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PLoS Pathogens Editorial Board

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Editor-in-Chief

Kasturi Haldar
University of Notre Dame
Notre Dame, Indiana, USA
E-mail: khaldar [at] plos.org

Deputy Editor

Grant McFadden
University of Florida
Gainesville, FL, USA

Section Editors

Raul Andino
University of California, San Francisco
San Francisco, CA, USA
RNA virus replication, interaction with the host, RNAi, virus evolution
Alex Andrianopoulos
University of Melbourne
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
gene regulation, fungal morphogenesis, fungal development, fungal germination
François Balloux
University College London
London, United Kingdom
spatial population genetics, spatial epidemiology, organisms with unusual mating systems and complex life-cycles
Ralph S. Baric
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Chapel Hill, NC, USA
genetics of RNA virus transcription, replication, persistence, cross species transmission.
William Bishai
Johns Hopkins School of Medicine
Baltimore, MD, USA
Mycobacterium tuberculosis, gene regulation, drugs, vaccines, diagnostics
Vern B. Carruthers
University of Michigan
Ann Arbor, MI, USA
Parasitology, apicomplexa, Toxoplasma, Trypanosomes, pathogenesis, virulence, cell biology, genetics
Ambrose Cheung
Dartmouth University School of Medicine
Hanover, NH, USA
gram-positive bacteria, virulence determinants in Staphylococcus aureus, virulence genes
Blossom Damania
University of North Carolina At Chapel Hill
Chapel Hill, NC, USA
gammaherpesviruses, signal transduction, innate immunity, oncogenesis, primate herpesviruses
Kirk Deitsch
Weill Medical College, Cornell University
New York, NY, USA
antigenic variation, eukaryotic chromatin, epigenetic regulation, transcription, Plasmodium
Michael S. Diamond
Washington University School of Medicine
St. Louis, MO, USA
RNA viruses, innate immunity, adaptive immunity
Shou-Wei Ding
University of California, Riverside
Riverside, CA, USA
plant virology, invertebrate RNA viruses, RNAi, RNA silencing, viral suppressors of RNAi
Michael Farzan
Harvard University School of Medicine
Southborough, MA, USA
enveloped viruses, receptors, entry, restriction
Scott G. Filler
Harbor-UCLA Medical Center
Torrance, CA, USA
mammalian fungal infections, fungal biology, cell biology of endothelial and epithelial cells
JoAnne Flynn
University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine
Pittsburgh, PA, USA
tuberculosis, lung, immunology
Ron A.M. Fouchier
Erasmus Medical Center
Rotterdam, The Netherlands
influenza, negative strand viruses, evolution, emerging viruses
Klaus Frueh
Oregon Health and Sciences University
Beaverton, OR, USA
immune evasion, Poxvirus, Herpesvirus, antigen presentation, innate immunity
Michael Gale Jr.
University of Washington
Seattle, WA, USA
hepatitis, flavivirus, innate immunity, interferon, host defense
Adolfo Garcia-Sastre
Mount Sinai School of Medicine
New York, NY, USA
Influenza, negative strand RNA viruses, innate immunity, antiviral host response, viral vaccines
Thomas J. Hope
Northwestern University
Chicago, IL, USA
viral post-transcriptional regulatory elements and cell biology of HIV
Ralph Isberg
Tufts University School of Medicine
Boston, MA, USA
molecular mechanisms of bacterial uptake, intravacuolar growth in host cells, Yersinia pseudotuberculosis
Jae Jung
University of Southern California School of Medicine
Los Angeles, CA, USA
apoptosis, autophagy, interferon, signal transduction, oncogenic herpesvirus
James Kazura
Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine
Cleveland, OH, USA
malaria, helminth, immunology, genetic susceptibility
Kami Kim
Albert Einstein College of Medicine
New York, NY, USA
parasitology, Plasmodium, Toxoplasma gondii pathogenesis, cell biology, and genetics
Richard Koup
National Institutes of Health, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases
Bethesda, MD, USA
HIV, immunity, vaccines
Neil A. Mabbott
Roslin Institute and Royal (Dick) School of Veterinary Studies University of Edinburgh
Edinburgh, United Kingdom
immune system, host-pathogen interactions, TSE agents
Hiten Madhani
University of California, San Francisco
San Francisco, CA, USA
fungal pathogenesis, Cryptococcus neoformans, MAP kinase signaling, epigenetic regulation, transcriptional control, genomics
Michael H. Malim
King's College London, Guy's King's and St. Thomas' School of Medicine
London, United Kingdom
retroviruses, HIV
John M. Mansfield
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Madison, WI, USA
immunobiology of african trypanosomiasis, trypanosome virulence and pathology
Aaron Mitchell
Carnegie Mellon University
Pittsburgh, PA, USA
biofilm formation, fungal genetics, transcriptional regulation
Karl Münger
Harvard University
Boston, MA, USA
papillomaviruses, polyomaviruses, DNA tumor viruses, viral oncology
Peter D. Nagy
University of Kentucky
Lexington, KY, USA
plant viruses, RNA virus replication, RNA virus recombination, host-virus interactions
Jing-hsiung James Ou
University of Southern California
Los Angeles, CA, USA
hepatitis B virus, hepatitis C virus, hepatocellular carcinogenesis
Edward Pearce
Trudeau Institute
Saranac Lake, NY, USA
helminth parasites, immune responses
Craig R. Roy
Yale University
New Haven, CT, USA
cell biology, biochemistry, immunology, microbiology
Eric J. Rubin
Harvard School of Public Health
Boston, MA, USA
tuberculosis, bacterial genomics, transposon mutagenesis, antibiotic development
H. Steven Seifert
Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine
Chicago, IL, USA
Neisseria pathogenesis, pili, antigenic variation, bacteria genetics
Barbara Sherry
North Carolina State University
Raleigh, NC, USA
dsRNA viruses, type I interferons, myocarditis
Samuel H. Speck
Emory University
Atlanta, GA, USA
gammaherpesviruses, regulation of viral gene expression, role of DNA methylation in gammaherpesvirus infection
C. Erec Stebbins
Rockefeller University
New York, NY, USA
structural microbiology, type III virulence factors
Guy Tran Van Nhieu
Institut Pasteur
Paris, France
bacterial pathogenesis, Shigella, bacterial-induced actin cytoskeletal reorganization
Michael Wessels
Harvard Medical School
Cambridge, MA, USA
Streptococcal pathogenesis
David Westaway
University of Alberta
Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
mammalian prion proteins (cell biology & biochemistry), host control of prion pathogenesis, prion protein life-cycle
Thomas A. Wynn
National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases
Bethesda, MD, USA
helminths, microbiology/parasitology, immunology, allergy and hypersensitivity

Opinions Editor

Glenn Rall
Fox Chase Cancer Center
Philadelphia, PA, USA

Reviews Editors

Chetan Chitnis
International Centre for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology
New Delhi, India
Tom Hobman
University of Alberta
Edmonton, Canada
Marianne Manchester
University of California, San Diego
La Jolla, CA, USA

Pearls Editors

Richard Condit
University of Florida
Gainesville, FL, USA
William Goldman
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Chapel Hill, NC, USA
Joseph Heitman
Duke University Medical Center
Durham, NC, USA
Laura J. Knoll
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Madison, WI, USA
Virginia Miller
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Chapel Hill, NC, USA
Vincent Racaniello
Columbia University
New York, NY, USA
Heather True
Washington University School of Medicine
Saint Louis, MO, USA

Genomics Editors

Raul Andino
Section Editor
Evolutionary virology
François Balloux
Section Editor
Evolutionary biology
Aaron Mitchell
Section Editor
Mycology
Eric Rubin
Section Editor
Bacteriology
David Sibley
Associate Editor
Parasitology
Xin-zhuan Su
Associate Editor
Parasitology
Brett Tyler
Associate Editor
Plant Pathogens

Associate Editors

Umberto Agrimi
Instituto Superiore di Sanità
Rome, Italy
prion strains, pathogenesis of prion diseases, genetics of prion diseases
Christopher Aiken
Vanderbilt University School of Medicine
Nashville, TN, USA
HIV replication, mechanisms of resistance and susceptibility, host-virus interactions
Frederick M. Ausubel
Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School
Boston, MA, USA
innate immunity, host response, Pseudomonas aeruginosa, Salmonella typhimurium, Enterococcus faecalis
Michelle Barry
University of Alberta
Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
DNA viruses, poxviruses, apoptosis, ubiquitination, nuclear factor kappa B
Jason Bartz
Creighton University Medical School
Omaha, NE, USA
Environmental fate of prions, Prion pathogenesis, Prion strains
Christopher F. Basler
Mount Sinai School of Medicine
New York, NY, USA
filoviruses, influenza viruses, interferon
Marcel A. Behr
McGill University
Montreal Canada
Tuberculosis, BCG, Crohn's disease, mycobacterium avium, bacterial genomics
Nora J. Besansky
University of Notre Dame
Notre Dame, IN, USA
mosquito evolutionary genetics and genomics
Stephen Beverley
Washington University School of Medicine
St. Louis, MO, USA
Leishmania and trypanosomatid protozoa, molecular genetics, parasite virulence and evolution
Michael J. Blackman
National Institute for Medical Research
London, UK
parasitology, invasion, proteomics, chemical genomics
Steven R. Blanke
University of Illinois
Urbana, IL, USA
Helicobacter pylori, Bacillus anthracis, Bacillus cereus group pathogens, Campylobacter jejuni, VacA, CDTs
Debra Bessen
New York Medical College
Valhalla, NY, USA
Streptococcal pathogenesis, bacterial evolution, molecular epidemiology
Kenneth A. Bradley
University of California Los Angeles
Los Angeles, CA, USA
Bacillus anthracis, cytolethal distending toxins, cholesterol dependent cytolysins
William J. Britt
University of Alabama at Birmingham
Birmingham, AL, USA
virus structure and assembly, viral protein trafficking, herpes virology
Mark L. Buller
Saint Louis University
Saint Louis, MO, USA
poxviruses, antivirals, host-range
Jenifer Coburn
Medical College of Wisconsin
Milwaukee, WI, USA
spirochetes, Borrelia, Leptospira, ticks
Pascale Cossart
Institut Pasteur
Paris, France
bacterial regulation, cell biology of infections
Leah E. Cowen
University of Toronto
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
fungal pathogenesis, antifungal drug resistance, stress response, morphogenesis
Bryan R. Cullen
Duke University Medical Center
Durham, NC, USA
retroviral molecular biology, viral microRNAs, innate antiviral immunity, APOBEC3 proteins, RNA interference
Jeff Dangl
University of North Carolina At Chapel Hill
Chapel Hill, NC, USA
plant-pathogen interactions, bacterial pathogens, type III systems, oomycetes
Vojo Deretic
University of New Mexico
Albuquerque, New Mexico
autophagy, tuberculosis, HIV, innate immunity, Crohn's disease, lung
Frank R. DeLeo
National Institutes of Health, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases
Hamilton, MT, USA
host defense, bacterial pathogenesis, neutrophil
Ronald C. Desrosiers
Harvard University
Boston, MA, USA
AIDS, SIV/HIV, neutralizing antibodies, AIDS vaccine, gamma herpesviruses
Tamara Doering
Washington University School of Medicine
Saint Louis, MO, USA
pathogenic fungi, Cryptococcus neoformans, glycobiology, glycan synthesis
Daniel Douek
National Institutes of Health, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases
Bethesda, MD, USA
human immunology, t cells, HIV, thymus, mucosalimmunology
Sabine Ehrt
Weill Cornell Medical College
New York, NY, USA
Pathogenesis of tuberculosis, Mycobacterium macrophage interaction, regulation of gene expression
Michael Emerman
Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
Seattle, WA, USA
HIV replication, retroviruses, evolution of virus-host interactions
Roger Everett
University of Glasgow
Glasgow, Scotland
herpesviruses, PML nuclear bodies, SUMO, ubiquitin E3 ligase, viral replication
Marta Feldmesser
Albert Einstein College of Medicine
Bronx, NY, USA
fungal immunology, fungal pathogenesis, antibody-mediated immunity
Neil M. Ferguson
Imperial College London
London, UK
Epidemiology, epidemic modeling, population biology, infectious diseases
Jorge Galan
Yale University School of Medicine
New Haven, CT, USA
Salmonella typhimurium, type III protein translocation system, host cell responses
Denise A. Galloway
Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
Seattle, WA, USA
papillomaviruses, mechanisms of cellular immortaliztion, E6 and E7, papillomavirus/polyomavirus serology
Andrea Gamarnik
Fundación Intituto Leloir-CONICET
Buenos Aires, Argentina
dengue virus replication, flaviviruses, RNA virus replication, RNA virus translation
Michael S. Gilmore
Harvard Medical School
Boston, MA, USA
gram positive bacteria, enterococci and staphylococci
Shengyang He
Michigan State University
East Lansing, MI, USA
Plant innate immunity, type III secretion, jasmonate signaling, stomatal function, vesicle traffic
Mark Heise
University of North Carolina At Chapel Hill
Chapel Hill, NC, USA
pathogenesis of virus-induced disease, mosquito-borne and respiratory viruses, viral evasion of the host innate immune system and virus-induced immune pathology
Barbara Jane Howlett
University of Melbourne
Melbourne, Australia
mycology, fungal plant diseases, secondary metabolites
Michael J. Imperiale
University of Michigan
Ann Arbor, MI, USA
small DNA tumor viruses, polyomavirus, adenovirus, papillomavirus
Patricia Johnson
University of California, Los Angeles
Los Angeles, CA, USA
trichomonad biology: organelle evolution & biogenesis, gene expression and pathogenesis
Yoshihiro Kawaoka
University of Wisconsin-Madison and University of Tokyo
Madison, WI, USA; Tokyo, Japan
RNA viruses, influenza viruses, filoviruses
Barbara Kazmierczak
Yale University School of Medicine
New Haven, CT, USA
Bacterial pathogens, host-pathogen interaction, immune activation and defense, innate immunity
Bruce S. Klein
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Madison, WI, USA
fungal immunology and pathogenesis
Theresa Koehler
University of Texas-Houston Medical School
Houston, TX, USA
Bacillus, anthrax, spore, toxin, gram positive capsule
Hans-Georg Kräusslich
Universität Heidelberg
Heidelberg, Germany
HIV, assembly, maturation, protease, entry
Tomoko Kubori
Osaka University
Suita, Japan
Legionella, Salmonella, bacterial effectors, bacterial flagella, Secretion systems
Jean Langhorne
National Institute for Medical Research
London, United Kingdom
mechanisms of protection and pathogenesis of infectious diseases,molecular immunology, malaria
Bruce R. Levin
Emory University
Atlanta, GA, USA
population dynamics and evolution of E. coli and Streptococcus pneumoniae
Stuart M. Levitz
University of Massachusetts Medical School
Worcester, MA, USA
fungal immunology, vaccinology, dendritic cells, carbohydrate receptors and ligands, innate recognition of pathogens
Jeffrey D. Lifson
SAIC-Frederick
Frederick, MD, USA
retrovirology, HIV/SIV, retroviral immunology, AIDS vaccines, non-human primate models
Michael Linden
King's College London School of Medicine
London, UK
parvoviruses, adeno-associated virus, bocavirus, genome integration, DNA replication
Jeremy Luban
University of Geneva
Geneva, Switzerland
HIV, retroviruses, replication, immunity
David Mackey
Ohio State University
Columbus, OH, USA
Arabidopsis, Pseudomonas, type III effector, resistance protein, innate immunity
Robin C. May
University of Birmingham
Birmingham, United Kingdom
fungal infections, innate immunity
Bruce A. McDonald
ETH Zurich
Zurich, Switzerland
Mycology, plant pathology, population genetics, evolutionary biology
Denise Monack
Stanford University School of Medicine
Stanford, CA, USA
Shigella life cycle, protease-dependent mechanism for mediating actin-based motility
Karen Mossman
McMaster University
Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
Innate immunity, interferon, signal transduction, virus-host interactions, oncolytic viruses, Herpesviruses
Maria Mota
Instituto de Medicina Molecular
Lisbon, Portugal
malaria, host-plasmodium interactions, malaria pathology, hepatocyte infection
Xavier Nassif
University Paris Descartes
Paris, France
bacterial meningitis, Neisseria pathogenesis, blood brain barrier
Jay A. Nelson
Oregon Health and Science University
Portland, OR, USA
molecular pathogenesis, viruses including herpesviruses, flaviviruses, cytomegalovirus
Howard Ochman
University of Arizona
Tucson, AZ, USA
bacterial evolution, genomics, population genetics, lateral gene transfer, phylogenetics
Carlos Javier Orihuela
The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio
San Antonio, TX, USA
S. pneumoniae, bacterial pathogenesis, mechanisms of bacterial adhesion, community-acquired pneumonia in the elderly, innate immunity
Matthew Parsek
University of Washington
Seattle, WA, USA
Quorum sensing biofilms, microbial communities
Andrew Pekosz
Johns Hopkins University
Baltimore, MD,USA
Influenza virus, hantavirus, coronavirus, virus-host cell interactions, virus assembly
William A. Petri, Jr.
University of Virginia
Charlottesville, VA
Entamoeba, E. histolytica, amebiasis, ameba, amebic colitis, amebic liver abscess, diarrhea, enteric infection, giardia, cryptosporidia, malnutrition, mucosal immunology, enteric vaccine
Dana J. Philpott
University of Toronto
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
nod-like receptor (NLR) family, bacterial infection
Oliver Pybus
University of Oxford
Oxford, United Kingdom
RNA virus, phylogeny, evolution, adaptation, influenza
Lalita Ramakrishnan
University of Washington
Seattle, WA, USA
tuberculosis, gene expression and regulation, zebrafish
Félix Rey
Institute Pasteur
Paris, France
structural virology, viral envelope glycoproteins, particle assembly
Charles M. Rice
The Rockefeller University
New York, NY, USA
RNA viruses, flaviviruses, hepatitis C, alphaviruses
Eleanor M. Riley
London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
London, United Kingdom
immunology, malaria, pathology, epidemiology
Susan R. Ross
University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine
Philadelphia, PA, USA
retroviruses, genetics of resistance/susceptibility to infection (viral or bacterial), immune responses to viruses
David Sacks
National Institutes of Health, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases
Bethesda, MD, USA
intracellular parasite biology , immunology and cell biology of leishmanial infections
Nina Salama
Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
Seattle, WA, USA
epsilon proteobacteria, recombinational repair, bacterial cell wall/cell shape, comparative genomics, functional genomics
David S. Schneider
Stanford University
Palo Alto, CA, USA
innate Immunity, model systems of infection (Drosophila and mosquitoes), malaria, Listeria and Salmonella
L. David Sibley
Washington University School of Medicine
St. Louis, MO, USA
genetics, genomics, cell biology, intracellular parasites, calcium
Luis J. Sigal
Fox Chase Cancer Center
Philadelphia, PA, USA
viral immunology, antigen presentation
Anita Sil
University of California, San Francisco
San Francisco, CA, USA
fungal pathogenesis, macrophage innate immune response, gene regulation, fungal development
Guido Silvestri
Emory University
Atlanta, GA, USA
AIDS pathogenesis, HIV, SIV, non-human primates, mucosal transmission, co-infections
Joseph Smith
Seattle Biomedical Research Institute
Seattle, WA, USA
Plasmodium falciparum, antigenic variation, var genes, cytoadherence, erythrocyte invasion
Dominique Soldati-Favre
University of Geneva
Geneva, Switzerland
apicomplexa, cell biology, invasion, trafficking, metabolism
Mary M. Stevenson
McGill University
Montreal Canada
malaria immunology, malaria pathogenesis, helminth-induced immunosuppression
Xin-zhuan Su
National Institutes of Health, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases
Rockville, MD, USA
parasites, malaria, genetics, genomics, drug resistance, sexual development
Kanta Subbarao
National Institutes of Health
Bethesda, MD, USA
influenza, SARS coronavirus, vaccines
Bill Sugden
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Madison, WI, USA
molecular biology of the human tumor virus, Epstein-Barr virus
Paul Sullam
University of California, San Francisco
San Francisco, CA, USA
viridans group streptococci, platelets, endocarditis, endovascular infections
Surachai Supattapone
Dartmouth University School of Medicine
Hanover, NH, USA
Biochemistry of infectious mammalian prions, especially: non-PrP cofactors such as lipids and polyanionic molecules,
in vitro prion propagation, structural basis of prion infectivity, molecular basis for prion strain diversity
Alexandra Trkola
University Hospital Zürich
Zürich, Switzerland
HIV, virus entry,humoral immunity
Brett Tyler
Virginia Tech
Blacksburg, VA, USA
Oomycete and fungal plant pathogens, plant innate immunity, eukaryotic microbe genomics and bioinformatics
Elisabetta Ullu
Yale University School of Medicine
New Haven, CT, USA
gene expression, RNA metabolism, RNA interference
Raphael Valdivia
Duke University Medical Center
Durham, NC, USA
Chlamydia, cellular microbiology, membrane transport, cell signaling, cytoskeleton
Kenneth Vernick
Institut Pasteur
Paris, France
vector biology, mosquito, genomics, genetics
John Wherry
University of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia, PA, USA
chronic viral infection, T cell exhaustion, T cell memory, viral pathogenesis, T cell differentiation
Christopher M. Walker
The Research Institute at Nationwide Childrens Hospital
Columbus, OH, USA
immune response, viral pathogenesis, gene therapy
Claus O. Wilke
University of Texas at Austin
Austin, TX
molecular evolution, RNA viruses, mathematical modeling, lethal mutagenesis
Jin-Rong Xu
Purdue University
West Lafayette, Indiana, USA
fungal genetics and pathogenesis, pathogen-plant interactions
John A. T. Young, Founding Editor
The Salk Institute for Biological Studies
San Diego, CA, USA
mechanisms of retroviral and anthrax toxin entry into cells
Jian-Min Zhou
National Institute of Biological Sciences
Beijing, China
Plant pathogens, signal transduction, effector, innate immunity, protein phosphorylation

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