Editors

EDITORS-IN-CHIEF
Dr. Julio Polaina
PhD, I.A.T.A., C.S.I.C., Valencia, Spain
 

Nasib Qureshi
PhD, United States Department of Agriculture, Peoria, IL, USA
 

CO-EDITOR-IN-CHIEF, REVIEWS-COMISSIONING EDITOR
Ian S. Maddox
PhD, College of Sciences, Massey University, Auckland, New Zealand 
 
DEPUTY EDITOR
Dr. Jesús Mingorance
PhD, Unidad de Investigación y Servicio de Microbiología, Hospital Universitario La Paz, Madrid, Spain

ASSOCIATE EDITORS
Kavitha Alapati, PhD, OVI Children's Hospital, Kenya
Thaddeus C. Ezeji, PhD, Dept. of Animal Sciences, The Ohio State University, USA
Minakshi Grover, PhD, Central Research Institute for Dryland Agriculture (CRIDA), India
J. Felix Gutierrez Corona, PhD, Universidad de Guanajuato, Mexico
Jacek Kozdrój, PhD, University of Rzeszow, Poland
Dr. Timothy D. Leathers, PhD, Agricultural Research Service, USDA, USA
Jia Liu, PhD, Chongqing University of Arts and Sciences, Chongqing, China
Lingeng Lu, MD, PhD, Yale School of Public Health, USA
Ilaria Mannazzu, PhD, Department of Agricultural Sciences University of Sassari, Italy
Luis A. Materon, PhD, University of Texas Rio Grande Valley, USA
Dr. Jesús Mingorance, PhD, Unidad de Investigación y Servicio de Microbiología, Hospital Universitario La Paz, Madrid, Spain
Vicente Monedero, PhD, IATA-CSIC Food Biotechnology, Valencia, Spain
Dr. Paolo Natale, PhD, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain 
Doumit Camilios Neto, PhD, Universidade Estadual de Londrina, Brazil
Patrizia Romano, PhD, Universitas Mercatorum, Faculty of Economy, Rome, Italy
Dr. Manuel Sanchez, PhD, Universidad Miguel Hernandez, Spain
Dr. Marco A. Villanueva, PhD, Instituto de Ciencias del Mar y Limnologia-UNAM, Quintana Roo, Mexico
Robert Zarnowski, PhD, University of Wisconsin - Madison, USA
Tiago Zucchi, PhD, Lab de Microbiologia Ambiental, EMBRAPA Meio Ambiente, Brazil
Tianpei Huang, PhD, Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University, Fuzhou, China
Milton Typas, PhD, National & Kapodistrian University, Greece

EDITORIAL BOARD
Wolf Rainer Abraham, PhD, Helmholtz Center for Infection Research, Braunschweig, Germany
Marti Aldea, PhD, CSIC, Barcelona, Spain
Brancilene de Araujo, MSc, DSc, PhD, Fed. University of Sergipe, São Cristovão, Brazil
Lisanework Ayalew, PhD, Atlantic Veterinary College, Canada
Marco J. van Belkum, PhD, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada
Dr. Carmela Belloch, PhD, Institute of Agrochemistry and Food Technology, CSIC, Valencia, Spain
Anurag Chaurasia, MSc, ICAR-Indian Institute of Vegetable Research, Varanasi, India
Shicheng Chen, PhD, Northern Illinois University, USA
Dr. Fook Yee Chye, PhD, Universiti Malaysia Sabah, Kota Kinabalu, Malaysia
Dr. Agnieszka Cydzik-Kwiatkowska, PhD, University of Warmia and Mazury, Olsztyn, Poland
Bruce Dien, PhD, USDA Agricultural Research Service, Peoria, IL, USA
Ebtesam El-Bestawy, PhD, MSc, BSc, Alexandria University, Egypt
Maria L. M. F. Estevinho, PhD, Instituto Politécnico de Bragança, Portugal
Luiz Fernando Ferreira, PhD, MD, University of São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil
Manuel Ferrer, PhD, CSIC, Madrid, Spain
Norma Heredia, ScD, MSc, Univ. Autónoma de Nuevo León, San Nicolás, Mexico
Haijing Hu, PhD, US Food and Drug Administration, USA
Manindra Nath Jha, PhD, Rajendra Agricultural University, Pusa, India
Dr. Prem Lal Kashyap, PhD, ICAR-Indian Institute of Wheat and Barley Research, Agrasain Marg, Karnal, India
Seong Hwam Kim, PhD, Dankook University, Republic of Korea
Tatiana Kulakovskaya, PhD, University of Pushchino, Russian Federation
Jacek Kozdrój, PhD, D.Sc., ProfTit., Univ. of Rzeszów, Rzeszów, Poland
Xiaoqing Lin, PhD, Guangdong University of Technology, China
Didier Lesueur, PhD, Internat. Centre for Tropical Agriculture, Hanoi, Viet Nam
José Luiz de Lima Filho, PhD, Universitária Recife, Brazil
Siqing Liu, PhD, USDA ARS, Peoria, IL, USA
Octavio Loera, PhD, Univ. Autónoma Metropolitana Iztapalapa, Mexico DF, Mexico
Ismaïl Moukadiri, PhD, Euromed University of Fez, Morocco
Dr. K. Madhavan Nampoothiri, PhD, NIST, Council of Scientific and Industrial Research, Kerala, India
Doumit Camilios Neto, PhD, Univ. Estadual de Londrina, Londrina, Brazil
Dr. Elizabeth A. O'Gara, PhD, University of Wolverhampton, UK
Williams Olughu, PhD, Ipsen Biopharmaceuticals Inc, Wrexham, UK
Dr, Deepak Pant, PhD, VITO, Mol, Belgium
Michel J. Penninckx, PhD, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium
Dr. Chandralata Raghukumar, PhD, National Institute of Oceanography, Goa, India
Manikandan Ramasamy, PhD, Texas A&M University System Weslaco, Texas USA
Debendra K. Sahoo, PhD, Institute of Microbial Technology (CSIR), Chandigarh, India
El-Sayed Salama, PhD, Lanzhou University, China
Dr. Alicia Sánchez-Gorostiaga, PhD, Instituto Madrileño de Investigación y Desarrollo rural, Spain
Dr. Govindan Selvakumar, Ph.D, ICAR - Indian Institute of Horticultural Research, India
Anderson de Souza Sant'Ana, PhD, Univ. of Campinas, Campinas, Brazil
Armin Tarrah, PhD, University of Guelph, Canada
Enrique Troyo-Diéguez, PhD, Centro de Investigaciones Biológicas, La Paz, Mexico
Alankar Vaidya, M.Sc; M.Tech; Ph.D, Scion, Rotorua, New Zealand
Volker F. Wendisch, PhD, Bielefeld University, Germany
Kenneth Widmer, PhD, USDA, St. Louis, MO, USA
Dr. Shoutao Xu, PhD, Ecological Labs, Cape Coral FL, USA
Lidan Ye, PhD, College of Chemical and Biological Engineering Zhejiang University, China
Weixing Zhao, PhD, School of Medicine, Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA
Xiaohui Zhou, PhD, University of Connecticut, USA 

EDITOR-IN-CHIEF EMERITI
Dr. Peter J. Large
DSc, DPhil,ACIL, FRSB, CBiol, University of Hull, UK

Dr. Miguel Vicente
PhD, Centro Nacional de Biotecnologia, Spain