Board of Editors

Danielle A Garsin (2023)
University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston
Houston, TX, USA
Research Interests: Bacterial pathogenesis, gene regulation, host (C. elegans)-microbe and microbe-microbe interactions, Enterococcus faecalis.

Vinayaka Prasad (2023)
Albert Einstein College of Medicine
Bronx, NY, USA
Research Interests: HIV-1 replication mechanisms, viral determinants of HIV associated neurocognitive disorders, RNA aptamers against HIV

Alejandro Aballay (2023)
School of Medicine, Oregon Health & Science University Portland, OR, USA
Research Interests: Host-Microbial Interactions, Immunology, Microbial Pathogenesis

J. Andrew Alspaugh (2022)
Duke University Medical Center Durham, NC, USA
Research Interests: Mycology, Microbial Pathogenesis, Pathogenesis and Host Response

Avery August (2022)
Cornell University,
Ithaca, NY USA
Research Interests: Host-Microbial Interactions, Immunology, Microbial Pathogenesis

Frederick M. Ausubel (2022)
Massachusetts General Hospital Boston, MA, USA
Research Interests: Antimicrobial Chemotherapy, Environmental Microbiology, Plant Microbiology

Yong-Sun Bahn (2023)
Yonsei University Seoul, Korea
Research Interests: Fungal genetics and pathogenesis, Signaling networks, Antifungal drug development

Mark Bailey (2022)
NERC Centre for Ecology and Hydrology Wallingford, Oxfordshire, UK
Research Interests: Environmental Microbiology

Jimmy D. Ballard (2022)
University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center Oklahoma City, OK, USA
Research Interests: Antimicrobial Chemotherapy, Bacteriology, Microbial Pathogenesis

Alan Barbour (2022)
University of California-Irvine Irvine, CA, USA
Research Interests: Ecology, Epidemiology, Population Genetics

Daniel Barkan (2023)
Hebrew University Rehovot, Israel
Research Interests: Microbial ecology of natural and engineered environments

Judith Berman (2022)
Tel Aviv University, Israel
Research Interests: Fungal pathogen genetics and genomics, Antifungal resistance and tolerance

Kristen Bernard (2022)
University of Wisconsin-Madison,
Madison, WI, USA
Research Interests: Pathogenesis of arthropod-borne viruses

Indranil Biswas (2022)
University of Kansas Medical Center
Kansas City, KS, USA
Research Interests: Bacteriology, Genetics and Molecular Biology, Genomics and Proteomics, Microbial Genetics, Microbial Pathogenesis

Martin Blaser (2022)
Rutgers University
Rutgers, NY USA
Research Interests: Bacteriology, Clinical Microbiology, Microbial Pathogenesis

Barry R. Bloom (2022)
Harvard School of Public Health
Boston, MA, USA
Research Interests: Vaccines, Virology

Jennifer Bomberger (2023)
University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine
Pittsburgh, PA, USA
Research Interests: Co-infections, biofilm biology, microbial-epithelial interactions, respiratory infections, cystic fibrosis

Robert A. Bonomo (2023)
Louis Stokes Veterans Affairs Medical Center
Cleveland, OH, USA
Research Interests: Antimicrobial Chemotherapy, Bacteriology, Clinical Microbiology

John C. Boothroyd (2022)
Stanford University
Stanford, CA, USA
Research Interests: Toxoplasma

Jon P. Boyle (2022)
University of Pittsburgh
Pittsburgh, PA, USA
Research Interests: Host-pathogen interactions, evolution of virulence mechanisms, gene duplication and diversification, molecular mechanisms of pathogenesis, apicomplexan parasites

Richard G. Brennan (2022)
Duke University School of Medicine
Durham, NC, USA
Research Interests: Bacteriology, Structural Biology, Molecular and Cellular Biology

Carmen Buchrieser (2022)
Institut Pasteur,
Paris, France
Research Interests: Bacteriology, Evolution, Genomics and Proteomics, Host-Microbial Interactions, Microbial Pathogenesis, Pathogenesis and Host Response

Barbara Burleigh (2022)
Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health
Boston, MA, USA
Research Interests: Molecular and Cellular Biology, Pathogenesis and Host Response, Parasitology

Karen Bush (2022)
Indiana University
Bloomington, IN, USA
Research Interests: Antimicrobial Chemotherapy, Biotechnology, Clinical Microbiology

Colleen Cavanaugh (2023)
Harvard University
Cambridge, MA, USA
Research Interests: Host-Microbial Interactions, Microbial Ecology

Yung-Fu Chang  (2023)
College of Veterinary Medicine, Cornell University
Ithaca, NY, USA
Research Interests: Genomics and Proteomics, Microbial Pathogenesis, Vaccines

Matthew Chapman (2022)
University of Michigan
Ann Arbor, MI, USA
Research Interests: Antimicrobial Chemotherapy, Bacteriology, Environmental Microbiology

Emmanuelle Charpentier (2023)
Max Planck Institute for Infection Biology
Berlin, Germany
Research Interests: Microbial Pathogenesis, Bacteriology, Microbial Genetics

Tom Chiller (2023)
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Atlanta, GA, USA
Research Interests: Epidemiology, Mycology, Public Health

Anuradha Chowdhary (2023)
Vallabhbhai Patel Chest Institute, University of Delhi
Delhi, India
Research Interests: Clinical Microbiology, Microbial Ecology, Mycology

Jose Clemente (2022)
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
New York, NY, USA
Research Interests: Human Microbiome, Computational Biology, Microbial Ecology

Laurie E. Comstock (2022)
Brigham and Women's Hospital
Boston, MA, USA
Research Interests: Bacterial interactions in the gut microbiota

Vaughn S. Cooper (2022)
University of Pittsburgh
Pittsburgh, PA, USA
Research Interests: Evolutionary biology, genomic evolution, biofilm, host-microbe interactions, antimicrobial resistance

Pascale F. Cossart (2022)
Unite I.B.C., Institut Pasteur
Paris, France
Research Interests: Microbial Pathogenesis, Microbial Genetics, Genomics and Proteomics

Leah E. Cowen (2023)
University of Toronto
Toronto, ON, Canada
Research Interests: Clinical Microbiology, Eukaryotic Cells, Microbial Pathogenesis

Carolyn Coyne (2023)
University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine
Pittsburgh, PA, USA
Research Interests: Virology, Host-Microbial Interactions, Molecular and Cellular Biology

Blossom Damania (2022)
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Chapel Hill, NC, USA
Research Interests: Herpesviruses, innate immunity, signal transduction

K. Heran Darwin (2023)
New York University School of Medicine
New York, NY, USA
Research Interests: Bacteriology, Genetics and Molecular Biology, Microbial Genetics

Julian E. Davies (2022)
University of British Columbia
Vancouver, BC, Canada
Research Interests: Antimicrobial Chemotherapy, Human Microbiome, Environmental Microbiology, Microbial Genetics

Mark Denison (2023)
Vanderbilt University Medical Center
Nashville, TN, USA
Research Interests: Virology, Evolution, Host-Microbial Interactions

Antonio Di Pietro  (2023)
University of Cordoba
Cordoba, Spain
Research Interests: Environmental Microbiology, Eukaryotic Cells, Host-Microbial Interactions, Host-Microbial Interactions, Host-Microbial Interactions

Michael Diamond (2022)
Washington University School of Medicine
St. Louis, MO, USA
Research Interests: Flavivirus, alphavirus, pathogenesis, immunology, infectious diseases

Tamara L. Doering (2022)
Washington University School of Medicine
St. Louis, MO, USA
Research Interests: Eukaryotic Cells, Mycology, Host-Microbial Interactions, Microbial Pathogenesis

Maria Dominguez-Bello (2023)
Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
New Brunswick, NJ, USA
Research Interests: Host-Microbial Interactions, Human Microbiome, Host-Microbial Interactions, Host-Microbial Interactions, Microbial Ecology, Environmental Microbiology

Stephanie Doores (2023)
Pennsylvania State University
University Park, PA, USA
Research Interests: Eukaryotic Cells, Mycology, Host-Microbial Interactions, Microbial Pathogenesis

Nicole Dubilier (2023)
Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology
Bremen, Germany
Research Interests: Applied and Industrial Microbiology, Bacteriology, Food Microbiology

Nisha Duggal (2022)
Virginia Tech Carilion School of Medicine
Blacksburg, VA, USA
Research Interests: Arboviruses; emerging viruses; viral evolution; viral pathogenesis

Paul Dunman (2022)
University of Rochester
Rochester, NY, USA
Research Interests: Antimicrobial Chemotherapy, Antimicrobial Chemotherapy, Bacteriology, Environmental Microbiology, Bacteriology, Vaccines

Gary M. Dunny (2022)
University of Minnesota Medical School
Minneapolis, MN, USA
Research Interests: Genetics and virulence and functional genomics of enterococci; cell-cell communication; biofilms and antimicrobial resistance

Sabine Ehrt (2022)
Weill Cornell Medical College,
New York, NY, USA
Research Interests: Microbial Pathogenesis, Tuberculosis, Microbial Genetics

Scott Emr (2022)
Weill Institute, Cornell University
Ithaca, NY, USA
Research Interests: Molecular and Cellular Biology

Reinhard Fischer (2022)
Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
Karlsruhe, Germany
Research Interests: Environmental Microbiology, Eukaryotic Cells

Claire M. Fraser (2022)
University of Maryland,
School of Medicine
Baltimore, MD, USA
Research Interests: Genomics and Proteomics, Host-Microbial Interactions, Human Microbiome

Nancy Freitag (2022)
University of Illinois
College of Medicine
Chicago, IL, USA
Research Interests: Host-Microbial Interactions, Microbial Genetics, Microbial Pathogenesis

Peter Gilligan (2022)
University of North Carolina
Chapel Hill, NC, USA
Research Interests: Antimicrobial Chemotherapy, Clinical Microbiology, Environmental Microbiology, Immunology

Michael G. Gilmore (2022)
Harvard Medical School
Boston, MA, USA
Research Interests: Microbial Pathogenesis, Genetics and Molecular Biology, Antimicrobial Chemotherapy

Steve Giovannoni (2023)
Oregon State University
Corvallis, OR, USA
Research Interests: Environmental Microbiology

Stephen P. Goff (2022)
Columbia University
New York, NY, USA
Research Interests: Retrovirus replication, host restriction factors, silencing of retroviral DNAs in embryonic stem cells, intracellular trafficking of viruses on the cytoskeleton, gene therapy, contagious cancers

Joanna Goldberg (2023)
Emory University School of Medicine
Atlanta, GA, USA
Research Interests: Bacteriology, Immunology, Microbial Pathogenesis

Gustavo Goldman (2023)
University of São Paulo
São Paulo, Brazil
Research Interests: Bacteriophages, Genetics and Molecular Biology, Microbial Genetics

Susan Gottesman (2022)
National Cancer Institute
Bethesda, MD, USA
Research Interests: Genetics and Molecular Biology

Joerg Graf (2022)
University of Connecticut,
Storrs, CT, USA
Research Interests: Host-Microbial Interactions, Human Microbiome, Microbial Genetics

Simonetta Gribaldo (2022)
Institut Pasteur,
Paris, France
Research Interests: Evolution, Genomics and Proteomics

Diane E. Griffin (2022)
Johns Hopkins University
School of Public Health
Baltimore, MD, USA
Research Interests: Virology, Pathogenesis and Host Response, Vaccines

Eduardo A. Groisman (2022)
Yale School of Medicine
New Haven, CT, USA
Research Interests: Gene regulation in bacteria; bacterial physiology and virulence

David Guttman (2022)
University of Toronto
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Research Interests: Environmental Microbiology, Plant Microbiology, Systems Biology

Stephen Hajduk (2022)
University of Georgia
Athens, GA, USA
Research Interests: Molecular and Cellular Biology, Host-Microbial Interactions, Parasitology

Caroline Harwood (2022)
University of Washington
Seattle, WA, USA
Research Interests: Environmental Microbiology, Bacteriology, Systems Biology

Graham Hatfull (2022)
University of Pittsburgh
Pittsburgh, PA, USA
Research Interests: Bacteriophages, Mycobacteria

Joseph Heitman (2022)
Duke University, Department of Molecular Genetics and Microbiology
Durham, NC, USA
Research Interests: Fungal genetics, genomics, evolution, and pathogenesis; mechanisms of action and targets of natural products; sexual reproduction and its impact on microbial pathogenesis; mating type loci and centromeres as models for gene cluster evolution and function; Cryptococcus, Candida, Mucor as human fungal pathogens; RNAi and epimutations; FKBP12, calcineurin, and TOR as targets of immunosuppressive natural products FK506, cyclosporin, and rapamycin

Wayne A. Hendrickson (2022)
Columbia University
New York, NY, USA
Research Interests: Structural Biology

Luisa Hiller (2023)
Carnegie Mellon University
Pittsburgh, PA, USA
Research Interests: Bacterial Pathogenesis and Microbial Genomics

Deborah Hogan (2023)
Dartmouth Medical School
Hanover, NH, USA
Research Interests: Bacteriology, Host-Microbial Interactions, Microbial Pathogenesis, Mycology, Physiology and Metabolism

Stacy Horner (2022)
Duke University Medical Center
Durham, NC, USA
Research Interests: RNA viruses, innate immunity

Bernhard Hube (2022)
Leibniz Institute for Natural Product Research and Infection Biology
Jena, Germany
Research Interests: Molecular and infection biology of human pathogenic fungi (Candida albicans, C. glabrata); functional genomics; host/pathogen interactions; virulence attributes; nutrient acquisition; intracellular survival; invasion mechanisms; microevolution; mode of action of antifungals; host response; fungal peptide toxins

Gary B. Huffnagle (2022)
University of Michigan Medical Center
Ann Arbor, MI, USA
Research Interests: Human Microbiome, Microbial Ecology, Pathogenesis and Host Response

Kelly T. Hughes (2022)
University of Utah
Salt Lake City, UT, USA
Research Interests: Antimicrobial resistance, emerging infections, One Health

Scott Hultgren (2023)
Washington University in St. Louis
St. Louis, MO USA
Research Interests: Bacteriology, Bacteriology, Microbial Pathogenesis, Microbial Pathogenesis, Pathogenesis and Host Response, Pathogenesis and Host Response

Alexander Idnurm (2023)
University of Melbourne
Victoria, Australia
Research Interests: Fungal genetics, medical mycology, plant pathology

Janet Jansson (2023)
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Richland, WA, USA
Research Interests: Environmental Microbiology, Microbial Ecology, Microbiome

Eric Johnson (2022)
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Madison, WI, USA
Research Interests: Antimicrobial Chemotherapy, Epidemiology, Microbial Ecology

Michael D.L. Johnson (2022)
University of Arizona
Tucson, AZ, USA
Research Interests: Metallobiology, Protein Biochemistry, Molecular Microbiology

Patricia Johnson (2022)
University of California Los Angeles
Los Angeles, CA, USA
Research Interests: Eukaryotic Cells, Microbial Pathogenesis

Sheryl Justice (2022)
The Ohio State University School of Medicine
Columbus, OH, USA
Research Interests: Microbial Pathogenesis, Pathogenesis and Host Response, Molecular and Cellular Biology

Regine Kahmann (2023)
Max Planck Institute for Terrestrial Microbiology
Marburg, Germany
Research Interests: Host-Microbial Interactions, Microbial Pathogenesis, Mycology

Stefan H. E. Kaufmann (2022)
Max-Planck-Institute for Infection Biology
Berlin, Germany
Research Interests: Vaccines, Immunology

Paul Keim (2022)
Northern Arizona University
Flagstaff, AZ, USA
Research Interests: Bacteriology, Environmental Microbiology, Ecology, Microbial Genetics

Kimberly A. Kline (2022)
Nanyang Technological University Singapore
Research Interests: Enterococci, biofilms, polymicrobial interactions, host-pathogen interactions, urinary tract infection, wound infection

Arash Komeili (2023)
University of California-Berkeley
Berkeley, CA, USA
Research Interests: Genetics and Molecular Biology, Molecular and Cellular Biology, Bacteriology

Anita Koshy (2023)
University of Arizona
Tucson, AX, USA
Research Interests: Toxoplasma gondii, infections of the CNS

J. (Jim) W. Kronstad (2023)
University of British Columbia
Vancouver, BC, Canada
Research Interests: Mycology, Host-Microbial Interactions, Genetics and Molecular Biology

Jean-Paul Latge (2023)
Institut Pasteur
Paris, France
Research Interests: Antimicrobial Chemotherapy, Clinical Microbiology, Mycology

Michael T. Laub (2022)
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Cambridge, MA, USA
Research Interests: Two-component signal transduction, toxin-antitoxin systems, bacterial cell cycle, chromosome structure, transcription, regulatory networks

Sang Yup Lee (2022)
Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology
Daejeon, Korea
Research Interests: metabolic engineering, industrial biotechnology, synthetic biology, systems biology

Bruno Lemaitre (2023)
École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne
Lausanne, Switzerland
Research Interests: Insect immunity, Entomopathogens, Innate Immunity, Endosymbionts, Symbiosis

Katherine P. Lemon (2023)
Baylor College of Medicine
Houston, TX, USA
Research Interests: Genomics and Proteomics, Human Microbiome, Microbial Ecology

Bruce R. Levin (2022)
Emory University Atlanta, GA, USA
Research Interests: Antimicrobial Chemotherapy, Evolution, Population Biology

Xiaorong Lin (2023)
University of Georgia Athens, GA, USA
Research Interests: Eukaryotic Cells, Genetics and Molecular Biology, Molecular and Cellular Biology

Melissa Lodoen (2023)
University of California, Irvine
Irvine, CA, USA
Research Interests: Pathogenesis and Host Response, Immunology, Host-Microbial Interactions

Michael Lorenz (2022)
University of Texas Health Science Center
Houston, TX, USA
Research Interests: Fungal pathogenesis, host-microbe interactions

Derek Lovley (2022)
University of Massachusetts Amherst
Amherst, MA, USA
Research Interests: Environmental Microbiology, Geomicrobiology, Microbial Ecology

Marthandan Mahalingam (2022)
Catholic University of America
Washington, DC, USA
Research Interests: Vaccines, Virology, Host-Microbial Interactions

Jennifer Martiny (2023)
University of California, Irvine
Irvine, CA, USA
Research Interests: microbial ecology, biogeography, bacteriophage-host coevolution

Bruce A. McClane (2022)
University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine Pittsburgh, PA, USA
Research Interests: Bacterial toxins, sporulation, intestinal infections

Larry S. McDaniel (2022)
University of Mississippi Medical Center
Jackson, MS, USA
Research Interests: Upper respiratory bacterial infections and host-pathogen interactions. The role of bacterial and viral pathogens in otitis media. The emergence and pathogenesis of nonencapsulated S. pneumonia (NESp).

Margaret McFall-Ngai (2023)
University of Hawaii at Manoa
Manoa, HI, USA
Research Interests: Symbiosis; influence of microbes on host development; animal microbiomes

Xiang-Jin Meng (2022)
Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, VA, USA
Research Interests: Virology, Vaccines, Veterinary Microbiology

Houra Merrikh (2023)
University of Washington Seattle, WA, USA
Research Interests: Microbial Genetics, Genetics and Molecular Biology, Evolution

Jeffery F. Miller (2022)
UCLA School of Medicine
Los Angeles, CA, USA
Research Interests: Microbial Pathogenesis, Microbial Genetics, Bacteriology

Louis H. Miller (2022)
Laboratory of Malaria and Vector Research, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, NIH
Bethesda, MD, USA
Research Interests: Malaria

Matthew S. Miller (2022)
McMaster University
Hamilton, ON, Canada
Research Interests: Virology, influenza virus, immunology, vaccinology, antibodies, neurodegenerative diseases, innate immunity, B cells

Samuel I. Miller (2022)
University of Washington Seattle, WA, USA
Research Interests: Pathogenesis and Host Response, Immunology, Host-Microbial Interactions

Mary Ann Moran (2023)
University of Georgia Athens, GA, USA
Research Interests: Bacterial roles in ocean carbon and sulfur cycles, environmental transcriptomics, Roseobacter model organism systems

Thomas E. (Tem) Morrison (2023)
University of Colorado School of Medicine, Aurora, CO, USA
Research Interests: Immunological mechanisms that influence the clearance or persistence of arboviruses and protozoan parasites; Molecular mechanisms by which pathogens counteract host innate and adaptive immune responses

Anne Moscona (2022)
Columbia University
New York, NY, USA
Research Interests: Virology

Tarek Msadek (2022)
Institut Pasteur Paris, France
Research Interests: Microbial Genetics, Microbial Pathogenesis, Pathogenesis and Host Response

Carol A. Nacy (2022)
Sequella, Inc. Rockville, MD, USA
Research Interests: Drug discovery and development, Mycobacteria, intracellular pathogens, macrophages, intracellular killing

Dianne K. Newman (2022)
California Institute of Technology
Pasadena, CA, USA
Research Interests: Geomicrobiology

Kirsten Nielsen (2022)
University of Minnesota Medical School
Minneapolis, MN, USA
Research Interests: Applied and Industrial Microbiology, Biotechnology, Systems Biology

Steve Norris (2022)
McGovern Medical School
Houston, TX, USA
Research Interests: Microbial Pathogenesis, Pathogenesis and Host Response, Bacteriology

Andrew B. Onderdonk (2022)
Brigham and Women's Hospital
Boston, MA, USA
Research Interests: Clinical Microbiology

Scot Ouellette (2022)
University of Nebraska Medical Center
Omaha, NE USA
Research Interests: Chlamydia and obligate intracellular bacteria: cell division, gene regulation, pathogenesis

Peter M. Palese (2022)
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
New York, NY, USA
Research Interests: Viruses, virology, vaccinology, reverse genetics, universal influenza virus vaccine

Eleftherios T. Papoutsakis (2022)
University of Delaware Newark, DE, USA
Research Interests: Molecular and Cellular Biology

Dimitrios Paraskevis (2022)
Medical School, University of Athens
Athens, Greece
Research Interests: Virology, Evolution, Public Health

Julian Parkhill (2022)
The Sanger Institute
Cambridge, UK
Research Interests: Bacterial genomics and evolution

Matthew R. Parsek (2022)
University of Washington
Seattle, WA, USA
Research Interests: Bacteriology, Environmental Microbiology, Host-Microbial Interactions

John T. Patton (2022)
Indiana University Bloomington
Bloomington, IN, USA
Research Interests: Virology, Vaccines

J. S. Malik Peiris (2022)
University of Hong Kong
Pokfulam, Hong Kong
Research Interests: Virology

Melinda M. Pettigrew (2023)
Yale School of Public Health
New Haven, CT, USA
Research Interests: Infectious Disease epidemiology, antibiotic resistance, respiratory tract infections, respiratory and gastrointestinal microbiome, hospital-acquired infections

Gerald B. Pier (2022)
Harvard Medical School
Boston, MA, USA
Research Interests: Antimicrobial Chemotherapy, Bacteriology, Immunology, Virology, Microbial Pathogenesis, Vaccines

Liise-anne Pirofski (2022)
Albert Einstein College of Medicine
Bronx, NY, USA
Research Interests: Host-Microbial Interactions, Immunology, Vaccines

Vinayaka Prasad (2023)
Albert Einstein College of Medicine
Bronx, NY, USA
Research Interests: HIV-1 replication mechanisms, viral determinants of HIV associated neurocognitive disorders, RNA aptamers against HIV

Steven Projan (2022)
MedImmune Gaithersburg, MD, USA
Research Interests: Antimicrobial chemotherapy, bacteriology, clincal microbiology, microbial pathogenesis

Nathalie Pujol (2022)
CNRS/Aix Marseille Université
Marseille, France
Research Interests: Genetics and Molecular Biology, Host-Microbial Interactions, Molecular and Cellular Biology

Vincent Racaniello (2022)
Columbia University College of Physicians & Surgeons
New York, NY, USA
Research Interests: Virology, Pathogenesis and Host Response

Rino Rappuoli (2022)
GSK Vaccines
Siena, Italy
Research Interests: Vaccines, Bacteriology, Microbial Pathogenesis

Jacques Ravel (2023)
University of Maryland School of Medicine
Baltimore, MD, USA
Research Interests: Bacteriology, Genomics and Proteomics, Microbial Ecology

Nancy C. Reich (2022)
Stony Brook University
Stony Brook, NY, USA
Research Interests: cytokine and interferon signal pathways

Markus W. Ribbe (2022)
University of California, Irvine
Irvine, CA, USA
Research Interests: Nitrogenase, hydrogenase, carbon monoxide dehydrogenase, metalloproteins, metallocofactors, cofactor biosynthesis, carbon monoxide reduction, carbon dioxide reduction, microbial biochemistry, bioinorganic chemistry, nitrogen fixation, ammonia synthesis, molybdenum enzymes, vanadium enzymes, iron sulfur enzymes, artificial enzymes, hydrocarbon formation

Yasuko Rikihisa (2022)
Ohio State University
Columbus, OH, USA
Research Interests: Bacteriology, Immunology, Veterinary Microbiology

Cristina Risco Ortiz (2023)
National Center for Biotechnology
Madrid, Spain
Research Interests: Virus factories, viral replication organelles, electron microscopy, correlative microscopy, molecular mapping in situ

Patricia Rosa (2022)
Rocky Mountain Laboratories, NIAID, NIH, MT, USA
Research Interests: Genetics and molecular biology, microbial genetics, microbial pathogenesis

Monica J. Roth (2022)
Rutgers-Robert Wood Johnson Medical School
Piscataway, NJ, USA
Research Interests: Virology, Antimicrobial Chemotherapy, Molecular and Cellular Biology

Craig R. Roy (2022)
Yale University School of Medicine
New Haven, CT, USA
Research Interests: Genetics and Molecular Biology, Immunology, Molecular and Cellular Biology

Edward Ruby (2022)
University of Hawaii at Manoa
Manoa, HI, USA
Research Interests: Physiology and Metabolism

Nina Salama (2022)
Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
Seattle, WA, USA
Research Interests: Microbiology, gram-negative bacteria, bacterial pathogens, host-pathogen interactions, bacterial cell biology

Philippe Sansonetti (2022)
Institut Pasteur Paris, France
Research Interests: Microbial Pathogenesis, Pathogenesis and Host Response, Bacteriology, Immunology, Vaccines

Matthew D. Scharff (2022)
Albert Einstein College of Medicine
Bronx, NY, USA
Research Interests: Immunology, Virology

Christa Schleper (2023)
University of Vienna, Austria
Research Interests: Bacteriology, Environmental Microbiology

Stacey Schultz-Cherry (2022)
St. Jude Children's Research Hospital Infectious Diseases
Memphis, TN, USA
Research Interests: Antimicrobial Chemotherapy, Virology, Pathogenesis and Host Response, Clinical Microbiology, Immunology, Microbial Pathogenesis, Molecular and Cellular Biology

Thomas E. Shenk (2023)
Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, USA
Research Interests: Virology

Alan Sher (2022)
National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases
Bethesda, MD, USA
Research Interests: Immunology

L. David Sibley (2022)
Washington University School of Medicine
Saint Louis, MO, USA
Research Interests: Host-pathogen interactions, protozoan parasites, innate immunity and virulence factors

M. Sloan Siegrist (2022)
University of Massachsetts Amherst
Amherst, MA, USA
Research Interests: Host-Microbial Interactions, Microbial Genetics, Mycobacteriology

Thomas E. Smithgall (2022)
University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine
Pittsburgh, PA, USA
Research Interests: Structure and dynamics of HIV-1 accessory proteins; new approaches to antiretroviral drug discovery

Lotte Søgaard-Andersen (2022)
Max Planck Institute for Terrestrial Microbiology
Marburg, Germany
Research Interests: Genetics and molecular biology, microbial genetics, molecular and cellular biology

Dominique Soldati-Favre (2023)
University De Geneve
Geneva, Switzerland
Research Interests: Biology of apicomplexans, Toxoplasma, Plasmodium, motility, invasion, organelles biogenesis, signaling, metabolism

Vanessa Sperandio (2023)
University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
Dallas, TX, USA
Research Interests: Antimicrobial Chemotherapy, Bacteriology, Clinical Microbiology, Microbial Pathogenesis, Microbial Genetics

Christina L. Stallings (2022)
Washington University School of Medicine
St. Louis, MO, USA
Research Interests: Tuberculosis, mycobacteria, regulation of gene expression and stress responses in bacteria, innate immune responses to bacterial infections

Gisela Storz (2022)
National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD)
Bethesda, MD, USA
Research Interests: Bacteriology, Molecular and Cellular Biology

Kanta Subbarao (2023)
WHO Collaborating Centre for Reference and Research on Influenza The Peter Doherty Institute for Infection and Immunity
Melbourne, Australia
Research Interests: Vaccines, virology

Michele Swanson (2022)
University of Michigan Medical School
Ann Arbor, MI, USA
Research Interests: intracellular pathogens, environmental pathogens, macrophage pathogens, stringent response, Legionella pneumophila

John W. Taylor (2022)
University of California, Berkeley
Berkeley, CA, USA
Research Interests: Eukaryotic Cells, Population Biology, Mycology

Justin A. Thornton (2022)
Mississippi State University
Mississippi State, MS, USA
Research Interests: Bacteriology, Microbial Pathogenesis, Pathogenesis and Host Response

Victor J. Torres (2022)
New York University School of Medicine
New York, NY, USA
Research Interests: MRSA, toxins, receptors, neutrophils, macrophages, innate immunity, host-pathogen interactions, Staphylococcus aureus, CA-MRSA, infection, phagocytes

M. Stephen Trent (2022)
University of Georgia
Athens, GA, USA
Research Interests: Assembly of the Gram-negative cell envelope; assembly and transport of lipopolysaccharide (LPS), lipoproteins, and glycerophospholipids; impact of cell envelope remodeling on bacterial-host interactions

Christian Tschudi (2023)
Yale School of Public Health
New Haven, CT, USA
Research Interests: Eukaryotic Cells, Molecular and Cellular Biology

Barbara Gillian Turgeon (2023)
Cornell University
Ithaca, NY, USA
Research Interests: Fungal genetics, genomics, fungal-plant interactions/ fungal virulence mechanisms, secondary metabolite function and evolution, mechanisms of sexual reproduction in fungi

Mark Turner (2022)
The University of Queensland
Brisbane, Australia
Research Interests: Food microbiology, lactic acid bacteria, c-di-AMP signaling

Russell Vance (2023)
University of California, Berkeley
Berkeley, CA, USA
Research Interests: Microbial Pathogenesis

Jose Vazquez-Boland (2022)
Microbial Pathogenesis Laboratory
Infection Medicine - Biomedical Sciences
Edinburgh Medical School
University of Edinburgh
Edinburgh, UK
Research Interests: Bacteriology, Microbial Pathogenesis, Veterinary Microbiology

Anne K. Vidaver (2022)
University of Nebraska
Lincoln, NE, USA
Research Interests: Bacteriology, Bacteriophages, Plant Microbiology

Joerg Vogel (2022)
University of Würzburg
Würzburg, Germany
Research Interests: Bacteriology, Microbial Pathogenesis, Genetics and Molecular Biology, Genetics and Molecular Biology, Microbial Genetics, Bacteriology

Louis Weiss (2022)
Albert Einstein College of Medicine
New York, NY, USA
Research Interests: Genetics and Molecular Biology, Microbial Genetics, Molecular and Cellular Biology

Joshua Weitz (2022)
Georgia Institute of Technology, School of Biology
Atlanta, GA, USA
Research Interests: Computational Biology

Thomas E. Wellems (2022)
Laboratory of Malaria and Vector Research, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, NIH
Bethesda, MD, USA
Research Interests: Antimicrobial Chemotherapy, Parasitology

Marvin Whiteley (2022)
Georgia Institute of Technology School of Biological Sciences
Atlanta, GA, USA
Research Interests: Bacteriology, Host-Microbial Interactions, Human Microbiome, Environmental Microbiology, Microbial Genetics, Microbial Pathogenesis, Molecular and Cellular Biology

Reed Wickner (2022)
Laboratory of Biochemistry and Genetics, National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases, National Institutes of Health
Bethesda, MD, USA
Research Interests: Prions of yeast

Stephen C. Winans (2022)
Cornell University Ithaca, NY, USA
Research Interests: Bacteriology, Microbial Genetics, Microbial Pathogenesis

Fred Winston (2022)
Harvard Medical School Boston, MA, USA
Research Interests: Eukaryotic Cells, Genetics and Molecular Biology

Floyd L. Wormley (2023)
Texas Christian University,
Fort Worth, TX, USA
Research Interests: Fungal pathogenesis, medical mycology, host/pathogen interactions, immunity vaccine development

Gerard Wright (2023)
McMaster University
Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
Research Interests: Antimicrobial Chemotherapy, Bacteriology, Environmental Microbiology

Maria Mercedes Zambrano (2023)
Corpogen - Research Institute, Colombia
Research Interests: Microbial ecology and biotechnology; environmental and urban microbial communities; microbial resistance and diversity

Qijing Zhang (2023)
Iowa State University Ames, IA, USA
Research Interests: Antimicrobial resistance, pathogen-host interaction, campylobacter, food safety, zoonotic diseases

Igor B. Zhulin (2023)
Ohio State University, OH, USA
Research Interests:Signal transduction, bacterial chemotaxis, evolutionary genomics, computational biology

Editorial Advisory Board

Bonnie L. Bassler (2022)

Christine Biron (2022)

Michael J. Buchmeier (2022)

R. John Collier (2022)

Terence Dermody (2022)

E. Peter Greenberg (2022)

Michael J. Imperiale (2022)

Steven E. Lindow (2022)

Richard M. Losick (2022)

David Relman (2022)

Michael W. Russell (2022)

Rozanne Sandri-Goldin (2022)

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