List of Committees

＜Scientific Committee＞

◆Diagnostic and clinical disease

Diane Lindsay
Scottish Haemophilus, Legionella, Meningococcus, and Pneumococcus Reference Laboratory, Glasgow, UK

Jacob Moran-Gilad
Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Beer Sheva, Israel

Maria Luisa Ricci
Dipartimento di Malattie Infettive, Istituto Superiore di Sanità, Rome, Italy

Paul H. Edelstein
Emeritus Professor of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USA

Sophie Jarraud
Centre National de Reference des Legionelles, Hospices Civils de Lyon, University de Lyon, Lyon, France

Yu Chen
Department of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, China Medical University, Shenyang, China

◆Epidemiology and public health

Valeria Gaia
National Reference Center for Legionella, Service of Microbiology, Bellinzona, Switzerland

Tian Qin
State Key Laboratory for Infectious Disease Prevention and Control, Chinese Centre for Disease Control and Prevention. Beijing, China

◆Pathogenesis, genetics, genomics, and immunology

Buchrieser Carmen
Biologie des Bactéries Intracellulaires, Institut Pasteur, Paris, France

Craig Roy
Department of Microbial Pathogenesis, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT, USA

Dario S Zamboni
Department of Cell Biology, Ribeirão Preto Medical School, University of São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil

Zhao-Qing Luo
Department of Biological Sciences, Purdue University, Indiana, USA

◆Ecology and environmental microbiology

Hubert Hilbi
Institute of Medical Microbiology, University of Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland

Nicholas Ashbolt
Executive Dean, Faculty of Science & Engineering, Southern Cross University, Australia

Nicholas Cianciotto
Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Northwestern University Medical School, Chicago, IL, USA

Stephen Chambers
Microbiology and Infectious diseases in the Department of Pathology and Biomedical Science, Faculty of Health Science, University of Otago, Christchurch

Yousef Abu Kwaik
Department of Microbiology and Immunology, College of Medicine, University of Louisville, KY, USA

＜Domestic Organizing Committee＞

◆Diagnostic and clinical disease

Representative:
　Kazuhiro TATEDA (Toho University School of Medicine)
Member:
　Tetsuji AOYAGI (Toho University School of Medicine)

◆Epidemiology and public health

Representative:
　Fumiaki KURA (National Institute of Infectious Diseases)
Member:
　Junko AMEMURA-MAEKAWA (National Institute of Infectious Diseases)
　Toshiro KUROKI (Okayama University of Science)

◆Pathogenesis, genetics, genomics, and immunology

Representative:
　Hiroki NAGAI (Gifu University School of Medicine)
Member:
　Kohei ARASAKI (Tokyo University of Pharmacy and Life Sciences)
　Tomoko KUBORI (Gifu University School of Medicine)

◆Ecology and environmental microbiology

Representative:
　Hiroyuki YAMAGUCHI (Hokkaido University)
Member:
　Kenta WATANABE (Yamaguchi University)
　Masahisa WATARAI (Yamaguchi University)
　Torahiko OKUBO (Hokkaido University)

◆Secretariats

　Chiaki KAJIWARA (Toho University School of Medicine)
　Soichiro KIMURA (Toho University School of Medicine)
　Yoshikazu ISHII (Toho University School of Medicine)