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

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

Sergio E. Baranzini (2020)
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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Elizabeth A. Grice (2020)
University of Pennsylvania
Research Interests: Human microbiome, metagenomics, host-microbe interactions, fungal communities, innate immunity, skin-microbe interactions

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 (2020)
Cornell University
Research Interests: Plant-microbe interactions, insect vectors/vector biology, symbiosis, virology, evolutionary biology, proteomics, protein interactions, cell biology

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

David M. Knipe (2020)
Harvard Medical School
Research Interests: DNA viruses, epigenetics, proteomics, genomics, innate immunity

Thomas M. Kristie (2020)
National Institutes of Health
Research Interests: Herpesvirus, chromatin, transcription, gene regulation, DNA viruses

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

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

Simon Lax (2020)
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 (2020)
University of Michigan

Steve Lindemann (2020)
Purdue University
Research Interests: Microbial community assembly and dynamics, autotroph-heterotroph interactions, microbial nitrogen cycling, host-pathogen interactions

Karen G. Lloyd (2020)
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

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

Olivia U. Mason (2020)
Florida State University
Research Interests: Marine microbial ecology, marine microbes, metagenomics, metatranscriptomics, single-cell genomics, tag sequencing, Gulf of Mexico, hydrocarbon degradation

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

Barbara Methe (2020)
University of Pittsburgh
Research Interests: Microbial communities, microbiome, microbial ecology, metagenomics, meta-omics, genomics, microbiology

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

Josh D. Neufeld (2020)
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 (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

William Orsi (2020)
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
Research Interests: Metagenomics, metatranscriptomics, stable isotope probing, deep biosphere, sediment, subseafloor, carbon cycling, nitrogen cycle

Jillian Petersen (2020)
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 (2020)
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

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

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

Michael Rust (2020)
Institute for Genomics & Systems Biology
Research Interests: Molecular systems biology, mathematical modeling, biochemistry, bacterial signaling, cyanobacteria, circadian rhythms, live cell microscopy

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

Naseer Sangwan (2020)
Cleveland Clinic
Research Interests: Microbiome, microbial genomics

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

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 (2020)
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 (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

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

Zarath M. Summers (2020)
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

Nassos Typas (2020)
European Molecular Biology Laboratory
Research Interests: High-throughput genetics, chemical genomics, bacterial envelope, cell wall, signal transduction

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

Katrine L. Whiteson (2021)
University of California, Irvine
Research Interests: Metabolomics, metagenomics, microbial ecology, phage, fermentation, polymicrobial infection, microbial interactions, human microbiome

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 (2020)
Agricultural Biotechnology Research Center
Research Interests: Natural product chemistry, metabolomics, imaging mass spectrometry, antibiotics, biocontrol

Olga Zhaxybayeva (2020)
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

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