I am a postdoctoral researcher in the Translational Microbiology at the Murdoch Children's Research Institute, in Melbourne, Australia. My research focuses on both on viral-bacterial coinfection in children and on improving diagnostics severe pneumonia in children.

Sanjay is a medical graduate with postgraduate qualifications in community medicine and public health. He is an epidemiologist and a research fellow at Australia’s National Centre for Immunisation Research and Surveillance (NCIRS). Sanjay holds a conjoint academic appointment as Senior Lecturer in Children’s Hospital Westmead Clinical School of The University of Sydney. His PhD from The University of Sydney was on effectiveness of pneumococcal vaccinations in Australian children and epidemiology of pneumococcal disease in special risk groups. Sanjay’s work at NCIRS for over 10 years has primarily been in the area of evidence-based technical support for the development of immunisation policy and practice in Australia. Sanjay is a member of the national IPD surveillance working group.

Dr. Johnstone obtained her medical degree from Dalhousie University. She then moved to Edmonton, Alberta where she completed her Internal Medicine and Infectious Disease training at the University of Alberta. Following her residency she completed a clinical research fellowship in Edmonton. She moved to Hamilton in July 2008 where she practiced Infectious Diseases at McMaster University and completed her PhD in Health Research Methodology (Epidemiology). Following her PhD, she joined Public Health Ontario as an Infection Prevention and Control physician where she continues to lead research focused on Infection Prevention and Control in the areas of vancomycin resistant enterococci, ventilator associated pneumonia and Clostridium difficile. She worked at St. Joseph's Health Center in Toronto for 5 years, where she practiced Infectious Diseases and ran the Infection Prevention and Control program. In 2018 she left St. Joseph's to become the Physician Lead of Infection Prevention and Control at Sinai Health System in Toronto where she is also an Assistant Professor in the Laboratory Medicine and Pathobiology and Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto.

Keith Jolley studied biochemistry at the University of Bath, graduating in 1993. He stayed on to complete his PhD studying halophilic proteins from Archaea. In 1996, Keith undertook a postdoctoral position with Prof. John Heckels at the University of Southampton working on meningococcal surface proteins involved in eliciting immune responses. Continuing this interest in meningococcal biology, he moved to Prof. Martin Maiden’s group at the University of Oxford in 1998, where he has worked on the genetic characterization of bacterial carrier populations. During his time in Oxford, Keith has gained bioinformatics experience and now works mainly on software development and database design, including development of the PubMLST website. The Bacterial Isolate Genome Sequence Database (BIGSdb) software that Keith has developed has been designed to flexibly handle large amounts of genome sequence data obtained from multiple isolates in order to extract clinically relevant information and to address questions of bacterial evolution and the emergence of pathogenicity.