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Editorial Board

EDITOR-IN-CHIEF

Joy Watts, PhD University of Portsmouth, UK
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Twitter: @joyemwatts

Specialisms: Environmental microbiome, Ecology, Biodegradation




SENIOR EDITORS

Karthik Anantharaman, PhD, University of Wisconsin, USA
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Sections: Environmental viromes, Aquatic environments (marine and freshwater), Extreme environments

Specialisms: Viruses, Phage, Microbial ecology, Sulfur metabolism, Bioinformatics


Tim Dumonceaux, PhD, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada & University of Saskatchewan, Canada

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Sections: Soil, Microbial ecology and biogeography

Specialisms: Microbial ecosystems, Molecular diagnostics, Biofuels



Özge Eyice-Broadbent, PhD, Queen Mary University of London, UK
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Sections: Microbial ecology and biogeography

Specialisms: Microbial ecology, Environmental microbiology, Wastewater



ASSOCIATE EDITORS

Agriculture, plant and rhizosphere

Sanjay Antony-Babu, MSc, PhD, Texas A&M University, USA

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Sections: Microbial ecology and biogeography, Microbial ecology and biogeography

Specialisms: Hyphosphere, Fungal-bacterial interactions, Phytomicrobiomes

Harsh Bais, PhD, University of Delaware, USA

Tomislav Cernava, PhD, Graz University of Technology, Austria

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Twitter: @TomiSci1

Sections: Agriculture, plant and rhizosphere

Specialisms: Plant Microbiome, Plant-Microbe Interactions, Metagenomics

Cecile Gubry-Rangin, PhD, University of Aberdeen, UK

Christina Hazard, PhD, Université de Lyon, France

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Twitter: @CHazard99

Sections: Agriculture, plant and rhizosphere, Mycology

Specialisms: Soil microbial ecology, Microbial interactions, Mycorrhizal fungi, Viruses, Nitrogen cycle


Jizheng He, PhD, University of Melbourne, Australia

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Sections: Agriculture, plant and rhizosphere, Soil

Specialisms: Soil microbiology, Nitrification and denitrification, Microbial processes, Bio-organic fertilizers



Jihyun F. Kim, PhD, Yonsei University, South Korea

Søren J. Sørensen, PhD, University of Copenhagen, Denmark

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Sections: Agriculture, plant and rhizosphere, Soil

Specialisms: Microbial ecology, Microbiomes, Horizontal gene transfer, Social interactions



Zhong Wei, PhD, Nanjing Agricultural University, China

Soil

RNDr Petr Baldrian, PhD, Institute of Microbiology of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Czech Republic
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Twitter: @baldrianp

Sections: Soil

Specialisms: Soil microbiology, Ecology, Fungi, Forest ecosystems



Haiyan Chu, PhD, Institute of Soil Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China

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Sections: Soil

Specialisms: Soil microbes, Microbial ecology, Microbial Biogeography




Ye Deng, PhD, RCEES, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China

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Sections: Soil, Microbial ecology and biogeography, Aquatic environments (marine and freshwater)

Specialisms: Metagenomics, Microbial ecology, Envionmental microbiology, Soil microbiome, Sequencing technology

Jocelyne DiRuggiero, PhD, Johns Hopkins University, USA

Youzhi Feng, PhD, Institute of Soil Science, China

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Specialisms: Soil microbiome, Microbial ecology, Community assembly, Relics microbiome





Cecile Gubry-Rangin, PhD, University of Aberdeen, UK

Jizheng He, PhD, University of Melbourne, Australia

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Sections: Agriculture, plant and rhizosphere, Soil

Specialisms: Soil microbiology, Nitrification and denitrification, Microbial processes, Bio-organic fertilizers



Zhili He, PhD, Sun Yat-sen University, China

Deepak Kumaresan, PhD, Queens University Belfast, UK

PD Dr Werner Liesack, Max Planck Institute for Terrestrial Microbiology, Germany

Ulisses Nunes da Rocha, PhD, Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research -UFZ, Germany

Samuel Robson, PhD, University of Portsmouth, UK

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Sections: Soil, Aquatic environments (marine and freshwater)

Specialisms: Genomics, Genetics, Bioinformatics, Sequencing



Mycology

Karen Dannemiller, PhD, Ohio State University, USA

Vijai Gupta,PhD, Dublin City University, Ireland

Christina Hazard, PhD, Université de Lyon, France

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Twitter: @CHazard99

Sections: Agriculture, plant and rhizosphere, Mycology

Specialisms: Soil microbial ecology, Microbial interactions, Mycorrhizal fungi, Viruses, Nitrogen cycle


Michael Thomas-Poulsen, PhD, University of Copenhagen, Denmark

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Twitter: @michaeltpoulsen

Sections: Mycology, Extreme environments

Specialisms: Symbiosis, Termites, Social immunity, Metabolomics, Evolution


Microbial ecology and biogeography 

Sanjay Antony-Babu, Texas A&M University, USA 

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Twitter: @SantonyB

Sections: Microbial ecology and biogeography, Microbial ecology and biogeography

Specialisms: Hyphosphere, Fungal-bacterial interactions, Phytomicrobiomes

Ye Deng, PhD, RCEES, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China 

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Sections: Soil, Microbial ecology and biogeography, Aquatic environments (marine and freshwater)

Specialisms: Metagenomics, Microbial ecology, Envionmental microbiology, Soil microbiome, Sequencing technology


Bettina Glasl, PhD, University of Vienna, Austria

Tomoyuki Hori, PhD, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, Japan

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Specialisms: Microbial ecology, Microbial ecophysiology, Applied microbiology, Environmental biotechnology




Dr Ilias Lagkouvardos, Technische Universität München, Germany

Charles Lee, PhD University of Waikato, New Zealand

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Specialisms: Microbial Ecology, Microbial Genomics and Metagenomics, Terrestrial Ecosystems, Extreme Ecosystems

Sections: Microbial ecology and biogeography, Extreme environments



Nachiket Marathe, PhD, Institute of Marine Research, Bergen, Norway

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Sections: Microbial ecology and biogeography 

Specialisms: Microbial ecology, Environmental microbiology, Antimicrobial resistance, Metagenomics, Functional metagenomics, Horizontal gene transfer


Peiyuan Qian, PhD, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong

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Sections: Microbial ecology and biogeography, Aquatic environments (marine and freshwater)

Specialisms: Marine molecular ecology, Marine natural products, Deep-sea omics, Antifouling compounds, Biofilm, Antibiotics



Daniel Read, PhD, Centre for Ecology and Hydrology, UK

Ting Xu, PhD, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, China

Limei Zhang, PhD, Research Center for Eco-Environmental Sciences, Chinese Academy of Science, China

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Sections: Microbial Ecology and biogeography

Specialisms: Microbial ecology, N cycle related microbes, soil and plant microbiomes.




Jizhong (Joe) Zhou, PhD, University of Oklahoma, USA

Biodegradation, bioremediation, wastewater, ecotoxicology 

Chang-Jun Cha, PhD, Chung-Ang University, South Korea

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Sections: Biodegradation, bioremediation, wastewater, ecotoxicology , AMR

Specialisms: Environmental resistome, Biodegradation



Joseph Christie de Oleza, PhD, University of The Balearic Islands, Spain

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Sections: Biodegradation, bioremediation, wastewater, ecotoxicology, Aquatic environments (marine and freshwater)

Specialisms: Marine molecular ecology, microbial interactions, biodegradation
 

Ulisses Nunes da Rocha, PhD, Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research -UFZ, Germany

Carmen Falagan Rodriguez, PhD, University of Exeter, UK

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Sections: Biodegradation, bioremediation, wastewater, ecotoxicology 

Specialisms: Acidophiles, Biomining, Environmental microbiology, Extreme environments, Bioleaching, Bioremediation


Angela Sherry, PhD, Northumbria University, UK

Vanessa Varaljay, PhD, Ohio State University, USA

Jun Yang, PhD, Institute of Urban Environment, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China

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Sections: Biodegradation, bioremediation, wastewater, ecotoxicology, Aquatic environments (marine and freshwater)

Specialisms: Harmful algae, Microbial ecology and diversity, Biomonitoring and bioassessment, Plankton community


Tong Zhang, PhD University of Hong Kong, China

AMR 

Chang-Jun Cha, PhD, Chung-Ang University, South Korea

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Sections: Biodegradation, bioremediation, wastewater, ecotoxicology , AMR

Specialisms: Environmental resistome, Biodegradation



Calvin Lau, PhD, Canadian Food Inspection Agency, Canada

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Sections: AMR

Specialisms: Microbiome, Foodborne microbial hazard




Tong Zhang, PhD University of Hong Kong, China

Anaerobic digestion, methanogens, bioreactors, biotechnology and food microbiology 
Vijai GuptaPhD, Dublin City University, Ireland
Orla O'Sullivan, PhD, Teagasc Food Research Centre, Ireland

Bioinformatics, software and computational biology 

Dr Ilias Lagkouvardos, Technische Universität München, Germany

Samuel Robson, PhD, University of Portsmouth, UK

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Sections: Soil, Aquatic environments (marine and freshwater)

Specialisms: Genomics, Genetics, Bioinformatics, Sequencing



Mina Rho, PhD, Hanyang University, Republic Of Korea

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Specialisms: Metagenomic, Microbial genomics, Bioinformatics





John Walshaw, PhD, Fera Science Ltd, UK

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Sections: Bioinformatics, software and computational biology 

Specialisms: Bioinformatics, Microbiomes, Agri-food, Environment




Built environment and space

Karen Dannemiller, PhD, Ohio State University, USA

Erica Hartmann, PhD, Northwestern University, USA

Lynn Schriml, PhD, University of Maryland, USA

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Sections: Built environment and space

Specialisms: Genomic metadata standards, Biomedical ontologies 



Environmental viromes
Andrew Millard, PhD, University of Leicester, UK

Aquatic environments (marine and freshwater)

Joseph Christie de Oleza, PhD, University of The Balearic Islands, Spain

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Twitter: @JCO_lab

Sections: Biodegradation, bioremediation, wastewater, ecotoxicology, Aquatic environments (marine and freshwater)

Specialisms: Marine molecular ecology, microbial interactions, biodegradation


Ye Deng, PhD, RCEES, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China

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Sections: Soil, Microbial ecology and biogeography, Aquatic environments (marine and freshwater)

Specialisms: Metagenomics, Microbial ecology, Envionmental microbiology, Soil microbiome, Sequencing technology



Zhili He, PhD, Sun Yat-sen University, China

Ellie Jameson, PhD, University of Bangor, UK

Deepak Kumaresan, PhD, Queens University Belfast, UK

Meng Li, PhD, Shenzhen University, China

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Twitter: @limeng848

Sections: Aquatic environments (marine and freshwater)

Specialisms: Archaea, Environmental Microbiology, Microbial Ecology, Metagenomics, Microbial Biogeochemistry


Wenjun Li, PhD, Sun Yat-sen University, China

Andrew Millard, PhD, University of Leicester, UK

Gerard Muyzer, PhD, University of Amsterdam, Netherlands

Sean Norman, PhD, University of South Carolina, USA

Kasia Piwosz, PhD, National Marine and Fisheries Research Institute, Poland

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Specialisms: Aquatic microbiology, Protists, Microbial communities, Microbial food webs, CARD-FISH, Amplicon sequencing, Experimental food web manipulations


Peiyuan Qian, PhD, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong

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Sections: Microbial ecology and biogeography, Aquatic environments (marine and freshwater)

Specialisms: Marine molecular ecology, Marine natural products, Deep-sea omics, Antifouling compounds, Biofilm, Antibiotics



Daniel Read, PhD, Centre for Ecology and Hydrology, UK

Samuel Robson, PhD, University of Portsmouth, UK

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Sections: Soil, Aquatic environments (marine and freshwater)

Specialisms: Genomics, Genetics, Bioinformatics, Sequencing



Chaomin Sun, PhD, Institute of Oceanology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China

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Sections: Aquatic environments (marine and freshwater)

Specialisms: Deep sea, Environment microbes, Uncultured microbes, Marine microbes, Microbial metabolism, Plastic degradation



Jonathan Todd, PhD, University of East Anglia, UK

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Sections: Aquatic environments (marine and freshwater)

Specialisms: Microbial ecology and biogeography, Biodegradation, Environmental microbiology, Biogeochemical cycling, Trace gas biology, Marine microbiology, Functional genomics, Microbial metabolism


Kenneth Wasmund, PhD, University of Vienna, Austria

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Sections: Aquatic environments (marine and freshwater)

Specialisms: Marine sediments genomics ecology



Shuguang Xie, PhD, Peking University, China

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Sections: Aquatic environments (marine and freshwater)

Specialisms: Biodegradation or bioremediation of organic pollutants, Microbial ecology in natural and engineered ecosystems



Ting Xu, PhD, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, China

Jun Yang, PhD, Institute of Urban Environment, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China

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Sections: Biodegradation, bioremediation, wastewater, ecotoxicology, Aquatic environments (marine and freshwater)

Specialisms: Harmful algae, Microbial ecology and diversity, Biomonitoring and bioassessment, Plankton community


Yu-Zhong Zhang, PhD, Shandong University, China

Extreme environments

Jocelyne DiRuggiero, PhD, Johns Hopkins University, USA

Zhili He, PhD, Sun Yat-sen University, China

Deepak Kumaresan, PhD, Queens University Belfast, UK

Charles Lee, PhD
University of Waikato, New Zealand
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Specialisms: Microbial Ecology, Microbial Genomics and Metagenomics, Terrestrial Ecosystems, Extreme Ecosystems

Sections: Microbial ecology and biogeography, Extreme environments



Michael Thomas-Poulsen, PhD, University of Copenhagen, Denmark
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Twitter: @michaeltpoulsen

Sections: Mycology, Extreme environments

Specialisms: Symbiosis, Termites, Social immunity, Metabolomics, Evolution