EDITOR IN CHIEF (2021)
Harold L. Drake
University of Bayreuth
EDITORS
Haruyuki Atomi, Editor (2021)
Kyoto University
Johanna Björkroth, Editor (2018)
University of Helsinki
Isaac Cann, Editor (2022)
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Charles M. Dozois, Editor (2020)
INRS—Institut Armand-Frappier
Edward G. Dudley, Editor (2020)
The Pennsylvania State University
Christopher A. Elkins, Editor (2018)
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Marie A. Elliot, Editor (2019)
McMaster University
Robert M. Kelly, Editor (2022)
North Carolina State University
Maia Kivisaar, Editor (2022)
Tartu University
Shuang-Jiang Liu, Editor (2021)
Chinese Academy of Sciences
Frank E. Löffler, Editor (2018)
University of Tennessee
Emma Master, Editor (2021)
University of Toronto
Andrew J. McBain, Editor and Cover Editor (2021)
University of Manchester
Volker Müller, Editor (2019)
Goethe University Frankfurt am Main
Hideaki Nojiri, Editor (2022)
The University of Tokyo
Rebecca E. Parales, Editor (2021)
University of California—Davis
M. Julia Pettinari, Editor (2021)
University of Buenos Aires
Donald W. Schaffner, Editor (2020)
Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
Janet L. Schottel, Editor (2018)
University of Minnesota
Eric V. Stabb, Editor (2021)
University of Georgia
Alfons J. M. Stams, Editor (2020)
Wageningen University
Claire Vieille, Editor (2020)
Michigan State University
Ning-Yi Zhou, Editor (2021)
Shanghai Jiao Tong University
Patrick D. Schloss, Chairman, Journals Board
Stefano Bertuzzi, Chief Executive Officer
Barbara S. Slinker, Production Editor
Stephanie L. D'Agostino, Assistant Production Editor
Michael E. Lerman, Assistant Production Editor
EDITORIAL BOARD
Adly M. M. Abd-Alla (2018)
Lorenz Adrian (2020)
Warish Ahmed (2019)
Denise M. Akob (2020)
Birgit E. Alber (2019)
Gladys Alexandre (2018)
Michael S. Allen (2020)
Eric Altermann (2018)
Matthew J. Arduino (2019)
Arthur I. Aronson (2018)
Fred O. Asiegbu (2019)
Shota Atsumi (2018)
Reha O. Azizoglu (2018)
Charles W. Bacon (2018)
Craig Baker-Austin (2018)
Matthew G. Bakker (2019)
David A. Baltrus (2018)
Jeffrey A. Banas (2018)
Ravi D. Barabote (2018)
Jeri D. Barak (2019)
Rodolphe Barrangou (2020)
Josefina Barrera-Cortes (2018)
Mirko Basen (2018)
Dennis A. Bazylinski (2018)
Teresa M. Bergholz (2018)
Stefan Bertilsson (2018)
Jennifer F. Biddle (2018)
Kelly A. Bidle (2019)
Gabriele Bierbaum (2020)
Linda F. Bisson (2019)
Christopher Blackwood (2019)
Sara E. Blumer-Schuette (2018)
Paul L. E. Bodelier (2018)
Matthias Boll (2018)
Daniel R. Bond (2018)
E. Fidelma Boyd (2018)
Eric S. Boyd (2018)
Alejandra Bravo (2018)
Frederick Breidt (2020)
Nichole A. Broderick (2018)
Peter A. Bron (2020)
Harald Bruessow (2019)
Harry Brumer (2020)
Andreas Brune (2018)
Wolfgang Buckel (2019)
Bruno Bühler (2019)
William Burkhardt (2018)
Helen Y. Buse (2019)
Stefan G. Buzoianu (2020)
Douglas R. Call (2019)
Amy V. Callaghan (2018)
Barbara J. Campbell (2019)
Yiping Cao (2020)
Michelle Q. Carter (2018)
Rick Cavicchioli (2019)
Stéphane Chaillou (2018)
Woo-Suk Chang (2018)
John M. Chaston (2018)
Wilfred Chen (2018)
Yi Chen (2020)
Yuhuan Chen (2018)
Michael L. Chikindas (2019)
Ludmila Chistoserdova (2018)
Konstantin Chumakov (2018)
Kuang-Ren Chung (2020)
Clifford G. Clark (2020)
Luca Cocolin (2020)
Nicholas V. Coleman (2020)
J. Douglas Cossar (2018)
Donald A. Cowan (2018)
Alison M. Cupples (2019)
Hongyue Dang (2018)
Rolf Daniel (2018)
Michelle Danyluk (2019)
Alexandre J. da Silva (2018)
Jennifer M. DeBruyn (2020)
Svetlana N. Dedysh (2018)
Patrick H. Degnan (2020)
Clara G. de los Reyes-Gavilán (2020)
Zixin Deng (2019)
Tom Desmet (2018)
Mickaël Desvaux (2018)
Eduardo Díaz (2019)
Francisco Diez-Gonzalez (2019)
Lubbert Dijkhuizen (2019)
Alan A. DiSpirito (2019)
Jayna L. Ditty (2019)
Jan Dolfing (2018)
James S. G. Dooley (2018)
Angela E. Douglas (2019)
Irina S. Druzhinina (2018)
Doris d'Souza (2020)
Alain C. Dufour (2019)
Anne K. Dunn (2018)
Jonathan Dworkin (2020)
Leo Eberl (2018)
Elizabeth A. Edwards (2019)
Armin Ehrenreich (2019)
Henry L. Ehrlich (2018)
Patrick Y. Eichenberger (2018)
Mark A. Eiteman (2018)
Kathryn T. Elliott (2018)
Mostafa S. Elshahed (2018)
David Emerson (2018)
Philipp Engel (2019)
Mark Eppinger (2020)
Tobias J. Erb (2020)
Danilo Ercolini (2018)
Leonardo Erijman (2019)
Manuel Espinosa-Urgel (2018)
Øystein Evensen (2020)
Patrick Fach (2018)
Joseph O. Falkinham (2020)
Séamus Fanning (2018)
Babu Z. Fathepure (2019)
J. Christopher Fenno (2019)
Juan Ferré (2019)
J. Gregory Ferry (2018)
Martin Filion (2018)
Steven E. Finkel (2019)
Steven L. Foley (2020)
Philipp Franken (2018)
Eelco Franz (2019)
Michael W. Friedrich (2018)
Barbara E. Funnell (2018)
Vincenzina Fusco (2018)
Shinya Fushinobu (2018)
Cormac G. M. Gahan (2018)
Victor P. J. Gannon (2019)
Michael G. Gänzle (2019)
Francisco Garcia-del Portillo (2020)
Jeffrey G. Gardner (2019)
Purushottam V. Gawande (2020)
Beilei Ge (2019)
Elke Genersch (2018)
Johannes Gescher (2018)
Kristen E. Gibson (2020)
Lisa M. Gieg (2019)
Jennifer B. Glass (2020)
Emanuel Goldman (2019)
Lawrence D. Goodridge (2018)
Lisa A. Gorski (2018)
Yuval Gottlieb (2018)
David E. Graham (2020)
Jeffrey A. Gralnick (2018)
Stefan J. Green (2020)
Amy M. Grunden (2018)
Maher A. Hachem (2020)
Timothy J. Hackmann (2020)
Yitzhak Hadar (2019)
Yejun Han (2020)
Thomas E. Hanson (2018)
Eiji Haramoto (2018)
Mark E. Hart (2020)
Valerie J. Harwood (2018)
Annele I. Hatakka (2019)
Jianzhong He (2018)
Henry S. Heine (2018)
Thorsten Heinekamp (2018)
Hermann J. Heipieper (2018)
Niels B. Hendriksen (2018)
Kristina L. Hillesland (2018)
Dirk Hoffmeister (2018)
Emily B. Hollister (2018)
Allen L. Honeyman (2018)
Dallas G. Hoover (2018)
Marcus A. Horn (2020)
Adina C. Howe (2018)
Jeroen Hugenholtz (2018)
Hor-Gil Hur (2018)
Michael R. Hyman (2019)
Michael F. Hynes (2019)
Kiyohiko Igarashi (2019)
Michele M. Igo (2018)
Masahiro Ito (2020)
Javier A. Izquierdo (2018)
Mohamed A. Jamal (2018)
Edward L. Jarroll (2018)
Dieter Jendrossek (2018)
Francis E. Jenney (2019)
Ian Jenson (2020)
Zhongjun Jia (2020)
Jiandong Jiang (2020)
Jiandong Jiang (2020)
Weihong Jiang (2018)
Nianzhi Jiao (2020)
Karyn N. Johnson (2019)
Zackary I. Johnson (2018)
Jessica L. Jones (2018)
Kou-San Ju (2020)
Juan L. Jurat-Fuentes (2019)
Klaus Jürgens (2018)
Martin Kaltenpoth (2019)
Yoichi Kamagata (2018)
Sophia Kathariou (2020)
John J. Kelly (2018)
William R. Kenealy (2018)
Albert J. Keung (2020)
Eungbin Kim (2018)
David H. Kingsley (2019)
James E. Kirby (2019)
Martin G. Klotz (2018)
Kalmia E. Kniel (2020)
Ryuichi Koga (2018)
Steffen Kolb (2020)
Konstantinos T. Konstantinidis (2018)
Nicole M. Koropatkin (2020)
Shige Koseki (2018)
Michael Y. Kosoy (2020)
Michael L. Kotewicz (2020)
Balasubrahmanyam Kottapalli (2020)
Sven Krappmann (2018)
Christian P. Kubicek (2018)
Sergei V. Kuchin (2018)
Timothy M. LaPara (2018)
Gisèle LaPointe (2020)
Robert A. LaRossa (2018)
Ray A. Larsen (2018)
Peter C. K. Lau (2018)
Jared R. Leadbetter (2018)
Paulo C. Lemos (2018)
Daniel J. Lessner (2018)
Johan H. J. Leveau (2020)
Mark A. Lever (2019)
Chunhao Li (2020)
Jianrong Li (2019)
Wenli Li (2019)
Steven Lindow (2019)
Erin K. Lipp (2018)
Xueduan Liu (2019)
Karen G. Lloyd (2018)
John C. Londesborough (2018)
Shi-En Lu (2020)
Xiaonan Lu (2019)
Yahai Lu (2019)
Taina K. Lundell (2018)
Mark J. Mandel (2020)
Maria L. Marco (2018)
Julia A. Maresca (2018)
Wanda Markotter (2020)
Matthew J. Marshall (2019)
Marta S. L. Martins (2018)
Timothy E. Mattes (2020)
Ann G. Matthysse (2018)
Timothy R. McDermott (2018)
Quinn S. McFrederick (2018)
Michael J. McInerney (2019)
James McKinlay (2018)
Robert J. C. McLean (2018)
Aubrey F. Mendonca (2018)
J. Scott Meschke (2020)
Chris H. Miller (2018)
Kathryn Milligan-Myhre (2019)
Debra L. Milton (2019)
Kiwamu Minamisawa (2018)
Kentaro Miyazaki (2020)
Robert Moore (2018)
Paula J. Mouser (2018)
Rodney A. Moxley (2019)
Jochen A. Müller (2018)
T. G. Nagaraja (2018)
Yuji Nagata (2018)
Brett A. Neilan (2020)
Josh D. Neufeld (2018)
Irene L. G. Newton (2018)
Nancy N. Nichols (2018)
Jens Nielsen (2018)
Brendan A. Niemira (2018)
Dietrich H. Nies (2018)
Ivonne Nijenhuis (2020)
Pablo I. Nikel (2019)
Heléne Norder (2019)
Andrew V. Ogram (2018)
Haley F. Oliver (2019)
Julie B. Olson (2018)
Huub J. M. Op den Camp (2018)
Elizabeth A. Ottesen (2020)
Christopher D. Paddock (2020)
Kelli L. Palmer (2018)
Konstantinos Papadimitriou (2019)
E. Terry Papoutsakis (2020)
Hee-Deung Park (2020)
Ilenys M. Perez-Diaz (2018)
Steve J. Perlman (2020)
Gregg S. Pettis (2020)
Laurent Philippot (2020)
Carmen Pin (2018)
Antonio G. Pisabarro (2020)
Shawn W. Polson (2018)
David L. Popham (2018)
Rolf A. Prade (2018)
M. Auxiliadora Prieto (2018)
Ralf Rabus (2020)
Andreja Rajkovic (2018)
Gemma Reguera (2018)
Bernd H. A. Rehm (2018)
Gregor Reid (2018)
Peter Richard (2018)
Gary P. Richards (2020)
Christian Riedel (2018)
Rita V. M. Rio (2018)
Courtney J. Robinson (2018)
Daniel D. Rockey (2019)
Jorge L. M. Rodrigues (2019)
David Rodrígues-Lázaro (2018)
Fernando Rojo (2019)
Michael Rother (2018)
Denis Roy (2020)
Patricia Ruas-Madiedo (2019)
Knut Rudi (2019)
Irene Salinas (2019)
Irene Sánchez-Andrea (2019)
Robert A. Sanford (2018)
Daisuke Sano (2018)
Anderson S. Sant'Ana (2018)
Brian D. Sauders (2019)
R. Gary Sawers (2020)
Birgit E. Scharf (2020)
Herb E. Schellhorn (2019)
Jonathan S. Schilling (2018)
Bernhard Schink (2018)
John W. Schmidt (2019)
Michael G. Schmidt (2018)
Monika Schmoll (2020)
Hildgund Schrempf (2020)
Dirk Schüler (2018)
Yuji Sekiguchi (2018)
David A. Sela (2018)
Jeremy D. Semrau (2020)
John M. Senko (2018)
Peter Setlow (2018)
Luca Settanni (2019)
Robert M. Q. Shanks (2018)
Manan Sharma (2018)
Thomas J. Sharpton (2019)
Cody S. Sheik (2019)
Xihui Shen (2020)
Masaki Shintani (2020)
Joshua D. Shrout (2018)
Mark W. Silby (2018)
Mitchell H. Singer (2020)
Steven W. Singer (2018)
Brajesh K. Singh (2020)
Matthias Sipiczki (2019)
Panos N. Skandamis (2019)
Evan W. Skowronski (2018)
J. Leif Smith (2019)
Mario Soberon (2018)
Helena M. Solo-Gabriele (2018)
Greg A. Somerville (2020)
Stephen Spiro (2019)
Lisa Y. Stein (2019)
Alexander Steinbüchel (2020)
Laura Steindler (2019)
Roger Stephan (2020)
Ann M. Stevens (2019)
Brian Stevenson (2019)
George C. Stewart (2018)
Jill R. Stewart (2018)
Michael R. Strand (2019)
Laura K. Strawn (2019)
Wolfgang R. Streit (2018)
Garret Suen (2019)
Matt D. Sweeney (2019)
Teruhiro Takabe (2019)
Ben D. Tall (2020)
Takuji Tanaka (2018)
Ralph S. Tanner (2020)
Gerald W. Tannock (2020)
Miguel C. Teixeira (2020)
Sam R. Telford (2018)
Casey M. Theriot (2019)
Michael G. Thomas (2018)
Linda S. Thomashow (2018)
Kai M. Thormann (2020)
Thomas Thurnheer (2018)
Ming Tien (2018)
Nicolas Toro Garcia (2020)
César I. Torres (2018)
Effie Tsakalidou (2019)
Masataka Tsuda (2018)
Takeharu Tsuge (2018)
Hidetoshi Urakawa (2020)
Jan-Peter van Pijkeren (2018)
Cristian Varela (2018)
Michael L. Vasil (2019)
Marco Ventura (2018)
Karen L. Visick (2019)
Dmitriy V. Volokhov (2018)
Julia A. Vorholt (2018)
Stéphane Vuilleumier (2018)
S. Aljoscha Wahl (2018)
Judy D. Wall (2018)
Gejiao Wang (2018)
Keith Warriner (2020)
J. Scott Weese (2018)
Laure Weisskopf (2018)
Derek H. Wells (2018)
Cornelia Welte (2020)
Tingyi Wen (2018)
Volker F. Wendisch (2018)
Steven W. Wilhelm (2018)
Kurt E. Williamson (2020)
Gideon M. Wolfaardt (2019)
Benjamin E. Wolfe (2020)
Randy W. Worobo (2019)
Qinglong Wu (2018)
Chuanwu Xi (2020)
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Lihua Xiao (2018)
Luying Xun (2018)
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Liang Yang (2019)
X. Frank Yang (2018)
Yunfeng Yang (2018)
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Jiangchao Zhao (2019)
Ning-Yi Zhou (2018)
Erik R. Zinser (2019)
Erwin G. Zoetendal (2018)
Sergey B. Zotchev (2018)
Peter A. Zuber (2020)
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