Editorial Board
Over 200 members of the bacterial, fungal, parasitic, prionic, and viral research communities serve on the Editorial Board of PLOS Pathogens. Editors volunteer their time to oversee peer review and guide journal direction. The editorial process is run as a partnership between a group of academic experts who serve as Associate Editors and the Section Editors, or in the case of Front Matter, as Opinions, Pearls, and Reviews Editors, and the Editors-in-Chief.
Editors-in-Chief
Kasturi Haldar
University of Notre Dame
Notre Dame, IN, USA
Michael Malim
orcid.org/0000-0002-7699-2064
King’s College London
London, UK
Section Editor Advisory Group
Blossom Damania
Section Editor
DNA Virology
Kami Kim
Section Editor
Parasitology
Benhur Lee
Section Editor
RNA Virology
Wenbo Ma
Section Editor
Plant Pathogens
Aaron Mitchell
Senior Reviews Editor
Mycology
Susan R. Ross
Section Editor
HIV/Retroviruses
Nina Salama
Section Editor
Gram-Negative Bacteriology
Michael Wessels
Section Editor
Gram-Positive Bacteriology
Section Editors
Raul Andino
University of California, San Francisco
San Francisco, CA, USA
Expertise: RNA virus replication, interaction with the host, RNAi, virus evolution
Alex Andrianopoulos
University of Melbourne
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Expertise: gene regulation, fungal morphogenesis, fungal development, fungal germination
François Balloux
University College London
London, United Kingdom
Expertise: spatial population genetics, spatial epidemiology, organisms with unusual mating systems and complex life-cycles
Christopher F. Basler
Georgia State University
Atlanta, GA, USA
Expertise: Ebolavirus, filoviruses, interferon
Sonja Best
National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases
Hamilton, MT, USA
Expertise: Flaviviridae, Filoviridae, Innate immunity, Interferon, Restriction Factors
Lab website
Vern B. Carruthers
University of Michigan
Ann Arbor, MI, USA
Expertise: parasitology, Apicomplexa, cell biology, molecular genetics, chronic infections
Sara Cherry
University of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia, PA, USA
Expertise: Antivirals, arboviruses, Genetics, Innate Immunity, Host-Range Restriction, RNA biology
James Collins
University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
Dallas, TX, USA
Expertise: schistosomes, platyhelminthes, stem cells, developmental biology, reproductive and germ cell biology
Lab website
Brian Coombes
McMaster University
Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
Expertise: Escherichia coli, Salmonella, secretion systems, innate immunity, bacterial pathogenesis, host-pathogen interactions
Lab website
Blossom Damania
University of North Carolina At Chapel Hill
Chapel Hill, NC, USA
Expertise: gammaherpesviruses, signal transduction, innate immunity, oncogenesis, primate herpesviruses
Kirk Deitsch
Weill Medical College, Cornell University
New York, NY, USA
Expertise: antigenic variation, epigenetics, molecular genetics, parasite gene expression, Plasmodium
Michael S. Diamond
Washington University School of Medicine
St. Louis, MO, USA
Expertise: RNA viruses, innate immunity, adaptive immunity
Shou-Wei Ding
University of California, Riverside
Riverside, CA, USA
Expertise: plant virology, invertebrate RNA viruses, RNAi, RNA silencing, viral suppressors of RNAi
Sabine Ehrt
Weill Cornell Medical College
New York, NY, USA
Expertise: Pathogenesis of tuberculosis, Mycobacterium macrophage interaction, regulation of gene expression
Ana Fernandez-Sesma
Mount Sinai School of Medicine
New York, NY, USA
Expertise: Flaviviridae, Innate immunity, dengue virus, inflammation, Influenza virus, Viral immune evasion, immune sensing, Arboviruses, human immunology
Scott G. Filler
Harbor-UCLA Medical Center
Torrance, CA, USA
Expertise: mammalian fungal infections, fungal biology, cell biology of endothelial and epithelial cells
Erik K. Flemington
Tulane University
New Orleans, LA, USA
Expertise: Genetics, Herpesviridae, Innate Immunity, Latent infection, polyomaviridae, papillomaviruses
JoAnne Flynn
University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine
Pittsburgh, PA, USA
Expertise: tuberculosis, lung, immunology
Ron A.M. Fouchier
Erasmus Medical Center
Rotterdam, The Netherlands
Expertise: influenza, negative strand viruses, evolution, emerging viruses
Klaus Früh
Oregon Health and Sciences University
Beaverton, OR, USA
Expertise: immune evasion, Poxvirus, Herpesvirus, antigen presentation, innate immunity
Sarah Gaffen
University of Pittsburg
Pittsburgh, PA, USA
Expertise: Mycology, immune evasion and suppression, cytokines and chemokines, signaling
Lab website
Shou-Jiang Gao
UPMC Hillman Cancer Center
Pittsburgh, PA, USA
Expertise: DNA viruses, Herpesviridae, Inflammation angiogenesis and microenvironment, Innate immunity, Oral infection, Sexually transmitted infection, Viral Genome Replication
Adolfo Garcia-Sastre
Mount Sinai School of Medicine
New York, NY, USA
Expertise: Influenza, negative strand RNA viruses, innate immunity, antiviral host response, viral vaccines
Alan Hauser
Northwestern University
Bevanston, IL, USA
Expertise: Antigenic variation, DNA recombination, Drug resistance, RNA interference, Trypanosoma brucei
Mark Heise
University of North Carolina At Chapel Hill
Chapel Hill, NC, USA
Expertise: pathogenesis of virus-induced disease, mosquito-borne and respiratory viruses, viral evasion of the host innate immune system, virus-induced immune pathology
Thomas J. Hope
Northwestern University
Chicago, IL, USA
Expertise: viral post-transcriptional regulatory elements, cell biology of HIV
David Horn
University of Dundee
Dundee, Scotland, UK
Expertise: antigenic variation, DNA recombination, drug resistance, RNA interference, Trypanosoma brucei
James Kazura
Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine
Cleveland, OH, USA
Expertise: malaria, helminth, immunology, genetic susceptibility
Kami Kim
University of South Florida
Tampa, FL, USA
Expertise: parasitology, Plasmodium, Toxoplasma gondii pathogenesis, cell biology, genetics
Richard Koup
National Institutes of Health, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases
Bethesda, MD, USA
Expertise: HIV, immunity, vaccines
Adam Lauring
orcid.org/0000-0003-2906-8335
University of Michigan
Ann Arbor, MI, USA
Expertise: Antivirals, DNA viruses, epidemics, evolutionary biology (phylogeny), genomics, host-pathogen co-evolution, mutation, outbreaks, pandemics, RNA viruses, sequencing, Systems genetics
Lab website
Benhur Lee
Mount Sinai Hospital
New York, NY, USA
Expertise: Antivirals, Budding, Fusion, Henipavirus, Negative strand RNA viruses, Paramyxoviridae, Viral Entry, Zoonotic infections
Xiaorong Lin
University of Georgia
Athens, GA, USA
Expertise: Ascomycete pathogens, Basidiomycete pathogens, Biofilm formation, Dimorphism, Evolutionary Biology, genetics, Germination, Mating/Reproductive systems, Mycology, Secretion, Toxins, Vaccine development
Lab website
P'ng Loke
New York University
New York, NY, USA
Expertise: parasitology, helminths, schistosomes, microbiota, macrophages
Guangxiang “George” Luo
University of Alabama at Birmingham School of Medicine
Birmingham, AL, USA
Expertise: hepatitis viruses (B, C, D and E), flaviviruses, influenza, RSV, viral entry and replication, antiviral drugs
Wenbo Ma
University of California, Riverside
Riverside, CA, USA
Expertise: Arabidopsis, Pseudomonas, type III effector, resistance protein, innate immunity, Fungal and Oomycete pathogens of plants, Phytophthora, Bacterial pathogens of plants
Neil A. Mabbott
Roslin Institute and Royal (Dick) School of Veterinary Studies University of Edinburgh
Edinburgh, United Kingdom
Expertise: immune system, host-pathogen interactions, TSE agents
Alison McBride
National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases
Bethesda, MD, USA
Expertise: papillomavirus, keratinocyte biology, epigenetic modifications, genome integration
Denise Monack
Stanford University School of Medicine
Stanford, CA, USA
Expertise: Shigella life cycle, protease-dependent mechanism for mediating actin-based motility
Karl Münger
Tufts University School of Medicine
Boston, MA, USA
Expertise: papillomaviruses, polyomaviruses, DNA tumor viruses, viral oncology
Peter D. Nagy
University of Kentucky
Lexington, KY, USA
Expertise: plant viruses, RNA virus replication, RNA virus recombination, host-virus interactions
Xavier Nassif
University Paris Descartes
Paris, France
Expertise: bacterial meningitis, Neisseria pathogenesis, blood brain barrier
Jing-hsiung James Ou
University of Southern California
Los Angeles, CA, USA
Expertise: hepatitis B virus, hepatitis C virus, hepatocellular carcinogenesis
Edward Pearce
Max Planck Institute of Immunobiology and Epigenetics
Freiburg, Germany
Expertise: helminth parasites, immune responses
Andrew Pekosz
Johns Hopkins University
Baltimore, MD, USA
Expertise: Influenza virus, hantavirus, coronavirus, virus-host cell interactions, virus assembly
Ted Pierson
National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases
Bethesda, MD, USA
Expertise: alphaviruses, flaviviruses, antibody neutralization, virus entry, virus assembly
Margaret Phillips
University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
Dallas, TX, USA
Expertise: polyamine metabolism, pyrimidine and purine metabolism, drug discovery, enzymology, structural biology, Plasmodium, Trypanosoma
Eleanor M. Riley
The Roslin Institute, University of Edinburgh
Edinburgh, United Kingdom
Expertise: Plasmodium, natural killer cells, vaccines, cellular immunity, human models
Erle S. Robertson
University of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia, PA, USA
Expertise: adenoviridae, antivirals, apoptosis, CNS infection, genetics, polyomaviridae, phylogenetics, poxviridae, GI infections
Susan R. Ross
University of Illinois, College of Medicine
Chicago, IL, USA
Expertise: retroviruses, genetics of resistance/susceptibility to infection (viral or bacterial), immune responses to viruses
Craig R. Roy
Yale University
New Haven, CT, USA
Expertise: cell biology, biochemistry, immunology, microbiology
David Sacks
National Institutes of Health, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases
Bethesda, MD, USA
Expertise: Leishmania, adaptive immunity, innate immune responses, vector biology, population genetics
Nina Salama
Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
Seattle, WA, USA
Expertise: epsilon proteobacteria, recombinational repair, bacterial cell wall/cell shape, comparative genomics, functional genomics
Karla J.F. Satchell
Northwestern University, Feinberg School of Medicine
Evanston, IL, USA
Expertise: Autophagy, Bacterial genetics, Bacterial Toxins, Clostridium toxins, Enteric bacteria, innate immunity, Phagocytosis, Secretion systems, Vibrio chloreae, Vibrio vulnificus
Lab website
David Skurnik
University Paris-Descartes
Paris, France
Expertise: Escherichia coli, Pseudomonas aeruginosa, Vaccine development, Antibiotic resistance, Next Generation High-Throughput Sequencing
Lab website
Xin-zhuan Su
National Institutes of Health, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases
Rockville, MD, USA
Expertise: Apicomplexa, evolutionary biology, drug resistance, malaria genetics and genomics, host-parasite interaction
Kanta Subbarao
The Peter Doherty Institute for Infection and Immunity
Melbourne, Australia
Expertise: influenza, SARS coronavirus, MERS coronavirus, vaccines
Christoph Tang
University of Oxford, Sir William Dunn School of Pathology
Oxford, UK
Expertise: Neisseria gonorrhoeae, Neisseria meningitidis, Shigella flexneri, Enteric bacteria
Lab website
Bart Thomma
Wageningen University
The Netherlands
Expertise: Arabidopsis, Fungal and Oomycete pathogens of plants, genome rearrangement, Hemibiotrophic pathogens, Innate Immunity, Magnaporthey oryzae, population genomics, systemic acquired resistance, population genomics
Guy Tran Van Nhieu
Institut Pasteur
Paris, France
Expertise: bacterial pathogenesis, Shigella, bacterial-induced actin cytoskeletal reorganization
Volker Thiel
University of Bern
Bern, Switzerland
Expertise: coronaviruses, reverse genetics, RNA synthesis, pathogenicity factors, zoonosis, innate immune responses
Brett Tyler
Oregon State University
Corvallis, OR, USA
Expertise: Oomycete and fungal plant pathogens, plant innate immunity, eukaryotic microbe genomics and bioinformatics
Raphael Valdivia
Duke University Medical Center
Durham, NC, USA
Expertise: Chlamydia, cellular microbiology, membrane transport, cell signaling, cytoskeleton
Marco Vignuzzi
Institut Pasteur
Paris, France
Expertise: RNA viruses, virus evolution, arboviruses, vaccines, antivirals
David Wang
Washington University
St. Louis, MO, USA
Expertise: characterization of novel viruses, C. elegans virus infection system, astroviruses, nodaviruses
Michael Wessels
Harvard Medical School
Cambridge, MA, USA
Expertise: Streptococcal pathogenesis
SARS-CoV-2 Editors
Michael S. Diamond
Section Editor
RNA Virology
Ron A.M. Fouchier
Section Editor
RNA Virology
Benhur Lee
Section Editor
RNA Virology
Andrew Pekosz
Section Editor
RNA Virology
Kanta Subbarao
Section Editor
RNA Virology
David Wang
Section Editor
RNA Virology
Opinions and Viewpoints Editors
Carolyn B. Coyne
University of Pittsburg
Pittsburg, PA, USA
Expertise: Coxsackievirus, Enterovirus, GI infections, Innate immunity, Picornaviridae, Poliovirus, RNAi response, Systems biology, Viral Entry
Thomas E. Morrison
University of Colorado, Anschultz Medical Campus
Aurora, CO, USA
Expertise: Alphavirus, antivirals, Coronaviridae, Vector borne infections (arboviruses), zoonotic infections, emerging viruses
Lab website
June Round
University of Utah
Salt Lake City, UT, USA
Expertise: Antibiotic resistance, B cell immunology, Clostridium difficile, Commensals, Inflammation, Innate Immunity, Lactococcus spp., macrophages, Microbiome, Microbiota
Reviews Editors
Aaron Mitchell
Senior Reviews Editor
University of Georgia
Athens, GA, USA
Expertise: biofilm formation, fungal genetics, transcriptional regulation
Bacteriology
James Bliska
Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth
Hanover, NH, USA
Expertise: Enteric bacteria, Gram Negative Bacteria, Innate immunity, phagocytosis, secretion systems, Yersinia pestis, Yersinia pseudotuberculosis
Antje Blumenthal
The University of Queensland Diamantina Institute
Brisbane, Australia
Expertise: Tuberculosis, innate immunity, macrophage biology, inflammation, sepsis, chemokines, cytokines, Listeriosis, Mycobacterium species, WNT signaling
Lab website
Christoph Dehio
University of Basel
Basel, Switzerland
Expertise: Gram negative bacteria, Legionella pneumophila, Salmonella enterica, Yersinia pseudotuberculosis, Innate Immunity
N. Luisa Hiller
Carnegie Mellon University
Pittsburgh, PA, USA
Expertise: Gram positive pathogens, pathogenomics, pneumococcus, cell wall, quorum sensing, Streptococcus pneumoniae, Viridans streptococci
Lab website
Mycology
Chaoyang Xue
Rutgers New Jersey Medical School
Newark, NJ, USA
Expertise: Fungal pathogens, fungal interactions, fungicide resistance, Basidiomycete pathogens, genomics, host recognition, virulence modification in response to environment
Lab wesbite
Salomé LeibundGut-Landmann
University of Zürich
Zürich, Switzerland
Expertise: Antifungal immunity, Ascomycete pathogens, Basidiomycete pathogens, commensal fungi, mycobiome, adaptive immunity, hypersensitive response, host recognition, immune evasion, cytokines, chemokines
Lab website
Parasitology
Chetan Chitnis
Institut Pasteur
Paris, France
Expertise: Apicomplexa, Egress, Molecular genetics, Parasitology, Plasmodium, protein structure, Vaccine
Marc-Jan Gubbels
Boston College
Boston, MA, USA
Expertise: Apicomplexa, Evolutionary biology/genetics, Genomics, Kinases, Plasmodium, Ticks, Toxoplosma
Björn Kafsack
Weill Cornell Medical College
New York, NY, USA
Expertise: Apicomplexa, malaria, Toxoplasma, Plasmodium, transcriptional regulation, protozoa
Lab website
James B. Lok
University of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia, PA, USA
Expertise: Parasitology, Strongyloides, Caenorhabditis, transcription factor, dauer, G protein, TGF beta, parasite, nematode
Virology
Rachel Fearns
Boston University School of Medicine
Boston, MA, USA
Expertise: Negative strand RNA viruses, Respiratory syncytial virus, Ebolavirus, Rhabdoviridae, Paramyxoviridae, Pneumoviridae, RNA synthesis
Lab website
Tom Hobman
University of Alberta
Edmonton, Canada
Expertise: Alphavirus, Flaviviridae, RNA Viruses, RNAi , Vector borne infections (arboviruses), Western equine encephalitis virus, Zoonotic infections
Seema Lakdawala
University of Pittsburgh
Pittsburgh, PA, USA
Expertise: Influenza, cross-species transmission, Orthomyxoviridae, enveloped viruses, vesicles, reassortment
Lab website
Helen Lazear
University of North Carolina At Chapel Hill
Chapel Hill, NC, USA
Expertise: Flaviviruses, Zika virus, West Nile Virus, Rubella virus, innate immunity, interferon system, arboviruses, viral immune evasion
Lab website
Kenneth Stapleford
NYU School of Medicine
New York, NY, USA
Expertise: Chikugungya virus, gene expression, RNA virus replication, cross-species transmission, Dengue virus, Flaviviridae, genomics, O'nyong-nyong virus, Sindbis virus, Togaviridae, West nile virus, Yellow fever virus
Lab website
Xiaofeng Wang
Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
Blacksburg, VA, USA
Expertise: Plant virology, RNA genome replication, disease resistance protein, Bromoviridae, Geminiviridae, Picornaviridae, Potyviridae
Lab website
Craig Wilen
Yale School of Medicine
New Haven, CT, USA
Expertise: Mucosal immunity, Norovirus, viral entry, tuft cells
Lab website
Pearls Editors
Joseph Heitman
Senior Pearls Editor
Duke University Medical Center
Durham, NC, USA
Expertise: Ascomycete pathogens, Basidiomycete pathogens, Candida, Comparative genomics, Cryptococcus, Evolutionary genetics, Genomics, sexual reproduction, Zygomycetes
Mycology
Anuradha Chowdhary
Vallabhbhai Patel Chest Institute
Delhi, India
Expertise: Antifungal drug resistance, Ascomycete pathogens, Basidiomycete pathogens, Zygomycete pathogens, molecular mechanisms of fungal pathogenesis
Lab website
Deborah Hogan
Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth
Hanover, NH, USA
Expertise: Antifungal drug discovery, genetics, transcriptomics, fungal interactions, pathogen effectors, microbial interactions
Mary Ann Jabra-Rizk
University of Maryland
Baltimore, MD, USA
Expertise: Antifungal drug discovery, antifungal drug resistance, biofilm formation, fungal interactions, immune evasion, immune suppression, Mechanism of antifungal activity
Lab website
Don Sheppard
McGill University
Montreal, Canada
Expertise: Antifungal drug discovery, Ascomycete pathogens, Biofilm formation, Genetics, Molecular mechanisms of fungal pathogenesis, Vaccine development
Bacteriology
Jörn Coers
Duke University Medical Center
Durham, NC, USA
Expertise: Gram Negative Bacteria, Innate Immunity, Chlamydia, cytokines, Inflammation
Kimberly Kline
Nanyang Technological University
Singapore
Expertise: Enterococcus faecalis, Enterococcus fecium, gram positive pili, Necrotizing fasciitis, Streptococcus pyogenes
John Leong
Tufts University
Medford, MA, USA
Expertise: Borrelia burgdorferi, Enteric bacteria, Food borne organisms, Host-pathogen interaction, Pneumonia, Streptococcus pneumoniae
Neal Silverman
University of Massachusetts Medical School
Worcester, MA, USA
Expertise: Innate immunity, Nod-like receptors, Leishmania, insect DNA viruses, hormone signaling, functional amyloids
Lab website
Virology
Richard Condit
University of Florida
Gainesville, FL, USA
Expertise: Antivirals, Asfaviridae, DNA virus, Emerging Infections, Genetics, Poxviridae, Vaccines, Vaccinia virus, Viral Genome
Rebecca Dutch
University of Kentucky
Lexington, KY, USA
Expertise: Negative strand RNA viruses, Emerging viruses, Hendra virus, Nipah virus, Paramyxoviridae, Respiratory Infections, Viral Entry
Matt Evans
Mount Sinai School of Medicine
New York, NY, USA
Expertise: Dengue virus, Hepacivirus, Hepatitis C virus, viral entry, attachment
Andy Mehle
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Madison, WI, USA
Expertise: influenza virus (orthomyxoviridae), viral RNA-dependent RNA polymerase, virus:host interactions, host-range restriction, restriction factors\
Katherine Spindler
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
Ann Arbor, MI, USA
Expertise: adenovirus, DNA viruses, encephalitic virus infections, encephalitis, host-pathogen interaction, viral pathogenesis
Plant Pathogens
Cyril Zipfel
University of Zürich
Zürich, Switzerland
Expertise: Agrobacterium, Arabidopsis, effector-triggered immunity, Hemibiotrophic pathogens, Innate Immunity, MAMP-triggered immunity, PAMP-triggered immunity, Phytotoxins, Plant hormones, receptor kinases, systemic acquired resistance, Trimeric G-proteins
Prions
Sabine Gilch
University of Calgary
Alberta, Canada
Expertise: Alzheimer's disease, autophagy, bovine spongiform encephalopathy, chronic wasting disease, cross-species transmission, Gerstmann-Straussler Scheinker syndrome, host control of prion pathogenesis, prion detection, routes of transmission/exposure
Lab website
Dan Jarosz
Stanford University
Stanford, CA, USA
Expertise: Antifungal drug resistance, bacterial genetics, cell biology, epigenetic regulation, experimental evolution, genetic divergence, in vitro prion propagation, mathematical modeling, mutational robustness, population dynamics, structural basis of prion infectivity, systems biology
Lab website
Parasitology
Laura J. Knoll
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Madison, WI, USA
Expertise: Apicomplexa, CNS infections, Dendritic cells, Immunology, macrophages, Parasitology, Toxoplasma
Audrey Odom John
Washington University School of Medicine
St. Louis, MO, USA
Expertise: Apicomplexa, Plasmodium, apicoplast, drug discovery, drug resistance, metabolism
Laurie Read
University at Buffalo
Buffalo, NY, USA
Expertise: Biochemistry, kinetoplastids, Molecular genetics, parasite gene expression, proteomics, RNA editing, RNA metabolism, transcriptomics, Trypanosoma bruce
Genomics Editors
Raul Andino
Section Editor
Evolutionary virology
François Balloux
Section Editor
Evolutionary biology
Aaron Mitchell
Section Editor
Mycology
Denise Monack
Section Editor
Bacteriology
Xin-zhuan Su
Section Editor
Parasitology
Bart Thomma
Section Editor
Plant Pathogens
Brett Tyler
Section Editor
Plant Pathogens
David Wang
Section Editor
Virology
Associate Editors
Prions
Umberto Agrimi
Instituto Superiore di Sanità
Rome, Italy
Expertise: prion strains, pathogenesis of prion diseases, genetics of prion diseases
Jason Bartz
Creighton University Medical School
Omaha, NE, USA
Expertise: Environmental fate of prions, Prion pathogenesis, Prion strains
Surachai Supattapone
Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth
Hanover, NH, USA
Expertise: Biochemistry of infectious mammalian prions, especially: non-PrP cofactors such as lipids and polyanionic molecules, in vitro prion propagation, structural basis of prion infectivity, molecular basis for prion strain diversity
HIV/Retroviruses
Charles Bangham
Imperial College London
London, UK
Expertise: HIV and retroviruses, human T cell leukaemia virus, T cells
Bryan R. Cullen
Duke University Medical Center
Durham, NC, USA
Expertise: retroviral molecular biology, viral microRNAs, innate antiviral immunity, APOBEC3 proteins, RNA interference
Ronald C. Desrosiers
University of Miami Miller School of Medicine
Miami, FL, USA
Expertise: AIDS, SIV/HIV, neutralizing antibodies, AIDS vaccine, gamma herpesviruses
Katie Doores
King's College London
London, UK
Expertise: HIV and retroviruses, vaccines, adaptive immunity
Daniel Douek
National Institutes of Health, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases
Bethesda, MD, USA
Expertise: human immunology, t cells, HIV, thymus, mucosalimmunology
David T. Evans
University of Wisconsin, Madison
Madison, WI, USA
Expertise: Adapative immunity, Co-infections, Cross-species transmission, genomics, HIV, Innate immunity, NK cells, Retroviridae, SIV, Vaccines, Virus discovery
Hans-Georg Kräusslich
Universität Heidelberg
Heidelberg, Germany
Expertise: HIV, assembly, maturation, protease, entry
Jeffrey D. Lifson
Frederick National Laboratory
Frederick, MD, USA
Expertise: retrovirology, HIV/SIV, retroviral immunology, AIDS vaccines, non-human primate models
Florence Margottin-Goguet
Cochin Institute, INSERM
Paris, France
Expertise: HIV, epigenetics, HIV viral auxiliary protein, SIV, replication, transcription, latent infections
Lab website
Guido Silvestri
Emory University
Atlanta, GA, USA
Expertise: AIDS pathogenesis, HIV, SIV, non-human primates, mucosal transmission, co-infections
Ronald Swanstrom
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Chapel Hill, NC, USA
Expertise: Epidemiology, Evolutionary biology, Genetics, HIV and Retroviruses, Human T cell leukaemia virus, Next generation sequencing, Spumavirus, Systems genetics
Gilda Tachedjian
Burnet Institute
Melbourne, Australia
Expertise: HIV, host-virus interactions, lentivirus, mucosal immunity
Lab website
Alexandra Trkola
University Hospital Zürich
Zürich, Switzerland
Expertise: HIV, virus entry, humoral immunity
Gram-Negative Bacteriology
Andreas J. Baumler
University of California, Davis
Davis, CA, USA
Expertise: Bacterial genetics, C. elegans, Campylobacter jejuni, cytosolic innate immune responses, endotoxins, Enteric bacteria, Escherichia coli, Immunological, macrophages, Salmonella, Shigella flexneri, Vibrio chloreae, Yersinia
Steven R. Blanke
University of Illinois
Urbana, IL, USA
Expertise: Helicobacter pylori, Bacillus anthracis, Bacillus cereus group pathogens, Campylobacter jejuni, VacA, CDTs
Igor Brodsky
University of Pennsylvania, School of Veterinary Medicine
Philadelphia, PA, USA
Expertise: Salmonella Typhimurium, Yersinia pseudotuberculosis, Macrophages, Inflammasome, Necroptosis
Jenifer Coburn
Medical College of Wisconsin
Milwaukee, WI, USA
Expertise: spirochetes, Borrelia, Leptospira, ticks
Isabelle Derré
University of Virginia School of Medicine
Charlottesville, VA, USA
Expertise: gram-negative bacteria, Chlamydia trachomatis, Chlamydophila pneumoniae, Intracellular pathogens, type III secretion
Simon Dove
Boston Children's Hospital and Harvard
Boston, MA, USA
Expertise: Bacterial genetics, Francisella spp, gene regulation, Gram Negative Bacteria, Pseudomonas aeruginosa
Sophie Helaine
Harvard Medical School
Boston, MA, USA
Expertise: Antibiotic persistence, antibiotic tolerance, bacterial genetics, enteric bacteria, Salmonella species, persistent infections
Theresa Koehler
University of Texas-Houston Medical School
Houston, TX, USA
Expertise: Bacillus, anthrax, spore, toxin, gram positive capsule
Tomoko Kubori
Gifu University
Gifu, Japan
Expertise: Legionella, Salmonella, bacterial effectors, bacterial flagella, Secretion systems
Vincent T. Lee
University of Maryland
Baltimore, MD, USA
Expertise: Allosteric regulation of molecular complexes, host-pathogen interactions, Molecular mechanisms of pathogenesis for Pseudomonas aeruginosa
Zhao-Qing Luo
Purdue University
West Lafayette, IN, USA
Expertise: gram-negative bacteria, Legionella pneuophila, immunology, secretion systems, Yersinia pseudotuberculosi, animal pathogens
David Mackey
Ohio State University
Columbus, OH, USA
Expertise: Agrobacterium, Arabidopsis, Effector-triggered immunity, Oomycete pathogens of plants, Plant bacterial pathogens, Plant hormones, Pseudomonas, RNA silencing, Type III secretion
Joan Mecsas
Tufts University
Medford, MA, USA
Expertise: Yersinia, Klebsiella, Type III secretion, Neutrophils, Enteroids/Organoids
Matthew Mulvey
University of Utah
Salt Lake City, UT, USA
Expertise: Gram-negative pathogens, ExPEC, urinary tract infection, sepsis, innate immunity
William Navarre
University of Toronto
Ontario, Canada
Expertise: Gram-negative bacteria, bacterial genetics, horizontal gene transfer, gut microbiota, Salmonella species, Escherichia coli
Lab website
Mary O'Riordan
University of Michigan Medical School
Ann Arbor, MI, USA
Expertise: gram-negative bacteria, listeria monocytogenes, salmonella typhimurium, shigella flexneri, immunology,enteric bacteria
Eric Oswald
University of Toulouse
Toulouse, France
Expertise: toxins, pathogenic and commensal Enterobacteriaceae, carcinogenic bacteria, OMV
Matthew Parsek
University of Washington
Seattle, WA, USA
Expertise: Quorum sensing biofilms, microbial communities
Dana J. Philpott
University of Toronto
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Expertise: nod-like receptor (NLR) family, bacterial infection
D. Scott Samuels
University of Montana
Missoula, MT, USA
Expertise: Borrelia burgdorferi, spirochetes, gene regulation, bacterial genetics
David S. Schneider
Stanford University
Palo Alto, CA, USA
Expertise: innate Immunity, model systems of infection (Drosophila and mosquitoes), malaria, Listeria and Salmonella
David Weiss
Emory University
Atlanta, GA, USA
Expertise: gram-negative bacteria, Francisella spp., Acinetobacter baumannii, CRISPR-Cas systems
Matthew Wolfgang
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Chapel Hill, NC, USA
Expertise: Pseudomonas aeruginosa, Gene regulation, Bacterial Genetics, Polymicrobial infection, Opportunistic infection
Dario Zamboni
University of São Paulo
Ribeirao Preto, SP, Brazil
Expertise: gram-negative bacteria, immunity, inflammasomes, legionella, leishmania
Gram-Positive Bacteriology
Marcel A. Behr
McGill University
Montreal, Canada
Expertise: Tuberculosis, BCG, Crohn's disease, mycobacterium avium, bacterial genomics
Helena Boshoff
National Institutes of Health
Bethesda, MD, USA
Expertise: identification and validation of drug targets, tuberculosis, DNA repair, antibiotic resistance, Metabolomics
Thomas R. Hawn
University of Washington
Seattle, WA, USA
Expertise: Genomics, inflammation, innate immunity, Mycobacterium tuberculosis
Theresa Koehler
University of Texas-Houston Medical School
Houston, TX, USA
Expertise: Bacillus, anthrax, spore, toxin, gram positive capsule
David Lewinsohn
Oregon Health and Science University
Portland, OR, USA
Expertise: Dendritic cells, Gram Positive Bacteria, Immune evasion. Mycobacterium bovis, Mycobacterium tuberculosis, T cell immunology, Vaccine development
Bruce McClane
University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine
Pittsburgh, PA, USA
Expertise: Anaerobes, bacterial pathogenesis, Clostridium, enterotoxins, exotoxin
Rachel M McLoughin
Trinity Biomedical Sciences Institute, Trinity College Dublin
Dublin, Ireland
Expertise: Staphylococcus, Streptococcus, microbiome, innate immunity, vaccine development
Lab website
Timothy J. Mitchell
University of Birmingham
Birmingham, United Kingdom
Expertise: Streptococcus, inflammation, listeriosis, meningitis, pneumonia, Streptococcus pyogenes, vaccines
Carlos Javier Orihuela
The University of Alabama at Birmingham
Birmingham, AL, USA
Expertise: S. pneumoniae, bacterial pathogenesis, mechanisms of bacterial adhesion, community-acquired pneumonia in the elderly, innate immunity
Andreas Peschel
University of Tubingen
Tubingen, Germany
Expertise: Peptidoglycan metabolism, Staphylococcus aureus, teichoic acids, evasion, proinflammatory bacterial molecules
Alice Prince
Columbia University
New York, NY, USA
Expertise: Pseudomonas aeruginosa, innate immunity, neutrophils, cystic fibrosis, adhesion
Padmini Salgame
Rutgers University
New Brunswick, NJ, USA
Expertise: Tuberculosis, Vaccine Development, Innate immunifty, Macrophages
Christopher Sassetti
University of Massachusetts Medical School
Worchester, MA, USA
Expertise: tuberculosis, innate immunity, metabolism, genetics
Paul Sullam
University of California, San Francisco
San Francisco, CA, USA
Expertise: viridans group streptococci, platelets, endocarditis, endovascular infections
Gongyi Zhang
National Jewish Medical and Research Center
Denver, CO, USA
Expertise: Gram positive bacteria, amyloid folding, cytokines, gene regulation, Staphylococcus aureus, prion folding, proteomics
Evolutionary Biology
Robert Belshaw
Plymouth University
Plymouth, United Kingdom
Expertise: DNA viruses, epidemics, evolutionary biology, genetics, genomics, HIV and Retroviruses, host-pathogen co-evolution, mutation, outbreaks, RNA viruses, sequencing, ransmission trees, Viral oncogenesis
Debra Bessen
New York Medical College
Valhalla, NY, USA
Expertise: Streptococcal pathogenesis, bacterial evolution, molecular epidemiology
Nels Elde
University of Utah
Salt Lake City, UT, USA
Expertise: arms races, biochemistry, clonal interference, DNA viruses, evolutionary biology (phylogeny), genetic divergence, host-range restriction, innate immunity, protozoa, sequencing
Francis Jiggins
University of Cambridge
Cambridge, UK
Expertise: Evolution, insects, viruses, symbionts, genetic variation
Jason Rasgon
Center for Infectious Disease Dynamics, Penn State University
University Park, PA, USA
Expertise: Bacteria, DNA viruses, epidemics, Evolutionary Biology, Fungi, Genomic, Host-pathogen co-evolution, Mathematical models, Mutations, outbreaks, Parasites, phylogeny, RNA viruses, Wolbachia, zoonotic transfer
Erwin Schurr
McGill University
Montreal, Canada
Expertise: tuberculosis, leprosy, innate immunity
RNA Virology
Alex Bukreyev
University of Texas Medical Branch / Galveston National Laboratory
https://www.utmb.edu/pathology/laboratories/the-bukreyev-lab
David T. Evans
University of Wisconsin, Madison
Madison, WI, USA
Expertise: Adapative immunity, Co-infections, Cross-species transmission, genomics, HIV, Innate immunity, NK cells, Retroviridae, SIV, Vaccines, Virus discovery
Neil M. Ferguson
Imperial College London
London, UK
Expertise: Epidemiology, epidemic modeling, population biology, infectious diseases
Andrea Gamarnik
Fundación Intituto Leloir-CONICET
Buenos Aires, Argentina
Expertise: dengue virus replication, flaviviruses, RNA virus replication, RNA virus translation
Jianming Hu
Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Penn State College of Medicine,
Hershey, PA, USA
Expertise: Hepatitis, Hepatitis B virus, Hepadnaviridae
Yoshihiro Kawaoka
University of Wisconsin-Madison and University of Tokyo
Madison, WI, USA; Tokyo, Japan
Expertise: RNA viruses, influenza viruses, filoviruses
Jens Kuhn
National Institutes of Health, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases
Bethesda, MD, USA
Expertise: Arenaviridae, Bunyaviridae, CNS infections, Ebola virus, Evolutionary biology (phylogeny), Hantavirus, Henipavirus, Insects and Ticks, Nyamiviridae, Vaccines
Richard J. Kuhn
Purdue University
West Lafayette, IN, USA
Expertise: Alphavirus, Antivirals, Emerging viruses, Flaviviridae, Hepatitis C virus, Poliovirus, Viral Entry, Zoonotic infections
Carolina Lopez
University of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia, PA, USA
Expertise: Defective viral genomes, dsRNA viruses, Paramyxoviruses, Pneumoviruses, Innate Immunity
Anice Lowen
Emory University School of Medicine
Atlanta, GA, USA
Expertise: Influenza Virus, Reassortment, Experimental Evolution, Zoonotic Infections
Jay A. Nelson
Oregon Health and Science University
Portland, OR, USA
Expertise: molecular pathogenesis, viruses including herpesviruses, flaviviruses, cytomegalovirus
Janko Nikolich-Žugich
University of Arizona
Tucson, AZ, USA
Expertise: Adaptive Immunity, Chikungunya virus, CNS infections, DNA Viruses, Flaviviridae, Orthomyxoviridae, RNA Viruses, Vaccines, arboviruses
Peter Palese
Mount Sinai Hospital
New York, NY, USA
Expertise: Antivirals, Emerging viruses, Influenza virus, Innate immunity, Measles virus, Mumps virus, Nipah virus, Orthomyxoviridae, Paramyxoviridae, Respiratory syncytial virus, Vaccines
John T. Patton
Indiana University Bloomington
Bloomington, IN, USA
Expertise: dsRNA virus, Reoviridae, Rotavirus, innate immune evasion, RNA replication
Daniel R. Perez
Virginia-Maryland Regional College of Veterinary Medicine
College Park, MD, USA
Expertise: Adapative immunity, Epidemiology, Evolutionary biology, Flaviviridae, Genomics, Paramyxoviridae, Systems biology, Vaccine vectors
Stanley Perlman
University of Iowa
Iowa City, IA, USA
Expertise: Adaptive immunity, Respiratory Infections, SARS coronavirus, Neurotropic viruses, Coronaviridae
Glenn Randall
University of Chicago
Chicago, Illinois
Expertise: Antivirals, Dengue virus, Flaviviridae, GI infections, Hepatitis C virus, Insects and Ticks, Interferon, RNAi response, Viral immune evasion, Viral siRNAs, West nile virus
Félix Rey
Institute Pasteur
Paris, France
Expertise: structural virology, viral envelope glycoproteins, particle assembly
Charles M. Rice
The Rockefeller University
New York, NY, USA
Expertise: RNA viruses, flaviviruses, hepatitis C, alphaviruses
Michael Robek
Albany Medical College
Albany, NY, USA
Expertise: Hepatitis B Virus, Cytokines, Inflammation, Vaccine Vectors, Adaptive Immunity
Andrea J. Sant
University of Rochester
Rochester, NY, USA
Expertise: Adapative immunity, CD4 T cell immunity, Cytokines, Influenza virus, Respiratory syncytial virus, Vaccines
Sara Sawyer
University of Colorado Boulder
Boulder, CO, USA
Expertise: Viral host-switching, Receptors, Restriction Factors, Innate Immunity, Viral Reservoirs
Connie Schmaljohn
U.S. Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases
Fort Detrick, MD, USA
Expertise: DNA vaccines, hantaviruses, filoviruses, anthrax, Venezuelan equine encephalitis virus, vaccinia virus
Matthias Johannes Schnell
Thomas Jefferson University
Philadelphia, PA, USA
Expertise: Nipah virus, Rhabdoviruses, Viral vaccines, Zoonotic infectsion, Rabies virus, Microarray, Hantaan virus, Filoviridae
Shin-Ru Shih
Chang Gung University
Taoyuan, Taiwan
Expertise: Picornaviruses, Emerging Viruses, CNS infection, Replication, Restriction Factors
Aleem Siddiqui
University of California, San Diego
San Diego, CA, USA
Expertise: HCV-induced lipid metabolism, RNA replication, HBV, golgi trafficking, steatosis, liver oncogenesis
Mehul Suthar
Emory University
http://vaccines.emory.edu/faculty-evc/primary-faculty/suthar_mehul.html
Paul G. Thomas
St. Jude Children's Research Hospital
Memphis, TN, USA
Expertise: Adaptive immunity, Dendritic cells, Innate immunity, Macrophages, murine cytomegalovirus, T cell immunodominance, Viral entry and replication
Greg Tiao
Cincinatti Children's Hospital
Cincinatti, OH, USA
Expertise: Cross-species transmission, dsRNA viruses, GI infections, Hepatitis, Innate immunity, Reoviridae, Rotavirus, Viral immune evasion
Christopher M. Walker
The Research Institute at Nationwide Childrens Hospital
Columbus, OH, USA
Expertise: immune response, viral pathogenesis, gene therapy
Sean Whelan
Washington University in Saint Louis, School of Medicine
Saint Louis, MO, USA
Expertise: Antivirals, Arenaviridae, Bunyaviridae, Ebolavirus, Genomics, Lassa virus, Negative strand RNA viruses, Rabies virus, Rhabdoviridae, Virus structure
E. John Wherry
University of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia, PA, USA
Expertise: chronic viral infection, T cell exhaustion, T cell memory, viral pathogenesis, T cell differentiation
Christiane Wobus
University of Michigan Medical School
Ann Arbor, MI, USA
Expertise: Caliciviridae, Astroviridae, GI Infections, Virus-microbiota Interactions
DNA Virology
Walter Atwood
orcid.org/0000-0002-3763-9073
Brown University
https://www.brown.edu/research/labs/molecular-virology/home
Sumita Bhaduri-McIntosh
University of Florida
Gainesville, FL, USA
Expertise: Signal Transduction, Viral Oncology, Epigenetic modifications, Oncogenesis, Persistent infection, Herpesviridae, Lytic activation
William J. Britt
University of Alabama at Birmingham
Birmingham, AL, USA
Expertise: virus structure and assembly, viral protein trafficking, herpes virology
Wolfram Brune
orcid.org/0000-0002-6078-5255
Heinrich Pette Institute, Leibniz Institute for Experimental Virology
https://www.hpi-hamburg.de/en/research-teams/research-departments/virus-host-interaction/
Laurent Coscoy
University of California, Berkeley
Berkeley, CA, USA
Expertise: Adaptive Immunity, Cytomegalovirus, Herpesviridae, Innate Immunity, Kaposi's Sarcoma, Viral entry
Dirk P. Dittmer
University of North Carolina
Chapel Hill, NC, USA
Expertise: Adaptive Immunity, Antivirals, Herpesviridae, intrinsic immunity/resistance, Papillomaviridae
Pinghui Feng
University of Southern California
Los Angeles, CA, USA
Expertise: Deamidation, gene expression, Herpesvirus, viral replication, kinase
Daved Fremont
Washington University in St. Louis
St. Louis, MO, USA
Expertise: gamma herpesvirus, Poxvirus, x-ray crystallography, dengue, Flavivirus, structural biology
Denise A. Galloway
Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
Seattle, WA, USA
Expertise: papillomaviruses, mechanisms of cellular immortaliztion, E6 and E7, papillomavirus/polyomavirus serology
Urs Greber
University of Zurich
Zurich, Switzerland
Expertise: Adenovirus, Herpesvirus, Enterovirus, Entry, uncoating, egress, Cell biology
Patrick Hearing
Stony Brook University
Stony Brook, NY, USA
Expertise: Adenoviridae, Innate immunity, oncogenesis, Papillomaviridae, Parvoviridae, Polyomaviridae, Viral gene transcription, Viral genome replication
Robert F. Kalejta
University of Wisconsin- Madison
Madison, WI, USA
Expertise: Adenoviridae, Apoptosis, genetics, herpesviridae, Innate Immunity, poxviridae, polyomaviridae, papillomaviridae, protein synthesis
Kenneth Kaye
orcid.org/0000-0001-5802-4556
Harvard University
https://www.hms.harvard.edu/dms/virology/fac/kaye.php
Laurie Krug
National Cancer Institute
Bethesda, MD, USA
Expertise: Herpesviridae, Pathogenesis, Oncogenesis, Latent Infection, Viral genome replication, Host Response to infection, Immune evasion/Modulation, Mice and Rodents
Michael Lagunoff
University of Washington
Seattle, WA, USA
Expertise: Herpesvirus, Oncogenesis, metabolism
Paul Francis Lambert
University of Wisconsin- Madison
Madison, WI, USA
Expertise: adenoviridae, antivirals, emerging infections, papillomaviriade, polyomaviridae, respiratory infection, skin infection
Paul M. Lieberman
The Wistar Institute
Philadelphia, PA, USA
Expertise: antivirals, genomics, herpesviridae, latent infection, viral oncology, gene expression analysis
Zhen Lin
Tulane University School of Medicine
New Orleans, LA, USA
Expertise: Herpesviridae, Papillomaviridae, Genetics, Genomics, Viral Oncology
Paul Ling
Baylor College of Medicine
Houston, TX, USA
Expertise: antivirals, genomics, herpesviridae, latent infection, serology, oncology, Innate Immunity
Richard Longnecker
Northwestern University
Evanston, IL, USA
Expertise: antivirals, autophagy, genomics, herpesviridae, Innate Immunity, latent infection, vaccines,viral entry
Craig Meyers
Penn State University School of Medicine
Hershey, PA, USA
Expertise: Antivirals, DNA viruses, Genetics, genomics, Innate immunity, oncogenesis, Papillomaviridae, Polyomaviridae, Systems virology, Vaccines
Edward Mocarski
Emory University
Atlanta, GA, USA
Expertise: adaptive immunity, antivirals, CNS infection, Genetics, mathematical modeling, innate immunity, epidemiology, proteomics
Ashlee V. Moses
Oregon Health and Science University
Portland, OR, USA
Expertise: genomics, herpesviridae, latent infection, oncogenesis, oral infection, inflammation
Christian Münz
Institute of Experimental Immunology, University of Zurich
Zurich, Switzerland
Expertise: herpesviridae, autophagy, adaptive immunity, innate immunity, vaccines
Eain Murphy
Blumburg Institute
Doylestown, PA, USA
Expertise: innate immunity, genomics, latent infection, proteomics, herpesviridae, viral oncology
Jay A. Nelson
Oregon Health and Science University
Portland, OR, USA
Expertise: molecular pathogenesis, viruses including herpesviruses, flaviviruses, cytomegalovirus
Annette Oxenius
ETHZ Institute of Microbiology
Zurich, Switzerland
Expertise: Adaptive immunity, Acute and chronic viral infection, Regulation of T cell responses
Nancy Raab-Traub
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Chapel Hill, NC, USA
Expertise: Herpesviridae, Papillomaviridae, Genetics, Oral infection, Viral oncology, viral gene translation
R. Jude Samulski
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Medicine
Chapel Hill, NC, USA
Expertise: AAV, Adenovirus, Latency, Parvovirus
Thomas Schulz
Hannover Medical School
www.sfb900.de/en/
Luis J. Sigal
Thomas Jefferson University
Philadelphia, PA, USA
Expertise: viral immunology, antigen presentation
Bill Sugden
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Madison, WI, USA
Expertise: molecular biology of the human tumor virus, Epstein-Barr virus
Sankar Swaminathan
University of Utah School of Medicine
Salt Lake City, UT, USA
Expertise: Epstein Barr Virus, Genome integration, herpesviridae, Innate Immunity, lymphoma, latent infection
Christopher M. Walker
The Research Institute at Nationwide Childrens Hospital
Columbus, OH, USA
Expertise: immune response, viral pathogenesis, gene therapy
Z. Hong Zhou
University of California, Los Angeles
Los Angeles, CA, USA
Expertise: Structural studies of viruses, microbial proteins and complexes; cryo electron microscopy, cryo electron tomography; Herpesviridae, Reoviridae, Flaviridae, Rhabdoviridae, bacteriophages
Fanxiu Zhu
Florida State University
Tallahassee, FL, USA
Expertise: Herpesviridae, Signal Transduction, Immune Evasion/Modulation, Kaposi sarcoma-associated herpesvirus
Parasitology
Stephen Beverley
Washington University School of Medicine
St. Louis, MO, USA
Expertise: Leishmania and trypanosomatid protozoa, molecular genetics, parasite virulence and evolution
Oliver Billker
Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute
Cambridge, UK
Expertise: Apicomplexa, Drug discovery/development, Drug resistance, mosquito, Plasmodium, Proteases, Systems biology, Toxoplasma, Transcriptomics, vector biology, Vector borne infections
Michael J. Blackman
The Francis Crick Institute
London, United Kingdom
Expertise: parasitology, invasion, proteomics, chemical genomics
Christine Clayton
Heidelberg University Center for Molecular Biology (ZMBH)
https://www.zmbh.uni-heidelberg.de/clayton/default.shtml
Isabelle Coppens
Johns Hopkins Malaria Research Institute
Baltimore, MD, USA
Expertise: parasitology, apicomplexa, plasmodium, toxoplasma, autophagy, cell culture, biochemistry
Eric Y. Denkers
University of New Mexico
Albuquerque, NM, USA
Expertise: Apicomplexa, dendritic cells, Enteric infections, Immunology , innate immunity, macrophages, neutrophils, Protozoa, Toxoplasma, Vaccines
William Gause
Rutgers New Jersey Medical School
Newark, NJ, USA
Expertise: parasitology, immunology, allergy, helminths, neutrophils, autophagy
Ricardo Gazzinelli
UF Minas Gerais and University of Massachussetts Medical School
Belo Horizonte, MG, Brazil and Worcester, MA, USA
Expertise: cytokines, dendritic cells, immunoregulation, PAMPs, Plasmodium, Toxoplasma, Trypanosoma cruzi, vaccines
Kent Hill
University of California, Los Angeles
Los Angeles, CA, USA
Expertise: parasitology, blood infections, Trypanosomes, Leishmania, Flagellum, vector-borne infections
Matt Higgins
University of Oxford
https://www.bioch.ox.ac.uk/research/higgins
Patricia Johnson
University of California, Los Angeles
Los Angeles, CA, USA
Expertise: trichomonad biology: organelle evolution & biogenesis, gene expression and pathogenesis
Jean Langhorne
National Institute for Medical Research
London, United Kingdom
Expertise: mechanisms of protection and pathogenesis of infectious diseases,molecular immunology, malaria
Elizabeth Ann McGraw
Pennsylvania State University
University Park, PA, USA
Expertise: vector biology, virology, bacteria, host-parasite, innate immunity, Mosquito, Parasitology, insect, Evolution, Genetics
Edward Mitre
Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences
Bethesda, MD, USA
Expertise: parasitology, leishmania, helminths, trypansomes, immunology, neutrophils, drug development
Maria Mota
Instituto de Medicina Molecular
Lisbon, Portugal
Expertise: malaria, host-plasmodium interactions, malaria pathology, hepatocyte infection
Ingrid Müller
Imperial College
London, United Kingdom
Expertise: Leishmania, macrophages, role of arginase in the immune system, cytokines, T cells, innate immunity
Thomas Nutman
National Institutes of Health
Bethesda, MD, USA
Expertise: parasitology, immunology, helminths, genomics, wolbachia, vaccines, blood infections, allergy
William A. Petri, Jr.
University of Virginia
Charlottesville, VA, USA
Expertise: Entamoeba, E. histolytica, amebiasis, ameba, amebic colitis, amebic liver abscess, diarrhea, enteric infection, giardia, cryptosporidia, malnutrition, mucosal immunology, enteric vaccine
David S. Schneider
Stanford University
Palo Alto, CA, USA
Expertise: innate Immunity, model systems of infection (Drosophila and mosquitoes), malaria, Listeria and Salmonella
Joseph Smith
Seattle Biomedical Research Institute
Seattle, WA, USA
Expertise: Plasmodium falciparum, antigenic variation, var genes, cytoadherence, erythrocyte invasion
Dominique Soldati-Favre
University of Geneva
Geneva, Switzerland
Expertise: apicomplexa, cell biology, invasion, trafficking, metabolism
Simona Stäger
INRS - Institut Armand Frappier
http://www.iaf.inrs.ca/simona-stager
Mary M. Stevenson
McGill University
Montreal, Canada
Expertise: malaria immunology, malaria pathogenesis, helminth-induced immunosuppression
Kenneth Vernick
Institut Pasteur
Paris, France
Expertise: vector biology, mosquito, genomics, genetics
David L. Williams
Rush University Medical Center
Chicago, IL, USA
Expertise: parasitology, helminths, drug development and resistance, schistosomes, biochemistry
Plant Pathogens
Paul Birch
The James Hutton Institute, University of Dundee
Dundee, Scotland, United Kingdom
Expertise: Biotrophic pathogens, Fungal and Oomycete pathogens of plants, Innate Immunity, Phytophthora infestans, Potato
Jeff Dangl
University of North Carolina At Chapel Hill
Chapel Hill, NC, USA
Expertise: plant-pathogen interactions, bacterial pathogens, type III systems, oomycetes
Savithramma Dinesh-Kumar
University of California, Davis
Davis, CA, USA
Expertise: Plant RNA Viruses, Arabidopsis, Bromoviridae, Geminiviridae, replication of RNA genomes, pattern recognition receptor
Hui-Shan Guo
Chinese Academy of Sciences
Beijing, China
Expertise: Arabidopsis, Bromoviridae, Fungal and Oomycete pathogens of plants, Plant viral pathogens, RNA silencing, Tobacco
David Mackey
Ohio State University
Columbus, OH, USA
Expertise: Agrobacterium, Arabidopsis, Effector-triggered immunity, Oomycete pathogens of plants, Plant bacterial pathogens, Plant hormones, Pseudomonas, RNA silencing, Type III secretion
Christophe Ritzenthaler
CNRS and University of Strasbourg
Strasbourg, France
Expertise: plant pathogens, RNA viruses, transmission, tobacco, encapsidations, movement
Libo Shan
Texas A&M University
https://ipgb.tamu.edu/faculty/; https://mpmi.tamu.edu/
Aiming Wang
Agri-Culture and Agri-Food Canada
London, ON, CA
Expertise: plant pathogens, viruses, RNA silencing, genome replication, viral transmission
Jin-Rong Xu
Purdue University
West Lafayette, IN, USA
Expertise: fungal genetics and pathogenesis, pathogen-plant interactions
Mycology
Leah E. Cowen
University of Toronto
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Expertise: fungal pathogenesis, antifungal drug resistance, stress response, morphogenesis
Robert Cramer
Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth
Hanover, NH, USA
Expertise: Ascomycete pathogens, Fungal interactions, Gene regulation | genetics, Immunology, Mycology, Opportunitistic pathogens, Plant pathogenic fungi, Transcriptomics (eg RNA seq)
Deborah Hogan
Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth
Hanover, NH, USA
Expertise: Antifungal drug discovery, genetics, transcriptomics, fungal interactions, pathogen effectors
Tobias Hohl
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
New York, NY, USA
Expertise: Innate Immunity, Mechanisms of Antifungal Activity, Molecular Mechanisms of Fungal Pathogenesis, Cytokines and Chemokines, Mycology
Bruce S. Klein
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Madison, WI, USA
Expertise: fungal immunology and pathogenesis
Damian J. Krysan
University of Rochester
Rochester, NY, USA
Expertise: antifungal drug discovery, fungal interactions, Zygomycete pathogens, innate immunity, genetics, dimorphism
Robin C. May
University of Birmingham
Birmingham, United Kingdom
Expertise: fungal infections, innate immunity
Mairi Noverr
Louisiana State University, School of Medicine
New Orleans, LA, USA
Expertise: Ascomycete pathogens, Interactions with host cells (in vivo), Innate immunity, Inflammation, Immunology
Amariliz Rivera-Medina
Rutgers University
New Brunswick, NJ, USA
Expertise: Fungal Pathogens, Innate Immunity, and Adaptive Immunity