Ms. Paolini is a Team Leader-Research at the Melbourne Dental School, University of Melbourne. Rita has previously worked as a Research Assistant, accumulating 25 years of experience in university departments, focusing on government and industry-funded projects, particularly in the fields of cell culture, immunology, and microbiology

Shivani is a Junior laboratory head in the Department of Infectious Diseases, Doherty Institute and an emerging leader in STI research and diagnostic innovation. Shivan's team uses molecular and genomic approaches to improve the detection, prevention, and surveillance of STIs.

Álvaro Borges is a infectious diseases physician-scientist educated in Brazil, the United Kingdom and Denmark. He is the chief medical officer at the Center for Vaccine Research (CVR) at Statens Serum Institut in Denmark working on clinical trials testing new candidate vaccines agaisnt chlamydia and tuberculosis in humans.

Dr. Jordan is an Assistant Professor of Medicine in the Infectious Diseases Division at Indiana University. As a physician scientist with expertise in the management of nongonococcal urethritis and sexually transmitted infections (STIs), Dr. Jordan treats patients with STIs and oversees a chlamydia translational research program.

Andrea Abrahams is a PhD student at the University of Cape Town. Her research focuses on the vaginal metaproteomic profiles of South African adolescent girls and adult women at high risk of HIV infection, with the overarching aim to understand the biological risk factors for HIV acquisition in young women.