Sebastiaan Bol, PhD, MSc  |  ORCİD
Sebastiaan earned his Master's degree in Medical Biotechnology (cum laude) at Wageningen University in the Netherlands in 2007 and his PhD in virology at the University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands in 2011. Sebastiaan has published 27 articles in peer-reviewed journals (9 first-author, 5 as senior/corresponding author), including BMC Biology, Nature, Genome Research, and PLOS Pathogens. Sebastiaan served as a reviewer for 8 manuscripts.


Evelien Bunnik, PhD, MSc  |  ORCİD
Evelien earned her Master's in Biomedical Sciences (cum laude) at Leiden University, the Netherlands in 2002. She earned her PhD in virology (cum laude) at the University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands in 2010. Evelien has published 63 articles in peer-reviewed journals, including Nature, Nature Medicine, Nature Communications, and Genome Research. Evelien has served as a reviewer for 44 manuscripts, including for Immunity, Nature Communication, Science Immunology and The Lancet Infectious Diseases. 


Jasmine H. Hughes, PhD  |  ORCİD
Jasmine holds a Doctor of Philosophy (2018) from the joint graduate program in Bioengineering offered by the University of California, Berkeley and the University of California, San Francisco, in California, US. She earned her Bachelor of Engineering in Chemical Engineering from McGill University in Montreal, Canada in 2011. She published 20 articles in peer-reviewed journals, including Clinical Pharmacology & Therapeutics and Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy, with 9 first authorships and 5 senior authorships.


Alicia Eustes, PhD  |  ORCİD
Alicia earned her PhD in microbiology and immunology from the University of Utah, US in 2020. Alicia has published 17 articles in peer-reviewed journals, including Blood, Circulation Research, and Autophagy, with 3 first authorships. Alicia has served as reviewer for two manuscripts.


Natasha Casas, MSc  |  ORCİD
Natasha is a Clinical Research PhD student at the University of Jamestown, US. She earned her Master's degree in Pharmacogenomics from the University of Cincinnati, US in 2023, and a double BA in Education and Biology from Kean University, US. She has published two articles, including one in Clinical Pharmacology & Therapeutics.


Brittany Lurie, MSc  |  ORCİD
Brittany earned her MSc degree in Pharmacology from the University of Pretoria, South Africa in 2025. She earned her BSc in Human Physiology and BSc Honors (cum laude) in Biological Sciences from the same university in 2020 and 2021, respectively. Brittany has participated in the peer review of two manuscripts.


Lyndsay Breeding-Allison  |  ORCİD
Lyndsay studied zoology and biomedical sciences at the University of Oklahoma, US, and completed additional pre-vet coursework. She has over 20 years of experience in the veterinary medical field, primarily as a feline veterinary nurse. Lyndsay has participated in the peer review of two manuscripts.


Jessie Payne, PhD, MSc  |  ORCİD
Jessie obtained her PhD in Food Science at Oklahoma State University, US in 2024. She earned her Master's degree in Sensory Science from Kansas State University, US in 2021.