Editor-in-Chief

Prof. Dr. Patrick C.Y. Woo

National Chung Hsing University, Taichung 402202, Taiwan.

Research Interests: emerging infectious diseases; novel microbes discovery; microbial genomics.

Email: pcywoo@hku.hk

Editorial Board Members

Prof. Dr. Dominique Belin

Department of Pathology and Immunology, University of Geneva, CH1201 Geneva, Switzerland.

Research Interests: serine proteases and extracellular proteolysis; inhibitors of serine proteases (SERPINs); protein translocation across membranes; genetics of bacteria and phages.

Email: dominique.belin@unige.ch

Prof. Dr. Natália Cruz-Martins

Faculty of Medicine, University of Porto, 4099-002 Porto, Portugal.

Research Interests: evidence-based medicine; phytochemistry; phytopharmacology; drug discovery; natural products biochemistry; bioactive molecules; functional foods; nutraceuticals; fungal and bacterial infections; resistance to antimicrobials.

Email: ncmartins@med.up.pt

Prof. Dr. Renato Fani

Department of Biology, University of Florence, 50019 Sesto Fiorentino, Italy.

Research Interests: antibiotic resistance; bacterial genetics; endophytes; environmental microbiology; gene and genome evolution; molecular evolution.

Email: renato.fani@unifi.it

Dr. Mª Isabel Sola Gurpegui

National Center of Biotechnology (CNB-CSIC), Campus Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, 28049 Madrid, Spain.

Research Interests: coronavirus; virus-host interactions; innate immune response; non-coding RNAs; microRNAs; pulmonary inflammation; viral replication; viral pathogenesis.

Email: isola@cnb.csic.es

Prof. Dr. Hannu Korkeala

Departments of Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, University of Helsinki, 00100 Helsinki, Finland.

Research Interests: epidemiology, diagnostics, and genetics of psyhrotrophic and spore-forming bacteria; Clostridium botulinum; Clostridium perfringens; Listeria monocytogenes; Yersinia enterocolitica; Yersinia pseudotuberculosis; mechanism of psyhrotrophy.

Email: hannu.korkeala@helsinki.fi

Dr. Thuy Le

Department of Medicine, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, NC 27710, USA.

Research Interests: HIV-associated fungal infection; talaromycosis; mycology.

Email: thuy.le@duke.edu

Prof. Dr. Benjamin W. Neuman

Department of Biology, Texas A&M University, TX, USA.

Research Interests: coronavirus, arenavirus, and influenzavirus particles; virion proteins; RNA viruses; vaccine-resistant viral strains; phage therapy.

Email: bneuman@tamu.edu

Dr. Monsicha Pongpom

Department of Microbiology, Faculty of Medicine, Chiang Mai University, Chiang Mai 50200, Thailand.

Research Interests: genes involved in virulence; Talaromyces marneffei; antifungal peptides.

Email: monsicha.p@cmu.ac.th

Prof. Dr. Roberta Provvedi

Department of Biology, University of Padua, Padova, Italy.

Research Interests: bacterial genetics and global regulation of gene expression.

Email: roberta.provvedi@unipd.it

Dr. Lia Rimondini

Department of Health Sciences, University of Piemonte Orientale “UPO”, Vercelli, Italy.

Research Interests: biomaterials; dental materials; tissue regeneration; tissue engineering; oral medicine; bacterial biofilm; anti-infective technologies.

Email: lia.rimondini@med.uniupo.it

Dr. Jean-Marc Sabatier

Institute of Neurophysiopathology (INP), Aix-Marseille University, Faculté des Sciences Médicales et Paramédicales, 13005 Marseille, France.

Research Interests: antimicrobial peptides; antibacterial; antibiotics; structure-activity relationships; bacteriocins; drug design; peptide engineering.

Email: sabatier.jm1@libertysurf.fr

Dr. Siddharth Sridhar

Department of Microbiology, School of Clinical Medicine, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China.

Research Interests: clinical microbiology and infection; hepatitis E.

Email: sid8998@hku.hk

Dr. Jade L.L. Teng

Faculty of Dentistry, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, China.

Research Interests: oral microbiology and infection; emerging infectious diseases; novel microbe discovery; microbiome; antimicrobial resistance.

Email: llteng@hku.hk

Dr. Atsushi Togawa

Department of Hematology, Oncology, and Infectious Diseases, Faculty of Medicine, Fukuoka University, Fukuoka 814-0180, Japan.

Research Interests: travel medicine; clinical infectious diseases; biofilm infection; Klebsiella pneumoniae.

Email: atogawa@fukuoka-u.ac.jp

Prof. Dr. Sergio Uzzau

Department of Biomedical Sciences, University of Sassari, Sassari, Italy.

Research Interests: bacterial pathogenesis; gut microbiota; metaproteomics; metagenomics; clinical microbiology.

Email: uzzau@uniss.it

Dr. Fanfan Xing

Department of Clinical Microbiology and Infection Control, The University of Hong Kong-Shenzhen Hospital, Shenzhen, Guangdong, China.

Research Interests: parasitic diseases; pulmonary tuberculosis; viral hepatitis; fungal infection; central nervous system infection.

Email: xingff@hku-szh.org