Reviewer Board

Members of the reviewer board are selected from all Microorganisms reviewers for regularly providing timely high quality reports on submitted manuscripts. Responsibilities of reviewers are available here.

Members

Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, University of California, Los Angeles, CA 90095, USA
Interests: origin of life; RNA world; protocells; vesicles; macromolecular crowding; confinement; encapsulation; aptamers; ribozymes; minimal synthetic cells; UV damage; prebiotic evolution; fluorescence spectroscopy; protein aggregation; RNA structure & AMP
Department of Pathogen Genetics and Plant Resistance, Institute of Plant Genetics, Polish Academy of Sciences, Strzeszyńska 34, 60-479 Poznań, Poland
Interests: endophytes; plant-fungal interactions, molecular biology; epigenetics; DNA methylation; miRNA; lncRNA; wheat
Department of Orthopaedics, IRCCS AOU Sant’Orsola-Malpighi, Bologna, Italy
Interests: bone infections; prosthetic infections; megaprosthesis; bone tumors; oncologic reconstructions

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Department of Material Science and Engineering and Chemical Engineering, University of Carlos III, Madrid, Spain
Interests: nanostructures; macromolecules and polymers; biomedical, energy, and environmental applications; carbon fibres

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Department of Parasitology and Parasitic Diseases, University of Agricultural Sciences and Veterinary Medicine Cluj-Napoca, 400372 Cluj-Napoca, Romania
Interests: parasitology; Pathogens; vector-borne pathogens; bacteria; zoology; Behavioural Ecology; birds; mammals; biogeography; Molecular phylogeny
Industrial Yeasts Collection DBVPG, Department of Agricultural, Food and Environmental Sciences, University of Perugia, 06121 Perugia, Italy
Interests: cold environments; fungal ecology; fungal diversity; metabarcoding; microbial interactions; glaciers; permafrost

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Diversigen Inc., Houston, TX 77046, USA
Interests: ancient DNA; bacteriophage biology; bacteriophage ecology; microbiome; resistome; virome
Advanced Tissue Engineering and Stem Cell Biology Group, University of Technology Sydney, Sydney, Australia
Interests: stem cells; regenerative medicine; systems biology; next-generation genome sequencing; Bacterial pathogenesis; secreted moonlighting proteins; cytokine and immuno-modulation; 3D molecular modelling; protein interaction network building
Centro de Engenharia Biológica, Universidade do Minho, Campus de Gualtar, P 4715-057 Braga, Portugal
Interests: bacteriophages; genetic engineering; protein engineering; protein functional analysis; biotechnology
Department of Public Health and Infectious Diseases, Sapienza University of Rome, Rome, Italy
Interests: enteric and food-borne pathogens; intestinal and extraintestinal pathogenic E. coli; urinary tract infections; host-bacteria interactions; bacterial pathogenesis; intracellular pathogens; bacterial virulence factors; cell adhesion and invasion

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​Applied Phycology and Biotechnology Division Marine Algal Research Station, Mandapam, CSIR - Central Salt and Marine Chemicals Research Institute, Tamil Nadu, India - 623519
Interests: seaweed; macroalgae; microbiome; millets; CRISPR; fungi; truffles; microalgae; agrobacterium; food crops; plant microbe interactions; secondary metabolites; molecular markers; PGPR; microbial community
National Institute of Food Technology Entrepreneurship and Management (NIFTEM), Sonipat, Haryana, India
Interests: virus; immune response; T cell; vaccine; cancer; infectious disease; host genes; zoonotic diseases
CREA-DC, Consiglio per la Ricerca in Agricoltura e l'Economia Agraria (CREA), Centro di Ricerca Difesa e Certificazione, Research Center for Plant Protection and Certification, Via C.G, Bertero, 22, 00156 Rome, Italy
Interests: plant pathology; bacteria; fungi; plant-host interaction; lipid signals; oxylipins; diagnosis; crop protection; genomics; genetics; mycotoxins
Department for Water-Hygiene and Micro-Ecology, D&R Institute of Hygiene, Microbiology and Environmental Medicine, Medical University of Graz, Neue Stiftingtalstraße 2A, 8010 Graz, Austria
Interests: organic chemistry; microbiology; aerobiology; hygiene; water

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Department of Medicine, University of California, San Diego, San Diego, CA, USA
Interests: bioinformatics; phylogenetics; phylogenomics; virology; transmission networks; phylodynamics; Molecular Evolution; infectious diseases; arboviruses; hiv; hepatitis B
1. Department of Internal Medicine, Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine, University Hospital Marburg, D-35043 Marburg, Germany
2. Center for Invasive Mycoses and Antifungals, Philipps University Marburg, D-35037 Marburg, Germany
Interests: antifungals; antifungal combinations; medical mycology; mucorales; aspergillus; mucormycosis; aspergillosis; fungal diagnostics

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Dept. of Public Health and Infectious Diseases, Sapienza University of Rome, Roma, Italy
Interests: gram-negative bacteria; bacterial virulence factors; bacterial adherence; host-pathogen interaction; intestinal-derived organoids; intestinal inflammatory diseases; vacuole-containing bacteria; fecal miRNA; enterobacteriaceae
1. Department of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science, Institute of Materials Science and Engineering, Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, MO 63130, USA
2. Auragent Bioscience, LLC, St. Louis, MO 63108, USA
Interests: immunotherapy; bio-engineering; bio-nano-interaction; biomaterials; nanomedicine; cancer immunology; immuno-engineering; ELISA; ELISPOT; dendritic cells; photothermal therapy; exosomes; nanovaccine
DSM Nutritional Products Ltd., Wurmisweg 576, CH-4303 Kaiseraugst, Switzerland
Interests: skin microbiome; skin actives; microbiome modulation; dysbiosis; personal care; gut-skin axis

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Carver College of Medicine, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA, USA
Interests: gut microbiome in multiple sclerosis
Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Carver College of Medicine, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA 52242, USA
Interests: noncoding RNA; T cell differentiation; cancer biology
Department of Pediatrics, Division of Pediatric Hematology, Oncology, and BMT, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI 53705, USA
Interests: nanobiotechnology; cell biology; molecular biology; immunology; virology; vaccines
Translational Genomics Research Institute, Phoenix, AZ, USA
Interests: metaproteomics; phosphoproteomics; targeted quantitation; microbial proteomics; LC-MS method development; liquid chromatography
School of Veterinary Medicine, Murdoch University, Murdoch, WA 6150, Australia
Interests: feline morbillivirus; paramyxoviruses; sepsis
All Wales Medical Genomics Service, Institute of Medical Genetics, University Hospital of Wales, Heath Park, Cardiff, UK
Interests: bioinformatics and analysis of next generation sequencing data; genomics; transcriptomes; sequencing

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Central Research Institute of Epidemiology, Novogireevskaya Str., 3a, 111123 Moscow, Russia
Interests: bioinformatics; NGS; antibiotic resistance; genomic epidemiology; ESKAPE-pathogens; antimicrobial peptides
MD-HEMATOLOGY/ONCOLOGY-HEMATO, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA
Interests: acute myeloid leukemia; leukemia stem cells; hematopoietic stem cells; FOXM1; hematopoiesis

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Laboratory of Microbiology, Wageningen University and Research, Wageningen, The Netherlands
Interests: microbial ecology and physiology; host-associated microbiome; microbial -omics; synthetic/minimal microbiomes
Department Microbiology and Environmental Biotechnologies, Faculty of Plant Protection and Agroecology, Agricultural University—Plovdiv, 12 Mendeleev Str., 4000 Plovdiv, Bulgaria
Interests: plant growth-promoting bacteria; bio-/phytoremediation; reclaimed water; composting; Pseudomonas; soil microbiome
Department of Microbiology, College of Medicine, Gyeongsang National University, Jinju 52727, Republic of Korea
Interests: molecular epidemiology; molecular microbiology; host-pathogen interactions; nontuberculous mycobacteria; veterinary infectious diseases
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