Leader of the Molecular Mycology Research Laboratory (MMRL), Prof. Meyer's research focuses on the evolution, phylogeny, speciation, population genetics, fungal genomics, molecular epidemiology, strain typing of clinically significant fungi with the goal of developing  fast, simple, and reliable molecular identification techniques for the diagnosis of fungal infections in humans as well as supporting public health responses to newly emerging pathogenic fungi and outbreaks.  

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Molecular Mycology Research Laboratory

https://www.mycologylab.org/

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Specialist in pharmaceutical-biochemistry that works in the study of fungi, their diversity, their habitat, the plasticity they have to adapt and survive under different conditions, and in humans and other animals, where they can cause various mycoses in mild or very severe and fatal forms.

Instituto Adolfo Lutz – Núcleo de Micologia

http://www.ial.sp.gov.br/ial/centros-tecnicos/centro-de-parasitologia-e-micologia/equipe-tecnica

Universidade Federal de Mato Grosso do Sul- Faculdade de Medicina-Laboratório de Doneças Infecciosas e Parasitárias

https://famed.ufms.br/labdip/

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Curator of the Pathogenic Fungi Culture Collection at the National Institute of Infectious Diseases (INI). She is biologist, specialist in medical mycology, and her research focuses on the diagnosis and epidemiology of invasive fungal infections, and the ecology and diversity of their agents.

Pathogenic Fungi Culture Collection (CFP)

http://cfp.fiocruz.br/

Mycology Laboratory/INI

https://www.ini.fiocruz.br/micologia.html

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Prof. Claudia Parra is currently an associate professor at the Faculty of Sciences of the Pontificia Universidad Javeriana (PUJ). She has an undergraduate degree as a clinical laboratory technician (Bacteriologist) and a Master's degree in Microbiology with an emphasis on immunology, from the PUJ and PhD from the Complutense University of Madrid (2013). She is the founder and coordinator of the Human Proteomics and Mycoses research group (2014) which investigates the epidemiology and clinical diagnosis of invasive fungal infections, with particular focus on Candida, Aspergillus and Cryptocccus.

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Infectious Diseases Research Group - Human Proteomics and Mycoses Research Unit

https://www.javeriana.edu.co/investigacion/semillero-de-enfermedades-infecciosas

Associate Professor at the School of Medicine, UNICAMP. He has experience in the area of ​Medicine with an emphasis in Infectious Diseases and Molecular Biology.  He has served as the Medical Director of the General Hospital at UNICAMP from 2014 to 2018 and as Deputy Director from 2018 to 2021. Currently he serves Faculty Adviser in the University General Coordination of UNICAMP. The main fields of his research are Hospital Epidemiology; Antimicrobial Stewardship, Multi-Drug Resistant Organisms; Infections in Immunocompromised Hosts, Fungal Infections, and Molecular Biology.

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ORCID: 0000-0002-0588-4859

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Professor of Infectious Diseases, School of Medicine, UNICAMP. Vice president of the University of Campinas (2021-2024). She works in several research fields, such as, medical infectious diseases with focus on hospital epidemiology, medical mycology, antimicrobial stewardship. She has experience in conducting international research groups in the field of medical mycology. She has experience in working on hospital and community acquired epidemics, including the leadership of controlling programs to minimize the effects of the transmission of microorganism and the diseases. She is the director of the Laboratory of Hospital Epidemiology and Infectious Diseases of the Medical School. Recently, she has worked actively in the COVID 19 epidemic at UNICAMP, leading and managing the COVID 19 program in the health care area and for the all the staff members of UNICAMP.

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Medical specialist in infectious diseases with experience in infections caused by fungi, and special interest in endemic mycoses in Peru, the resistance of fungal isolates to antifungals and in improving the knowledge of these diseases for health personnel.  Dr Bustamante currently works as an assistant physician at the Cayetano Heredia Hospital and as a coordinator at the clinical mycology laboratory at the Alexander von Humboldt Institute of Tropical Medicine at the Cayetano Heredia Peruvian University. 

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Her working group is made up of: MSc. Edgar Neyra, Tec. Med Susy Aranibar, Tec. Lab. Rosario Velando y Tec Lab. Elena Grigoletto.

https://investigacion.cayetano.edu.pe/catalogo/saludintegral/lmc

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After completing a Master of Tropical Medicine from the Instituto de Medicina Tropical Pedro Kourí in Cuba and a Doctorate in Sciences from UNAM, Prof. Castañón joined the Mycology Unit at the Faculty of Medicine at UNAM. Her research focuses on cryptococcosis epidemiology, distribution and frequency of coccidioidomycosis, and intra-hospital fungal infections in Mexico.

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