Helen McNeill obtained her PhD at Stanford University with James Nelson, studying how epithelial cell polarity is established, using cultured mammalian cells. She conducted her postdoctoral studies with Mike Simon (also at Stanford), using Drosophila genetics to investigate how tissues become organized, via planar cell polarity signaling. She set up her first lab at Cancer Research UK in London England, where her lab studied Fat cadherins in flies and regulation of growth via the Hippo pathway and planar polarity.

Hannes Vietzen studied Biological Sciences as well as Molecular Microbiology, Microbial Ecology and Immunobiology at the University of Constance (Germany) and the University of Vienna. He then completed his Ph.D. in the Ph.D. Program for Organ Failure-, Replacement and Transplantation (POET) in 2020 at the Medical University of Vienna and was then a Postdoc in the research group of Prof. Elisabeth Puchhammer-Stöckl at the Center for Virology. Since November 2023, he is a Principal Investigator (Tenure-Track) at Center for Virology, Medical University of Vienna.

Alexandre G. de Brevern is a Senior Researcher at INSERM and heads the DSIMB - Dynamics of Structures and Interactions of Macromolecules in Biology team of INSERM UMR_S 1134 BIGR unit. With nearly 20 years of experience in structural bioinformatics, his research focuses on developing tools for protein behavior analysis and applying these methods to disease-related proteins. He has created over 20 tools and authored more than 175 publications. Dr. de Brevern specializes in protein conformations, structural modeling, and drug design.

Clément Cochain received his PhD from Université Paris 7 in 2011. His doctorate work was performed in the Paris Cardiovascular Research Center under the supervision of J-S Silvestre, and focused on the role of chemokines and their receptors in the initiation and resolution of inflammation during tissue repair after ischemic injury. In 2012, he moved to the lab of Prof. Alma Zernecke (Würzburg, Germany) where he worked on the immune pathogenesis of atherosclerosis, with projects investigating various aspects of the adaptive and innate immune response in vascular inflammation.