Board of Editors

Rachel I. Adams
University of California, Berkeley
Research Interests: Fungal biology, microbial ecology

Caroline M. Ajo-Franklin
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Research Interests: Synthetic biology, bioenergetics, bioelectronics, protein self-assembly, biomaterials

Mani Arumugam
University of Copenhagen
Research Interests: Microbiome, microbiota, metagenomics, metatranscriptomics, bioinformatics, systems biology

Sergio E. Baranzini
University of California, San Francisco
Research Interests: Genomics/genetics, bioinformatics, network biology, immunology/autoimmunity

Rob Beiko
Dalhousie University
Research Interests: Human microbiome, microbial community ecology, bioinformatics, microbial evolution, lateral gene transfer

Holly Bik
University of California, Riverside
Research Interests: Metagenomics, microbial eukaryotes, environmental sequencing, phylogenetics, rRNA genes, microbial ecology, marine biology

Seth R. Bordenstein
Vanderbilt University
Research Interests: Symbiosis, bacteriophage, evolution, genomics, microbiome, speciation, holobiont, hologenome

Eoin L. Brodie
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Research Interests: Soil microbiology, carbon cycling, biogeochemistry, plant-microbe interactions, rhizosphere, insect microbiome, metagenomics, trait-based modeling

Davide Bulgarelli
University of Dundee
Research Interests: Plant microbiota/microbiome, rhizosphere, molecular plant-microbe interactions, crop genetics, agricultural biologicals

J. Gregory Caporaso
University of Northern Arizona
Research Interests: Bioinformatics, software engineering, human microbiome

Nicholas Chia
Mayo Clinic
Research Interests: Microbiome, colon cancer, metabolic networks, systems biology

Haiyan Chu
Chinese Academy of Sciences
Research Interests: Soil microbiology, microbial ecology, microbial biogeography, agricultural management, climate change

Marcus J. Claesson
University College Cork
Research Interests: Metagenomics, metatranscriptomics, microbiota/microbiome analysis, inflammatory bowel disease, ulcerative colitis, Crohn's disease

Cynthia H. Collins
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Research Interests: Synthetic biology, protein engineering, microbiome, quorum sensing

Alan Cooper
University of Adelaide
Research Interests: Ancient DNA, molecular clocks, molecular rates, phylogenetics, human evolution, macroevolution, forensics, climate change, paleoecology

Paul D. Cotter
Teagasc Food Research Centre
Research Interests: Food microbiota, gut microbiota, bacteriocins

Domitilla Del Vecchio
MIT
Research Interests: Control theory, dynamical systems, mathematical models

 

Aurélie Deveau
UMR1136 INRA Université de Lorraine
Research Interests: Microbial ecology, fungal-bacterial interactions, mycorrhizal symbiosis, tree and soil microbiomes

Rachel J. Dutton
University of California, San Diego
Research Interests: Microbiology, bacterial genetics, species interactions, microbial communities, food microbiology

Joshua Elias
Stanford University
Research Interests: Host-microbe interactions, metaproteomics, mass spectrometry, computational tools, antigen presentation

Danilo Ercolini
University of Naples Federico II
Research Interests: Food microbiology, microbial food spoilage, food fermentation, human microbiome, diet, fecal microbiota, salivary microbiota

David Fenyo
NYU School of Medicine
Research Interests: Bioinformatics, proteomics, mass spectrometry

Theodore M. Flynn
Argonne National Laboratory
Research Interests: Microbial ecology, geomicrobiology, anaerobic microbiology, biogeochemistry, soil microbiology, subsurface microbiology, aquatic microbiology, biogeochemical cycling

Anthony Fodor
University of North Carolina at Charlotte
Research Interests: Bioinformatics, genomics, metagenomics, microbial ecology

Sean M. Gibbons
Institute for Systems Biology
Research Interests: Microbial ecology, evolution, bioinformatics

Sarah Glaven
U.S. Naval Research Laboratory
Research Interests: Bioelectrochemical systems, microbial electrosynthesis, microbial communities, synthetic biology, environmental microbiology

 

Casey S. Greene
University of Pennsylvania
Research Interests: Computational biology

Elizabeth A. Grice
University of Pennsylvania
Research Interests: Human microbiome, metagenomics, host-microbe interactions, fungal communities, innate immunity, skin-microbe interactions

Marcelino Gutiérrez
City of Knowledge
Research Interests: Natural products, mass spectrometry, nuclear magnetic resonance, microbiology

Steve Hallam
The University of British Columbia
Research Interests: Microbial ecology, symbiosis, metabolic networks, synthetic biology and ecology, bioinformatics and big data analysis, deep device mining and genetic sensors

Michelle Heck
Cornell University
Research Interests: Plant-microbe interactions, insect vectors/vector biology, symbiosis, virology, evolutionary biology, proteomics, protein interactions, cell biology

Bethany D. Jenkins
University of Rhode Island

Angela D. Kent
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Research Interests: Microbial ecology, community ecology, nitrogen cycle, microbial processes, built environment, managed systems

David M. Knipe
Harvard Medical School
Research Interests: DNA viruses, epigenetics, proteomics, genomics, innate immunity

Thomas M. Kristie
National Institutes of Health
Research Interests: Herpesvirus, chromatin, transcription, gene regulation, DNA viruses

Rup Lal
University of Delhi
Research Interests: Microbial diversity/genomics, comparative genomics/metagenomics, environmental microbiology, taxogenomics

Morgan Langille
Dalhousie University
Research Interests: Bioinformatics, microbiome, human-microbe interactions, metagenomic prediction, frailty, aging, exercise, drug metabolism

Simon Lax
MIT
Research Interests: Microbial ecology, community ecology, metagenomics

Manuel Liebeke
Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology
Research Interests: Metabolomics, mass spectrometry, host-microbe interaction, cell-cell communication, metabolites

Xiaoxia Lin
University of Michigan

Steve Lindemann
Purdue University
Research Interests: Microbial community assembly and dynamics, autotroph-heterotroph interactions, microbial nitrogen cycling, host-pathogen interactions

Karen G. Lloyd
University of Tennessee, Knoxville
Research Interests: Marine sediment biogeochemistry, marine microbiology, methane cycling, microbial dark matter, metagenomic binning, single-cell genomics, uncultured clades, archaea, metabolomics, metametabolomics, quantification of environmental microorganisms, qPCR, extremophiles, astrobiology, hyperthermophiles, biological thermodynamics, energetics

Catherine Lozupone
University of Colorado, Denver
Research Interests: Microbiome, human microbiome, bioinformatics, genomics, metagenomics

Rachel Mackelprang
California State University Northridge
Research Interests: Metagenomics, genomics, permafrost, climate change, astrobiology, exobiology, bioinformatics, microbiome

Mark J. Mandel
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Research Interests: Bacterial genetics, host specificity, symbiosis, signal transduction, biofilm formation

Chaysavanh Manichanh
Vall d'Hebron Research Institute (Ed. Mediterranea)
Research Interests: 16S rDNA, metagenomics, metatranscriptomics, human or animal microbiome

Olivia U. Mason
Florida State University
Research Interests: Marine microbial ecology, marine microbes, metagenomics, metatranscriptomics, single-cell genomics, tag sequencing, Gulf of Mexico, hydrocarbon degradation

Lee Ann McCue
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Research Interests: Sequence alignment algorithms, comparative genomics, bioinformatics, data mining

John W. McGrath
Queen's University Belfast
Research Interests: Phosphorus cycling, wastewater microbiology

Barbara Methe
University of Pittsburgh
Research Interests: Microbial communities, microbiome, microbial ecology, metagenomics, meta-omics, genomics, microbiology

David A. Mills
University of California-Davis
Research Interests: Food microbiology, industrial microbiology, microbial ecology, bacterial genetics

Josh D. Neufeld
University of Waterloo
Research Interests: Microbial ecology, nitrogen cycle, nitrification, denitrification, methanotrophy, methylotrophy, ammonia, archaea, bacteria, metagenomics, stable-isotope probing, human microbiome, multivariate statistics, rare biosphere

James P. O’Dwyer
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Research Interests: Theoretical ecology, phylogenetics, mathematical biology

William Orsi
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
Research Interests: Metagenomics, metatranscriptomics, stable isotope probing, deep biosphere, sediment, subseafloor, carbon cycling, nitrogen cycle

Christopher M. Overall
University of British Columbia
Research Interests: Proteomics, proteases, degradomics, chemokines, protein biochemistry, extracellular matrix, viral bacterial proteases

Jillian Petersen
University of Vienna
Research Interests: Symbiosis, chemosynthesis, deep sea, genomics, metagenomics, marine microbiology

Carla Porto
State University of Maringá
Research Interests: Human skin ecosystem, cosmetic R&D, metabolomics, mass spectrometry, natural products, structural elucidation, biological activity, biocatalysis, enzymatic screening, biotransformations, microbial ecology and biodiversity

Mônica T. Pupo
University of Sao Paulo
Research Interests: Microbial natural products, structural elucidation, microbial interactions, symbiont microorganisms, chemical ecology, nuclear magnetic resonance, mass spectrometry

Korneel Rabaey
University of Ghent
Research Interests: Environmental biotechnology, environmental engineering, bioproduction, fermentation, homoacetogenesis, electrochemistry, wastewater, water treatment, bioprocess engineering, anaerobic digestion

John F. Rawls
Duke University School of Medicine
Research Interests: Intestinal microbiota/microbiome, intestinal physiology, zebrafish, fish, chromatin biology, nutrition, innate immunity, lipid metabolism

Michael Rust
Institute for Genomics & Systems Biology
Research Interests: Molecular systems biology, mathematical modeling, biochemistry, bacterial signaling, cyanobacteria, circadian rhythms, live cell microscopy

Laura M. Sanchez
University of Illinois at Chicago
Research Interests: Mass spectrometry, natural products, microbes, host-pathogen interactions, microbial communities, chemistry

Naseer Sangwan
Argonne National Laboratory
Research Interests: Microbiome, microbial genomics

David F. Savage
University of California, Berkeley
Research Interests: Biochemistry, synthetic biology, metabolism

Nicola Segata
University of Trento
Research Interests: Microbiome, microbiota, metagenomics, microbial genomics, computational biology, bioinformatics, sequencing, meta-omics, machine, learning, sequence analysis, human microbiome

Ashley Shade
Michigan State University
Research Interests: Microbial ecology, environmental microbiology, omics, community ecology, statistics

Elizabeth A. Shank
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Research Interests: Interspecies interactions, cell-cell communication, microbial coculture, chemical signaling, imaging mass spectrometry, secondary (specialized) metabolites, bacterial development/differentiation, cellular heterogeneity, microbial ecology, soil communities

Thomas Sharpton
Oregon State University
Research Interests: Vertebrate gut microbiome systems biology, host-microbiome interactions, metagenomics, microbial evolution, microbial ecology

James Stegen
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Research Interests: Microbial ecology, eco-evolutionary simulation, integrative hydrobiogeochemistry, null modeling

Zarath M. Summers
ExxonMobil Research and Engineering
Research Interests: Microbial ecology, evolution, interspecies interactions, deep biosphere, extremophiles, subsurface processes

Jeff Tabor
Rice University
Research Interests: Synthetic biology, optogenetics, bacterial two-component systems, diagnostic bacteria

Christoph A. Thaiss
University of Pennsylvania
Research Interests: Microbiome, chronobiology, immunology, metabolism

Matt Traxler
University of California, Berkeley
Research Interests: Actinomycetes, bacterial interactions, transcriptomics, metabolomics, mass spectrometry, natural products

Danielle Tullman-Ercek
Northwestern University
Research Interests: Synthetic biology, protein engineering, metabolic engineering, biomaterials, nanobiotechnology

Peter J. Turnbaugh
G.W. Hooper Research Foundation
Research Interests: Human microbiome, nutrition, pharmacology, metagenomics, gnotobiotics

Nassos Typas
European Molecular Biology Laboratory
Research Interests: High-throughput genetics, chemical genomics, bacterial envelope, cell wall, signal transduction

Gilles P. van Wezel
Leiden University
Research Interests: Streptomyces, actinomycetes, antibiotics, sugar metabolism, primary metabolism, carbon catabolite repression, cell division, microbial development, global regulatory networks

Claudia Vickers
The University of Queensland
Research Interests: Synthetic biology, isoprenoids, metabolic engineering

Katrine L. Whiteson
University of California, Irvine
Research Interests: Metabolomics, metagenomics, microbial ecology, phage, fermentation, polymicrobial infection, microbial interactions, human microbiome

Paul Wilmes
Campus Belval, University of Luxembourg
Research Interests: Integrated omics, metagenomics, metatranscriptomics, metaproteomics, metabolomics

Yu-Liang Yang
Agricultural Biotechnology Research Center
Research Interests: Natural product chemistry, metabolomics, imaging mass spectrometry, antibiotics, biocontrol

Olga Zhaxybayeva
Dartmouth College
Research Interests: Microbial evolution, prokaryotic evolution, viral evolution, phylogenomics, thermoadaptation, microbial speciation, microbial classification, genomewide and metagenomic microbial community analyses, horizontal (lateral) gene transfer, early evolution of life