Former Head, Dept of Infectious Diseases, div. Immunology & Virology, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine; Director, Graduate School Animal Health; Director, Institute of Veterinary Research; Utrecht, (NL). Founder President European Society of Feline Medicine. Research foci: feline coronaviruses, viral evolution.

Director, Feline Institute Pyrenees, France. Honorary Senior Research Fellow, University of Glasgow Veterinary School, UK. Research foci: eradication of feline coronavirus (FIP); cure for / prevention of chronic gingivostomatitis. Interested in all feline infectious diseases. www.catvirus.com

Full professor, Dept of Virology, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SLU) & The National Veterinary Institute (SVA), Uppsala (S); OIE Expert for the diagnosis of viral diseases (Sweden). Research foci: biotechnology-based diagnosis, vaccine development, the genetic basis for viral pathogenesis, recombination and virus-host interaction.

Associate professor, Infectious Diseases, Toulouse Veterinary School; Head, Diagnostic Laboratory Scanelis, France. Research foci: poxviruses, feline calicivirus, feline coronavirus, and real-time PCR analysis.

Associate professor, Dept of Infectious Diseases and Immunology, Virology division, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Utrecht; Member of the national drug registration board, the Netherlands. Research foci: feline coronavirus (FIP) and FIV, vaccine development and efficacy, antivirals.

Full professor, Head, Division of Infectious Diseases and Epidemiology, Dept of Clinical Sciences, Warsaw Veterinary Faculty, Poland. Research foci: vaccines, Feline leukaemia virus (FeLV), Feline immunodeficiency virus (FIV), Feline Coronavirus (FCoV/FIP) Bordetella bronchiseptica infection, and canine distemper.

Head, The Feline Centre, Professor in Feline Medicine, Bristol University, UK; founder member European Society of Feline Medicine. Research foci: feline infectious diseases, in particular coronavirus and Chlamydophila.

Head, Dept of Companion Animal Internal Medicine & full professor of Internal Medicine, Ludwig Maximilian University Munich, Germany; AAFP vaccination guidelines panel member. Research foci: infectious diseases of cats and dogs with special interest in diagnosis and treatment.

Institute of Comparative Medicine, Glasgow, UK. RCVS Specialist in Veterinary Pathology (Microbiology) Research focus: Feline immunodeficiency virus pathogenesis and vaccine development, feline calicivirus.

Clinician, Veterinary Teaching Hospital, Barcelona University, Spain. Research foci: feline medicine, molecular diagnostics of feline disease, feline injection site sarcomas.

Head, Clinical Laboratory, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, University of Zurich, Switzerland. Research foci: feline retro- and coronaviruses (pathogenesis & vaccination), epidemiology and molecular diagnostics of feline infectious diseases.

Dept of Comparative Biomedical Sciences, Div. Infectious Diseases, University of Teramo (I). Research foci: PCR as diagnostic tool for upper respiratory tract disease in cats, recombinant feline calicivirus vaccine.

Professor, Clinical Veterinary Medicine. Head, Companion Animal Internal Medicine Clinic, Dept Veterinary Medical Sciences, University of Messina, (I). Research foci: clinical immunology, Bordetella bronchiseptica in cats, FIV.

Senior Lecturer & Researcher, Dept Small Animal Studies, Liverpool Veterinary School, UK. Research foci: FCV and FHV-1 virulence genes, Bordetella bronchiseptica in cats, parvoviruses and coronaviruses, immune-response variation.

Head, Feline Unit, Animal Health Trust; Chairman, Feline Advisory Bureau, UK; Editor, European Journal of Feline Medicine and Surgery; AAFP vaccination guidelines panel member. Research foci: feline infectious diseases, lower respiratory tract disease, oncology.

Full professor, Head of Veterinary Virology, Dept Infectious Diseases and Virology, Liege Veterinary Faculty (B); Member, Committee of Veterinary Medicinal Products (B); Agencies for animal health and food safety (F, B). Research foci: herpesviruses, caliciviruses, emerging feline viruses, host-virus interactions.

Head of the Institute for Animal Hygiene & Veterinary Public Health, University of Leipzig, Germany, Head of the German standing vaccination committee Vet. Research foci: Animal Hygiene, epidemiology, parvoviruses, feline calicivirus.