Editorial Board
39 Editors in 14 Countries/Region














Editor-in-Chief
Marco Ventura
marco.ventura@unipr.itLaboratory of Probiogenomics, Microbiome Research Hub, University of Parma, Parma, Italy.
Research Interests: Human gut microbiota, Bifidobacteria, Probiotic bacteria, Bacteriophage, Microbial genomics, Metagenomics
Bifidobacteria: insights into the biology of a key microbial group of early life gut microbiota
The Integrated Probiotic Database: a genomic compendium of bifidobacterial health-promoting strains
New research frontiers pertaining to the infant gut microbiota
MEGAnnotator2: a pipeline for the assembly and annotation of microbial genomes
Co-Editor-in-Chief
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
Bifidobacteria: insights into the biology of a key microbial group of early life gut microbiota
New research frontiers pertaining to the infant gut microbiota
Executive Editors
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
Deteriorating microbiomes in agriculture - the unintended effects of pesticides on microbial life
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
Bifidobacteria: insights into the biology of a key microbial group of early life gut microbiota
The Integrated Probiotic Database: a genomic compendium of bifidobacterial health-promoting strains
New research frontiers pertaining to the infant gut microbiota
MEGAnnotator2: a pipeline for the assembly and annotation of microbial genomes
Senior Editors
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
Metabolomics and Proteomic Approaches Applied to Microbiomes
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
Editors
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
The Integrated Probiotic Database: a genomic compendium of bifidobacterial health-promoting strains
MEGAnnotator2: a pipeline for the assembly and annotation of microbial genomes
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
The Integrated Probiotic Database: a genomic compendium of bifidobacterial health-promoting strains
MEGAnnotator2: a pipeline for the assembly and annotation of microbial genomes
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
Junior Editors
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
Metabolomics and Proteomic Approaches Applied to Microbiomes
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