EDITORIAL
As the end of 2023 approaches, I embark on my annual task of looking back at the year at mSphere. I am very pleased to report that our number of submissions has begun to increase again after a bit of a slump in 2022. I have been impressed both by the importance of the research we are publishing, as well as the diversity in terms of types of studies and the broad geographical location of the labs studying infectious agents.
You may have noticed that we recently started publishing a new series called Full Circle. These are minireviews from junior scientists who previously wrote about the research that excites them in our mSphere of Influence (mSI) series. We reached out to the first cohort of authors to ask them to review what has happened in their field since they wrote their mSI pieces. We think you’ll find their perspectives to be fresh and unique. This initiative will continue on a rolling basis.
Finally, as always, I want to acknowledge the many excellent reviewers who have taken the time to assist us in the peer review process. It is no secret to us editors in chief of the ASM journals, or to editors and publishers more broadly, that scientists are being asked to contribute more and more volunteer service to the field by reviewing manuscripts. This sometimes translates into small but palpable delays in getting manuscripts reviewed, because editors must make more requests to potential reviewers than in the past. The ASM Journals Committee has discussed this extensively, and there are no easy answers to this situation. All I can say is that if you have reviewed for mSphere, you have my thanks and the appreciation of our senior editors, editors, and, of course, the authors whose manuscripts benefit as a result of the peer review process. The individuals who served as mSphere reviewers during 2023 are listed here.
Sarah Adamo
Amos Adler
Muhammad Afzal
Christina Ann Ahlstrom
Waqar M. Ahmed
Kait F. Al
Ali Al-Ahmad
Richard A. Alm
Samuel Alvarez-Arguedas
Carmen Amaro
Cheryl Ames
Kingsley Kwaku Amoako
Matthew Zack Anderson
Andrey P. Anisimov
Alberto Antonelli
Gabriele Arcari
Catherine R. Armbruster
Ina Attrée
Jennifer M. Auchtung
Leonardo da Silva Augusto
Herwig Bachmann
Simon Baker
Connor Gavin George Bamford
James D. Bangs
Ravi Pratap Barnwal
Javad Barouei
Antonio Barragan
Gerald Barry
Christine Marie Bassis
Victoria K. Baxter
Josh R. Beck
Michael G. Becker
Emma Bell
Vivian Bellofatto
Jose A. Bengoechea
Gordon M. Bennett
Matthew Berens
Laura M. Bergner
Douglas A. Bernstein
Brittni Bertolet
Purnima Bhanot
Blake Billmyre
Raphael Bisinotto
Patricia Pringle Bloom
Justin A. Boddey
Lydia M. Bogomolnaya
Paul L. Bollyky
Raquel Regina Bonelli
Adrianus C. Boon
Batbileg Bor
Katherine A. Borkovich
Dustin Bosch
Cyrille Y. Botté
Philippe Bouloc
Travis Bourret
Jeff M. Boyd
Ann Karen Brassinga
Shaun R. Brinsmade
Kendall Bryant
Bryan D. Bryson
Zackery Bulman
Barbara Anne Burleigh
Laura S. Burrack
Jeremy P. Burton
Juan Calvet Seral
Miguel Camacho
Stéphane Canaan
Michael G. Caparon
Eric Caragata
George Carnell
Molly Carpenter
Ronan K. Carroll
Elizabeth Di Russo Case
Fred Cassels
Eric Cassmann
Mariana Castanheira
Stephanie Caty
Anirban Chakraborty
Emily Chase
Chen Chen
Liang Chen
Xinhua Chen
Yang Chen
Tse-Yu Chen
Loo Wee Chia
Alexandra Chiaverini
Michaelle Chojnacki
Rebecca C. Christofferson
Sarah Clark
Christine Clayton
Tom Coenye
Francesc Coll
Brendan Cormack
Pierre Cornelis
Cynthia Nau Cornelissen
Peggy A. Cotter
Laura M. Cox
Michael M. Cox
Hannah M. Creager
Bo Cui
Jie Cui
Paul J. Cullen
Leonardo Curatti
Kurt Martin Dahlstrom
France Daigle
Promi Das
Bryan W. Davies
Scott C. Dawson
Charles R. Dean
George S. Deepe
Paul De Figueiredo
Maxime Deforet
John P. Dekker
Jeseth Delgado Vela
Jill A. Dembowski
Sally Demirdjian
Hongyu Deng
Celso José Bruno De Oliveira
Nicolas De Prost
Lalitagauri Deshpande
Berthony Deslouches
Floyd E. Dewhirst
Stephanie Dewitte-Orr
Robert P. Dickson
Sara Dirienzi
Julianne T. Djordjevic
Monika Dolejska
Anna Dongari-Bagtzoglou
Sheila Donnelly
Zhicheng Dou
Timothy B. Doyle
Rebecca Drummond
Jingjie Du
Jinju Duan
Lidiya Dubytska
Adrien Ducret
Seána Duggan
Sherry A. Dunbar
Brianna Duncan-Lowey
Jonas Dutra Albarnaz
Uta Effmert
Waldir P. Elias
Jeremy R. Ellermeier
Marie A. Elliot
Iuliana V. Ene
J. Pamela Engelberts
Cecilie Ersdal
Emilie Esnault
Eduardo Espeso
Mariana Bossi Esteves
Benjamin Ezraty
Patrizia Falabella
Hongjie Fan
Rhys A. Farrer
Joseph Fauver
Ian M. Feavers
Kenneth A. Fields
Maria F. Fillat
Scott G. Filler
Reinhard Fischer
Ross Fitzgerald
James Michael Fleckenstein
Mike Flint
Andrea Fogaça
Mattias N. E. Forsell
Elizabeth M. Fozo
Michael T. France
Maria E. Francia
Dara W. Frank
Carl Johan Franzén
Friedrich Frischknecht
Kevin Fuller
Sarah L. Gaffen
Raj Gaji
Emily Gallichotte
João Alves Gama
Rodolfo Garcia-Contreras
Courtney Gardner
Amy Shirley Gargis
Emily Garner
Alberto Garre
Uma Shankar Gautam
Christian Gauthier
Michael Gebhardt
Otto Geiger
Christiane Gerke
Jimut Kanti Ghosh
Partho Ghosh
Sebastian Giese
Rosario Gil
Sabine Gilch
Paul R. Gilson
Virginia E. Glazier
Nathan Glueck
William E. Goldman
Stephen Goldstein
Vijay Gondil
Ana S. Gonzalez-Reiche
Ria Goswami
Revathi Govind
Keith D. Green
Trudy H. Grossman
Rajesh Gupta
Sarah-Jane Haig
Anders P. Hakansson
James P. J. Hall
Rebecca A. Hall
Michael R. Hamblin
Mehrad Hamidian
Neal D. Hammer
Katherine R. Hargreaves
Lucas B. Harrison
Erica M. Hartmann
Nur A. Hasan
Masanori Hatakeyama
Terry C. Hazen
Bin He
Mary Healy
Joseph Heitman
Dag Hessen
Julian F. Hillyer
Kevin Loren Hockett
Anders Hofer
Jeffrey Holloman
Michael J. Holmes
Matthias Horn
Galadriel Astra Hovel-Miner
Kate Joanne Howell
Ke Hu
Victor C. Huber
Dana E. Hunt
Kevin Hybiske
Carolyn Ibberson
Ashraf Ibrahim
Cheryl Ingram-Smith
Bungonsiri Intra
Ralph R. Isberg
William T. Jackson
Timothy James
Byeonghwa Jeon
Min Jin
Jörgen Johansson
Jeremiah G. Johnson
Reed F. Johnson
Won Hee Jung
David Kadosh
Jessica K. Kajfasz
René Kallies
Jana Kamanova
Donghoon Kang
John Y. Kao
David Karig
Maria Karlsson
Justin R. Kaspar
Mark D. Kellogg
Alyson A. Kelvin
Chelsea Kettering
Jessica Kevill
Asad U. Khan
Nicolas Kieffer
Min-Ju Kim
Clare L. Kinnear
Tomoe Kitao
Michele M. Klingbeil
Anna Kloc
Larry K. Kociolek
Carolina M. Koeller
Michael H. Kogut
Tse Hsien Koh
Julia Ruth Köhler
Xiangfeng Kong
James B. Konopka
Ákos T. Kovács
Jens Kreth
James W. Kronstad
Anand Kumar
Purnima S. Kumar
Kun Kun
Hiroyuki Kunishima
Gyanu Lamichhane
Ryan A. Langlois
Andrew Lee
Soo Chan Lee
Vincent T. Lee
Mckenzie K. Lehman
Valerie M. Le Sage
Julian L. Leibowitz
Jorge H. Leitão
Manuel L. Lemos
Jay T. Lennon
Gina R. Lewin
Diyan Li
Jianrong Li
Xian-Zhi Li
Xinlou Li
Yongxin Li
Yongheng Liang
Joanito Liberti
Tami Lieberman
Krista Liguori
Shen Jean Lim
Bruno P. Lima
Senjie Lin
Jodi A. Lindsay
Anastasia P. Litvintseva
Cong Liu
Jia Liu
Qin Liu
Yi-Fan Liu
Cheryl A. Lobo
Allison Lopatkin
Christopher A. Lopez
Lorena López-Cerero
Alexander Lorenz
Tillmann Lueders
Anja Lührmann
Valeria Lulla
Christine Luttermann
Julia Lynch
Zhe Ma
Donna M. MacCallum
Milton Maciel
Roderick I. Mackie
N. James MacLachlan
Paul Magwene
Johan Malmström
Francesca Mancini
Costas D. Maranas
Lucie Maranda
Nicholas O. Markham
Richard Markham
Mary E. Marquart
Eric Martens
Miguel A. Martín-Acebes
Juan Jose Martinez
Luis R. Martinez
Bruno Martorelli Di Genova
Preston Marx
Jyl S. Matson
Cyrille Matthieu
Anthony T. Maurelli
Kyle M. J. Mayers
Jere W. McBride
Mark J. McBride
Shonna M. McBride
John K. McCormick
Bruce McDonald
Patrick McGann
Martin J. McGavin
Bridget B. McGivern
Elizabeth A. McGraw
Debbie McKenzie
Anna L. McLoon
Ane Hackbart de Medeiros
Supriya D. Mehta
Ran Mei
Lulu Meng
Tod J. Merkel
D. Scott Merrell
Robert C. Mettelman
Craig Meyers
Firas S. Midani
Eric L. Miller
Eliane Milohanic
Pedro Miramón
Maria F. Mojica
Michelle Momany
Hector M. Mora-Montes
Cristiano Gallina Moreira
Tiago Facury Moreira
James C. Morris
John Morrison
Thomas E. Morrison
Paul Moss
Caroline Mota
W. Scott Moye-Rowley
Sergio Munoz Gomez
Carol A. Munro
Nontobeko Eunice Mvubu
Michael Angelou L Nada
Moon H. Nahm
Hiroaki Naka
Jacob T. Nearing
David E. Nelson
Ashley Nelson
Jeniel E. Nett
Hayley Joy Newton
Caroline L. Ng
Jeppe Nielsen
Marisa C. Nielsen
Leonardo Nimrichter
Corey Nislow
Diego Nobrega
Carolina Silva Nodari
Douglas E. Norris
Eric Nuermberger
Austin S. Nuxoll
David O’Callaghan
Allyson F. O'Donnell
Sarah O'Flaherty
Kenta Okamoto
Michael Olson
Daisuke Ono
Joshua Osowicki
Ana Beatriz Furlanetto Pacheco
Samantha G. Palace
Jana Palkovičová
Kelli L. Palmer
Sneh Lata Panwar
Daniel Paredes-Sabja
Alexander R. Paredez
Geun Woo Park
Hee-Soo Park
Dane Parker
Srivatsan Parthasarathy
Fabienne Paumet
Talima Pearson
Miguel A. Penalva
Yousong Peng
J. Christian Pérez
Lena Pernas
Brian M. Peters
Hadrien Peyret
Niels Pfenningwerth
Marcelo Pillonetto
Daniel Pletzer
Laurent Poirel
Saskia Popescu
Megan Povelones
Guruswamy Prabhakaran
Chinnamani Prasanna Kumar
Sladjana Prisic
Michael J. Pucci
Charles Puerner
Joanna A. Pulit-Penaloza
Alexandra E. Purdy
Georgiana E. Purdy
John G. Purdy
Dohun Pyeon
Wenjie Qiao
Yafeng Qiu
Kumaran S. Ramamurthi
Mika Rämet
Maria Soledad Ramirez
Reeta Prusty Rao
Xiancai Rao
Viduthalai Rasheedkhan Regina
Carol Rauch
Laurie K. Read
Michelle Lynne Reniere
Sandra Reuter
Johanna Rhodes
Jason M. Ridlon
Bert K. Rima
Amariliz Rivera
Cathy Robinson
Mélanie Roch
Daniel D. Rockey
Eduardo Rodríguez-Román
Elizabeth E. Rogers
P. David Rogers
Robin Rebecca Rohwer
Sandra Romero-Steiner
Emily E. Rosowski
Cyprian C. Rossetto
Francois Rousset
Laura N. Rusche
Juliana Sá
Marat R. Sadykov
David Safronetz
Wilmara Salgado
Lamba Sangare
Priscilla A. San Juan
Felipe H. Santiago-Tirado
Yuya Sato
Karen M. Scanlon
Daniel H. Scharf
Jeffrey W. Schertzer
Patrick D. Schloss
Jonathan E. Schmitz
Michael Schotsaert
Alexander Schouten
Stefan Schwarz
Uli Schwarz-Linek
Jessica A. Scoffield
Anna Maria Seekatz
Ryan F. Seipke
Adnane Sellam
Julio Sempere
William M. Shafer
Stephanie R. Shames
Brian D. Shaw
Aimee Shen
Weishou Shen
Sunny Shin
Dmitry Shvarev
Upinder Singh
Ritam Sinha
Ciaran Skerry
Joan L. Slonczewski
Theo H. M. Smits
Evgeni Sokurenko
Isabel Sola
Nicolas Soler
Lynn Soong
Joseph A. Sorg
Magnus Steigedal
Hans Steinsland
David Cole Stevens
Kyle B. Stirling
Paul Stoodley
Xingmin Sun
Yi-Cheng Sun
Dongchang Sun
Kara A. Swenson
Francois-Etienne Sylvain
Tatyana A. Sysoeva
Fikadu G. Tafesse
Makoto Takeda
Toru Takeshita
Satoshi Tamazawa
Ranjan Tamuli
Kai Sen Tan
Shumin Tan
Caroline Tapparel
Paulo José Pereira Lima Teixeira
Lesly A. Temesvari
Gerard Terradas
Kevin R. Theis
Nina V. Tikunova
Rebekah Tiller
Marcelo Tolmasky
Vincenzo Torraca
Andrej Trauner
Pablo Tsukayama
Kyoko Tsukiyama-Kohara
Burkhard Tuemmler
Stephen W. Tuffs
Sondra Turjeman
Taher Uddin
Anne-Catrin Uhlemann
Jane Usher
Robert Valeris-Chacin
Bram Van den Bergh
Brian C. VanderVen
Patrick Van Dijck
Sigrid van Grinsven
Christiaan van Ooij
Jan-Peter van Pijkeren
Norman van Rhijn
Douwe van Sinderen
Daria Van Tyne
Ashley Vaughan
Roberto Vazquez-Munoz
Roberto A. Viau
Jorge E. Vidal
Jay Vornhagen
Wilna Vosloo
Aurele Vuillemin
William G. Wade
Seth T. Walk
Mark J. Walker
Richard Walker
Nicholas A. Wallace
Pengfei Wang
Yi-Wen Wang
Yifan Wang
Yong Wang
Yue Wang
Zheng Wang
Matthew J. Wargo
Mary Weber
Jianchao Wei
Kuo-Feng Weng
Robert T. Wheeler
Jeffrey D. Whitman
Darin Wiesner
Matthias Wietz
Emma H. Wilson
Jeffrey H. Withey
Christiane Wolz
Joseph Tin Yum Wong
R. Mark Wooten
Micah Worley
Michael Worobey
Rachel A. F. Wozniak
Erik Scott Wright
Gerard D. Wright
Longhua Wu
Qinglong Wu
Dennis Wykoff
Emanuel Wyler
Guoqing Xia
Yan Xiang
Fuguo Xing
Yan Q. Xiong
Chaoyang Xue
Kyosuke Yamamoto
S. Steve Yan
Jason H. Yang
Jinkui Yang
Jun Yang
George S. Yap
Min Yap
Oded Yarden
Nicole Yates
Yinyin Ye
Yunsong Yu
Ze-Fen Yu
Muhammad Ammar Zafar
Merve S. Zeden
Michael A. Zeller
Lin Zeng
Guoquan Zhang
Rui Zhang
Weiwei Zhang
Kelei Zhao
Beiwen Zheng
Jie Zheng
Wei Zheng
Bin Zhou
Baoli Zhu
Chao Zhuo
Franz Georg Zingl