Dr. Balázs Libisch is a Senior Research Associate at the Institute of Genetics and Biotechnology, Hungarian University of Agriculture and Life Sciences (Gödöllő, Hungary). Education: Biologist MSc (1997) and PhD in Biotechnology (2006) at the Eötvös Loránd University, (Budapest, Hungary). Professional experience: performing national and EU-funded research projects in the microbiological laboratories of the National Center for Epidemiology (Budapest, Hungary), the Research Institute for Soil Science and Agricultural Chemistry (Budapest, Hungary) and the Hungarian University of Agriculture and Life Sciences (Gödöllő, Hungary). Research interests include detection of antibiotic resistance determinants in bacterial isolates of human, food or wild animal and environmental origin and their molecular epidemiology, as well as examining the effects of various factors on the gut microbiota. Memberships of professional societies include the Belgian Society for Microbiology and the American Society for Microbiology.