The Microbiology Editorial Board has been organised by the topic areas of the journal, emphasising the breadth of microbiology as a field, and streamlining the submission process for authors. On submission, authors are encouraged to highlight a suitable handling Editor in their cover letter.
Editor-in-Chief
University of Bath, UK
Deputy Editors-in-Chief
Steve Diggle
Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, USA
Sarah Hooper 
Cardiff Metropolitan University, UK
Microbe Profiles Editor
Gail Preston University of Oxford, UK
Microbial Primers Editor
Steve Diggle Georgia Institute of Technology, USA
Senior Editors
Dany Beste University of Surrey, UK
Michael Brockhurst University of Manchester, UK
Sam Brown Georgia Institute of Technology, USA
Susanne Gebhard Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz, Germany
Jeffrey Gralnick University of Minnesota, St Paul, USA
Matt Hutchings John Innes Centre, Norwich, UK
Martin Welch University of Cambridge, UK
Willem van Schaik University of Birmingham, UK
Editors
Click the subject headings below for a list of relevant editors and their research interests.
This topic area covers the discovery and characterisation of antibiotics and other natural products, including studies on mechanism of actions and mechanisms of resistance (AMR) and the understanding and manipulation of their biosynthesis. This area also includes studies on the mechanisms that underpin the evolution and spread of resistance genes.
Jessica Blair University of Birmingham, UK
My research focusses on molecular mechanisms of antibiotic resistance, in particular resistance mediated by efflux pumps. I’m interested in the role of efflux in AMR and non-AMR related phenotypes such as virulence, regulation of efflux and structure/function of efflux pumps. I am also interested in how efflux and drug accumulation can be measured.
Katherine Duncan University of Newcastle, UK
My research interests include microbial chemical biology, in particular Actinobacteria-specialized metabolism and marine natural product and linking genomics and metabolomics data for accelerated antibiotic discovery.
Andrew Edwards Imperial College London, UK
I study antimicrobial resistance in a range of Gram-positive and Gram-negative bacteria, with a particular focus on cyclic-lipopeptides and how the host environment alters bacterial susceptibility to antimicrobials.
Susanne Gebhard Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz, Germany
My research interests are on the responses of Gram-positive bacteria to antimicrobials, particularly those targeting the cell envelope, with a focus on signalling, gene regulation and function of resistance genes.
James Hall University of Liverpool, UK
My current research advances our understanding of the patterns and processes in microbial evolution, using findings from studies on horizontal gene transfer and mobile genetic elements in relation to AMR.
Stineke van Houte University of Exeter, UK
I am interested in the epidemiology of AMR and the mechanisms and evolution of horizontal gene transfer, with the aims of developing new evolution-proof antimicrobial tools to tackle drug-resistant infections.
Ayush Kumar University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada
My research interests focus on the mechanisms of AMR that have evolved in Acinetobacter baumannii and Pseudomonas aeruginosa, particularly those involving drug efflux. I am also interested in studying environmental determinants of resistance as well as the presence of AMR in the environment.
Humberto Martín Universidad Complutense Madrid, Spain
My research interests include antifungal drugs – their mechanisms of action and resistance. I am also interested in screening for novel antifungal molecules.
Despoina Mavridou University of Texas at Austin, USA
I am interested in the role of cell envelope protein homeostasis in AMR. In particular, the importance of folding catalysts, such as disulfide-bond-formation proteins, chaperones and proteases for the function of major antibiotic resistance determinants.
Daniel Neill University of Dundee, UK
My research aims to develop antimicrobial adjuvants or potentiators to combat high levels of AMR seen in pathogens of the cystic fibrosis lung.
Willem van Schaik University of Birmingham, UK
My research investigates the diversity and dissemination of antibiotic resistance genes in complex microbial communities, including the gut microbiome.
Henrik Strahl Centre for Bacterial Cell Biology, Biosciences Institute, Newcastle University, UK
My research focusses on screening and developing novel, cell envelope-targeting antimicrobials, and in studying the mode of action of antibacterial compounds, both novel and those already in use.
Marjan van der Woude University of York, UK
My expertise in gene regulation and genetics of Gram-negative bacteria, and bacterial communities and biofilms can be applied to the understanding of the occurrence, spread and mechanisms of antibiotic resistance.
This topic area covers the understanding, engineering and utilization of microbial cellular and biomolecular processes to develop or improve technologies and products. This includes the development and application of synthetic biology tools and methodology.
Fabian Commichau University of Hohenheim, Germany
My research uses Bacillus subtilis as a chassis to develop novel routes for commercial production of vitamin B6.
Brigitte Gasser University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna, Austria
My research interests include the application and engineering of yeast systems, including Pichia pastoris in biotechnology particularly around recombinant protein expression.
Susanne Gebhard Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz, Germany
I have an interest in biotechnological application of bacteria, primarily of the genus Bacillus, and genetic engineering of bacteria for application.
Jeffrey Gralnick University of Minnesota, St Paul, USA
I study bacteria capable of extracellular electron transfer, a process that can be used in microbial fuel cells and in biosensors. I also use synthetic biology approaches to manipulate a range of environmental bacteria to enhance metabolic capabilities and to understand metabolism.
Humberto Martín Universidad Complutense Madrid, Spain
My research interests include fungal-based synthetic biology approaches and developments and fungal biotechnology.
Pedro Oliveira Genoscope, Évry France
My research interests include genetic instability in nucleic acid- and cell-based biopharmaceuticals, and genome engineering.
Nicholas Tucker University of Suffolk, UK
My research interests include improving industrial strain performance and stress resistance to facilitate the sustainable production of plastics, particularly in Pseudomonas spp.
Gerd Seibold DTU Bioengineering, Lyngby, Denmark
I have a research interest in metabolic engineering of bacteria, especially Corynebacterium glutamicum and applications of genetically encoded biosensors for microbial strain engineering.
Jolanda van Munster Scotland's Rural College, Edinburgh UK
I am interested in the interaction of fungi with complex carbohydrates such as in cell walls of plants and fungi. My current research focus is the degradation of lignocellulose by fungi, this includes production of carbohydrate active enzyme in industrially relevant fungi as Aspergillus niger.
This topic areas covers all levels of cell biological studies of microbes, including those around cell growth, division, differentiation, and death. This also includes areas of cell signalling, intracellular trafficking and cell movement and motility.
Gautam Dey European Molecular Biology Laboratory, Heidelberg, Germany
I have an interest in the organisation of the nucleus and nuclear envelope; nuclear division and mitosis; syncytial division; nuclear remodelling in Ichthyosporea, Fungi, Amoebozoa and Apicomplexa; archaeal cell biology.
Humberto Martín Universidad Complutense Madrid, Spain
My research interests include yeast morphogenesis.
Henrik Strahl Centre for Bacterial Cell Biology, Biosciences Institute, Newcastle University, UK
My research interests cover how bacterial cells establish their cell morphology through spatially organised cell wall synthesis, and how cells establish internal cellular organisation though spatial cues including peripheral membrane binding, membrane curvature-dependent localisation, and nucleoid exclusion.
This topic area covers processes that occur at the cell envelope and include biogenesis and remodelling of the cell wall, outer membrane and cell surface structures. It also covers protein, carbohydrate and small molecule secretion and transport processes.
John Atack Griffith University, Australia
My interests are bacterial adhesins, adhesins as vaccine candidates, regulation of cell surface factors including phase-variable factors, LOS, glycan-binding proteins
Jessica Blair University of Birmingham, UK
I have expertise in the study of the cell surface, mainly in relation to AMR. This includes study of efflux pumps and efflux complexes as well as understanding how drugs enter and leave cells.
David Clarke University College Cork, Ireland
My research interests include understanding the genetics of membrane structure, function and homeostasis in Gram negative bacteria and the production of bioactive lipids by bacteria.
Andrew Edwards Imperial College London, UK
I study antimicrobial resistance in a range of Gram-positive and Gram-negative bacteria, with a particular focus on cyclic-lipopeptides and how the host environment alters bacterial susceptibility to antimicrobials.
Rebecca Hall University of Kent, UK
I am interested in how adaptation of microbes, specifically fungi, to the environment of the human host regulates changes in the structure and organisation of the microbial cell surface, and the consequences this remodelling has on the host-pathogen interaction.
Kimberly Kline University of Geneva, Switzerland
My lab focuses on the pathogenic strategies of Enteroocccus faecalis within biofilm-associated infections. With respect to cell surfaces, we are particularly interested in the regulation and biogenesis of Enterococcal sortase-assembled pili, important for biofilms in a variety of environments.
Humberto Martín Universidad Complutense Madrid, Spain
My research interests include the structure and regulation of yeast cell walls.
Despoina Mavridou University of Texas at Austin, USA
My research interests include the study of biochemical processes that take place near or on the cell surface. Such processes are mostly linked to bacterial virulence and antimicrobial resistance as well as interbacterial competition.
Christopher Mulligan University of Kent, UK
My research interests are in the structure and mechanism of transport processes at the membrane, including nutrients and small molecule uptake, efflux processes (including antimicrobials), and ion flux. I also have research interests in lipid homeostasis and envelope stress response.
Jolanda van Munster Scotland's Rural College, Edinburgh UK
I am interested in the interaction of fungi with complex carbohydrates such as in cell walls of plants and fungi. I have worked on the regulation and enzyme biochemistry of cell wall remodelling and degradation in the fungus Aspergillus niger.
Angela Nobbs University of Bristol, UK
I am interested in the structure-function relationship of surface-expressed microbial adhesins, linking detailed resolution of protein structure with its functional properties, with a particular focus on Streptococcus bacteria.
Nichollas Scott University of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
I am interested in the biosynthesis of glycoconjugates and surface glycans, including the chemical diversity of microbial glycans, often exploiting biophysical approaches like mass spectrometry.
Gerd Seibold DTU Bioengineering, Lyngby, Denmark
My research interests include the transport of metabolites, especially sugars and ions across biological membranes in bacteria.
Willem van Schaik University of Birmingham, UK
My research interests include modifications to cell surfaces linked to resistance to the last-resort antibiotics vancomycin (Enterococcus faecium) and colistin (in Enterobacteriaceae).
Henrik Strahl Centre for Bacterial Cell Biology, Biosciences Institute, Newcastle University, UK
My research focusses on bacterial cell wall synthesis, and bacterial membranes, their homeostasis and internal organisation through lipid domain formation.
Meera Unnikrishnan University of Warwick, UK
My research interests include type VII secretion systems and bacterial colonisation factors.
Marjan van der Woude University of York, UK
I apply my interest in gene regulation and bacterial communities to assess surface structures of Gram negative bacteria (i.e. outer membrane proteins, type V secretion systems, fimbriae, LPS) to understand how they define the interactions with the host, other bacteria, or bacteriophage.
This topic area covers interactions that occur between cells of the same and different species and their impact on microbial fitness and community function. This includes interactions between species within microbiomes.
David Clarke University College Cork, Ireland
My research interests include understanding the molecular mechanisms that underpin bacteria-host interactions, with a particular focus on beneficial interactions.
Gautam Dey European Molecular Biology Laboratory, Heidelberg, Germany
My research interests include archaeal-bacterial symbioses.
Katherine Duncan University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, UK
My research interests include ecological, evolutionary, environmental and biogeographic impacts on prokaryotic-prokaryotic and prokaryotic-eukaryotic interactions and the resulting phenotypic and metabolomic responses.
Jeffrey Gralnick University of Minnesota, St Paul, USA
I am interested in understanding how environmental bacteria interact with each other and their hosts with a particular emphasis on laboratory-based experiments where ecological ideas can be tested.
James Hall University of Liverpool, UK
My research aims to understand the evolutionary ecology of interactions between microbes, with animals and plants, and with and between parasitic and mutualistic mobile genetic elements like bacteriophage and plasmids.
Stineke van Houte University of Exeter, UK
I am interested in the mechanisms and evolutionary consequences underlying interactions between bacterial hosts and mobile genetic elements (MGEs), between MGEs, and between hosts interactions. I also study how a microbial community context can change the nature and consequences of these individual interactions, and in turn, what the (evolutionary) consequences of these interactions are for community composition and function.
Kimberly Kline University of Geneva, Switzerland
I study how E. faecalis senses and responds to the various environments it finds itself in – from the gut, to the urinary tract, to wounds, to heart valves – in order to form the biofilms that are important for its persistence in each of these niches. We are also very interested in understanding the polymicrobial interactions that occur during many Enterococcal infections.
Despoina Mavridou University of Texas at Austin, USA
I study the role of interbacterial competition in shaping bacterial communities. I focus on the regulation of bacteriocins and the composition of the type VI secretion system in order to examine how these factors contribute to the emergence of bacterial behaviour at the population level.
Willem van Schaik University of Birmingham, UK
My research interests include microbial communities as reservoirs of antibiotic resistance genes, and the impact of antibiotic therapy on the impact of the gut microbiome.
Meera Unnikrishnan University of Warwick, UK
My areas of interest include interactions within mixed biofilm communities and pathogen-commensal interactions.
Marjan van der Woude University of York, UK
I have an interest in factors that affect the development of bacterial communities and assessing effects of inter-bacterial interactions on community structure. My approaches include combining bacterial genetics (mutations/building model strains) with imaging (single cell to population level) in bacterial pathogens using E. coli as a model system.
Robert Quinn Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan, USA
My expertise focuses on the dynamics and interactions of microbial communities during health and disease. I use multi-omics methods, experimental and animal models and microbial ecology theory to investigate the microbial ecology of the lung and gut microbiomes and coral reefs.
This topic area covers the evolution of microbes, including their evolutionary dynamics, evolutionary ecology, social evolution, molecular evolution, and adaptation. It includes evolutionary studies using experimental evolution, molecular biology, population genetics/genomics, or comparative genomics approaches, at the molecular, cellular, population or community scales.
Gautam Dey European Molecular Biology Laboratory, Heidelberg, Germany
My interests include the evolution of the nucleus; eukaryogenesis, and experimental evolution.
Jenna Gallie Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Biology, Plön, Germany
My current research is focused on the evolution of bacterial transfer RNAs (tRNAs). I am interested in how different bacterial tRNA complements emerge and persist and I investigate the mechanisms by which bacteria survive under starvation conditions in prolonged stationary phase, and the evolutionary dynamics of co-evolving populations of E. coli and phage lambda.
James Hall University of Liverpool, UK
My current research focuses on the contribution of horizontal gene transfer and mobile genetic elements to microbial evolution. I am interested in using experimental evolution and genome sequencing to identify targets and dynamics of evolution. I also have a long-standing interest in understanding how microbial evolution enables immune evasion by antigenic variation.
Stineke van Houte University of Exeter, UK
I am interested in using experimental evolution approaches to understand how biotic and abiotic factors drive the evolution of bacterial immune systems, diversification, and adaptation. I study co-evolutionary processes between bacteria and mobile genetic elements including bacteriophages and plasmids and am interested in the evolutionary epidemiology of infectious diseases.
Daniel Neill University of Dundee, UK
Within host adaptation and evolution of bacterial respiratory pathogens, including Streptococcus pneumoniae and Pseudomonas aeruginosa. We use in vitro and in vivo experimental evolution approaches to identify niche-specific influences on evolutionary trajectories of bacterial pathogens.
Pedro Oliveira Genoscope, Évry France
My interests include diversification of defence systems (defensome) and control of genetic flux in bacterial populations.
This topic area welcomes submissions that demonstrate the diversity of microbial metabolism (particularly for anaerobes); focus on how inter-species interactions influence microbial physiology; and examine how environmental challenges alter the physiology and metabolic interactions of the ecosystems.
Dany Beste University of Surrey, UK
My research interests involve the physiology and nutrient utilisation of Mycobacterium tuberculosis in the host; metabolic pathways for intracellular growth; adaptation to slow growth rate and different nutrients, and how the metabolism impacts on the development of AMR.
James Connolly Newcastle University, UK
A key aspect of my research is understanding how metabolic flexibility benefits pathogens during infection of different host sites and how this metabolism overlaps with the regulation of virulence.
Jenna Gallie Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Biology, Plön, Germany
My research interests include the evolution and characterization of stochastic phenotype switching in Pseudomonas fluorescens.
Jeffrey Gralnick University of Minnesota, St Paul, USA
I am interested in understanding how environmental bacteria interact with each other and their hosts with a particular emphasis on laboratory-based experiments where ecological ideas can be tested.
Nicola Holden Scotland's Rural College, Edinburgh, UK
My research interests include metabolic flexibility and mesophile behaviour in enabling bacteria to colonise a wide range of hosts and persist under a wide range of physio-chemico environments, and how these responses dictates the likelihood of success for the organism.
Humberto Martín Universidad Complutense Madrid, Spain
My research interests include fungal protein kinases and phosphatases.
Despoina Mavridou University of Texas at Austin, USA
My research focuses on the extracytoplasmic space of Gram-negative bacteria. I study proteins related to redox homeostasis, oxidative protein folding and hemoprotein biogenesis that function in the cell envelope or on the cell surface.
Jacob Malone John Innes Centre, Norwich, UK
My interests involve Pseudomonas primary and secondary metabolic pathways, in the context of host interaction and rhizosphere colonisation. This includes examinations of how primary carbon metabolism adapts to take advantage of different environments and the role of trehalose and glycogen in mediating bacterial stress adaptation.
Patrick Moynihan University of Birmingham, UK
My group is broadly interested in mycobacteria and other acid-fast organisms. We have a particular focus on the cell envelope/wall. I have also done a fair it of work on peptidoglycan degradation/recycling/modification in other bacteria.
Christopher Mulligan University of Kent, UK
My research interests involve nutrient uptake and utilisation, small molecule efflux, and bacterial stress responses.
Nichollas Scott University of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
I am interested in how the proteome controls microbial physiology and how protein modifications shapes physiology. I have a specific interest in how glycosylation impacts protein functions as well as the biochemistry of glycoproteins.
Nicholas Tucker University of Suffolk, UK
My research interests include understanding heavy metal resistance and nitrogen metabolism in Pseudomonas and Streptomyces spp.
Robert Quinn Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan, USA
I study microbial physiology in complex microbiomes and the metabolic interactions among community members.
Jolanda van Munster Scotland's Rural College, Edinburgh UK
I am interested in the interaction of fungi with complex carbohydrates such as in cell walls of plants and fungi. My current research focus is the degradation of lignocellulose by fungi. I work with anaerobic and aerobic fungi, covering topics such as fungal metabolism of carbohydrates, the biochemistry of carbohydrate active enzymes and regulation of enzyme production.
This topic area covers the study of host-pathogen interactions with particular emphasis on the pathogenic mechanisms, and the discovery and characterization of microbial virulence factors
John Atack Griffith University, Australia
My interests are NTHi, Streptococci, gene regulation, phase variation, phasevarions, Acinetobacter baumannii, host-glycan interactions, glycobiology
David Clarke University College Cork, Ireland
I have research interests in understanding the genetics of membrane structure, function and homeostasis in Gram negative bacteria and the production of bioactive lipids by bacteria.
James Connolly Newcastle University, UK
My research focuses on understanding the genetic factors, and associated mechanisms, used by pathogenic Escherichia coli to infect distinct host sites such as the gut, urinary tract and bloodstream.
Mathieu Cayla Univeristy of York, UK
My research focus on the understanding of the signalling pathways regulating cellular differentiation, adaptation and survival of Trypanosome parasites during hosts infection.
Andrew Edwards Imperial College London, UK
My group has studied various aspects of virulence in Staphylococcus aureus including surface adhesins and toxin production, as well as its regulation by the Agr quorum sensing system.
Rebecca Hall University of Kent, UK
My research interests include mechanisms that promote fungal pathogenesis.
Kimberly Kline University of Geneva, Switzerland
I am interested in the mechanisms underlying Enterococcal biofilm-associated infections, ranging from gut, wound and urinary tract infections to endocarditis to medical device-associated infections.
Ayush Kumar University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada
My research interests include Resistance Nodulation Division (RND) efflux pumps in A. baumannii, establishing their substrate profiles, deciphering their regulatory pathways, and investigating their role in the antibiotic resistance as well as virulence.
Jacob Malone John Innes Centre, Norwich, UK
My research interests include bacterial plant pathology, particularly the effects of Pseudomonas syringae genes on plant infection, and the relationship between plant immune system function and various bacterial pathways.
Daniel Neill University of Dundee, UK
I explore the mechanisms used by bacterial pathogens to exploit host resources and promote longevity of infection or transmission to new hosts. This includes studying the role of pore-forming toxin pneumolysin in Streptococcus pneumoniae pathogenesis, and investigation of Pseudomonas aeruginosa virulence factors that subvert host immune responses.
Angela Nobbs University of Bristol, UK
My research interests include understanding the molecular basis of host-microbe and microbe-microbe interactions that promote bacterial (e.g. Streptococcus) colonisation and pathogenesis.
Robert Quinn Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan, USA
I have expertise in bacterial pathogens of chronic lung disease, particularly cystic fibrosis.
Nichollas Scott University of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
I am interested in how microbes overcome host defences with the aid of secretion systems/secreted effectors. This provides us a deeper understanding of the host-pathogen interaction with the potential to provide new ways to bolster human immunity.
Pedro Oliveira Genoscope, Évry France
My interests include elucidation of novel epigenetic mechanisms driving virulence and pathogenesis in bacteria, as well as the interplay between methylation, DNA topology, and gene expression in key human pathogens.
Meera Unnikrishnan University of Warwick, UK
My research interests include pathogenesis of bacterial infections (Staphylococcus aureus, Clostridium difficile), bacterial virulence strategies, intracellular survival mechanisms, gut colonisation and in vitro infection models.
Marjan van der Woude University of York, UK
My interest lies with the molecular strategies that enable a pathogen’s success. My work has largely been on Gram negative bacteria, specifically E. coli and Salmonella. This combines my interests in gene regulation, virulence factors (surface structures), bacteriophage.
This topic covers the biology of plant-associated microorganisms, including plant pathogens, plant symbionts and plant growth-promoting microorganisms. It also includes the biology of soil microorganisms, with a particular focus on the biology of microorganisms that affect soil and plant health and associated ecosystem functions.
Nicola Holden Scotland's Rural College, Edinburgh, UK
I am interested in how bacteria adapt to different environments, focusing on human pathogenic bacteria (mostly foodborne) that are transmitted on plants. The bacteria actively interact with plants as (secondary) hosts, and are perceived by the plants immune system. That, together with specific environmental conditions, the plant niche and the endemic microbiome direct the outcome of bacterial colonisation.
Jacob Malone John Innes Centre, Norwich, UK
My research interests include bacterial biocontrol/biostimulation and the wider relationship between rhizobacteria and plants. I examine how microbiomes differ between different environments and plant hosts, and how the Pseudomonas genome adapts to these complex environmental variables.
This topics area include research related to the control of gene expression including genome scale studies and molecular mechanisms. Details of how cells perceive and generate signals, either intra- or extra-cellular, are also appropriate.
Mathieu Cayla Univeristy of York, UK
My research focus on the understanding of the signalling pathways regulating cellular differentiation, adaptation and survival of Trypanosome parasites during hosts infection.
Fabian Commichau University of Hohenheim, Germany
My research focusses on the genomic adaptation of Bacillus subtilis in response to changes in glutamate and identifying the environmental signals that control c-di-AMP synthesis and degradation.
James Connolly Newcastle University, UK
I am particularly interested in understanding how the host environment influences pathogen gene expression, and how these global effects are controlled specifically by transcription factors.
Rebecca Hall University of Kent, UK
I am interested in how microbes adapt to their immediate environment and how the sensing of multiple environmental cues are integrated into a single response. This not only includes physical environments, but also the presence of other microbes in the environment.
Nicola Holden Scotland's Rural College, Edinburgh, UK
My research interests include how bacterial adaptation to alternative hosts and habitats induces wholescale changes in transient gene expression, and/or selects for specific genotypes. As such regulatory changes or genotypes that increase fitness in secondary hosts & habitats are of interest. Layered on top of this is community interactions and the ability of the ‘newcomer’ to sense, adapt to and establish into an endemic microbiome.
Ayush Kumar University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada
My research interests include the assembly of RND pump complexes in Pseudomonas aeruginosa to design new therapy that could inhibit these pumps by interfering with the assembly of different components.
Jacob Malone John Innes Centre, Norwich, UK
I have interests in the bacterial signalling pathways that control microbial interactions with plants. I have characterized several Pseudomonas signalling pathways at the molecular level. This includes transcription factors, novel translational regulators and second messenger signalling pathways.
Humberto Martín Universidad Complutense Madrid, Spain
My research interests include the MAPK-mediated signalling in Saccharomyces cerevisiae.
Nicholas Tucker University of Suffolk, UK
My research interests include transcriptomic studies of DNA-binding antibiotics inhibit transcription as well as regulation of nitrogen metabolism in bacteria.
Marjan van der Woude University of York, UK
I am interested in understanding regulatory networks, or gaining new insight into regulatory mechanisms and processes, and identifying novel regulation for important genes, since this informs the success of bacteria in their changing environment. My expertise extends to the occurrence and underlying molecular mechanisms of heterogeneous gene expression in clonal populations. My main interest in this area lies with bacterial pathogens and E. coli as a model system.
Gladys Alexandre The University of Tennessee, Knoxville, USA
Expertise: plant-microbe interactions, microbial physiology and chemotaxis signal transduction, molecular mechanisms of chemotaxis signal transduction in plant-growth promoting bacteria (Azospirillum brasilense and Rhizobium leguminosarum) and on the mechanisms used to integrate metabolism with chemotaxis signaling.
Nataliia V. Annenkova Cytology Russian Academy of Science, Russia
Expertise: Phylogeography, evolution, adaptations and systematics of dinoflagellates; DNA metabarcoding, phylogenomics and ecology of aquatic protists. I am a molecular geneticist, who is interested in evolution and phylogeography of protists. Particularly, my research focus on how protists species evolve. My main objects are dinoflagellates and some other freshwater protists from Lake Baikal, which is one of the world biodiversity "hotspot".
Sheyda Azimi The Georgia Institute of Technology, USA
Expertise: Host-pathogen interaction, biofilms, Pseudomonas aeruginosa, chronic infection.
Manuel Banzhaf Newcastle University, UK
Expertise: Research explores the use of high-throughput approaches to phenotype pathogens. Those methods allow him to study a) the bacterial cell envelope, a cellular compartment harbouring many determinants and processes related to antimicrobial resistance; b) how differences in DNA sequence result in phenotypic variability of pathogens to improve antimicrobial treatment regimens.
Fadil Bidmos Imperial College London, UK
Expertise: His research has focused on the areas of phase variation of bacterial surface antigens, meningococcal carriage studies and preclinical vaccine development.
Michael Bottery University of Manchester, UK
Expertise: Bacterial evolution, Antimicrobial Microbial Resistance, Multi-drug resistance, Plasmids, Pseudomonas aeruginosa, Escherichia coli.
Michelle Buckner University of Birmingham, UK
Expertise: Her team's research focuses on understanding plasmid-mediated antimicrobial resistance in clinically-relevant Gram-negative bacteria. Research in Dr Buckner’s group focuses primarily on: understanding how plasmids impact the host bacteria; understanding plasmid dynamics among populations; devising strategies to reduce the impact of plasmid-mediated resistance.
Delma Childers University of Aberdeen, UK
Expertise: Medical mycology, antifungal resistance, antimicrobial resistance, microbial pathogenesis, molecular biology. Group is interested in understanding how different mechanisms of antifungal resistance affect yeast fitness and adaptation during commensalism and disease.
Nicole De Nisco University of Texas at Dallas, USA
Expertise: urinary tract infection, microbiome, host-pathogen interactions, inflammation, metagenomics, bacterial genomics.
Giulia Degiacomi University of Pavia, Italy
Expertise: tuberculosis, antimicrobials, enzymology, metabolism.
Stephen Dolan Clemson University, USA
Expertise: Mechanistic and regulatory aspects of virulence in opportunistic human pathogens: Aspergillus fumigatus and Pseudomonas aeruginosa. Polymicrobial interactions, central metabolism, natural product biosynthesis and functional genomics. Large scale omics techniques (transcriptomics, proteomics, metabolomics) in combination with targeted reverse genetics and biochemical techniques (enzymology, structural biology).
Morgan Feeney University of Strathclyde, UK
Expertise: Streptomyces genetics; oxidative stress; thiol redox biology; translation initiation; E. coli genetics; suppressor analysis.
Lorena Fernández-Martínez Glasgow University, UK
Expertise: Actinomycetes biology, actinomycetes microbial interactions, antibiotic production in actinomycetes, natural products' biosynthesis, natural products' regulation, transcriptional regulation actinomycetes. My research interests are focused on understanding regulatory mechanisms showing novel regulatory elements or complex signalling pathways, leading to the production of specialized metabolites, such as antibiotics and other clinically relevant compounds in actinomycetes. I am also working on understanding transcriptional regulation of Streptomyces when grown in soil in order to understand their biology and the production of cryptic and silent specialized metabolite biosynthetic gene clusters, as well as interactions of actinomycetes with other microorganisms, mainly bacteria and fungi, that might lead to the activation of relevant regulatory pathways.
Ville Friman University of Helsinki, Finland
Expertise: Microbial evolution, microbial ecology, coevolution, rhizosphere microbiome, phages, virome, antibiotic resistance.
Stephen Gordon University College Dublin, Ireland
Expertise: Omics approaches to the human tuberculosis (TB) pathogen, Mycobacterium tuberculosis, and the bovine TB pathogen, Mycobacterium bovis, to accelerate vaccine and diagnostic development and reveal the molecular basis of pathogen-host preference. Keywords: Tuberculosis; comparative genomics; virulence; whole genome sequencing; genomic epidemiology.
James Gurney Georgia State University, USA
Expertise: Bacteria molecular, microbiology, PCR, microbial molecular biology, bacteriology, general microbiology, antibiotic resistance, microbial culture, antimicrobials, microbial ecology.
Ivan Hapala Slovak Academy of Sciences, Slovak Republic
Mechanisms of intracellular lipid transfer, mitochondrial functions in eukaryotic cells, anaerobic metabolism of yeast, mechanisms of the fungicidal activity of various antifungals, lipid droplet biogenesis and functions, and production of valuable lipids in yeast.
Freya Harrison University of Warwick, UK
Expertise: Antibiotic resistance, bacteriology, biofilm, chronic infection, infection models, natural products.
Laura Hobley University of Nottingham, UK
Expertise: Microbial interactions, microbial physiology, bacterial predation (Bdellovibrio and predatory bacteria), biofilm formation (currently in Gram negative bacteria – Klebsiella and Acinetobacter, but previously in Gram-positive – Bacillus subtilis), bacteriophage, antimicrobial resistance in Gram-negative bacteria.
Damon Huber University of Birmingham, UK
Expertise: Sec; SecA; protein targeting; protein folding; protein translocation; protein secretion; molecular genetics. Using genetics and molecular biology to understand the targeting of proteins to the Sec machinery for translocation across the cytoplasmic membrane in Escherichia coli.
Ciaran Kelly Northumbria University, UK
Expertise: Synthetic biology, gene regulation, synthetic metabolism, metabolic engineering, small bacterial RNAs and feedback circuits.
Baptiste Leroy Research Institute for Biosciences, Belgium
Expertise: Purple bacteria; cyanobacteria; metabolism; adaptation; omics. Working on C and N metabolism in purple bacteria and cyanobacteria using omics tools. Metabolic adaptation of prokaryotes to various kind of conditions.
Arun Kumar Mishra Banaras Hindu University, India
Expertise: phylogenetics, cyanobacteira, cytogenetics, enzymology, metabolism.
Tanya Parish Seattle Children's Research Institute, USA
Expertise: Bacterial pathogenicity, Mycobacteria, bacterial gene expression/regulation, mutagenesis, antibiotic resistance, TB drug discovery, new antibacterials.
Gerard Sheehan University of Birmingham, UK
Expertise: Galleria mellonella, fungi, Aspergillus, Candida, proteomics, dermatology, infections.
William Smith University of Manchester, UK
Expertise: Microbial genomics, ecology, evolution and computational modelling, with a particular interest in bacterial competition and toxin secretion.
Diana Tamayo University of Exeter, UK
Expertise: Fungi, microbial genetics, molecular biology, pathogenicity, host pathogen interaction, fungal cell biology, medical mycology, oxidative stress, single cell RNA-Seq, gene expression. My general research interests focus on understanding how human fungal pathogens interact with the host and how that interaction influences morphology and pathogenicity. I am currently studying the opportunistic human pathogen C. neoformans, specifically in the novel virulence mechanism named titanization.
Elinor Thompson University of Greenwich, UK
Expertise: Dictyostelium, membrane protease, organellar evolution, cyanobacteria, photosynthesis, secondary metabolite transport.
Hung-Ji Tsai University of Birmingham, UK
Expertise: Dr Hung-Ji Tsai is interested in how aneuploidy, an unbalanced genomic state with gain or loss of chromosomes, enables rapid adaptation to diverse environment. His research focus is to understand the distinct cellular processes driven by aneuploidy (and other large-scale genome instability) during the acquisition of antifungal drug resistance.
Simon Waddell University of Sussex, UK
Expertise: Mycobacterial pathogenicity, host-pathogen interactions, anti-mycobacterial compounds.
Rachel Wheatley University of Oxford, UK
Expertise: Microbial evolution, AMR, symbiosis, TnSeq.
Rosanna Wright University of Manchester, UK
Expertise: plasmids, phage, antibiotics, P. aeruginosa, microbial evolution, phage resistance, phage therapy.
Meng Zhang Northumbria University, UK
Expertise: Microbial biotechnology, bioengineering, engineered living materials, bio-digital fabrication, functionally graded biomaterials.