Editorial Board

Please note that the order in which the Editors appear on this page is alphabetical, and follows the structure of the editorial board presented on the MDPI website under information for editors: editorial board responsibilities.

Members


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Department of Biological Applications and Technology, University of Ioannina, 45110 Ioannina, Greece
Interests: food microbiology; food biotechnology; molecular microbiology
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CEB—Centre of Biological Engineering, University of Minho, Campus de Gualtar, 4700-057 Braga, Portugal
Interests: fungi; mycotoxins; climate change; fungal taxonomy; analytical chemistry; oil palm; Aspergillus; Penicillium; Ganoderma
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Department of Surgical, Medical, Dental and Morphological Sciences with Interest in Transplant, Oncological and Regenerative Medicine, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, 41125 Modena, Italy
Interests: innate immunity to fungal infections; Candida; mucosal candidiasis; microbiota and mycobiota; fungal and bacterial biofilm; antifungal strategies
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Department of Biotechnological and Applied Clinical Sciences, University of L’Aquila, L’Aquila, Italy
Interests: molecular and epidemiological characterization of mechanisms of resistance to antibiotics in Gram-negatove pathogens; mobile genetic elements; beta-lactamases, beta-lactamase inhibitors; mechanisms of
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CNR-ISPA (National Research Council-Institute of Sciences of Food Production), Via G. Amendola 122/O, 70126 Bari, Italy
Interests: food mycology; phylogeny; taxonomy; morphology; ecology and genomics of Aspergillus and Penicillium toxigenic species
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Department of Biosciences, Biotechnology and Biopharmaceutics, University of Bari Aldo Moro, 70121 Bari, Italy
Interests: comparative genomics; metagenomics; molecular evolution; bioinformatics; non coding regions

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Department of Food Sciences and Technology, BOKU—University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna 1190, Austria
Interests: carbohydrate-active enzymes; lactic acid bacteria as cell factories; enzyme engineering; lignocellulose degradation
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Department of Virology, Rouen University Hospital, Rouen, France
Interests: viremia; viral load; human immunodeficiency virus 1; phylogeny; HIV-1; RNA directed DNA polymerase inhibitor; anti human immunodeficiency virus agent

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Department Bioquímica i Biotecnologia, Facultat d’Enologia, Universitat Rovira i Virgili, C/Marcel lí Domingo 1, 43007 Tarragona, Spain
Interests: food fermentation; microbial communities; wine fermentation; massive sequencing; lactic acid bacteria; yeast; molecular biology
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Group of Virology and Pathogenesis, Galicia Sur Health Research Institute, 36213 Vigo, Spain
Interests: HIV/AIDS; SARS-CoV-2/COVID19; Viral hepatitis; pathogenesis; HIV drug resistance; molecular epidemiology; extracellular vesicles (EVs)
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Istituto Pasteur Italia, Dipartimento di Biologia e Biotecnologie “C. Darwin”, Sapienza Università di Roma, Via dei Sardi 70, 00185 Rome, Italy
Interests: gene regulation; Shigella; polyamine; pathogenic E. coli; host-pathogen interactions; bacterial efflux pumps; Two-Component System

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Department of Postharvest Science of Fresh Produce, Agricultural Research Organization, The Volcani Center, Beit Dagan 7505101, Israel
Interests: postharvest pathogens; regulation of organic acid production and secretion; nitrogen metabolism and ammonia secretion; effect of the secreted substances on the modulation of host local pH and program cell death; mycotoxin and pathogenicity in postharvest pathogens; etiology and control of postharvest losses in deciduous and subtropical fruits by integration of pre-and postharvest treatments
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Laboratorio de Virología Molecular, Centro de Microbiología y Biología Celular (CMBC), Instituto Venezolano de Investigaciones Científicas (IVIC), Caracas 1020A, Venezuela
Interests: hepatitis viruses; HIV; SARS-CoV-2; influenza; emerging viruses; viral genomics
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Institute of Structural and Molecular Biology, Darwin Building, University College London, Gower Street, London WC1E 6BT, UK
Interests: algal biotechnology; synthetic biology; chloroplast genetic engineering; oral vaccines and anti-microbials; photosynthesis
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Aix Marseille Univ, Université de Toulon, CNRS, IRD, MIO, UM 110 Marseille, France
Interests: environmental microbiology; geomicrobiology; microbial ecology

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Departamento de Inmunología, Microbiología y Parasitología, Facultad de Medicina y Enfermería, Universidad del País Vasco/Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatea (UPV/EHU), Bilbao, Spain
Interests: antimicrobial agents; biofilms; Candida; Candidiasis; diagnosis; fungi; infectious diseases; mycoses; resistance; treatment

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Produce Safety and Microbiology Research Unit, Western Regional Research Center, Agricultural Research Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), Albany, CA 94710, USA
Interests: food microbiology; molecular microbiology

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Institute of Biology Leiden, Microbial Sciences, Leiden University, Sylviusweg 72, 2333 BE Leiden, The Netherlands
Interests: Aspergillus niger; plant cell wall degradation; transcription factors; plant cell wall aromatics; genome editing; enzyme production; cell factory

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Department of Chemical Engineering, Queen’s University, 19 Division Street, Kingston, ON K7L 3N6, Canada
Interests: bioremediation; bioreactor fermentation; polyhydroxyalkanoate production

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Department of Agricultural, Food and Environment, University of Catania, Catania, Italy
Interests: fermented food; lactic acid bacteria; microbial ecology; probiotics; functional food; gastrointestinal tract microbiota; antibiotic resistance
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Laboratoire de Parasitologie-Mycologie, AP-HM / CHU Timone, Marseille, France
Interests: medical mycology; diagnosis of fungal infections; epidemiology; fungal identification
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Toulouse Biotechnology Institute, Université de Toulouse, CNRS, INRAE, INSA, 31400 Toulouse, France
Interests: microbial consortia; gut microbiome; microbial ecology; lignocellulose; lignin; bioplastics

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1. Service de Bactériologie, AP-HP Centre-Université de Paris, Hôpital Cochin, 75014 Paris, France
2. Service de Bactériologie, AP-HP Université Paris-Saclay, Hôpital Bicêtre, 94270 Le Kremlin-Bicêtre, France
3. Hôpital de Bicêtre, 78 Rue du Général Leclerc, 94270 Le Kremlin-Bicêtre, France
Interests: infectious diseases in Paediatric and infections due to Helicobacter pylori

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Department of Biology, Aarhus University, 8000 Aarhus, Denmark
Interests: microbial ecology; biogeochemistry; microbial bioinformatics; metabolic pathways; modelling

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Hospital General Universitario de Alicante, Universidad Miguel Hernández, Alicante, Spain
Interests: clinical microbiology; stewardship; antibiotics; antimicrobial resistance; rapid diagnosis; MALDI TOF
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The Public Health Research Institute at the International Center for Public Health (ICPH), New Jersey Medical School, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, 225 Warren Street, Newark, NJ 07103-3535, USA
Interests: bacterial pathogenesis; role of metal homeostasis in host-pathogen interactions and metal dependent regulatory mechanisms controlling bacterial virulence

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Unit of Infectious and Tropical Diseases, Department of Clinical and Experimental Sciences, University of Brescia and ASST Spedali Civili di Brescia, 25123 Brescia, Italy
Interests: HIV infection; COVID-19; antiretroviral therapy

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Department of Infectious Diseases, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, Memphis, TN 38105, USA
Interests: bacterial gene regulation; antibiotic resistance; virulence factors, pathogenesis; respiratory infections; streptococcal biology
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