Editorial Board
Editors-in-Chief
Axel Brakhage
Leibniz Institute for Natural Product Research and Infection Biology, Hans Knöll Institute, Jena, Germany
Infection Biology of Human Pathogenic Fungi; Molecular Biotechnology/Synthetic Biotechnology of Microbial Compounds; Functional Microbiome Research/Microbial Communication; Eukaryotic Gene Regulation/Transcription Factors
E-mail: [email protected]
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8814-4193
Carmen Buchrieser
Department of Microbiology, Pasteur Institute, Paris, France
Infection Biology; Virulence; Pathogenicity; Prokaryotic Genetics; Genomics and Gene Regulation; Host-Pathogen Interactions
E-mail: [email protected]
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3477-9190
Section Editors
Siv Andersson
Department of Cell and Molecular Microbiology, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden
Bioinformatics; Comparative Genomics; Evolutionary Biology; Genome Evolution; Genomics; Infectious Disease
Website
Anke Becker
Center for Synthetic Microbiology (SYNMIKRO), Philipps-Universität Marburg, Germany
Synthetic microbiology; microbial genetics; bacterial cell biology; regulatory networks; microbe-host interactions; polysaccharides; genomics and transcriptomics; bacterial genome editing and engineering; laboratory automation
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4561-9184
Website
Judith Behnsen
University of Illinois Chicago, USA
Gut microbiome; Fungal microbiome; Gnotobiotics; Salmonella pathogenesis; Nutritional immunity; Bacterial competition systems
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0109-1090
Website
Melanie Blokesch
Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne (EPFL), Lausanne, Switzerland
Molecular mechanisms of bacterial evolution; horizontal gene transfer; secretion systems; regulatory networks
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7024-1489
Website
Mathieu Brochet
Department of Microbiology and Molecular Medicine, University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3911-5537
Website
Dirk Bumann
Biozentrum, University of Basel, Switzerland
Infection Biology; Pathogen Metabolism; Single-Cell Biology; In-Vivo Studies; Salmonella; Pseudomonas
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3636-4239
Website
Arnold J.M. Driessen
Groningen Biomolecular Sciences and Biotechnology Institute and Zernike Institute for Advanced Materials, University of Groningen, Netherlands
Fungal molecular biology; Membrane transport; Industrial microbiology; Synthetic cells; Bacterial protein transport; Phospholipid biosynthesis
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9258-9104
Website
Sabine Ehrt
Weill Cornell Medical College, New York, NY, USA
Host-Pathogen Interactions, Tuberculosis, Genetic and Genomic Approaches, Drug Targets, Vaccines
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7951-2310
Website
Simonetta Gribaldo
Department of Microbiology, UMR 2001, Unit Evolutionary Biology of the Microbial Cell, Institut Pasteur, Paris, France
Archaea, Bacteria, evolution, phylogeny, genomics, cell envelope
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7662-021X
Website
Martin J. Loessner
Institute of Food, Nutrition and Health, ETH Zurich, Switzerland
Bacteriophage; phage-host interaction; phage therapy; phage engineering; bacterial cell wall; endolysin
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8162-2631
Website
Kai Papenfort
Institute of Microbiology, Friedrich Schiller University of Jena, Jena, Germany
Regulatory RNAs; RNA-Binding Proteins; Gene Regulation; Quorum Sensing
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5560-9804
Website
Eduardo Rocha
Institut Pasteur, Paris, France
Genomics; evolution; bioinformatics; mobile genetic elements; horizontal gene transfer; functional innovation
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7704-822X
Website
Uwe Sauer
Department of Biology, Institute of Molecular Systems Biology, ETH Zurich, Switzerland
Microbial Metabolism; Metabolic Regulation; Cross-Feeding in Microbial Communities; Metabolomics; Modelling; Systems Biology
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5923-0770
Website
Pierre Stallforth
Leibniz Institute for Natural Product Research and Infection Biology, Hans Knöll Institute, Jena, Germany
Microbial Natural Products; Biosynthesis; Microbial Interactions; Paleomicrobiology; Chemical Biology; Natural Product Regulation
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7260-9921
Website
Jörg Vogel
Helmholtz Institute for RNA-based Infection Research (HIRI), Würzburg, Germany
Small RNA; Noncoding RNA; RNA-binding protein; RNA-seq; Microbe; Phage
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2220-1404
Website
Karina B. Xavier
Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência, Oeiras, Portugal
Quorum sensing; bacterial signal transduction; bacterial-host interactions; microbiota; ecology and evolution of microbiota communities; bacterial metabolism.
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5210-1434
Website and Sinalização Bacteriana | Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência
Editorial board
Chantal Abergel, Aix-Marseille University (France)
Environmental Virology; Structural Biology; Giant Viruses; Evolution
Sonja Verena Albers, University of Freiburg (Germany)
Archaea; Sulfolobus; Cell Surface Structures; Cell Division; Molecular Biology
Jeff Almond, University of Oxford (England)
Vaccinology
Rudy Amann, MPI for Marine Biology (Germany)
Molecular Ecology
Dan I. Andersson, Uppsala University (Sweden)
Bacterial Genetics; Bacterial Evolution; Antibiotic Resistance; New Genes
Cecilia Arraiano, Nova University Lisbon (Portugal)
Control of Gene Expression
Natalie Balaban, Hebrew University of Jerusalem (Israel)
Lab of Self Replicating Matter; Antibiotic Resistance; Persistence; Tolerance
Fernando Baquero, Ramón y Cajal Institute for Research in Biomedicine Madrid (Spain)
Microbial Evolutionary Biology
Frédéric Barras, Pasteur Institute (France)
Stress Adaptation; Fe-S Cluster Biology; Redox Biology; Enterobacteria Metabolism
Edward Bayer, The Weizmann Institute of Science (Israel)
The Multi-Enzyme Cellulosome Complex; Avidin-Biotin Technology; Cellulases; Hemicellulases
Dörte Becher, University of Greifswald (Germany)
Microbial Proteomics
Oded Beja, Technion Israel Institute of Technology (Israel)
Environmental Genomics of Marine Microbes
Sigal Ben-Yehuda, Hebrew University of Jerusalem (Israel)
Social Microbiology; Bacterial Sporulation; Nanotube; Bacteriophage
Elizaveta Bonch-Osmolovskaya, Winogradsky Institute of Microbiology (Russia)
Erhard Bremer, Philipps University of Marburg (Germany)
Molecular Microbiology
Roland Brosch, Pasteur Institute (France)
Integrated Mycobacterial Pathogenomics; Mycobacterium tuberculosis
Dirk Bumann, Biozentrum Basel (Switzerland)
Metabolism of Bacterial Pathogens
Stephen Busby, University of Birmingham (England)
Microbiology and Infection; Gene Regulation; Transcription; Promoters
Pascale Cossart, Pasteur Institute (France)
Listeria monocytogenes; Cell Biology
Patrice Courvalin, Pasteur Institute (France)
Antibiotics and Antimicrobial Resistance
Antoine Danchin, École Normale Supérieure Paris (France)
Comparative Bacterial Genomics; Synthetic Biology; Bioinformatics (Genome Annotation Databases and Functional Inferences); Sulfur Metabolism; Origins of Life
Victor de Lorenzo, National Center for Biotechnology (Spain)
Molecular Environmental Microbiology; Environmental Control of Gene Expression; Metabolic Engineering; Pseudomonas putida
Christoph Dehio, Biozentrum Basel (Switzerland)
Bacterial Infection; Bacterial Secretion Systems; Bacterial Persistence; Antibiotic Resistance and Tolerance
Petra Dersch, University of Münster (Germany)
Bacterial Pathogenesis; Virulence Regulation; Cellular Microbiology; Pathogen-Induced Immune Responses
Ulrich Dobrindt, University of Münster (Germany)
Microbial Genome Plasticity
Charles J. Dorman, Trinity College Dublin (Ireland)
Bacterial Gene Regulationp; Bacterial Nucleoid Associated Proteins; DNA Topology; Transcription
Nicole Dubilier, MPI for Marine Microbiology (Germany)
Microbial Symbioses
Leo Eberl, University of Zurich (Switzerland)
Quorum Sensing; Biofilm; Bacterial Membrane Vesicle; Plant-Microbe Interactions
Monika Ehling-Schulz, University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna, Austria
Bacterial toxins; Pathophysiology; Food microbiology; AI-assisted spectroscopy; Bacillus cereus sensu lato; Extracellular vesicles (EVs)
Dusko Ehrlich, King’s College London (England)
Human Microbiome
Martin Embley, Newcastle University (England)
Evolutionary Molecular Biology; Eukaryotic Origins and the Tree of Life; Mitochondrial Evolution and Functions; Phylogenetics
Alain Filloux, Imperial College London (England)
Bacterial Pathogenesis; Pseudomonas aeruginosa; Type VI Secretion System; c-di-GMP Signalling and Biofilm
Patrick Forterre, Pasteur Institute (France)
Molecular Biology of Gene in Extremophiles; DNA Topology and DNA Topoisomerases; DNA Replication; Virus Origin and Evolution
Geoffrey Gad, University of Dundee (Scotland)
Geomicrobiology; Geomycology; Bioremediation
Jean-Marc Ghigo, Pasteur Institute (France)
Biofilms; Bacterial Genetics
Philippe Glaser, Pasteur Institute (France)
Antibiotics Resistance; Genome Dynamics; Bacterial Evolution
Friedrich Götz, University of Tübingen (Germany)
Microbial Genetics
Uri Gophna, Tel Aviv University (Israel)
Host-Microbe Interactions and Microbiome; Horizontal Gene Transfer; CRISPR-Cas; Archaea
Wolf-Dietrich Hardt, ETH Zurich (Switzerland)
Salmonella Pathogenesis; Bacterial Physiology
Anat Herskovits, Tel Aviv University, Israel
Listeria monocytogenes, temperate phages, lysogeny, bacterial virulence, temperate bacteriophages, phage adaptation
Jay Hinton, University of Liverpool (England)
Functional Genomics; Infection Biology; Transcriptional Regulation; Salmonella
Niels Høiby, University of Copenhagen (Denmark)
Bacteriology
David Holden, Imperial College London (England)
Bacteriology and Infection; Virulence; Salmonella; Immunity
Urs Jenal, Biozentrum Basel (Switzerland)
Signalling in Bacterial Infection; Chronic Infections; Antibiotics; Microbial Behaviour
Stipan Jonjic, University of Rijeka (Croatia)
Viral Immunology; Cytomegalovirus; Congenital Infections; Immunoevasion
Regine Kahmann, MPI for Terrestrial Microbiology (Germany)
Molecular Phytopathology; Plant-Microbe Interactions; Secreted Effectors
Roy Kishony, Technion Israel Institute of Technology (Israel)
Antibiotic Resistance
Maya Kivisaar, University of Tartu (Estonia)
Bacterial Genetics and Evolution
Eva Kondorosi, Hungarian Academy of Sciences (Hungary)
Symbiotic Nitrogen Fixation; Molecular Ecology; Nodule-Specific Cysteine-Rich NCR Peptides; Antimicrobial Peptides
Hans-Georg Kräusslich, University Hospital Heidelberg (Germany)
Virology
Oscar P. Kuipers, University of Groningen (Netherlands)
Synthetic Biology; Molecular Engineering; Physiology and Gene Regulation in Gram-Positive Bacteria; Development of Novel Antibiotics; Heterogeneity in Bacterial Populations; Food Microbiology
Hilary Lappin-Scott, Cardiff University (Wales)
Microbial Biofilms; Biodegradation
Iñigo Lasa Uzcudun, Biomedical Research Centre of Navarre (Spain)
Microbial Pathogenesis; Signal Transduction; Antisense Regulation; Biofilms
Bruno Lemaître, EPFL Lausanne (Switzerland)
Insect Immunity; Insect Endosymbionts; Antimicrobial Peptides; Entomopathogens
Julius Lukeš, Czech Academy of Sciences (Czech Republic)
Parasitology; Molecular Biology of Protists; Evolution
Didier Mazel, Pasteur Institute (France)
Bacterial Genome Plasticity; Recombination; Antibiotic Resistance; Synthetic Biology
Thomas Meyer, MPI for Infection Biology (Germany)
Bacterial Infection and Human Carcinogenesis
Tâm Mignot, Institute of Microbiology of the Mediterranean (France)
Biochemistry; Bioinformatics; Cell Biology; Cell Motility; Myxobacteria
Itzhak Mizrahi, Ben-Gurion University, Israel
Microbial community assembly and evolution
Francisco JM Mojica, University of Alicante (Spain)
CRISPR; Cas
Søren Molin, Technical University of Denmark
Microbial Biofilms
Cesare Montecucco, University of Padua (Italy)
Bacterial Neurotoxins
Ines Mandic Mulec, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia
Bacillus subtilis, bacterial interactions, biofilms, quorum sensing, probiotic-pathogen interactions, kin discrimination
Colin Murrell, University of East Anglia (England)
Environmental Microbiology; Trace Gas Microbiology; Microbiology of C1 Compounds; Methane and Isoprene
Franz Narberhaus, Ruhr-University Bochum (Germany)
Regulatory RNAs; Gene Regulation in Bacteria; Proteolysis; Membrane Lipids; Phospholipid Biosynthesis; Plant-Microbe Interactions
Jörg Overmann, DSMZ German Collection of Microorganisms and Cell Cultures, Braunschweig (Germany)
Microbial Ecology and Diversity; Microbial Physiology; Microbial Systematics and Evolution
Tracey Palmer, Newcastle University (England)
Protein Secretion; Membrane Protein Assembly
Julian Parkhill, Wellcome Sanger Institute (England)
Infection Genomics
José Penadés, Imperial College London, United Kingdom
Horizontal Gene Transfer; Transduction; Virulence; Mobile genetic elements; Phage; PICIs
Inês Cardoso Pereira, Universidade Nova de Lisboa - Instituto de Tecnologia Quimica e Biologica Antonio Xavier, Portugal
Bioenergetics, Membrane complexes, Redox biocatalysis, Sulfur metabolism, Anaerobic bacteria
Jean-Claude Piffaretti, Interlifescience (Switzerland)
Medical Microbiology; Climate Changes and Microbiology
Mariana Pinho, NOVA University Lisbon (Portugal)
Bacterial Cell Biology; Staphylococcus aureus; Antibiotic Resistance; Microscopy
Mariagrazia Pizza, GSK Vaccines (Italy)
Bacterial Vaccines; Infectious Diseases; Bacterial Pathogenesis
György Posfai, Hungarian Academy of Sciences (Hungary)
Microbial Genome Engineering
David Prangishvili, Pasteur Institute (France)
Viruses of Archaea
Paul Rainey, MPI for Evolutionary Biology (Germany)
Microbial Population Biology; Experimental Evolution
Juan Luis Ramos, Spanish National Research Council (Spain)
Pseudomonas; Gene Regulation; Biotransformations; Synthetic Biology
Alexander Rapoport, Latvian Society for Microbiology, Latvia
Yeast, Anhydrobiosis, Dehydration-Rehydration, Microbial stress response, Extreme microbiology, Environmental microbiology
Rino Rappouli, GSK Vaccines (Italy)
Vaccinology; Infectious Diseases
Félix A. Rey, Pasteur Institute (France)
Structural Virology
Giovanna Riccardi, University of Pavia (Italy)
Tuberculosis Research; Cystic Fibrosis Pathogens
Ute Römling, Karolinska Institute (Sweden)
Multicellular Behavior in Enterobacteriaceae
Eliora Ron, Tel Aviv University (Israel)
Bacterial Virulence & Regulation of Gene Expression
Ramon Rossello-Mora, Spanish National Research Council (Spain)
Systematics, taxonomy and molecular ecology
Philippe Sansonetti, Pasteur Institute (France)
Molecular Microbial Pathogenesis
Bernhard Schink, University of Konstanz (Germany)
Environmental Microbiology; Microbial Ecology; Physiology of Anaerobic Bacteria; Redox Processes in the Sediment; Microbial Energy Metabolism; Biochemical Strategies of Substrate Degradation
Christa Schleper, University of Vienna (Austria)
Archaea Ecology and Evolution Group
Peter Sebo, Czech Academy of Sciences (Czech Republic)
Molecular Biology of Bacterial Pathogens; Protein Toxins; Vaccines; Pertussis
Victoria Shingler, Umeå University (Sweden)
Bacterial Signal-Sensing and Integration
Lotte Sogaard-Andersen, MPI for Terrestrial Microbiology (Germany)
Bacterial Development and Differentiation; Cell Cycle & Division; Bacterial Motility
Dominique Soldati-Favre, University of Geneva (Switzerland)
Biology of Obligate Intracellular Parasites; Apicomplexa; Toxoplasma gondii; Invasion
Victor Sourjik, MPI for Terrestrial Microbiology (Germany)
Microbial Networks; Motility; Signal Transduction; Systems Biology
Nicola Stanley-Wall, University of Dundee (Scotland)
Bacterial Biofilms; Bacillus subtilis; Biophysics
Sebastian Suerbaum, Ludwig Maximilians University Munich (Germany)
Medical Microbiology; Gastrointestinal Infections; Helicobacter pylori; Pathogen Genomics and Evolution
Kenneth Timmis, Technical University of Braunschweig (Germany)
Biotechnology and Molecular Microbiology
Athanasios ('Nassos') Typas, EMBL Heidelberg (Germany)
Systems Microbiology; Microbiome; Antibiotics; Cell Envelope
Tone Tønjum, University of Oslo (Norway)
Genome Dynamics; Drug Discovery; Microbial Pathogenesis; Precision Medicine
Athanasios Tsakris, University of Athens (Greece)
Bernt Eric Uhlin, Umeå University (Sweden)
Bacteria-Host Interactions
Jan Roelof van der Meer, University of Lausanne (Switzerland)
Environmental Microbiology; Bacterial Genetics; Microbial Evolution; Microbial Ecology; Biosensors; Evolution
Antonio Ventosa, University of Sevilla (Spain)
Extremophile Microorganisms
Miguel Vicente, Spanish National Research Council (Spain)
Bacterial Division; Escherichia coli; Divisome; dcw Cluster
Jörg Vogel, Helmholtz Institute for RNA-based Infection Research (Germany)
Bacterial Pathogens; Non-Coding RNA & RNA-Binding Proteins; Single-Cell RNA-Seq; Microbiome Research
Waldemar Vollmer, Newcastle University (England)
Bacterial Cell Wall; Cell Division; Antibiotics
Julia Vorholt, ETH Zurich (Switzerland)
Plant Microbiomes; Microbial Biochemistry; Single Cell Analysis
Sun Nyunt Wai, Umeå University, Sweden
Bacterial membrane vesicles, Bacterial toxins, Vibrio cholerae, Infection and Cancer, Microbiome and cancer
Paul Williams, University of Nottingham (England)
Quorum Sensing; Gene Regulation; Biofilms; Chemical Biology
Karina Xavier, Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência (Portugal)
Bacterial Signalling; Quorum Sensing; Microbe-Host Interactions; Gut Microbiota; Bacterial Metabolism; Bacterial Signal Transduction
