Editors

About the Editor

​Kendra Rumbaugh

Kendra Rumbaugh received her PhD in Medical Microbiology from the Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center (TTUHSC) and performed postdoctoral training at the University of California at San Francisco, both in the area of bacterial pathogenesis. She is now a tenured Professor in the Department of Surgery at TTUHSC, in Lubbock, Texas and has joint appointments in the Depts. of Cell Biology and Biochemistry and Immunology and Molecular Microbiology. Dr. Rumbaugh’s research focuses on understanding and treating wound infections, and she is especially interested in how biofilms, polymicrobial interactions and cell-to-cell signalling contribute to infection.

 

Tom Coenye

Tom Coenye received his PhD in Biochemistry at Ghent University in Belgium and performed postdoctoral training at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. He is now full professor at Ghent University, where he is head of the Laboratory of Pharmaceutical Microbiology. In this research group about 20 scientists and students work on various aspects of sociomicrobiology, with a strong focus on microbial biofilm formation and host-pathogen interactions. Tom Coenye is chair of the ESCMID Study Group on Biofilms since 2017 and is one of the Senior Editors of Elsevier’s new Biofilm journal.

Founder of the series

J. William "Bill" Costerton †

J. William "Bill" Costerton, who founded and developed the Springer Series on Biofilm as a series editor, sadly passed away during the final editing of the volume Culture Negative Orthopedic Biofilm Infections.

His discovery that bacteria prefer to live in highly structured communities, which he termed biofilms, set the stage for revolutions across various fields of microbiology and infectious diseases. He established Biofilm Microbiology as a legitimate discipline within Microbiology and is widely regarded to be the “grandfather” of this discipline. May 2012