Bassmalla has completed her bachelor degree at the age of 22 years from Tanta university. She graduated with GPA=3.45 and participated in many students activities during university time. Also she had several courses related to microbiology and medical analysis.

Abrar Ahmad Ph.D Microbiology with 8 years of academic research and 1 year of Industry experience.has research interests in Invasive Fungal Infection.

Josh Smith has spent the last decade researching alternative anti-microbial therapies in the pharmaceutical industry. In particular, he has spent most of his career developing molecular diagnostic methods and genetically modifying E. coli to prevent or kill off infections. Most recently, he worked on developing treatments for catheterized patients to guard against UTIs as well as clearing wound and skin graft sites prior to treatment. This work led to developing a patent pending new diagnostic test for identifying bacterial infections within 4 hours of receipt by the lab. His graduate degree is in clinical microbiology but, during the course of his education, he spent a large amount of time in microbial genetics, biochemistry, x-ray crystallography, and protein kinetics, particularly with the hemolysin hpmA of P. mirabilis. In 2018, Josh was approached to found Premium CBD Labs, a hemp testing laboratory located in Madison, WI. His focus is bringing the standards and ethical accountability of clinical labs to the cannabis testing industry.

Dr. William Nierman is the Director of the Infectious Disease Program at the J. Craig Venter Institute (JCVI). He is also a Professor the George Washington University School of Medicine and has taught Human Genetics at The Johns Hopkins University. He received his BS degree from the US Naval Academy and his PhD degree from the University of California, Berkeley. Dr. Nierman has broad experience in microbial pathogen genomics. His research focus is the genomic and functional analysis of two the levels of pathogen interaction with the human host, that caused by severe acute disease-causing bacterial pathogens, and that caused by fungi that can cause disease only in an immune-system-compromised host. Burkholderia mallei and Burkholderia pseudomallei are severe bacterial pathogens that cause difficult to diagnose but very life threatening diseases, glanders and melioidosis. At the other end of the pathogenicity scale are Aspergillus and Penicillium fungal pathogens which cause invasive or systemic disease in immune compromised or immune suppressed human hosts. Management of the disease in both classes of infections is becoming increasingly compromised by the rapid evolution of drug resistance in the pathogens. Both groups of organisms pose serious public health issues in both developed and in developing countries.

Malini R Capoor is a Medical Mycologist and is currently a professor in Microbiology, Vardhman Mahaveer Medical College and Safdarjung Hospital, New Delhi, India, with 19 years experience. She teaches Medical Microbiology, Medical Mycology to undergraduate and post graduate students. She has guided and co-guided post graduate students. Her interests are in the field of systemic fungal infections and dimorphic fungi. She has more than 93 publications (53 international) in the field of medical mycology mainly. She is Principal investigator and coinvestigator of projects from  related to medical mycology. She has delivered more than fifty invited lectures in the field of medical mycology in National and international conferences.
She is on editorial board of the Journal of Global Infectious Diseases.

Ritu Singhal (MD) is working as Senior Specialist and Quality Co-ordinator in Department of Microbiology, Centre of Excellence (WHO) & National Reference Laboratory (NABL accredited ) for Tuberculosis at National Institute of Tuberculosis and Respiratory Disease, New Delhi. She is national level trainer in molecular technologies in TB for SAARC and Union. She has conceptualized many projects with over 32 publications in peer reviewed National and International Journals. She has been awarded Prof. AN Chakrabarty memorial prize for best published paper in IAMM, year 2017, is recipient of outstanding achievement as Fogarty Fellow in 2014.