People
Senior editors
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Wendy S Garrett
Senior Editor
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
- Microbiology and Infectious Disease
- Research focus
- host-microbiota interactions
- microbiome
- mucosal immunology
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Prabhat Jha
Senior Editor
Prabhat Jha has been a key figure in epidemiology and economics of global health for the past decade. He is the University of Toronto Endowed Professor in Disease Control and Canada Research Chair at the Dalla Lana School of Public Health, and the founding Director of the Centre for Global Health Research at St. Michael's Hospital in Toronto. Professor Jha is a lead investigator of the Million Death Study in India, which quantifies the causes of premature mortality in over one million homes from 1997–2014 and which examines the contribution of key risk factors such as tobacco, alcohol, diet, and environmental exposures. He is co-investigator of the Disease Control Priorities Network and the author of several influential books on tobacco control, including two that helped enable a global treaty on tobacco control, now signed by over 160 countries. Prior to founding CGHR, Professor Jha served as Senior Scientist for the World Health Organization, where he co-led the work on health and poverty for the Commission on Macroeconomics and Health. Earlier, he headed the World Bank team responsible for developing the Second National HIV/AIDS Control Program in India. His advisory work has included the Government of South Africa on its national health insurance plan, and the United States Institute of Medicine on global health. Notable recognitions include the Order of Canada (2013) for contributions to global health, the Luther Terry Award for Research on Tobacco Control (2012), The Globe and Mail 25 Transformational Canadians (2010), Top 40 Canadians under Age 40 Award (2004), the Ontario Premier’s Research Excellence Award (2004), and Gold Medal from the Poland Health Promotion Foundation (2000). Professor Jha holds an MD from the University of Manitoba and a DPhil from Oxford University, where he studied as a Canadian Rhodes Scholar.
- Expertise
- Epidemiology and Global Health
- Microbiology and Infectious Disease
- Research focus
- epidemiology
- global health
- infectious disease and population dynamics
- randomized controlled trials
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Wenhui Li
Senior Editor
Wenhui Li is an Investigator of the National Institute of Biological Sciences (NIBS), Beijing, China. He received a bachelor’s degree in medicine from the Medical School of Lanzhou University in 1994 and his PhD from the Peking Union Medical College & Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences in 2001. After completing his postdoctoral studies at Harvard Medical School, Li joined NIBS as an Assistant Investigator in 2007 and rose to the rank of Investigator in 2015. His team at NIBS identified a liver bile acids transporter (sodium taurocholate co-transporting polypeptide, NTCP) as a functional receptor for Hepatitis B and D virus. Li’s research interest has been focusing on the molecular mechanisms of viral infections: currently his laboratory combines virology, biochemistry, immunology, and chemical biology to investigate molecular mechanisms of HBV/HDV infection.
- Expertise
- Biochemistry
- Microbiology and Infectious Disease
- Research focus
- virus infection
- hepatitis b/d virus
- receptor
- antivirals
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Gisela Storz
Senior Editor
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
- Research focus
- small noncoding RNAs
- oxidative stress
- gene regulation
- bacterial physiology
- regulatory RNAs
- Experimental organism
- E. coli
Reviewing editors
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Axel A Brakhage
Friedrich Schiller University Jena and Hans-Knöll-Institut, Germany
- Expertise
- Microbiology and Infectious Disease
- Research focus
- infection biology of fungi
- microbial secondary metabolism
- microbial communication
- biotechnology
- transcription factors
- Experimental organism
- aspergillus
- myxococcus xanthus
- macrophages
- neutrophils
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Jon Clardy
Harvard Medical School, United States
- Expertise
- Biochemistry
- Ecology
- Microbiology and Infectious Disease
- Research focus
- microbial secondary metabolism
- chemical communications
- biosensors
- chemical biology
- microbial ecology and evolution
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Eduardo Franco
McGill University, Canada
- Expertise
- Cancer Biology
- Epidemiology and Global Health
- Human Biology and Medicine
- Microbiology and Infectious Disease
- Research focus
- human biology and medicine
- microbiology and infectious disease
- cancer epidemiology and prevention
- screening
- human papillomavirus infection
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Michael Gilmore
Harvard Medical School, United States
- Expertise
- Microbiology and Infectious Disease
- Research focus
- bacterial cell biology
- antibiotic resistance
- Experimental organism
- enterococci
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Stephen P Goff
Columbia University, United States
- Expertise
- Microbiology and Infectious Disease
- Research focus
- retrovirus replication
- virus assembly
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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, United States
- Expertise
- Microbiology and Infectious Disease
- Research focus
- microbe-microbe communication
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Eduardo A Groisman
Yale University, United States
- Expertise
- Microbiology and Infectious Disease
- Research focus
- bacterial pathogens
- symbionts
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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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Karla Kirkegaard
Stanford University School of Medicine, United States
- Expertise
- Genes and Chromosomes
- 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
- Immunology
- Microbiology and Infectious Disease
- Research focus
- DNA viruses
- epigenetic regulation
- latent infection
- innate and intrinsic immunity
- vaccines
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Urszula Krzych
Walter Reed Army Institute of Research, United States
- Expertise
- Epidemiology and Global Health
- Immunology
- 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 development
- bacterial systems biology
- signal transduction
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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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Marc Lipsitch
Harvard 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
- Research focus
- signal transduction
- motility
- bacterial development
- bacterial cell biology
- Experimental organism
- myxococcus xanthus
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Richard A Neher
University of Basel, Switzerland
- Expertise
- Computational and Systems Biology
- Genomics and Evolutionary Biology
- Microbiology and Infectious Disease
- Research focus
- population genetics
- evolution of RNA viruses
- bioinformatics
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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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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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Madhukar Pai
McGill University, Canada
- Expertise
- Epidemiology and Global Health
- Microbiology and Infectious Disease
- Research focus
- tuberculosis
- epidemiology
- public health
- global health
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Antonis Rokas
Vanderbilt University, United States
- Expertise
- Genomics and 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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Feng Shao
National Institute of Biological Sciences, China
- Expertise
- Immunology
- Microbiology and Infectious Disease
- Research focus
- bacterial infection
- innate immunity
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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
- motility
- Experimental organism
- toxoplasma gondii
- plasmodium
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Wesley Sundquist
University of Utah, United States
- Expertise
- Biophysics and Structural Biology
- Microbiology and Infectious Disease
- Research focus
- virus-host interactions
- retroviruses
- HIV
- Experimental organism
- human cells
