Ahmed Hegazi is currently a Professor of Microbiology and Immunology in the National Research Center, Egypt. Prof. Hegazi received his master’s degree in 1979 and his PhD in 1981. Hegazi's research work has been focused lately on bee products and their therapeutic effects. Hegazi organized and contributed to national and international research projects since 1977 and up till now; he has been the principal investigator on multiple research projects within the National Research Center. He has published 222 scientific papers and articles in national and international journals. He also served on the board of multiple national and international scientific journals. Dr. Hegazi is also the president of the Egyptian Environmental Society for Uses and Production of Bee Products, secretary of the Egyptian Society of Apitherapy, secretary general of the African Federation of Apiculture Associations, and a member of the International Apitherapy Commission (APIMONDIA).

Baher Effat is a Research Professor of Food and Dairy Microbiology, National Research Centre, Egypt. Over 36 years of experience in Food and Dairy Bacteriology, he shared and supervised over than 6 Master and Ph.D Thesis in Food and Dairy sciences and more than 62 scientific publications in food and dairy microbiology, functional dairy products , probiotics and propionic acid bacteria and pathogenic bacteria and in Food and Dairy Products.

Dr.Ramin Lak is a Molecular Microbiologist and he works with two well-known privated hospital laboratories as Molecular Diagnosis Laboratory head including Pars Hospital Laboratory and Bahman Hospital Laboratory in Tehran, Iran. Ramin is a Ph.D of Microbiology and he has more than 10 years of clinical laboratory experiences in Molecular Microbiology and Molecular diagnosis testings and he is a member of the infection control team in Pars hospital. Ramin is a member of Europian society of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases (ESCMID). He was invited to the department of clinical microbiology at Karolinska university Laboratory ,Stockholm, Sweden during May 2019 for a professional exchange within the ESCMID observership program.

Eugene I. Eremenko is a chief researcher and since 1978 works in Anthrax Lab at Stavropol Plague Control Research Institute in Russian Federation. He holds PhD, DSc, Professor. Eugene’s sphere of scientific interests includes microbiology, genetics and epidemiology of anthrax. Eugene participated in the Exchange Visitor Program at Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, AZ, USA in 1998, High Containment Laboratory Biosafety Workshop in 2004, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada, International Conferences on Anthrax. He has also been involved in anthrax outbreaks investigations in Russia. Recent Eugene’s works are devoted to molecular typing of anthrax pathogen strains. He trained several specialists in the field of microbiology who received PhD and Dsc degrees under his leadership.

Mukta Das Gupta is a PhD student at Medical School of Australian National University (ANU). She obtained her bachelor degree in Doctor of Veterinary Medicine (DVM) and Master of Science (MS) in Microbiology at Chittagong Veterinary and Animal Sciences University, Bangladesh. During her MS research, she investigated the prevalence and antimicrobial sensitivity pattern of Enterohemorrhagic E. coli in Black Bengal goat. She is currently holding a position as an Assistant Professor in Department of Microbiology and Veterinary Public Health at Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, CVASU, Bangladesh. Her research interests are in the area of microbial genomics and bioinformatics.

Dr. Muhammd Shahid is working as assistant professor in Department of Bioinformatics and Biotechnology, Government College University, Faisalabad Pakistan. He is an early career scientist with four years of Teaching/Research experience at university level, where he is involved in teaching various graduate and postgraduate courses and supervising postgraduate research students. He secured Indigenous PhD fellowship and completed his PhD in Biotechnology with specialization in Plant-microbe interactions in 2013 from National Institute for Biotechnology and Genetic Engineering (NIBGE), Faisalabad, Pakistan. During his PhD, he also secured 6 month research fellowship from Higher Education Commission (HEC), Pakistan to conduct part of his PhD research at Department of Microbial Ecology, University of Groningen, The Netherlands. He has a keen interest to study biochemical and molecular mechanisms of plant-bacterial interactions occurring in rhizosphere and phyto-beneficial traits exhibited by Plant growth-promoting rhizobacteria (PGPRs). Studying bioremediation potential of bacteria isolated from polluted soil and wastewater is also his field of interest. He is also keen to study physiological and genetic mechanisms involved in bacteria-mediated induction of abiotic stress tolerance in plants. Currently, he has 22 national and international publications with cumulative impact factor of more than 30. He also has one book chapter in international book and presented his research at various national and international conferences. He also has won research funding at national level to facilitate his student’s research.