Editors-in-Chief

Ralf Rabus – Carl von Ossietzky University, Oldenburg, Germany
Milton H. Saier – University of California, La Jolla, CA, USA

Senior Editors

Melissa H. Brown – Flinders University, Adelaide, SA, Australia
Guillermo Gosset Lagarda – Univ. Nacional Autónoma México, Cuernavaca, Mexico
Peter Graumann – LOEWE-Zentrum für Synthetische Mikrobiologie, Marburg, Germany
Ian Paulsen – Macquarie University, Sydney, NSW, Australia
R.Gary Sawers – Martin Luther Universität, Halle/Saale, Germany
Yunde Zhao – University of California, La Jolla, CA, USA

Editorial Board

Rajdeep Banerjee – University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI, USA
Gert Bange – LOEWE Center for Synthetic, Marburg, Germany
Frédéric Barras – Institut Pasteur, Paris, France
Pierre Béguin – Institut Pasteur, Paris, France
Jessica Blair – University of Birmingham, Birmingham, UK
Matthias Boll – Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany
L. Jeannine Brady – University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA
Thomas Brüser – Leibniz Universität Hannover, Hannover, Germany
Zhangjun Cao – Donghua University, Shanghai, China
Yong Joon Chung – Jeonju University, Chonrabukdo, South Korea
Fabian M. Commichau – University of Hohenheim, Stuttgart, Germany
Patrice Courvalin – Institut Pasteur, Paris, France
Jeremy S. Edwards – University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM, USA
Karl Forchhammer – Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany
Michael Y. Galperin – National Institute of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA
Lucila García – Institute of Molecular and Celullar Biology of Rosario, Rosario, Argentina
Claudio F. Gonzalez – University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA
Michael Gribskov – Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, USA
Graham F. Hatfull – University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
Peter J.F. Henderson – University of Leeds, Leeds, UK
Dieter Jendrossek – Institut für Mikrobiologie, Universität Stuttgart, Stuttgart, Germany
Kristina Jonas – Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden
Anne-Kristin Kaster – Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Karlsruhe, Germany
Graciela Liliana Lorca – University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA
Joe Lutkenhaus – University of Kansas, Kansas City, KS, USA
Christoph Mayer – University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany
Luis Arturo Medrano-Soto – University of California, La Jolla, CA, USA
Gabriel Moreno-Hagelsieb – W Laurier University, Ontario, Canada
Meina Neumann-Schaal – Leibniz Institute DSMZ, Braunschweig, Germany
Bodo Philipp – Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster, Münster, Germany
Wensheng Qin – Lakehead University, Thunder Bay, ON, Canada
Bhaskara Lakshmi Reddy – University of La Verne, La Verne, California, USA
Vamsee S. Reddy – Boston University, Boston, MA, USA
Barbara Reinhold – Universität Bremen, Bremen, Germany
Dmitry A. Rodionov – Sandford Burnham Prebys, La Jolla, CA, USA
Michael Rother – Technische Universität Dresden, Dresden, Germany
Maulin P. Shah – Enviro Technology Limited, Ankleshwar, India
Wolfgang Streit – University of Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany
Tsai-Tien Tseng – Kennesaw State University, Kennesaw, GA, USA
Rafael Vazquez-Duhalt – Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Ensenada, Mexico
Thomas Williams, Lane Cove North, Sydney, NSW, Australia
Hans Wolf-Watz – University of Umea, Umea, Sweden
Conghui You – Shenzhen University, Shenzhen, China
Wen Zhang – Jersey City, NJ, USA
Xiaohui Zhou – University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT, USA