Advisory Board and Editors Microbiology
Huashan Shi
Professor Shi Huashan is an Associate Professor at Sichuan University. His expertise is in the molecular biology of tumours and tumour transcriptomics. He is currently engaged in clinical and basic translational research, including tumour microenvironment and novel immunotherapeutic modalities, and research on the mechanisms and medical applications related to tumour cell vaccines.
Arif J Siddiqui
Dr. Arif Jamal Siddiqui is an Associate Professor and Principal Investigator at the Department of Biology, College of Science, University of Hail, Saudi Arabia. He received his PhD from CSIR-Central Drug Research Institute, Lucknow, India in 2015. From 2015 to 2018, he worked as a Post-Doctoral Fellow at Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center, Lubbock, Texas, United States of America.
He has more than 8 years of experience in research, teaching and administration. In his professional work, he has received research grants as a Principal Investigator from various renowned organizations. He has successfully published more than 100 publications in internationally recognized peer-reviewed prestigious journals, published several book chapters for internationally renowned publishers and presented many articles and posters in various conferences/workshops worldwide. He has published numerous papers in the fields of parasitology, immunology, herbal medicine, vaccine development, drug discovery and natural products with a specialization in anti-parasitic, antiviral, anticancer and antibacterial agents. Furthermore, he is a member of The Indian Science Congress Association, India and the Annals of Parasitology, Poland. He has reviewed more than 250 manuscripts and he also currently holds various editorial positions (Academic, Associate, Guest and Review Editor) in various reputable journals and has edited more than 150 manuscripts.
Alison J Sinclair
BSc in Biochemistry from UCL London UK; PhD Cancer Virology at the Imperial Cancer Research Fund, London UK; post-doctoral fellowship at the European Molecular Biology Laboratory in Heidelberg, Germany, researching transcription; post-doctoral fellowship and assistant member of staff at the Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research in London, investigating a transcription factor network in Epstein-Barr virus and cell cycle regulation. Faculty School of Life Sciences at the University of Sussex, UK.
Cindy J Smith
Professor of Environmental Microbiology, Infrastructure and Environment, University of Glasgow. Royal Academy of Engineering-Scottish Water Research Chair Fellow on Biofiltration by Biological Design 2018-2023. 2012-2017 Science Foundation Ireland Starting Investigator and Lecturer National University of Ireland, Galway. 2010-2011 University Fellow, National University of Ireland, Galway. 2003-2010 postdoctoral researcher and research co-investigator at the University of Essex and then the University of Sheffield (Molecular ecology of the nitrogen cycle in temperate and tropical estuaries). PhD in Environmental Microbiology and a BSc Environmental Biology, University College Dublin, Ireland.
Tara C. Smith
Professor of Epidemiology at Kent State University
Mark M Smits
Lector (lecturer) at HAS University of Applied Sciences in the fields of biology, soil science and data analysis. Previously worked as postdoc at Hasselt University, Lund University and University of Sheffield. PhD in soil science and geology at Wageningen University.
Peter S. Solomon
Professor, Wheat Biosecurity. Australian Research Council Future Fellow, Research School of Biology, The Australian National University. Associate Editor of Functional Plant Biology
Jian Song
Since 2016 Dr. Jian Song has been Priv.-Doz of Experimental Immunology within the Institute of Physiological Chemistry and Pathobiochemsitry at the University of Münster, Germany. He received his PhD of Molecular Medicine from Cologne University, Germany.
Dr. Song's research interests include investigating the role of basement membranes and matrix metalloproteinases in leukocyte extravasation into the brain and into the tumour microenvironment using intravital imaging and scRNA technology
Valeria Souza
Full professor at the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México. Winner of several national conservation awards. Expert on microbial evolutionary ecology, works studying microbial mats and complex communities at Cuatro Ciénegas Coahuila, Mexico
Tim Stinear
Professor Tim Stinear is a Senior NHMRC Research Fellow and molecular microbiologist in the Department of Microbiology and Immunology at the Doherty Institute for Infection and Immunity, University of Melbourne, Australia. He leads a bacterial pathogenesis research lab that focuses on using comparative and functional genomics to understand how certain bacteria evolve, spread and cause disease. In particular, his team studies pathogenic mycobacteria and hospital superbugs Staphylococcus aureus (Golden Staph) and Vancomycin Resistant Enterococci (VRE). He received his PhD in Microbiology from Monash University in 2001 followed by a 3-year postdoctoral period at the Institut Pasteur, Paris. He is a fellow of the Australian Society for Microbiology.
Xiaolin Sun
Senior scientist, Host-Microbe Interactions, The New Zealand Institute for Plant and Food Research.
Marcelino T Suzuki
I am from Brazil, where I obtained a degree in Oceanography from the Univ. do Rio Grande. I then finished a Masters and a PhD in Oceanography at Oregon State Univ under the co-supervision of Ev and Barry Sherr and Steve Giovannoni working on the effects of protist bacterivory on bacterioplankton community structure. Next I worked at the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Inst. supervised by Ed DeLong on topics including the analysis of bacterioplankton (BP) diversity, the development of real-time PCR for genes and mRNAs, and BP metagenomics, and the biology of photoheterotrophs in the Ocean. I was hired as an Assistant Professor at the Chesapeake Biological Lab where I led research on the diversity, phylogeny and activity of BP, measurements of PB gene expression in situ biology and microbial processes leading to methylmercury production by bacteria.
Since May 2009, I am a Professor At the Observatoire Océanologique de Banyuls and the head of the Microbial Biodiversity and Biotechnology Unit and the Scientific advisor of the Bio2Mar platform of the OOB. I lead research on the biology of photoheterotrophs in the Ocean, and the ecology and genomics of, and the exploitation of, marine microorganisms for biotechnological purposes. My main interests are the connection betweem specific bacterioplankton activity and marine biogeochemical cycles, microbial biotechnology, the biology of photoheterotrophy, and chemical interactions of microbes in symbiosis.