Editorial Board for section 'Molecular Microbiology and Immunology'

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Please note that the order in which the Editors appear on this page is alphabetical, and follows the structure of the editorial board presented on the MDPI website under information for editors: editorial board responsibilities.

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Department of Molecular Biology, University of Gdansk, Wita Stwosza 59, 80-308 Gdansk, Poland
Interests: gene expression regulation; DNA replication; bacteriophages; plasmids; human genetic diseases; neurodegeneration
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Integrated BioTherapeutics, Rockville, MD 20850, USA
Interests: microbial pathogenesis; bacterial toxins; viral glycoproteins; monoclonal antibody development; vaccine development

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Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Department, University of Valencia, 46100 Valencia, Spain
Interests: wine yeasts; Saccharomyces cerevisiae; yeast biomass; non-Saccharomyces yeasts; oxidative stress; nutrient signaling pathways

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INEB-Instituto Nacional de Engenharia Biomédica and i3S-Instituto de Investigação e Inovação em Saúde, University of Porto, Porto, Portugal
Interests: dietary; lipid; microbiota; metabolism; bowel disease
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Department of Biology, California State University, Northridge, CA, USA
Interests: Tumor-targeted Salmonella; immunotherapy; protease inhibitors; suppressor mutations; fungi

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Departamento de Microbioloxía e Parasitoloxía, Facultade de Veterinaria, Universidade de Santiago de Compostela (USC), 27002 Lugo, Spain
Interests: escherichia coli (ExPEC, STEC, EPEC, ETEC, EAEC, AIEC); bacterial pathogens; virulence; antibiotic resistance; veterinary microbiology

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Norwegian College of Fishery Science, Faculty of Biosciences, Fisheries and Economics, University of Tromsø, The Arctic University of Norway, N-9037 Tromsø, Norway
Interests: fish immunology; fish vaccinology; fish diseases both bacterial and viral; fish pathology

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Laboratory Affiliated to Istituto Pasteur Italia-Fondazione Cenci Bolognetti, Department of Molecular Medicine, Sapienza University of Rome, 00161 Rome, Italy
Interests: immunology; innate immunity; host-pathogen interaction; viral immunoevasion; Viruses; CMV; HPV; HIV

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Department of Oral Health Sciences, Medical University of South Carolina, 173 Ashley Ave., Charleston, SC 29425, USA
Interests: host-pathogen interactions; cellular microbiology; bacterial virulence and secretion systems; biology of bacterial persister/dormant cells; antibiotic persistence and resistance; bacterial evolution and pathogenicity; biofilm; gene regulation; functional genomics
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Leiden Institute of Chemistry, Leiden, The Netherlands
Interests: gene regulation; genome organisation; transcription; bacteria; archaea
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Centre Armand-Frappier Santé Biotechnologie, Institut National de la Recherche Scientifique (INRS), 531 Boul des Prairies, Laval, QC H7V 1B7, Canada
Interests: bacterial pathogens; Escherichia coli; metal transport; bacterial adhesins; autotransporters; siderophores; Salmonella; veterinary microbiology

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Department of Microbiology, Immunology and Transplantation, Laboratory of Molecular Bacteriology, Rega Institute, KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium
Interests: protein secretion; membrane proteins; Sec pathway; Type III secretion; proteomics; protein structure/function; protein dynamics; protein folding

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Laboratory of Moleculal Genetics and Microorganisms, School of Biosciences and Veterinary Medicine, University of Camerino,Via Gentile III da Varano, 62032 Camerino (MC), Italy
Interests: regulation of gene expression; virulence genes; small non-coding RNAs; nucleoid proteins; DNA/RNA-protein interaction

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Department of Biology, University of Florence, 50019 Sesto Fiorentino, Italy
Interests: antibiotic resistance; bacterial genetics; endophytes; environmental microbiology; gene and genome evolution; molecular evolution
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School of Biomedical Sciences, University of Plymouth, Plymouth, UK
Interests: immunology; inflammation; probiotics; antimicrobial responses; infection; oral & gastrointestinal mucosae

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Center for Applied Medical Research, Department of Gene Therapy and Hepatology, Navarra Institute for Health Research (IdiSNA), University of Navarra, Pamplona, Spain
Interests: long non-coding RNAs; liver cancer; HCV; IFN; DNA damage; PI3K/AKT

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Institute of Chemistry and Biology of Membranes and Nano-objects, CBMN UMR5248 CNRS Université de Bordeaux INP, 33607 Pessac, France
Interests: biomolecular assemblies; biophysics; structural biology; NMR; amyloids; membrane-protein interactions; protein-protein interactions; biomolecular interfaces

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Department of Molecular Genetics and Infection Biology, Interfaculty Institute for Genetics and Functional Genomics, Center for Functional Genomics of Microbes, University of Greifswald, 17487 Greifswald, Germany
Interests: gram-positive pathogens; pneumococci; host-pathogen interaction; virulence; immune evasion; bacterial adaptation; platelet-bacteria interaction

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School of Biological Sciences, The University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand
Interests: bacterial cell biology; cell envelope; outer membrane; secretion systems

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Pharmaceutical Biology and Microbiology, Institute of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany
Interests: antibiotic resistance; antibiotics microbiology; molecular biology; gene expression; molecular cloning; bacterial transformation

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Department of Oral Sciences, Faculty of Dentistry, University of Otago, P.O. Box 56, Dunedin, New Zealand
Interests: molecular genetics; bioinformatics; genome analysis; antimicrobial proteins (bacteriocins); protein (bio)chemistry; oral microbiomes; next-generation DNA sequencing

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Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL 35294, USA
Interests: DNA supercoiling; topoisomerases; site-specific recombination; transcription; DNA replication; and DNA damage

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Laboratory of Molecular Microbiology and Biotechnology, Department of Medical Biotechnologies, University of Siena, Siena, Italy
Interests: mobilome characterization in Gram positive bacteria; bacterial genetics and genomics
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School of Molecular Biosciences, College of Veterinary Sciences, Washington State University, Pullman, WA 99164, USA
Interests: bacterial pathogenesis; bacteria-host cell interactions; bacterial adhesion; fibronectin-binding proteins; bacterial invasion of intestinal cells; actin cytoskeletal rearrangements; modulation of host cell signaling pathways; foodborne illness; virulence factors

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Department of Biological Sciences, Myongji University, 116 Myongjiro, Yongin, Gyeonggido 449-728, Republic of Korea
Interests: antibiotic resistance; peptidoglycan hydrolase; porin; lipoprotein; microbial physiology; Escherichia coli

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Philips Research Institute, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA 23298, USA
Interests: bacteria-host interactions; including bacterial physiology (motility, chemotaxis, and signaling transduction); genetics; biofilms; antibiotic resistance; immune evasion

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Radiation Research Division, Korea Atomic Energy Research Institute, Jeongeup 56212, Republic of Korea
Interests: molecular microbiology; gene regulatory networks; radiation resistant microorganisms; stress response proteins; deinococcus

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Instituto de Biomedicina y Biotecnología de Cantabria (IBBTEC), Universidad de Cantabria-CSIC-SODERCAN, 39011 Santander, Spain
Interests: bacterial conjugation; protein secretion; host-pathogen interactions; transkingdom DNA transfer; conjugative relaxases

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Department of Biology, University of Copenhagen, 2200 Copenhagen, Denmark
Interests: bacterial cell cycle; mechanism and regulation of chromosomal replication initiation; initiator proteins; DNA methylation; antibiotic inhibition of chromosome replication; designing whole cell screens for discovery of new antibiotics; antimicrobial peptides
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