Rhoel Dinglasan attended graduate school at Yale University, earning a MPH in Global Health with a concentration in Infectious Disease and the MPhil in Molecular Vector Biology (Dengue transmission/Wolbachia biology), before transferring to the Center for Vaccine Development at the University of Maryland, School of Medicine, to earn a PhD in Microbiology & Immunology, working in the laboratory of Prof. Abdu Azad on Anopheles mosquito glycobiology.  He was a Dmitri V. d’Arbeloff (Millipore Foundation) and NIAID, NIH Ruth L.

David A. Fidock is a Professor of Microbiology & Immunology and of Medical Sciences (in Medicine) at the Columbia University Medical Center. He is also the Program Director of the Columbia University Graduate Program in Microbiology, Immunology and Infection. He received his Bachelor of Mathematical Sciences with Honors from Adelaide University in Australia in 1986 and his Ph.D. in Microbiology from the Pasteur Institute in Paris in 1994. Following postdoctoral research at UC Irvine with Dr. Anthony James and the NIH with Dr.

Alyssa Barry is Associate Professor of Systems Epidemiology of Infection at Deakin University and Honorary Principal Research Fellow at the Burnet Institute. She has previously held positions at the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute, Burnet Institute, New York University School of Medicine (USA) and University of Oxford (UK). Alyssa leads a multidisciplinary research program combining genomics, immunology and epidemiology that is at the interface of basic research and public health.

Pr.  Rose Gana Fomban Leké, Faculty of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, University of Yaounde, Cameroon