Editorial Board

Marco Ventura

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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

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

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)

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

Patrizia Brigidi

Alma Mater Studiorum Università di Bologna, Bologna, Italy.

Research Interests: Microbiome, Aging, Diet-Microbiome interaction, Disease, Immunology, Omics, Nutrition

Aidan G. Coffey

Department of Biological Sciences (CREATE), Munster Technological University, Cork, Ireland.

Research Interests: Food microbiology, Biocontrol of pathogenic microorganisms, Control of food pathogens, Bacteriophages

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

Clara G. de los Reyes-Gavilán

Instituto de Productos Lácteos de Asturias, Spanish National Research Council (IPLA-CSIC), Spain.

Research Interests: Probiotics, Bifidobacterium, Gut microbiota, Microbe-host interactions, Microbiota and diet in health and disease

Antonio Gasbarrini

Fondazione Policlinico Universitario Agostino Gemelli IRCCS, Rome, Italy

Research Interests: Gut microbiome, Microorganisms, Fecal microbiota transplantation, Clostridium infections; Gastrointestinal tract, Chronic inflammatory bowel diseases, Hepatitis, Liver tumors, Irritable bowel syndrome, Dysbiosis

Dirk Haller

Technische Universität München, ZIEL-Institute for Food & Health, Munich, Germany.

Research Interests: Probiotics, Microbiology, Probiotic bacteria

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

Sarah Lebeer

Department of Bioscience Engineering, Research Group Environmental Ecology and Applied Microbiology, University of Antwerp, Antwerp, Belgium.

Research Interests: Beneficial microbes, Probiotics (gut, vagina, etc.), Microbial analyses and identification, Bacterial genetics, Genomics, Transcriptomics, Proteomics, Metagenomics

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

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

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

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

Lucio Capurso

Club for Evidence Based Gastroenterology & Hepatology, Rome, Italy.

Research Interests: Probiotics, Prebiotics, Gut microbiota, Gastrointestinal health, Nutrition and metabolism, Microbiome-based therapies

Gong Cheng

School of Basic Medical Science, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China.

Research Interests: Mosquito-borne viruses, Antiviral blocking strategies, Antiviral immunity, Viral transmission mechanisms, Pathogen-host interaction

Shinya Fushinobu

Department of Biotechnology, The University of Tokyo, Japan.

Research Interests: Enzymes, Glycoside hydrolases, Carbohydrate-Active enzymes (CAZymes), Bifidobacteria

Takane Katayama

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

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

Jennifer Mahony

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

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

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

Ravinder Nagpal

Department of Nutrition & Integrative Physiology, Florida State University College of Health and Human Sciences, Tallahassee, FL, USA.

Research Interests: Microbiome, Nutrition, Probiotics, Prebiotics, Metabolic diseases, Gut-Brain axis, Aging, Intestine Flora, Ruminococcaceae, Microorganisms, Gut microbiome, Gut dysbiosis, Neurodegenerative disorders

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

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

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

Yangchun Cao

College of Animal Science and Technology, Northwest A&F University, Yangling, Shaanxi, China.

Research Interests: Microbiome, Fungi, Gut microbiota, Microbe-host interactions, Multi-omics, Clostridium difficile, Infectious diseases, Ruminants, Fermentation

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

Tingtao Chen

School of Pharmacy, Jiangxi Medical College, Nanchang University, Nanchang, Jiangxi, China.
National Engineering Research Center for Bioengineering Drugs and the Technologies, Institute of Translational Medicine, Jiangxi Medical College, Nanchang University, Nanchang, Jiangxi, China.

Research Interests: Prebiotics, Probiotics, Symbiotics, Metagenomics, Metabonomics, Microbiota, Disease

Francesco Comandatore

Pediatric Clinical Research Center Romeo ed Enrica Invernizzi, Department of Biomedical Sciences and Clinics, University of Milan, Italy.

Research Interests: Metagenomics, Candidate Phyla Radiation (CPR), Bioinformatics

Daniel Garrido

Department of Chemical and Bioprocess Engineering, School of Engineering, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Santiago, Chile.

Research Interests: Microbial interactions, Human milk oligosaccharides, Bifidobacterium, Probiotics, Prebiotics, Systems biology, Synthetic biology

Riadh Hammami

NuGut Research Platform, School of Nutrition Sciences, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.

Research Interests: Next-generation Probiotics, Gut microbiome, Multi-omics, Microbe-host interactions, Microbiome extracellular vesicles, Microbiome and diet in health and disease

Giulia Longhi

Probiogenomics Laboratory of the Department of Chemistry, Life Sciences, and Environmental Sustainability, University of Parma, Italy.

Research Interests: Human gut microbiota, Bifidobacteria, Metagenomics, Host-microbe interaction, Probiotic bacteria

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

Fatima Pereira

School of Biological Sciences, University of Southampton, Southampton, United Kingdom.

Research Interests: Gut microbiome, Drug-microbiome interactions, Clostridioides difficile, Colonization resistance, Microbe-microbe interactions

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

Chenhong Zhang

State Key Laboratory of Microbial Metabolism, School of Life Sciences and Biotechnology, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China.

Research Interests: Metabolic diseases, Microbial biotechnology, Food microbiology, Microbial molecular biology, Gut microbiota

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