Board of Editors
Founding Editor in Chief (2020) 
Michael Imperiale, Founding Editor in Chief of mSphere®, is the Arthur F. Thurnau Professor and Associate Chair of the Department of Microbiology and Immunology at the University of Michigan Medical School and a member of the University of Michigan Comprehensive Cancer Center. His laboratory studies the molecular biology of small DNA tumor viruses, including BK polyomavirus, which can cause severe and sometimes life-threatening illnesses in transplant patients. Author of more than 135 peer-reviewed journal articles and book chapters, Dr. Imperiale has served as an editor of ASM's Journal of Virology® and mBio® and associate editor of Virology and PLOS Pathogens.
Senior Editors
Ira Blader (2020)
University at Buffalo
Research Interests: Toxoplasma gondii life cycle and pathogenesis
Patricia Bradford (2020)
Antimicrobial Development Specialists, LLC
Research Interests: Infectious disease, antimicrobial drugs
Sarah D'Orazio (2020)
University of Kentucky
Research Interests: Innate immune response to infection with Listeria monocytogenes
Paul Duprex (2020)
University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine
Research Interests: Viral pathogenesis, paramyxovirus cell biology, biosafety
Craig D. Ellermeier (2021)
University of Iowa
Research Interests: Stress response and signal transduction in the Gram-positive bacteria C. difficile and B. subtilis
Ana Fernandez-Sesma (2022)
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
Research Interests: Innate Immunity, arboviruses, dengue viruses, human immunology, viral immune evasion mechanisms
Katherine McMahon (2020)
University of Wisconsin
Research Interests: Microbial ecology of natural and engineered environments
Aaron Mitchell (2020)
Carnegie Mellon University
Research Interests: Fungal biology, Candida albicans pathogenicity
Marcela Pasetti (2022)
University of Maryland School of Medicine
Research Interests: Vaccines and clinical immunology, maternal-infant immunization, pediatric vaccines, mucosal immunology, human vaccine studies, vaccine serology, Shigella, Salmonella, Cholera, and Yersinia vaccines and immune responses, measles and tetanus vaccination and serology, and preclinical vaccine studies
Susannah Tringe (2020)
Department of Energy, Joint Genome Institute
Research Interests: Metagenomics, microbial communities in wetland carbon cycling, interactions of plants with their microbiomes
Vincent B. Young (2024)
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
Research Interests: C. difficile, GI microbiota, microbial ecology of gastrointestinal bacterial infections
iEditor
Vincent Racaniello (2021)
Columbia University
Research Interests: Picornaviruses, media
Editors
Jacqueline M. Achkar (2020)
Albert Einstein College of Medicine
Research Interests: Tuberculosis pathogenicity, clinical presentations, biomarkers and diagnostics, serology, protective antibodies, antibody functions
Andrew Alspaugh (2021)
Duke University Medical Center
Research Interests: Fungal pathogenesis, medical microbiology
Aravind Asokan (2022)
Duke University School of Medicine
Research Interests: AAV, parvovirus, gene therapy
Yong-Sun Bahn (2021)
Yonsei University, Seoul, South Korea
Research Interests: Medical mycology, functional genetics/genomics, antifungal drug development
Dan Barouch (2022)
Harvard University
Research Interests: HIV, vaccines
Grant R. Bowman (2020)
Department of Molecular Biology, University of Wyoming
Research Interests: Bacterial cell biology, cell polarity in bacteria, macromolecular structures, bacterial cell cycle regulation, bacterial chromosome segregation
Drusilla L. Burns (2020)
U.S. Food and Drug Administration
Research Interests: Bacterial toxins, bacterial pathogenesis, vaccines
Geraldine Butler (2021)
University College Dublin, Ireland
Research Interests: Yeasts and pathogenic fungi, fungal genomics, biofilm development
Mariana Castanheira (2021)
JMI Laboratories
Research Interests: Resistance mechanisms to antimicrobials (mainly Gram negatives) and antifungals, including epidemiology and identification of novel genes; antimicrobial and antifungal surveillance; antifungal susceptibility testing
Blossom Damania (2020)
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Research Interests: Herpesviruses, oncogenesis, innate immunity
Paul Dunman (2021)
University of Rochester
Research Interests: Antibacterial drug discovery
Rebecca Dutch (2020)
University of Kentucky
Research Interests: Paramyxoviruses, fusion
Ron Dzikowski (2021)
Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel
Research Interests: Plasmodium gene expression
Paul D. Fey (2021)
University of Nebraska Medical Center
Research Interests: Staphylococcal biology and pathogenesis, amino acid metabolism, mechanisms of antibiotic resistance
Reinhard Fischer (2020)
Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Karlsruhe, Germany
Research Interests: Filamentous fungi, plant pathogens, fungal cell biology
Matthew Frieman (2020)
University of Maryland
Research Interests: Coronaviruses, pathogenesis, antivirals
Ana Cristina Gales (2021)
Universidade Federal de Sao Paulo, Brazil
Research Interests: Molecular epidemiology of multidrug resistant bacteria, mechanisms of bacterial resistance to clinically significant antimicrobials.
Felicia Goodrum (2020)
University of Arizona
Research Interests: HCMV, persistence
Urs F. Greber (2021)
University of Zurich, Switzerland
Research Interests: Adenovirus, picornavirus, cell biology
Steven Hallam (2021)
University of British Columbia, Canada
Research Interests: Marine and freshwater microbial ecology, metagenomics
Lars Hviid (2022)
University of Copenhagen
Research Interests: P. falciparum malaria, immunity and immune-evasion
Angela Kent (2020)
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Research Interests: Microbial ecology, plant-microbe interactions, bioenergy, soil microbiology
Rosa Krajmalnik-Brown (2020)
Swette Center for Environmental Biotechnology, Biodesign Institute at Arizona State University
Research Interests: Bioremediation, gut microbiome, microbial fermentation, methanogenesis, microbial ecology, microbial fuel cells
Bryan A. Krantz (2021)
University of Maryland
Research Interests: Structure/function analysis of bacterial toxins
Laimonis Laimins (2021)
Northwestern University
Research Interests: Papillomaviruses
Seema Lakdawala (2021)
University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine
Research Interests: Influenza virus, virus transmission, genomic packaging
Timothy LaPara (2021)
University of Minnesota
Research Interests: Wastewater microbiology, freshwater microbiology, antibiotic resistance
Benhur Lee (2020)
Mount Sinai School of Medicine
Research Interests: Entry, HIV, paramyxoviruses
Yonghua Li-Beisson (2020)
CNRS - Universite Aix Marseille, France
Research Interests: Algae, cyanobacteria, Chlamydomonas, photosynthesis, lipid metabolism
Brandi Limbago (2020)
CDC
Research Interests: Study of antimicrobial resistance among healthcare-associated pathogens, especially carbapenem-resistant Enterobacteriaceae, Clostridium difficile, and methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus; surveillance and detection of emerging resistance; identification of best methods for reliable detection of antimicrobial resistance; study of the molecular epidemiology of healthcare-associated strains
Michael C. Lorenz (2021)
University of Texas Medical School, Houston
Research Interests: Yeast and fungi, genetics, genomics, metabolism
Anice C. Lowen (2021)
Emory University
Research Interests: Influenza
Maria L. Marco (2021)
University of California, Davis
Research Interests: Food microbiology, genomics and proteomics, microbial ecology, Lactobacillus, pyrosequencing, gut microbiota, phyllosphere, probiotics, lactic acid bacteria
Timothy E. Mattes (2021)
University of Iowa
Research Interests: Xenobiotic pollution degradation, groundwater microbiology
Sarah M. McDonald (2020)
Wake Forest University
Research Interests: dsRNA viruses, replication
Silvia N.J. Moreno (2020)
University of Georgia
Research Interests: Metabolism and calcium signaling in Toxoplasma and Trypanosoma cruzi
Julia Oh (2020)
The Jackson Laboratory
Microbiome, metagenomics, skin microbiome, synthetic biology, engineered microbes, systems biology, cancer immunotherapy and microbiome, infectious disease, host-microbiome immune interactions, high- throughput technologies, skin cancer and microbiome, bioinformatics, human genetic analysis, statistics, single-cell sequencing and other genomic technologies, gnotobiotic technologies, microbiology, fungal genetics/ genomics, chemogenomics and drug screening
Akira Ono (2021)
University of Michigan
Research Interests: HIV cell biology, assembly, influenza
Christopher J. Papasian (2020)
University of Missouri-Kansas City
Research Interests: Pathogenesis of sepsis and immunologic diagnosis of infectious diseases
David W. Pascual (2020)
University of Florida
Research Interests: Mucosal vaccines and mucosal immunology, live vector vaccine delivery systems, lactic acid bacteria, Brucella species and vaccines, Enterotoxigenic E. coli vaccines, Francisella tularensis, Yersinia pestis, veterinary vaccines, colitis, regulatory T cells, botulinum neurotoxins and vaccines, cytokine adjuvants, and autoimmunity vaccines
David Perlin (2020)
Hackensack Meridian Health Center for Discovery and Innovation
Research Interests: Fungal infections, mechanisms of antifungal drug resistance, and rapid diagnosis of opportunistic drug-resistant bacterial and fungal pathogens in high-risk patients
Meg Phillips (2020)
University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas
Research Interests: Parasitology, biochemistry, drug discovery
James M. Pipas (2021)
Pittsburgh University
Research Interests: Polyomavirus, oncogenic transformation, virus discovery
Katherine Ralston (2022)
University of California, Davis
Research Interests: Host-pathogen interactions, trogocytosis, cell death and repair
Glenn Randall (2021)
University of Chicago
Research Interests: HCV, cell biology
A. Krishna Rao (2022)
University of Michigan Medical School
Research Interests: Clostridium difficile infection, biomarkers and predictive modeling for infectious diseases, gut microbiota and infection, Gram-negative infections and multidrug-resistant organisms
Jorge L. M. Rodrigues (2020)
University of California, Davis
Research Interests: Intersection of microbial ecology, genomics, and ecosystem functioning; land use change; distance-decay relationship; termite hindgut; biogeochemical cycles
Marilyn J. Roossinck (2020)
Penn State University
Research Interests: Plant viruses
Helene F. Rosenberg (2020)
National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases
Research Interests: Respiratory viruses, inflammation and immunomodulatory therapies, eosinophils and innate immune responses
Gary Sawers (2021)
Institute of Biology, Microbiology, University of Halle-Wittenberg, Germany
Research Interests: Aerobic-anaerobic interface, anaerobic microbial metabolism, enterobacteria, formate dehydrogenases, gene regulation, hydrogenases, metalloenzyme maturation, microbial physiology, Streptomyces
John Schoggins (2020)
University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas
Research Interests: Antivirals
Martin Schwemmle (2020)
University of Freiburg, Germany
Research Interests: Influenza replication
Upinder Singh (2020)
Stanford University
Research Interests: Entamoeba gene expression, RNA biochemistry
Photini Sinnis (2020)
Johns Hopkins University
Research Interests: Malaria, Plasmodium, sporozoite, rodent malaria parasites
Gregory Allan Smith (2020)
Northwestern University
Research Interests: HSV, neuronal spread, transmission
Christina Spiropoulou (2020)
CDC
Research Interests: Emerging viruses
Christina L. Stallings (2020)
Washington University in St. Louis
Research Interests: Mycobacteria, gene regulation
Thilo Stehle (2020)
University of Tubingen, Germany
Research Interests: Structural virology, receptors
Garret Suen (2020)
University of Wisconsin, Madison
Research Interests: Microbial ecology, genomics, metagenomics, bioinformatics, systems biology, rumen microbiology, biofuels, Fibrobacter, Ruminococcus, Cellulomonas
William J. Sullivan, Jr. (2021)
Indiana University School of Medicine
Research Interests: Toxoplasma, epigenetics
Hideyuki Tamaki (2022)
National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), Japan
Research Interests: Environmental microbiology, microbial ecology, systematic microbiology, environmental genomics, yet-to-be-cultured microorganisms, uncultured archaea, uncultured viruses, cultivation, taxonomy, terrestrial subsurface, aquatic plant ecosystem, gut microbiota, origin of life
Meng-Chao Yao (2021)
Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan
Research Interests: Molecular and cellular biology, genetics and molecular biology, eukaryotic cells
Mark Zabel (2021)
Colorado State University
Research Interests: Prions
Lifeng Zhu (2022)
Nanjing Normal University
Research Interests: Wildlife symbiotic microbiomes (e.g., skin, gut), community and function
Dan Zitomer (2021)
Marquette University
Research Interests: Anaerobic digestion
Chairman, Journals Committee
Patrick D. Schloss
Chief Executive Officer
Stefano Bertuzzi
Director, Journals
Melissa Junior
Production Editor
Noel Y. Lin
Assistant Production Editor
Amanda R. Donaldson
Peer Review Manager
Jasmine Wallace