Board of Editors

Sebastián Abades (2022)
Universidad Mayor
Research Interests: Community ecology, extreme environments, statistical ecology, ecosystem processes driven by microbes, complex systems

Caroline M. Ajo-Franklin (2022)
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Research Interests: Synthetic biology, bioenergetics, bioelectronics, protein self-assembly, biomaterials

Michaeline B.N. Albright (2023)
Los Alamos National Laboratory
Research Interests: Microbial ecology, microbial community assembly, microbiome engineering, carbon and nitrogen cycling, environmental microbiology, global change

Rosie Alegado (2022)
University of Hawai'i at Manoa
Research Interests: Host-microbe interactions, symbiosis, bacterial genetics, microbial eukaryotes, microbial ecology, marine microbiology, evolutionary biology

Sarah M. Allard (2022)
University of California, San Diego
Research Interests: Environmental microbiology, agricultural microbiomes, food safety, water quality, water reuse

Christopher R. Anderton (2023)
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Research Interests: Interkingdom interactions, rhizosphere, metabolomics, imaging

Mani Arumugam (2021)
University of Copenhagen
Research Interests: Microbiome, microbiota, metagenomics, metatranscriptomics, bioinformatics, systems biology

Sergio E. Baranzini (2023)
University of California, San Francisco
Research Interests: Genomics/genetics, bioinformatics, network biology, immunology/autoimmunity

Kim E. Barrett (2023)
University of California San Diego
Research Interests: Host-pathogen interactions, gastrointestinal physiology and pathophysiology, diarrheal diseases, probiotics

Heather D. Bean (2023)
Arizona State University
Research Interests: Microbial metabolomics, microbial interactions, emergent properties, untargeted metabolomics, breath-based diagnostics, bioanalytical chemistry

Rob Beiko (2021)
Dalhousie University
Research Interests: Human microbiome, microbial community ecology, bioinformatics, microbial evolution, lateral gene transfer

Hans C. Bernstein (2022)
UiT – The Arctic University of Norway
Research Interests: Microbial ecology, microbiome engineering, synthetic biology, bioprocess engineering, algae

Holly Bik (2021)
University of Georgia
Research Interests: Marine microbiology, microbial eukaryotes, evolutionary biology, environmental microbiology, microbial ecology, nematodes, benthic ecology, metabarcoding, bioinformatics, rRNA

Jeffrey L. Blanchard (2023)
University of Massachusetts Amherst
Research Interests: Forest and soil microbiomes, metagenomics, metatranscriptomics, bioinformatics, taxonomy (bacteria and viruses), experimental evolution, climate change

Seth R. Bordenstein (2021)
Vanderbilt University
Research Interests: Symbiosis, bacteriophage, evolution, genomics, microbiome, speciation, holobiont, hologenome

Nick Bouskill (2021)
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Research Interests: Soil carbon, nitrogen, and phosphorus cycling, terrestrial/aquatic microbiology, trait-based modeling

Jeff S. Bowman (2023)
Scripps Institution of Oceanography
Research Interests: Biological oceanography, marine microbiology, astrobiology

Vanni Bucci (2021)
University of Massachusetts Dartmouth
Research Interests: Host-microbiome mathematical modeling, microbiome data analytics, microbial engineering

Davide Bulgarelli (2021)
University of Dundee
Research Interests: Plant microbiota/microbiome, rhizosphere, molecular plant-microbe interactions, crop genetics, agricultural biologicals

Zackery Bulman (2021)
University of Illinois at Chicago
Research Interests: Antibiotics, evolution of bacterial resistance, genomics, pharmacology

Mariana Byndloss (2022)
Vanderbilt University Medical Center
Research Interests: Intestinal microbiota, host-microbe interactions, bacterial metabolism, bacterial enteric pathogens, intestinal inflammation, intestinal epithelial metabolism

J. Gregory Caporaso (2021)
Northern Arizona University
Research Interests: Bioinformatics, software engineering, human microbiome

Nicholas Chia (2022)
Mayo Clinic
Research Interests: Microbiome, colon cancer, metabolic networks, systems biology

Haiyan Chu (2021)
Chinese Academy of Sciences
Research Interests: Soil microbiology, microbial ecology, microbial biogeography, agricultural management, climate change

Hiutung Chu (2022)
University of California, San Diego
Research Interests: Host-microbe interactions, intestinal homeostasis, mucosal immunology, beneficial microbes

David W. Cleary (2021)
University of Southampton
Research Interests: Human microbiome, bacterial genomics, microbial ecology

Marc D. Cook (2023)
North Carolina A&T State University
Research Interests: Exercise physiology, immunology, endothelial and vascular function, hypertension, gut dysbiosis

Emily K. Cope (2022)
Northern Arizona University
Research Interests: Human microbiome, microbial ecology, host-microbe interactions, bacterial-fungal interactions, respiratory microbiome

Paul D. Cotter (2021)
Teagasc Food Research Centre
Research Interests: Food microbiota, gut microbiota, bacteriocins

Li Cui (2023)
Institute of Urban Environment, Chinese Academy of Sciences
Research Interests: Single-cell technologies, antibiotic resistance and persistence, environmental and urban microbiology, beneficial microbes in soil

Lawrence A. David (2022)
Duke University
Research Interests: Microbiome, diet, nutrition, computational biology, microbial ecology

Domitilla Del Vecchio (2022)
MIT
Research Interests: Control theory, dynamical systems, mathematical models

Paola Flórez de Sessions (2021)
Oxford Nanopore Technologies
Research Interests: Microbial genomics for viral, bacterial, fungal, and parasitic entities

Aurélie Deveau (2021)
UMR1136 INRA Université de Lorraine
Research Interests: Microbial ecology, fungal-bacterial interactions, mycorrhizal symbiosis, tree and soil microbiomes

Joshua Elias (2021)
Stanford University
Research Interests: Host-microbe interactions, metaproteomics, mass spectrometry, computational tools, antigen presentation

Joanne B. Emerson (2022)
University of California, Davis
Research Interests: Viral ecology, microbial ecology, soil and rhizosphere microbiomes, omics

Danilo Ercolini (2021)
University of Naples Federico II
Research Interests: Food microbiology, microbial food spoilage, food fermentation, human microbiome, diet, fecal microbiota, salivary microbiota

Karoline Faust (2023)
KU Leuven
Research Interests: Microbial systems biology, microbial ecology, bioinformatics

David Fenyo (2022)
NYU School of Medicine
Research Interests: Bioinformatics, proteomics, mass spectrometry

Theodore M. Flynn (2021)
California Department of Water Resources
Research Interests: Microbial ecology, geomicrobiology, anaerobic microbiology, biogeochemistry, soil microbiology, subsurface microbiology, aquatic microbiology, biogeochemical cycling

Anthony Fodor (2021)
University of North Carolina at Charlotte
Research Interests: Bioinformatics, genomics, metagenomics, microbial ecology

Marta M. Gaglia (2023)
Tufts University
Research Interests: Virus-host interactions, gene regulation, transcriptomics, virology

Michela Gambino (2023)
University of Copenhagen
Research Interests: Biofilm, oxidative stress, phage biology, food safety, cultural heritage, microbiome, phage-host interaction

Melanie Gareau (2022)
University of California, Davis
Research Interests: Microbiota-gut-brain axis, bacterial infection, host-microbe interactions, gut microbiome

Neha Garg (2023)
Georgia Institute of Technology
Research Interests: Burkholderia, Pseudomonas, zooxanthellae, metabolomics, mass spectrometry, natural products, coral diseases, microbial interactions, microbe-host interactions

Daniel Garrido (2022)
Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile
Research Interests: Systems biology, food microbiology, gut microbiome, microbial genomics, microbial ecology

Nandita Garud (2023)
University of California, Los Angeles
Research Interests: Evolution, population genetics, microbiome, genomics

Sean M. Gibbons (2021)
Institute for Systems Biology
Research Interests: Microbial ecology, evolution, bioinformatics

Sarah Glaven (2022)
U.S. Naval Research Laboratory
Research Interests: Bioelectrochemical systems, microbial electrosynthesis, microbial communities, synthetic biology, environmental microbiology

Emily B. Graham (2023)
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Research Interests: Microbial ecology, molecular-to-ecosystem function, disturbance ecology, biogeochemistry

Casey S. Greene (2022)
University of Pennsylvania
Research Interests: Computational biology

Marcelino Gutiérrez (2022)
City of Knowledge
Research Interests: Natural products, mass spectrometry, nuclear magnetic resonance, microbiology

Steve Hallam (2021)
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

Tamia A. Harris-Tryon (2022)
UT Southwestern Medical Center
Research Interests: Innate immunity, skin biology, sebaceous gland biology, host-microbe interactions, antimicrobial proteins, microbiome

Michelle Heck (2023)
Cornell University
Research Interests: Plant-microbe interactions, insect vectors/vector biology, symbiosis, virology, evolutionary biology, proteomics, protein interactions, cell biology

Matthias Hess (2022)
University of California, Davis
Research Interests: Anaerobic fermentation, anaerobic fungi, carbohydrate-active enzymes (CAZymes), gastrointestinal microbiology, microbe-host interactions, microbial dark matter, microbial ecology, natural product discovery, rumen microbiology, rumen virome

Sarah M. Hird (2022)
University of Connecticut
Research Interests: Host-associated microbiomes, wild animal microbiomes, evolution, microbial ecology, comparative biology

Laura A. Hug (2023)
University of Waterloo
Research Interests: : Environmental microbiology, contaminant site microbiology, bioremediation, meta-omics, phylogenomics

Suzanne L. Ishaq (2023)
University of Maine
Research Interests: Host microbiome, ruminant microbiome, gut microbiome, microbes and social equity

Angela D. Kent (2022)
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Research Interests: Microbial ecology, community ecology, nitrogen cycle, microbial processes, built environment, managed systems

Jonathan L. Klassen (2023)
University of Connecticut
Research Interests: Insect-microbe symbioses, microbe-microbe interactions, genomics, chemical ecology, philosophy of science

Tal Korem (2022)
Columbia University Irving Medical Center
Research Interests: Microbial genomics, metagenomics and multi-omics, machine learning, genomic plasticity, microbial ecology, metabolic modeling, microbiome data analysis

Rup Lal (2021)
University of Delhi
Research Interests: Microbial diversity/genomics, comparative genomics/metagenomics, environmental microbiology, taxogenomics

Chaz Langelier (2022)
University of California, San Francisco
Research Interests: Clinical metagenomics, infectious disease diagnostics, antimicrobial resistance, transcriptional profiling, molecular epidemiology, infectious disease pathogenesis, respiratory disease pathogenesis

Morgan Langille (2021)
Dalhousie University
Research Interests: Bioinformatics, microbiome, human-microbe interactions, metagenomic prediction, frailty, aging, exercise, drug metabolism

Simon Lax (2023)
MIT
Research Interests: Microbial ecology, community ecology, metagenomics

Manuel Liebeke (2021)
Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology
Research Interests: Metabolomics, mass spectrometry, host-microbe interaction, cell-cell communication, metabolites

Xiaoxia Lin (2023)
University of Michigan

Steve Lindemann (2023)
Purdue University
Research Interests: Microbial community assembly and dynamics, autotroph-heterotroph interactions, microbial nitrogen cycling, host-pathogen interactions

Miguel Lurgi (2023)
Swansea University
Research Interests: Microbial community ecology, complex networks, theoretical and computational ecology, host-microbe and microbe-microbe interaction networks

Holly L. Lutz (2023)
University of California, San Diego
Research Interests: Host-symbiont ecology and evolution, wildlife microbiome, biodiversity and molecular systematics, bioinformatics, metagenomics

Rachel Mackelprang (2022)
California State University Northridge
Research Interests: Metagenomics, genomics, permafrost, climate change, astrobiology, exobiology, bioinformatics, microbiome

Thulani Makhalanyane (2022)
University of Pretoria
Research Interests: Environmental microbiology, Antarctic and Southern Ocean microbiology, metagenomics, microbial ecology of extreme environments

Mark J. Mandel (2021)
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Research Interests: Bacterial genetics, host specificity, symbiosis, signal transduction, biofilm formation

Chaysavanh Manichanh (2021)
Vall d'Hebron Research Institute (Ed. Mediterranea)
Research Interests: Inflammatory bowel disease, human gut microbiome, microbial translocation, irritable bowel syndrome, cirrhosis, low-biomass samples

Christopher W. Marshall (2021)
Marquette University
Research Interests: Microbial ecology and evolution, bioelectrochemistry, biogeochemistry, antibiotic resistance, bioinformatics

Ryan McClure (2022)
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Research Interests: Transcriptomics, soil microbiomes, host-pathogen interactions, network analysis

Lee Ann McCue (2022)
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Research Interests: Sequence alignment algorithms, comparative genomics, bioinformatics, data mining

John W. McGrath (2021)
Queen's University Belfast
Research Interests: Phosphorus cycling, wastewater microbiology

Marnix Medema (2022)
Wageningen University
Research Interests: Bioinformatics, natural products, microbiome, evolution, metagenomics, integrative omics, synthetic biology

Jessica L. Metcalf (2023)
Colorado State University
Research Interests: Forensic microbiology, wildlife and domestic animal microbiomes, ancestral human gut microbiomes

Barbara Methe (2023)
University of Pittsburgh
Research Interests: Microbial communities, microbiome, microbial ecology, metagenomics, meta-omics, genomics, microbiology

Kat Milligan-Myhre (2022)
University of Connecticut
Research Interests: Host-microbe interactions, microbiology, microbiota, microbiomes, immunology, developmental biology, diversifying STEM

Renuka R. Nayak (2023)
University of California, San Francisco
Research Interests: Human microbiome, rheumatology and autoimmune disease, microbial drug metabolism, patient cohorts, microbial genomics, metagenomics, transcriptomics, metabolomics, gnotobiotic mouse models, bioinformatics, network analysis, machine learning

Aleksandra Nita-Lazar (2023)
NIAID, NIH
Research Interests: Innate immunity, host-pathogen interactions, immune cell signaling, protein complexes, post-translational modifications, proteomics

James P. O’Dwyer (2022)
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Research Interests: Theoretical ecology, phylogenetics, mathematical biology

Pedro H. Oliveira (2021)
Mount Sinai School of Medicine
Research Interests: Comparative genomics/epigenomics, metatranscriptomics, genetic instability, clinical microbiology, restriction-modification systems, SMRT sequencing

Jillian Petersen (2023)
University of Vienna
Research Interests: Symbiosis, chemosynthesis, deep sea, genomics, metagenomics, marine microbiology

Rachel Poretsky (2023)
University of Illinois at Chicago
Research Interests: Microbial ecology and biogeochemistry, bacterial diversity, and community structure and interactions in natural and engineered environments

Carla Porto (2021)
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 (2023)
University of Sao Paulo
Research Interests: Microbial natural products, structural elucidation, microbial interactions, symbiont microorganisms, chemical ecology, nuclear magnetic resonance, mass spectrometry

Jean-Baptiste Raina (2022)
University of Technology Sydney
Research Interests: Marine microbial ecology, microbial symbioses, coral reef microbiology, sulfur cycling, high-resolution imaging

Michael S. Rappe (2022)
University of Hawai'i at Manoa
Research Interests: Marine microbiology, deep biosphere, microbial ecology and evolution, comparative and population genomics, astrobiology, exobiology

Thomas Rattei (2022)
University of Vienna
Research Interests: Bioinformatics, computational genomics and metagenomics, molecular host-microbe interactions, computational methods and databases

John F. Rawls (2021)
Duke University School of Medicine
Research Interests: Intestinal microbiota/microbiome, intestinal physiology, zebrafish, fish, chromatin biology, nutrition, innate immunity, lipid metabolism

Tiffany A. Reese (2023)
UT Southwestern Medical Center
Research Interests: Co-infection, herpesviruses, intestinal helminth infection, host-microbe interactions, innate immunity

Alejandra Rodriguez-Verdugo (2023)
University of California, Irvine
Research Interests: Microbial adaptation, experimental evolution, eco-evolutionary dynamics, synthetic communities evolution

Gail L. Rosen (2022)
Drexel University
Research Interests: Microbiome informatics, machine learning, metagenomics

Laura M. Sanchez (2021)
University of California, Santa Cruz
Research Interests: Mass spectrometry, natural products, microbes, host-pathogen interactions, microbial communities, chemistry

Naseer Sangwan (2023)
Cleveland Clinic
Research Interests: Microbiome, microbial genomics

David F. Savage (2022)
University of California, Berkeley
Research Interests: Biochemistry, synthetic biology, metabolism

Christopher W. Schadt (2023)
Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Research Interests: Microbial communities, soil ecology and biogeochemistry, plant-microbe interactions, fungal ecology

Frank Schmidt (2023)
Weill Cornell Medicine-Qatar
Research Interests: Proteomics, immunoproteomics, infection disease, proteasome, bioinformatics, automatization

Nicola Segata (2021)
University of Trento
Research Interests: Microbiome, microbiota, metagenomics, microbial genomics, computational biology, bioinformatics, sequencing, meta-omics, machine, learning, sequence analysis, human microbiome

Ashley Shade (2021)
Michigan State University
Research Interests: Microbial ecology, environmental microbiology, omics, community ecology, statistics

Elizabeth A. Shank (2023)
University of Massachusetts Medical School
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 (2021)
Oregon State University
Research Interests: Vertebrate gut microbiome systems biology, host-microbiome interactions, metagenomics, microbial evolution, microbial ecology

Rafael Silva-Rocha (2022)
Universidade de São Paulo
Research Interests: Gene regulation, synthetic biology, systems biology, bioinformatics, metagenomics, protein engineering

Yogendra Singh (2023)
University of Delhi
Research Interests: Bacterial pathogenesis, bacterial diseases, bacterial virulence factors, tuberculosis and anthrax, biochemical pathways, signal transduction in bacteria

James Stegen (2021)
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Research Interests: Microbial ecology, eco-evolutionary simulation, integrative hydrobiogeochemistry, null modeling

Jotham Suez (2023)
Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
Research Interests: Human microbiome, virome, microbial ecology, host-microbe interactions, nutrition, precision medicine

Zarath M. Summers (2023)
ExxonMobil Research and Engineering
Research Interests: Microbial ecology, evolution, interspecies interactions, deep biosphere, extremophiles, subsurface processes

Christoph A. Thaiss (2021)
University of Pennsylvania
Research Interests: Microbiome, chronobiology, immunology, metabolism

Sima Tokajian (2022)
Lebanese American University
Research Interests: Pathogenomics, microbial genomics, ESKAPE pathogens, virulence, antimicrobial resistance, molecular epidemiology

Matt Traxler (2021)
University of California, Berkeley
Research Interests: Actinomycetes, bacterial interactions, transcriptomics, metabolomics, mass spectrometry, natural products

Danielle Tullman-Ercek (2022)
Northwestern University
Research Interests: Synthetic biology, protein engineering, metabolic engineering, biomaterials, nanobiotechnology

Peter J. Turnbaugh (2021)
University of California,
San Francisco
Research Interests: Human microbiome, nutrition, pharmacology, metagenomics, gnotobiotics

Tricia Van Laar (2022)
Fresno State
Research Interests: Microbial pathogenesis, microbial metabolism, antimicrobial resistance and tolerance, microbiome of nonhuman systems

Gilles P. van Wezel (2021)
Leiden University
Research Interests: Streptomyces, actinomycetes, antibiotics, sugar metabolism, primary metabolism, carbon catabolite repression, cell division, microbial development, global regulatory networks

Claudia Vickers (2022)
CSIRO
Research Interests: Synthetic biology, isoprenoids, metabolic engineering

Laetitia G.E. Wilkins (2023)
Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology
Research Interests: Host-microbe interactions (e.g., chemosymbioses), their evolution, and their role in ecosystem function and stability

Paul Wilmes (2021)
Campus Belval, University of Luxembourg
Research Interests: Integrated omics, metagenomics, metatranscriptomics, metaproteomics, metabolomics

Benjamin E. Wolfe (2022)
Tufts University
Research Interests: Microbial ecology and evolution, community ecology, microbiomes, microbial interactions, fungal biology, food microbiology, transcriptomics, metagenomics, plant-microbe interactions

Yu-Liang Yang (2023)
Agricultural Biotechnology Research Center
Research Interests: Natural product chemistry, metabolomics, imaging mass spectrometry, antibiotics, biocontrol

Süleyman Yildirim (2022)
Istanbul Medipol University
Research Interests: Microbiota-gut-brain axis, microbial genomics, infectious diseases, systems medicine, food microbiology

Xiao-Hua Zhang (2023)
Ocean University of China
Research Interests: Microbial oceanography, including roles of marine microorganisms in driving biogeochemical cycles, quorum sensing and quorum quenching of marine bacteria, and marine bacterial taxonomy and resource development

Hongwei Zhou (2022)
Southern Medical University
Research Interests: Human
microbiome, laboratory
medicine, chronic diseases