Editorial Board

Marco Ventura

marco.ventura@unipr.it

Laboratory of Probiogenomics, Microbiome Research Hub, University of Parma, Parma, Italy.

Research Interests: Human gut microbiota, Bifidobacteria, Probiotic bacteria, Bacteriophage, Microbial genomics, Metagenomics

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Maria L. Marco

Department of Food Science and Technology, University of California, Davis, USA.

Research Interests: Lactobacillus, Fermented foods, Lactic acid bacteria, Probiotics, Postbiotics, Bacteriocins, Microbiome, Gastrointestinal health

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

Seppo Salminen

Functional Foods Forum, University of Turku, Turku, Finland.

Research Interests: Gut microbiota, Probiotics, Prebiotics, Nutrition

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

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

Takane Katayama

Graduate School of Biostudies, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan.

Research Interests: Gut microbe, Glycan, Enzyme, Metabolism, Physiology

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

Jennifer Mahony

School of Microbiology & APC Microbiome Ireland, University College Cork, Cork, Ireland.

Research Interests: Biology, Phages, Lactic acid bacteria, Functional genomics approach

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Halina E. Tegetmeyer

Center for Biotechnology – CeBiTec, Bielefeld University, Bielefeld, Germany.

Research Interests: Taxonomic and functional analysis of microbial communities, Metagenomics and metatranscriptomics, High throughput sequencing technologies application and data analysis

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

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