Editor-in-Chief
Erko Stackebrandt
Braunschweig, Germany
Managing Editor
Mariana L. Ferrari PhD.
Paris, France
Editors
Ashvini Chauhan
Florida A&M University
Tallahassee, FL USA
Sabine Gronow
DSMZ
Braunschweig, Germany
Ankita Kothari
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Berkeley, CA, USA
Jeff Mertens
U.S. Department of Agriculture
Peoria, IL USA
María Victoria Novas
Universidad de Buenos Aires
Buenos Aires, Argentina
Rudiger Pukall
DSMZ
Braunschweig, Germany
Frederick D. Quinn
University of Georgia
Athens, GA USA
Gaurav Raikhy
Health Science Center at Shreveport
Shreveport, LA USA
Maulin P. Shah
Enviro Technology Limited
Gujarat, India
Thomas M. Shinnick
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Atlanta, GA USA
Fabiano Thompson
Federal University of Rio de Janeiro
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Hongsheng Wu
Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology
Nanjing, China
Andrey Yurkow
DSMZ
Braunschweig, Germany
Editors Emeriti
Albert Balows †
Alpharetta, GA USA
Paul Baumann
University of California
Davis, CA USA