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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Eduardo Franco
McGill University, Canada
Eduardo Franco is Professor and Chairman, Department of Oncology, and Director, Division of Cancer Epidemiology, McGill University, Montreal. He holds BSc (1975) and Licentiate (1976) degrees in biology from Universidade de Campinas, Brazil, and master's (MPH) and doctoral (DrPH) degrees in public health microbiology from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (1981-84). He was a Guest Researcher at the US Centers for Disease Control in Atlanta (1980-81 and 1983-84), and a post-doctoral fellow in cancer epidemiology during 1984 at the International Agency for Research on Cancer in Lyon, France, at the US National Cancer Institute (NCI) in Bethesda, and at Louisiana State University, in New Orleans. Since 1985, he has conducted epidemiologic research on the causes of cancer and on the means to prevent it or to improve patient survival. He is mostly known for his contributions to our understanding of human papillomavirus infection as the cause of cervical cancer and using this knowledge to prevent this cancer via vaccination and improved screening strategies. He received the Canadian Cancer Research Alliance’s Distinguished Service to Cancer Research Award, Lifetime Achievement Awards from the American Society for Colposcopy and Cervical Pathology and from the International Papillomavirus Society, the Women in US Government’s Leadership Award, the Canadian Cancer Society’s Warwick Prize, the Geoffrey Howe Outstanding Contribution Award from the Canadian Society for Epidemiology and Biostatistics, the University of British Columbia’s Chew Wei Memorial Prize in Cancer Research, and the McLaughlin-Gallie Award from the Royal College of Physicians of Canada. He has mentored 115 graduate students and post-doctoral fellows, and 30 undergraduate trainees. He is Officer of the Order of Canada and Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada and of the Canadian Academy of Health Sciences. Heholds an honorary doctorate from Universidade Fernando Pessoa, Porto, Portugal.
- Expertise
- Epidemiology and Global Health
- Cancer Biology
- Microbiology and Infectious Disease
- Research focus
- molecular epidemiology and prevention of cervical cancer and human papillomavirus-associated diseases
- cancers of the upper aero-digestive tract
- prostate, endometrium, and childhood tumours
- efficacy of cancer screening strategies
- the impact of measurement error in epidemiology
- societal and clinical influences on cancer patient survival
- Competing interests statement
- Entire research program funded by the Medical Research Council of Canada (until 1999), Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) (1999-present), National Institutes of Health, Canadian Cancer Society, and Cancer Research Society. He has received salary awards from the Fonds de Recherche Quebec Santé and CIHR. He holds a James McGill Professorship and the Minda de Gunzburg Endowed Chair at McGill University. He serves as Editor-in-Chief for Preventive Medicine and Preventive Medicine Reports and serves on the editorial boards of Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers & Prevention, International Journal of Cancer, Papillomavirus Research, and Salud Publica de Mexico. He has served as occasional consultant to companies involved with HPV vaccination (Merck and GSK) and HPV diagnostics (Roche, Abbott, Qiagen, and BD).
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Wendy S Garrett
Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, United States
Wendy Garrett is the Melvin J and Geraldine L. Glimcher Associate Professor of Immunology and Infectious Diseases at the Harvard T. H. Chan School of 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 receives funding from the National Institutes of Health, Hoffman-LaRoche, and Groupe Danone. She is a member of the Cell Reports and Journal of Clinical Microbiology editorial boards. She consults for Janssen and serves on the scientific advisory boards of Synlogic and Evelo Biosciences.
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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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Axel A Brakhage
Leibniz Institute for Natural Product Research and Infection Biology (HKI), Germany
- Expertise
- Microbiology and Infectious Disease
- Structural Biology and Molecular Biophysics
- Research focus
- infection biology of fungi
- microbial secondary metabolism
- microbial communication
- biotechnology
- transcription factors
- macrophages
- neutrophils
- Experimental organism
- aspergillus
- myxococcus xanthus
- Streptomyces
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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 of infectious diseases
- primary immunodeficiencies
- 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
- anopheles gambiae
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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
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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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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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Jean Greenberg
University of Chicago, United States
- Expertise
- Microbiology and Infectious Disease
- Plant Biology
- Research focus
- local and long distance signalling in innate immunity
- plant-microbe interactions
- bacterial pathogens
- Experimental organism
- arabidopsis thaliana
- N. benthamiana
- tomato
- pseudomonas
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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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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
- immunisation
- health economics
- mathematical modelling of infectious diseases
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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
- mycobacterium tuberculosis
- mycobacterium smegmatis
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Frank Kirchhoff
Ulm University Medical Center, Germany
- Expertise
- Epidemiology and Global Health
- Microbiology and Infectious Disease
- Research focus
- functional virology
- origin, evolution and pathogenicity of HIV-1
- HIV
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Karla Kirkegaard
Stanford University School of Medicine, United States
- Expertise
- Chromosomes and Gene Expression
- Microbiology and Infectious Disease
- Research focus
- drug resistance
- viral evolution
- dominant genes
- Experimental organism
- human
- mouse
- viruses
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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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Michael Laub
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, United States
- Expertise
- Cell Biology
- Microbiology and Infectious Disease
- Research focus
- Bacterial cell cycle
- bacterial systems biology
- signal transduction
- protein evolution
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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
- mathematical modeling
- evolution of pathogens
- epidemiology of infectious diseases
- Experimental organism
- streptococcus pneumoniae
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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
- myxococcus 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
- Legionella pneumophila
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Dianne Newman
California Institute of Technology, United States
- Expertise
- Microbiology and Infectious Disease
- Research focus
- evolution of photosynthesis
- physiological functions of redox active "secondary metabolites"
- Experimental organism
- R. palustris
- 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
- arabidopsis thaliana
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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
- Virulence factors
- Type III secretion
- pathogenesis
- autophagy
- 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
- virology
- mechanisms of viral pathogenesis
- vaccines
- HIV/AIDS
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Turnbaugh Peter
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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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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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
- Experimental organism
- fungi
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Thomas Scriba
University of Cape Town, South Africa
- Expertise
- Immunology and Inflammation
- Microbiology and Infectious Disease
- Epidemiology and Global Health
- Research focus
- tuberculosis
- immunology
- vaccination
- biomarkers
- T cells
- clinical trials
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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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Dominique Soldati-Favre
University of Geneva, Switzerland
- Expertise
- Human Biology and Medicine
- Microbiology and Infectious Disease
- Research focus
- host-parasite interactions
- apicomplexa biology
- cell motility
- Experimental organism
- toxoplasma gondii
- plasmodium
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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-host interactions
- retroviruses
- HIV
- Experimental organism
- human
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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
- genomics
- systems biology
- yeast genetics
- Experimental organism
- S. cerevisiae
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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