Editors List

Editors

Mark Bailey

Mark Bailey is the Science Director for the Biodiversity programme at the Centre for Ecology and Hydrology, Oxford. His main research interests include environmental genomics, microbial ecology and the evolutionary relevance of the horizontal gene pool.

John Heidelberg

John Heidelberg is an Associate Professor in the Department of Biological Sciences, Marine and Environmental Biology Section of The University of Southern California. His main interests are in microbial genomics, metagenomics, and the application of bioinformatics tools to address questions in marine microbial ecology.

George Kowalchuk

George Kowalchuk is a senior scientist within the Department of Terrestrial Microbial Ecology at the Netherlands Institute of Ecology and holds the professor's chair in Plant-Microbe Interactions at the Institute of Ecological Science of the Free University of Amsterdam. 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.

Editorial Board

Oded Beja, Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, Israel
Antje Boetius, Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology, Germany
Philip L Bond, University of East Anglia, UK
Paola Bonfante, University of Torino & IPP- CNR, Italy
Colleen M Cavanaugh, Harvard University, USA
Ricardo Cavicchioli, The University of New South Wales, Australia
Rita Colwell, University of Maryland, USA
Thomas P Curtis, Newcastle University, UK
Holger Daims, Universitaet Wien, Austria
Thomas Egli, Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology (EAWAG), Switzerland
Jed A Fuhrman, University of Southern California, USA
Clay Fuqua, Indiana University, USA
Stephen Giovannoni, Oregon State University, USA
Dieter Haas, University of Lausanne, Switzerland
Jo Handelsman, University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA
Ian M Head, University of Newcastle, UK
Claire Horner-Devine, University of Washington, USA
Philip Hugenholtz, DOE Joint Genome Institute, USA
Janet Jansson, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Sweden
David M Karl, University of Hawaii, USA
Yoichi Kamagata, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), Japan
Kazuhiro Kogure, The University of Tokyo, Japan
Johannes Gijs Kuenen, TU Delft, The Netherlands
Laura Leff, Kent State University, USA
Wen-Tso Liu, National University of Singapore, Singapore
Derek R Lovley, University of Massachusetts, USA
Esperanza Martinez-Romero, Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico, Cuernavaca, Mexico
Leda Cristina Mendonca-Hagler, Univiversity Federal Rio De Janeiro-CCS, Brazil
J Colin Murrell, University of Warwick, UK
Gerard Muyzer, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands
Karsten Pedersen, Göteborg University, Sweden
Juan L Ramos, Estaciín Experimental del Zaidín, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, Spain
David Relman, Veterans Administration Medical Association, USA
Bruce Rittmann, Center for Environmental Biotechnology, USA
Eugene Rosenberg, Tel-Aviv University, Israel
E G Ned Ruby, University of Hawaii, USA
Christa Schleper, University of Bergen, Norway
Thomas M Schmidt, Michigan State University USA
Pascal Simonet, Université Claude Bernard, France
Kornelia Smalla, Federal Biological Research Centre for Agriculture and forestry, Germany
Ken Takai, SUGAR Program, JAMSTEC, Japan
Andreas P Teske, University of North Carolina, USA
Jan Roelof Van Der Meer, University of Lausanne, Switzerland
Jan Dirk Van Elsas, University of Groningen, The Netherlands
Willy Verstraete, Ghent University, Belgium
Peter Young, University of York, UK
Hongxun Zhang, Graduate University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
Jizhong Zhou, University of Oklahoma, USA