Editorial Office
Editor-in-Chief
Prof. Dr. Lawrence S. Young
Research (Life Sciences and Medicine) and Capital Development, Warwick Medical School, University of Warwick, Coventry CV4 7AL, UK
Tel. +44 1214 146876
Website: http://www.birmingham.ac.uk/staff/profiles/mds-hub/young-lawrence-hub.aspx
E-Mail: L.S.Young@warwick.ac.uk
Interests: viral oncology; virus latency; viral immunology; gene therapy; herpesviruses; papillomaviruses; adenoviruses
Managing Editor
Mr. June Cao
MDPI Beijing Office, Liyuanbeijie Road 186, Suite 307, Liyuan Town, Tongzhou District, 101101 Beijing, China
Tel. +86 10 59011009; Fax: +86 10 59011089
E-Mail: june.cao@mdpi.com
Publisher
Dr. Shu-Kun Lin
MDPI AG, Kandererstrasse 25, CH-4057 Basel, Switzerland
Tel. +41 79 322 33 79
Website: http://www.mdpi.org/lin/
E-Mail: lin@mdpi.com
Editorial Board
Dr. Matthias Brock
Microbial Biochemistry and Physiology, Leibniz Institute for Natural Product Research and Infection Biology, Hans Knöll Institue Jena (HKI), Beutenbergstrasse 11a, 07745 Jena, Germany
Website: http://www.hki-jena.de
E-Mail: matthias.brock@hki-jena.de
Interests: nutrient acquisition and metabolism; bioluminescence imaging; infection models; fungal pathogens; virulence determinants; secondary metabolite production
Dr. Christopher C. Broder
Department of Microbiology and Immunology B4106, Uniformed Services University, 4301 Jones Bridge Rd., Bethesda, MD 20814, USA
Tel. +1 301 295 3401; Fax: +1 301 295 1545
Website: http://www.usuhs.edu/eid/eidfaculty.html
E-Mail: cbroder@usuhs.mil
Interests: Virus-host cell interactions; enveloped virus entry, viral glycoprotein structure and function and virus receptors; viral vaccine and therapeutics development; HIV, paramyxoviruses, emerging viruses, henipaviruses - Nipah and Hendra, filoviruses - Ebola and Marburg, Australian Bat Lyssavirus; membrane fusion; animal models; Filoviruses
Prof. Dr. Reto Brun
Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute, Socinstr. 57, 4051 Basel, Switzerland
Tel. +41 61 284 82 31; Fax: +41 61 284 81 01
Website: http://www.swisstph.ch/no_cache/about-us/staff/detail-single-all/staff/71/reto-brun/professor.html
E-Mail: reto.brun@unibas.ch
Prof. Dr. Kris Chadee
Gastrointestinal Research Group, University of Calgary, 3330 Hospital Drive NW, Calgary, Alberta, T2N 4N1, Canada
Tel. +1 403 210 3975
Website: http://www.ucalgary.ca/girg/membership/chadeek
E-Mail: kchadee@ucalgary.ca
Interests: Entamoeba histolytica; host-pathogen interaction in the gut; gut innate immunity; inflammation; mucosal immunology; pathogenesis and host defense; pro-inflammatory cytokines
Contribution:
Special Issue: Host-Parasite Interactions
Prof. Dr. Jean E. Crabtree
Molecular Gastroenterology Section, Leeds Institute of Molecular Medicine, Wellcome Trust Brenner Building, St. James's University Hospital, Leeds LS9 7TF, UK
Website: http://www.limm.leeds.ac.uk/research_sections/molecular_gastroenterology/groups/crabtree.htm
E-Mail: j.crabtree@leeds.ac.uk
Interests: Helicobacter pylori; host-pathogen interactions in gastrointestinal tract; infection and gastrointestinal cancer; mucosal immunology
Contribution:
Special Issue: Gut Microbiome
In other journals:
Special Issue: Gastric Cancer
Dr. Xavier Ding
Medicines for Malaria Venture (MMV), 20 route de Pré-Bois, PO Box 1826, 1215 Geneva 15, Switzerland
Tel. +41 22 799 40 80
Website: http://www.mmv.org/about-us/our-team/xavier-ding
E-Mail: dingx@mmv.org
Interests: Malaria; antimalarial resistance; artemisinin; drug discovery; Plasmodium falciparum
Prof. Dr. Gianfranco Donelli
Microbial Biofilm Laboratory (LABIM), IRCCS "Fondazione Santa Lucia", Via Ardeatina 306, 00179 Rome, Italy
Tel. +39 06 51501305; Fax: +39 06 51501306
Website: http://www.hsantalucia.it
E-Mail: g.donelli@hsantalucia.it
Interests: Microbial biofilms; Biofilm-based healthcare-associated infections
Dr. Harald Engelhardt
MPI für Biochemie, Am Klopferspitz 18, D-82152 Martinsried, Germany
Tel. +49 89 8578 2650; Fax: +49 89 7578 2641
E-Mail: engelhar@biochem.mpg.de
Interests: bacterial cell envelope; microbial and subcellular structure; electron microscopy; cryo-electron tomography; pore-proteins; protein structure
Prof. Dr. William C. Gause
Department of Medicine, Center for Immunity and Inflammation, New Jersey Medical School, University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey, 185 South Orange Avenue, MSB, Room F-607D, Newark, NJ 07101, USA
Tel. +1 973 972 7698
Website: http://njms.umdnj.edu/resource_locator/find_people/profile.cfm?mbmid=gausewc#tab-areas
E-Mail: gausewc@umdnj.edu
Interests: immunology; infectious disease; parasitic infections; Th2-based immune responses; Co-stimulatory molecules;Ag-specific T cell development; application of imaging technology; interleukin-4; interleukin-13; pathogenic mechanisms
Dr. Jean-Pierre Gorvel
Centre d'immunologie de Marseille Luminy, Case 906, 13288 Marseille, CEDEX 09, France
Tel. +33 491 269430
Website: http://www.ciml.univ-mrs.fr/science/lab-jean-pierre-gorvel/beginners
E-Mail: gorvel@ciml.univ-mrs.fr
Interests: intracellular pathogens; membrane trafficking; immune response; brucella; salmonella; mycobacterium
Dr. Philip R. Hardwidge
University of Kansas Medical Center, Microbiology, Molecular Genetics and Immunology, 3025 Wahl Hall West, Mail Stop 3029, 3901 Rainbow Blvd, Kansas City, KS 66160, USA
Tel. +1 913 588 7085; Fax: +1 913 588 7295
Website: http://www.kumc.edu/microbiology/prh.htm
E-Mail: hardwidg@gmail.com
Interests: enteric pathogens; type III secretion; type III effector; host-pathogen interactions; NF-kappaB; innate immunity; adhesion; DNA-protein interactions
Prof. Dr. Bernhard Hube
Leibniz Institute for Natural Product Research and Infection Biology, Hans Knöll Institue Jena (HKI), Beutenbergstrasse 11a, 07745 Jena, Germany
Website: http://www.finsysb.eu
E-Mail: bernhard.hube@hki-jena.de
Interests: molecular biology and infection biology of human pathogenic fungi (Candida albicans, C. glabrata); infection models; host/pathogen interactions; functional genomics; virulence attributes
Prof. Dr. Howard F. Jenkinson
University of Bristol, School of Oral and Dental Sciences, Lower Maudlin Street, Bristol, BS1 2LY, UK
Tel. +44 1173 424424; Fax: +44 1173 424313
Website: http://www.bris.ac.uk/dental/iai/microbiology.html
E-Mail: howard.jenkinson@bristol.ac.uk
Interests: oral and respiratory microbiology; host-pathogen interactions; Streptococcus; Candida; Treponema; cell-surface proteins; adhesin-repector dynamics; intermicrobial signaling; biofilms; mixed species communities
Prof. Dr. Nancy P. Keller
Department of Bacterology, and Department of Medical Microbiology and Immunology, 3476 Microbial Sciences Building, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1550 Linden Drive, Madison, WI 53706, USA
Tel. +1 608 262 9795
Website: http://www.bact.wisc.edu/faculty.php?init=NPK&show=PEP
E-Mail: npkeller@wisc.edu
Interests: secondary metabolites; fungal development; oxylipins; aspergillosis; aflatoxin; drug discovery
Prof. Dr. Bettina Kempkes
Helmholtz Zentrum München (GmbH), German Research Center for Environmental Health, Haematologikum, Research Unit Gene Vectors Marchioninistraße 25, 81377 München, Germany
Tel. +49-89-3187-1354; Fax: +49-89-3187-1225
Website: http://www.helmholtz-muenchen.de/en/agv/research/research-groups/viral-latency/index.html
E-Mail: kempkes@helmholtz-muenchen.de
Interests: notch signalling; Kaposi's Sarcoma associated virus; Epstein Barr Virus; epigenetics of herpesviral infection; latent infection; protein-protein interactions in virus/host interactions
Dr. Nemat O. Keyhani
Department of Microbiology and Cell Science, P.O. Box 110700, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL 32611-0700, USA
Tel. +1 352 392 2488; Fax: +1 352 392 5922
Website: http://microcell.ufl.edu/personnel/faculty/keyhani1.shtml
E-Mail: keyhani@ufl.edu
Interests: microbe-insect host-pathogen interactions; fungal development and pathogenesis (insect and plant pathogens)
Dr. Frank Lafont
Center of Infection and Immunity of Lille, Institut Pasteur de Lille-CNRS UMR8204-INSERM U1018- 1 rue du Prof Calmette, F-59021 Lille, France
Tel. +33 32087 1136
Website: http://www.cmip.cnrs.fr/
E-Mail: frank.lafont@pasteur-lille.fr
Interests: biophysics: biophotonics, near-filed microscopy; cell biology: membrane traffic, membrane signalling, autophagy; microbiology: host-pathogen interaction
Prof. Dr. Xin Li
Michael Smith Laboratories/Botany, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC V6T 1Z4, Canada
Tel. +1 604 822 3155
Website: http://www.msl.ubc.ca
E-Mail: xinli@interchange.ubc.ca
Interests: plant immune responses; NLR mediated plant immunity
Prof. Dr. Gang Liu
Chair of Department, Department of Pharmacology and Pharmaceutical Sciences, School of Medicine, Tsinghua University, Renhuan Building, Rm 311, Beijing 100084, P. R. China
Tel. +86 10 62797740(O)
Website: http://www.tsinghua.edu.cn/publish/meden/6975/2011/20110822151152538598211/20110822151152538598211_.html
E-Mail: gangliu27@tsinghua.edu.cn
Interests: synthesis of small molecule heterocyclic compound libraries, natural products, peptide/glycopeptide mimics, and synergistic therapy compounds.The goals are to discover and optimize the lead compounds and develop drug candidates to prevent infectious diseases and/or treat cancer patient.
Dr. Vivi Miriagou
Laboratory of Bacteriology, Hellenic Pasteur Institute, Vas. Sofias 127, 11521, Athens, Greece
Tel. +30 210 6478810; Fax: +30 210 6426323
E-Mail: miriagou@pasteur.gr
Interests: beta-lactamases; genetics of bla genes; molecular epidemiology of resistance genes and their genetic carriers; expression, mobilization and clustering of resistance determinants; integrons and transposable elements; multi-resistant plasmids in Gram-negative bacteria
Dr. Tracy L. Nicholson
National Animal Disease Center- ARS- USDA, P.O. Box 70, 1920 Dayton Avenue, Ames, IA 50010, USA
Tel. +1 515 337 7349; Fax: +1 515 337 7428
Website: http://www.ars.usda.gov/pandp/people/people.htm?personid=44830
E-Mail: tracy.nicholson@ars.usda.gov
Interests: host-pathogen interactions; respiratory infections; coinfections; gene regulation; Staphylococcus; MRSA; Bordetella; Haemophilus; Streptococcus
Prof. Dr. James D. Oliver
Department of Biology, University of North Carolina at Charlotte, 9201 University City Blvd, Charlotte, NC 28223, USA
Tel. +1 704 687 8516; Fax: +1 206 327 2083
Website: http://biology.uncc.edu/Faculty/oliver-james-d.html
E-Mail: jdoliver@uncc.edu
Interests: Vibrio; stress responses; bacterial-shellfish interactions; dormancy; viable but nonculturable (VBNC) state; persister cells
Dr. Michael Otto
Laboratory of Human Bacterial Pathogenesis, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), National Institutes of Health (NIH), 9000 Rockville Pike, Bethesda, MD 20892, USA
Tel. +1 301 443 5209
Website: http://www.niaid.nih.gov/LabsAndResources/labs/aboutlabs/lhbp/pathogenMolecularGeneticsSection/Pages/otto.aspx
E-Mail: motto@niaid.nih.gov
Interests: pathogenesis of staphylococcal infections; Staphylococcus aureus; MRSA; coagulase-negative staphylococci; biofilm; bacterial toxins; antimicrobial peptides; innate host defense; bacterial immune evasion; antibiotic resistance
Prof. Dr. Mark Pallen
School of Biosciences, The University of Birmingham, Edgbaston Birmingham, B15 2TT, UK
Tel. +44 121 41 47163; Fax: +44 121 41 45925
Website: http://pathogenomics.bham.ac.uk/staff/mpallen.html
E-Mail: m.pallen@bham.ac.uk
Interests: bacterial pathogenomics; high-throughput sequencing; bioinformatics; type III secretion
Prof. Dr. Laura JV. Piddock
School of Immunity and Infection, College of Medical and Dental Sciences, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, B15 2TT, UK
Tel. +44 1214 146966; Fax: +44 1214 146819
Website: http://www.birmingham.ac.uk/staff/profiles/iandi/piddock-laura.aspx
E-Mail: l.j.v.piddock@bham.ac.uk
Interests: antibiotic action and resistance; pathogenicity; efflux
Prof. Dr. Jesús Pla
Department of Microbiology, Faculty of Pharmacy, Universidad Complutense de Madrid Plaza de Ramón y Cajal, 28040 Madrid, Spain
Tel. +34 913 941 617; Fax: +34 913 941 745
Website: http://www.ucm.es/info/mfar/grupos/JP/hum_pat_fung.html
E-Mail: jesuspla@farm.ucm.es
Interests: signal transduction; MAP kinases; human fungal pathogens; immune response to fungal infections; fungal virulence; host interaction; genetic tools; immune response
Dr. Laurence G. Rahme
Harvard Medical School, 340 Thier Research Building, 50 Blossom Street, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA 02114, USA
Tel. +1 617 724 5003; Fax: +1 617 724 8558
Website: http://genetics.mgh.harvard.edu/RahmeWeb/
E-Mail: rahme@molbio.mgh.harvard.edu
Interests: bacterial pathogenesis; multi-host pathogenesis; host-pathogen interactions; Pseudomonas aeruginosa; Acinetobacter; Quorum sensing; small excreted molecules; virulence factors; anti-infectives, anti-virulence drugs; Antibiotic tolerance; models of infections; Drosophila; intestinal infections; burn injury; wound infections; muscle response to infection; bacterial transcriptional regulation
Contribution:
Special Issue: Pathogen Infection Models
In other journals:
Special Issue: Biosurfactants
Dr. Dominique Sanglard
Institute of Microbiology, University of Lausanne and University Hospital Center Rue de Bugnon 48, CH-1011 Lausanne, Switzerland
Tel. +41 21 3144083; Fax: +41 21 3144060
Website: http://www.chuv.ch/imul/imu_home/imu_recherche/imu_recherche_sanglard.htm
E-Mail: dominique.sanglard@chuv.ch
Interests: fungal pathogenesis; fungal epidemiology; drug resistance; antifungal agent; fungal cell wall
Prof. Dr. June R. Scott
Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, Georgia 30322, USA
Tel. +1 404 727 0402; Fax: +1 404 727 8999
Website: http://www.microbiology.emory.edu/scott/
E-Mail: jrscott@emory.edu
Interests: streptococcus; pili; regulation of gene expression in Gram+ bateria
Dr. Burkhard Tümmler
Klinische Forschergruppe, OE 6710, Medizinische Hochschule Hannover, D-30625 Hannover, Germany
Tel. +49 511 5322920
Website: http://genomics1.mh-hannover.de/kfg/index.htm
E-Mail: tuemmler.burkhard@mh-hannover.de
Interests: bacterial genomics, metagenomics, pathogenomics; physiology and virulence of pseudomonads; chronic airway infections
Dr. Felix Yarovinsky
Department of Immunology, The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas, Dallas, Texas, USA
Tel. +1 214 648 7309
Website: http://www.utsouthwestern.edu/findfac/research/0,2357,96670,00.html
E-Mail: felix.yarovinsky@utsouthwestern.edu
Interests: innate immunity; host-parasite interactions; intestinal immune cells; dendritic cells; Toll-like receptors
Prof. Dr. Guangming Zhong
Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, Microbiology and Immunology, 7703 Floyd Curl Drive, San Antonio, Texas 78229, USA
Tel. +1 210 567 1169; Fax: +1 210 567 6612
Website: http://profiles.uthscsa.edu/?pid=profile&id=0V71EC2MV
E-Mail: zhongg@uthscsa.edu
Interests: microbial manipulation of host signaling pathways; host responses to microbial infection and vaccine development; chlamydia, pathogenesis of tubal factor infertility; outer membrane vesicle budding
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