Methodologies for in vitro and in vivo evaluation of efficacy of antifungal and antibiofilm agents and surface coatings against fungal biofilms.

• Van Dijck P VIB-KU Leuven Center for Microbiology, Leuven, Belgium.
• Sjollema J University of Groningen, University Medical Center Groningen, Department of BioMedical Engineering, Groningen, The Netherlands.
• Cammue BP Centre for Microbial and Plant Genetics, KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium.
• Lagrou K Department of Microbiology and Immunology, KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium.
• Berman J School of Molecular Cell Biology and Biotechnology, Faculty of Life Sciences, Tel Aviv University, Ramat Aviv, Israel.
• d'Enfert C Institut Pasteur, INRA, Unité Biologie et Pathogénicité Fongiques, Paris, France.
• Andes DR Department of Medical Microbiology and Immunology, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin, USA.
• Arendrup MC Unit of Mycology, Statens Serum Institut, Copenhagen, Denmark.
• Brakhage AA Leibniz Institute for Natural Product Research and Infection Biology - Hans Knoell Institute (HKI), Dept. Microbiology and Molecular Biology, Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Institute of Microbiology, Jena, Germany.
• Calderone R Department of Microbiology & Immunology, Georgetown University Medical Center, Washington DC, USA.
• Cantón E Severe Infection Research Group: Medical Research Institute La Fe (IISLaFe), Valencia, Spain.
• Coenye T Laboratory of Pharmaceutical Microbiology, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium.
• Cos P Laboratory for Microbiology, Parasitology and Hygiene (LMPH), University of Antwerp, Belgium.
• Cowen LE Department of Molecular Genetics, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
• Edgerton M Department of Oral Biology, School of Dental Medicine, University at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY USA.
• Espinel-Ingroff A VCU Medical Center, Richmond, VA, USA.
• Filler SG Division of Infectious Diseases, Los Angeles Biomedical Research Institute at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center, Torrance, CA, USA.
• Ghannoum M Center for Medical Mycology, Department of Dermatology, University Hospitals Cleveland Medical Center and Case Western Re-serve University, Cleveland, OH, USA.
• Gow NAR MRC Centre for Medical Mycology, Institute of Medical Sciences, University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen, UK.
• Haas H Biocenter - Division of Molecular Biology, Medical University Innsbruck, Innsbruck, Austria.
• Jabra-Rizk MA Department of Oncology and Diagnostic Sciences, School of Dentistry; Department of Microbiology and Immunology, School of Medicine, University of Maryland, Baltimore, USA.
• Johnson EM National Infection Service, Public Health England, Mycology Reference Laboratory, Bristol, UK.
• Lockhart SR Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA, USA.
• Lopez-Ribot JL Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA, USA.
• Maertens J Department of Microbiology and Immunology, KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium and Clinical Department of Haematology, UZ Leuven, Leuven, Belgium.
• Munro CA MRC Centre for Medical Mycology, Institute of Medical Sciences, University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen, UK.
• Nett JE University of Wisconsin-Madison, Departments of Medicine and Medical Microbiology & Immunology, Madison, WI, USA.
• Nobile CJ Department of Molecular and Cell Biology, School of Natural Sciences, University of California, Merced, Merced, USA.
• Pfaller MA Departments of Pathology and Epidemiology, University of Iowa, Iowa, USA.
• Ramage G ESCMID Study Group for Biofilms, Switzerland.
• Sanglard D Institute of Microbiology, University of Lausanne and University Hospital, CH-1011 Lausanne.
• Sanguinetti M Institute of Microbiology, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, IRCCS-Fondazione Policlinico "Agostino Gemelli", Rome, Italy.
• Spriet I Pharmacy Dpt, University Hospitals Leuven and Clinical Pharmacology and Pharmacotherapy, Dpt. of Pharmaceutical and Pharma-cological Sciences, KU Leuven, Belgium.
• Verweij PE Center of Expertise in Mycology Radboudumc/CWZ, Radboud University Medical Center, Nijmegen, the Netherlands (omit "Nijmegen" in Radboud University Medical Center).
• Warris A MRC Centre for Medical Mycology, Aberdeen Fungal Group, University of Aberdeen, Foresterhill, Aberdeen, UK.
• Wauters J KU Leuven-University of Leuven, University Hospitals Leuven, Department of General Internal Medicine, Herestraat 49, B-3000 Leuven, Belgium.
• Yeaman MR Geffen School of Medicine at the University of California, Los Angeles, Divisions of Molecular Medicine & Infectious Diseases, Har-bor-UCLA Medical Center, LABioMed at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center.
• Zaat SAJ Department of Medical Microbiology, Amsterdam Infection and Immunity Institute, Academic Medical Center, University of Am-sterdam, Netherlands.
• Thevissen K Centre for Microbial and Plant Genetics, KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium.

antibiofilm material coating

antifungal susceptibility testing

biofilm eradication

biofilm inhibition

in vivo models