Editorial Board for section 'Microbial Diversity and Culture Collections'
- Marine Diversity Section
- Freshwater Biodiversity Section
- Animal Diversity Section
- Plant Diversity Section
- Microbial Diversity and Culture Collections Section
- Chemical Diversity and Chemical Ecology Section
- Biodiversity Conservation Section
- Biogeography and Macroecology Section
- Phylogeny and Evolution Section
- Biodiversity Loss & Dynamics Section
Please see the section webpage for more information on this section.
Please note that the order in which the Editors appear on this page is alphabetical, and follows the structure of the editorial board presented on the MDPI website under information for editors: editorial board responsibilities.
Members (24)

Interests: microbial ecology and diversity; microbial systematics; biodiscovery; microbial biotechnology applied; environmental and industrial microbiology; marine microbiology; biological control; actinomycetology; bacteriophages
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Interests: conservation biology; vertebrates; emerging infectious disease; climate change; phylogenetics; population genetics

Interests: marine fungi; fungal diversity; ecological and physiological adaptations; ecological functions; omics; high-throughput culturing; biotechnological applications (secondary metabolism and bioremediation)

Interests: soil DNA; soil metagenome; real-time PCR; microbial ecology; forest soil; agricultural soil

Interests: plant microbial ecology; agricultural big data; smart agriculture

Interests: marine microbial ecology; deep-sea microbial ecology; marine prokaryotes; microbial diversity; marine viral ecology; viral diversity; human impacts on marine life

Interests: microbial diversity; genomes; taxonomy and systematics; marine microbiology; extreme environments
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Interests: microbial eukaryotes; microbial ecology and biodiversity; biogeography; symbiosis
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Interests: microbial ecology; microbial diversity; denitrification; nitrification; biological nitrogen fixation; functional and taxonomic diversity; microbial communities

Interests: bacteria; quorum sensing; resistance; virulence; drug repurposing; stress response; social cheating
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Interests: microbial ecology; molecular diversity of microbes; metagenomics; bioinformatics
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Interests: mycology; forestry; fungi; mycorrhiza; fungal diversity; fungal taxonomy; phylogeography; fungi cultivation; truffles

Interests: airborne microbiomes; algae-associated microbiomes; bacterial community diversity; extremophilic bacteria; plant-associated microbiomes; plant growth-promoting bacteria; sediment-associated microbiomes; soil microbiology
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Interests: plant microbe interactions; plant pathogens; microflora diversity
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Interests: aquafeeds; nutrition physiology; development and utilization of probiotics; immuno-stimulantant
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Interests: microbial ecology of polar environments; biotechnology of cold-adapted bacteria; bacterial associations with benthic filter feeders; relationships between prokaryotes and chemical contamination
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Interests: microbial ecology; microbial genomics; metagenomics; holobiome; microbiome of the built environment; bioaerosol; culture methods; biotic and abiotic interaction
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Interests: ecology of nitrogen fixing microorganisms; plant-associated microbiome; impact of land-use change on microbial diversity; bioremediation of chlorinated solvents

Interests: mycology; genetics; molecular biology; genomics; evolution; cell signaling; metabolism

Interests: environmental (meta)genomics; nitrification; microbial ecology; microbial (pico)eukaryotes; microbial interaction

Interests: microbiology; one health; antimicrobial resistance; biofilms; microbial genetics; infectious diseases
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Interests: phytoplankton; microzooplankton; grazing; diversity
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Interests: parasitology; parasite ecology; molecular epidemiology; wildlife diseases; zoonoses

Interests: lichens; slime moulds; taxonomy and ecology of tropical lichens; bioindication and conservation of lichenised fungi in endangered habitats