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Editorial Board

Editors-in-Chief
Jacques Ravel, University of Maryland School of Medicine, USA 
Elizabeth Wellington, University of Warwick, UK 
 

Senior Editors
Greg Amos, Waltham Petcare Science Institute, UK
Laure Bindels, Université catholique de Louvain, Belgium
Victor Carrion, University of Malaga, IHSM-UMA-CSIC, Spain
Mahesh Desai, Luxembourg Institute of Health, Luxembourg
Robert Dickson, University of Michigan, USA
Emiley Eloe-Fadrosh JGI/Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, USA
Florian Fricke, University of Hohenheim, Germany
Sharon Huws, Queens University Belfast, UK
Purnima Kumar, University of Michigan, USA
Charles Lee, University of Waikato, New Zealand
Connie Lovejoy, Université Laval, Canada
Christopher Quince, Quadram Institute, UK
Lynn Schriml, University of Maryland, USA
Kevin Theis, Wayne State University School of Medicine, USA
Jens Walter, University College Cork, Ireland
Joy Watts, University of Portsmouth, UK
Paul Wigley, University of Liverpool, UK
MeiLing Zhang, East China Normal University, China
Tong Zhang, University of Hong Kong, China
 

Managing Editor
Ian Lidbury, University of Sheffield, UK



Editors-by-Section

Animal Microbiome

Senior Editors
Greg Amos, Waltham Petcare Science Institute, UK
Sharon Huws, Queens University Belfast, UK
Paul Wigley, University of Liverpool, UK
MeiLing Zhang, East China Normal University, China

Associate Editors

Antton Alberdi Estibaritz, University of Copenhagen, Denmark
Didier Bouchon, Université de Poitiers, France
Preben Boysen, Norwegian University of Life Sciences, Norway
Amelia Camarinha-Silva, University of Hohenheim, Germany
Congying Chen, Jiangxi Agricultural University, China
Yanfen Cheng, Nanjing Agricultural University, China
Thomas Clavel, Technische Universität München, Germany
Nicolae Corcionivoschi, Agri-Food & Biosciences Institute, UK
Laura Cox, Harvard University, USA
Ming Fan, University of Guelph, Canada
Mathilde Gendrin, Institut Pasteur de la Guyane,French Guiana
Leluo Guan, University of Alberta, Canada
Thomas Hitch, RWTH University Hospital, Germany
Zhijian Huang, Sun Yat-Sen University, China
Won-Jae Lee, Seoul National University, South Korea
Zhipeng Li, Jilin Agricultural University, China
Nilusha Malmuthuge, AAFC-Lethbridge, Canada
Shenyong Mao, Nanjing Agricultural University, China
Itzhak Mizrahi, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel
Diego Morgavi, INRA, France
Orla O'Sullivan, Teagasc Food Research Centre, Ireland
Linda Oyama, Queen's University Belfast, UK
Benjamin Parker, University of Tennessee, USA
Dipti Pitta, University of Pennsylvania, USA
Kasie Raymann, University of North Carolina Greensboro, USA
Ivan Rychlik, Veterinary Research Institute, Czech Republic
Jana Seifert, University of Hohenheim, Germany
Yongqi Shao, Zhejiang University, China
Ilma Tapio, Luke, Finland
Michael Thomas-Poulsen, University of Copenhagen, Denmark
Ben Willing, University of Alberta, Canada
Zhongtang Yu, Ohio State University, USA
Jiangchao Zhao, University of Arkansas, USA
Hao Zheng, China Agricultural University​​​​​​​, China

Biostatistics
Associate Editors
Brianna Lindsay, University of Pennsylvania, USA


Built Environment Microbiome
Senior Editor
Lynn Schriml, University of Maryland, USA

Associate Editors

Karen Dannemiller, Ohio State University, USA
Erica Hartmann, Northwestern University, USA
Jessica L Metcalf, Colorado State University, USA

Cancer and the Microbiome
Associate Editors
John Baines, Kiel University, Germany
Sebastian Zeißig, University of Dresden, Germany


Computer Science/Bioinformatics
Senior Editor
Emiley Eloe-Fadrosh JGI/Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, USA
Christopher Quince, Quadram Institute, UK

Associate Editors
Alexander Alekseyenko, New York University School of Medicine, USA
Greg Caporaso, Northern Arizona University, USA
Falk Hildebrand, Quadram Institute, UK
Dan Knights, University of Minnesota, USA
Leo Lahti, University of Turku, Finland
Morgan Langille, Dalhousie University, Canada
John Parkinson, University of Toronto, Canada
Todd Treangen, Rice University, USA
Yuzhen Ye, Indiana University, USA

Environmental/Agricultural Microbiome
Senior Editors
Victor Carrion, University of Malaga, IHSM-UMA-CSIC, Spain
Charles Lee, University of Waikato, New Zealand
Connie Lovejoy, Université Laval, Canada
Joy Watts, University of Portsmouth, UK
Tong Zhang, University of Hong Kong, China


Associate Editors
Karthik Anantharaman, University of Wisconsin, USA
Sanjay Antony-Babu, Texas A&M University, USA
Harsh Bais, University of Delaware, USA
Christopher Bagwell, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (DOE), USA
Petr Baldrian, Institute of Microbiology of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Czech Republic
Gabriele Berg, Graz University of Technology, Austria
Tomislav Cernava, Graz University of Technology, Austria
Chang-Jun Cha, Chung-Ang University, South Korea
Zhenming Chi, Ocean University of China, China
James Chong, University of York, UK
Joseph Christie de Oleza, University of The Balearic Islands, Spain
Haiyan Chu, Institute of Soil Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
Ye Deng, RCEES, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
Jocelyne DiRuggiero, Johns Hopkins University, USA
Tim Dumonceaux, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, Canada
Carmen Falagan Rodriguez, University of Exeter, UK
Bettina Glasl, University of Vienna, Austria
Cecile Gubry-Rangin, University of Aberdeen, UK
Vijai Gupta, Scotland's Rural College (SRUC), UK
Christina Hazard, Université de Lyon, France
Jizheng He, University of Melbourne, Australia
Zhili He, Sun Yat-sen University, China
Jack Heinemann, University of Canterbury, New Zealand
Alexandre Jousset, Utrecht University, Netherlands
Jihyun F. Kim, Yonsei University, South Korea
Deepak Kumaresan, Queens University Belfast, UK
Ilias Lagkouvardos, Technische Universität München, Germany
Calvin Lau, Canadian Food Inspection Agency, Canada
Meng Li , Shenzhen University, China
Wenjun Li, Sun Yat-sen University, China
Werner Liesack, Max Planck Institute for Terrestrial Microbiology, Germany
Andrew Millard, University of Leicester, UK
Gerard Muyzer, University of Amsterdam, Netherlands
Sean Norman, University of South Carolina, USA
Ulisses Nunes da Rocha, Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research -UFZ, Germany
Orla O'Sullivan, Teagasc Food Research Centre, Ireland
Peiyuan Qian, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong
Daniel Read, Centre for Ecology and Hydrology, UK
Stephen Rolfe, University of Sheffield, UK
Lynn Schriml, University of Maryland, USA
Angela Sessitsch, Austrian Institute of Technology, Austria
Maggie Sogin, Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology, Germany
Søren J. Sørensen, University of Copenhagen, Denmark
Chaomin Sun, Institute of Oceanology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
Michael Thomas-Poulsen, University of Copenhagen, Denmark
John Walshaw, Fera Science Ltd, UK
Kenneth Wasmund, University of Vienna, Austria
Zhong Wei, Nanjing Agricultural University, China
Shuguang Xie, Peking Univeristy, China
Jun Yang, Institute of Urban Environment, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
Yu-Zhong Zhang, Shandong University, China


Gastrointestinal Microbiome
Senior Editors
Mahesh Desai, Luxembourg Institute of Health, Luxembourg
Florian Fricke, University of Hohenheim, Germany
Jens Walter, University College Cork, Ireland
Laure Bindels, Université catholique de Louvain, Belgium

Associate Editor
Katherine Amato, Northwestern University, USA
Jin-Woo Bae, Kyung Hee University, South Korea
John Baines, Kiel University, Germany
Shai Bel, Bar-Ilan University, Israel

Benoit Chassaing, INSERM, France
Thomas Clavel, Technische Universität München, Germany
Laura Cox, Harvard University, USA
Sahar El Aidy, University of Groningen, Netherlands
Danilo Ercolini, University of Naples, Italy
Alessio Fasano, Harvard University, USA
Gregor Gorkiewicz, Medical University of Graz, Austria
Scott Handley, Washington University School of Medicine, USA
Robert Hettich, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA
Jihyun F. Kim, Yonsei University, South Korea
Omry Koren, Bar Ilan University, Israel
Nicolas Lapaque, INRA, France
Martin Larsen, Sorbonne, France
Sarah Lebeer, University of Antwerp, Belgium
Xin Luo, Virginia Tech, USA
Eric Martens, University of Michigan, USA
Jessica L Metcalf, Colorado State University, USA
Siobhain O’Mahoney, University College cork, Ireland
Orla O'Sullivan, Teagasc Food Research Centre, Ireland
Till Strowig, Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research, Germany
Michael Thomas-Poulsen, University of Copenhagen, Denmark
Ana Valdes, University of Nottingham, UK
Marius Vital, Hannover Medical School, Germany
John Walshaw, Fera Science, UK
Sebastian Zeißig, University of Dresden, Germany


Immunology and the Microbiome
Associate Editors
Grace Aldrovandi, University of California-Los Angeles, USA
Shai Bel, Bar-Ilan University, Israel
Benoit Chassaing, INSERM, France
Nicolas Lapaque, INRA, France
Till Strowig, Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research, Germany
 

Metabolomics
Associate Editors
Simon Cameron, Imperial College, UK
Robert Hettich, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA 
Jonathan Swann, Imperial College London, UK

Metaproteomics
Associate Editor
Robert Hettich, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA

Nutrition and the Microbiome (including probiotics/prebiotics)
Associate Editors
Katherine Amato, Northwestern University, USA
Benoit Chassaing, INSERM, France
María Carmen Collado Amores, CSIC, Spain
Wendy Russell, University of Aberdeen, UK
Ben Willing, University of Alberta, Canada

Oral Microbiome
Senior Editor
Purnima Kumar, University of Michigan, USA

Associate Editors
Simon Cameron, Imperial College, UK
Thuy Do, University of Leeds, UK
Graham P Stafford, University of Sheffield, UK


Respiratory Microbiome
Senior Editor
Robert Dickson, University of Michigan, USA

Associate Editors
Simon Cameron, Imperial College, UK
Elodie Ghedin, New York University, USA
Markus Hilty, University of Bern, Switzerland
Barbara Methe, University of Pittsburgh, USA
Orla O'Sullivan, Teagasc Food Research Centre, Ireland
Christopher van der Gast, Manchester Metropolitan University, UK
 

Skin Microbiome
Associate Editors
Elizabeth Grice, University of Pennsylvania, USA
Huiying Li, UCLA, USA
Julia Oh, Jackson Laboratory, USA 
 

Urogenital Microbiome
Senior Editor
Kevin Theis, Wayne State University School of Medicine, USA

Associate Editors
Larry J Forney, University of Idaho, USA
Cindy Liu, George Washington University, USA
Mariya Petrova, MiP Consultancy, Belgium
Sujatha Srinivasan, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, USA
Rebecca Stumpf, University of Illinois, USA


Viral Metagenomics
Associate Editors
Grace Aldrovandi, University of California-Los Angeles, USA
Scott Handley, Washington University School of Medicine, USA
Andrew Millard, University of Leicester, UK
David Pride, University of California, San Diego, USA
Eric Wommack, University of Delaware, USA
 

Editorial Board
Eric Allen, University of California, San Diego, USA
Florent E Angly, University of Queensland, Australia
Martin J Blaser, New York University School of Medicine, USA
Elhanan Borenstein, University of Washington, USA
Eoin Brodie, Lawrence Berkeley National Lab, USA
Barbara Campbell, Clemson University, USA
Craig Cary, University of Delaware, USA
Frans de Bruijn, LIPM, INRA, France
Dusko D Ehrlich, Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique, France
Pierre-Edouard Fournier, Marseille University Hospital, France
Jed Fuhrman, University of Southern California, USA
Dirk Gevers, Janssen Human Microbiome Institute, USA
Jack Gilbert, University of California, San Diego, USA
Greg Gloor, University of Western Ontaria, Canada
Karla Heidelberg, University of Southern California, USA
Philip Hugenholtz, Australian Centre for Ecogenomics, Australia
Curtis Huttenhower, Harvard University, USA
Janet Jansson, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, USA
David Kirchman, University of Delaware, USA
Rob Knight, University of California at San Diego, USA
Nikos Kyrpides, Joint Genome Institute, USA
Huilin Li, New York University, USA
Julian Marchesi, Cardiff University, UK
Julia Maresca, University of Delaware, USA
Margaret McFall-Ngai, University of Wisconsin - Madison, USA
Trina D McMahon, University of Wisconsin - Madison, USA
Folker Meyer, Argonne National Laboratory, USA 
Emmanuel Mongodin, University of Maryland, USA
Joseph Petrosino, Baylor College of Medicine, USA
Martin Polz, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA
Jeroen Raes, Vlaams Instituut voor Biotechnologie, Belgium
Gail Rosen, Drexel University, USA
Thomas Schmidt, University of Michigan, USA
Stephan Schuster, Pennsylvania State University, USA
Julie Segre, National Institutes of Health, USA
Frank Stewart, Georgia Tech University, USA
Susannah Tringe, DOE Joint Genome Institute, USA
Eric Triplett, University of Florida, USA
Jun Wang, Beijing Genomics Institute, China
Eric Wommack, University of Delaware, USA
Cathy Wu, University of Delaware, USA
Shibu Yooseph, University of Central Florida, USA
Vincent Young, University of Michigan, USA

 

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