Junior Editorial Board

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

Massimiliano Bianchi

Department of Medicine and Surgery, University of Parma, Parma, Italy.

Research Interests: Inflammation, Immunometabolism of glutamine, Immune cell and microbiota interaction, Gut epithelial cells and microbiota coculture, Nanocarriers for anti-inflammatory RNA-based therapy

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

Weihua Chen

Department of Bioinformatics and Systems Biology, College of Life Science and Technology, Huazhong University of Science and Technology (HUST), Wuhan, China.

Research Interests: Gut microbiota; Host–microbe interactions; Prebiotics; Metagenomics; Animal microbiome; Bacteriophages

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

Kwang Soon Kim

Department of Life Sciences, POSTECH, South Korea.

Research Interests: Regulation of intestinal immunity; immune-microbiota interaction in disease pathogenesis including IBD, Cancer & metabolic disorders; Engineered bacteria therapy

Ho-Keun Kwon

Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Yonsei University College of Medicine, Seoul, South Korea

Research Interests: T cells, Tregs, Host-Microbes interaction, Gut-Immune-Brain axis

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

Nuria Salazar

Department of Microbiology and Biochemistry of Dairy Products, Instituto de Productos Lácteos de Asturias, Consejo Superiorde Investigaciones Científicas (IPLA-CSIC), Asturias, Spain.

Research Interests: gut microbiota; probiotics; prebiotics; diet;obesity; microbe-host interactions; cancer.

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

Yamei Yu

Department of Biotherapy, Sichuan University, Chengdu, Sichuan, China.

Research Interests: Microbial immunity, Defense system, Phage, Phage therapy, Phage engineering, Structural biology

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

Jianbo Zhang

Swammerdam Institute for Life Sciences, Universiteit van Amsterdam, Netherlands.

Research Interests: Human gut microbiota, Anaerobes, Metabolism, Host-Microbe-Immune interactions, Gut-microbiome-on-a-chip, Synthetic biology