Kendra Rumbaugh is a professor in the Department of Surgery and the Director of the Burn Center of Research Excellence at Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center. She received her PhD in Medical Microbiology from TTUHSC and performed postdoctoral training at the University of California at San Francisco, both in the area of bacterial pathogenesis. Dr. Rumbaugh’s translational research focuses on understanding and treating wound infections, and she is especially interested in how biofilms, polymicrobial interactions and cell-to-cell signalling contribute to infection.Thomas Bjarnsholt is professor in Biofilms and chronic infections and a specialist in Infection Medicine at the University of Copenhagen. His work is focusing on bacterial, viral and fungal biofilms in chronic and acute infections with more than 220 peer-reviewed publications. He is a member of the Global Wound Biofilm Expert Panel, and is among the most cited researchers in the world according to the list based on Web of Science and the number 1 biofilm researcher worldwide according to ExpertScape.