Editors List
Co Editors in Chief:
Mark J. Bailey
Mark J Bailey is the Director of the UK Natural Environment Research Council, Centre for Ecology & Hydrology. His main research interests include environmental genomics, microbial ecology and the evolutionary relevance of the horizontal gene pool.
George Kowalchuk
George Kowalchuk is Head of the Ecology and Biodiversity Group at Utrecht University. His main research foci include drivers of microbial diversity and function in the rhizosphere, environmental genomics of ecologically relevant microorganisms, and determining the roles of plant-microbe interactions in nutrient acquisition and cycling.
Senior Editors
Antje Boetius, Max Planck Institute For Marine Microbiology, Germany
Ian Head, University of Newcastle upon Tyne, UK
Rob Knight, University of Colorado, USA
Kiwamu Minamisawa, Tohoku University, Japan
Jack Gilbert, Argonne National Laboraty, USA
James Hollibaugh, University of Georgia, USA
Eric Wommack, University of Delaware, USA
David Relman, Stanford University, USA
Liping Zhao, Shanghai, Jiaotong University, China
Special Reviews & Commentaries
Janet Jansson, Lawrence Berkeley National Lab, USA
Editorial Board
| Andersen, Gary L. | Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory | United States |
| Backhed, Frederik | University of Gothenburg | Sweden |
| Baldrian, Petr | Institute of Microbiology of the ASCR | Czech Republic |
| Beja, Oded | Technion-Israel Institute of Technology | Israel |
| Berg, Gabriele | Graz University of Technology | Austria |
| Bik, Elisabeth M. | Stanford University | United States |
| Bodelier, Paul L. | Netherlands Institute of Ecology (NIOO-KNAW) | Netherlands |
| Bodrossy, Levente | CSIRO Marine and Atmospheric Research | Australia |
| Bonfante, Paola | University of Torino & IPP - CNR | Italy |
| Bourne, David G. | Australian Institute of Marine Science | Australia |
| Caron, David | University of Southern California | United States |
| Cavicchioli, Ricardo | The University of New South Wales | Australia |
| Cockell, Charles | The University of Edinburgh | United Kingdom |
| Curtis, Tom | University of Newcastle | United Kingdom |
| Daims, Holger | University of Vienna | Austria |
| Egli, Thomas | EAWAG | Switzerland |
| Fierer, Noah | University of Colorado | United States |
| Forney, Larry | University of Idaho | United States |
| Fredrickson, Jim K. | Pacific Northwest National Laboratory | United States |
| Fuhrman, Jed | University of Southern California | United States |
| Fuqua, Clay | Indiana University | United States |
| Giovannoni, Stephen J. | Oregon State University | United States |
| Haas, Dieter | University of Lausanne | Switzerland |
| Hallin, Sara | Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences | Sweden |
| Handelsman, Jo | Yale University | United States |
| Herndl, Gerhard J. | University of Vienna | Austria |
| Hewson, Ian | Cornell University | United States |
| Holmes, Andrew J. | University of Sydney | Australia |
| Joint, Ian | Plymouth Marine Laboratory | United Kingdom |
| Kamagata, Yoichi | National Institue of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology | Japan |
| Karl, David M. | University of Hawaii | United States |
| Kirchman, David | University of Delaware | United States |
| Konopka, Allan | Pacific Northwest National Laboratory | United States |
| Leff, Laura | Kent State University | United States |
| Lemanceau, Philippe | INRA | France |
| Leveau, Johan | University of California | United States |
| Ley, Ruth E. | Cornell University | United States |
| Liu, Wen-Tso | University of Illinois | United States |
| Lovley, Derek | University of Massachusetts | United States |
| Manefield, Mike | University of New South Wales | Australia |
| Marchesi, Julian | Cardiff University | United Kingdom |
| McDonald, Ian | University of Waikato | New Zealand |
| Mendonca-Hagler, Leda | Federal University of Rio de Janeiro | Brazil |
| Moran, Mary Ann | University of Georgia | United States |
| Morrison, Mark | CSIRO | United States |
| Murrell, Colin | University of East Anglia Norwich | United Kingdom |
| Muyzer, Gerard | Delft University of Technology | Netherlands |
| Myrold, David | Oregon State University | United States |
| Nelson, Craig E. | University of California, Santa Barbara | United States |
| Neufeld, Josh D. | University of Waterloo | Canada |
| Nicol, Graeme | University of Aberdeen | United Kingdom |
| Osborn, Andrew M. | University of Hull | United Kingdom |
| Pearce, David A. | British Antarctic Survey | United Kingdom |
| Pedersen, Karsten | Microbial Analytics Sweden AB | Sweden |
| Philippot, Laurent | INRA | France |
| Prosser, James | University of Aberdeen | United Kingdom |
| Raes, Jeroen | University of Brussels | Belgium |
| Ramette, Alban | Max-Planck-Institute for Marine Microbiology | Germany |
| Ramos, Juan | EEZ-CSICs | Spain |
| Rittmann, Bruce | The Biodesign Institute at Arizona State University | United States |
| Schloter, Michael | German Research Center for Environmental Health (GmbH) | Germany |
| Schmidt, Thomas M. | Michigan State University | United States |
| Sessitch, Angela | Austrian Institute of Technology | Austria |
| Simonet, Pascal | CNRS | France |
| Sloan, William | University of Glasgow | United Kingdom |
| Sonnenburg, Justin | Stanford University | United States |
| Stal, Lucas | Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research | Netherlands |
| Strous, Marc | Max Pianck Institute for Marine Microbiology | Germany |
| Takai, Ken | Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology (JAMSTEC) | Japan |
| Teske, Andreas | University of North Carolina | United States |
| Top, Eva M. | University of Idaho | United States |
| Triplett, Eric W. | University of Florida | United States |
| Turnbaugh, Peter J. | Harvard University | United States |
| Tyson, Gene W. | Australian Centre for Ecogenomics & Advanced Water Management | Australia |
| Van der Gast, Christopher J. | Centre for Ecology & Hydrology | United Kingdom |
| Van der Meer, Jan Roelof | University of Lausanne | Switzerland |
| VerBerkmoes, Nathan | New England Biolabs Inc | United States |
| Vorholt, Julia | ETH Zurich | Switzerland |
| Webb, Eric | University of Southern California | United States |
| Wilhelm, Steven | University of Tennessee | United States |
| Willing, Benjamin | University of Alberta | Canada |
| Worden, Alexandra | Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute (MBARI) | United States |
| Yergeau, Etienne | Biotechnology Research Institute | Canada |
| Zhang, Hongxun | Graduate university of Chinese Academy of Sciences | China |
| Zhou, Jizhong | University of Oklahoma | United States |