Board of Editors

Vincent Racaniello
Columbia University
Research Interests: Picornaviruses, media

Jacqueline M. Achkar
Albert Einstein College of Medicine
Research Interests: Tuberculosis pathogenicity, clinical presentations, biomarkers and diagnostics, serology, protective antibodies, antibody functions

Andrew Alspaugh
Duke University Medical Center
Research Interests: Fungal pathogenesis, medical microbiology

Aravind Asokan
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Research Interests: AAV, parvovirus, gene therapy

Yong-Sun Bahn
Yonsei University, Seoul, South Korea
Research Interests: Medical mycology, functional genetics/genomics, antifungal drug development

Dan Barouch
Harvard University
Research Interests: HIV, vaccines

Grant R. Bowman
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
U.S. Food and Drug Administration
Research Interests: Bacterial toxins, bacterial pathogenesis, vaccines

Geraldine Butler
University College Dublin, Ireland
Research Interests: Yeasts and pathogenic fungi, fungal genomics, biofilm development

Mariana Castanheira
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
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Research Interests: Herpesviruses, oncogenesis, innate immunity

Paul Dunman
University of Rochester
Research Interests: Antibacterial drug discovery

Rebecca Dutch
University of Kentucky
Research Interests: Paramyxoviruses, fusion

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

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

Reinhard Fischer
Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Karlsruhe, Germany
Research Interests: Filamentous fungi, plant pathogens, fungal cell biology

A. Carolin Frank
University of California, Merced
Research Interests: Microbiome of wild plants, with a particular emphasis on forest trees, and bacterial endophytes, plant microbiome, genomics, microbial ecology, endophytes, conifers, forest ecosystems, nitrogen fixation

Matthew Frieman
University of Maryland
Research Interests: Coronaviruses, pathogenesis, antivirals

Ana Cristina Gales
Universidade Federal de Sao Paulo, Brazil
Research Interests: Molecular epidemiology of multidrug resistant bacteria, mechanisms of bacterial resistance to clinically significant antimicrobials.

Felicia Goodrum
University of Arizona
Research Interests: HCMV, persistence

Urs F. Greber
University of Zurich, Switzerland
Research Interests: Adenovirus, picornavirus, cell biology

Steven Hallam
University of British Columbia, Canada
Research Interests: Marine and freshwater microbial ecology, metagenomics

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

Michael Koomey
Section for Genetics and Evolutionary Biology (EVOGENE), Department of Biosciences, University of Oslo, Norway
Research Interests: Type IV pili, bacterial protein glycosylation, Gram-negative pathogens

Rosa Krajmalnik-Brown
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
University of Maryland
Research Interests: Structure/function analysis of bacterial toxins

Laimonis Laimins
Northwestern University
Research Interests: Papillomaviruses

Timothy LaPara
University of Minnesota
Research Interests: Wastewater microbiology, freshwater microbiology, antibiotic resistance

Benhur Lee
Mount Sinai School of Medicine
Research Interests: Entry, HIV, paramyxoviruses

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

Brandi Limbago
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
University of Texas Medical School, Houston
Research Interests: Yeast and fungi, genetics, genomics, metabolism

Anice C. Lowen
Emory University
Research Interests: Influenza

Timothy E. Mattes
University of Iowa
Research Interests: Xenobiotic pollution degradation, groundwater microbiology

Sarah M. McDonald
Virginia Tech University
Research Interests: dsRNA viruses, replication

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

Julia Oh
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
University of Michigan
Research Interests: HIV cell biology, assembly, influenza

Christopher J. Papasian
University of Missouri-Kansas City
Research Interests: Pathogenesis of sepsis and immunologic diagnosis of infectious diseases

David W. Pascual
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
Public Health Research Institute, Rutgers-New Jersey Medical School
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
University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas
Research Interests: Parasitology, biochemistry, drug discovery

James M. Pipas
Pittsburgh University
Research Interests: Polyomavirus, oncogenic transformation, virus discovery

Glenn Randall
University of Chicago
Research Interests: HCV, cell biology

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

Helene F. Rosenberg
National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases
Research Interests: Respiratory viruses, inflammation and immunomodulatory therapies, eosinophils and innate immune responses

Gary Sawers
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
University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas
Research Interests: Antivirals

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

Upinder Singh
Stanford University
Research Interests: Entamoeba gene expression, RNA biochemistry

Photini Sinnis
Johns Hopkins Univesity
Research Interests: Malaria, Plasmodium, sporozoite, rodent malaria parasites

Gregory Allan Smith
Northwestern University
Research Interests: HSV, neuronal spread, transmission

Christina Spiropoulou
CDC
Research Interests: Emerging viruses

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

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

Garret Suen
University of Wisconsin, Madison
Research Interests: Microbial ecology, genomics, metagenomics, bioinformatics, systems biology, rumen microbiology, biofuels, Fibrobacter, Ruminococcus, Cellulomonas

William J. Sullivan, Jr.
Indiana University School of Medicine
Research Interests: Toxoplasma, epigenetics

Hideyuki Tamaki
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
Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan
Research Interests: Molecular and cellular biology, genetics and molecular biology, eukaryotic cells

Mark Zabel
Colorado State University
Research Interests: Prions

Dan Zitomer
Marquette University
Research Interests: Anaerobic digestion