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

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

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

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

Cynthia H. Collins (2022)
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Research Interests: Synthetic biology, protein engineering, microbiome, quorum sensing

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

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

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

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

 

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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