About the Editors

Editor-in-Chief

Kazuro Shiomi, Institute of Microbial Chemistry, Japan

Managing Editors

Masayuki Igarashi, Institute of Microbial Chemistry, Japan
Hideaki Kakeya, Kyoto University, Japan
Ken-ichi Suzuki, Kitasato University, Japan

Editor-in-Chief Emeritus

Satoshi Ōmura, The Kitasato Institute, Japan
Kuniaki Tatsuta, Waseda University, Japan

Emeritus Members

Mamoru Arai, Japan
Federico M. Arcamone, Italy
Teruhiko Beppu, Japan
William E. Brown, USA
David E. Cane, USA
Giuseppe Cassinelli, Italy
Yuan–Rong Cheng, China
Burton G. Christensen, USA
Robin D. G. Cooper, USA
Eric Cundliffe, UK
Julian E. Davies, Canada
Terrence W. Doyle, USA
Tamotsu Furumai, Japan 
Irving R. Hooper, USA
Kunimoto Hotta, Japan
Daishiro Ikeda, Japan
Antonio Jimenez, Spain
Leonard Katz, USA
Shinichi Kondo, Japan
David P. Labeda, USA
Giancarlo C. Lancini, Italy
François LeGoffic, France
Hubert Maehr, USA
Juan–Francisco Martin, Spain
Marvin J. Miller, USA
Claude H. Nash III, USA
Yoshio Nishimura, Japan
William L. Parker, USA
Jacob J. Plattner, USA
Sherry F. Queener, USA
Elmar Schrinner, Germany
Amos B. Smith III, USA
Yoshikazu Takahashi, Japan
Nobuo Tanaka, Japan
Dean P. Taylor, USA
Yoshimasa Uehara, Japan
Raymond C. Yao, USA

Review Editor

Richard E. Lee, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, USA
Minoru Yoshida, RIKEN, Japan

Section Editors

New Anti-infective Substances
James B. McAlpine, University of Illinois at Chicago, USA
Hiroshi Tomoda, Kitasato University, Japan

New Bioactive Substances (other than anti-infectives)
Timm Anke, IBWF, Germany
Masaya Imoto, Juntendo University, Japan

Structure Determination/Chemical Synthesis
Keiichi Ajito, Kitasato Research Center for Environmental Science, Japan
Yitzhak Tor, University of California, San Diego, USA

Chemical Biology/Mode of Action/Biological Activities
Manabu Kawada, Institute of Microbial Chemistry, Japan
Hiroyuki Osada, University of Shizuoka, Japan

Microbial Genetics/Biosynthesis
Richard H. Baltz, CognoGen Biotech. Consulting, USA
Haruo Ikeda, Next generation Natural Products Chemistry, Japan

Resistance
Prabhavathi Fernandes, USA

Microbiology/Fermentation
Motohiro Hino, Astellas Pharma Inc., Japan (ret)

Taxonomy / Ecology
Alex Rooney, United States Department of Agriculture, USA
Tomohiko Tamura, NITE-NBRC, Japan