Editorial Board

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


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Department of Chemical, Biological and Environmental Engineering, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, 08193 Bellaterra, Catalonia, Spain
Interests: industrial biotechnology; synthetic biology; metabolic engineering; bioprocess engineering; recombinant protein production; metabolite production; yeast; K. phaffii
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Department of Bioengineering, Instituto Superior Técnico, University of Lisbon and Institute of Bioengineering and Biosciences (iBB), 1049-001, Lisbon, Portugal
Interests: bacterial-host interactions; bacterial infections of the respiratory tract; burkholderia cepacia complex; pseudomonas aeruginosa; bacterial adhesins; trimeric autotransporter adhesins; galleria mellonella as infection model; bacterial proteins/peptides as therapeutic agents; bacterial cell penetrating peptides

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Instituto de Hortofruticultura Subtropical y Mediterránea “La Mayora” (IHSM-UMA-CSIC), Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, Avenida Dr. Wienberg s/n, 29750 Algarrobo-Costa, Málaga, Spain
Interests: plant virology; emergent plant diseases; virus taxonomy; plant–pathogen interactions; insect vectors
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School of Biomedical Sciences, University of Plymouth, Drake Circus, Plymouth PL4 8AA, UK
Interests: immunology; inflammation; probiotics; antimicrobial responses; infection; oral and gastrointestinal mucosae
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Department of Applied Sciences, Northumbria University, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK
Interests: Listeria monocytogenes; metagenomics; bioinformatics; food safety
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CIRAD, University of Montpellier, Montpellier, France
Interests: emerging diseases; infectious diseases; microbiology; genomics; virus evolution; dynamics of infectious diseases
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Department of Pharmaceutical Engineering, Toyama Prefectural University, Toyama, Japan
Interests: gut microbiota; mucosal immunology; regulatory T cells; dendritic cells; macrophage; dietary fiber; epigenetics; short-chain fatty acids; transcriptome

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1. Center for Surgical Infection and Biofilm, College of Medicine, Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA
2. Drexel School of Biomedical Engineering, Science & Health Systems, Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA
Interests: antimicrobial agent; resistance; bacterial pathogenesis; biofilm; host-pathogen interaction; infection control; translational medicine
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Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, TX 77555, USA
Interests: Emerging viruses; Ebola virus; Marburg virus; Lassa virus; Nipah virus; pathogenesis; vaccines; treatments

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Department of Infectious Diseases, Istituto Superiore di Sanità, Roma, Italy
Interests: molecular biology; microbiology; drug action; drug resistance; multi-drug resistance (MDR) and extensively drug resistance (XDR) of Mycobacterium tuberculosis. Dormancy and persistence of Mycobacterium tuberculosis

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1. DISTAL, Department of Agricultural and Food Sciences, Alma Mater Studiorum–Università di Bologna, V.le Fanin 42, 40135 Bologna, Italy
2. CIRI-AGRO, Interdepartmental Centre of Agri-Food Industrial Research, Alma Mater Studiorum–Università di Bologna, P.zza Goidanich 60, 47522 Cesena, Italy
Interests: food microbiology; food fermentation; gut microbiota; in vitro intestinal model; metabolomics; microbiomics; hemp; gluten-free; Bifidobacterium: qPCR; colon microbiota
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Section of Microbiology, Department of Diagnostics and Public Health, University of Verona, 37134 Verona, Italy
Interests: biology of pathogens (e.g., bacteria, viruses, parasites, fungi); mechanisms of infection; antimicrobials; antimicrobial resistance
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Department of Pathology Basic Sciences, New York Medical College, Valhalla, NY, USA
Interests: microbial and host factors in pathogenesis of Lyme disease and tuberculosis; antimicrobial resistance; aquaculture

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Departamento de Sanidad Animal, Facultad de Veterinaria, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Madrid, Spain
Interests: parasitic diseases; zoonosis; Giardia; Trichomonas; Blastocystis; Leishmania; epidemiology; natural products; treatment
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1. Clinical Microbiology Department, Hospital Universitari Vall d'Hebron, 08035 Barcelona, Spain
2. Genetics and Microbiology Department, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, 08035 Barcelona, Spain
Interests: antimicrobial resistance; enterobacterales; plasmid; molecular epidemiology; infectious diseases; Bordetella; Neisseria meningitidis

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Bundeswehr Institute of Microbiology (IMB), 80937 Munich, Germany
Interests: anthrax; bacillus anthracis; bacillus phages; yersinia phages; sporicidal

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School of Life Sciences and Technology, Beuth University of Applied Sciences Berlin, Berlin, Germany
Interests: conjugative plasmid transfer mechanism; plasmids; type IV secretion systems; Enterococcus; antibiotic resistance; biofilm inhibition; antimicrobial surfaces; molecular ecology of antibiotic resistance
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Institute for Medical Microbiology, University Medical Center Göttingen, 37075 Göttingen, Germany
Interests: international health; toxoplasmosis; C. difficile

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Department of Genetics, Faculty of Natural and Agricultural Sciences, University of the Free State, Bloemfontein 9300, South Africa
Interests: mycology; plant pathology

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Department of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases, Hospital General Universitario Gregorio Marañón, Madrid, Spain
Interests: device-related infections; biofilm; catheter; prosthesis; prevention; infection; innovation research
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Institute of Chemistry and Biology of Membranes and Nano-Objects, CBMN UMR5248 CNRS Université de Bordeaux INP, 33607 Pessac, France
Interests: biomolecular assemblies; biophysics; structural biology; NMR; amyloids; membrane-protein interactions; protein-protein interactions; biomolecular interfaces

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INSA-Lyon, Université Claude Bernard Lyon1, CNRS, UMR5240, Microbiologie, Adaptation, Pathogénie, Univ Lyon, 10 rue Raphaël Dubois, 69622 Villeurbanne, France
Interests: rhizosphere; microbiome; root exudation; nitrogen cycle; dentrification; plant growth; carbon catabolic repression; phytobatogenic bacteria; signaling,gene regulation; metabolic network
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Department of Molecular Genetics and Infection Biology, Interfaculty Institute for Genetics and Functional Genomics, Center for Functional Genomics of Microbes, University of Greifswald, 17487 Greifswald, Germany
Interests: gram-positive pathogens; pneumococci; host-pathogen interaction; virulence; immune evasion; bacterial adaptation; platelet-bacteria interaction

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Department of Applied Ecology, Faculty of Environmental Sciences, Czech University of Life Sciences Prague, Kamýcká 129, 165 00 Prague, Czech Republic
Interests: gene; infectious diseases; herpesviruses; pharmacology and toxicology; molecular medicine; oncology and hematology; cardiovascular diseases; natural products; drug discovery; analytical and bioanalytical techniques
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Enzyme and Microbial Biotechnology Unit, Department of Biology, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Athens, Greece
Interests: microbial biotechnology; enzyme biotechnology; environmental microbiology; biorefineries; biofuels; bio-engineering; synthetic biology
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Laboratory of Virology, Rocky Mountain Laboratories, NIAID/NIH, Hamilton, MT 59840, USA
Interests: host-viral interactions; Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever, viral pathogenesis; animal modeling

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INRAE, Université Clermont Auvergne, UMR 0454 Microbiologie Environnement Digestif Santé (MEDiS), Saint-Genès-Champanelle, France
Interests: foodborne pathogen bacteria; food microbiology; Listeria monocytogenes; biofilms; resistance/adaptation to environmental/technological stresses; proteosurfaceome; proteomics

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Department of Oral Sciences, Faculty of Dentistry, University of Otago, P.O. Box 56, Dunedin, New Zealand
Interests: molecular genetics; bioinformatics; genome analysis; antimicrobial proteins (bacteriocins); protein (bio)chemistry; oral microbiomes; next-generation DNA sequencing

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Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL 35294, USA
Interests: DNA supercoiling; topoisomerases; site-specific recombination; transcription; DNA replication; and DNA damage
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