
Editorial Board
Editor-in-Chief

- Martha E. Trujillo
- University of Salamanca, Spain
- Research interests: plant–microbe interactions, actinobacterial systematics, rhizobial systematics, genomics
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Nomenclature Reviewer, List Editor

- George Garrity
- Michigan State University, East Lansing, USA
- Research interests: bioinformatics and computational biology, ontologies for biological applications, algorithm development for the rapid classification and identification of microorganisms and microbial products, nomenclature and annotation, data visualization, and knowledge mining
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- Aharon Oren
- The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel
- Research interests: biology of hypersaline microorganisms; prokaryote systematics and nomenclature
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Nomenclature Reviewers

- Maria Chuvochina
- Australian Centre for Ecogenomics, The University of Queensland, Australia
- Research interests: systematics and nomenclature of prokaryotes, microbial ecology and evolution, taxonomy
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- Bernard Schink
- University of Konstanz, Germany
- Research interests: anaerobic physiology, anaerobic biochemistry, bioenergetics, microbial ecology, fermentations, phototrophic bacteria
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- Stefano Ventura
- National Research Council – Institute of Ecosystem Study, Pallanza, Italy
- Research interests: biology of cyanobacteria, microbial ecology of polar terrestrial environments, taxonomy of cyanobacteria, systematics and nomenclature of prokaryotes
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Associate Editors

- Artur Alves
- University of Aveiro, Portugal
- Research interests: microbial diversity, systematics and evolution, genomics, biotechnology, microbial interactions Editor's webpage

- David Arahal
- University of Valencia, Spain
- Research interests: marine bacteria, genomics, prokaryote systematics, culture collection, microbial resources, preservation Editor's webpage

- Richard Birtles
- University of Salford, UK
- Research interests: infectious agents, anthropod transmission, transmission pathways

- Lorena Carro
- University of Salamanca, Spain
- Research interests: plant–microbial interactions, genomics, actinobacteria systematics, endophytes, microbial ecology

- Sofie De Meyer
- Murdoch University, Perth, Australia
- Research interests: azorhizobium, bradyrhizbium, ensifer, mesorhizobium, rhizobium, neorhizobium, microvirga, methylobacterium, burkholderia, paraburkholderia, cupriavidus
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- Micah Dunthorn
- University of Kaiserslautern, Germany
- Research interests: protist diversity and biogeography Editor's webpage

- Pierre-Edouard Fournier
- IHU - Méditerranée Infection, Marseille, France
- Research interests: Rickettsia, Coxiella, Bartonella, intracellular bacteria
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- Stefanie Glaeser
- Justus-Liebig-Universitat Giessen, Germany
- Research interests: prokaryote systematics, microbial ecology, marine and freshwater microbiology, plant–microbe interactions
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- Richard Hahnke
- DSMZ, Braunschweig, Germany
- Research interests: environmental microbiology, microbial evolution, halophilic archaea, marine and freshwater flavobacteria, polysaccharide decomposition, culture collection

- Celia Hugo
- University of the Free State, Bloemfontein, South Africa
- Research interests: chryseobacterium, taxonomy, psychrotrophic flavobacteria in food, natural preservatives in food

- Amanda Jones
- Northumbria University, UK
- Research interests: mycolic acid containing and bioactive compound producing actinomycetes Editor's webpage

- Paul Lawson
- University of Oklahoma, Norman, USA
- Research interests: microbial systematics, taxonomy, chemotaxonomy, firmicutes Editor's webpage

- Andre Lipski
- Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn, Germany
- Research interests: foodborne microorganisms, psychrophilic bacteria, chemotaxonomy, bacterial lipids, taxonomy

- Alejandro P. Rooney
- United States Department of Agriculture, Washington DC, USA
- Research interests: microbial systematics, taxonomy and evolutionary biology; molecular evolution; discovery and development of living microbial biological control agents for use against arthropod vectors of disease and plant pathogens Editor's webpage

- Ken-Ichiro Suzuki
- Tokyo University of Agriculture, Japan
- Research interests: bacterial, taxonomy, actinomycete, chemotaxonomy, culture collection, preservation Editor's webpage

- Stephanus Venter
- Forestry and Agricultural Biotechnology Institute, Pretoria, South Africa
- Research interests: bacterial phylogenetics, genomics, bacterial evolution, paraburkholderia, plant-associated enterobacteriaceae

- Antonio Ventosa
- University of Sevilla, Spain
- Research interests: taxonomy, genomics, biotechnology of halophilic archaea and bacteria Editor's webpage

- Xue-Wei Xu
- State Oceanic Administration, Hangzhou, People's Republic of China
- Research interests: taxonomy, marine microbes Editor's webpage

- Hana Yi
- Korea University, Seoul, Republic of Korea
- Research interests: bacterial genomics, metagenomics and taxonomy
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