Meet the Topic Editors

Katarzyna Maria Garbacz, MD, is an Associate Professor at the Medical University of Gdańsk, Poland and she is the head of the Department of Oral Microbiology at the Medical University of Gdańsk. She has published more than 50 scientific publications in peer-reviewed journals. She has been a project leader funded by the National Science Centre of Poland. Prof. Garbacz is a microbiologist working on applied and fundamental questions in

microbial epidemiology and pathogenesis. Her research interest is in antibiotic resistance, host-pathogen interaction, and therapeutics development for staphylococcal pathogens, mainly *Staphylococcus aureus*, which causes hospital-acquired infections. Currently, her research is mostly focused on the study of oral pathogens, particularly *Staphylococcus spp*.

Tomasz Jarzembowski was born in 1968 in Gdansk, Poland. He obtained his Ph.D. degree in 2000 from the Medical University of Gdańsk. After specializing in clinical microbiology in 2003, he started studying biofilm formation and antibiotic resistance at the single-cell level. In 2015, he obtained his D.Sc. degree. His later study in cooperation with experts in nephrology and immunology resulted in the designation of the new diagnostic method of UTI,

patented in 2017. He is currently working at the Department of Microbiology, Medical University of Gdańsk (GUMed), Poland. He is a member of the steering committee of the Gdańsk branch of the Polish Society of Microbiologists and a member of ESC-MID. He is also a reviewer and a member of the editorial boards of several international journals.

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