Dr. Erez Mills, did his Ph.D. at the Faculty of Medicine of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem under the guidance of Prof. Ilan Rosenshine. He then did his postdoctoral training at the University of Washington, in the lab of Prof. Sam Miller. Since 2016, Dr. Mills is a principal researcher at the Faculty of Agriculture, Food and Environment, of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. His current studies focus on the interaction of the chicken with both symbiotic and pathogenic bacteria.