About the Editors
Editor-in-Chief
El-Sayed M. Abdelwhab, PhD
Dr. and Senior Scientific Advisor
Friedrich-Loeffler-Institut, Federal Research Institute for Animal Health, Institute of Molecular Virology and Cell Biology
Greifswald-Insel Riems, Germany
ORCID
Dr. Abdelwhab is leading a research team to study the molecular biology of avian influenza viruses at the human-animal interface. His main interests are the genetic determinants of adaptation, virulence, interspecies transmission and the development and evaluation of vaccines against influenza viruses in birds and mammals. His research is funded by several grants from the German Research Foundation (DFG), European-Union (EU), and the industry, among other organisations and institutions.
Associate Editor
Marta Bally, PhD
Department of Clinical Microbiology, Umeå University
Umeå, Sweden
Marta Bally is an Associate Professor in Virology at the Department of Clinical Microbiology in association with the Wallenberg Centre for Molecular Medicine at Umeå University in Umeå, Sweden. Her research focuses on understanding how the dynamics of virus interactions (e.g., virus attachment, detachment, and diffusion) are modulated at the cell surface and how these interaction kinetics relate to entry efficiency, infection potential, and pathogenicity. Special attention is devoted to the roles of both cellular and viral carbohydrates in the process. To address these questions, her lab develops multidisciplinary approaches which combine traditional virology techniques with advanced biophysical methods. Prior to her current position, Marta Bally was an assistant professor in the Department of Physics at Chalmers University of Technology in Gothenburg, Sweden. Marta Bally earned her PhD at the Institute of Biomedical Engineering, ETH Zürich, Switzerland.
Alexander Franz, PhD
Associate Professor
University of Missouri, Department of Veterinary Pathobiology
Columbia, MO, USA
Alexander Franz is an Associate Professor in the Department of Veterinary Pathobiology of University of Missouri (MU). His research focuses on arbovirus-mosquito interactions to characterize genetic determinants of vector competence and to develop novel molecular strategies to interrupt the arboviral disease cycle in the vector. The viruses he is currently investigating are dengue, chikungunya, and Zika viruses, which are transmitted by Aedes aegypti and Ae. albopictus and have the ability to cause explosive disease outbreaks in tropical regions of the world. Prior to his position at MU, he was conducting his research on mosquito-arbovirus interactions at the Arthropod-borne and Infectious Diseases Laboratory of Colorado State University; initially as a Postdoctoral Researcher, and finally as an (non-tenure) Assistant Professor. Alexander Franz earned his PhD. in Plant Pathology at the University of Kiel, Germany studying the interactions between a newly emerging plant virus of the Nanoviridae and its aphid vectors.
Daniel Lauster, PhD
Freie Universität Berlin, Institute of Pharmacy, Biopharmaceuticals
Berlin, Germany
Daniel Lauster graduated from Humboldt University of Berlin with a doctoral degree in experimental biophysics. He specialist in the development of antiviral nanoparticles against respiratory viruses with a focus on influenza A viruses. Since 2021 he is leading an independent research group on inhalable biopharmaceuticals for respiratory applications, and started in 2023 a tenure track position as Assistant Professor at the Institute of Pharmacy of Freie Universität Berlin. His research is funded among others by the German Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) and the Federal Agency for Disruptive Innovation (SPRIND).
Susana Lopez, PhD
Instituto de Biotecnologia, Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico
Cuernavaca, Morelos, Mexico
Interested in the molecular biology of rotaviruses and astroviruses Particularly in the host-virus interactions that lead to productive infection Also interested in detailed description of viral replicative cycle and viral tricks to conteract the cellular antiviral measures.
Pietro Scaturro, PhD
Leibniz Institute of Virology, Systems Arbovirology
Hamburg, Germany
My group investigates how pathogenic arboviruses manipulate their hosts using modern bottom-up mass spectrometry-based (MS) methods, high-resolution imaging and molecular virology approaches. The main goal of the laboratory is to better understand the complex interplay between different arboviruses and their mammalian and arthropod hosts, to understand the fundamental biology unique to each arbovirus and identify new sub- and pan-arboviral targets for therapeutic exploitation. Currently, the group is systematically profiling hundreds of new host factors across multiple arboviral species to study their relevance for viral pathogenesis in vitro and in vivo.
Christian Sieben, PhD
Nanoscale Infection Biology Group, Department of Cell Biology, Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research
Braunschweig, Germany
Christian has a background in biology with a degree from Technical University Darmstadt. After completing a PhD at Humboldt-University Berlin on the cell biology and biophysics of virus entry, he moved to EPFL in Switzerland to do a Postdoc in super-resolution microscopy and structural cell biology. Since 2020, Christian is an independent young investigator at the Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research in Braunschweig. His group studies the cell biology of respiratory viruses using advanced imaging techniques.
Kyoko Tsukiyama-Kohara, PhD
Kagoshima University
Kagoshima, Japan
Virology, Molecular Biology, Cancer
Advisory Editor
Julie Tai-Schmiedel
Julie studied Biochemistry at the Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen in Germany. She pursued her Ph.D. studies in the lab of Noam Stern-Ginossar at the Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel. There, she addressed how Influenza A virus induces host shutoff and investigated the functions of long non-coding RNAs that are encoded by the human cytomegalovirus. Julie joined the Nature Microbiology team in September 2020 and is based in the Berlin office.
julie.tai-schmiedel@nature.com
orcid.org/0000-0003-0302-4377
Madlen Luckner, PhD
Madlen joined Nature Communications in 2020. She graduated in molecular life-sciences from Humboldt University of Berlin, followed by a PhD in molecular biophysics focusing on entry pathways of RNA viruses and host-directed anti-viral therapy. As postdoctoral fellow at Potsdam University she focused her research on the genome assembly of segmented RNA viruses applying quantitative microscopy approaches. Madlen is based in the Berlin office and handles manuscripts in virology and parasitology.
Editorial Board Members
Ahmed S Abdel-Moneim, PhD,Department of Microbiology, College of Medicine, Taif University, Taif, Saudi Arabia
Judith H Aberle, MD, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria
Jonatas Santos Abrahao, PhD, Federal University of Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, MG, Brazil
Davide Angeletti, PhD, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden
Connor G G Bamford, PhD, Queen's University Belfast, School of Biological Sciences and Institute for Global Food Security, Belfast, Northern Ireland, UK.
Luisa Barzon, MD, University of Padova, Padova
Anamarija Butkovic, PhD, Postdoctoral researcher at Institut Pasteur, 75015 Paris, France
C. Joaquin Caceres, PhD, Department of Population Health, College of Veterinary Medicine, University of Georgia, Athens, GA, USA
Remi N Charrel, MD, PhD, Aix Marseille University & APHM University Hospitals of Marseille, Marseille, France
Ravendra P Chauhan, PhD, Rhodes University Biotechnology Innovation Centre, Grahamstown, South Africa
Petr Chlanda, PhD, Heidelberg University Hospital, Heidelberg, Germany
Hin Chu, PhD, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
John H Connor, PhD, National Emerging Infectious Diseases Laboratories, Boston, MA
Kai Dallmeier, PhD, KU Leuven - University of Leuven, Rega Institute, Leuven, Belgium
Christos Dogrammatzis, PhD, Max von Pettenkofer-Institut, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität (LMU), Munich, Germany
Shengzhang Dong, PhD, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA
Venkata Duvvuri, PhD, Public Health Ontario and University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada
Jack Ferguson, PhD, Institute of Microbiology and Infection, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, UK
Rubén González, PhD, Institut Pasteur, Paris, France
Pablo Guardado-Calvo, PhD, Structural Biology of Infectious Diseases Unit. Institut Pasteur, Paris, France
Jin Kim, PhD, Assistant Professor, Mobile, AL, USA
Jason Kindrachuk, PhD, Department of Medical Microbiology & Infectious Diseases, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, MB, Canada
Kiran Kondabagil, PhD, Indian Institute of Technology, Mumbai, MH, India
Maliheh Mehrshad, PhD, Department of Aquatic Sciences and Assessment, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SLU), Uppsala, Sweden
Muhammad Munir, PhD, Lancaster University , Lancaster, United Kingdom
Angela L Rasmussen, PhD, Vaccine and Infectious Disease Organization, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, SK, Canada
Tahir A Rizvi, PhD, Department of Microbiology & Immunology, College of Medicine and Health Sciences, United Arab Emirates University, Al Ain, UAE
Kirsty R Short, PhD, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia
Shashank Tripathi, PhD, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India, Bangalore
Aekkachai Tuekprakhon, PhD, Institute of Immunology and Immunotherapy, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom
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