About the Editors

Like the other Nature titles, Nature Microbiology has no external editorial board. Instead, all editorial decisions are made by a dedicated team of professional editors, with relevant research and editorial backgrounds.

Chief Editor: Emily White, PhD, Springer Nature, UK

Emily studied Microbiology for her undergraduate degree at the University of Manchester. She received a PhD in Microbiology, studying interactions between the mammalian gut microbiota and the helminth parasite Trichuris muris with Ian Roberts and Richard Grencis, University of Manchester. Emily joined the Nature Microbiology team in November 2016 and has been locum Chief Editor on two occasions in 2021 and 2023. Emily became Chief Editor at the journal in November 2023. Since 2021, she has been an Advisory Editor for npj Biofilms and Microbiomes. Emily is based in the London office.

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Senior Editor: Kyle Frischkorn, PhD, Springer Nature, USA

Kyle studied Microbiology during his undergraduate degree at the University of Washington in Seattle. He went on to obtain his PhD in Earth and Environmental Sciences from the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory of Columbia University, where he studied interactions between marine microbes and their impact on geochemical cycles. He also conducted postdoctoral research on this topic at the École Normale Supérieure in Paris, France. Kyle began his editorial career in 2019 at Nature Communications, handling biogeoscience. In 2021 he served as locum Senior Editor at Nature Geoscience. Kyle joined Nature Microbiology in 2022 and is based in the New York office.

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Senior Editor: François Mayer, PhD, Springer Nature, Germany

François studied Microbiology at the Technical University Braunschweig in Germany, and investigated biofilms of the pathogenic bacterium Pseudomonas aeruginosa during his Diploma thesis in the laboratory of Dieter Jahn. He then earned his PhD in Microbiology studying novel infection-associated genes in the human fungal pathogen Candida albicans in the laboratory of Bernhard Hube at the Hans-Knoell-Institute in Jena, Germany. Following a short postdoc in Bernhard Hube’s lab, he then moved to Vancouver, Canada, to perform postdoctoral studies in the laboratory of Jim Kronstad at the Michael Smith Laboratories, University of British Columbia. There, his research focus was on virulence factor production by the human fungal pathogen Cryptococcus neoformans, antifungal drug discovery, and fungal-bacterial interactions. François joined the Nature Microbiology team in September 2019. Since 2023, he has been an Advisory Editor for npj Antimicrobials and Resistance. François is based in the Heidelberg office. 

francois.mayer@nature.com

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Senior Editor: George Inglis​, PhD, Springer Nature, USA

George received his PhD in Genetics and Molecular Biology from Emory University in Atlanta, USA, where his research focused on mouse models of voltage-gated sodium channel dysfunction, epigenomics and in vitro models of neuronal development. George started his editorial career at Communications Biology as an Associate Editor in 2020, where he handled papers related to molecular genetics, genomics, neuroscience, and microbiology. George joined the Research Cross-Journal Editorial team in March 2024.

george.inglis@us.nature.com

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Senior Editor: Paula Jáuregui, Ph.D, Springer Nature, Spain

Paula studied Biology and Biochemistry at the University of Navarre, Spain and a Master in Biotechnology at the Public University of Navarre, Spain. She completed her PhD training under Drs. Damián de Andrés and Ramsés Reina at a CSIC center in Pamplona, Spain, where she studied restriction factors against lentiviruses. During that period, she spent six months in Dr. Greg Towers’ laboratory at the University College London (UCL). After obtaining her PhD, she conducted postdoctoral research at the laboratory of Dr. Nathaniel Landau at New York University, where she studied HIV accessory proteins and restriction factors. Then, she moved to Innsbruck, Austria to join the laboratory of Dr. Doris Wilflingseder to study the role of innate immunity in HIV pathogenesis. Paula started her editorial career in 2019 at Nature Microbiology. After a year, she joined the PLOS Biology team to handle microbiology and immunology. Paula joined Nature Microbiology and Nature Immunology in January 2024 and is based in the Madrid office.

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Associate Editor: Julie Tai-Schmiedel, PhD, Springer Nature, Germany

​Julie studied Biochemistry at the Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen in Germany. She completed her Ph.D. studies in the lab of Noam Stern-Ginossar at the Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel. There, she addressed how Influenza A virus induces host shutoff and investigated the functions of long non-coding RNAs that are encoded by the human cytomegalovirus. Julie joined the Nature Microbiology team in September 2020 and is based in the Berlin office. Since 2023, she has been an Advisory Editor for npj Viruses.

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Associate Editor: Jess Thompson, PhD, Springer Nature, UK

Jess studied Microbiology and Immunology as part of her undergraduate degree at the University of Cambridge, before completing a PhD in Cellular Microbiology with David Holden at Imperial College London. There, she investigated how Salmonella virulence factors affect intramacrophage survival and replication. Her first postdoc, with Karina Xavier at the Gulbenkian Institute of Science, Lisbon, Portugal, researched intra- and inter-bacterial signalling during E. coli gut colonisation and upon interaction with the gut microbiome. Jess next moved to the laboratory of Miguel Soares, to investigate mechanisms of disease tolerance, resistance and metabolic adaptation to bacterial sepsis as well as Salmonella, Citrobacter and Clostridium difficile infections, before joining the team at Nature Microbiology as an Associate Editor in August 2022. Jess is based in the London office.

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Consulting Editor: Anahita Bishop, PhD, Springer Nature, UK

Anahita completed her PhD at the Max Perutz Labs in Vienna, where she studied chromosome dynamics during the first meiotic division. She then joined BMC Biology for a short locum position, after which she moved to Genome Biology in 2018. There, she handled manuscripts from different areas of genomics, before joining Nature Biotechnology in 2023. She has been a consulting editor for Nature Microbiology since December 2023. 

Consulting Editor: Dr. rer. nat., Yanina-Yasmin Pesch, Springer Nature, Germany

Yanina joined Nature Metabolism in March 2022. She obtained her PhD in Molecular Biomedicine from the University of Bonn, studying the hormonal control of growth and molting in Drosophila. She then pursued postdoctoral studies at the Life Sciences Institute, University of British Columbia, where she investigated cell differentiation, cell-cell communication and lipid metabolism in Drosophila spermatogenesis. Yanina has been a consulting editor for Nature Microbiology since December 2023. 

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