Molecular Oral Microbiology is a bimonthly journal which publishes high quality research papers and reviews on fundamental or applied molecular studies of microorganisms of the oral cavity and respiratory tract, host-microbe interactions, cellular microbiology, molecular ecology, and immunological studies of oral and respiratory tract infections.

Prof. Hansel M. Fletcher, Editor-in-Chief of Molecular Oral Microbiology.

Dr. Fletcher is currently the Assistant Dean for Graduate Student Affairs in the School of Medicine at Loma Linda University. As part of this portfolio he manages the graduate program including the curriculum. He is also Professor and Vice Chair for the Department of Basic Sciences, Division of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics. He serves on several study panels for the National Institutes of Health, including study sections that evaluate grants for the training and development of graduate students, postdoctoral fellows and faculty at the early stages of their career.

As an experienced and well-trained scientist in the molecular genetics and biochemistry of microbial diseases, his research program has been focused on oral bacterial pathogens important to periodontal diseases and inflammatory systemic diseases including cardiovascular disease and rheumatoid arthritis. His pioneering work on genetic tool development for Porphyromonas lead to the first demonstration of the role of proteases in the virulence of P. gingivalis. Furthermore, the genetic tool (an ermF/ermAM antibiotic resistance cassette) is the most widely used in genetics studies in P. gingivalis.

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