mBio Board of Editors

Judith Berman (2025)
Tel Aviv University
Ramat Aviv, Israel
Research Interests: Fungal biology, antifungal drug tolerance and resistance

Purnima Bhanot (2024)
Rutgers New Jersey Medical School
Newark, NJ, USA
Research Interests: Kinase signaling pathways and cell biology of Plasmodium and anti-malarial drug discovery

Reinhard Fischer (2025)
Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT)
Karlsruhe, Germany
Research Interests: Aspergillus nidulans, Alternaria alternata, Arthrobotrys flagrans, polar fungal growth, fungal biology, secondary metabolites, nematode-trapping fungi, fungal phytochrome, fungal photoreceptors

Gustavo Goldman (2023)
University de São Paulo
São Paulo, Brazil
Research Interests: Molecular biology of filamentous fungi, virulence and pathogenicity of filamentous fungi, Aspergillus fumigatus pathogenicity, antifungal drugs and drug resistance

Thomas E. Wellems (2025)
National Institutes of Health
Bethesda, MD, USA
Research Interests: Antimicrobial chemotherapy, parasitology

Edward W. Yu (2025)
Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine
Cleveland, OH, USA
Research Interests: Efflux pumps, transporters, membrane proteins, antimicrobial resistance, cell wall biogenesis, structural biology, cryo-electron microscopy, X-ray crystallography

Frederick M. Ausubel (2025)
Massachusetts General Hospital
Boston, MA, USA
Research Interests: Antimicrobial resistance

Nathalie Balaban (2025)
Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Jerusalem, Israel
Research Interests: Biological physics, bacterial self-replication

Daniel Barkan (2023)
The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Rehovot, Israel
Research Interests: Mycobacteria, tuberculosis, abscessus, human infectious diseases, antibiotic resistance

Paul Dunman (2025)
University of Rochester
Rochester, NY, USA
Research Interests: Antimicrobial chemotherapy, bacteriology, environmental microbiology, vaccines

Kelly T. Hughes (2025)
University of Utah
Salt Lake City, UT, USA
Research Interests: Antimicrobial resistance, emerging infections, One Health

Bruce R. Levin (2025)
Emory University
Atlanta, GA, USA
Research Interests: Population and evolutionary biology of bacteria and bacteriophage, antibiotic and phage therapy of bacterial infections

Kalai Mathee (2025)
Florida International University
Miami, FL, USA
Research Interests: Pseudomonas aeruginosa pathogenesis, antimicrobial resistance, alternate therapeutics, microbiome

Melinda M. Pettigrew (2023)
Yale School of Public Health
New Haven, CT, USA
Research Interests: Infectious disease epidemiology, antibiotic resistance, respiratory tract infections, respiratory and gastrointestinal microbiome, hospital-acquired infections

Steven Projan (2025)
MedImmune
Gaithersburg, MD, USA
Research Interests: Antimicrobial chemotherapy, bacteriology, clinical microbiology, microbial pathogenesis

Laurence Rahme (2025)
Massachusetts General Hopsital and Harvard Medical School
Boston, MA, USA
Research Interests: Pseudomonas aeruginosa, quorum sensing, antivirulence therapeutics

Christina Stallings (2025)
Washington University School of Medicine
St. Louis, MO, USA
Research Interests: Molecular microbiology, mycobacteria, host-pathogen interactions, innate immunity

Jose Vazquez-Boland (2025)
University of Edinburgh
Edinburgh, United Kingdom
Research Interests: Bacteriology, microbial pathogenesis, veterinary microbiology

Gerard Wright (2023)
McMaster University
Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
Research Interests: Antimicrobial chemotherapy, bacteriology, environmental microbiology

Qijing Zhang (2023)
Iowa State University
Ames, IA, USA
Research Interests: Antimicrobial resistance, pathogen-host interaction, campylobacter, food safety, zoonotic diseases

Peter M. Palese (2025)
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
New York, NY, USA
Research Interests: RNA viruses, emphasis on respiratory viruses

Thomas E. Smithgall (2025)
University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine
Pittsburgh, PA, USA
Research Interests: Lentiviral accessory factors, HIV-1 Nef, antiretroviral drug discovery, HIV-1 persistence, HIV host cell restriction factors

Nicole Dubilier (2023)
Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology
Bremen, Germany
Research Interests: Applied and industrial microbiology, bacteriology, food microbiology

Valerie J. (Jody) Harwood (2025)
University of South Florida
Tampa, FL, USA
Research Interests: Microbial source tracking, persistence of E. coli and Enterococcus in aquatic environments, fecal indicator bacteria and pathogens in beach sand, antibiotic resistance in wastewater and aquatic environments, ecology of Vibrio spp.

Terry C. Hazen (2025)
University of Tennessee and Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Knoxville, TN, USA
Research Interests: Microbial ecology, bioremediation, marine microbiology, tropical microbiology, oil spills, biosystems, environmental engineering, bioenergy, systems biology, climate change, sustainability, parasite ecology, environmental genomics, wastewater, soil microbiology

Oladele A. Ogunseitan (2025)
University of California, Irvine
Irvine, CA, USA
Research Interests: Microbial diversity and Ecosystems, environmental context of antimicrobial resistance

Mark Turner (2025)
The University of Queensland
Brisbane, Australia
Research Interests: Food microbiology, lactic acid bacteria, Lactococcus, Lactobacillus, cyclic-di-AMP signaling

Anne K. Vidaver (2025)
University of Nebraska
Lincoln, NE, USA
Research Interests: Bacterial diseases of plants, bacteriophages, bacteriocins, microbial survival mechanisms, biocontrol of microbial pathogens, endophytes

Paul Babitzke (2024)
Penn State University
University Park, PA, USA
Research Interests: Transcription pausing, transcription termination, bacterial gene regulation, RNA biology, protein-RNA interactions

Jimmy D. Ballard (2025)
University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center
Oklahoma City, OK, USA
Research Interests: Pathogenic clostridia, C. difficile, bacterial toxins

Indranil Biswas (2025)
University of Kansas Medical Center
Kansas City, KS, USA
Research Interests: Streptococcal genetics, gram-positive bacteria, bacterial genetics

Carmen Buchrieser (2025)
Institut Pasteur
Paris, France
Research Interests: Host-pathogen interactions, epigentics and infection, pathogenicity, regulation, genomics, evolution, Legionella

Emmanuelle Charpentier (2023)
Max Planck Institute for Infection Biology
Berlin, Germany
Research Interests: Streptococcus pyogenes, regulatory RNAs, CRISPR-Cas, regulatory pathways

K. Heran Darwin (2023)
New York University School of Medicine
New York, NY, USA
Research Interests: Mycobacterium tuberculosis, proteasomes, post-translational modifications

Sabine Ehrt (2025)
Weill Cornell Medical College
New York, NY, USA
Research Interests: Microbial pathogenesis, tuberculosis, microbial genetics

Yunn-Hwen Gan (2025)
National University of Singapore
Singapore
Research Interests: Klebsiella pneumoniae infections, Burkholderia pseudomallei infections, antibiotic resistance plasmid transmission, bacterial virulence gene regulation, host innate immune response

Danielle Garsin (2024)
University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston
Houston, TX, USA
Research Interests: Bacterial pathogenesis, gene regulation, host (C. elegans)-microbe and microbe-microbe interactions, Enterococcus faecalis

Joanna Goldberg (2025)
Emory University School of Medicine
Atlanta, GA, USA
Research Interests: Bacteriology, immunology, microbial pathogenesis

N. Luisa Hiller (2023)
Carnegie Mellon University
Pittsburgh, PA, USA
Research Interests: Gram-positive pathogens, molecular mechanisms of steptococcal infections, cell-cell communication, bacterial pathogenesis

Scott Hultgren (2025)
Washington University in St. Louis
St. Louis, MO, USA
Research Interests: Bacteriology, microbial pathogenesis, pathogenesis and host response

Michael D. L. Johnson (2025)
University of Arizona
Tucson, AZ, USA
Research Interests: Metal, bacteria, copper, Streptococcus

Kimberly Kline (2025)
University of Geneva
Geneva, Switzerland
Research Interests: Enterococcal pathogenesis, Gram-positive polymicrobial communities, biofilms, wound infection, urinary tract infection

Michael Laub (2025)
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Cambridge, MA, USA
Research Interests: Bacteriophages, anti-phage defense, toxin-antitoxin systems, two-component signaling, protein evolution, regulation

Katherine P. Lemon (2025)
Baylor College of Medicine
Houston, TX, USA
Research Interests: Human nasal microbiome, microbe-microbe interactions, bacterial pangenomes and genetics, biology of gram-positive bacteria, human skin microbiome, bacteria-epithelium interactions

Larry S. McDaniel (2025)
University of Mississippi Medical Center
Jackson, MS, USA
Research Interests: Upper respiratory bacterial infections and host-pathogen interactions, role of bacterial and viral pathogens in otitis media, emergence and pathogenesis of nonencapsulated S. pneumoniae (NESp)

Jeff F. Miller (2025)
University of California, Los Angeles
Los Angeles, CA, USA
Research Interests: Bacterial pathogenesis, bacterial genetics, retroelements

Tarek Msadek (2025)
Institut Pasteur
Paris, France
Research Interests: Microbial genetics, microbial pathogenesis, pathogenesis and hostrResponse, Gram-positive pathogens, bacterial signal transduction

Steven J. Norris (2025)
McGovern Medical School
Houston, TX, USA
Research Interests: Spirochetal infections, biology, structure, genomics, and pathogenic mechanisms of spirochetes, antigenic variation, host-pathogen interactions, histopathology of infections

Scot Ouellette (2025)
University of Nebraska Medical Center
Omaha, NE, USA
Research Interests: Chlamydia, obligate intracellular bacteria, cell division, Clp proteases, persistence, pathogenesis

Matthew R. Parsek (2025)
University of Washington
Seattle, WA, USA
Research Interests: Bacteriology, environmental microbiology, host-microbial interactions

Nina Reda Salama (2025)
Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
Seattle, WA, USA
Research Interests: Bacterial cell division, bacterial cell structure, Campylobacter jejuni, cell shape, Epsilonproteobacteria, Helicobacter pylori, natural competence, peptidogylcan, recombinational repair, type IV secretion

Philippe Sansonetti (2025)
Institut Pasteur et Collège de France
Paris, France
Research Interests: Cellular microbiology

Sebastian Suerbaum (2025)
Max von Pettenkofer Institute, LMU Munich
Munich, Germany
Research Interests: Evolution, pathogenesis and diagnosis of bacterial infections, gastrointestinal pathogens, Helicobacter pylori and related Helicobacter and Campylobacter species, bacterial genomics, mechanisms of bacterial evolution

Justin A. Thornton (2025)
Mississippi State University
Mississippi State, MS, USA
Research Interests: Pneumococcus, Streptococcus, host response, pneumolysin, pathogenesis, innate immunity

Victor J. Torres (2025)
NYU Grossman School of Medicine
New York, NY, USA
Research Interests: MRSA, toxins, receptors, neutrophils, macrophages, innate immunity, host-pathogen interaction, Staphylococcus aureus, phagocytes

M. Stephen Trent (2025)
University of Georgia
Athens, GA, USA
Research Interests: Bacterial cell envelope biogenesis

Marvin Whiteley (2025)
Georgia Institute of Technology School of Biological Sciences
Atlanta, GA, USA
Research Interests: Bacteriology, host-microbial interactions, human microbiome, environmental microbiology, microbial genetics, microbial pathogenesis, molecular and cellular biology

Karina Xavier (2025)
Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência
Oeiras, Portugal
Research Interests: Cell-cell interactions in bacteria, quorum sensing

Martin Blaser (2025)
Rutgers University
Rutgers, NJ, USA
Research Interests: Bacteriology, clinical microbiology, microbial pathogenesis

Robert A. Bonomo (2025)
Louis Stokes Veterans Affairs Medical Center
Cleveland, OH, USA
Research Interests: Antimicrobial chemotherapy, bacteriology, clinical microbiology

Tom Chiller (2023)
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Atlanta, GA, USA
Research Interests: Epidemiology, mycology, public health

Oliver A. Cornely (2025)
Institute of Translational Research, University of Cologne
Cologne, Germany
Research Interests: Clinical mycology, clinical trials, vaccines

Nancy Freitag (2025)
University of Illinois Chicago
College of Medicine
Chicago, IL, USA
Research Interests: Bacterial pathogenesis, host response to bacterial infection, Gram-positive bacteria, Listeria monocytogenes, intracellular pathogens, Gram-positive protein secretion, pregnancy infection, quorum sensing

Paul S. Keim (2025)
Pathogen and Microbiome Institute, Northern Arizona University
Flagstaff, AZ, USA
Research Interests: Pathogen genomics, molecular epidemiology, microbial forensics, biodefense, anthrax, melioidosis, plague, tularemia, Valley Fever, fungal genomics, genetics

Mario Poljak (2025)
University of Ljubljana
Ljubljana, Slovenia
Research Interests: Virology, HPV, human papillomaviruses, hepatitis viruses

Stephanie Doores (2023)
Pennsylvania State University
University Park, PA, USA
Research Interests: Eukaryotic cells, mycology, host-microbial interactions, microbial pathogenesis

Bruce A. McClane (2025)
University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine
Pittsburgh, PA, USA
Research Interests: Bacterial toxins, Clostridium, anaerobic infections, sporulation

Samuel I. Miller (2025)
University of Washington
Seattle, WA, USA
Research Interests: Bacterial/host interactions

Alexandre Alanio (2024)
Institut Pasteur
Paris, France
Research Interests: Epidemiology of invasive fungal infections, genotyping of fungal pathogens, Cryptococcus and cryptococcosis, pathophysiology, dormancy and quiescence, virulence, host/fungi interactions

Avery August (2025)
Cornell University
Ithaca, NY, USA
Research Interests: Regulation of immune response by intracellular signaling events, regulation of CD8+ T cell memory development, regulation of production of inflammatory and anti-inflammatory cytokines by CD4+ and CD8+ T cells

Jon P. Boyle (2025)
University of Pittsburgh
Pittsburgh, PA, USA
Research Interests: Toxoplasma gondii, Neospora caninum, virulence, life cycle evolution, molecular parasitology, parasite development, Hammondia hammondi, congenital transmission, placenta biology

Barbara Burleigh (2025)
Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health
Boston, MA, USA
Research Interests: Host-parasite interactions, cell biology, metabolism

Bernhard Hube (2025)
Leibniz Institute for Natural Product Research and Infection Biology
Jena, Germany
Research Interests: Molecular biology of Candida albicans and C. glabrata, functional genomics, host/pathogen interactions, ex vivo/in vitro infection models, extracellular enzymes, regulatory proteases, infection associated genes, intracellular survival, invasion mechanisms, microevolution, morphology, fungal toxins

Anita Koshy (2023)
University of Arizona
Tucson, AZ, USA
Research Interests: Host-pathogen interactions for Toxoplasma gondii, CNS infection (especially with T. gondii)

Michael Lorenz (2025)
University of Texas Health Science Center
Houston, TX, USA
Research Interests: Fungal pathogenesis, host-microbe interactions

Liise-anne Pirofski (2025)
Albert Einstein College of Medicine and Montefiore Medical Center
Bronx, NY, USA
Research Interests: Antibody immunity, immunity to encapsulated microbes, vaccine mediated immunity, immunotherapy, medical mycology, cryptococcal pathogenesis, pneumococcal pathogenesis

Nathalie Pujol (2025)
CIML, CNRS, Aix Marseille Université
Marseille, France
Research Interests: C. elegans, invertebrate, innate immunity, epidermis, apical extracellular matrices, fungal infection, wounding

Christian Tschudi (2023)
Yale School of Public Health
New Haven, CT, USA
Research Interests: Eukaryotic cells, molecular and cellular biology

Barbara Gillian Turgeon (2023)
Cornell University
Ithaca, NY, USA
Research Interests: Fungal genetics, genomics, fungal-plant interactions/ fungal virulence mechanisms, secondary metabolite function and evolution, mechanisms of sexual reproduction in fungi

Floyd L. Wormley (2025)
Texas Christian University
Fort Worth, TX, USA
Research Interests: Fungal pathogenesis, medical mycology, host-pathogen interactions, immunity vaccine development

Nihal Altan-Bonnet (2025)
National Institutes of Health
Bethesda, MD, USA
Research Interests: Viral replication organelles, viral transmission, extracellular vesicles/exosomes, viral innate immunity, applications of high-resolution light-based imaging to viruses

Kristen Bernard (2025)
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Madison, WI, USA
Research Interests: Pathogenesis of arthropod-borne viruses

Alison Buchan (2025)
University of Tennessee
Knoxville, TN, USA
Research Interests: Marine microbial ecology, environmental genomics, host-phage interactions, microbial interactions

Sara Cherry (2024)
University of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia, PA, USA
Research Interests: Genetic and mechanistic studies of viral-host interactions

Diane E. Griffin (2025)
Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
Baltimore, MD, USA
Research Interests: Pathogenesis of acute RNA virus infections, immune responses to RNA viruses and vaccines

Graham Hatfull (2025)
University of Pittsburgh
Pittsburgh, PA, USA
Research Interests: Bacteriophages, mycobacteriophages

Sabra L. Klein (2025)
Johns Hopkins University
Baltimore, MD, USA
Research Interests: RNA virus pathogenesis, vaccine immunity, sex differences, pregnancy, hormonal regulation of immunity, Zika virus, influenza viruses, SARS-CoV-2, COVID-19

Carolina B. Lopez (2025)
Washington University in St. Louis
St. Louis, MO, USA
Research Interests: Virology, antiviral response, nonstandard viral genomes

Suresh Mahalingam (2025)
Griffith University
Queensland, Australia
Research Interests: Arboviruses, alphaviruses, flaviviruses, respiratory syncytial virus, influenza virus, SARS-CoV-2, viral pathogenesis, virus-host interactions, viral immunology

Matthew S. Miller (2025)
McMaster University
Hamilton, ON, Canada
Research Interests: Virology, influenza virus, immunology, vaccinology, antibodies, neurodegenerative diseases, innate immunity, B cells

Thomas E. "Tem" Morrison (2023)
University of Colorado School of Medicine
Aurora, CO, USA
Research Interests: Viral pathogenesis and immunity, immunological mechanisms that influence viral clearance or persistence, molecular mechanisms by which viruses counteract host innate and adaptive immune responses

John T. Patton (2025)
Indiana University Bloomington
Bloomington, IN, USA
Research Interests: Virology, vaccines

Nancy C. Reich (2025)
Stony Brook University
Stony Brook, NY, USA
Research Interests: Cytokine and interferon signal pathways

Yasuko Rikihisa (2025)
Ohio State University
Columbus, OH, USA
Research Interests: Molecular pathogenic mechanisms of ehrlichioses, anaplasmosis, neorickettsiosis, vector-borne emerging infectious diseases, bacterial genomes, bacterial virulence factors, host cell subversion and manipulation mechanisms

Monica J. Roth (2025)
Rutgers-Robert Wood Johnson Medical School
Piscataway, NJ, USA
Research Interests: Retroviral entry, integration, replication

Jörg Vogel (2025)
Helmholtz Institute for RNA-based Infection Research and University of Würzburg
Würzburg, Germany
Research Interests: Noncoding RNA, small RNA, RNA-binding protein, RNA-seq, post-transcriptional control, antisense approach, infection biology, microbiome, Samonella enterica, Fusobacterium nucleatum

Joshua Weitz (2025)
Georgia Institute of Technology
School of Biology
Atlanta, GA, USA
Research Interests: Computational biology

Shu-Sin Chng (2025)
National University of Singapore
Singapore
Research Interests: Bacteriology, mycobacteriology, molecular and cellular biology, envelope biogenesis and processes, membrane function and biology, lipid metabolism and trafficking, biochemistry of membrane proteins

Caroline Harwood (2025)
University of Washington
Seattle, WA, USA
Research Interests: Environmental microbiology, bacteriology, systems biology

Sang Yup Lee (2025)
Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology
Daejeon, South Korea
Research Interests: Metabolic engineering, synthetic biology, industrial biotechnology

Dianne K. Newman (2025)
California Institute of Technology
Pasadena, CA, USA
Research Interests: Bacterial metabolism, energy conservation, extracellular electron transfer, antibiotic tolerance

Steve Giovannoni (2023)
Oregon State University
Corvallis, OR, USA
Research Interests: Environmental microbiology

Joel Kostka (2025)
Georgia Institute of Technology
Atlanta, GA, USA
Research Interests: Microbial ecology, biogeochemistry, geomicrobiology

Derek R. Lovley (2025)
University of Massachusetts
Amherst, MA, USA
Research Interests: Electromicrobiology, microbial ecology, biogeochemistry, corrosion, bioelectronic materials

Jennifer B.H. Martiny (2023)
University of California, Irvine
Irvine, CA, USA
Research Interests: Microbial ecology and evolution, biogeography, global change

Christa Schleper (2023)
University of Vienna
Vienna, Austria
Research Interests: Bacteriology, environmental microbiology

Maria Mercedes Zambrano (2023)
CorpoGen Research Institute
Bogota, Colombia
Research Interests: Microbial ecology and biotechnology, environmental and urban microbial communities, microbial resistance and diversity

Alan Barbour (2025)
University of California Irvine
Irvine, CA, USA
Research Interests: Tick-borne diseases, innate immunity, Borrelia, Lyme disease, non-mouse animal models

Vaughn Cooper (2025)
University of Pittsburgh
Pittsburgh, PA, USA
Research Interests: Evolutionary biology, genomic evolution, biofilm, host-microbe interactions, antimicrobial resistance, experimental evolution/evolution-in-action

Simonetta Gribaldo (2025)
Institut Pasteur
Paris, France
Research Interests: Microbial evolution, archaea, protists, bacteria, phylogenomics, cell envelope, methanogenesis

David Guttman (2025)
University of Toronto
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Research Interests: Environmental microbiology, plant microbiology, systems biology

Chris Todd Hittinger (2025)
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Madison, WI, USA
Research Interests: Yeasts, evolutionary genomics, biodiversity, bioenergy, brewing

Houra Merrikh (2023)
University of Washington
Seattle, WA, USA
Research Interests: Microbial genetics, genetics and molecular biology, evolution

Julian Parkhill (2025)
University of Cambridge
Cambridge, United Kingdom
Research Interests: Bacterial genomics to understand emergence, transmission and evolution

Igor B. Zhulin (2023)
Ohio State University
Columbus, OH, USA
Research Interests:Signal transduction, bacterial chemotaxis, evolutionary genomics, computational biology

Jennifer Bomberger (2023)
Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth
Hanover, NH, USA
Research Interests: Viral-bacterial co-infections, bacterial biofilms, P. aeruginosa chronic infections

Colleen Cavanaugh (2023)
Harvard University
Cambridge, MA, USA
Research Interests: Microbial symbioses; invertebrate/bacterial associations

Jose Clemente (2025)
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
New York, NY, USA
Research Interests: Human microbiome, computational biology, microbial ecology

Maria Dominguez-Bello (2023)
Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
New Brunswick, NJ, USA
Research Interests: Host-microbial interactions, human microbiome, microbial ecology, environmental microbiology

Claire M. Fraser (2025)
University of Maryland
School of Medicine
Baltimore, MD, USA
Research Interests: Genomics and proteomics, host-microbial interactions, human microbiome

Joerg Graf (2025)
University of Connecticut
Storrs, CT, USA
Research Interests: Host-microbial interactions, human microbiome, microbial genetics

Yiping Han (2025)
Columbia University
New York, NY, USA
Research Interests: Host-pathogen interactions, amyloid protein, adhesins, preterm birth, stillbirth, neonatal sepsis, GI disorders, microbes in cancer, oral microbiome, oral-systemic connections

Gary B. Huffnagle (2025)
University of Michigan Medical Center
Ann Arbor, MI, USA
Research Interests: Human microbiome, microbial ecology, pathogenesis and host response

Margaret McFall-Ngai (2023)
University of Hawaii at Manoa
Manoa, HI, USA
Research Interests: Symbiosis, influence of microbes on host development, animal microbiomes

Jacques Ravel (2023)
University of Maryland School of Medicine
Baltimore, MD, USA
Research Interests: Bacteriology, genomics and proteomics, microbial ecology

Edward Ruby (2025)
Carnegie Institution for Science
Pasadena, CA, USA
Research Interests: Experimental bacterial symbiosis, bacterial physiology and behavior, Vibrio fischeri, luminous bacteria

Michele S. Swanson (2025)
University of Michigan
Ann Arbor, MI, USA
Research Interests: Bacterial pathogenesis, stringent response, microbial differentiation

Alejandro Aballay (2023)
School of Medicine
Oregon Health & Science University
Portland, OR, USA
Research Interests: Neural-gut axis, host-microbial interactions, immunology, microbial pathogenesis

Richard G. Brennan (2025)
Duke University School of Medicine
Durham, NC, USA
Research Interests: Gene function and regulation, microbial pathogenesis, multidrug resistance and tolerance, oxidative stress, protein structure and function, protein-nucleic acid interaction, structural biology

Matt Chapman (2025)
University of Michigan
Ann Arbor, MI, USA
Research Interests: Functional amyloids, curli, biofilm formation, protein aggregation

Eduardo A. Groisman (2025)
Yale School of Medicine
New Haven, CT, USA
Research Interests: Gene regulation in bacteria, Salmonella Typhimurium biology, Bacteroides thetaiotaomicron biology

Wayne A. Hendrickson (2025)
Columbia University
New York, NY, USA
Research Interests: Structural biology

Sheryl Justice (2025)
The Ohio State University School of Medicine
Columbus, OH, USA
Research Interests: Microbial pathogenesis, pathogenesis and host response, molecular and cellular biology

Bruno Lemaitre (2023)
École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne
Lausanne, Switzerland
Research Interests: Insect immunity, entomopathogens, innate immunity, endosymbionts, symbiosis

Eleftherios T. Papoutsakis (2025)
University of Delaware
Newark, DE, USA
Research Interests: Molecular and cellular biology

Markus W. Ribbe (2025)
University of California, Irvine
Irvine, CA, USA
Research Interests: Nitrogenase, hydrogenase, carbon monoxide dehydrogenase, metalloproteins, metallocofactors, cofactor biosynthesis, carbon monoxide reduction, carbon dioxide reduction, microbial biochemistry, bioinorganic chemistry, nitrogen fixation, ammonia synthesis, molybdenum enzymes, vanadium enzymes, iron sulfur enzymes, artificial enzymes, hydrocarbon formation

Craig R. Roy (2025)
Yale University School of Medicine
New Haven, CT, USA
Research Interests: Genetics and molecular biology, immunology, molecular and cellular biology

Stacey Schultz-Cherry (2025)
St Jude Children's Research Hospital
Memphis, TN, USA
Research Interests: Influenza, enteric viruses, pathogenesis, innate immunity, obesity, vulnerable populations, evolution, cell biology, TGF-beta

Lotte Søgaard-Andersen (2025)
Max Planck Institute for Terrestrial Microbiology
Marburg, Germany
Research Interests: Bacterial motility, type IV pili, bacterial cell division, gliding motility, chromosome biology, bacterial signal transduction, bacterial cell biology, bacterial polysaccharides

Gisela Storz (2025)
National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD)
Bethesda, MD, USA
Research Interests: Bacteriology, molecular and cellular biology

Fred Winston (2025)
Harvard Medical School
Boston, MA, USA
Research Interests: Yeast genetics, transcripiton, chromatin structure, DNA replication, genome stability

Andrew Alspaugh (2025)
Duke University School of Medicine
Durham, NC, USA
Research Interests: Microbial pathogenesis, human fungal infections, microbial signal transduction, fungal genetics, fungal cell wall

Yong-Sun Bahn (2023)
Yonsei University
Seoul, South Korea
Research Interests: Mycology, fungal pathogenesis, antifungal drugs and resistance, Cryptococcus, Candida

Anuradha Chowdhary (2023)
Vallabhbhai Patel Chest Institute
University of Delhi
Delhi, India
Research Interests: Clinical microbiology, microbial ecology, mycology

Leah E. Cowen (2023)
University of Toronto
Toronto, ON, Canada
Research Interests: Fungal genomics, fungal pathogens, antifungal drug resistance, fungal morphogenesis, chaperones, stress response

Antonio Di Pietro  (2023)
University of Cordoba
Cordoba, Spain
Research Interests: Environmental microbiology, eukaryotic cells, host-microbial interactions

Joseph Heitman (2025)
Duke University
Department of Molecular Genetics and Microbiology
Durham, NC, USA
Research Interests: Fungal genetics, genomics, evolution, and pathogenesis; mechanisms of action and targets of natural products; sexual reproduction and its impact on microbial pathogenesis; mating type loci and centromeres as models for gene cluster evolution and function; Cryptococcus, Candida, Mucor as human fungal pathogens; RNAi and epimutations; FKBP12, calcineurin, and TOR as the targets of immunosuppressive natural products FK506, cyclosporin, and rapamycin

Deborah A. Hogan (2025)
Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth
Hanover, NH, USA
Research Interests: Pseudomonas aeruginosa, Candida albicans, Candida auris, Candida lusitaniae, mycobiome, bacterial-fungal interactions, evolution

Alexander Idnurm  (2023)
University of Melbourne
Victoria, Australia
Research Interests: Fungal genetics, medical mycology, plant pathology

Erika Kothe (2025)
Friedrich Schiller University Jena
Jena, Germany
Research Interests: Fungal genetics, ectomycorrhiza, metal resistance, streptomycetes

James Kronstad (2023)
University of British Columbia
Vancouver, BC, Canada
Research Interests: Fungal pathogenesis, plant (Ustilago maydis, biotrophic fungi) or animal pathogens (Cryptococcus neoformans, Cryptococcus gattii), plant-microbe interactions

Jean-Paul Latge (2023)
Institut Pasteur
Paris, France
Research Interests: Antimicrobial chemotherapy, clinical microbiology, mycology

Xiaorong Lin (2023)
University of Georgia
Athens, GA, USA
Research Interests: Eukaryotic cells, genetics and molecular biology, molecular and cellular biology

Luis R. Martinez (2024)
University of Florida
Gainsville, FL, USA
Research Interests: Fungal infections of the CNS, host-pathogen interactions, fungal biofilms, fungal immunology

Kirsten Nielsen (2025)
University of Minnesota
Minneapolis, MN, USA
Research Interests: Medical mycology, host-pathogen interactions, molecular genetics, immunology

Marcio L. Rodrigues (2025)
Oswaldo Cruz Foundation (Fiocruz)
Curitiba, PR, Brazil
Research Interests: Mechanisms of secretion focused on fungal extracellular vesicles, development of antifungals

John W. Taylor (2025)
University of California, Berkeley
Berkeley, CA, USA
Research Interests: Fungi, fungal evolution, fungal ecology, environmental reservoir of fungi causing human disease, ecology of arbuscular mycorrhizae

Jianping (JP) Xu (2024)
McMaster University
Hamiton, Ontario, Canada
Research Interests: Relationship between genetic variation and virulence in human fungal pathogens, genetic mechanisms that govern mitochondrial inheritance in Cryptococcus neoformans and implications for the evolution of organelle inheritance in eukaryotes

John C. Boothroyd (2025)
Stanford University
Stanford, CA, USA
Research Interests: Toxoplasma

Stephen Hajduk (2025)
University of Georgia
Athens, GA, USA
Research Interests: Molecular and cellular biology, host-microbial interactions, parasitology

Patricia Johnson (2025)
University of California Los Angeles
Los Angeles, CA, USA
Research Interests: Anaerobic parasite (Trichomonas, Giardia, Entamoeba) basic biology and interactions with hosts

Nirbhay Kumar (2025)
George Washington University
Washington, DC, USA
Research Interests: Plasmodium biology, molecular biology and cell biology of Plasmodium, malaria immunology and vaccines

Melissa Lodoen (2023)
University of California, Irvine
Irvine, CA, USA
Research Interests: Pathogenesis and host response, immunology, host-microbial interactions

Louis H. Miller (2025)
Laboratory of Malaria and Vector Research, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, NIH
Bethesda, MD, USA
Research Interests: Malaria research

Michael Reese (2025)
University of Texas, Southwestern Medical Center
Dallas, TX, USA
Research Interests: Host-pathogen interaction, cell signaling, intracellular trafficking, molecular evolution, structural biology, apicomplexan parasites, Toxoplasma gondii, post-translational modification, protein kinases, ubiquitin

L. David Sibley (2025)
Washington University School of Medicine
Saint Louis, MO, USA
Research Interests: Cellular and molecular biology of apicomplexan parasites, innate immunity and intracellular pathogens, genetic analysis of virulence determinants in parasites

Dominique Soldati-Favre (2025)
University of Geneva
Geneva, Switzerland
Research Interests: Biology of apicomplexans, Toxoplasma, Plasmodium, motility, invasion, organelle biogenesis, signaling, metabolism

Louis Weiss (2025)
Albert Einstein College of Medicine
New York, NY, USA
Research Interests: Toxoplasma gondii, bradyzoite differentiation, Microsporidia, polar tube composition and function, Trypanosoma cruzi, pathogenesis of cardiomyopathy

Shou-Wei Ding (2025)
University of California, Riverside
Riverside, CA, USA
Research Interests: Antiviral RNAi and viral suppressors of RNAi in plants and animals

Regine Kahmann (2023)
Max Planck Institute for Terrestrial Microbiology
Marburg, Germany
Research Interests: Host-microbial interactions, microbial pathogenesis, mycology

Arash Komeili (2023)
University of California-Berkeley
Berkeley, CA, USA
Research Interests: Genetics and molecular biology, molecular and cellular biology, bacteriology

Margie E. Ackerman (2024)
Dartmouth College
Hanover, NH, USA
Research Interests: Antibodies, effector function, vaccines, HIV, Fc receptors

Barry R. Bloom (2025)
Harvard School of Public Health
Boston, MA, USA
Research Interests: Vaccines, virology

Yung-Fu Chang  (2023)
College of Veterinary Medicine
Cornell University
Ithaca, NY, USA
Research Interests: Bacterial pathogenesis, immunopathology, vaccine, proteomics, genomics, bacterial virulence factors, molecular diagnosis

Stefan H.E. Kaufmann (2025)
Max Planck Institute for Infection Biology
Berlin, Germany
Research Interests: Role of cytokines and T cell populations in immunity against intracellular bacteria, regulation and memory in immunity to intracellular bacteria, innate immune response to intracellular bacteria, mucosal immunity and mucosal vaccination, systems biology of tuberculosis, systems vaccinology, rational design of a vaccine against tuberculosis, biomarkers of susceptibility/resistance in tuberculosis

Marthandan Mahalingam (2025)
Catholic University of America
Washington, DC, USA
Research Interests: Vaccines, virology, host-microbial interactions

Gerald B. Pier (2025)
Harvard Medical School
Boston, MA, USA
Research Interests: Vaccines, immunotherapies, bacterial-host interactions, innate immunity, Pseudomonas aeruginosa, Staphylococcus aureus, cystic fibrosis

Mariagrazia Pizza (2025)
GSK Vaccines
Siena, Italy
Research Interests: Vaccines, molecular biology, genetic engineering, genetic detoxification of toxins, antigen identification and characterization

Rino Rappuoli (2025)
GSK Vaccines
Siena, Italy
Research Interests: Vaccines, vaccinology, global health, infectious diseases, AMR, monoclonal antibodies

Alan Sher (2025)
National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases
Bethesda, MD, USA
Research Interests: Immunology

Vanessa Sperandio (2023)
University of Wisconsin—Madison
Madison, WI, USA
Research Interests: Antimicrobial chemotherapy, bacteriology, clinical microbiology, microbial pathogenesis, microbial genetics

Russell Vance (2023)
University of California, Berkeley
Berkeley, CA, USA
Research Interests: Microbial pathogenesis

Nancie M. Archin (2025)
University of North Carolina Chapel Hill
Chapel Hill, NC, USA
Research Interests: Virology, HIV, latency reversal, molecular biology, biochemical methods

Carolyn Coyne (2023)
Duke University School of Medicine
Durham, NC, USA
Research Interests: Enterovirus, GI tract, placenta, organoids, type III interferon

Blossom Damania (2025)
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Chapel Hill, NC, USA
Research Interests: Herpesviruses, innate immunity, treatment of viral and non-viral cancers

Satya Dandekar (2025)
University of California, Davis
Davis, CA, USA
Research Interests: Molecular pathogenesis of HIV and SIV, stem cell research

Mark Denison (2023)
Vanderbilt University Medical Center
Nashville, TN, USA
Research Interests: Virology, evolution, host-microbial interactions

Michael Diamond (2025)
Washington University School of Medicine
St. Louis, MO, USA
Research Interests: Flaviviruses, alphaviruses, SARS-CoV-2, host immunity, pathogenesis, viral entry

Nisha Duggal (2025)
Virginia Tech Carilion School of Medicine
Blacksburg, VA, USA
Research Interests: Arboviruses, emerging viruses, viral evolution, viral pathogenesis, viral transmission

Alan N. Engelman (2025)
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
Boston, MA, USA
Research Interests: Retroviral integrase structure and function, virus-host interactions in HIV nuclear import and integration site targeting

Rachel Fearns (2024)
Boston University
Boston, MA, USA
Research Interests: Negative strand RNA viruses, RNA virus transcription and genome replication mechanisms, RNA dependent RNA polymerase small molecule inhibitors

Stephen P. Goff (2025)
Columbia University Medical Center
New York, NY, USA
Research Interests: Retrovirus replication, murine leukemia viruses, HIV-1, HTLV-1, transcriptional silencing of unintegrated retroviral DNAs and activation after integration, chromatinization of retroviral DNAs, histone modifications, intracellular trafficking of virus proteins and genomes, translational frameshifting, retroviral DNA integration site selection

Stacy Horner (2025)
Duke University Medical Center
Durham, NC, USA
Research Interests: RNA viruses, innate immunity

Kellie Ann Jurado (2024)
University of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia, PA, USA
Research Interests: Focus on delineating disease pathogenesis of emerging viruses in order to uncover mechanisms of immune control

John Lednicky (2024)
University of Florida
Gainsville, FL, USA
Research Interests: Detection, isolation, and genetic analyses of influenza viruses (both human and animal), live agent bioaerosol inhalation studies, the detection, isolation and sequence analyses of respiratory viruses

Xiang-Jin Meng (2025)
Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
Blacksburg, VA, USA
Research Interests: Cross-species virus infection, vaccine, and viral pathogenesis (hepatitis E virus, animal coronaviruses, arterivirus, and circovirus)

Ilhem Messaoudi (2024)
University of Kentucky
Lexington, KY, USA
Research Interests: Viral pathogenesis, host defense, modulation of immunity by nutrition and aging, impact of the microbiome on immunity

Anne Moscona (2025)
Columbia University
New York, NY, USA
Research Interests: Enveloped viruses, viral entry, structural virology, viral pathogenesis, antivirals, membrane fusion

Cristina Risco Ortiz (2023)
Centro Nacional de Biotecnología, CNB-CSIC
Madrid, Spain
Research Interests: Virus-host interactions, antiviral targets, imaging technology

Dimitrios Paraskevis (2025)
Medical School
University of Athens
Athens, Greece
Research Interests: Virology, evolution, public health

J. S. Malik Peiris (2025)
University of Hong Kong
Pokfulam, Hong Kong
Research Interests: Virology

Thomas E. Shenk (2023)
Princeton University
Princeton, NJ, USA
Research Interests: Virology

Kanta Subbarao (2023)
WHO Collaborating Centre for Reference and Research on Influenza The Peter Doherty Institute for Infection and Immunity
Melbourne, Australia
Research Interests: Vaccines, virology

Ronald Swanstrom (2025)
University of North Carolina Chapel Hill
Chapel Hill, NC, USA
Research Interests: Virology, retroviruses, HIV, pathogenesis, latency, drug resistance

Reed B. Wickner (2025)
Laboratory of Biochemistry and Genetics
National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases
National Institutes of Health
Bethesda, MD, USA
Research Interests: Prions, amyloids, and anti-prion systems of yeast and fungi, yeast and fungal viruses

Chunfu (Alan) Zheng (2024)
University of Calgary
Calgary, Alberta, Canada
Research Interests: Herpes simplex virus, antiviral innate immunity, virology, host-virus interactions, viral immune evasion, TLR, RLR, and cGAS-STING signaling pathways, Jak-Stat signaling pathways

Cynthia Adinortey
University of Cape Coast, Cape Coast, Ghana
Subject Area: Mycobacteriology, Molecular and Cellular Biology, Microbial Pathogenesis

Daniel Aridgides
Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center, Lebanon, New Hampshire, United States
Subject Area: Host-Microbial Interactions

Sheyda Azimi
Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia, United States
Subject Area: Pathogenesis and Host Response

Lori Banks
Bates College, Lewiston, Maine, United States
Subject Area: Antimicrobial Chemotherapy

Aaron Barnes
University of Minnesota Medical School, Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States
Subject Area: Microbial Pathogenesis

Effie Bastounis
University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany
Subject Area: Host-Microbial Interactions

Joseph Boll
University of Texas at Arlington, Arlington, Texas, United States
Subject Area: Bacteriology, Microbial Pathogenesis

Clotilde Bongrand
University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, United States
Subject Area: Host-Microbe Interaction

Germán Bonilla-Rosso
UNIL, Lausanne, Switzerland
Subject Area: Microbial Ecology

Jiandong Chen
University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
Subject Area: Genetics and Molecular Biology

Ousmane Cisse
Critical Care Medicine Department, NIH Clinical Center, National Institutes of Health (NIH), Bethesda, Maryland, United States
Subject Area: Mycology

Valerie Cortez
University of California, Santa Cruz, California, United States
Subject Area: Host-Microbial Interactions

Sebastien Crepin
National Research Council of Canada, Ottawa, Canada
Subject Area: Bacteriology

Zhouqi Cui
Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station, New Haven, Connecticut, United States
Subject Area: Host-Microbial Interactions

Nsa Dada
Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona, United States
Subject Area: Host-Microbial Interactions

Sophie Darch
University of South Florida, Tampa, Florida, United States
Subject Area: Bacteriology

Nicole De Nisco
The University of Texas at Dallas, Richardson, Texas, United States
Subject Area: Host-Microbial Interactions

Stephen Dolan
Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia, United States
Subject Area: Microbial Pathogenesis

Sarah Doore
University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, United States
Subject Area: Bacteriophages

Elizabeth Draganova
Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia, United States
Subject Area: Structural Biology

Alison Eastman
Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee, United States
Subject Area: Host-Microbial Interactions

Melissa Ellermann
University of South Carolina, Columbia, South Carolina, United States
Subject Area: Host-Microbial Interactions

Ryan Gaudet
Howard Hughes Medical Institute/Yale University, Guilford, Connecticut, United States
Subject Area: Host-Microbial Interactions

Alexandre Gouzy
Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, New York, United States
Subject Area: Host-Microbial Interactions

Melinda Grosser
University of North Carolina, Asheville, North Carolina, United States
Subject Area: Bacteriology

Asiya Gusa
Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, United States
Subject Area: Microbial Genetics

Andrzej Harris
University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom
Subject Area: Structural Biology

Tania Henríquez
LMU Munich, Munich, Germany
Subject Area: Genetics and Molecular Biology

Saheed Imam
Lifemine Therapeutics, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
Subject Area: Biotechnology

Jayhun Lee
University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Houston, Texas, United States
Subject Area: Parasitology

Rebeccah Lijek
Mount Holyoke College, South Hadley, Massachusetts, United States
Subject Area: Host-Microbial Interactions

Rogério Lourenço
University of Campinas, São Paulo, Brazil
Subject Area: Genetics and Molecular Biology

Brian Luna
University of Southern California Keck School of Medicine, Los Angeles, California, United States
Subject Area: Antimicrobial Chemotherapy

Bruno Martorelli Di Genova
Universidade Federal de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil
Subject Area: Host-Microbial Interactions

Renata Matos
Institut de Génomique Fonctionnelle de Lyon (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique -CNRS), Lyon, France
Subject Area: Host-Microbial Interactions

Daniel Miller
Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Virginia, United States
Subject Area: Microbial Pathogenesis

Angela Mitchell
Texas A&M University, Somerville, Texas, United States
Subject Area: Bacteriology

Roberto Molina-Quiroz
Centro de Estudios Científicos, Valdivia, Chile
Subject Area: Microbial Genetics

Irina Novikova
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, Washington, United States
Subject Area: Structural Biology

Francisca Nwaokorie
University of Lagos, Lagos, Nigeria
Subject Area: Human Microbiome

Ceren Ozkul
Hacettepe University, Ankara, Turkey
Subject Area: Human Microbiome

Kathryn Patras
Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, United States
Subject Area: Host-Microbial Interactions

Atmika Paudel
Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Hokkaido, Japan
Subject Area: Bacteriology

Fatima C. Pereira
University of Southampton, Southampton, United Kingdom
Subject Area: Human Microbiome

Diana P. Pires
University of Minho, Braga, Portugal
Subject Area: Bacteriophages

Diana Proctor
NIH/NHGRI, Bethesda, Maryland, United States
Subject Area: Human Microbiome

Peter Ramirez
California State University, Long Beach, California, United States
Subject Area: Virology

Paulami Rudra
Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey, United States
Subject Area: Mycobacteriology

Daniel Salamango
Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, New York, United States
Subject Area: Virology

Lennart Schada von Borzyskowski
Leiden University, Leiden, Netherlands
Subject Area: Physiology and Metabolism

Marie Seraphin
University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, United States
Subject Area: Epidemiology

Anna Serquina
National Cancer Institute/National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States
Subject Area: Virology

Cecilia Silva-Valenzuela
Centro de Estudios Cientificos, Valdivia, Chile
Subject Area: Genetics and Molecular Biology

Om Prakash Singh
Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh, India
Subject Area: Parasitology

Sanhita Sinharay
Center for Biosystems Science and Engineering, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, Karnataka, India
Subject Area: Molecular and Cellular Biology

Liku Tezera
University of the West of England, Bristol, United Kingdom
Subject Area: Host-Microbial Interactions

Zulema Udaondo Dominguez
University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, Little Rock, Arkansas, United States
Subject Area: Computational Biology

Rachel Van Duyne
Drexel University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
Subject Area: Virology

Daniel Velez-Ramirez
University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States
Subject Area: Parasitology

Julia Willett
University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States
Subject Area: Bacteriology

Jason Yang
Rutgers New Jersey Medical School, Newark, New Jersey, United States
Subject Area: Systems Biology

Wenqi Yu
University of South Florida, Tampa, Florida, United States
Subject Area: Bacteriology

Zhengzhong Zou
Oregon Health & Science University (OHSU), Portland, Oregon, United States
Subject Area: Microbial Genetics

Chairman, Journals Committee
Patrick D. Schloss

Chief Executive Officer
Stefano Bertuzzi

Senior Director, Journals
Melissa Junior

Editorial Director
Anirban Mahapatra

Journal Development Editor
Maisha Fleming Miles

Managing Editor
Stefanie Kowalski

Assistant Managing Editors
Miriam Day
Amanda Donaldson