Editors for Microbiology and Infectious Disease
Senior editors
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Neil Ferguson
Imperial College London, United Kingdom
Neil Ferguson is Head of the Department of Infectious Disease Epidemiology at Imperial College London, where he leads the MRC Centre for Outbreak Analysis and Modelling. His research aims to improve the understanding of epidemiological factors and population processes that shape infectious disease spread in human and animal populations. A practical focus of his work is the analysis and optimisation of intervention strategies that are aimed at reducing transmission or disease burden.
- Expertise
- Epidemiology and Global Health
- Microbiology and Infectious Disease
- Research focus
- epidemiology and infectious disease
- emerging infections
- mosquito-borne infections
- statistical and mathematical tools
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Wendy S Garrett
Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, United States
Wendy Garrett is a Professor of Immunology and Infectious Diseases at the Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health, co-Director of the Harvard Chan Center for the Microbiome in Public Health, and an Associate Member of the Broad Institute. Her work explores host-microbiota interactions underlying mucosal immune homeostasis, gastrointestinal inflammatory disorders, and cancer. She graduated from the Yale College; received her MD PhD from Yale University and completed post-graduate training at Harvard.
- Expertise
- Immunology and Inflammation
- Microbiology and Infectious Disease
- Human Biology and Medicine
- Research focus
- host-microbiota interactions
- microbiome
- mucosal immunology
- Competing interests statement
- Wendy Garrett serves on advisory boards of Evelo Biosciences, Kintai Therapeutics, and Leap Therapeutics. She is a member of the Cell Reports and Journal of Clinical Microbiology editorial boards.
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Karla Kirkegaard
Stanford University School of Medicine, United States
Karla Kirkegaard is the Violetta L Horton Research Professor of Genetics and former Chair of the Department of Microbiology and Immunology in the Stanford University School of Medicine. She received her PhD in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology with James C Wang at Harvard University, and performed her postdoctoral work in the laboratory of David Baltimore at the Whitehead Institute. As an Assistant and Associate Professor at the University of Colorado in Boulder, she received numerous awards, including a fellowship from the David and Lucile Packard Foundation, an American Cancer Society Young Investigator Award, a Searle Scholar Award, and sponsorship by the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. Karla Kirkegaard combined her interests in biochemistry, cell biology, and genetics in the study of RNA virology, using poliovirus and other positive-strand RNA viruses to understand the cell biology of viral infections and the genetics of viral variability. Since her move to Stanford University School of Medicine in 1996, her interests have focused increasingly on the impact of basic science discoveries on the transmission of viruses in infected hosts. Kirkegaard’s honors include an Ellison Foundation Senior Scholar Award in Global Infectious Disease and, in 2006, the NIH Director’s Pioneer Award, for her approach to guide the selection of antiviral targets with the goal of suppressing the drug-resistant RNA genomes that will inevitably be formed due to the high error rates of RNA replication. She has been recently elected as a Member of the National Academies of Arts and Sciences and a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Her work continues to focus on the mechanisms of diversity and propagation of viruses and suppression of this diversity and spread.
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- Expertise
- Microbiology and Infectious Disease
- Immunology and Inflammation
- Research focus
- drug resistance
- viral evolution
- dominant genes
- Experimental organism
- human
- mouse
- viruses
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Päivi Ojala
University of Helsinki, Finland
Imperial College London, United KingdomPäivi Ojala is the Professor of Cancer Cell Biology at University of Helsinki and Chair of Viral Tumorigenesis at Imperial College London. She has made significant contributions to the Kaposi’s Sarcoma herpesvirus (KSHV) field and has more recently focused also on the role of lymphatic endothelial microenvironment on cancer cell metastasis. She has expertise in organotypic 3D co-culture models, cell-based high-content screens, protein kinase signalling and viral technologies. Her work has led to demonstration of restoration of p53 function by small molecule inhibitors as a therapeutic modality for KSHV-induced lymphomas, identification of host Pim kinases, nucleophosmin, and the p53-p21 axis as novel regulators of viral replication, and shown that KSHV infection reprograms lymphatic endothelial cells (LECs) to a new, more invasive cell type. They have also demonstrated that LEC interaction with melanoma cells leads to increased distant organ metastasis in vivo, which is dependent on MMP14, Notch3 and b1-integrin- Dr. Ojala holds a doctoral degree in Molecular Genetics from the University of Helsinki, and has received postdoctoral training at the Yale School of Medicine, CT, USA.
- Expertise
- Cancer Biology
- Microbiology and Infectious Disease
- Research focus
- human tumor viruses
- virus-host interactions
- tumor microenvironment
- metastasis
- Competing interests statement
- Päivi Ojala receives funding from the Academy of Finland, Sigrid Juselius Foundation, Cancer Foundation Finland and University of Helsinki.
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Dominique Soldati-Favre
University of Geneva, Switzerland
Dr Dominique Soldati-Favre studied biochemistry and earned her PhD degree in molecular biology from the University of Zürich (Switzerland) in 1990. She then conducted postdoctoral research in the Department of Microbiology and Immunology of the Stanford University School of Medicine. In 1995 she was appointed assistant professor at the Center for Molecular Biology at the University of Heidelberg (Germany). In 2001 she moved to Imperial College London (United Kingdom) and became Reader. Since 2004, she is professor at the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Geneva.
Her laboratory is studying obligate intracellular parasitism using Toxoplasma gondii and is also increasingly engaged in malaria research. The main line of research focuses on the cell biology underlying how these pernicious pathogens glide into mammalian cells. Her group is also aiming at defining the metabolic needs and capabilities of the parasites as well as how they subvert host cellular functions in particular to access nutrients.
- Expertise
- Microbiology and Infectious Disease
- Research focus
- parasitology
- cell motility
- signaling
- proteases
- protein trafficking
- organelle biogenesis
- metabolism
- Experimental organism
- T. gondii
- P. falciparum
- Competing interests statement
- Dominique Soldati-Favre currently receives funding from the European Research Council and from the Swiss National Science Foundation. She is editor for Parasitology at Molecular Microbiology and she is on the editorial boards of PLOS Pathogens, Traffic and mBio.
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Gisela Storz
National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, United States
Gisela Storz has been an Investigator in the Eunice Kennedy Shriver Institute of Child Health and Human Development in Bethesda, Maryland since 1991. She obtained a BA in Biochemistry from the University of Colorado in 1984 and a PhD in Biochemistry from the University of California, Berkeley in 1988, where she studied the bacterial response to oxidative stress working with Bruce Ames. Her current work is focused on understanding gene regulation in response to environmental signals and elucidating the roles of small RNAs and small proteins of less than 50 amino acids in these regulatory networks. Dr. Storz was the recipient of the American Society for Microbiology Eli Lilly Award and is a member of the American Academy of Microbiology, American Academy of Arts and Sciences and US National Academy of Sciences.
- Expertise
- Microbiology and Infectious Disease
- Chromosomes and Gene Expression
- Research focus
- small noncoding RNAs
- oxidative stress
- gene regulation
- bacterial physiology
- regulatory RNAs
- Experimental organism
- E. coli
- Competing interests statement
- Gisela Storz is employed by the Intramural Program of the National Institutes of Health. She served on the Scientific Advisory Board of Max Planck Institute for Terrestrial Microbiology. In addition to being a Senior Editor for eLife, she is an Editor at RNA and on the Editorial Boards of mBio, Annual Reviews of Genetics and Microbiology Spectrum.
Reviewing editors
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Sonja V Albers
University of Freiburg, Germany
- Expertise
- Microbiology and Infectious Disease
- Research focus
- molecular biology of Archaea
- Sulfolobus
- Haloferax
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Melanie Blokesch
École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland
- Expertise
- Microbiology and Infectious Disease
- Research focus
- V. cholerae
- natural transformation
- bacterial regulatory networks
- horizontal gene transfer
- quorum sensing
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Axel A Brakhage
Leibniz Institute for Natural Product Research and Infection Biology (HKI), Germany
- Expertise
- Microbiology and Infectious Disease
- Research focus
- infection biology of fungi
- microbial secondary metabolism
- microbial communication
- biotechnology
- transcription factors
- macrophages
- neutrophils
- Experimental organism
- Aspergillus
- Streptomyces
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Melanie M Brinkmann
Technische Universität Braunschweig, Germany
- Expertise
- Immunology and Inflammation
- Microbiology and Infectious Disease
- Research focus
- herpesviruses
- innate immunity
- intracellular trafficking
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Jean-Laurent Casanova
The Rockefeller University, United States
- Expertise
- Genetics and Genomics
- Microbiology and Infectious Disease
- Immunology and Inflammation
- Research focus
- human genetics
- immunology
- infectious diseases
- primary immunodeficiency
- inborn errors of immunity
- Experimental organism
- human
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Flaminia Catteruccia
Harvard School of Public Health, United States
- Expertise
- Microbiology and Infectious Disease
- Research focus
- vector biology
- malaria
- vector-plasmodium interactions
- reproductive biology
- Experimental organism
- A. gambiae
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Isaac Chiu
Harvard Medical School, United States
- Expertise
- Microbiology and Infectious Disease
- Immunology and Inflammation
- Neuroscience
- Research focus
- neuroimmunology
- pain
- microglia
- somatosensation
- infection
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Jon Clardy
Harvard Medical School, United States
- Expertise
- Biochemistry and Chemical Biology
- Ecology
- Microbiology and Infectious Disease
- Research focus
- microbial secondary metabolism
- chemical communications
- biosynthesis
- chemical biology
- microbial chemical ecology
- gut microbiome
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Christine Clayton
Zentrum fuer Molekulare Biologie der Universitaet Heidelberg (ZMBH), Germany
- Expertise
- Microbiology and Infectious Disease
- Human Biology and Medicine
- Epidemiology and Global Health
- Research focus
- trypanosomes
- mRNA degradation
- RNA-binding proteins
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Miles P Davenport
University of New South Wales, Australia
- Expertise
- Immunology and Inflammation
- Microbiology and Infectious Disease
- Research focus
- virology
- immunity
- vaccines
- HIV/AIDS
- mathematical modeling
- host-pathogen interactions
- biostatistics
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Samuel L Díaz-Muñoz
University of California, Davis, United States
- Expertise
- Evolutionary Biology
- Genetics and Genomics
- Microbiology and Infectious Disease
- Research focus
- social evolution
- reassortment
- experimental evolution
- genomics
- sex
- environmental microbiology
- behavior
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Guangxia Gao
Institute of Biophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
- Expertise
- Microbiology and Infectious Disease
- Research focus
- retroviruses
- HIV-1
- virus-host interactions
- Experimental organism
- mouse
- viruses
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Karine A Gibbs
Harvard University, United States
- Expertise
- Microbiology and Infectious Disease
- Biochemistry and Chemical Biology
- Research focus
- Proteus mirabilis
- sociomicrobiology
- bacterial genetics
- kin discrimination
- self/non-self recognition
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Peter Greenberg
University of Washington School of Medicine, United States
- Expertise
- Microbiology and Infectious Disease
- Research focus
- microbe-microbe communication
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Nicola L Harris
Monash University, Australia
- Expertise
- Immunology and Inflammation
- Microbiology and Infectious Disease
- Research focus
- type 2 immunity
- helminth infection
- microbiota
- mucosal immunology
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Sophie Helaine
Imperial College London, United Kingdom
- Expertise
- Microbiology and Infectious Disease
- Research focus
- host-pathogen interaction
- bacterial pathogenesis
- persistence
- antibiotic persisters
- toxin-antitoxin systems
- Experimental organism
- Salmonella
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Prabhat Jha
Saint Michael's Hospital, Canada
- Expertise
- Epidemiology and Global Health
- Microbiology and Infectious Disease
- Human Biology and Medicine
- Research focus
- epidemiology
- global health
- infectious disease and population dynamics
- randomized controlled trials
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Mark Jit
London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, and Public Health England, United Kingdom
- Expertise
- Epidemiology and Global Health
- Microbiology and Infectious Disease
- Research focus
- vaccines
- infectious disease epidemiology
- mathematical modelling
- health economics
- low- and middle-income countries
- Experimental organism
- human
- vaccine-preventable pathogens
- human papillomavirus
- measles virus
- rotavirus
- influenza virus
- S. pneumoniae
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Bavesh Kana
University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa
- Expertise
- Microbiology and Infectious Disease
- Research focus
- tuberculosis
- differentially culturable bacteria
- mycobacteria
- actinobacteria
- cell wall
- peptidoglycan
- peptidoglycan hydrolases
- amidase
- cell division
- cell surface remodelling
- dormancy
- latency
- Experimental organism
- M. tuberculosis
- M. smegmatis
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Frank Kirchhoff
Ulm University Medical Center, Germany
- Expertise
- Epidemiology and Global Health
- Microbiology and Infectious Disease
- Research focus
- HIV
- SIV
- AIDS
- restriction factors
- accessory viral proteins
- antimicrobial peptides
- Experimental organism
- HIV
- SIV
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David M Knipe
Harvard Medical School, United States
- Expertise
- Microbiology and Infectious Disease
- Research focus
- DNA viruses
- epigenetic regulation
- latent infection
- innate and intrinsic immunity
- vaccines
- Experimental organism
- mouse
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Urszula Krzych
Walter Reed Army Institute of Research, United States
- Expertise
- Epidemiology and Global Health
- Immunology and Inflammation
- Microbiology and Infectious Disease
- Research focus
- malaria
- adaptive immunity
- vaccines
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Luis F Larrondo
Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Chile
- Expertise
- Microbiology and Infectious Disease
- Chromosomes and Gene Expression
- Research focus
- circadian biology
- photobiology
- synthetic biology
- gene expression
- fungal biology
- plant pathogenic fungi
- filamentous fungi
- Experimental organism
- S. cerevisiae
N. crassa
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Michael Laub
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, United States
- Expertise
- Cell Biology
- Microbiology and Infectious Disease
- Research focus
- bacterial cell cycle
- toxin-antitoxin systems
- signal transduction
- protein evolution
- chromosome organisation
- Experimental organism
- E. coli
- C. crescentus
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Elena Levashina
Max Planck Institute for Infection Biology, Germany
- Expertise
- Microbiology and Infectious Disease
- Research focus
- malaria ecology
- mosquito immune system
- Experimental organism
- P. falciparum
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Wenhui Li
National Institute of Biological Sciences, China
- Expertise
- Microbiology and Infectious Disease
- Research focus
- virus infection
- hepatitis b/d virus
- receptor
- antivirals
- Experimental organism
- human
- mouse
- viruses
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Marc Lipsitch
Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, United States
- Expertise
- Epidemiology and Global Health
- Microbiology and Infectious Disease
- Research focus
- pathogen transmission modeling
- evolution of pathogens
- vaccine epidemiology
- antimicrobial resistance
- research ethics
- Experimental organism
- S. pneumoniae
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Sebastian Lourido
Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research, United States
- Expertise
- Microbiology and Infectious Disease
- Cell Biology
- Genetics and Genomics
- Biochemistry and Chemical Biology
- Research focus
- calcium signaling
- host-pathogen interactions
- genetic screening
- protein kinases
- genomics
- quantitative proteomics
- Apicomplexan parasites
- Experimental organism
- T. gondii
- P. falciparum
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Jeremy Luban
University of Massachusetts Medical School, United States
- Expertise
- Immunology and Inflammation
- Microbiology and Infectious Disease
- Research focus
- viral replication
- pathogenesis
- immunity
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Mark Marsh
University College London, United Kingdom
- Expertise
- Microbiology and Infectious Disease
- Cell Biology
- Research focus
- virus entry
- membrane trafficking
- cellular mechanisms of viral restriction
- viral pathogenesis
- HIV
- Alphaviruses
- Flaviviruses
- endocytosis
- virus receptors
- Experimental organism
- viruses
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Malcolm J McConville
University of Melbourne, Australia
- Expertise
- Microbiology and Infectious Disease
- Biochemistry and Chemical Biology
- Research focus
- protozoan parasites
- metabolomics
- metabolism
- Leishmaniasis
- trypanosomatids
- glycobiology
- Experimental organism
- T. gondii
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Tam Mignot
Aix-Marseille University, France
- Expertise
- Microbiology and Infectious Disease
- Physics of Living Systems
- Research focus
- signal transduction
- motility
- bacterial development
- bacterial cell biology
- Experimental organism
- M. xanthus
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Shaeri Mukherjee
University of California, San Francisco, United States
- Expertise
- Cell Biology
- Microbiology and Infectious Disease
- Research focus
- membrane traffic
- host-pathogen interactions
- endoplasmic reticulum
- Experimental organism
- L. pneumophila
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Dianne Newman
California Institute of Technology, United States
- Expertise
- Microbiology and Infectious Disease
- Research focus
- metabolism
- bioenergetics
- electron transfer
- biofilms
- phenazines
- Experimental organism
- P. aeruginosa
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Phil Newmark
Morgridge Institute for Research, University of Wisconsin-Madison, United States
- Expertise
- Developmental Biology
- Microbiology and Infectious Disease
- Research focus
- Planarian
- regeneration
- Schistosoma
- germ cells
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Thorsten Nurnberger
University of Tübingen, Germany
- Expertise
- Cell Biology
- Microbiology and Infectious Disease
- Plant Biology
- Research focus
- innate immunity
- plant-microbe interactions
- plant immunity
- Experimental organism
- A. thaliana
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Mary X O'Riordan
University of Michigan Medical School, United States
- Expertise
- Immunology and Inflammation
- Microbiology and Infectious Disease
- Research focus
- innate immunity
- ER stress
- mitochondrial stress
- gram-positive bacteria
- gram-negative bacteria
- macrophages
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Kim Orth
University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, United States
- Expertise
- Biochemistry and Chemical Biology
- Microbiology and Infectious Disease
- Research focus
- bacterial pathogenesis
- Type III secretion
- host-pathogen interactions
- signaling
- AMPylation
- Experimental organism
- Vibrio spp
- E. coli
- human
- S. cerevisiae
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Julie Overbaugh
Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, United States
- Expertise
- Microbiology and Infectious Disease
- Research focus
- HIV neutralizing antibodies
- HIV ADCC antibodies
- HIV transmission
- interferon and HIV restriction
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Paul Rainey
Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Biology, Germany
- Expertise
- Ecology
- Evolutionary Biology
- Microbiology and Infectious Disease
- Plant Biology
- Research focus
- adaptive radiation
- evolution of individuality
- evolutionary genetics
- ecological genetics
- emergence of infectious diseases
- forecasting evolution
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Ellen A Robey
University of California Berkeley, United States
- Expertise
- Immunology and Inflammation
- Microbiology and Infectious Disease
- Research focus
- thymocyte
- thymus
- positive and negative selection
- intracellular infection
- CD8 T cell
- cell fate decisions
- mouse models
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Isabel Rodriguez-Barraquer
University of California, San Francisco, United States
- Expertise
- Epidemiology and Global Health
- Microbiology and Infectious Disease
- Research focus
- dengue
- malaria
- Zika
- vector-bone diseases
- serology
- modeling
- Experimental organism
- human
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Antonis Rokas
Vanderbilt University, United States
- Expertise
- Evolutionary Biology
- Microbiology and Infectious Disease
- Research focus
- phylogenomics
- genome evolution in fungi and animals
- evolution of fungal secondary/specialized metabolic pathways
- evolution of mammalian pregnancy
- eukaryotic genome evolution
- Experimental organism
- S. cerevisiae
- mammals
- Aspergillus
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Sara L Sawyer
University of Colorado Boulder, United States
- Expertise
- Evolutionary Biology
- Microbiology and Infectious Disease
- Immunology and Inflammation
- Research focus
- viral emergence and zoonosis
- host-virus arms races
- innate immunity
- dengue
- HIV
- genomics
- Experimental organism
- human
- mouse
- viruses
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John W Schoggins
University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, United States
- Expertise
- Microbiology and Infectious Disease
- Immunology and Inflammation
- Research focus
- virology
- virus-host interactions
- innate immunity
- interferon biology
- antiviral defenses
- effector mechanisms
- mouse models of viral pathogenesis
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Olivier Silvie
Sorbonne Université, Inserm, France
- Expertise
- Microbiology and Infectious Disease
- Research focus
- parasite biology
- malaria
- host-parasite interactions
- vaccines
- Experimental organism
- P. falciparum
- human
- mouse
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Viviana Simon
The Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, United States
- Expertise
- Epidemiology and Global Health
- Microbiology and Infectious Disease
- Research focus
- viral-host interactions
- retroviral restriction factors
- HIV drug resistance
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Christina L Stallings
Washington University School of Medicine, United States
- Expertise
- Microbiology and Infectious Disease
- Immunology and Inflammation
- Chromosomes and Gene Expression
- Research focus
- bacterial pathogenesis
- bacterial transcription
- innate immune responses
- host-pathogen interactions
- Experimental organism
- M. tuberculosis
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Margaret Stanley
University of Cambridge, United Kingdom
- Expertise
- Cancer Biology
- Microbiology and Infectious Disease
- Human Biology and Medicine
- Epidemiology and Global Health
- Research focus
- vaccines
- cervix cancer
- cervix precancer
- keratinocyte biology
- human papillomavirus
- DNA viruses
- vaccine immunology
- Experimental organism
- human
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Wesley Sundquist
University of Utah School of Medicine, United States
- Expertise
- Structural Biology and Molecular Biophysics
- Microbiology and Infectious Disease
- Biochemistry and Chemical Biology
- Research focus
- virus assembly
- HIV
- ESCRT
- abscission
- innate immunity
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Peter Turnbaugh
University of California, San Francisco, United States
- Expertise
- Microbiology and Infectious Disease
- Research focus
- metagenomics
- human gut microbiome
- nutrition
- pharmacology
- bacteriophages
- CRISPR-Cas systems
- gnotobiotics
- microbial metabolism
- Experimental organism
- human
- mouse
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Russell E Vance
University of California, Berkeley, United States
- Expertise
- Immunology and Inflammation
- Microbiology and Infectious Disease
- Research focus
- innate immunity
- bacterial pathogenesis
- interferon
- inflammasomes
- pathogen-sensing
- Experimental organism
- mouse
- L. pneumophila
- M. tuberculosis
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Kevin Verstrepen
VIB-KU Leuven Center for Microbiology, Belgium
- Expertise
- Evolutionary Biology
- Genetics and Genomics
- Microbiology and Infectious Disease
- Research focus
- yeast
- aroma
- fermentation
- genomics
- molecular evolution
- Experimental organism
- S. cerevisiae
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Joseph T Wade
Wadsworth Center, United States
- Expertise
- Microbiology and Infectious Disease
- Chromosomes and Gene Expression
- Genetics and Genomics
- Research focus
- transcription
- regulatory RNA
- CRISPR
- gene regulation
- Experimental organism
- E. coli
- S. enterica
- M. smegmatis
- M. tuberculosis
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Blake Wiedenheft
Montana State University, United States
- Expertise
- Chromosomes and Gene Expression
- Microbiology and Infectious Disease
- Research focus
- bacteriophages
- genome editing
- host-parasite interactions
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Karina B Xavier
Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência, Portugal
- Expertise
- Microbiology and Infectious Disease
- Research focus
- quorum sensing
- microbial genetics
- gene regulation
- signal transduction
- microbiota
- biofilms
- Experimental organism
- E. coli
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Jie Xiao
Johns Hopkins University, United States
- Expertise
- Cell Biology
- Chromosomes and Gene Expression
- Microbiology and Infectious Disease
- Physics of Living Systems
- Research focus
- single molecule biophysics
- bacteria
- cell wall
- cell division
- gene regulation
- chromosome conformation
- Experimental organism
- B. subtilis
- E. coli
- human
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María Mercedes Zambrano
CorpoGen, Colombia
- Expertise
- Microbiology and Infectious Disease
- Genetics and Genomics
- Research focus
- environmental microbiology
- microbial communities
- biodiversity
- microbiome
- antimicrobial resistance
- extreme environments
