FEMS Microbiology Reviews

Editorial Board

Chief Editor: Alain Filloux (London, UK)
 
Editors:
Ehud Banin (Ramat-Gan, Israel)
Colin Berry (Cardiff, UK)
Wilbert Bitter (Amsterdam, The Netherlands)
Michael Bott (Jülich, Germany)
Gerhard H. Braus (Goettingen, Germany)
Corina P.D. Brussaard (Texel, The Netherlands)
Miguel Camara (Nottingham, UK) 
Antoine Danchin (Paris, France) 
Christoph Dehio (Basel, Switzerland)
Diego de Mendoza (Rosario, Argentina)
Pierre J.G.M. de Wit (Wageningen, The Netherlands)
Paul Duprex (Boston, MA, USA)
Kenn Gerdes (Newcastle, UK)
Marie-Therese Giudici-Orticoni (Marseille, France)
Bernardo Gonzalez (Santiago, Chile)
Friedrich Götz (Tübingen, Germany)
Urs Greber (Zurich, Switzerland)
Dieter Haas (Lausanne, Switzerland)
Hauke Hennecke (Zurich, Switzerland)
Staffan Kjelleberg (Sydney, Australia)
Lee Kroos (East Lansing, MI, USA) 
Martin Kupiec (Ramat Aviv, Israel)
William Margolin (Houston, TX, USA)
Tâm Mignot (Marseilles,France)
Jure Piskur (Lund, Sweden)
Mecky Pohlschroder (Philadelphia, PA, USA)
Aimee Shen (Burlington, VT, USA)
Maggie Smith (York, UK)
Grzegorz Wegrzyn (Gdansk, Poland)

Editors and their specialist fields: 

Ehud Banin, Institute for Nanotechnology and Advanced Materials, Bar-Ilan University, Israel.
Biofilms, Pseudomonas, Antimicrobial resistance

Colin Berry, Cardiff School of Biosciences, Cardiff University, UK.
Parasitology; Malaria drugs; Bacterial toxins; Biotechnology

Wilbert Bitter, Department Molecular and Medical Microbiology, VU University Medical Center, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
Host pathogen interactions, cell envelopes, chaperones, virulence, pathogenesis, immune modulation, antigens

Michael Bott, Institut für Biotechnologie 1, Forschungszentrum Jülich, Germany.
Corynebacteria; Two-component signal transduction; Metabolic regulation

Gerhard H. Braus, Department of Molecular Microbiology and Genetics, Institute of Microbiology and Genetics, Georg-August-University Goettingen, Germany.
Fungal genetics and cell biology; Yeast; Filamentous fungi

Corina P. D. Brussaard, NIOZ - Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research, Texel, The Netherlands.
Aquatic viral ecology; Marine microbiology; Phytoplankton; Bacteria; Virus-host interactions; Biological oceanography; Food web dynamics; Biogeochemical cycling

Miguel Camara, Institute of Infection Immunity and Inflammation & School of Molecular Medical Sciences, University of Nottingham, UK.
Bacterial cell-cell communication; Quorum sensing; Novel antibacterial targets; Vibrio; Yersinia; Pseudomonas

Antoine Danchin, Institut Pasteur, Paris, France.
Comparative bacterial genomics; Synthetic biology; Bioinformatics (genome annotation, databases and functional inferences); Sulfur metabolism; Origins of life

Christoph Dehio, BIOZENTRUM of the University of Basel, Switzerland.
Type IV secretion; Pathogen-host cell interaction; Bartonella; Angiogenesis; Invasion; Bacterial pathogenesis

Diego de Mendoza, Instituto de Biología Molecular y Celular de Rosario (IBR-CONICET), Argentina.
Regulation of lipid metabolism; Role and function of membrane lipids; Two component systems; Membrane physiology; Signal transduction; Bacterial physiology and regulation of metabolism; Biosynthesis of cysteine and sulphur metabolism; Cold shock and adaptation

Pierre J.G.M. de Wit, Laboratory of Phytopathology, Wageningen University, The Netherlands.
Plant-pathogenic fungi; Plant–microbe interactions; Fungal effectors; Plant defense signalling

Paul Duprex, Department of Microbiology, Boston University, MA, USA
Viruses, vaccines, RNA polymerase, cross-species infection, zoonosis, pathogenesis

Kenn Gerdes, Department of Molecular Biosciences, Newcastle University, UK.
Bacterial infections, cell division, multidrug resistance, stress response, antibiotic resistance, morphology

Marie-Therese Giudici-Orticoni, CNRS French National Centre for Scientific Research, Marseille, France.
Extremophiles, metabolism, biochemistry, bioenergetics, enzymology

Bernardo Gonzalez, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Santiago, Chile.
Aromatic pollutants; Bacterial degradation; Plasmids; Heavy metals; Bacterial diversity; Rizosphere; Lignin degradation

Friedrich Götz, Department of Microbial Genetics, University of Tübingen, Germany.
Biofilm and implant infections; Pathogenicity of staphylococci; Recombinant protein production

Urs Greber, Institute of Molecular Life Sciences, University of Zurich, Switzerland
Cell biology; cytoskeleton, endocytosis; membrane transport; immunity; replication; infections; viruses

Dieter Haas, Department of Fundamental Microbiology, University of Lausanne, Switzerland
Bacterial metabolism, bacterial physiology, Pseudomonas, small RNA (sRNA)

Hauke Henneke, Institute of Microbiology, Zurich, Switzerland.
Symbiotic interaction between bacteria and plants; biological nitrogen fixation; biogenesis of complex membrane-bound enzymes; molecular mechanisms of bacterial gene regulation

Staffan Kjelleberg, School of Biotechnology and Biomolecular Sciences, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia.
Bacterial biofilms, cell-cell signalling, microbial environmental genomics, functional metagenomics, bioremediation

Lee Kroos, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Michigan State University, MI, USA.
Bacterial development; Gene regulation; Transcription; Signaling; Proteolytic processing; Regulatory networks

Martin Kupiec, Department of Molecular Microbiology and Biotechnology, Tel Aviv University, Israel.
Yeast molecular genetics; DNA repair and recombination; Cell cycle and checkpoints; Pre-mRNA splicing; Retrotransposons; Genome-wide analysis

William Margolin, Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, University of Texas Medical School, USA.
Bacterial cell cycle; Cell cycle and cell division proteins; FtsZ

Tâm Mignot, Institut de Microbiologie de la Méditerranée, Aix Marseille Universite, Marseille, France
Biochemistry, bioinformatics, cell biology, cell motility, Myxobacteria

Jure Piskur, Department of Biology, Lund University, Sweden.
Comparative genomics and evolution; Gene therapy; Molecular genetics; Food microbiology; Molecular biotechnology; Wine, beer and probiotic yeasts

Mecky Pohlschroder, Department of Biology, University of Pennsylvania, USA.
Protein transport; Haloarcheal genetics and molecular biology; Prokaryotic cell-surface structures

Dr Aimee Shen, Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, University of Vermont, USA.
Clostridium difficile , gram positive bacteria, genetics, proteomics and spore formation

Maggie Smith, Department of Biology, University of York, UK.
Biology and applications of bacteriophages; Molecular genetics of Streptomyces; Molecular biology of mobile genetic elements; Site-specific recombination

Grzegorz Wegrzyn, Department of Molecular Biology, University of Gdansk, Poland.
DNA replication of plasmids and bacteriophages; Regulation of gene expression in bacteria