Editors
Editor-in-Chief
Garabed Antranikian, PhD, Hamburg University of Technology TuHH, Germany
Managing Editor
Barbara Klippel, PhD, Hamburg University of Technology, Germany
Associate Editors
Haruyuki Atomi, PhD, Kyoto University, Japan
Dr. Arnold Driessen, PhD, Groningen Biomolecular Sciences and Biotechnology Institute, The Netherlands
Li Huang, PhD, Institute of Microbiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
Marco Moracci, PhD, University of Naples Federico II, Italy
Aharon Oren, PhD, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel
Reviews Editor
Sonja-Verena Albers, PhD, University of Freiburg, Germany
Editorial Board
Michael Adams, PhD, University of Georgia, USA
Thorsten Allers, PhD, University of Nottingham, UK
Peter L. Bergquist, PhD, Macquarie University, Australia
Kelly Bidle, PhD, Rider University, USA
Ricardo Cavicchioli, PhD, UNSW Sydney, Australia
Professor Douglas S. Clark, PhD, University of California, Berkeley, USA
Center Director James Coker, PhD, Johns Hopkins University, USA
Professor Don Cowan, PhD, University of Pretoria, South Africa
Michael L. Dyall-Smith, PhD, University of Melbourne, Australia
Patrick Forterre, PhD, Institut Pasteur, France
Professor Brian P. Hedlund, PhD, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, USA
Associate Professor Matthias Hess, PhD, University of California Davis, USA
Masahiro Kamekura, PhD, Japan Research Institute, Japan
Chiaki Kato, PhD, Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science Technology, Japan
Robert Kelly, PhD, North Carolina State University, USA
Sang-Jin Kim, Dr. rer. nat., Korean Institute of Ocean Science and Technology, Korea
Rudolf Ladenstein, PhD, Karolinska Institutet, Sweden
Wolfgang Liebl, PhD, Technical University of Munich, Germany
Dr. Georg Lipps, PhD, University of Applied Sciences Northwestern, Switzerland
Jennifer Littlechild, PhD, University of Exeter, UK
Noha M. Mesbah, PhD, Suez Canal University, Egypt
Volker Müller, Dr. rer. nat, Johann Wolfgang Goethe University Frankfurt am Main, Germany
Kenneth Nealson, PhD, USC Dornsife, USA
Tairo Oshima, PhD, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan
Francesca Paradisi, PhD, University College Dublin, Ireland
Fred A. Rainey, PhD, University of Alaska, USA
Mosè Rossi, PhD, Università Politecnica delle Marche, Italy
Dimitry Sorokin, PhD, Winogradsky Institute of Microbiology, Russia
Karl O. Stetter, PhD, Universitat Regensburg, Germany
Ken Takai, PhD, Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology (JAMSTEC), Japan
John van der Oost, PhD, Wageningen University and Research, The Netherlands
Antonio Ventosa, PhD, University of Sevilla, Spain
Xiang Xiao, PhD, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China
Assistants to Chief Editor
Ralf Grote, PhD, Institute of Technical Microbiology, Germany