Editorial Board
52 Editors in 15 Countries/Regions
Editor-in-Chief
Marco Ventura 
[email protected] Laboratory of Probiogenomics, Microbiome Research Hub, University of Parma, Parma, Italy.
Research Interests: Human gut microbiota, Bifidobacteria, Probiotic bacteria, Bacteriophage, Microbial genomics, Metagenomics
Bifidobacteria: insights into the biology of a key microbial group of early life gut microbiota
The Integrated Probiotic Database: a genomic compendium of bifidobacterial health-promoting strains
New research frontiers pertaining to the infant gut microbiota
MEGAnnotator2: a pipeline for the assembly and annotation of microbial genomes
Co-Editor-in-Chief
Douwe van Sinderen
School of Microbiology & APC Microbiome Ireland, University College Cork, Cork, Ireland.
Research Interests: Bacteriophages, Gut commensals, Bifidobacteria, Lactococcus lactis, Streptococcus thermophilus, Microbiota, Microbiome, Lactic acid bacteria, Phage-host interactions, Microbe-host interactions, Probiotics, Prebiotics, Synbiotics
Bifidobacteria: insights into the biology of a key microbial group of early life gut microbiota
New research frontiers pertaining to the infant gut microbiota
Executive Editors
Emma Allen-Vercoe
Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, University of Guelph, Guelph, Canada.
Research Interests: Gut microbiome, Anaerobic bacteriology, Fusobacteria, Ecosystem therapeutics, Colorectal cancer, VANISH microbes, Bioreactor fermentation, Metabonomics
Deteriorating microbiomes in agriculture – the unintended effects of pesticides on microbial life
The Untapped Potential of Cell Culture in Disentangling Insect-Microbial Relationships
Miguel Gueimonde
Department of Microbiology and Biochemistry of Dairy Products, Dairy Research Institute of Asturias (IPLA), Spanish National Research Council (CSIC), Asturias, Spain.
Research Interests: Intestinal microbiota, Probiotics, Prebiotics, Infants, Elderly
Catherine Stanton
Food Bioscience Department, Teagasc Food Research Centre, Cork, Ireland.
Research Interests: Probiotics, Functional foods, Dairy, Infant gut microbiota, Bioactive lipids
Francesca Turroni
Laboratory of Probiogenomics, Microbiome Research Hub, University of Parma, Parma, Italy.
Research Interests: Bifidobacteria, Human microbiota, Host-microbe interaction, Food microbiota, Genomics of probiotic bacteria
Bifidobacteria: insights into the biology of a key microbial group of early life gut microbiota
The Integrated Probiotic Database: a genomic compendium of bifidobacterial health-promoting strains
New research frontiers pertaining to the infant gut microbiota
MEGAnnotator2: a pipeline for the assembly and annotation of microbial genomes
Senior Editors
Giovanni Barbara
Department of Medical and Surgical Sciences (DIMEC) and Center for Applied Biomedical Research (CRBA), Alma Mater Studiorum - University of Bologna and S. Orsola-Malpighi Hospital, Bologna, Italy.
Research Interests: Microbiota, Brain gut axis, Disorders of gut-brain interactions
Rodolphe Barrangou
Department of Food, Bioprocessing and Nutrition Sciences, North Carolina State University, North Carolina, USA.
Research Interests: CRISPR, Cas, Phage, Editing, Lactobacillus, Genomics
Lactobacillus, glycans and drivers of health in the vaginal microbiome
Probiotic colonization dynamics after oral consumption of VSL#3® by antibiotic-treated mice
Webinar: CRISPR Technologies for Microbiome Manipulation
Lactobacillus, glycans and drivers of health in the vaginal microbiome.
Patrizia Brigidi
Alma Mater Studiorum Università di Bologna, Bologna, Italy.
Research Interests: Microbiome, Aging, Diet-Microbiome interaction, Disease, Immunology, Omics, Nutrition
Aidan G. Coffey
Department of Biological Sciences (CREATE), Munster Technological University, Cork, Ireland.
Research Interests: Food microbiology, Biocontrol of pathogenic microorganisms, Control of food pathogens, Bacteriophages
Maria Carmen Collado
Department of Biotechnology, Institute of Agrochemistry and Food Technology-Spanish National Research Council (IATA-CSIC), Valencia, Spain.
Research Interests: Microbiota, Pregnancy, lactation, Nutrition, Infancy, Breast milk
Clara G. de los Reyes-Gavilán
Instituto de Productos Lácteos de Asturias, Spanish National Research Council (IPLA-CSIC), Spain.
Research Interests: Probiotics, Bifidobacterium, Gut microbiota, Microbe-host interactions, Microbiota and diet in health and disease
Antonio Gasbarrini
Fondazione Policlinico Universitario Agostino Gemelli IRCCS, Rome, Italy
Research Interests: Gut microbiome, Microorganisms, Fecal microbiota transplantation, Clostridium infections; Gastrointestinal tract, Chronic inflammatory bowel diseases, Hepatitis, Liver tumors, Irritable bowel syndrome, Dysbiosis
Dirk Haller
Technische Universität München, ZIEL-Institute for Food & Health, Munich, Germany.
Research Interests: Probiotics, Microbiology, Probiotic bacteria
Sin-Hyeog Im
Department of Life Sciences, Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH), Pohang, South Korea.
Research Interests: Immune tolerance, Microbiome, Probiotics, Immune disorder, Probiotics, Live therapeutic products (LBP)
Susan Anne Joyce
Faculty School of Biochemistry and Cell Biology and Investigator APC Microbiome Ireland, University College Cork, Cork, Ireland.
Research Interests: Metabolism, Host-microbe interactions, Bile, Lipid, Health disease
Metabolomics and Proteomic Approaches Applied to Microbiomes
Christophe Lacroix
Head Laboratory of Food Biotechnology, Institute of Food, Nutrition and Health, Department of Health Sciences and Technology (HEST), ETH Zurich, Zürich, Switzerland.
Research Interests: Gut fermentation models, Anaerobic technologies, Fermentation, Downstream processing, Antimicrobials, Functional microbes, Nutrition
Sarah Lebeer
Department of Bioscience Engineering, Research Group Environmental Ecology and Applied Microbiology, University of Antwerp, Antwerp, Belgium.
Research Interests: Beneficial microbes, Probiotics (gut, vagina, etc.), Microbial analyses and identification, Bacterial genetics, Genomics, Transcriptomics, Proteomics, Metagenomics
Gabriele Andrea Lugli
Laboratory of Probiogenomics, Department of Chemistry, Life Sciences and Environmental Sustainability, University of Parma, Parma, Italy.
Research Interests: Microbial genomics, Metagenomics, Gut microbiota, Bifidobacteria, Probiotic, Bacteriophage
Leonardo Mancabelli
Laboratory of Probiogenomics, Department of Chemistry, Life Sciences and Environmental Sustainability, University of Parma, Parma, Italy.
Research Interests: Human gut microbiota, 16S rRNA profiling, Metagenomics bifidobacteria, Probiotic bacteria, Oral microbiota, Vaginal microbiota
Abelardo Margolles
Dairy Research Institute of Asturias, Spanish National Research Council (IPLA-CSIC), Villaviciosa, Asturias, Spain.
Research Interests: Gut microbiome, Food microbiome, Probiotics, Prebiotics, Bifidobacteria
Christian Milani
Laboratory of Probiogenomics, Department of Chemistry, Life Sciences and Environmental Sustainability, University of Parma, Parma, Italy.
Research Interests: Microbiology, Bioinformatics, Genomics, Metagenomics, Microbiota, Microbiome
Daniele Del Rio
Department of Food & Drugs, University of Parma, Parma, Italy.
Research Interests: Human Nutrition, Phytochemicals, Polyphenols, Mass-Spectrometry, Bioavailability
R. Paul Ross
APC Microbiome Ireland, University College Cork, Cork, Ireland.
Research Interests: Antimicrobials, Anti-infectives, Gut flora, Bacteriophage, Gut pathogens
Karen Scott
Microbial Ecology Group, Gut Health, Rowett Institute, University of Aberdeen, Scotland, UK.
Research Interests: Gut microbiota, Prebiotics, Antimicrobial resistance, Gene transfer
Erwin Gerard Zoetendal
Laboratory of Microbiology, Wageningen University & Research, Wageningen, The Netherlands.
Research Interests: Intestinal microbiota, Microbial ecology
Editors
Eric Altermann
Food Systems Integrity, Hopkirk Research Institute, AgResearch Ltd, Palmerston North, New Zealand.
Research Interests: Bacterial genomes, Comparative genomics, Applied bioinformatics, Lifestyle adaptation
Clara Belzer
Laboratory of Microbiology, Wageningen University and Research, Wageningen, The Netherlands.
Research Interests: Microbiome, Mucin, Milk, Glycans, Akkermansia
Francesca Bottacini
Department of Biological Sciences, Muster Technological University, Cork, Ireland.
Research Interests: Microbiome, Virome, Bifidobacterium, Comparative genomics, Microbial ecology, Bacteriophages, Restriction-Modification systems, Methylome
Lucio Capurso
Club for Evidence Based Gastroenterology & Hepatology, Rome, Italy.
Research Interests: Probiotics, Prebiotics, Gut microbiota, Gastrointestinal health, Nutrition and metabolism, Microbiome-based therapies
Gong Cheng
School of Basic Medical Science, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China.
Research Interests: Mosquito-borne viruses, Antiviral blocking strategies, Antiviral immunity, Viral transmission mechanisms, Pathogen-host interaction
Shinya Fushinobu
Department of Biotechnology, The University of Tokyo, Japan.
Research Interests: Enzymes, Glycoside hydrolases, Carbohydrate-Active enzymes (CAZymes), Bifidobacteria
Takane Katayama
Graduate School of Biostudies, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan.
Research Interests: Gut microbe, Glycan, Enzyme, Metabolism, Physiology
Jennifer Mahony
School of Microbiology & APC Microbiome Ireland, University College Cork, Cork, Ireland.
Research Interests: Biology, Phages, Lactic acid bacteria, Functional genomics approach
Pedro Mena
Department of Food and Drug, University of Parma, Parma, Italy.
Research Interests: (Poly)Phenols, Metabolites, Colonic catabolites, Plant bioactives, Bioavailability, Bioactivity, Human intervention studies, Individual variation, Personalized nutrition
Jose Munoz-Munoz
Department of Applied Sciences, University of Northumbria, Newcastle, UK.
Research Interests: Enzymology, Gut microbiota, Glycoside hydrolase, Protein engineering
Ravinder Nagpal
Department of Nutrition & Integrative Physiology, Florida State University College of Health and Human Sciences, Tallahassee, FL, USA.
Research Interests: Microbiome, Nutrition, Probiotics, Prebiotics, Metabolic diseases, Gut-Brain axis, Aging, Intestine Flora, Ruminococcaceae, Microorganisms, Gut microbiome, Gut dysbiosis, Neurodegenerative disorders
José Ángel Rufián-Henares
Catedrático Departamento de Nutrición y Bromatología, Facultad de Farmacia, Campus Universitario de Cartuja, Granada, Spain.
Research Interests: Antioxidant capacity, Personalized nutrition, Human gut microbiota, Non-enzymatic browning, Diet
Lorena Ruiz
Department of Microbiology and Biochemistry of Dairy Products, Instituto de Productos Lácteos de Asturias – Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (IPLA-CSIC), Asturias, Spain.
Research Interests: Probiotics, Prebiotics, Gut microbiota, Functional foods, y-products revalorization, Microbe-host interactions
Bo Yang
State Key Laboratory of Food Science and Resources, School of Food Science and Technology, Jiangnan University, Wuxi, Jiangsu, China.
Research Interests: Probiotics, Lactic acid bacteria, Bifidobacterium, Gut microbiome, Early life, Bioactive metabolites of lactic acid bacteria, Fermented milk
Junior Editors
Silvia Arboleya
CSIC - Instituto de Productos Lacteos de Asturias (IPLA), Villaviciosa, Spain.
Research Interests: Gut microbiota, Early life, Microbiota-gut-brain axis, Bifidobacterium, Probiotics, Prebiotics, Diet, Antibiotics
Yangchun Cao
College of Animal Science and Technology, Northwest A&F University, Yangling, Shaanxi, China.
Research Interests: Microbiome, Fungi, Gut microbiota, Microbe-host interactions, Multi-omics, Clostridium difficile, Infectious diseases, Ruminants, Fermentation
Ryan Chanyi
Food Technology & Processing, AgResearch Ltd. Grasslands Research Centre, Palmerston North, New Zealand.
Research Interests: Lactic acid bacteria, Bacterial phenotype evolution, Bacterial metabolism, Food fermentation, Xenobiotic metabolism
Tingtao Chen
School of Pharmacy, Jiangxi Medical College, Nanchang University, Nanchang, Jiangxi, China.
National Engineering Research Center for Bioengineering Drugs and the Technologies, Institute of Translational Medicine, Jiangxi Medical College, Nanchang University, Nanchang, Jiangxi, China.
Research Interests: Prebiotics, Probiotics, Symbiotics, Metagenomics, Metabonomics, Microbiota, Disease
Francesco Comandatore
Pediatric Clinical Research Center Romeo ed Enrica Invernizzi, Department of Biomedical Sciences and Clinics, University of Milan, Italy.
Research Interests: Metagenomics, Candidate Phyla Radiation (CPR), Bioinformatics
Daniel Garrido
Department of Chemical and Bioprocess Engineering, School of Engineering, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Santiago, Chile.
Research Interests: Microbial interactions, Human milk oligosaccharides, Bifidobacterium, Probiotics, Prebiotics, Systems biology, Synthetic biology
Giulia Longhi
Probiogenomics Laboratory of the Department of Chemistry, Life Sciences, and Environmental Sustainability, University of Parma, Italy.
Research Interests: Human gut microbiota, Bifidobacteria, Metagenomics, Host-microbe interaction, Probiotic bacteria
Amira Metwaly
Chair of Nutrition and Immunology, Technical University Munich (TUM), Munich, Germany.
Research Interests: Gut microbiota, Multi-omics, 16S rRNA profiling, Inflammatory bowel diseases, Diet, Bacterial fermentation
Fatima Pereira
School of Biological Sciences, University of Southampton, Southampton, United Kingdom.
Research Interests: Gut microbiome, Drug-microbiome interactions, Clostridioides difficile, Colonization resistance, Microbe-microbe interactions
Sudarshan Shetty
Department of Medical Microbiology and Infection Prevention, University Medical Centre Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands.
Research Interests: Host-Microbiomes interactions, Microbe-Microbe interactions, Infectious diseases, Synthetic/Minimal microbiomes, Microbiome data science
Chenhong Zhang
State Key Laboratory of Microbial Metabolism, School of Life Sciences and Biotechnology, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China.
Research Interests: Metabolic diseases, Microbial biotechnology, Food microbiology, Microbial molecular biology, Gut microbiota
Xu Zhang
Center of Biologics Evaluation, Biologic and Radiopharmaceutical Drugs Directorate, Health Product and Food Branch, Health Canada, Canada.
Research Interests: Microbiota, Metaproteomics, Mass spectrometry, Fecal microbiota transplantation, Microbiota-directed therapeutics, Biologics
Metabolomics and Proteomic Approaches Applied to Microbiomes
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