Béatrice BERÇOT,Head of the Clinical Bacteriology Laboratory of the St Louis Hospital, Paris. Bacteriologist, medical doctor and Member of the Team Infection, Antimicrobials Modelling Evolution (IAME), Paris-Diderot University.

Didier MAZEL,Head of the "Bacterial Genome Plasticity" Research Unit, Institut Pasteur. Director of the "Genome analysis" Course Institut Pasteur. Chairman of the Department of "Genomes and Genetic", Institut Pasteur.

Patrick TRIEU-CUOT,Head of the "Biology of Gram-positive pathogens" Research Unit, Institut Pasteur. Director of the "Bacterial Resistance to Antibiotics" Course, Institut Pasteur.