Ab-web is supported by a global team of academics, scientists, healthcare providers, biomedical professionals, and students interested in Acinetobacter baumannii

Andres Opazo-Capurro

Universidad de Concepción, Concepción, Chile

Research Interests: Therapeutic options, epidemiology, and molecular mechanisms of antibiotic-resistance of clinically-relevant bacterial pathogens

Bernt Eric Uhlin

Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden

Research Interests: Infection biology, bacterial fitness mechanisms, and bacterial interactions with host environments

Benjamin A Evans

University of East Anglia, Norwich, United Kingdom

Research Interests: Evolution of bacterial drug resistance mechanisms, transmission of drug resistance in bacterial populations, and population dynamics of bacterial pathogens

Benjamin Havenga

Stellenbosch University, Stellenbosch, South Africa

Research Interests: Antibiotic resistence and strain typing of clinically significant bacterial pathogens

Cecilia Ambrosi

Università telematica San Raffaele, Rome, Italy

Research Interests: Virulence, antibiotic resistance, and molecular epidemiology of bacterial pathogens 

Chaoying Ma

University College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland

Research Interests: Biotechnology, biomedicine and biopharmaceutical engineering, and development of novel vaccines against critical infectious diseases

Daniela Centron

Universidad de Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, Argentina

Research Interests: Molecular mechanisms of antimicrobial drug resistance, and identification of cellular pathways involved in transmission, fitness and adaptation to extreme drug resistance in pathogens within the conceptual framework of One Health

Gabriela Jorge Da Silva

University of Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal

Research Interests: Bacterial virulence, antimicrobial resistance, molecular biology, natural transformation, horizontal gene transfer, and molecular epidemiology

Gottfried Wilharm

Robert Koch Institute, Wernigerode, Germany

Research Interests: Natural transformation, drug resistance, genomic plasticity and evolution of bacteria

Irfan Ahmad

University of Health Sciences, Lahore, Pakistan

Research Interests: Microbiology, molecular biology, and clinical laboratory sciences

Johanna J Kenyon

Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Australia

Research Interests: Bacterial pathogenesis, infection biology, host immunity, and genetics of polysaccharides produced by clinically significant bacterial pathogen

Laurent Poirel
University of Fribourg, Fribourg, Switzerland
Research Interests: Medical and molecular microbiology, emerging mechanisms of resistance to ß-lactams, polymyxins, and quinolones in Gram-negative rods, both in human and veterinary medicine

María Paula Quiroga

Universidad de Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, Argentina

Research Interests: Bacterial genetics and molecular mechanisms of lateral genetic transfer of antimicrobial drug resistance in pathogens and environmental bacteria under the One Health Framework.

Monzer Hamze

Lebanese University, Tripoli, Lebanon

Research Interests: Clinical microbiology, antimicrobial resistance, infectious diseases, medical technology, and public health

Nabil Karah

Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden

Research Interests: Clinical laboratory diagnosis, molecular medical biology, antibiotic resistance, and epidemiology of infectious diseases

Patrice Nordmann

Research Interests: Molecular microbiology, genetic and biochemical analysis of emerging antibiotic resistences, and diagnostic techniques for identification of bacterial resistance traits

Paul G Higgins

University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany

Research Interests: Antibiotic resistence and epidemiology of healthcare-associated bacterial infections using a one health approach

Philip N Rather

Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, United States

Research Interests: Fitness, pathogenicity, drug resistance, and phenotypic heterogeneity of bacterial pathogens

Raffaele Zarrilli

University of Naples Federico II, Naples, Italy

Research Interests: Public health, molecular epidemiology of community-acquired and hospital-acquired infections, and bacterial mechanisms of antimicrobial drug resistances

Rayane Rafei

Lebanese University, Tripoli, Lebanon

Research Interests: Antibiotic resistence, molecular epidemiology of infectious disease, whole-genome sequencing and genomic analysis, and public health

Ruth M Hall

The University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia

Research Interests: Microbiology, bacterial genetics, transfer and evolution of antibiotic resistance in bacteria, and mobile genetic elements

Santiago Castillo-Ramírez

Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Cuernavaca, México

Research Interests: Antibiotic resistence, phylogeography, genomic epidemiology, and microevolution of bacterial pathogens

Sara Domingues

University of Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal

Research Interests: Occurrence, fitness, and biological cost of mobile genetic elements, antibiotic resistance, natural transformation, and horizontal gene transfer

Siobhán McClean

University College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland

Research Interests: Antibiotic resistence, mechanisms of pathogenesis and adaptation of bacterial pathogens, host-pathogen interactions, and vaccine development

Thomas A Russo

University Buffalo, Buffalo, NY, United States

Research Interests: Infectious diseases, antibiotic resistance, drug and vaccine development, and microbial pathogenesis

Valeria Mateo-Estrada

Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Cuernavaca, México

Research Interests: Phylogenomics of bacterial and environmental pathogens 

Verónica E Alvarez

Universidad de Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, Argentina

Research Interests: Mechanisms of antimicrobial drug resistance, infectious diseases, bioinformatics, computational biology, and application of machine learning to microbiology and public health

Wesaal Khan

Stellenbosch University, Stellenbosch, South Africa

Research Interests: Genotypic and phenotypic characterization of clinical and environmental bacteria, biological control of bacterial pathogens, bacterial drug resistance, and novel strategies for the treatment and monitoring of water sources

Ziad Daoud

Central Michigan University, Michigan, United States

Research Interests: Clinical microbiology, infection prevention, antibiotic resistence, microbial pathogenesis, and epidemiology of hospital-acquired infections