About the Editors

Editors-in-Chief

Janet Hill, Canada

Janet Hill is a Professor & Head of the Department of Veterinary Microbiology at the University of Saskatchewan, and Past President of the Canadian Society of Microbiologists. She was born in Toronto. Dr. Hill received her B.Sc.H. in Biology and Ph.D. in Microbiology at Queen’s University at Kingston, followed by postdoctoral training at the University of Illinois and the National Research Council. Her graduate and postdoctoral studies included insect and plant virology, human parasitology, molecular diagnostics and bioinformatics. Dr. Hill’s research interests are in microbial diversity and ecology, and the role of complex microbial communities in animal and human health. Dr. Hill is a developer of DNA barcoding approaches based on the universal cpn60 gene and her lab is the home of cpnDB, a public database of chaperonin sequences. Dr. Hill is an enthusiastic teacher and research mentor of undergraduate and graduate students. When she isn’t in the lab, she is usually watching and photographing birds.

Hauke Smidt, Netherlands

Hauke Smidt holds a Personal Chair on Complex Microbial Ecosystems at the Laboratory of Microbiology, Wageningen University & Research. His research integrates innovative cultivation and functional genomics-based methods to study composition and activity of microbial communities. Key areas of interest include i) Microbiota associated with the intestinal tract in humans, production animals and wildlife ii) Microbial communities in environmental biotechnology, and iii) Microbes and their cellular biomarkers as proxies for ecosystem life history & environmental change. In this context, research in his group increasingly follows a OneHealth philosophy that links environmental, human and animal health.

Étienne Yergeau, PhD 
Étienne studies microbes that cover the outside and inside of trees, crops, animals, ice, soil and water. Although he grew up in the city of Montréal, he spent his summers as a kid at the family cottage in the Canadian backcountry, where he became fascinated with all life forms and their interconnections. This led him to MSc on the fungal microbiome of asparagus, followed by a PhD on the effects of global warming on Antarctic soil microbes. As a professor at the Institut national de la recherche scientifique of the Université du Québec, he leads a team of enthusiastic scientists toward (hopefully!) exciting discoveries in the field of plant-microbiome interactions. When he is not busy with science, Étienne enjoys spending time with his three kids and his wife, training for obstacle course races, snorkeling, BBQing, playing ice hockey or building stuff.

Reviews Editor

Jos Raaijmakers

Senior Editors

The following have been appointed to date - further names to be added soon

Terence Bell, University of Toronto, Canada
Thomas Clavel, University of Aachen, Germany
Xiaoke Hu, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
Laura Hug, University of Waterloo, Canada
Manuel Kleiner, North Carolina State University, United States
Kirsten Küsel, Friedrich-Schiller University, Germany
Federico Lauro, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
Marnix Medema, Wageningen University, The Netherlands
Itzhak Mizrahi, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel
Jennifer Pett-Ridge, Lawrence Livermore National Lab, United States
Alban Ramette, University of Bern, Switzerland
Stefanie Schulze, Helmholtz Munich, Germany
Qinglong Wu, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
Etienne Yergeau, Institut national de la recherche scientifique, Université du Québec, Canada

Editorial Board

Denise Akob, U.S. Geological Survey, USA
Carlos Bezuidenhout, Northwest University, South Africa
Irene Cordero, University of Manchester, UK
Filipa Cox, University of Manchester, UK
Jennifer DeBruyn, University of Tennessee, USA
Filipa Godoy-Vitorino, University Puerto Rico School of Medicine, Puerto Rico
Kim Handley, University of Auckland, New Zealand 
Hazlin Hazrin-Chong, University of Kebangsaan, Malaysia
Sophie Holland, University of New South Wales, Australia
Peiying Hong, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Saudi Arabia
Yajun Hu, Institute of Subtropical Agriculture, China
Jenni Hultman, University of Helsinki, Finland
Karin Jacobs, Stellenbosch University, South Africa
Yoshitomo Kikuchi, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science & Technology, Japan
Ákos T. Kovács, Technical, University of Denmark, Denmark
Isabelle Laforest-Lapointe, University of Sherbrooke, Canada
Rup Lal, The Energy and Resources Institute, India
Fangqiong Ling, Washington University, USA
Dong-Feng Liu, University of Science & Technology of China, China
Purificacion Lopez Garcia, CNRS & Université Paris-Saclay, France
Rodrigo Mendes, Embrapa Environment, Brazil
Mireia Mestre, University of Concepcion, Chile
Sergio Morales, University of Otago, New Zealand
Sandi Orlić, Ruđer Bošković Institute Zagreb, Croatia
Claudia Piccini, Instituto de Investigaciones Biológicas Clemente Estable, Uruguay
Alejandra Prieto-Davo, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico
Choong-Min Ryu, Korea Reseach Institute of Bioscience & BioTechnology, South Korea
Hugo Sarmento, Federal University of Sao Carlos (UFSCar), Brazil
Michael Schloter, Technical University of Munich, Germany
Mike Taylor, University of Auckland, New Zealand
Charles Van der Henst, University of Brussels, Belgium
Yu-Zhong Zhang, Shandong University, China