Meet Microbial Cell’s editorial board, which includes renowned scientists in diverse fields of unicellular and mammalian research, warranting the quality of our published articles. Given the large subject heterogeneity in the area of microbiology, our Academic Editors are subdivided into subareas to guarantee that submitted articles are assessed with the necessary quality and competence in the specific field.

Editors-in-Chief

Frank Madeo University of Graz (Austria)
Guido Kroemer University of Paris Descartes (France)
Didac Carmona-Gutierrez University of Graz (Austria)

Executive Editors

Sebastian Hofer University of Graz (Austria)
Katharina Kainz University of Graz (Austria)
Andreas Zimmermann University of Graz (Austria)

Managing Editors

Maria A. Bauer University of Graz (Austria)

Editorial Assistants

Thomas Heger Zürich (Switzerland)

Founding Editorial Board

Rafael de Cabo National Institute on Aging (USA)
Lorenzo Galluzzi Weill Cornell Medical College (USA)
Brian K. Kennedy Buck Institute for Research on Aging (USA)
Thomas Langer University of Cologne (Germany)
Valter Longo University of Southern California, Davis School of Gerontology (USA)
Chris Meisinger University of Freiburg (Germany)
Thomas Nyström University of Gothenburg (Sweden)
Jared Rutter University of Utah (USA)

Academic Editors

Aging

Michael Breitenbach University of Salzburg (Austria)
William C Burhans Roswell Park Cancer Institute (USA)
Sabrina Büttner Stockholm University (Sweden)
Tobias Eisenberg University of Graz (Austria)
Campbell W Gourlay University of Kent (UK)
Gianni Liti Nice Sophia Antipolis University (France)
Beidong Liu University of Gothenburg (Sweden)
Paula Ludovico University of Minho (Portugal)
Cristina Mazzoni Sapienza University of Rome (Italy)
Heinz D Osiewacz Goethe University Frankfurt (Germany)
Luis Rokeach University of Montréal (Canada)
Christoph Ruckenstuhl University of Graz (Austria)
Fusheng Tang University of Arkansas at Little Rock (USA)
Vladimir Titorenko Concordia University (Canada)
Jessica Tyler Weill Cornell Medical College (USA)
Marina Vai University of Milano–Bicocca (Italy)
Ida van der Klei University of Groningen (The Netherlands)

Cell death

Nicanor Austriaco Providence College (USA)
Kathryn Ayscough University of Sheffield (UK)
Manuela Côrte-Real University of Minho (Portugal)
Birthe Fahrenkrog Université libre de Bruxelles (Belgium)
Ali Gargouri University of Sfax (Tunisia)
Sergio Giannattasio Italian National Research Council
Pierre Golstein University of the Mediterranean (France)
Stéphen Manon University of Bordeaux Segalen (France)
Enzo Martegani University of Milano Bicocca (Italy)
Lynn Megeney Ottawa Hospital Research Institute (Canada)
Hay-Oak Park Ohio State University (USA)
Patrick Rockenfeller University of Kent (UK)
Amir Sharon Tel Aviv University (Israel)
Kevin Tan National University of Singapore
Karin Thevissen KU Leuven (Belgium)
Arnaldo Videira University of Porto (Portugal)
Richard Zhao University of Maryland (USA)

Cell Physiology and Cell Signaling

Anand K Bachhawat Indian Institute of Science Education & Research (India)
Marc Blondel University of Western Brittany (France)
Thomas Brüser Leibniz University of Hannover (Germany)
Josep Clotet International University of Catalonia (Spain)
Paola Coccetti University of Milano Bicocca (Italy)
Pascale Daran-Lapujade Delft University of Technology (The Netherlands)
Biswadip Das Jadavpur University (India)
Jesús de la Cruz University of Seville (Spain)
Rodney Devenish Monash University (Australia)
Jürgen Dohmen University of Cologne (Germany)
Diana M. Downs University of Georgia (USA)
Florian Freimoser Agroscope (Switzerland)
Alvaro Galli Italian National Research Council
Joel Goodman University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center (USA)
Boris Görke University of Vienna (Austria)
José M. Guillamón Spanish National Research Council (Spain)
Matthias Heinemann University of Groningen (The Netherlands)
Jürgen Heinisch University of Osnabrück (Germany)
Mehdi Kabani Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (France)
Jun-Yi Leu Academia Sinica (Taiwan)
Tim Levine University College London (UK)
Susan W Liebman University of Nevada, Reno (USA)
Roland Lill University of Marburg (Germany)
Marc Meneghini University of Toronto (Canada)
Pierre Morsomme Université Catholique de Louvain (Belgium)
Douglas Murray Keio University (Japan)
Hiromi Nishida Toyama Prefectural University (Japan)
Tiago Outeiro University of Göttingen (Germany)
Brigitte Pertschy University of Graz (Austria)
Simonetta Piatti Macromolecular Biochemistry Research Center (France)
Michael Polymenis Texas A&M University (USA)
Ted Powers University of California, Davis (USA)
Markus Ralser University of Cambridge (UK)_
Klaus Richter Technical University of Munich (Germany)
Frank Rosenzweig University of Montana (USA)
Monika Schmoll Austrian Institute of Technology GmbH (Austria)
Stephen Sturley Columbia University (USA)
Reiko Sugiura Kindai University (Japan)
Bas Teusink Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (The Netherlands)
Johan Thevelein KU Leuven (Belgium)
Mick Tuite University of Kent (UK)
Assaf Vardi Weizmann Institute of Science (Israel)
Vanina Zaremberg University of Calgary (Canada)

Genome Stability and Structure

Andrés Aguilera University of Seville (Spain)
Luis Aragon Clinical Sciences Center (UK)
Benoit Arcangioli Institut Pasteur (France)
Jürg Bähler University College London (UK)
Adam Bailis City of Hope National Medical Center (USA)
Sigurd Braun Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München (Germany)
Jason H. Brickner Northwestern University (USA)
Carlo V. Bruschi International Center for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology (Italy)
Vanni Bucci University of Massachusetts Dartmouth (USA)
Rita Cha Bangor University (UK)
Michael Chang University of Groningen (The Netherlands)
Troy Harkness University of Saskatchewan (Canada)
Wolf-Dietrich Heyer University of California, Davis (USA)
Hannah Klein New York University School of Medicine (USA)
Martin Kupiec Tel Aviv University (Israel)
Edward J Louis University of Leicester (UK)
Neal Lue Weill Cornell Medicine (USA)
Corey Nislow University of British Columbia (Canada)
Ulrich Rass Friedrich Miescher Institute for Biomedical Research (Switzerland)
Pedro A. San-Segundo University of Salamanca (Spain)
David Shore University of Geneva (Switzerland)
Jeffrey S. Smith University of Virginia (USA)
Peter Uetz Virginia Commonwealth University (USA)
Raymund J. Wellinger _University of Sherbrooke (Canada)

Infection Biology

Narottam Acharya Institute of Life Sciences, Bhubaneswar (India)
Anne Blanc-Potard University of Montpellier (France)
Mathias Faure University of Lyon 1 (France)
Arsénio M. Fialho University of Lisbon (Portugal)
Mario Alberto Flores-Valdez CIATEJ (Mexico)
Teresa Frisan Karolinska Institutet (Sweden)
Johannes Gach University of California, Irvine (USA)
Yunn-Hwen Gan National University of Singapore (Singapore)
Stephen Hare Imperial College London (UK)
Stanimir S. Ivanov Louisiana State University (USA)
Rupinder Kaur Centre for DNA Fingerprinting and Diagnostics (India)
Chang H. Kim Purdue University (USA)
Dimitrios P Kontoyiannis MD Anderson Cancer Center (USA)
James W. Kronstad University of British Columbia (Canada)
Ashwani Kumar Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (India)
Patrick Lomonte University of Lyon (France)
Javier Lopez-Garrido University of California, San Diego (USA)
Ian Macreadie RMIT University (Australia)
Varpu Marjomäki University of Jyväskylä (Finland)
Stéphane Méresse Centre d’Immunologie de Marseille-Luminy (France)
Rikke Louise Meyer Aarhus University (Denmark)
Héctor Ricardo Morbidoni National University of Rosario (Argentina)
Jaime Mota Universidade Nova de Lisboa (Portugal)
David Ojcius University of the Pacific (USA)
Zuzana Palcekova Colorado State University (USA)
Fulvio Reggiori University Medical Center Utrecht (The Netherlands)
Thomas Rudel Biozentrum University of Würzburg (Germany)
Steffen Rupp University of Stuttgart (Germany)
Stefan Schild U_niversity of Graz (Austria)_
Barbara S. Sixt Université Paris Descartes (France)
James Smith Texas A&M University (USA)
Gloria Soberón Chávez National Autonomous University of Mexico (Mexico)
Nilgun E. Tumer Rutgers University (USA)
Sergei Vakulenko University of Notre Dame (USA)
Govindsamy Vediyappan Kansas State University (USA)
Roberto Vidal Alvarez University of Chile (Chile)
Guenter Weiss Medical University of Innsbruck (Austria)
Chul-Su Yang Hanyang University (South Korea)
Dahai Yang East China University of Science and Technology (China)
Yufeng Yao Shanghai Jiao Tong University (China)
Kui Zhu China Agricultural University (China)

Microbiome

Laurence Arbibe Institut Necker Enfants Malades Paris (France)
Peter Belenky Brown University (USA)
Gabriele Berg Graz University of Technology (Austria)
Yunrong Chai Northeastern University (USA)
Shin Kurihara Ishikawa Prefectual University (Japan)
François Leulier University of Lyon (France)
Andrés Moya University of València (Spain)
Andrew J Roe University of Glasgow (UK)

Mitochondria

Antonio Barrientos University of Miami (USA)
Vítor Costa University of Porto (Portugal)
Marcel Deponte University of Heidelberg (Germany)
Jean-Paul di Rago University of Bordeaux Segalen (France)
Paola Goffrini University of Parma (Italy)
Johannes Herrmann University of Kaiserslautern (Germany)
David Mueller Rosalind Franklin University (USA)
Plácido Navas Lloret Universidad Pablo de Olavide (Spain)
Torsten Ochsenreiter University of Bern (Switzerland)
Koji Okamoto Osaka University (Japan)
Martin Ott Stockholm University (Sweden)
Peter Polcic Comenius University in Bratislava (Slovakia)
Liza Pon Columbia University (USA)
Doron Rapaport University of Tübingen (Germany)
Andreas Reichert Goethe University Frankfurt (Germany)
Benedikt Westermann University of Bayreuth (Germany)
Dennis Winge University of Utah (USA)
Bing Zhou Tsinghua University (China)

Parasitology

Peter Buetikofer University of Bern (Switzerland)
Christopher de Graffenried Brown University (USA)
Nicolas Fasel University of Lausanne (Switzerland)
Mark C Field University of Dundee (UK)
Eva Frickel The Francis Crick Institute (UK)
Mathieu Gissot University of Lille (France)
Dean Goodman The University of Melbourne (Australia)
Nancy Guillén Institut Pasteur (France)
Nishith Gupta Humboldt University of Berlin (Germany)
Antonio Jiménez-Ruiz University of Alcalá (Spain)
Carsten Lüder University of Göttingen (Germany)
Barbara Papadopoulou Laval University (Canada)
Stephane Picot University of Lyon (France)
Laurent Rénia Singapore Immunology Network (Singapore)
Patricia Romano National University of Cuyo-CONICET (Argentina)
Chris Tonkin The University of Melbourne (Australia)
Néstor Uzcátegui Central University of Venezuela (Venezuela)

Stress Response

Joaquín Ariño Autonomous University of Barcelona (Spain)
Mark Ashe University of Manchester (UK)
Anders Blomberg University of Gothenburg (Sweden)
Ralf Braun University of Bayreuth (Germany)
Katrina F Cooper Rowan University (USA)
Ian Dawes University of New South Wales (Australia)
Chris Grant University of Manchester (UK)
Michael Greenwood Royal Military College (Canada)
Jiří Hašek Czech Academy of Sciences (Czech Republic)
Enric Herrero University of Lleida (Spain)
Walid A Houry University of Toronto (Canada)
Gary Jones National University of Ireland Maynooth (Ireland)
Ahmed Koc Izmir Institute of Technology (Turkey)
Andreas Martin Lisewski Baylor College of Medicine (USA)
Maria Pia Longhese University of Milano–Bicocca (Italy)
Francesc Posas Pompeu Fabra University (Spain)
Claudina Pousada Universidade Nova de Lisboa (Portugal)
Satish Raina Gdansk University of Technology (Poland)
Raffael Schaffrath University of Kassel (Germany)
Christoph Schüller University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences Vienna (Austria)
Maria Segovia University of Málaga (Spain)
Fedor Severin Moscow State University (Russia)
Wolfram Siede University of North Texas Health Science Center (USA)
Maria João Sousa University of Minho (Portugal)
Hiroshi Takagi Nara Institute of Science and Technology (Japan)
Renata Tisi University of Milano Bicocca (Italy)
Michel Toledano French Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission
Joris Winderickx KU Leuven (Belgium)
Zhaojie J Zhang University of Wyoming (USA)

Structural and Systems Biology

Duccio Cavalieri University of Florence (Italy)
Marija Cvijovic University of Gothenburg (Sweden)
George Diallinas National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (Greece)
Alex W. Ensminger University of Toronto (Canada)
Enrique Flores Spanish National Research Council (Spain)
Jean-Marie Francois University of Toulouse (France)
Esben Lorentzen Leibniz University of Hannover (Germany)
Tobias Madl Medical University of Graz (Austria)
Emilia Matallana University of Valencia (Spain)
Diethard Mattanovich University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences (Austria)
Jane Mellor University of Oxford (UK)
Jeremy Mottram University of Glasgow (UK)
Dina Petranovic Chalmers University of Technology (Sweden)
Isabel Sá-Correia University of Lisbon (Portugal)
Isabelle Sagot University of Bordeaux Segalen (France)
Filipa L. Sousa University of Vienna (Austria)
Ulrich Stelzl University of Graz (Austria)
Miguel Cacho Teixeira University of Lisbon (Portugal)
Gilles P. van Wezel Leiden University (The Netherlands)
Stefan Wölfl University of Heidelberg (Germany)
Andreas Zanzoni Aix-Marseille University (France)