food and Drug Administration, USA
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- Member of the Advisory Board
- International Livestock Research Institute, Kenya
Delia Grace is an epidemiologist and veterinarian with 20 years' experience in developing countries. She is a graduate from several leading universities, including the National University of Ireland, Edinburgh University, the Free University Berlin and Cornell University. She leads research on animal and human health at the International Livestock Research Institute in Kenya. Her research interests include food safety, emerging diseases, participatory epidemiology, gender studies and animal welfare. Her career has spanned the private sector, field-level community development and aid management, as well as research. She has lived and worked in Asia, West and East Africa and authored or co-authored around 200 peer-reviewed publications as well as training courses, briefs, films, articles and blog posts.
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- Member of the CONFERENCE COMMITTEE
- Fellow at the Department of Biomedical Sciences
Eldin Jasarevic ia a postdoctoral fellow at the Department of Biomedical Sciences, Center for Host-Microbial Interactions, University of Pennsylvania. He received his PhD in neuroscience at the University of Missouri and the Thompson Center for Autism and Neurodevelopmental Disorders studying the combined effect of maternal stress and diet on sex differences in brain development. Currently he is a postdoctoral fellow in the lab of Dr. Tracy Bale at the University of Pennsylvania. Ongoing research focuses on leveraging methods from neuroscience, microbial genomics, immunology and computational biology to identify mechanisms by which maternal adversity impacts the early-in-life development of the gut-brain-immune axis of offspring, and contribute to increased risk for neuropsychiatric disorders across the lifespan. He is a recipient of several awards including selection as a Kavli Fellow of the Kavli Foundation and National Academy of Sciences.
Filip Scheperjans, MD, PhD, studied medicine at the University of Düsseldorf (Germany) and gained international experience as a visiting student in London, New York and Helsinki. He received the award for the best thesis of the medical faculty of the University of Düsseldorf in 2008. Now living in Finland he works as neurologist and clinical researcher at the Department of Neurology of Helsinki University Hospital. His main research interest is the role of microbiota in Parkinson's disease and his group was the first to demonstrate microbiome community structure alterations in Parkinson's disease. For his groundbreaking work in this field he was awarded the Uschi Tschabitscher Prize for Young Neurologists by the European Academy of Neurology in 2014. Since 2015 Filip Scheperjans is also founder and CEO of NeuroInnovation Oy, a company providing state-of-the art clinical services to Parkinson patients and working on developing microbiome based treatments for PD. He is furthermore involved in several international multicenter trials related to Parkinson's disease.
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- Member of the Advisory Committee
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- Member of the International Advisory Committee
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- Department of Nutrition, Exercise and Sports, University of Copenhagen, Denmark
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- Member of the International Advisory Committee
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- Member of the Advisory Board
- Research Director
Dr Jeffrey L. Watts currently holds the position of Research Director, External Innovation - Anti-Infectives for Zoetis, Inc., USA. Dr Watts has had a varied career over the past three decades that has spanned both clinical and veterinary microbiology. He has been active in antibacterial discovery programmes over the past three decades where he has contributed to the development of ceftiofur, clindamycin, pirlimycin, spectinomycin, cefpodoxime, and linezolid. Jeff was the founder of the Clinical and Laboratory Standards Institute (CLSI) Subcommittee on Veterinary Antimicrobial Susceptibility Testing developing standards and guidelines that promote accurate antimicrobial susceptibility testing and appropriate reporting. Jeff received his PhD from Western Michigan University.
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- Member of the Advisory Committee
- Department of Bioscience and Biotechnology, Kyushu University, Japan
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- Member of the Advisory Committee
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- Member of the International Advisory Committee
- US Department of Agriculture
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- Member of the International Advisory Committee
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- Director of Medical Quality for BluePearl Veterinary Partners
Dr Meredith Daly is the Director of Medical Quality for BluePearl Veterinary Partners, an emergency and specialty practice group within the Mars Veterinary Health family. In her role, Dr Daly is responsible for overseeing the Mars Veterinary Health strategy to combat antimicrobial resistance, impacting prescription practices and antimicrobial resistance education at Mars' five global veterinary practices, which collectively treat millions of companion animal pets each year. A graduate of the University of Pennsylvania School of Veterinary Medicine, Meredith completed a rotating internship in small animal medicine and surgery at the University of Pennsylvania, USA, in 2004. Following her internship, she completed a residency in small animal emergency and critical care at the University of Pennsylvania in 2007. She became board-certified by the American College of Veterinary Emergency and Critical Care in 2007. She currently serves as co-director of the small animal critical care service at BluePearl Midtown Hospital in New York and remains a practicing veterinarian.
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- Member of the Advisory Committee
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- Director of the Pan American Center for Foot - and - Mouth Disease
Dr Ottorino Cosivi is the Director of the Pan American Center for Foot-and-Mouth Disease and Veterinary Public Health (PANAFTOSA) of the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO). Based in Rio de Janeiro, PANAFTOSA coordinates PAHO's technical cooperation on (VPH), specifically on 3 areas: (i) zoonotic and foodborne diseases, snakes and arthropods envenomation; (ii) food safety and antimicrobial resistance in the animal food value chain; and (iii) foot-and-mouth disease (FMD). PANAFTOSA hosts the OIE/FAO Reference Laboratory on FMD and the OIE Collaborating Centre on Veterinary Public Health. Dr Cosivi started his career in 1993 as a Veterinary Public Health Officer working on zoonotic diseases at WHO, Geneva. In 2000, he then assumed the leadership of the WHO bioterrorism preparedness program. In 2008, he was Acting Director, WHO's Mediterranean Centre for Health Risk Reduction, Tunis, before moving to PAHO. Dr Cosivi qualified in Veterinary Medicine at Parma University, Italy, and has a postgraduate in Tropical Veterinary Medicine from Edinburgh University. Before joining WHO, he worked with NGOs, academic institutions, pharmaceutical industry and as field practitioner.
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- Member of the Advisory Committee
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- One Medicine Consulting, USA
Rob Hunter owns One Medicine Consulting in Olathe, KS, USA to assist veterinary pharmaceutical companies with designing and establishing veterinary drug development plan and regulatory strategies for their technologies. He received a BS degree in Animal Science from Angelo State University. He went on to obtain a MS in Veterinary Physiology from Texas A&M University and a PhD in Veterinary Pharmacology from Louisiana State University. He has worked at the Johnson Space Center, Pfizer Animal Health, and as a tenure-track faculty member at Kansas State University, College of Veterinary Medicine. He has also been employed as a Senior Research Scientist at Elanco Animal Health and was the Chief Scientific Officer for Parnell Animal Health. He has a distinguished research record and is internationally known for his research on veterinary bioequivalence, human food safety as it relates to drug residues, and antimicrobial therapy of minor species. He is the current President of the American Academy of Veterinary Pharmacology and Therapeutics. Rob has worked on developing new animal health antimicrobials for more than 25 years.
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- Member of the Steering Committee
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- Veterinary Clinical Pharmacologist
Dr Stephen Page is a veterinary clinical pharmacologist with a career that has included 5 years in ambulatory mixed animal practice, followed by a number of decades divided equally between global clinical development roles within the animal health industry and, most recently, directorship of a consulting company and two start-up antimicrobial discovery and development companies. He is passionate about appropriate use of veterinary medicines, especially antimicrobial agents which has led to a focus on two areas, those of clinical decision making and antimicrobial stewardship (AMS). He is currently working with veterinary colleagues in Australia and internationally to develop AMS frameworks and prescribing guidelines for companion animal and livestock species. He is a member of the Australian Strategic and Technical Advisory Group on Antimicrobial Resistance (ASTAG), the World Small Animal Veterinary Association Therapeutic Guidelines Group, the World Veterinary Association Pharmaceutical Stewardship Working Group and the OIE Antimicrobial WG. Though never having an academic position, he has more than 60 publications and close to 100 granted patents. Most of all he has an insatiable passion for new discoveries and likes nothing more than time to talk with others learning new things that can help refine current practices.
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- Clinical Program Manager at Lallemand Health Solutions
Stéphanie-Anne Girard is the Clinical Program Manager at Lallemand Health Solutions where she conducts and manages global human clinical trials of Lallemand probiotic strains and yeast formulations. She is responsible for the oversight of clinical studies aimed at better understanding of the properties, functions and beneficial effects of probiotics on health. She has a BSc in Microbiology and Immunology from McGill University and a Masters in Pharmacology from the University of Montreal, where her research focused on the effects of probiotics on post-myocardial infarction depression in a rodent model. More specifically, her interest was the effect of probiotics on the kinetics of biochemical and physiological cerebral changes following a myocardial infarction. Her exposure to the probiotics field served as a platform for her Doctorate research topic; prebiotics. She received her PhD in Nutritional Sciences from the University of Florida in 2012. She completed her Post-Doctoral degree through an Industrial R&D Fellowship from the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) in collaboration with her current employer, Lallemand Health Solutions.
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- Member of the Advisory Board
Dr Tom Shryock received his Ph.D. in medical microbiology from the Ohio State University, USA, in 1982. He spent the majority of his career with Elanco Animal Health Regulatory addressing the use of antibiotics and AMR in food animals, food and people. He co-founded the Clinical and Laboratory Standards Institute's Subcommittee on Veterinary Antimicrobial Susceptibility Testing (CLSI-VAST). Dr Shryock began Antimicrobial Consultants, LLC in 2015 to partner with clients on R&D projects and regulatory submissions for antimicrobial agents and ‘alternatives', antimicrobial resistance (AMR) and stewardship programmes plus policy development. Dr Shryock served 2015-2019 on the US Presidential Advisory Council on Combating Antibiotic-Resistant Bacteria (PACCARB).
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- Member of the International Advisory Committee
Yuliya Borre has nearly 5 years of CNS drug discovery experience having worked in the US industrial arena. She did her PhD in Neuropharmacology at Utrecht University, the Netherlands followed by postdoctoral fellowship investigating the role of intestinal microbiota in health and disease at the APC Microbiome Institute, Cork, Ireland. Currently, She is a Scientific Project Leader at the Danone Early Life Nutrition division. As a R&D ambassador for the Allergy program, She inspires the business, R&D colleagues and external collaborators; providing experimental solutions and building scientific communication strategy, substantiating current business and future gut microbiota-targeted innovations.
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- Tufts University and National Institutes of Health, USA
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- Member of the Advisory Committee
- Member of the CONFERENCE COMMITTEE
Laura Steenbergen graduated in Cognitive Neuroscience in June 2014 and obtained her PhD on Cognitive Enhancement from Leiden University in June 2016, after which she worked as a postdoctoral researcher in the Cognitive Psychology Unit of Leiden University. In June 2017, she moved to the University of Amsterdam, from which she received an Amsterdam Brain and Cognition talent grant. From a practical point of view, her research includes different methods, such as food supplementation (tyrosine, tryptophan, probiotics) and electrical brain stimulation (tVNS, tDCS). She is currently investigating the effects of food supplements and dietary habits on gut-brain interactions and cognition.
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- Consultant, the Netherlands
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- Associate Professor
- Member of the Advisory Committee
- Principal Investigator
Rochellys Diaz Heijtz is an Associate Professor of Translational Neuroscience and Principal Investigator at the Department of Neuroscience, Karolinska Institutet (Sweden). Her research studies have a long-term goal of understanding the biological basis of neurodevelopmental disorders, with focus on Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) and Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD). Her current research program includes basic studies investigating the influence of gut-derived microbial molecules, such as "bacterial peptidoglycan motifs" and their sensing molecules, on brain development and behavior, and clinical studies investigating the potential role of the gut microbiota in the pathophysiology of ASD and other neurodevelopmental disorders.
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- Member of the Advisory Committee
Saskia van Hemert has a PhD in host-microbe interactions, obtained at the Wageningen University. After a Post-doc at the Top Institute Food&Nutrition, she joined Winclove Probiotics in 2009. Currently she is working as a senior scientist with a focus on host-probiotic interactions. She is responsible for the scientific content of different research projects . Since 5 years the relations between probiotics and gut microbiota with brain health has her specific attention. She has several publications and research projects about probiotics in different areas related to the gut-brain axis, like mood, depression, ADHD/autism and migraine.
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- Member of the Advisory Committee
- Assistant Professor at University of California
Elaine Y. Hsiao, is an Assistant Professor at University of California in Los Angeles. Her lab is mining the human microbiota for microbial modulators of host neuroactive molecules, investigating the impact of microbiota-immune system interactions on neurodevelopment and examining the microbiome as an interface between gene-environment interactions in neurological diseases. She aims to dissect biological circuits for communication between the gut microbiota and nervous system, toward understanding fundamental biological pathways that influence brain and behavior. Her work in this area, and on neuroimmune interactions in autism, has led to several honors, including the Packard Fellowship in Science and Engineering, Alfred P. Sloan Fellowship in Neuroscience, Klingenstein-Simons Fellowship in Neuroscience, National Institutes of Health Director's Early Independence Award, Forbes' 30 Under 30 in Science and Healthcare and National Geographic's Emerging Explorer Award. Elaine received her Ph.D. in Neurobiology from Caltech, and her B.S. in Microbiology, Immunology and Molecular Genetics form UCLA.
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- Member of the CONFERENCE COMMITTEE
Elsbeth Pekelharing studied Health Sciences at Maastricht University, specializing in bioregulation and kinesiology. At the haematology lab of Prof Bos she focussed on the interaction of natural killer cells on dendritic cells in the context of immune vaccination. Her research master at the VU University in Amsterdam MPA (Management, Policy-analysis and Entrepreneurship in Life and Health Sciences) focusses on transdisciplinary methodologies within the health sciences. Since 2015 she works at Winclove Probiotics as science liaison. One of her focus area's is the research in gut-brain axis; both setting up studies with universities and research institutes as validating the outcomes with the partners and healthcare professionals. One of activities within this context is being involved in the initiation of Mind, Mood & Microbes.
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- Associate Professor in the Department of Neuroscience
Mauro Costa-Mattioli is an Associate Professor in the Department of Neuroscience and the Director of the Memory and Brain Research Center (MBRC) at Baylor College of Medicine. He received his bachelor's degree in biology from the University of the Republic (Uruguay) and PhD in microbiology from the University Nantes (France). He performed his postdoctoral training in neurobiology at McGill University (Canada).
His laboratory has produced several important contributions to the understanding of the neurobiological basis of memory formation. More recently, his laboratory has swift fields to study how our microbial communities affect behavior, physiology and brain health.
Mauro has won numerous awards, including the International Eppendorf and Science Prize for Neurobiology, the Searle Scholar Award, Whitehall Scholar Award, International Society for Neurochemistry's Young Investigator Award and the Michael E. DeBakey Excellence in Research Award. He holds the Cullen Foundation Endowed Chair in Neuroscience.
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- Member of the Advisory Board
Peter Oostenbach obtained his masters' degree in animal husbandry from Wageningen University, the Netherlands, in 1985. The first part of his professional career was focused on poultry. For the Dutch Product Board for Poultry and Eggs he developed the quality assurance systems for the Dutch poultry industry, which still form the quality base for the Dutch poultry production. Mid 1990s he moved to the animal health industry and from that moment he was involved in the issue of the use of antibiotics in animal production. For more than 2 decades, he was member of the Antibiotic Core Group of MSD Animal Health. He was very active at the level of the European animal health association and was among the founding fathers of EPRUMA, the European Platform for the Responsible Use of Medicines in Animals. In these roles, he has been promoting a holistic approach towards responsible use of antibiotics in animals. Currently, he is Interim Director Product Development and Innovation for Delacon, Austria, provider of phytogenic solutions for food animal production.
Aletta Kraneveld, full professor Interdisciplinary Translational Pharmacology at the Faculty of Science and the faculty of Veterinary Medicine of the Utrecht University has published >100 papers (H-index: 35). Besides science, she is an active member of several (advisory) boards of (inter)national scientific organizations. The Kraneveld group is focusing research to in depth study the role of the gut-immune-brain-axis in neurodevelopmental and neurodegenerative disorders including the interaction of microbiota and their fermentation products with the immune and nervous system. Aletta Kraneveld has set up a program that is a (inter)national neuro-immune platform where academia and industry meet for research on the gut-immune-brain axis as target for medicine and medical food concepts.
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- Member of the International Advisory Committee
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- Member of the Steering Committee
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- Professor
Dengpan Bu is professor and faculty member at the Institute of Animal Science, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences. He received his PhD degree from the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences. Dr. Bu's research activities focus on understanding (i) lipid and nitrogen metabolism at cellular, tissue and whole animal levels in dairy cows, improving rumen fermentation, feed efficiency and milk quality, and (ii) prevalence and fate of veterinary antibiotics from animal waste in crop-livestock production systems. Dr. Bu has co-authored over 200 scientific articles and abstracts either in Chinese or English. He was recognised as one of the young scientific and technological innovation leading talents by the China Ministry of Science and Technology in 2014.
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- Chairman of the Advisory Committee
- Member of the Advisory Board
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- Member of the Advisory Board
Prof. Gunther Antonissen was recently (April 2019) appointed as chairholder of the Chair Poultry Health Sciences at Ghent University, Belgium. Prof. Antonissen received a Master in Veterinary Medicine at Ghent University in 2011. He received a PhD in Veterinary Sciences at Ghent University in 2015, having studied the predisposing effect of the mycotoxins deoxynivalenol and fumonisins on necrotic enteritis in broiler chickens. As a postdoctoral researcher, he investigated the impact of mycotoxins and feed additives on the intestinal physiology and microbiota. Prof. Antonissen currently has more than 40 scientific papers in international peer-reviewed journals and is a well-known speaker at international events. The research of the group of Gunther Antonissen is multidisciplinary, focusing on the ‘Poultry One Health Paradigm'. i.e., (i) healthy people: impact poultry on public health; (ii) healthy animals: animal health and welfare; and (iii) healthy environment: sustainable poultry production.
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- Member of the Advisory Committee
- Wageningen University & Research, the Netherlands
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Jaap Wagenaar was trained as a veterinarian and completed his PhD study at Utrecht University and the National Animal Diseases Center (USDA-ARS) in Ames, IA, USA. Before being appointed as a Chair in Clinical Infectiology at Utrecht University, the Netherlands in 2006, he worked with the WHO in Switzerland, and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and the Western Regional Research Center (USDA-ARS) in the USA. He is a member of the WHO Advisory Group on Integrated Surveillance of Antimicrobial Resistance (AGISAR) and the WHO Global Foodborne Infections Network, a global capacity building network. He is a member of the expert panel of the Netherlands Veterinary Medicines Institute and involved in the major reduction of antimicrobial use in livestock. He is director of the WHO Collaborating Centre for Campylobacter and the OIE Reference Laboratory for Campylobacteriosis, and he is acting frequently as an expert for the WHO, FAO and OIE.
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- Member of the Advisory Board
Prof. Jan Kluytmans did his medical training as well as specialisation in clinical microbiology at Erasmus MC, the Netherlands. His scientific career focuses on the epidemiology and control of nosocomial infections, with a special interest in S. aureus, surgical site infections and catheter-related infections. He discovered the concept of perioperative eradication of nasal carriage as an infection control measure. More recently, his investigations have included the impact of agricultural antibiotic use on the development of resistance in animals, food items and humans. Prof. Kluytmans has been involved in many national and international guidelines on infection control, especially those dealing with the control of MRSA and the prevention of surgical site infections. At present, he is working at Amphia Hospital and Elisabeth-TweeSteden Hospital. From 2006-2014, he was professor medical microbiology and infection control at Amsterdam UMC. In 2014, he moved to UMC Utrecht as professor epidemiology of healthcare-related infections. Prof. Kluytmans leads several work packages within the New Drugs for Bad Bugs (ND4BB) programme focused on the epidemiology of S. aureus within Europe. Since 2017, he is the leader of the i-4-1-Health crossborder project between the Netherlands and Belgium. He has published more than 200 papers in peer-reviewed journals and has given more than 500 presentations and lectures.
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- Member of the Advisory Committee
- Nutricia Research and Utrecht University, the Netherlands
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- Department of Food Biotechnology, Spanish National Research Council ( IATA - CSIC ), Spain
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- Member of the International Advisory Committee
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- Member of the International Advisory Committee
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- Member of the Advisory Committee
Michiel Kleerebezem obtained his PhD in Molecular Microbiology at the University of Utrecht in 1995. From 1995 until 2015 he has been employed at NIZO food research as a principal scientist. Since 2007 he has held a position as professor of "Bacterial Metagenomics and Host Microbe Interactions" at the Host Microbe Interactomics Group of the Wageningen University where he was full-time appointed in 2015. His expertise centers around the genomics, molecular biology and physiology of bacteria, with a special focus on lactic acid bacteria, probiotics, and the human (intestinal) microbiota. In recent years he has expanded his field to the (post-genomic) molecular analysis of mechanisms of communication between bacteria and the mucosal tissues of the host.
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- Member of the Advisory Committee
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- Member of the Steering Committee
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- Member of the International Advisory Committee
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- Associate Professor
- Member of the Advisory Committee
Jane Foster is an Associate Professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioural Neurosciences at McMaster University in Hamilton (Canada). She holds a research appointment as a Scientific Associate with the University Health Network and as a Scientist at St. Michael's Hospital in Toronto (Canada). Jane is an active researcher in two large translational networks - the Province of Ontario Neurodevelopmental Disorders Network (POND) and the Canadian Biomarkers in Depression (CAN-BIND). Her research focuses on the role of immune-brain and gut-brain interactions on neurodevelopment, behaviour, and brain function. Jane hopes that her research accomplishments lead to a better understanding of how these relationships contribute to psychiatric disorders such as neurodevelopmental disorders, anxiety and depression.
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- Member of the Advisory Committee
- Professor & Chair
John F. Cryan is Professor & Chair, Dept. of Anatomy & Neuroscience, University College Cork (Ireland). He received a B.Sc. (Hons) and PhD from the National University of Ireland, Galway. He was a visiting fellow at the Dept Psychiatry, University of Melbourne, Australia (1997-1998), which was followed by postdoctoral fellowships at the University of Pennsylvania, USA and The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, California (USA). He spent four years at the Novartis Institutes for BioMedical Research in Basel Switzerland, as a labhead, Behavioural Pharmacology prior to joining UCC in 2005 where he was a senior lecturer in Pharmacology in the School of Pharmacy and in the Dept. Pharmacology & Therapeutics UCC. He is a principal investigator in the APC Microbiome Institute.
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- Division of Human Nutrition, Wageningen University & Research, the Netherlands
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- Member of the Advisory Committee
- Professor of Psychiatry at the University
Marion Leboyer, M.D., Ph.D. is Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Paris Est (UPEC) in France. She is head of the department of Psychiatry and Addiction (H Mondor, Créteil). She runs the Inserm laboratory "Translational Psychiatry" and she is the executive director of the FondaMental Foundation (www.fondation-fondamental.org). She has authored or co-authored more than 400 peer-reviewed international publications (H factor = 71). Her research efforts have contributed to identification of genetic and environmental risk factors, as well as immune dysfunctions (infections, inflammation, auto-antibodies) in major psychiatric disorders.
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- Member of the Advisory Committee
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- Member of the Advisory Board
- Health Communications Specialist
- Health Communications Specialist, India
Satya Sivaraman is a health communications specialist based in India but with work experience in Southeast Asia and South America. He is currently a communication advisor with a global network of universities and organisations that seeks to initiate public and policy action on antibiotic resistance in Asia, Africa and Latin America. He has also worked with the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP) as well as with other UN agencies in different capacities. His work has involved explaining technical issues to wider audiences and understanding resistance in an anthropological and a cultural context. Recently, he has focused on popular messaging on antibiotic use in food-animal farming in the Asia-Pacific region. Satya has also produced a variety of documentaries on various themes, including a short film titled ‘Antibiotic resistance for idiots'.
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- Member of the Advisory Committee
- Coca - Cola Services, Belgium
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- Member of the International Advisory Committee