Prof. Dr. Dolunay Gülmez graduated from Hacettepe University Faculty of Medicine in 1998 and completed her specialization training in the Department of Medical Microbiology at the same university. She received the title of Associate Professor in 2014 and Professor in 2021. She currently serves as a Professor in the Department of Medical Microbiology at Hacettepe University Faculty of Medicine. Her scientific studies began with bacteriology and focused on mycology after 2012.

Prof. Dr. Sebahat Aksaray graduated from Ankara University Faculty of Medicine in 1985 and received her medical doctorate. She completed her Microbiology and Clinical Microbiology specialist training at Ankara Numune EAH in 1990. Receiving the title of Associate Professor in 2002 and Professor in 2018, Aksaray currently serves as Professor in the Department of Medical Microbiology at Hamidiye Faculty of Medicine, University of Health Sciences, and as the Administrative and Education Manager of Medical Microbiology at SBU Haydarpaşa Numune Training and Research Hospital.

She was born in Lüleburgaz in 1978. She completed her middle and high school education at Lüleburgaz Anatolian High School. After graduating from Istanbul Faculty of Medicine in 1996, she started her specialist training in Child Health and Diseases at Istanbul Faculty of Medicine in 2002. She completed her specialist training in 2008 and completed her subspecialty training in Child Infectious Diseases at Istanbul Faculty of Medicine in 2013. She became an associate professor of Child Infectious Diseases in 2017 and a professor in 2022. She currently works as a faculty member at Istanbul Faculty of Medicine, Department of Child Infectious Diseases. She has 85 articles published in peer-reviewed journals scanned in national and international indexes and has authored 26 book chapters. She is married and has two children.

I graduated from Hacettepe English Faculty of Medicine in 1998. After completing my specialization training at Uludağ University Faculty of Medicine, Department of Infectious Diseases and Clinical Microbiology between 2001-2006, I worked as a specialist at Bursa Çekirge State Hospital between 2006-2010, at Uludağ University Faculty of Medicine, Department of Infectious Diseases and Clinical Microbiology between 2010-2014, and as an assistant professor at the same university in 2014. I received the title of Associate Professor in 2016. I am currently continuing my education at Bursa Uludağ University Faculty of Medicine, Department of Infectious Diseases and Clinical Microbiology.

Dr. Ceylan Polat holds bachelor's degree in Biology from Celal Bayar University and master's and doctorate degrees in Medical Microbiology from Dokuz Eylul University. She served as a lecturer at Izmir University of Economics, Faculty of Health Sciences between 2018 and 2020. She has been a faculty member at Hacettepe University, Faculty of Medicine, Department of Medical Microbiology, since 2020.
Dr. Ceylan Polat's research focuses on zoonotic and vector-borne (tick, mosquito and sandfly) viral infections. Dr. Polat adopts the “One Health” approach in her research. She has been interested in molecular epidemiology and the evolution of emerging and re-emerging arboviruses and roboviruses, as well as virus discoveries to aid in preparedness for future outbreaks. She received international scholarships and conducted research in reference laboratories in Finland and France.