1. Yige Bao is a urology resident in West China Hospital, Sichuan University (China), and also a PhD student of microbiology and immunology at the University of Western Ontario (Canada). His research interests include urinary malignancies, urolithiasis, urinary tract infections and urinary biomaterials.
2. Blayne Welk is a urologist with subspecialty training in the area of incontinence, urethral reconstruction and neurourology. He is Assistant Professor in the Department of Surgery at the University of Western Ontario.
3. Gregor Reid is Professor of Microbiology and Immunology, and Surgery at the University of Western Ontario, and Endowed Chair in human microbiology and probiotics at the Lawson Health Research Institute (ON, Canada). He is an inductee into the Canadian Academy of Health Sciences and has an honorary doctorate in biology from Örebro University (Sweden). He has 420 peer-reviewed publications, and has given 532 talks in 53 countries.
4. Jeremy P Burton is a scientist in the Division of Urology, Department of Surgery, University of Western Ontario. His main interest is the role of the microbiome and urological health. His earlier studies were the first to show that difficult-to-culture organisms, such as Lactobacillus iners, were frequent urogenital inhabitants, but were not often detected by culture.