Board of 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