PLoS Pathogens Editorial Board

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