Editors in ChiefKarin Sauer (Binghamton, NY, USA) ksauer@binghamton.edu Bart Tomma (Wageningen, Netherlands) bart.thomma@wur.nl David Blackbourn (London, UK) d.blackbourn@surrey.ac.uk EditorsSonja-Verena Albers (Marburg, Germany) Ehud Banin (Ramat-Gan, Israel) Wilbert Bitter (Amsterdam, The Netherlands) Michael Bott (Jülich, Germany) Gerhard H. Braus (Goettingen, Germany) Corina P.D. Brussaard (Texel, The Netherlands) Miguel Camara (Nottingham, UK) Antoine Danchin (Paris, France) Blossom Damania (Chapel Hill, NC, USA) Christoph Dehio (Basel, Switzerland) Kenn Gerdes (Newcastle, UK) Marie-Therese Giudici-Orticoni (Marseille, France) Bernardo Gonzalez (Santiago, Chile) Urs Greber (Zurich, Switzerland) Ming Chen Hammond (Salt Lake City, UT, USA) Birgitta Henriques Normark (Stockholm, Sweden) Professor Guo Hui-Shan (Beijing. China) Staffan Kjelleberg (Sydney, Australia) Oscar Kuipers (Groningen, The Netherlands) Erh-Min Lai (Taipei, Taiwan) William Margolin (Houston, TX, USA) Jan Roelof van der Meer (Lausanne, Switzerland) Henny C. van der Mei (Groningen, The Netherlands) Tâm Mignot (Marseilles,France) Christian Münz (Zürich, Switzerland) Franz Narberhaus (Bochum, Germany) Justin Nodwell (Toronto, Canada) Christiaan van Ooij (London, UK) Mecky Pohlschroder (Philadelphia, PA, USA) Suzana Salcedo (Lyon, France) Bernhard Schink (Konstanz, Germany) Aimee Shen (Burlington, VT, USA) Grzegorz Wegrzyn (Gdansk, Poland) Chris Whitfield (Guelph, Canada) Editors and their specialist fieldsSonja-Verena Albers Max Planck Institute for Terrestrial Microbiology, Marburg, Germany. Archaea, Sulfolobus, Cell surface structures, Biofilms, Molecular biology sonja.albers@biologie.uni-freiburg.de Ehud Banin Institute for Nanotechnology and Advanced Materials, Bar-Ilan University, Israel. Biofilms, Pseudomonas, Antimicrobial resistance banine@mail.biu.ac.il Wilbert Bitter Department Molecular and Medical Microbiology, VU University Medical Center, Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Host pathogen interactions, Cell envelopes, Chaperones, Virulence, Pathogenesis, Immune modulation, Antigens w.bitter@vumc.nl David Blackbourn Head of the School of Biosciences and Medicine, Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, University of Surrey, UK. Virology, Immunology, Pathogenesis, Virus-induced cancer, DNA damage response, Host-pathogen interactions d.blackbourn@surrey.ac.uk Michael Bott Institut für Biotechnologie 1, Forschungszentrum Jülich, Germany. Corynebacteria, Two-component signal transduction, Metabolic regulation m.bott@fz-juelich.de Gerhard H. Braus Department of Molecular Microbiology and Genetics, Institute of Microbiology and Genetics, Georg-August-University Goettingen, Germany. Fungal genetics and cell biology, Yeast, Filamentous fungi gbraus@gwdg.de Corina P. D. Brussaard NIOZ - Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research, Texel, The Netherlands. Aquatic viral ecology, Marine microbiology, Phytoplankton, Bacteria, Virus-host interactions, Biological oceanography, Food web dynamics, Biogeochemical cycling corina.brussaard@nioz.nl Miguel Camara Institute of Infection Immunity and Inflammation & School of Molecular Medical Sciences, University of Nottingham, UK. Bacterial cell-cell communication, Quorum sensing, Novel antibacterial targets, Vibrio, Yersinia, Pseudomonas miguel.camara@nottingham.ac.uk Blossom Damania Boshamer Distinguished Professor, Department of Microbiology & Immunology, Vice Dean for Research, School of Medicine, Co-Director, Programs in Virology & Global Oncology, Lineberger Cancer Center, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, USA. Tel: (919) 843-6011 http://orcid.org/0000-0002-9205-1774 Herpesviruses, Innate Immunity, Cancer damania@med.unc.edu Antoine Danchin Institut Pasteur, Paris, France. http://orcid.org/0000-0002-6350-5001 Comparative bacterial genomics, Synthetic biology, Bioinformatics (genome annotation, databases and functional inferences), Sulfur metabolism, Origins of life a.danchin@amabiotics.com Christoph Dehio BIOZENTRUM of the University of Basel, Switzerland. Bacterial infection, Bacterial secretion systems, Bacterial persistence, Antibiotic resistance and tolerance christoph.dehio@unibas.ch Kenn Gerdes Centre for Bacterial Stress Response and Persistence, Department of Biology, University of Copenhagen, Denmark http://orcid.org/0000-0002-7462-4612 Bacterial infections, Cell division, Multidrug resistance, Stress response, Antibiotic resistance, Morphology kenn.gerdes5@gmail.com Marie-Therese Giudici-Orticoni CNRS French National Centre for Scientific Research, Marseille, France. Extremophiles, Metabolism, Biochemistry, Bioenergetics, Enzymology giudici@imm.cnrs.fr Bernardo Gonzalez Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Santiago, Chile. Aromatic pollutants, Bacterial degradation, Plasmids, Heavy metals, Bacterial diversity, Rizosphere, Lignin degradation bernardo.gonzalez@uai.cl Urs Greber Institute of Molecular Life Sciences, University of Zurich, Switzerland. Cell biology, Cytoskeleton, Endocytosis, Membrane transport, Immunity, Replication, Infections, Viruses urs.greber@imls.uzh.ch Ming Chen Hammond Department of Chemistry, Henry Eyring Center for Cell and Genome Science, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, USA. Regulatory RNAs, Cyclic dinucleotide signaling, Biochemistry, Synthetic biology ming.hammond@utah.edu Birgitta Henriques Normark Department of Microbiology, Tumor and Cell Biology (MTC), Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden. Host-pathogen interactions, Bacterial infections, Streptococcus pneumoniae, Immune system, Cell walls, Synthesis, Helicobacter birgitta.henriques@ki.se Professor Guo Hui-Shan State Key Laboratory of Plant Genomics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China. http://orcid.org/0000-0002-3057-9303 Plant RNA silencing, Trans-kingdom RNAi, Plant-fungal pathogen interactions, Plant-virus interactions, Suppressors of RNAi guohs@im.ac.cn Staffan Kjelleberg School of Biotechnology and Biomolecular Sciences, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia. Bacterial biofilms, Cell-cell signalling, Microbial environmental genomics, Functional metagenomics, Bioremediation s.kjelleberg@unsw.edu.au Oscar Kuipers Department of Molecular Genetics, University of Groningen, The Netherlands. Synthetic biology, Molecular genetics, Physiology and gene regulation in gram-positive bacteria, Development of novel antibiotics, Heterogeneity in bacterial populations, Food microbiology o.p.kuipers@rug.nl Erh-Min Lai Institute of Plant and Microbial Biology, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan. Bacterial protein secretion systems, interbacterial competition, pathogenesis, plant-microbe interactions, Agrobacterium emlai@gate.sinica.edu.tw William Margolin Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, University of Texas Medical School, USA. Bacterial cell cycle, Cell cycle and Cell division proteins, FtsZ william.margolin@uth.tmc.edu Jan Roelof van der Meer Department of Fundamental Microbiology, University of Lausanne, Switzerland. Environmental Microbiology, Bacterial genetics, Synthetic biology, Microbial ecology, Biosensors, Evolution, Integrative and Conjugative Elements, Biodegradation janroelof.vandermeer@unil.ch Henny C. van der Mei Department of Biomedical Engineering-FB40, University Medical Center Groningen, The Netherlands. Bacterial-tissue interaction, Biomaterial associated infection, Mechanism of bacterial adhesion, Antimicrobial nanoparticles h.c.van.der.mei@umcg.nl http://orcid.org/0000-0003-0760-8900 Tâm Mignot Institut de Microbiologie de la Méditerranée, Aix Marseille Universite, Marseille, France. Biochemistry, Bioinformatics, Cell biology, Cell motility, Myxobacteria tmignot@ifr88.cnrs-mrs.fr Christian Münz Institute of Immunology, Department of Immunobiology, University of Zürich, Switzerland. EBV specific immune control, Dendritic cells, Natural killer cells, T cells, Antigen processing, Autophagy, Immunological synapse Franz Narberhaus Department of Microbial Biology, Ruhr-Universitat Bochum, Germany. Regulatory RNAs, Gene regulation in bacteria, Regulated proteolysis, Heat shock response, Phospholipid biosynthesis, Plant-microbe interaction franz.narberhaus@rub.de Justin Nodwell Department of Biochemistry, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada. Antibiotics, Resistance, Morphogenesis, Signaling, Gene expression, Chemical Genetics justin.nodwell@utoronto.ca Christiaan van Ooij London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, London, UK. Malaria, Genomics, Parasitology Christiaan.vanOoij@lshtm.ac.uk Anna Överby Wernstedt Section of Virology, Department of Clinical Microbiology, Umeå University, Sweden Flavivirus , Tick-borne encephalitis virus , Neuroinflammation , Astrocytes , Type I interferons , interferon stimulated genes , viperin , virology anna.overby@umu.se http://orcid.org/0000-0001-6553-0940 Mecky Pohlschroder Department of Biology, University of Pennsylvania, USA. Protein transport, Haloarcheal genetics and molecular biology, Prokaryotic cell-surface structures pohlschr@sas.upenn.edu Suzana Salcedo Cell Biology of Bacterial Pathogenicity team, Laboratory of Molecular Microbiology and Structural Biochemistry, University of Lyon, France. Intracellular bacterial pathogens, Host-pathogen interactions, Brucella, Acinetobacter, Innate immune subversion, Bacterial effectors suzana.salcedo@ibcp.fr Karin Sauer Department of Biological Sciences, Binghampton University, State University of New York, New York, USA. Biofilm formation and development, Biofilm resistance, Drug tolerance, Susceptibility, Pseudomonas aeruginosa, Differential gene expressions, Posttranslational protein modifications ksauer@binghamton.edu Bernhard Schink Department of Biology - Microbial Ecology, Limnology and General Microbiology, Universität Konstanz, Germany. Environmental microbiology; Microbial ecology; Physiology of anaerobic bacteria; Redox processes in the sediment; Microbial energy metabolism; Biochemical strategies of substrate degradation. Bernhard.Schink@uni-konstanz.de Aimee Shen Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, University of Vermont, USA. Clostridium difficile, Gram positive bacteria, Genetics, Proteomics and spore formation Aimee.Shen@tufts.edu Bart Thomma Laboratory of Phytopathology, Wageningen University, The Netherlands. Plant pathology, Filamentous pathogens, Fungi, Verticillum, Pathogen effectors, Resistance, Immunity, Comparative (population) genomics, Pathogenomics bart.thomma@wur.nl Grzegorz Wegrzyn Department of Molecular Biology, University of Gdansk, Poland. DNA replication of plasmids and bacteriophages, Regulation of gene expression in bacteria wegrzyn@biotech.univ.gda.pl Chris Whitfield Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, University of Guelph, Guelph, Canada. Polysaccharides, Capsule components, Lipopolysaccharide (LPS), Biosynthesis cwhitfie@uoguelph.ca
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