Poonam is an MD in medical microbiology with extensive academic experience as an Assistant Professor in Lady Hardinge Medical College. Her academic research was primarily focussed on mycology, hopsital infection control (HIC), serology, antibiotic resistance, antibiotic stewardship and accreditataion of laboratories according to ISO standards. She managed multiple projects and students during her tenure as an Assistant Professsor. Her interest and enthusiansm in management made her manage MBBS batches and also lead the effort in establishing the new laborartory facility. In her present role, she published multiple papers (in the areas of HIV, mycology, hospital infection control, serology and bio-medical waste management) and delivered expert talks in multiple national and state level conferences. She is extremely interested in pursuing her career where she can utilize her research credentials and skills blended with commercial accumen in developing technologies in medical microbiology domain. More precisely, her interest is in academics and diagnostic laboratories with research, Hospital Infection Control and Implementation of all Quality Procedures in the laboratories with excellent administrative and Managerial skills.

Narendra Kumar Chopra has completed his master’s degree M. D Internal Medicine from “Maharaja Sayajee Rao University” Baroda, India in the year 1986.Subsequently he has completed his Fellowship in Tropical Medicine from Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene London (U. K) in the year 1989.He was also awarded WHO Fellowship in the year 1990 in Leprosy, infectious diseases in countries of South East Asia &Africa. He has also received young scientist Melville Christian Memorial Award and Gold medal at national level in the year 1995 for research in the field of leprosy. He was also awarded Rastriya Gaurav Award by Vice President of India in the year 2002 for outstandind contribution in the field of Infectious diseases. He was also selected in the team by World Health organization for action program for elimination of leprosy in the year 2003.He has published more than 40 research papers in peer reviewed national &International journals. He had worked as Associate Professor and Head Medicine in AIMST University in Bedong Kedah State Malaysia from May 2013 to May 2015. Presently he is working as Clinical Professor and infectious diseases Consultant in the Faculty of Medicine SEGI University, Clinical Campus, Hospital Sibu (Sarawak State) Malaysia since January

Saloni Parekh has completed masters in microbiology from Mithibai college, Vile parle. She is completed a three month internship at Prince aly Khan hospital (microbiology department). She is an external lecturer at the Bombay hospital college of nursing for medical microbiology and immunology. She has attended various workshops on microbiology and Research methodology. She is currently a microbiology technical officer at Suburban diagnostics India Pvt.ltd Central processing Lab.

Larissa Matos graduated in biomedicine (2010) and master in biology applied to health (2013) from the Federal University of Pernambuco - UFPE. She is PhD in science (2017) from the University of São Paulo - USP (Program of Experimental Epidemiology Applied to Zoonoses). She has experience in the areas of microbiology, molecular biology, carcinogenesis and molecular probes, with a focus on microbiome, bacterial pathogenesis (leptospirosis), NGS sequencing, bioinformatics, cloning, expression and purification of recombinant proteins, electrophoresis, chromatography, ELISA, western blotting, chemiluminescence and diagnosis. She is currently a postdoc researcher at the Center for Research on the Human Genome and Stem Cells (CEGH-IB/USP), working mainly with the microbiome-host interaction.