Acknowledgement to Reviewers of Life in 2017

Peer review is an essential part in the publication process, ensuring that Life maintains high quality standards for its published papers. In 2017, a total of 51 papers were published in the journal. Thanks to the cooperation of our reviewers, the median time to first decision was 21 days and the median time to publication was 51 days. The editors would like to express their sincere gratitude to the following reviewers for their time and dedication in 2017:

Aaron Engelhart	Liam M. Longo
Aaron S. Burton	Linda McGown
Adam Kun	Lisa Stein
Addy Pross	Loren Williams
Alexander Bolshoy	Luc Jaeger
Ana Crnkovic	Lukasz Dziewit
Andre Brack	Marc Tessera
Andrés de la Escosura	Marc T. Facciotti
Andrew J. Surman	Marie-Christine, Maurel
Armen Mulkidjanian	Markus Ralser
Arturo Becerra	Martha A. Grover
Balázs Könnyű	Massimo Di Giulio
Barry Saville	Matthew Pasek
Bonnie Baxter	Matthew Powner
Brian J. Cafferty	Michael Blaber
Brian R. Francis	Michael Hecht
Carl Devito	Michael Russell
Carl Trindle	Michael Schweizer
Chandra Wickramasinghe	Michele Fiore
Charles Liotta	Mike Dyall-Smith
Charles Jr. Carter	Mikhail M. Vorob’ev
Christian Mayer	Min Guo
Christoph A. Weber	MV Jose
Christophe Lavelle	Nam-Joon Cho
Chunliang Liu	Nediljko Budisa
Constantinos Stathopoulos	Niles Lehman
Cynthia M. Morton	Nils Holm
Dave Speijer	Nobuhiko Suematsu
David Penny	Pasquale Stano
David S. Ross	Patrick O’Donoghue
Dennis Görlich	Paul Clarke
Diego Luis Gonzalez	Paul Higgs
Dino Moras	Peter Strazewski
Duncan Forgan	Peter Unrau
Eliana Beltrán-Pardo	Peter Walde
Elias Chatzitheodoridis	Peter R. Wills
Emanuele Zonaro	Rafal M. Wieczorek
Enver Cagri Izgu	Raffaele Saladino
Falcinelli Stefano	Rainer Merkl
Fengjie Sun	Ralf Möller
Filipa L. Sousa	Richard Egel
Filippo Caschera	Richard P. Fahlman
Gabriel Zentner	Rob M. De Graaf
Geoff Wild	Robert Pascal
George Fox	Robert Root-Bernstein
Georgy Karev	Romeu Guimaraes
Greg Springsteen	Rosanna del Gaudio
Gregory Fournier	Russell F. Doolittle
Harold S. Bernhardt	Sandra Pizzarello
Helen Hansma	Satoshi Akanuma
Hervé Seligmann	Sheref Mansy
Hodaka Fujii	Shin-ichi Yokobori
Hubert Dominique Becker	Simone Giannerini
Hussein Kaddour	Solveig Tosi
Hyman Hartman	Sreejith Ramakrishnan
Igor Shuryak	Stefan Fox
Jack T. O’Malley-James	Stuart Bartlett
Jason Raymond	Szymon Wasik
Jiann-Ruey Hong	Takahiro Hohsaka
Jiri Šponer	Tetsuo Kushiro
Joanne K. Hobbs	Tetsushi Sakuma
John Yin	Thomas Georgelin
Jordi Piñero	Thomas Simonson
Juan Manuel García-Ruiz	Thomas C. Boothby
Karen Bell	Thomas M. Orlando
Kelly Sheppard	Tony Jia
Kenji Ikehara	Ulrich Muller
Kenneth A. Dill	Veronica Vaida
Kensaku Sakamoto	William Bains
Kepa Ruiz-Mirazo	William H. McClain
Koichiro Matsuno	Yoshihiro Furukawa
Kumar Saurabh Singh	Yu-Fen Zhao
Kunio Kawamura	A.V. Korotayev
Leonardo Sorci