Editorial Board
- Environmental Microbiology Section
- Medical Microbiology Section
- Food Microbiology Section
- Gut Microbiota Section
- Plant Microbe Interactions Section
- Microbial Biotechnology Section
- Antimicrobial Agents and Resistance Section
- Molecular Microbiology and Immunology Section
- Virology Section
- Microbiomes Section
- Biofilm Section
- Public Health Microbiology Section
- Veterinary Microbiology Section
- Parasitology 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
Interests: methanogens; methanogenesis; anaerobic digestion; biogas; metagenomics; metabolomics; anaerobic microbial communities; microbiomes
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Interests: food safety; the use of natural antimicrobials as food preservatives; probiotics; biofilm disinfection; fermented products; the use of modern methods for food analyses; blockchain technology; sensors; AI tools; Information technologies
Interests: symbiosis, including both pathogenic and mutualistic interactions, and microbial ecology; most research focuses on plant-fungal interactions but also on arthropod-bacterial interactions
Interests: anaerobes; antimicrobials; MALDI-TOF MS; molecular methods
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2. Tufts University School of Medicine, Boston, MA, USA
Interests: nosocomial infections; immunocompromised host; transplant; critically ill patients; gut microbiome; pharmacokinetics of antibiotics and anti fungal; anti microbial stewardship
2. Department of Anaesthesia Intensive Care and Emergency, Policlinico Paolo Giaccone, 90127 Palermo, Italy
Interests: sepsis; infections in the critically ill; fungal infection; respiratory infection
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Interests: medical microbiology; infectious diseases; invasive candidiasis; septicemia; antimicrobial resistance; biomarkers; flow cytometry; microbiological diagnostic; epidemiology; public health
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Interests: fermented food and beverages; food microbial ecology; mycology, secondary metabolites; biopreservation
Interests: antimicrobial resistance; food borne pathogens; veterinary medicine
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Interests: antibiotic resistance mechanisms; genetic bases for the diffusion of antibiotic resistance genes; microbial bioinformatics; new antimicrobial drugs; bacteriophages; bacteriophages as tools for phage therapy
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2. Azienda Policlinico Umberto I, 00161 Rome, Italy
Interests: HIV; nutrition; probiotics; microbiota; immune response; gender; quality of life; NCCD
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Interests: molecular epidemiology; antimicrobial resistance; horizontal gene transfer; Gram-negative bacteria; One Health
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2. Faculté de Médecine, Université Paris Cité, F-75006 Paris, France
Interests: human pathogenic fungi; antifungals; mycoses; Aspergillus; in vitro susceptibility testing; antifungal resistance; animal models
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2. Department of Drug Discovery, College of Pharmacy, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, SC 29425, USA
Interests: skin Health; skin microbiome; mycobiome; hair growth; menopause; aging
Interests: nitrogen fixation; drought or salt stress; phosphate solubilization; phytohormone delivery from soil bacteria; as rhizobia or endophytic bacteria; when associated with cereals or legumes
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Interests: biochemistry; microorganisms in extreme conditions; planetary field analogues
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Interests: urinary infections; host-microbiota interaction; bacterial pathogenesis; skin microbiome; gut microbiome
Interests: chronic intestinal pseudo-obstruction; gastrointestinal endoscopy; inflammatory bowel disease; functional gastrointestinal disorders; colorectal polyps
2. UNICAM, Camerino University, Camerino, Italy
3. Scientific Department, Velleja Research, Piacenza, Italy
Interests: microbiology; probiotics; immunology; botanicals; gastroenterology; neonatology; vaccine; nutrition
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Interests: virology; oral diseases; virus-associated immune defect; periodontitis; gingival inflammatory condition; Epstein–Barr virus; herpesviruses
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Interests: bacterial meningitis; meningococcal disease; HIV infection; COVID-19; antiretroviral therapy
Interests: vaccines; leishmania; virulence; host-tropism; nanoparticules; Salmonella; Listeria
Interests: microbiota and probiotics; prosthetic and joint infections; biofilm implant related infections; osteomyelitis; diagnosis for bone-joint infec-tions; antimicrobials and antimicrobial devices
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Interests: plant diseases; viroids; viroid-host interactions; viroid diseases
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2. Interdepartmental Research Center “Nutraceuticals and Food for Health”, University of Pisa, Pisa, Italy
Interests: zoonosis; arthropod-borne infections; leptospirosis; enteropathogens; antibiotic resistance
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Interests: soil microbiology; soil microbial ecology; rhizosphere microbiology; plant microbe interactions; C & N cycling; arbuscular mycorhizal fungi; compost microbiology; soil organic matter transformations
Interests: immune system; mycobacterial infections; virulence factors and Mycobacterium tuberculosis; natural molecules with antimicrobial and/or immunomodulatory activity; infections sustained by microbial biofilms and the host's immune response
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Interests: Environmental microbiology; Aquatic heterotrophic Proteobacteria; Microbial pollution (pathogenic microorganisms and MDR bacteria in the environment); wildlife diseases; zoonoses
Interests: environmental microbiology; microbial ecology; plant microbiology; plant pathology; biocontrol; rhizosphere; Agrobacterium; Pectobacterium; Dickeya; genomics; transcriptomics; Tn-Seq; reverse genetics; quorum-sensing
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Interests: Giardia duodenalis; Cryptosporidium spp.; Cyclospora; foodborne parasite; protozoa molecular characterization