Georg Halder is Professor at the University of Leuven and the Flemish Institute for Biotechnology (VIB) in Belgium. He earned his Ph.D. in 1996 from the University of Basel in Switzerland under the guidance of Walter Gehring and was a postdoctoral fellow with Sean Carroll at the University of Wisconsin in Madison, USA. Prior to his current position, he was a faculty member at the MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston Texas (2000-2012).

Svetoslav Chakarov received his doctorate in immunology from Paul Sabatier University of Toulouse, France under the guidance of Professor Nicolas Fazilleau. He then joined Florent Ginhoux’s research team in Singapore Immunology Network as postdoctoral fellow. After concluding his postdoctoral training in 2020 he joined Shanghai Institute of Immunology, Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine as principal investigator and is currently head of “Myeloid cell biology and metabolism” laboratory.

Oliver Florey completed his Ph.D at Imperial College London in 2006, with Prof. Dorian Haskard, studying the recruitment of leukocytes to sites of inflammation. He followed this with a post-doc in the lab of Prof. Bill Muller at Weill Cornell Medical College in New York, and another with Dr Micheal Overholtzer at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York. In 2014 he was awarded a Cancer Research UK Career Development award to start my own lab at the Babraham Institute, Cambridge, UK.