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Editorial Board

Members of the PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases Editorial Board are representatives of their respective research communities who volunteer their time overseeing peer review and guiding journal direction. 

Editors-in-Chief

Shaden Kamhawi

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Vector Molecular Biology
National Institutes of Health
Rockville, MD, USA

Paul Brindley

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Immunology and Tropical Medicine 
George Washington University (GW)
Washington, D.C, USA 

Founding Editor-in-Chief

Peter J. Hotez

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National School of Tropical Medicine, Department of Pediatrics
Baylor College of Medicine, Texas Children's Hospital
Houston, TX, USA

Former Editors-in-Chief

Serap Aksoy (2008 – 2019)

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Epidemiology of Microbial Diseases
Yale School of Public Health
New Haven, CT, USA 

Judd Walson (2018 – 2019)

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Departments of Global Health, Medicine, Pediatrics and Epidemiology
University of Washington
Seattle, WA, USA 

 

Section Editors

Bacteria Section

Ana Lucia Nascimento

Centro de Biotecnologia
Instituto Butantan
Sao Paulo, SP, Brazil

Elsio Wunder, Jr.

Epidemiology of Microbial Diseases
Yale School of Public Health, Yale University
New Haven, CT, USA

Joseph M. Vinetz

Medicine/Division of Infectious Diseases
University of California San Diego School of Medicine
La Jolla, CA, USA

Mathieu Picardeau

Biology of Spirochetes unit
Institut Pasteur
Paris, France

Stuart Blacksell

Mahidol University
Bangkok, Thailand
and
Nuffield Department of Medicine
University of Oxford
Oxford, UK

Fungi Section

Joshua Nosanchuk

Albert Einstein College of Medicine
Jack and Pearl Resnick Campus
Bronx, NY, USA

Marcio L. Rodrigues

Instituto Carlos Chagas – Fiocruz PR
Industrial City of Curitiba
Curitiba, PR, Brazil

Helminth Section

Cinzia Cantacessi

University of Cambridge
Cambridge, UK

Eva Clark

Department of Medicine - Infectious Diseases
Department of Pediatrics - Tropical Medicine
Baylor College of Medicine, National School of Tropical Medicine
Houston, TX, USA

Francesca Tamarozzi

Department of Infectious-Tropical Diseases and Microbiology
World Health Organization Collaborating Centre for Strongyloidiasis and other Neglected Tropical Diseases
IRCCS Sacro Cuore Don Calabria Hospital
Verona, Italy

One Health and Policy Section

Dileepa Ediriweera

Health Data Science Unit
University of Kelaniya
Ragama, Sri Lanka

Justin Remais

School of Public Health
University of California, Berkeley
Berkeley, CA, USA

Victoria Brookes

Sydney School of Veterinary Science
Faculty of Science
University of Sydney, NSW, Australia

Protozoa Section

Ana Rodriguez

Department of Microbiology
New York University School of Medicine
New York, NY, USA

Charles L. Jaffe

Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics
Hebrew University-Hadassah Medical School
Jerusalem, Israel

Ricardo Toshio Fujiwara

Departamento de Parasitologia
Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais
Belo Horizonte, Brazil

Walderez O. Dutra

Laboratory of Cell-cell Interactions, Department of Morphology
Institute of Biological Sciences
Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais
Belo Horizonte, Brazil

Vector Control Section

Alvaro Acosta-Serrano 

Departments of Parasitology and Vector Biology
Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine
Liverpool, UK

Esther Schnettler

Bernhard-Nocht-Institute for Tropical Medicine
and
University of Hamburg
Hamburg, Germany

Nigel Beebe

University of Queensland
Brisbane, Australia
and
CSIRO, Health and Biosecurity
Queensland, Australia

Audrey Lenhart

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Atlanta, GA, USA

Venom Section

José María Gutiérrez

Instituto Clodomiro Picado
Universidad de Costa Rica
San José, Costa Rica

Wuelton Monteiro

Department of Research
Fundação de Medicina Tropical Dr. Heitor Vieira Dourado
School of Health Sciences
Universidade do Estado do Amazonas
Manaus, Brazil

Virus Section

Abdallah Samy

Entomology Department
Ain Shams University
Cairo, Egypt

Andrea Marzi

Laboratory of Virology
Rocky Mountain Laboratories, DIR, NIAID, NIH
Hamilton, MT, USA

Elvina Viennet

Research and Development
Australian Red Cross Lifeblood
Queensland, Australia

Eugenia Corrales-Aguilar

Reserach Center for Tropical Diseases
University of Costa Rica
San José, Costa Rica 

 

Cross-Section Editors

Amaya L. Bustinduy

Clinical Research Department
London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
London, UK

Ann M. Powers*

Division of Vector Borne Infectious Diseases
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Fort Collins, CO, USA

Aysegul Taylan Ozkan

Department of Medical Microbiology
Faculty of Medicine
TOBB University of Economics and Technology
Sogutozu, Ankara, Turkey

Gerson Penna 

Tropical Medicine Centre
University of Brasília
Brasília, Brazil
and
Fiocruz Scool of Government – Oswaldo Cruz Foundation
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Guilherme Werneck

State University of Rio de Janeiro
and
Federal University of Rio de Janeiro
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Liesl Zühlke

Division of Paediatric Cardiology, Department of Paediatrics
Red Cross War Memorial Childrens Hospital, Faculty of Health Sciences
and
Division of Cardiology, Department of Medicine
Groote Schuur Hospital, Faculty of Health Sciences
Universtiy of Cape Town
Cape Town, South Africa

Makedonka Mitreva

Division of Infectious Diseases
Washington University School of Medicine
Saint Louis, MO, USA

Peter J. Krause

School of Public Health
Yale School of Public Health, Yale School of Medicine
New Haven, CT, USA

Samuel Scarpino

University of Vermont
Burlington, VT, USA

Scott C. Weaver

University of Texas Medical Branch
Galveston, TX, USA

Sergio Recuenco

Department of Preventive Medicine and Public Health
Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos
Lima, Peru

Steven M. Singer

Department of Biology
Georgetown University
Washington DC, USA

Suzy Campbell

Evidence Action
Washington, DC, USA

Victor Santos

Department of Medicine
Federal University of Sergipe
Campus Lagarto
São Cristóvão, Brazil

 

 

Academic Editors

Aaron Jex

Population Health & Immunity Division
Walter & Eliza Hall Institute
Parkville, Australia
and
Faculty of Veterinary and Agricultural Sciences
The University of Melbourne
Parkville, Australia

Abiola Senok

Mohammed Bin Rashid University of Medicine and Health Sciences
Dubai, United Arab Emirates

Abdulrazaq Habib

College of Health Sciences
Bayero University
Kano, Nigeria

Achim Hoerauf

Institute of Medical Microbiology, Immunology and Parasitology
University Hospital Bonn
Bonn, Germany

Adalgisa Caccone

Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology and Yale Institute of Biospheric
Yale University
New Haven, CT, USA

Abhay R Satoskar

Departments of Pathology and Microbiology
The Ohio State University
Columbus, OH, USA

Adly M. M. Abd-Alla

Insect Pest Control Laboratory, Joint FAO/IAEA Division 
of Nuclear Techniques in Food and Agriculture, Vienna International 
Vienna, Austria

Adolfo Borges

Center for Development of Scientific Research (CEDIC)
Manduvirá 635
Asunción 1255, Paraguay

Adrian B. Hehl

Institute of Parasitology
University of Zurich
Zurich, Switzerland

Adriano Casulli

European Union Reference Laboratory for Parasites;
WHO Collaborating Centre for the Epidemiology, Detection and Control of Cystic and Alveolar Echinococcosis;
Istituto Superiore di Sanità
Rome, Italy

Ahmed Fahal

The Mycetoma Research Centre
University of Khartoum
Khartoun, Sudan

Alain Debrabant

Division of Emerging and Transfusion Transmitted Diseases
US Food and Drug Administration
Silver Spring, MD, USA

Alain Kohl

MRC-University of Glasgow Centre for Virus Research
Glasgow, UK

Alan L. Rothman

University of Massachusetts Medical School
Worcester, MA, USA

Alan John Alexander McBride

Biotechnology, Technology Development Centre
Federal University of Pelotas
Pelotas, Brazil

Albert Descoteaux

Institut national de la recherche scientifique
Université du Québec
Montreal, Canada

Albert Picado

Foundation for Innovative New Diagnostics (FIND)
Geneva, Switzerland

Alberto Novaes Ramos Jr.

School of Medicine
Federal University of Ceara
Fortaleza, Brazil

Alda Maria Da-Cruz

Instituto Oswaldo Cruz/FIOCRUZ
Faculdade de Ciencias Médicas/UERJ
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Alessandra Guarneri

Vector Behaviour and Pathogen Interaction Group
Instituto René Rachou, FIOCRUZ
Belo Horizonte, MG, Brazil

Alessandra Loureiro Morassutti

School of Sciences - Pontifical Catholic University of Rio Grande do Sul
Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil

Alessandra Nicoletti

Department G.F. Ingrassia
Section of Neurosciences
University of Catania
Catania, Italy

Alessandro Massolo

Department of Biology
University of Pisa
Pisa, Italy

Alexander Bukreyev

Galveston National Laboratory
University of Texas Medical Branch
Galveston, Texas, USA

Alexander Stockdale

Institute of Infection and Global Health
University of Liverpool
Liverpool, UK

Alexandra K. Heaney

School of Public Health, Division of Environmental Health Sciences
University of California, Berkeley
Berkeley, CA, USA

Ali Rostami

Infectious Diseases and Tropical Medicine Research Center
Health Research Institute
Babol University of Medical Sciences
Babol, Iran

Alison Krentel

Bruyere Research Institute
Ottawa, Canada

Allen L. Richards

Department of Preventive Medicine and Biostatistics
Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences
Bethesda, Maryland

Alok Bhattacharya

Jawaharlal Nehru University
New Delhi, India

Alon Warburg

The Kuvin Center for the Study of Tropical & Infectious Diseases
The Faculty of Medicine, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Jerusalem, Israel

Álvaro Díaz

Departamento de Biociencias 
Facultad de Química
Universidad de la República
Montevideo, Uruguay

Amadou Garba

Ministere de la Sante Publique
Niamey, Niger

Amanda Ross

Epidemiology and Public Health
Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute
Basel, Switzerland

Amy J. Davis

National Wildlife Research Center
USDA/APHIS/Wildlife Services
Fort Collins, CO, USA

Amy T. Gilbert

National Wildlife Research Center
USDA/APHIS/Wildlife Services
Fort Collins, CO, USA

Amy C. Morrison

Entomology
University of California, Davis
Davis, CA, USA

Ana M. Moura-da-Silva

Lab. Imunopatologia
Instituto Butantan
São Paulo, Brazil

Ananias A. Escalante

School of Life Sciences
Arizona State University
Tempe, AZ, USA

Andrea Angheben 

Department of Infectious 
Tropical diseases and Microbiology
IRCCS Sacro Cuore Hospital 
Negrar, Italy

Andrea Morrison

Bureau of Epidemiology
Florida Department of Health
Tallahassee, FL, USA

Andrea Winkler

Center for Global Health, Department of Neurology
Technical University of  Munich
Munich, Germany

Andrés F. Henao-Martínez

University of Colorado School of Medicine
Aurora, CO, USA

Andrew Scott MacDonald

University of Edinburgh
Edinburgh, Scotland

Andrew Jackson

Institute of Infection and Global Health
University of Liverpool
Liverpool, UK

Andrew Singer

UK Centre for Ecology and Hydrology
Wallingford, UK

Angamuthu Selvapandiyan 

JH Institute of Molecular Medicine, SIST
Center for Translational and Clinical Research
SCLS, Jamia Hamdard 
New Delhi, India

Ángel González Marín

School of Microbiology
Universidad de Antioquia
Antioquia, Colombia

Angela Monica Ionică

Clinical Hospital of Infectious Diseases of Cluj-Napoca
Cluj-Napoca, Romania

Anita K. McElroy

Division of Infectious Disease, Department of Pediatrics
University of Pittsburgh, School of Medicine
Pittsburgh, PA, USA

Anna Last

London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine
London, UK

Anna-Bella Failloux

Department of Virology
Institut Pasteur
Paris, France

Anne W. Rimoin

Epidemiology
UCLA Fielding School of Public Health
Los Angeles, CA, USA

Anne-Laure Bañuls

Laboratoire de Génétique et Evolution des Maladies Infectieuses
Institut de Recherche pour le Développement
Montpellier, France

Aparna Krishnavajhala

National School of Tropical Medicine , Department of Pediatrics 
Baylor College of Medicine, Texas Children's Hospital
Houston, TX, USA 

Armando Jardim

Institute of Parasitology
McGill University
Ste Anne de Bellevue, Canada

Arunasalam Pathmeswaran

Department of Public Health
University of Kelaniya
Colombo, Sri Lanka

Ayato Takada

International Institute for Zoonosis Control
Hokkaido University
Sapporo, Japan

Barbara A. Burleigh

Harvard School of Public Health
Boston, MA, USA

Benjamin L. Makepeace

Institute of Infection & Global Health
University of Liverpool
Liverpool, UK

Bernardo Galvão-Castro

Integrated Multidisciplinary HTLV Center
Bahiana School of Medicine and Public Health
Salvador, Bahia, Brazil

Bonnie L. Webster

Life Sciences Department
Invertebrates Division (Parasites and Vectors)
Natural History Museum
London, UK

Brad Borlee

Colorado State University
Fort Collins, CO, US

Brett Forshey*

Armed Forces Health Surveillance Branch 
Global Emerging Infections Surveillance, Department of Defense
Silver Spring, MD, USA

Brian Stevenson

University of Kentucky
Lexington, KY, USA

Brian L. Weiss

Department of Epidemiology of Microbial Diseases
Yale School of Public Health
New Haven, CT, USA

Brianna Beechler

Oregon State University
Carlson College of Veterinary Medicine
Corvallis, OR, USA

Bruce A. Rosa

Department of Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases
Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis
St. Louis, MO, USA

Bruno Lomonte

Instituto Clodomiro Picado
Facultad de Microbiologia
Universidad de Costa Rica
San Jose, Costa Rica

Camila I. de Oliveira

Gonçalo Moniz Institute (IGM)
Candeal, Salvador, Brazil

Camille Lebarbenchon

University of Reunion Island
Saint-Denis, Reunion

Carlos Franco-Paredes

Hospital Infantil de Mexico, Federico Gomez 
Mexico City, Mexico
and
Division of Infectious Diseases
University of Colorado, Anschutz Medical Center
Aurora, CO, USA

Carlos A. Buscaglia

Instituto de Investigaciones Biotecnológicas
Buenos Aires, Argentina

Chaoyang Xue

Public Health Research Institute
Rutgers University
Newark, NJ, USA

Charles D. Mackenzie

Michigan State University, 
East Lansing, MI, USA

Charlotte Avanzi

Department of Microbiology
Immunology and Pathology
Colorado State University
Fort Collins, Colorado

Cheng-Chen Chen

National Yang-Ming University
Taipei, Taiwan

Christian Tschudi

Yale School of Public Health
New Haven, CT, USA

Christine A. Petersen

Epidemiology
University of Iowa
Iowa City, IA, USA

Christine M. Budke

Department of Veterinary Integrative Biosciences
Texas A&M University
College Station, TX, USA

Christopher Barker

University of California, Davis
Davis, CA, USA

Cláudia Ida Brodskyn

Laboratory of Interaction Parasite-Host and Epidemiology (LAIPHE)
Gonçalo Moniz Institute (IGM)
Fundação Oswaldo Cruz (FIOCRUZ-Bahia)
Candeal, Salvador, Brazil

Claudia Herrera

Department of Tropical Medicine, SPHTM
Tulane University
New Orleans, LA, USA

Claudio Guedes Salgado

Institute of Biological Sciences
Pará Federal University
Pará State, Brazil

Clive Shiff

Professor Emeritus
Department of Molecular Microbiology and Immunology
Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
Baltimore, MD, USA

Colleen Jonsson

Health Science Center College of Medicine Memphis
University of Tennessee 
Memphis, TN, USA

Cristian A. Alvarez Rojas

School of Veterinary Medicine
Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile
Santiago, Chile

Daniel L Horton

Department of Pathology and Infectious Diseases
University of Surrey
Surrey, UK

Daniel Limonta

Quantitative Biosciences Institute
University of California, San Francisco
San Francisco, CA, USA

Daniel Masiga

Molecular Biology and Bioinformatics Unit
International Centre of Insect Physiology and Ecology
Nairobi, Kenya

Daniel M. Parker

Assistant Professor, Public Health 
University of California, Irvine
Irvine, CA, USA

Daniela Weiskopf

La Jolla Institute for Allergy and Immunology
La Jolla, CA, USA

Dario S. Zamboni

Department of Cell and Molecular Biology and Pathogenic Bioagents
São Paulo, Brazil

David Blair

James Cook University
Townsville, Australia

David Joseph Diemert

Human Hookworm Vaccine Initiative
Sabin Vaccine Institute,
Washington DC, USA

David W. Beasley

University of Texas Medical Branch
Galveston, TX, USA

David Soeiro Barbosa

Federal University of Minas Gerais
Belo Horizonte, Brazil

Deborah A McFarland

Hubert Department of Global Health
RSPH
Emory University
Atlanta, GA, USA

De'Broski R Herbert

Pathobiology 
University of Pennsylvania School of Veterinary medicine
Philadelphia, PA, USA

Delia Goletti

Translational Research Unit 
Department of Epidemiology and Preclinical Research National Institute for Infectious Diseases 
Rome, Italy

Denis Voronin

Systems Genomics Section
Laboratory of Parasitic Diseases
NIAID, NIH
Bethesda, Maryland, USA

Dennis A Bente

University of Texas Medical Branc
Galveston National Laboratory
Texas, USA

Dhafer Laouini

Institut Pasteur de Tunis
Tunis, Tunisia 

Domenico Otranto

Department of Veterinary Medicine 
University of Bari
Bari, Italy

Donald S. Shepard

Heller School for Social Policy and Management
Brandeis University
Waltham, MA, USA

Doug Brackney

Center for Vector Bioogy and Zoonotic Diseases
The Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station
New Haven, CT, USA

Duane J. Gubler

Program on Emerging Infectious Disease
Duke-NUS Medical School
Singapore 

Edda Sciutto

Instituto de Investigaciones Biomedicas
Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
Mexico City, Mexico

Edgar Carvalho

Serviço de Imunologia do Hospital Universitário Professor Edgard Santos
Faculdade de Medicina da Universidade Federal da Bahia
Salvador, Bahia, Brazil

Edmund Y. W. Seto

University of California, Berkeley
Berkeley, CA, USA

Eduardo Gotuzzo

Instituto De Medicna Tropical Alexander Von Humboldt
Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia
Lima, Peru

Eduardo Anguita

Hematology Department, Hospital Clínico San Carlos, IML
and
Instituto de Investigación Sanitaria San Carlos (IdISSC)
and
Department of Medicine 
Universidad Complutense de Madrid (UCM)
Madrid, Spain

Eduardo Torres

Immunology and Parasitology
State University of Rio de Janeiro
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Edward Mitre

Department of Microbiology and Immunology
Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences
Bethesda, MD, USA

Elaine Dorneles

Departamento de Medicina Veterinária
Universidade Federal de Lavras
Lavras, Brazil

Elda E. Sánchez

Texas A&M University
Kingsville, TX, USA

Elizabeth A. L. Martins

Instituto Butantan
Sao Paulo, Brazil

Elizabeth Batty

Mahidol-Oxford Tropical Medicine Research Unit
Bangkok, Thailand
and
University of Oxford
Oxford, UK

Elizabeth Carlton

Colorado School of Public Health
University of Colorado, Anschutz
Aurora, CO, USA 

Emily Gurley

Bloomberg School of Public Health
Johns Hopkins University
Baltimore, MD, USA

Enock Matovu

Department of Parasitology and Microbiology
Makerere University
Kampala, Uganda

Epco Hasker

Institute of Tropical Medicine Antwerp
Antwerp, Belgium

Eric Calvo

National Institutes of Health
Bethesda, MD, USA

Eric Dumonteil

Department of Parasitology
Universidad Autónoma de Yucatán
Merida, Mexico

Eric H. Y. Lau

School of Public Health
The University of Hong Kong
Pok Fu Lam, Hong Kong

Eric C. Mossel

Division of Vector-Borne Diseases
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Fort Collins, CO, USA

Ernesto T. Marques

University of Pittsburgh
Pittsburgh, PA, USA

Eva Harris

University of California, Berkeley
Berkeley, CA, USA

Fatah Kashanchi

Department of Microbiology
George Mason University
Manassas, VA, USA

Felix Hol

Institut Pasteur
Paris, France

Felix Bongomin

Department of Medical Microbiology & Immunology
Faculty of Medicine
Gulu University

Fernando Lopes

McGill University
Montreal, Canada

Florent Sebbane

Inserm
Paris, France

François-Xavier Weill

Department of Global Health 
Institut Pasteur, Paris, France

Francis Mutuku

Environmental Studies
DVBNTD/CWRU/Emory University
Diani, Kenya

Furen Zhang

Shandong Provincial Hospital for Skin Diseases & Shandong Provincial Institute of Dermatology and Venereology
Shandong First Medical University & Shandong Academy of Medical Sciences
Shandong, China

Gabriel Rinaldi

Wellcome Sanger Institute
Wellcome Genome Campus
Hinxton, Cambridgeshire, United Kingdom

Gabriele Schönian

Microbiology and Hygiene
Charité University Medicine Berlin
Berlin, Germany

Gary L. Simon

The George Washington University
Washington DC, USA

Geoff Isbister

Clinical Toxicology Research Group
University of Newcastle
Newcastle, Australia

Geoffrey M. Attardo

Department of Entomology and Nematology
University of California
Davis, CA, USA

Georgios Pappas

Institute of Continuing Medical Education of Ioannina
Ioannina, Greece

Godfred A. Menezes

RAK College of Medical Sciences / RAK Medical and Health Sciences University
Ras Al Khaimah, United Arab Emirates

Gordana Rašić

Mosquito Genomics, Department of Population Health
Queensland Institute of Medical Research - QIMR Berghofer
Brisbane, QLD, Australia

Gordana Panic

School of Human Development and Health, Faculty of Medicine
University of Southampton
Southampton, United Kingdom

Grace Murilla

KARI-Trypanosomiasis Research Centre
Nairobi, Kenya

Graham P Taylor

Infectious Disease
Imperial College London
London, UK

Gregory D. Gromowski

Viral Disease Branch
Walter Reed Army Institute of Research
Maryland, USA

Gregory Deye

Division of Microbiology and Infectious Disease 
National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases
National Institutes of Health (NIH)
Bethesda, MD, USA

Guo-Jing Yang

Department of Schistosomiasis Control
Jiangsu Institute of Parasitic Diseases
Wuxi, China

Guy Caljon

University of Antwerp
Antwerp, Belgium

Hamed Kalani

Golestan University of Medical Sciences
Gorgan, Iran

Hannah Clapham

Saw Swee Hock School of Public Health
National University of Singapore
Singapore

Hans-Peter Feuhrer

Institute of Parasitology
University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna
Vienna, Austria

Hechmi Louzir

Institute Pasteur de Tunis
Tunis, Tunisia

Helen Price

Keele University
Keele, UK

Helene Dutartre

International Center for Research in Infectiology
University of Lyon
Lyon, France

Helton da Costa Santiago

George Washington School of Medicine
Washington DC, USA

Henk D. F. H. Schallig

KIT Biomedical Research-Parasitology
Koninklijk Instituut voor de Tropen [KIT] / Royal Tropical Institute
Amsterdam, Netherlands

Hernando del Portillo

ISGlobal – IGTP
Barcelona, Spain

Husain Poonawala

Lowell General Hospital
Lowell, MA, USA
and
Institute of Public Health
Bangalore, India

Igor C. Almeida

Deptartment of Biological Sciences
University of Texas at El Paso (UTEP), and the Border Biomedical Research Center (BBRC)
El Paso, TX, USA

Ikram Guizani

Institut Pasteur de Tunis
Tunis, Tunisia

Inacio Junqueira de Azevedo

Instituto Butantan
Sao Paulo, Brazil

Indika Gawarammana

University of Peradeniya
and
Professorial Medical Unit
Teaching Hospital Peradeniya
Sri Lanka

Jaap van Hellemond

Department of Medical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases
Erasmus MC University Medical Center
Rotterdam, the Netherlands

James Cotton

University of Glasgow
Glasgow, UK

James M. Fleckenstein

Department of Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases 
Washington University School of Medicine
St. Louis, MO, USA

Jan Van Den Abbeele

Institute of Tropical Medicine Antwerp
Antwerp, Belgium

Jason L. Rasgon

Department of Entomology
The Pennsylvania State University
University Park, PA, USA

Javier Pizarro-Cerda

Yersinia Research Unit
Institut Pasteur
Paris, France

Javier Sotillo 

Parasitology Reference and Research Laboratory
National Center for Microbiology
Health Institute Carlos III (ISCIII)
Madrid, Spain 

Jayne Raper

New York University School of Medicine
New York, NY, USA

Jean-Philippe Chippaux

UMR MERIT - Institut de Recherche pour le Développement
Facultée de Pharmacie - Université Paris Cité
Paris, France

Jean-Philippe David

Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)
Laboratory of Alpine Ecology, Grenoble-Alpes University
Grenoble, France

Jeffrey Withey

Wayne State University
Detroit, MI, USA

Jenifer Coburn

Center for Infectious Disease Research
Medical College of Wisconson
Milwaukee, WI, USA

Jennifer A. Downs

Weill Cornell Medicine
New York, NY, USA 

Jennifer Slyker

University of Washington
Seattle, WA, USA 

Jeremiah M. Ngondi

University of Cambridge
Cambridge, UK

Jeremy Camp

Centre for Virology
Medical University of Vienna
Wien, Austria

Jessica N. Ricaldi

Alexander von Humboldt Institute of Tropical Medicine
Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia
Lima, Peru

Jessica K Fairley

Hubert Department of Global Health
Rollins School of Public Health (Emory University)
Atlanta, GA, USA

João Luís Reis-Cunha

UFMG
Pampulha, Belo Horizonte, Brazil

Joachim Clos

Bernhard Nocht Institute for Tropical Medicine
Hamburg, Germany

Joanne P. Webster

Imperial College London
London, UK

João Trindade Marques

Department of Biochemistry and Immunology
Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais
Belo Horizonte, Brazil

Job Lopez

Department of Pediatrics
National School of Tropical Medicine at Baylor College of Medicine
Houston, TX, USA

Joerg Blessmann

Department of Implementation Research
Bernhard Nocht Institute for Tropical Medicine
Hamberg, Germany

Johan van Weyenbergh

Department of Microbiology, Immunology and Transplantation
KU Leuven
Leuven, Belgium

John P. Dalton

McGill University
Montreal, Canada

John Antony Jude Prakash

Christian Medical College
Vellore, Tamil Nadu, India

John Stenos

Australian Rickettsial Reference Laboratory
Barwon Health
Geelong, Australia

Jonas Klingström

Department of Medicine, Huddinge
Karolinska Institutet
Stockholm, Sweden

Jong-Yil Chai

Institute of Parasitic Diseases
Korea Association of Health Promotion
Seoul, Korea (Republic of)

Jörg Blessman

Bernhard Nocht Institute for Tropical Medicine
Hamburg, Germany

Joseph J. Gillespie

University of Maryland Baltimore
Baltimore, MD, USA

Joseph T. Wu

WHO Collaborating Center for Infectious Disease Epidemiology and Control
The University of Hong Kong
Hong Kong

José M. C. Ribeiro

Laboratory of Malaria and Vector Research
National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases
Rockville, MD, USA

José Ignacio Santos Preciado

Hospital Infantil de Mexico
Mexico City, Mexico

Joseph Mathu Ndung'u

Foundation for Innovative New Diagnostics (FIND)
Cointrin, Switzerland

Joshua B. Benoit

Department of Biological Sciences
University of Cincinnati
Cincinnati, OH, USA

Juan M. Bustamante

Center for Tropical and Emerging Global Diseases
University of Georgia
Athens, GA, USA

Justin Komguep Nono

Institute of Medical Research and Medicinal Plant Studies
Ministry of Scientific Research and Innovation
Yaounde, Cameroon

Kalana Maduwage

Department of Biochemistry
University of Peradeniya
Peradeniya, Sri Lanka

Kamala Thriemer

Menzies School of Health Research
Casuarina, Australia

Karin Kirchgatter

Department of Specialized Laboratories
Superintendence for Control of Endemic Diseases – SUCEN
and
Institute of Tropical Medicine of São Paulo
University of São Paulo
São Paulo, Brazil

Karina Andrea Gómez

Instituto de Investigaciones en Ingeniería Genética y Biología Molecular
INGEBI-CONICET
Ciudad Autónoma de Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, Argentina

Kate Zinszer

School of Public Health
University of Montreal
Montreal, Canada

Katerina Artavanis-Tsakonas

Division of Microbiology & Parasitology
University of Cambridge
Cambridge, UK

Katharina Röltgen

Stanford University School of Medicine
Stanford, CA, USA

Katja Fischer

QIMR Berghofer Medical Research Institute
Brisbane, Australia

Kelly L. Hawley

Division of Infectious Diseases 
Connecticut Children's, Department of Pediatrics
UConn Health
Farmington, CT, USA

Kempaiah Kemparaju

Department of Biochemistry
University of Mysore
Mysore, India

Kevin S.W. Tan

Department of Microbiology and Immunology
Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine
National University of Singapore
Singapore

Kirkby Daniel Tickell

University of Washington 
Seattle, WA, USA 

Kiyoshi Kita

The University of Tokyo
Tokyo, Japan

Klaus Brehm

Institute for Hygiene and Microbiology
University of Würzburg
Würzburg, Germany

Kosta Y. Mumcuoglu

Hadassah Medical School
Hebrew University
Jerusalem, Israel

Kristy Murray

Baylor College of Medicine
Houston, TX, USA

Krithivasan Sankaranarayanan

Department of Microbiology and Plant Biology
University of Oklahoma
Norman, OK, USA

Krystyna Cwiklinski

School of Natural Sciences/Ryan Institute
NUI Galway
Galway, Ireland

Laila Woc-Colburn

Division of Infectious Diseases
Emory Univerysity
Atlanta, GA, USA

Laith Yakob

Department of Disease Control
London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine
London, UK

Laura-Isobel McCall

Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry
University of Oklahoma

 

Linda B. Adams

Department of Health and Human Services
Healthcare Systems Bureau
National Hansen’s Disease Program
Baton Rouge, LA, USA

Lisa Dikomitis

School of Medicine
Keele University
Keele, UK

Louis Lambrechts

Department of Virology
Institut Pasteur
Paris, France

Louis Maes 

Department of Biomedical Sciences
University of Antwerp
Antwerp, Belgium

Luisa Mourao Dias Magalhaes

Departamento de Parasitologia 
Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais
Belo Horizonte, Brazil

Luther Bartelt

Department of Medicine
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Chapel Hill, NC, USA

Lyric C. Bartholomay

Pathobiological Sciences
School of Veterinary Medicine
University of Wisconsin
Madison, WI, USA

Mabel Carabali

Department of Social and Preventive Medicine
School of Public Health,
Université de Montréal
Montreal, Quebec, Canada

Matthew B. Rogers

School of Medicine, Department of Surgery
University of Pittsburgh, UPMC Children’s Hospital
Pittsburgh, PA, USA

Manisha Biswal

Department of Microbiology
Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education and Research
Chandigarh, India

Manuel Schibler

Division of Laboratory Medicine, Diagnostic Department
Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine
Geneva University Hospitals
Geneva, Switzerland

Mar Siles-Lucas

Institute of Natural Resources and Agrobiology of Salamanca (IRNASA)
Superior Council of Scientific Investigations (CSIC)
Salamanca, Spain

Maria Angeles Gomez Morales

Department of Infection Diseases
Istituto Superiore di Sanità
Rome, Italy

Marc P. Hübner

Institute for Medical Microbiology
Immunology and Parasitology
University Hospital of Bonn
Bonn, Germany

Marc Choisy

Nuffield Department of Medicine
University of Oxford
Oxford, UK

Marcelo L. Santoro

Instituto Butantan
São Paulo-SP, Brazil

Marco Coral-Almeida

University of the Americas
Quito, Ecuador

Margaret Kosek

The Johns Hopkins University
International Health
Baltimore, MD, USA

Mariangela Bonizzoni

Department of Biology and Biotechnology
University of Pavia
Pavia, Italy

Maria Victoria Periago

Fundación Mundo Sano
Buenos Aires, Argentina

Marilia Sá Carvalho

Oswaldo Cruz Foundation
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

María Ángeles Gómez Morales

Department of Infectious Diseases
Istituto Superiore di Sanità, 
Rome, Italy

Martin Walker

Pathobiology and Population Sciences
Royal Veterinary College
London, UK

Mary Hayden

National Institute for Human Resilience
University of Colorado
Boulder, CO, USA

Mary Ann McDowell

University of Notre Dame
South Bend, IN, USA

Mary Lopez-Perez

Department of Immunology and Microbiology
University of Copenhagen
Copenhagen, Denmark

Masao Matsuoka

Kyoto University
Kyoto, Japan

Mathieu Nacher

Cayenne Hospital, and University of French Guiana
Cayenne, French Guiana
Matthew Brian Rogers
University of Pittsburgh
Pittsburgh, PA, USA

Matthew Freeman

Department of Environmental Health
Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University 
Atlanta, GA, USA

Matty Knight

Biomedical Research Institute
Rockville, MD, USA

Mauro N Sanchez

University of Brasilia School of Medicine
Tropical Medicine Center
Brasilia, DF, Brazil

Mellisa Roskosky

Bloomberg School of Public Health
Johns Hopkins University
Baltimore, MD, USA

Michael Arndt

Child Growth and Development at Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation
University of Washington
Seattle, WA, USA

Michael Cappello

Yale University
New Haven, CT, USA

Michael Gaunt

London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine
London, UK

Michael Hsieh

Department of Urology
George Washington University
and
Children’s National Health Systems
Washington DC, USA

Michael Marks

London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine
London, UK

Michael J. Smout

James Cook University
The Australian Institute of Tropical Health and Medicine
Cairns, QLD, Australia

Michael Turell

VectorID LLC
Frederick, MD, USA

Mike Holbrook

NIAID Integrated Research Facility
Maryland, USA

Mitali Chatterjee

Dept. of Pharmacology
Institute of Postgraduate Medical Education & Research
Kolkata, India

Mohamed Gomaa Kamel

Faculty of Medicine
Minia University
and
Minia University Hospitals
Minia, Egypt

Monique Léchenne

Environment and Sustainability Institute
University of Exeter
Exeter, UK

Nadira D. Karunaweera

Department of Parasitology
University of Colombo
Colombo, Sri Lanka
and
Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
Harvard University
Massachusetts, USA

Najet Srairi-Abid

Institut Pasteur de Tunis
Tunis, Tunisia

Nam-Hyuk Cho

Seoul National University College of Medicine
Seoul, South Korea

Natalie M. Bowman

Department of Medicine
Division of Infectious Diseases
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Chapel Hill, NC, USA

Neil D. Young

The University of Melbourne
Melbourne, Australia

Nelesh P. Govender

Centre for Healthcare-Associated Infections
Antimicrobial Resistance and Mycoses
National Institute for Communicable Diseases
Johannesburg, South Africa

Nicholas Casewell

Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine
Liverpool, UK

Nikos Vasilakis

Department of Pathology
University of Texas Medical Branch
Galveston, TX, USA

Nilson I T Zanchin

Carlos Chagas Institute
Oswaldo Cruz Foundation
Curitiba-PR, Brazil

Olaf Horstick

University of Heidelberg
Heidelberg, Germany

Olga Fedorova

Department of Faculty Pediatrics
Siberian State Medical University
Tomsk, Russian Federation

Pablo Maravilla

Hospital General Dr Manuel Gea Gonzalez
Mexico City, Mexico

Pamela Marie Pennington Aycinena

Biochemistry Department
Universidad del Valle de Guatemala
Guatemala City, Guatemala

Patrick J. Lammie*

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Atlanta, GA, USA

Pattamaporn Kittayapong

Mahidol University
Bangkok, Thailand

Paul J. Converse

Center for Tuberculosis Research
Johns Hopkins University
Baltimore, MD, USA

Paul O. Mireji

Biotechnology Research Institute-Kenya Agricultural and Livestock Research Oganisation
Kikuyu, Kenya

Paul Torgerson

Section of Epidemiology
Vetsuisse Faculty
University of Zürich
Zürich, Switzerland

Pei-Yong Shi

University of Texas Medical Branch
Galveston, TX, USA

Peter Steinmann

Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute
Basel, Switzerland 

Peter U. Fischer

Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis
St. Louis, MO, USA

Peter C. Melby

Internal Medicine
University of Texas Medical Branch
Galveston, TX, USA

Pham Ngoc Doanh

Institute of Ecology and Biological Resources
Vietnam Academy of Science and Technology
Hanoi, Vietnam

Phil J. McCall

Vector Biology Department
Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine
Liverpool, UK

Philip Stewart

Laboratory of Virology
National Institutes of Health
Hamilton, MT, USA 

Philippe Solano

CIRDES/IRD UMR 177 IRD-CIRAD
Bobo-Dioulasso, Burkina Faso

Philippe Billiald

Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle
Paris, France

Philippe Desprès

La Reunion University
La Réunion, France

Pierre Buekens

Department of Epidemiology
School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine
Tulane University
New Orleans, LA, USA

Piet Maes

Laboratory of Clinical and Epidemiological Virology
KU Leuven
Leuven, Belgium

Pikka Jokelainen

Statens Serum Institut
Copenhagen, Denmark

Poppy Lamberton

School of Biodiversity, One Health and Veterinary Medicine 
Wellcome Centre for Integrative Parasitology
University of Glasgow
Scotland, UK

Prashant Kumar

Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry
Vaccine Analytics and Formulation Center, University of Kansas
Lawrence, KS, USA

Qibin Leng 

State Key Laboratory of Respiratory Disease 
Guangzhou Medical University 
Guangzhou, Guangdong, China

R Manjunatha Kini

Department of Biological Sciences, Faculty of Science
Department of Pharmacology, YLL School of Medicine
National University of Singapore
Singapore, Republic of Singapore

Ramesh Ratnappan

Intermountain Precision Genomics
St. George, UT, USA

Ran Wang

National Center for Children’s Health, China
Capital Medical University, Beijing Children’s Hospital
Beijing Pediatric Research Institute
Beijing, China

Ranadhir Dey

Division of Transfusion Transmitted Diseases
Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research, US FDA
Silver Spring, MD, USA

Rebecca C. Christofferson

School of Veterinary Medicine
Louisiana State University
Baton Rouge, LA, USA

Rémi Charrel

Emergence des Pathologies Virales
Universite de la Mediterranee
Marseille, France

Renata Rosito Tonelli

Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences
Federal University of São Paulo
São Paulo, Brazil

Reza Salavati

McGill University
Montreal, Canada

Rhoel Dinglasan

University of Florida
Gainesville, FL, USA

Ricardo Soares Magalhaes

Spatial Epidemiology Laboratory
University of Queensland School of Veterinary Science
Gatton, Australia

Richard Bowen

Colorado State University
Fort Collins, CO, USA

Richard Reithinger

Global Health Division
RTI International
Washington DC, USA

Richard Bradbury

School of Health and Life Sciences
Federation University
Berwick, Vic, Australia

Richard Echodu

Gulu University Multifunctional Research Laboratories
Gulu City, Uganda

Richard O. Phillips

Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology/ Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital
Department of Medicine
Kumasi, Ghana

Roberto Barrera*

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
San Juan, Puerto Rico

Robin L. Bailey

Clinical Research Unit
London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
London, UK

Robin B. Gasser

Department of Veterinary Science
University of Melbourne
Werribee, Australia

Roger K. Prichard

McGill University
Montreal, Canada

Ronald van Rij

Radboud Institute for Molecular Life Sciences
Nijmegen, the Netherlands

Rosemary C. Sang

Centre for Virus Research
Nairobi, Kenya

Sabine Specht

Institute for Medical Microbiology, Immunology and Parasitology
University Hospital of Bonn,
Bonn, Germany

Sally Theobald

Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine
Liverpool, UK

Samuel Wanji

Department of Microbiology and Parasitology
University of Buea
Buea, Cameroon

Santiago Castillo-Ramírez

National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM)
Cuernavaca, Mexico

Sarman Singh

Medical Science Education and Research Center
Indian Institute of Science Education and Research Bhopal
Bhopal, India

Sasisekhar Bennuru

Laboratory of Parasitic Diseases
National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID)
National Institutes of Health (NIH)
Bethesda, MD, USA

Senaka Rajapakse

Faculty of Medicine
University of Colombo
Colombo, Sri Lanka

Sergio Costa Oliveira

Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais
Bioquímica e Imunologia
Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil

Shan Lv

National Institute of Parasitic Diseases
Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention
Shanghai, China

Sharon Tennant

Center for Vaccine Development and Global Health
University of Maryland School of Medicine
Baltimore, MD, USA

Siddhartha Mahanty

The Peter Doherty Institute for Infection and Immunity & The Royal Melbourne Hospital 
Melbourne, Australia

Sima Rafati

Molecular Immunology and Vaccine Research Laboratory
Pasteur Institute of Iran
Tehran, Iran

Simon Rayner

Department of Medical Genetics
Oslo University Hospital and The University of Oslo
Oslo, Norway

Sirikachorn Tangkawattana

Faculty of Veterinary Medicine
and
WHO Collaborating Centre for Research and Control of Opisthorchiasis
Khon Kaen University
Khon Kaen, Thailand

Sitara S.R. Ajjampur

Christian Medical College
Vellore, India

Song Liang

University of Florida
Gainesville, FL, USA

Stephen Attwood

Department of Zoology
University of Oxford
Oxford, UK

Stuart Ainsworth

Centre for Snakebite Research and Interventions,
Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine
Liverpool, UK

Subash Babu

NIH-NIRT-ICER
National Institute of Research in Tuberculosis
National Institute of Research in Tuberculosis
and
National Institutes of Health (NIH)
National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID)
Bethesda, MD, USA 

Sujatha Sunil

Vector Borne Disease Group
International Center for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology
New Delhi, India 

Susan Bueno

Faculty of Biological Science
Pontifical Catholic University of Chile
Santiago, Chile
and
Millennium Institute on Immunology and Immunotherapy
Santiago, Chile

Susan Madison-Antenucci

Wadsworth Center, NYSDOH
Albany, NY, USA

Susana Vaz Nery

Kirby Institute
University of New South Wales
Kensington, Australia

Susanne H Sokolow

Woods Institute for the Environment
Stanford University and Marine Science Institute
University of California Santa Barbara
Santa Barbara, CA, USA

Susilene Nardi

Epidemiology, Leprosy, Disability, Prevention and Control, Rehabilitation
Biomedical Sciences Center
Instituto Adolfo Lutz - São José do Rio Preto 
São Paulo, Brazil

Sutas Suttiprapa

Faculty of Medicine
Khon Kaen University
Khon Kaen, Thailand

Syamal Roy

National Institute of Pharmaceutical Education & Research
Kolkata, India

Tao Lin

Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine
University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston McGovern Medical School
Houston, TX, USA

Tauqeer Hussain Mallhi

Department of Clinical Pharmacy
Jouf University
Kingdom of Saudi Arabia

Tereza Magalhaes

Department of Entomology
Texas A&M University
College Station, TX, USA

Thomas Geisbert

Boston University School of Medicine
Boston, MA, USA

Thomas Junghanss

Heidelberg University Hospital
Heidelberg, Germany

Thuy Le

Division of Infectious Diseases and International Health
Duke University School of Medicine
Durham, NC, USA

Tiago D. Serafim

National Insitutes of Health
Rockville, MD, USA

Tom Darton

Florey Insitute for Host-Pathogen Interactions 
Department of Infection
Immunity and Cardiovascular Disease
University of Sheffield
Sheffield, UK

Tony Schountz

Microbiology, Immunology and Pathology
Colorado State University
Fort Collins, CO, USA

A. Townsend Peterson

Biodiversity Institute
University of Kansas
Lawrence, KS, USA

Ulisses Gazos Lopes

Institut of Biophysics Carlos Chagas Filho
Federal University of Rio de Janeiro
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Ulrich Kuch

Goethe University Frankfurt
Frankfurt, Germany

Uriel Koziol

Facultad de Ciencias
Universidad de la República
Montevideo, Uruguay

Uwem Ekpo

Federal University of Agriculture
Abeokuta, Nigeria

Vasantha Kumari Neela

Department of Medical Microbiology and Parasitology
Universiti Putra Malaysia
Serdang, Malaysia

Vinicius Medeiros Fava

Research Institute of the McGill University Health Centre
Montreal, Canada

W. Evan Secor*

Division of Parasitic Diseases and Malaria
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Atlanta, GA, USA

Waleed Saleh Al-Salem

National Center for Tropical Diseases
Saudi Ministry of Health
Saudi Arabia

Wannaporn Ittiprasert

The George Washington University
Washington, DC, USA

Wayne Hodgson

Department of Pharmacology 
Faculty of Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences
Monash University
Clayton, Victoria, Australia

Wei-Kung Wang

Dept. of Tropical Medicine
Medical Microbiology and Pharmacology, John A. Burns School of Medicine
University of Hawaii at Manoa
Honolulu, HI, USA

Wen-Ping Guo

Chengde Medical University
Chengde, China

William B. Messer

University of North Carolina School of Medicine
Chapel Hill, NC, USA

Winka Le Clec’h

Host-Pathogen Interactions Program
Texas Biomedical Research Institute
San Antonio, TX, USA

Winsley Rose

Christian Medical College and Hospital Vellore
Vellore, India

Yara M. Traub-Csekö

Laboratório de Biologia Molecular de Parasitas e Vetores, Instituto Oswaldo Cruz 
Fiocruz, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Yoke Fun Chan

Department of Medical Microbiology 
Faculty of Medicine
University of Malaya
Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

Yunn-Hwen Gan

NUSMed Infectious Disease Program
Dept of Biochemistry
Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine
National University of Singapore
Singapore

Yutaka Tagaya

University of Maryland School of Medicine
Baltimore, MD, USA

Zvi Bentwich

Center for Infectious Diseases and AIDS, Ben Gurion University
Beer Sheba, Israel