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Section Editors

  • Brian Coombes McMaster University, Canada
  • Antoine Danchin AMAbiotics, France
  • Stephen Forsythe Nottingham Trent University, UK
  • Rino Rappuoli Novartis Vaccines and Diagnostics, Italy
  • Frank Sargent University of Dundee, UK
  • Jan Maarten van Dijl University of Groningen, Netherlands
  • Irene Wagner-Dobler Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research, Germany

Deputy Section Editors

  • Elizabeth Hartland University of Melbourne, Australia
  • Georgina Manning Nottingham Trent University, UK
  • Mariagrazia Pizza Novartis Vaccines and Diagnostics, Italy
  • Tracy Raivio University of Alberta, Canada
  • Samuel Sheppard University of Oxford, UK
  • Dorothea Thompson Purdue University, USA
  • Ken-ichi Yoshida Kobe University, Japan

Associate Editors

  • Luis Actis Miami University, USA
  • Tero Ahola University of Helsinki, Finland
  • John Alderete Washington State University, USA
  • Nerino Allocati Università degli Studi 'G. d'Annunzio' di Chieti, Italy
  • Haike Antelmann University of Greifswald, Germany
  • Josefa Anton Universidad de Alicante, Spain
  • Chintamani D Atreya Food and Drug Administration, USA
  • Stéphane Aymerich Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique, France
  • Ramy Karam Aziz Cairo University, Egypt
  • Sailen Barik Cleveland State University, USA
  • Florian F Bauer University of Stellenbosch, South Africa
  • Fabiana Bigi National Agricultural Technology Institute, Argentina
  • Ariel Blocker University of Bristol, UK
  • Violaine Bonnefoy CNRS, France
  • Patrizia Brigidi University of Bologna, Italy
  • Marcelo Brocchi Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Brazil
  • Andreas Burkovski Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen Nürnberg, Germany
  • Edouard Cantin Beckman Research Institute, City of Hope Medical Center, USA
  • Vincent Cattoir University Hospital of Caen, France
  • Trevor Charles University of Waterloo, Canada
  • Honglin Chen University of Hong Kong, China
  • Barbara Coulson The University of Melbourne, Australia
  • Alexandre da Silva Center for Disease Control and Prevention, USA
  • Wanderley De Souza Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
  • Zixin Deng Shanghai Jiaotong University, China
  • Kevin Devine Trinity College Dublin, Ireland
  • Steve Diggle University of Nottingham, UK
  • Christian Doerig Wellcome Centre for Molecular Parasitology, UK
  • Renato Fani University of Florence, Italy
  • Fabio Fava University of Bologna, Italy
  • Alain Filloux Imperial College London, UK
  • Jason Folster Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, USA
  • Yasutaro Fujita Fukuyama University, Japan
  • Guangxia Gao Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
  • Otto Geiger Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico, Mexico
  • Matthew Gilmour National Microbiology Laboratory, Canada
  • Bart Haagmans Erasmus Medical Centre, Netherlands
  • Michael Hamblin Massachusetts General Hospital, USA
  • Rumina Hasan Aga Khan University, Pakistan
  • Richard Hayward University College London & Birkbeck, University of London, UK
  • Ralf Heermann Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitaet, Germany
  • Michael Hensel Universität Osnabrück, Germany
  • Anil Kishen University of Toronto, Canada
  • Michael E Konkel Washington State University, USA
  • Andreas Kuhn University of Hohenheim, Germany
  • Saulius Kulakauskas Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique, France
  • Elliot Lefkowitz University of Alabama at Birmingham, USA
  • Jian Li Monash University, Australia
  • Shih-Tung Liu Chang-Gung University, Taiwan
  • Hsiu-Jung Lo National Health Research Institutes, Taiwan
  • Tomas Maira-Litran Harvard Medical School, USA
  • Markus Meissner University of Glasgow, UK
  • Marika Mikelsaar University of Tartu, Estonia
  • Owain Millington University of Strathclyde, UK
  • Tohru Minamino Osaka University, Japan
  • Igor Mokrousov Pasteur Institute, St. Petersburg, Russian Federation
  • Tarek Msadek Pasteur Institute, France
  • Julian Naglik Kings College London, UK
  • Sean Nair Eastman Dental Institute, UK
  • Srinivas Nammi University of Western Sydney, Australia
  • Gerardo Nava Washington University School of Medicine, USA
  • David Nelson University of Rhode Island, USA
  • Jacques Robert Nicoli Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Brazil
  • Michinaga Ogawa National Institute of Infectious Diseases, Japan
  • Carlos Orihuela The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, USA
  • Giovanni Battista Orsi Università degli Studi di Roma, Italy
  • Mark Osborn University of Hull, UK
  • Albert Osterhaus Erasmus Medical Centre, Netherlands
  • Ines Pereira ITQB, Oeiras, Portugal
  • Benoit Polack Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Grenoble, France
  • Andrea Radtke University of Arizona, USA
  • Bala Rathinasabapathi University of Florida, USA
  • Raul R Raya Lactobacillus Reference Centre (CERELA), Argentina
  • Jose Requena Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Spain
  • Peter Richard VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland, Finland
  • Rafael Rivilla Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Spain
  • Roy Robins-Browne University of Melbourne, Australia
  • Wilfred Roling Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Netherlands
  • Alexandre Soares Rosado Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
  • Ewa Sadowy National Medicines Institute, Poland
  • Dominique Sanglard University Hospital Lausanne, Switzerland
  • Herb Schellhorn McMaster University, Canada
  • Imke Schroeder University of California, Los Angeles, USA
  • Bor-Shyang Sheu National Cheng Kung University Hospital, Taiwan
  • Anders Sjöstedt Umeå Universitet, Sweden
  • Gavin Smith Duke-NUS Graduate Medical School, Singapore
  • Isabel Sola CNB-CSIC, Spain
  • Dominique Soldati University of Geneva, Switzerland
  • Peter Solomon The Australian National University, Australia
  • Pietro Speziale University of Pavia, Italy
  • Patrizia Spigaglia Istituto Superiore di Sanità, Italy
  • Andrea Squartini University of Padova, Italy
  • Nicola R Stanley-Wall University of Dundee, UK
  • Richard Sugrue Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
  • Philip Supply Pasteur Institute, Lille, France
  • Paula Tamagnini Universidade do Porto, Portugal
  • Bertrand Toussaint Université Joseph Fourier, France
  • M. Stephen Trent The University of Texas at Austin, USA
  • Sylvia Valdezate Instituto de Salud Carlos III, Spain
  • Jos van Strijp UMC Utrecht, Netherlands
  • Gilles Vergnaud Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, France
  • Naresh Verma Australian National University, Australia
  • Romé Voulhoux Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, France
  • Sun Nyunt Wai Umeå Universitet, Sweden
  • Klaus Winzer Lancaster University, UK
  • Karl Wooldridge University of Nottingham, UK
  • Liyou Wu University of Oklahoma, USA
  • Long-Fei Wu Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, France
  • Jianguo Xu National Institute for Communicable Disease Control and Prevention, China
  • Ken-ichi Yoshida Kobe University, Japan
  • Kwok Yung Yuen The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
  • Oscar Zaragoza Centro Nacional de Microbiología, Spain
  • Raffaele Zarrilli Università di Napoli Federico II, Italy
  • Dongsheng Zhou Beijing Institute of Microbiology and Epidemiology, China

Editorial Advisors

  • Dlawer Ala'Aldeen University Hospital, Nottingham, UK
  • Robert Belas University of Maryland Biotechnology Institute, USA
  • Carton Chen National Yang-Ming University, Taiwan
  • Daniel Colley University of Georgia, USA
  • Michael Cox University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA
  • Adela G. de la Campa Centro Nacional de Microbiología, Spain
  • Peter Doherty St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, USA
  • Jorge Galan Yale School of Medicine, USA
  • Michael Galperin National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health, USA
  • Stephen Goff Columbia University, USA
  • Per Einar Granum Norwegian School of Veterinary Science, Norway
  • Bernhard Hube Hans-Knöll-Institute, Germany
  • Michael F. Hynes University of Calgary, Canada
  • Martin Maiden University of Oxford, UK
  • Mark Marsh University College London, UK
  • Cesare Montecucco University of Pavia, Italy
  • Richard Moxon University of Oxford, John Radcliffe Hospital, UK
  • Erle Robertson University of Pennnsylvania School of Medicine, USA
  • George Rohrmann Oregon State University, USA
  • Julian Rood Monash University, Australia
  • Ilan Rosenshine The Hebrew University, Israel
  • Gian Maria Rossolini Università di Siena, Italy
  • Kornelia Smalla Julius Kühn-Institut for cultivated plants, Germany
  • Roger Stephan University of Zurich, Switzerland
  • Jeffry B. Stock Princeton University, USA
  • Anne Summers University of Georgia, USA
  • Nicolas Toro Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, Estación Experimental del Zaidín, Spain
  • Miguel Vicente Centro Nacional de Biotecnología, Spain
  • Friedrich Widdel Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology, Germany