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EDITOR-IN-CHIEF

Joy Watts

New Content ItemUniversity of Portsmouth, United Kingdom

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Twitter: @joyemwatts

Specialisms: Environmental microbiome, Ecology, Biodegradation

ASSOCIATE EDITORS

Karthik Anantharaman

New Content ItemUniversity of Wisconsin-Madison, United States of America

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Twitter: @KarthikGeomicro

Sections: Environmental viromes, Aquatic environments (marine and freshwater), Extreme environments

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

Sanjay Antony-Babu

New Content ItemTexas A&M University, United States of America

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Twitter: @SantonyB

Sections: Microbial ecology and biogeography, Microbial ecology and biogeography

Specialisms: Hyphosphere, Fungal-bacterial interactions, Phytomicrobiomes
 

Petr Baldrian

Czech ANew Content Itemcademy of Sciences, Czech Republic

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Twitter: @baldrianp

Sections: Soil

Specialisms: Soil microbiology, Ecology, Fungi, Forest ecosystems
 

Tomislav Cernava

New Content ItemGraz University of Technology, Austria

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Twitter: @TomiSci1

Sections: Agriculture, plant and rhizosphere

Specialisms: Plant Microbiome, Plant-Microbe Interactions, Metagenomics
 

Chang-Jun Cha

New Content ItemChung-Ang University, South Korea

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Sections: Biodegradation, bioremediation, wastewater, ecotoxicology , AMR

Specialisms: Environmental resistome, Biodegradation

James Chong

New Content ItemUniversity of York, United Kingdom

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Sections: Anaerobic digestion, methanogens, bioreactors, biotechnology and food microbiology

Specialisms: Microbiomes, Metagenomics, Metabolomics, Anaerobic digestion, Methanogens
 

Haiyan Chu

New Content ItemChinese Academy of Sciences, China

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Sections: Soil

Specialisms: Soil microbes, Microbial ecology, Microbial Biogeography


Joseph A. Christie-Oleza

New Content ItemUniversity of the Balearic Islands

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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

New Content ItemResearch Center for Eco-Environmental Sciences, 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
 

Tim Dumonceaux

New Content ItemAgriculture and Agri-Food Canada, Canada

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Twitter: @DumonceauxTim

Sections: Soil, Microbial ecology and biogeography

Specialisms: Microbial ecosystems, Molecular diagnostics, Biofuels
 

Özge Eyice

New Content ItemQueen Mary University of London, United Kingdom

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Sections: Microbial ecology and biogeography

Specialisms: Microbial ecology, Environmental microbiology, Wastewater
 

Carmen Falagan

New Content ItemUniversity of Portsmouth, United Kingdom

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Twitter: @CarmenFalagan

Sections: Biodegradation, bioremediation, wastewater, ecotoxicology 

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

Youzhi Feng

New Content Item (1)Nanjing Forestry University. China

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

Christina Hazard

New Content ItemEcole Centrale 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

New Content ItemThe 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
 

Tomoyuki Hori

New Content Item (1)National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), Japan

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

Calvin Lau

New Content ItemCanadian Food Inspection Agency, Canada

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Sections: AMR

Specialisms: Microbiome, Foodborne microbial hazard

Charles Lee

New Content ItemUniversity 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
 

Meng Li

New Content ItemInstitute for Advanced Study, Shenzhen University, China

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Twitter: @limeng848

Sections: Aquatic environments (marine and freshwater)

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

Nachiket Marathe

New Content Item (1)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

Orla O'Sullivan

New Content Item (1)Teagasc - the Agriculture and Food Development Authority, Ireland

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Twitter: @orlaos

Specialisms: Microbiome, Bioinformatics, Diet


Kasia Piwosz

New Content Item (1)National Marine 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
 

Michael Thomas-Poulsen

New Content ItemUniversity of Copenhagen, Denmark

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Twitter: @michaeltpoulsen

Sections: Mycology, Extreme environments

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

Pei-Yuan Qian

New Content ItemHong Kong University of Science and Technology, China

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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
 

Mina Rho

New Content Item (1)Hanyang University, Korea

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Specialisms: Metagenomic, Microbial genomics, Bioinformatics
 

Sam Robson

New Content ItemUniversity of Portsmouth, United Kingdom

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Twitter: @UopBioSeq

Sections: Soil, Aquatic environments (marine and freshwater)

Specialisms: Genomics, Genetics, Bioinformatics, Sequencing


Lynn Schriml

New Content ItemUniversity of Maryland, United States of America

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Sections: Built environment and space

Specialisms: Genomic metadata standards, Biomedical ontologies 

Søren Sørensen

New Content ItemUniversity of Copenhagen, Denmark

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Sections: Agriculture, plant and rhizosphere, Soil

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

Chaomin Sun

New Content ItemInstitute 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
 

John Walshaw

New Content ItemFera Science Ltd, United Kingdom

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Sections: Bioinformatics, software and computational biology 

Specialisms: Bioinformatics, Microbiomes, Agri-food, Environment

Kenneth Wasmund

New Content ItemUniversity of Portsmouth, United Kingdom

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Sections: Aquatic environments (marine and freshwater)

Specialisms: Marine sediments genomics ecology

Shuguang Xie

New Content ItemPeking 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


Jun Yang

New Content ItemInstitute 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

EDITOR-IN-CHIEF
Joy Watts, University of Portsmouth, UK  


ASSOCIATE EDITORS

Agriculture, plant and rhizosphere
Sanjay Antony-Babu, Texas A&M University, USA
Harsh Bais, University of Delaware, USA
Tomislav Cernava, Graz University of Technology, Austria
Cecile Gubry-Rangin, University of Aberdeen, UK
Christina Hazard, Université de Lyon, France
Jizheng He, University of Melbourne, Australia
Jack Heinemann, University of Canterbury, New Zealand
Søren J. Sørensen, University of Copenhagen, Denmark
Lan Wu, Nanching University, China
Zhong Wei, Nanjing Agricultural University, China

Soil
Petr Baldrain, Czech Academy of Sciences, Czech Republic
Haiyan Chu, Institute of Soil Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
Ye Deng, RCEES, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
Jocelyne DiRuggiero, Johns Hopkins University, USA
Tim Dumonceaux, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, Canada
Cecile Gubry-Rangin, University of Aberdeen, UK
Jizheng He, University of Melbourne, Australia
Zhili He, Sun Yat-sen University, China
Deepak Kumaresan, Queens University Belfast, UK
Werner Liesack, Max Planck Institute for Terrestrial Microbiology, Germany
Ulisses Nunes da Rocha, Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research, UFZ, Germany
Samuel Robson, University of Portsmouth, UK
Søren J. Sørensen, University of Copenhagen, Denmark

Mycology
Karen Dannemiller, Ohio State University, USA
Vijai Gupta, Scotland's Rural College (SRUC), UK
Christina Hazard, Université de Lyon, France
Michael Thomas-Poulsen, University of Copenhagen, Denmark

Microbial ecology and biogeography 
Sanjay Antony-Babu, Texas A&M University, USA 
Christopher Bagwell, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (DOE) , USA
Bettina Glasl, University of Vienna, Austria
Ye Deng, RCEES, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China 
Tim Dumonceaux, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, Canada 
Özge Eyice-Broadbent, Queen Mary University of London, UK 
Ilias Lagkouvardos, Technische Universität München, Germany 
Charles Lee, University of Waikato, New Zealand 
Nachiket Marathe, Institute of Marine Research, Bergen, Norway
Peiyuan Qian, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong 
Daniel Read, Centre for Ecology and Hydrology, UK 

Biodegradation, bioremediation, wastewater, ecotoxicology 
Chang-Jun Cha, Chung-Ang University, South Korea 
Joseph Christie de Oleza, University of the Balearic Islands, Balearic Islands 
Carmen Falagan Rodriguez, University of Exeter, UK
Ulisses Nunes da Rocha, Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research, UFZ, Germany 
Jun Yang, Institute of Urban Environment, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China 
Tong Zhang, University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong 

AMR 
Chang-Jun Cha, Chung-Ang University, South Korea 
Jack Heinemann, University of Canterbury, New Zealand 
Calvin Lau, Canadian Food Inspection Agency, Canada 
Tong Zhang, University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong 

Anaerobic digestion, methanogens, bioreactors, biotechnology and food microbiology 
James Chong, University of York, UK 
Vijai Gupta, Scotland's Rural College (SRUC), UK 
Orla O'Sullivan, Teagasc Food Research Centre, Ireland 

Bioinformatics, software and computational biology 
Ilias Lagkouvardos, Technische Universität München, Germany 
John Walshaw, Fera Science Ltd, UK 

Built environment and space
Karen Dannemiller, Ohio State University, USA
Lynn Schriml, University of Maryland, USA

Environmental viromes
Karthik Anantharaman, University of Wisconsin, USA
Andrew Millard, University of Leicester, UK

Aquatic environments (marine and freshwater)
Karthik Anantharaman, University of Wisconsin, USA
Joseph Christie de Oleza, University of the Balearic Islands, Balearic Islands
Ye Deng, RCEES, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
Zhili He, Sun Yat-sen University, China
Deepak Kumaresan, Queens University Belfast, UK
Meng Li, Shenzhen University, China
Wenjun Li, Sun Yat-sen University, China
Andrew Millard, University of Leicester, UK
Sean Norman, University of South Carolina, USA
Peiyuan Qian, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong
Daniel Read, Centre for Ecology and Hydrology, UK
Samuel Robson, University of Portsmouth, UK
Maggie Sogin, Max Planck Institute of Marine Microbiology, Germany
Chaomin Sun, Institute of Oceanology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
Kenneth Wasmund, University of Vienna, Austria
Shuguang Xie, Peking University, China
Jun Yang, Institute of Urban Environment, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
Yu-Zhong Zhang, Shandong University, China

Extreme environments
Karthik Anantharaman, University of Wisconsin, USA
Jocelyne DiRuggiero, Johns Hopkins University, USA
Zhili He, Sun Yat-sen University, China
Deepak Kumaresan, Queens University Belfast, UK
Charles Lee, University of Waikato, New Zealand
Michael Thomas-Poulsen, University of Copenhagen, Denmark