Pathogens and Disease

Editorial Board

Chief Editor: Patrik M. Bavoil Department of Biomedical Sciences, University of Maryland Dental School, Baltimore, MD, USA. Chlamydia; Intracellular Pathogens; Molecular and cellular pathogenesis; Type III secretion; Antigenic variation; Bacterial surfaces; Bacterial transport; Comparative and functional genomics
Editors and their specialist fields:
Patricia Bozza Laboratório de Imunofarmacologia, Instituto Oswaldo Cruz, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil Innate immunity; Molecular and cellular mechanisms of inflammation; Mycobacterium tuberculosis; Protozoan parasites
Patrick J. Brennan Department of Microbiology, Immunology and Pathology, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO, USA. Mycobacterium; Mycobacterial diseases; Immune response to bacteria; Bacterial pathogenesis; Bacterial infectious agents and drug development
Nicholas Carbonetti Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Maryland, School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA. Bacterial pathogenesis; Host-pathogen interactions; Bacterial toxins; Inflammatory responses to infection
Ake Forsberg Department of Molecular Biology, Umea University, Umea, Sweden. Molecular pathogenesis; Host–pathogen interactions; Yersinia sp.; Pseudomonas, Francisella spp. and more general bacterial pathogens
Alfredo Garzino-Demo Institute of Human Virology, University of Maryland Biotechnology Institute, Baltimore, MD, USA. Virology; HIV; Virus-host interactions; Immunity to viruses
Richard T. Marconi Department of Microbiology and Immunology, The Center for the Study of Biological Complexity, Medical College of Virginia at Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA, USA. Microbial pathogenesis; Immune evasion; Host immune responses; Arthropod borne diseases; Lyme disease; Spirochetes; Vaccine development; Periodontal disease; Treponemes; Borrelia
Denise Monack Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA, USA. Bacterial pathogens; Francisella tularenisis; Host pathogen interactions; Inflammation; Salmonella
Eric Oswald INRA, UMR1225, Ecole Nationale Veterinaire de Toulouse, Toulouse, France. Bacteria-host interactions in health and disease; Cellular microbiology; Bacterial toxins; Bacterial secretion systems; Zoonotic bacteria; Veterinary public health; Medical microbiology
David Rasko Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Maryland School of Medicine Institute for Genome Sciences, Baltimore, MD, USA. Comparative genomics; Pathogenesis; Transcriptomics; Enteric pathogens; Escherichia coli
Jacques Schrenzel Geneva University Hospitals, Geneva, Switzerland. Staphylococci; MRSA; Molecular microbiology; Genomics
Peter Timms School of Life Sciences, Institute of Health and Biomedical Innovation, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Australia. Chlamydia; Vaccines; Bacterial pathogenesis; Genomics
Nicholas R. Thomson Pathogen Genomics, Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Hinxton, Cambridge, UK. Enterobacteriaceae; Chlamydiae; Bacterial genomics; Bacterial transcriptomics; Bacterial pathogenesis
Raphael H. Valdivia Department of Molecular Genetics and Microbiology and Center for Microbial Pathogenesis, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC, USA. Cellular microbiology; Type II&III secretion; Microbial genetics; Genomics; Membrane transport; Apoptosis; Cell signaling; Cytoskeletal dynamics; Chlamydia pathogenesis; Intracellular pathogen; Innate immunity; Inflammation; Proteomics
Willem van Eden Department of Immunology, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Universiteit Utrecht, TD Utrecht, The Netherlands. MHC/genetics; Tcells; Autoimmunity/tolerance; DNA vaccines; Cell-mediated immunity

Editorial Board Members:

Herve Agaisse (Yale, USA)
Thomas Bjarnsholt (U Copenhagen, Denmark)
Gerry Byrne (U Tennessee, Memphis, USA)
Gabriella Campadelli-Fiume (U Bologna, Italy)
Guy Cornelis (U Basel, Switzerland)
Pierre Cornelis (U Brussel, Belgium)
Steven Dewhurst (U Rochester, USA)
Michael Donnenberg (U Maryland Baltimore, USA)
Charles Dorman (Trinity Coll, Dublin, Ireland)
Stephen Dumler (J Hopkins U, Baltimore, USA)
Alain Filloux (Imperial Coll, London UK)
Jorge Galan (Yale, USA)
Thomas Hawn (U Washington, USA)
Michael Hecker (U Greifswald, Germany)
Jürgen Heesemann (U Muenchen, Germany)
Daniel Henk (Imperial Coll London, UK)
Niels Hoiby (U Copenhagen, Denmark)
David Horn (London Sch Hyg Trop Med, UK)
Matthias Horn (U Vienna, Austria)
Shie-Liang 'Edmond' Hsieh (Nat Yang Ming U, Taiwan)
Kazuyoshi Ikuta (Osaka U, Japan)
Wiliaml Jacobs Jr (Alb Einstein Coll Med, NY, USA)
Eun-Kyeong Jo (Chungnam Nat U, South Korea)
Hans-Dieter Klenk (U Marburg, Germany)
Karl Kuchler (U Vienna, Vienna, Austria)
Jose Luis Martinez (U Madrid, Spain)
Kathleen McDonough (Wadsworth, Albany, NY, USA)
Andrei Medvedev (U Maryland Baltimore, USA)
Valerie Mizrahi (U Cape Town, South Africa)
Virginia Miller (U North Carolina, USA)
Frits Mooi (RIVM, Bilthoven, Netherlands)
Staffan Normark (Umea U, Sweden)
Paul Orndorff (Nth Carolina State U, USA)
Julian Parkhill (Sanger Center, UK)
Mariagrazia Pizza (Novartis, Siena, Italy)
Roger Rank (U Arkansas Med Sci, USA)
Jacques Ravel (U Maryland Baltimore, USA)
Lee Riley (UC Berkeley, USA)
Pascale Romby (U Strasbourg, France)
Craig Roy (Yale, USA)
Thomas Rudel (U Wuerzburg, Germany)
Nina Salama (U Washington, USA)
Philippe Sansonetti (Pasteur Inst, France)
Scott Stibitz (FDA, Bethesda, USA)
Herve Tettelin (U Maryland Baltimore, USA)
Tone Tønjum (U Oslo, Norway)
Guy Tran van Nhieu (Coll de France, Paris, France)
Michele Swanson (U Michigan, USA)
Bernt Eric Uhlin (Umea U, Sweden)
Ruifu Yang (Beijing Inst Micro & Epidemiol, China)
Yi Zeng (Beijing U Technology, China)