Partner 1 (Coordinator)
Dr. Christophe d'Enfert
Fungal Biology and Pathogenicity
Institut Pasteur, Paris, France
E-mail: gf2@pasteur.fr
Main interests: Biofilms, mucosal colonization, yeast-to-hypha transition, Candida genomics and post-genomic approaches

Partner 2 (in charge of the training program)
Dr. Bernhard Hube
Microbial Pathogenicity Mechanisms, Hans Knoell Institute, Jena, Germany
E-mail:Bernhard.Hube@hki-jena.de
Main interests:Candida, in vitro infection models, transcriptional profiling, host/pathogen interactions, proteinases

Partner 3 (in charge of the training program)
Prof. Alistair J.P. Brown
Aberdeen Fungal Group
IUniversity of Aberdeen, United Kingdom
E-mail: al.brown.abdn.ac.uk
Main interests: Fungal virulence; Fungal genomics; Candida proteomics; Candida gene regulation; morphogenesis

Partner 4
Prof. Joachim Ernst
Düsseldorf Universität, Germany
E-mail: joachim.ernst@uni-duesseldorf.de
Main interests:

Partner 5
Prof. Claude Gaillardin
Génétique Moléculaire et Cellulaire
INRA-CNRS-INA-PG
Thiverval-Grignon, France
E-mail: claude@grignon.inra.fr
Main interests:

Partner 6
Prof. Angel Dominguez
Universidad de Salamanca, Spain
E-mail:ado@usal.es
Main interests:

Partner 7
Prof. Rafael Sentandreu
Valencia University
Burjassot, Spain
E-mail:rafael.sentandreu@uv.es
Main interests: Cell wall, morphogenesis, transcriptome, wall biosyntesis, proteome

Partner 8
Prof. Anna Vecchiarelli
University of Perugia, Italy
E-mail: vecciar@unipg.it
Main interests: C. neoformans, C. albicans, fungi, immune response, host response

Partner 9
Dr. Frans Klis
Swammerdam Institute for Life Sciences
University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands
E-mail:klis@science.uva.nl
Main interests:cell wall assembly enzymes, cell wall proteome, cell wall dynamics, mucosal colonization, invasive growth