Board of Editors

Danielle A Garsin (2020)
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.

Alejandro Aballay (2020)
School of Medicine, Oregon Health & Science University Portland, OR, USA

Salim Abdool Karim (2020)
University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa

J. Andrew Alspaugh (2019)
Duke University Medical Center Durham, NC, USA

Frederick M. Ausubel (2019)
Massachusetts General Hospital Boston, MA, USA

Yong-Sun Bahn (2020)
Yonsei University Seoul, Korea
Research Interests: Fungal genetics and pathogenesis, Signaling networks, Antifungal drug development

Mark Bailey (2019)
NERC Centre for Ecology and Hydrology Wallingford, Oxfordshire, UK

Jimmy D. Ballard (2019)
University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center Oklahoma City, OK, USA

Alan Barbour (2019)
University of California-Irvine Irvine, CA, USA

Daniel Barkan (2020)
Hebrew University Rehovot, Israel
Research Interests: Microbial ecology of natural and engineered environments

Bonnie L. Bassler (2019)
Princeton University Princeton, NJ, USA

Jack R. Bennink (2019)
National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, NIH
Bethesda, MD, USA
Research Interests: Viral immunology, influenza virus immunity, T-cell immunity, class I antigen processing and presentation

Judith Berman (2019)
Tel Aviv University, Israel
Research Interests: Fungal pathogen genetics and genomics, Antifungal resistance and tolerance

Christine Biron (2019)
Brown University and The Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University, RI, USA
Research Interests: Innate Immunity to Viral Infections; Natural Killer Cells; Type 1 Interferons: CD8 T Cells

Indranil Biswas (2019)
University of Kansas Medical Center
Kansas City, KS, USA

Martin Blaser (2019)
New York University Langone Medical Center
New York, NY, USA

Barry R. Bloom (2019)
Harvard School of Public Health
Boston, MA, USA

Jennifer Bomberger (2020)
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 (2019)
Louis Stokes Veterans Affairs Medical Center
Cleveland, OH, USA

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

Jon P. Boyle (2019)
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 (2019)
Duke University School of Medicine
Durham, NC, USA

Michael J. Buchmeier (2019)
University of California, Irvine

Barbara Burleigh (2019)
Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health
Boston, MA, USA

Karen Bush (2019)
Indiana University
Bloomington, IN, USA

Douglas Capone (2020)
University of Southern California
Los Angeles, CA, USA
Research Interests: Microbial nitrogen cycling in marine and aquatic environments

Colleen Cavanaugh (2020)
Harvard University
Cambridge, MA, USA

Yung-Fu Chang  (2020)
College of Veterinary Medicine, Cornell University
Ithaca, NY, USA

Matthew Chapman (2019)
University of Michigan
Ann Arbor, MI, USA

Emmanuelle Charpentier (2020)
Max Planck Institute for Infection Biology
Berlin, Germany

Tom Chiller (2020)
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Atlanta, GA, USA

Anuradha Chowdhary (2020)
Vallabhbhai Patel Chest Institute, University of Delhi
Delhi, India

Jose Clemente (2019)
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
New York, NY, USA

R. John Collier (2020)
Harvard Medical School
Cambridge, MA, USA

Pascale F. Cossart (2019)
Unite I.B.C., Institut Pasteur
Paris, France

Leah E. Cowen (2020)
University of Toronto
Toronto, ON, Canada

Carolyn Coyne (2020)
University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine
Pittsburgh, PA, USA

K. Heran Darwin (2020)
New York University School of Medicine
New York, NY, USA

Julian E. Davies (2019)
University of British Columbia
Vancouver, BC, Canada

Mark Denison (2020)
Vanderbilt University Medical Center
Nashville, TN, USA

Terence S. Dermody (2019)
University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine
Pittsburgh, PA, USA
Research Interests: Viral receptors and cell entry, viral pathogenesis, reovirus, chikungunya virus

Antonio Di Pietro  (2020)
University of Cordoba
Cordoba, Spain

Tamara L. Doering (2019)
Washington University School of Medicine
St. Louis, MO, USA

Maria Dominguez-Bello (2020)
Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
New Brunswick, NJ, USA

Stephanie Doores (2020)
Pennsylvania State University
University Park, PA, USA

Françoise Dromer (2019)
Institut Pasteur
Paris, France
Research Interests: Host/pathogen interactions with focus on Cryptococcus neoformans and cryptococcosis; epidemiology of invasive fungal infections

Nicole Dubilier (2020)
Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology
Bremen, Germany

Paul Dunman (2019)
University of Rochester
Rochester, NY, USA

Gary M. Dunny (2019)
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

Scott Emr (2019)
Weill Institute, Cornell University
Ithaca, NY, USA

Joanne Engel (2019)
University of California, San Francisco
San Francisco, CA, USA

Mary K. Estes (2019)
Baylor College of Medicine
Houston, TX, USA

Brett Finlay (2019)
University of British Columbia
Vancouver, BC, Canada

Reinhard Fischer (2019)
Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
Karlsruhe, Germany

Claire M. Fraser (2019)
University of Maryland,
School of Medicine
Baltimore, MD, USA

Nancy Freitag (2019)
University of Illinois at Chicago
Chicago, IL, USA

Peter Gilligan (2019)
University of North Carolina
Chapel Hill, NC, USA

Michael G. Gilmore (2019)
Harvard Medical School
Boston, MA, USA

Steve Giovannoni (2020)
Oregon State University
Corvallis, OR, USA

Stephen P. Goff (2019)
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 (2019)
Emory University School of Medicine
Atlanta, GA, USA

Gustavo Goldman (2020)
University of São Paulo
São Paulo, Brazil

Susan Gottesman (2019)
National Cancer Institute
Bethesda, MD, USA

E. Peter Greenberg (2019)
University of Washington
Seattle, WA, USA

Diane E. Griffin (2019)
Johns Hopkins University
School of Public Health
Baltimore, MD, USA

Eduardo A. Groisman (2019)
Yale School of Medicine
New Haven, CT, USA
Research Interests: Gene regulation in bacteria; bacterial physiology and virulence

David Guttman (2019)
University of Toronto
Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Caroline Harwood (2019)
University of Washington
Seattle, WA, USA

Joseph Heitman (2019)
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 (2019)
Columbia University
New York, NY, USA

Luisa Hiller (2020)
Carnegie Mellon University
Pittsburgh, PA, USA
Research Interests: Bacterial Pathogenesis and Microbial Genomics

Bernhard Hube (2019)
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 (2019)
University of Michigan Medical Center
Ann Arbor, MI, USA

James M. Hughes (2020)
Emory University School of Medicine
Atlanta, GA, USA
Research Interests: Antimicrobial resistance, emerging infections, One Health

Alexander Idnurm (2020)
University of Melbourne
Victoria, Australia
Research Interests: Fungal genetics, medical mycology, plant pathology

Michael J. Imperiale (2019)
University of Michigan Medical School
Ann Arbor, MI, USA

George A. Jacoby (2019)
Lahey Clinic Burlington, MA, USA
Research Interests: Plasmid- and chromosomally-mediated quinolone resistance, beta-lactamases, plasmid biology, pumps and porins

Janet Jansson (2020)
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Richland, WA, USA

Eric Johnson (2019)
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Madison, WI, USA

Patricia Johnson (2019)
University of California Los Angeles
Los Angeles, CA, USA

Sheryl Justice (2019)
The Ohio State University School of Medicine
Columbus, OH, USA

Regine Kahmann (2020)
Max Planck Institute for Terrestrial Microbiology
Marburg, Germany

Stefan H. E. Kaufmann (2019)
Max-Planck-Institute for Infection Biology
Berlin, Germany

Paul Keim (2019)
Northern Arizona University
Flagstaff, AZ, USA

Kimberly A. Kline (2019)
Nanyang Technological University Singapore
Research Interests: Enterococci, biofilms, polymicrobial interactions, host-pathogen interactions, urinary tract infection, wound infection

Keith P. Klugman (2019)
Emory University Atlanta, GA, USA

Arash Komeili (2020)
University of California-Berkeley
Berkeley, CA, USA

Anita Koshy (2020)
University of Arizona
Tucson, AX, USA
Research Interests: Toxoplasma gondii, infections of the CNS

J. (Jim) W. Kronstad (2020)
University of British Columbia
Vancouver, BC, Canada

Jean-Paul Latge (2020)
Institut Pasteur
Paris, France

Michael T. Laub (2019)
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 (2019)
Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology
Daejeon, Korea
Research Interests: metabolic engineering, industrial biotechnology, synthetic biology, systems biology

Bruno Lemaitre (2020)
École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne
Lausanne, Switzerland
Research Interests: Insect immunity, Entomopathogens, Innate Immunity, Endosymbionts, Symbiosis

Katherine P. Lemon (2020)
The Forsyth Institute
Cambridge, MA, USA

Bruce R. Levin (2019)
Emory University Atlanta, GA, USA

Xiaorong Lin (2020)
University of Georgia Athens, GA, USA

Steven E. Lindow (2019)
University of California Berkeley, CA, USA
Research Interests: Microbial ecology, plant pathology, ice nucleation, phyllopshere

Jaisri R. Lingappa (2020)
University of Washington Seattle, WA, USA
Research Interests: Viral host interactions in HIV-1 assembly and restriction

W. Ian Lipkin (2019)
Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University
New York, NY, USA

Melissa Lodoen (2020)
University of California, Irvine
Irvine, CA, USA

Michael Lorenz (2019)
University of Texas Health Science Center
Houston, TX, USA
Research Interests: Fungal pathogenesis, host-microbe interactions

Richard M. Losick (2019)
Harvard University Cambridge, MA, USA

Derek Lovley (2019)
University of Massachusetts Amherst
Amherst, MA, USA

Marthandan Mahalingam (2019)
Catholic University of America
Washington, DC, USA

Jennifer Martiny (2020)
University of California, Irvine
Irvine, CA, USA
Research Interests: microbial ecology, biogeography, bacteriophage-host coevolution

Bruce A. McClane (2019)
University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine Pittsburgh, PA, USA
Research Interests: Bacterial toxins, sporulation, intestinal infections

Larry S. McDaniel (2019)
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 (2020)
University of Hawaii at Manoa
Manoa, HI, USA
Research Interests: Symbiosis; influence of microbes on host development; animal microbiomes

John J. Mekalanos (2019)
Harvard Medical School
Boston, MA, USA

Xiang-Jin Meng (2019)
Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, VA, USA

Houra Merrikh (2020)
University of Washington Seattle, WA, USA

Jeffery F. Miller (2019)
UCLA School of Medicine
Los Angeles, CA, USA

Louis H. Miller (2019)
Laboratory of Malaria and Vector Research, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, NIH
Bethesda, MD, USA
Research Interests: Malaria

Samuel I. Miller (2019)
University of Washington Seattle, WA, USA
Research Interests: Malaria

Mary Ann Moran (2020)
University of Georgia Athens, GA, USA
Research Interests: Bacterial roles in ocean carbon and sulfur cycles, environmental transcriptomics, Roseobacter model organism systems

Nancy A. Moran (2019)
University of Texas at Austin
Austin, TX, USA
Research Interests: Bacterial evolutionary genomics, bacterial symbiosis in insects

Thomas E. (Tem) Morrison (2020)
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 (2019)
Columbia University
New York, NY, USA
Research Interests: Virology

David M. Mosser (2019)
University of Maryland
College Park, MD, USA

Tarek Msadek (2019)
Institut Pasteur Paris, France

Carol A. Nacy (2019)
Sequella, Inc. Rockville, MD, USA
Research Interests: Drug discovery and development, Mycobacteria, intracellular pathogens, macrophages, intracellular killing

Dianne K. Newman (2019)
California Institute of Technology
Pasadena, CA, USA

Kirsten Nielsen (2019)
University of Minnesota Medical School
Minneapolis, MN, USA

Steve Norris (2019)
McGovern Medical School
Houston, TX, USA

Richard P. Novick (2019)
Skirball Institute of Biomolecular Medicine, New York University Medical Center
New York, NY, USA

Andrew B. Onderdonk (2019)
Brigham and Women's Hospital
Boston, MA, USA

Peter M. Palese (2019)
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 (2019)
University of Delaware Newark, DE, USA

Dimitrios Paraskevis (2019)
Medical School, University of Athens
Athens, Greece

Julian Parkhill (2019)
The Sanger Institute
Cambridge, UK
Research Interests: Bacterial genomics and evolution

Matthew R. Parsek (2019)
University of Washington
Seattle, WA, USA

John T. Patton (2019)
Indiana University Bloomington
Bloomington, IN, USA

J. S. Malik Peiris (2019)
University of Hong Kong
Pokfulam, Hong Kong

Melinda M. Pettigrew (2020)
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 (2019)
Harvard Medical School
Boston, MA, USA

Liise-anne Pirofski (2019)
Albert Einstein College of Medicine
Bronx, NY, USA

Vinayaka Prasad (2019)
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 (2019)
MedImmune Gaithersburg, MD, USA

Nathalie Pujol (2019)
CNRS/Aix Marseille Université
Marseille, France

Vincent Racaniello (2019)
Columbia University College of Physicians & Surgeons
New York, NY, USA

Rino Rappuoli (2019)
GSK Vaccines
Siena, Italy

Jacques Ravel (2020)
University of Maryland School of Medicine
Baltimore, MD, USA

Nancy C. Reich (2019)
Stony Brook University
Stony Brook, NY, USA
Research Interests: cytokine and interferon signal pathways

David Relman (2019)
VA Palo Alto Health Care System
Palo Alto, CA, USA

Markus W. Ribbe (2019)
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 (2019)
Ohio State University
Columbus, OH, USA

Cristina Risco Ortiz (2020)
National Center for Biotechnology
Madrid, Spain
Research Interests: Virus factories, viral replication organelles, electron microscopy, correlative microscopy, molecular mapping in situ

Patricia Rosa (2019)
Rocky Mountain Laboratories, NIAID, NIH, MT, USA
Research Interests: Genetics and molecular biology, microbial genetics, microbial pathogenesis

Eric Rubin (2019)
Harvard School of Public Health
Boston, MA, USA

Edward Ruby (2019)
University of Hawaii at Manoa
Manoa, HI, USA

Michael W. Russell (2019)
University at Buffalo Buffalo, NY, USA

Nina Salama (2019)
Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
Seattle, WA, USA
Research Interests: Microbiology, gram-negative bacteria, bacterial pathogens, host-pathogen interactions, bacterial cell biology-->

Rozanne Sandri-Goldin (2019)
University of California, Irvine
Irvine, CA, USA
Research Interests: Herpes viruses, viral gene regulation, virus-host interactions

Philippe Sansonetti (2019)
Institut Pasteur Paris, France

Matthew D. Scharff (2019)
Albert Einstein College of Medicine
Bronx, NY, USA

Christa Schleper (2020)
University of Vienna, Austria

Stacey Schultz-Cherry (2019)
St. Jude Children's Research Hospital Infectious Diseases
Memphis, TN, USA

Thomas E. Shenk (2020)
Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, USA

Alan Sher (2019)
National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases
Bethesda, MD, USA

Howard A. Shuman (2019)
University of Chicago
Chicago, IL, USA

L. David Sibley (2019)
Washington University School of Medicine
Saint Louis, MO, USA
Research Interests: Host-pathogen interactions, protozoan parasites, innate immunity and virulence factors

Thomas E. Smithgall (2019)
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 Sogaard-Andersen (2019)
Max Planck Institute for Terrestrial Microbiology
Marburg, Germany
Research Interests: Genetics and molecular biology, microbial genetics, molecular and cellular biology

Vanessa Sperandio (2020)
University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
Dallas, TX, USA

Christina L. Stallings (2019)
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 (2019)
National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD)
Bethesda, MD, USA

Kanta Subbarao (2020)
NIAID, NIH
Bethesda, MD, USA

Michele Swanson (2019)
University of Michigan Medical School
Ann Arbor, MI, USA
Research Interests: intracellular pathogens, environmental pathogens, macrophage pathogens, stringent response, Legionella pneumophila

John W. Taylor (2019)
University of California, Berkeley
Berkeley, CA, USA

Justin A. Thornton (2019)
Mississippi State University
Mississippi State, MS, USA

Victor J. Torres (2019)
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 (2020)
Yale School of Public Health
New Haven, CT, USA

Barbara Gillian Turgeon (2020)
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 (2019)
The University of Queensland
Brisbane, Australia
Research Interests: Food microbiology, lactic acid bacteria, c-di-AMP signaling

Russell Vance (2020)
University of California, Berkeley
Berkeley, CA, USA

Jose Vazquez-Boland (2019)
The Roslin Institute, University of Edinburgh
Edinburgh, UK

Anne K. Vidaver (2019)
University of Nebraska
Lincoln, NE, USA

Joerg Vogel (2019)
University of Würzburg
Würzburg, Germany

Louis M. Weiss (2019)
Albert Einstein College of Medicine
Bronx, NY, USA

Thomas E. Wellems (2019)
Laboratory of Malaria and Vector Research, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, NIH
Bethesda, MD, USA
Marvin Whiteley (2019)
Georgia Institute of Technology School of Biological Sciences
Atlanta, GA, USA

Reed Wickner (2019)
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 (2019)
Cornell University Ithaca, NY, USA

Fred Winston (2019)
Harvard Medical School Boston, MA, USA

Gerard Wright (2020)
McMaster University
Hamilton, Ontario, Canada

Maria Mercedes Zambrano (2020)
Corpogen - Research Institute, Colombia
Research Interests: Microbial ecology and biotechnology; environmental and urban microbial communities; microbial resistance and diversity

Qijing Zhang (2020)
Iowa State University Ames, IA, USA
Research Interests: Antimicrobial resistance, pathogen-host interaction, campylobacter, food safety, zoonotic diseases

Jizhong Zhou (2019)
University of Oklahoma
Norman, OK, USA

Igor B. Zhulin (2020)
Ohio State University, OH, USA
Research Interests:Signal transduction, bacterial chemotaxis, evolutionary genomics, computational biology

Chairman, Journals Committee
Patrick D. Schloss

Chief Executive Officer
Stefano Bertuzzi

Director, Journals
Melissa Junior

Managing Editor
Maisha Fleming Miles

Assistant Managing Editor
Rob Arthur

Peer Review Coordinator
Miriam Day