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Founding Editor in Chief (2025) 

ImperialeMichael 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, Associate Vice President for Research, Research Policy and Compliance at the University of Michigan, 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 160 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

Blader
Ira Blader
 (2025)
University at Buffalo
Research Interests: Toxoplasma gondii life cycle and pathogenesis

Bradford
Patricia Bradford
 (2025)
Antimicrobial Development Specialists, LLC
Research Interests: Infectious disease, antimicrobial drugs

D'Orazio
Sarah D'Orazio
 (2025)
University of Kentucky
Research Interests: Innate immune response to infection with Listeria monocytogenes

Duprex
Paul Duprex
 (2025)
University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine
Research Interests: Viral pathogenesis, paramyxovirus cell biology, biosafety

ellermeier
Craig D. Ellermeier
 (2021)
University of Iowa
Research Interests: Stress response and signal transduction in the Gram-positive bacteria C. difficile and B. subtilis

Fernandez_Sesma
Ana Fernandez-Sesma
 (2022)
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
Research Interests: Innate Immunity, arboviruses, dengue viruses, human immunology, viral immune evasion mechanisms

McMahon
Katherine McMahon
 (2025)
University of Wisconsin
Research Interests: Microbial ecology of natural and engineered environments

Mitchell
Aaron Mitchell
 (2025)
University of Georgia
Research Interests: Fungal biology, Candida albicans pathogenicity

Pasetti
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

Tringe
Susannah Tringe
 (2025)
Department of Energy, Joint Genome Institute
Research Interests: Metagenomics, microbial communities in wetland carbon cycling, interactions of plants with their microbiomes

Young
Vincent B. Young
 (2024)
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
Research Interests: C. difficile, GI microbiota, microbial ecology of gastrointestinal bacterial infections


Editors

Jacqueline M. Achkar (2023)
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

Nicole M. Bouvier (2022)
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
Research Interests: Influenza virus transmission, influenza animal models, host-pathogen interactions, clinical influenza disease and therapy, infectious diseases

Grant R. Bowman (2023)
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

Robert Britton (2023)
Baylor College of Medicine
Research Interests: Microbiome, host-microbe interactions, bacterial genetics

Drusilla L. Burns (2023)
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

Barbara Campbell (2022)
Clemson University
Research Interests: Aquatic/marine microbial ecology, symbioses, metagenomics, metatranscriptomics

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 (2023)
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Research Interests: Herpesviruses, oncogenesis, innate immunity

Maurizio Del Poeta (2023)
Stony Brook University
Research Interests: Fungal pathogenesis, antimicrobial chemotherapy, drug discovery, microbial pathogenesis

Paul Dunman (2021)
University of Rochester
Research Interests: Antibacterial drug discovery

Rebecca Dutch (2023)
University of Kentucky
Research Interests: Paramyxoviruses, fusion

Ron Dzikowski (2021)
Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel
Research Interests: Plasmodium gene expression

Shirit Einav (2023)
Stanford University
Research Interests: Molecular virology of RNA viruses, virus-host interactions, intracellular membrane trafficking, single cell transcriptomics

Paul D. Fey (2021)
University of Nebraska Medical Center
Research Interests: Staphylococcal biology and pathogenesis, amino acid metabolism, mechanisms of antibiotic resistance

Matthew Frieman (2023)
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 (2023)
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

Michael D. L. Johnson (2023)
University of Arizona
Research Interests: Metal homeostasis in bacteria, molecular microbiology, protein biochemistry

Angela Kent (2023)
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Research Interests: Microbial ecology, plant-microbe interactions, bioenergy, soil microbiology

Rosa Krajmalnik-Brown (2023)
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 (2023)
Mount Sinai School of Medicine
Research Interests: Entry, HIV, paramyxoviruses

Yonghua Li-Beisson (2023)
CNRS - Universite Aix Marseille, France
Research Interests: Algae, cyanobacteria, Chlamydomonas, photosynthesis, lipid metabolism

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

Joseph D. Lutgring (2023)
CDC
Research Interests: Antibiotic resistance, clinical microbiology, public health, clinical infectious diseases

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 McDonald Esstman (2023)
Wake Forest University
Research Interests: dsRNA viruses, replication

Silvia N.J. Moreno (2023)
University of Georgia
Research Interests: Metabolism and calcium signaling in Toxoplasma and Trypanosoma cruzi

Akira Ono (2021)
University of Michigan
Research Interests: HIV cell biology, assembly, influenza

David W. Pascual (2023)
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 S. Perlin (2023)
Hackensack Meridian Health Center
Research Interests: Antimicrobial chemotherapy, drug discovery, microbial pathogenesis, antifungals, antibacterials

Meg Phillips (2023)
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

Vincent Racaniello (2021)
Columbia University
Research Interests: Picornaviruses, media

Katherine Ralston (2022)
University of California, Davis
Research Interests: Host-pathogen interactions, trogocytosis, cell death and repair

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

Angela L. Rasmussen (2023)
Columbia University
Research Interests: Virology, systems biology, pathogenesis, genomics, proteomics, emerging viruses

Jorge L. M. Rodrigues (2023)
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 (2023)
Penn State University
Research Interests: Plant viruses

June L. Round (2022)
University of Utah School of Medicine
Research Interests: Microbiota interactions with host immunity and effects on IBD, obesity, and cancer

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 (2023)
University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas
Research Interests: Antivirals

Martin Schwemmle (2023)
University of Freiburg, Germany
Research Interests: Influenza replication

Christina Spiropoulou (2023)
CDC
Research Interests: Emerging viruses

Christina L. Stallings (2023)
Washington University in St. Louis
Research Interests: Mycobacteria, gene regulation

Thilo Stehle (2023)
University of Tubingen, Germany
Research Interests: Structural virology, receptors

Garret Suen (2023)
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

Alfredo G. Torres (2023)
University of Texas Medical Branch
Research Interests: Bacterial pathogenesis, vaccine development, animal models of bacterial infection, host-pathogen interactions

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


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