Yersinia 12^th International Symposium Scientific Committee

Co – Chairs:

Paata Imnadze, Prof., Deputy Director General, National Center for Disease Control and Public Health, Tbilisi, Georgia

Andrey Anisimov, Prof., State Research Center for Applied Microbiology & Biotechnology, Obolensk, Russia

Members (in alphabetical order):

Alzira Almeida, Dr., Head of the National Reference Service for Plague, FIOCRUZ-PE, Recife, Brazil

Lela Bakanidze, Prof., Agricultural University of Georgia, Georgian Biosafety Association, Tbilisi, Georgia

James Bartholomew, Dr., Senior Scientist of the Lawrence Berkeley, Laboratory, University of California, Berkeley, California, USA

Robert R. Brubaker, Vis. Prof., Department of Microbiology, Immunology and Molecular Genetics, University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky, USA

Elisabeth Carniel, Prof., Yersinia Research Unit & WHO Collaborating Center, Institut Pasteur, Paris, France

Joseph Hinnebusch, Dr., Chief, Plague Section, Laboratory of Zoonotic Pathogens, National Institutes of Health, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, Rocky Mountain Laboratories, Hamilton Montana, USA

Virginia Miller, Prof., University of North Carolina, Dept. of Microbiology & Immunology, Marsico Hall Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA

Vladimir Motin, Prof., Department of Pathology, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galvestone, Texas, USA

Robert d. Perry, Prof., Department of Microbiology, Immunology and Molecular Genetics, University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky, USA

Minoarisoa Rajerison, Dr., Head of Plague Unit, Institut Pasteur de Madagascar, Antanarivo, Madagascar

Mikael Skurnik, Prof., Department of Bacteriology and Immunology, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland

Nils Chr. Stenseth, Prof., Centre for Ecological and Evolutionary Synthesis, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway

Alexander Sulakvelidze, Prof., University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, USA

Ruifu Yang, Prof., Beijing Institute of Microbiology and Epidemiology, Beijing, China

Yersinia 12^th International Symposium Organizing Committee

Chair:

Lela Bakanidze, Prof., RBP, Agricultural University of Georgia, Georgian Biosafety Association, Tbilisi, Georgia

Members (in alphabetical order):

Neli Chakvetadze, Scientific Secretary, National Center for Disease Control and Public Health, Tbilisi, Georgia

Paata Imnadze, MD, Ph.D., Professor, Deputy Director General National Center for Disease Control and Public Health, Tbilisi, Georgia

Mariam Natsvlishvili, Georgian Biosafety Association, Tbilisi, Georgia