Editorial Board

Baohong Zhang, PhD

Department of Biology, East Carolina University Greenville, NC, USA

Interests: cellular and molecular biology; biotechnology; environmental toxicology; genomics; cotton

Bikram Basak, PhD

Resource Development Research Institute, Hanyang University, Seoul, South Korea

Interests: bioenergy; anaerobic digestion; metagenomics; metatranscriptomics; biomethanation; biomass pretreatment; bioremediation; micropollutant; microbial ecology; biofilm

Giuseppe Annunziata, PhD

Department of Pharmacy, University of Naples Federico II, Naples, Italy

Interests: Nutrition; Endocrinology; Nutraceuticals; Food Chemistry

Agostinho Antunes, PhD

CIIMAR/CIMAR, Interdisciplinary Centre of Marine and Environmental Research, University of Porto, Terminal de Cruzeiros do Porto de Leixões, Av. General Norton de Matos, s/n, 4450-208 Porto, Portugal,Department of Biology, Faculty of Sciences, University of Porto, Rua do Campo Alegre, 4169-007 Porto, Portugal

Interests: Evolutionary Genomics; Microbial Genomics; Toxicogenomics; Conservation Genomics; Bioinformatics; Biotechnology

Venkatesh Balan, PhD

Department of Engineering Technology, University of Houston, Houston, TX, USA

Interests: biomanufacturing; biochemicals; biofuels; algae; fungi; genetic engineering; microbial products; biomass conversion

Essaid Ait Barka, PhD

Résistance Induite et Bio-protection des Plantes (RIBP), Université de Reims Champagne-Ardenne, Reims, France

Interests: biological control; plant physiology; plant diseases; plant microbe interaction; applied microbiology

Mihail Lucian Birsa, PhD

Department of Chemistry, Al.I. Cuza University of Iasi, 11 Carol I, Iasi, Romania

Interests: organic synthesis; drug design and development; sulfur compounds; cyclophanes; flavonoids; acetylenes; allenes

Clemencia Chaves-López, PhD

Department of Bioscience and Technology for Food, Agriculture and Environment, University of Teramo, Teramo, Italy

Interests: microbial ecology; molds; mycotoxin; biofilms; antimicrobial compounds; fermented food

Vincent Courdavault, PhD

EA2106 Plant Biocompounds and biotechnology (BBV), Université de Tours, Tours, France

Interests: natural products; metabolic engineering; alkaloids; pathway elucidation; protein subcellular localization

Carla C. C. R. de Carvalho, PhD

Department of Bioengineering, iBB—Institute for Bioengineering and Biosciences, Instituto Superior Técnico, Universidade de Lisboa, Lisboa, Portugal

Interests: bioprocess engineering; biological reactors; marine biotechnology; biocatalysis; bioprospecting; lipidomics; bacteriology

Pierre Devaux, PhD, DSc

Florimond-Desprez—Recherche & Innovation, 3 rue Florimond Desprez, Cappelle-en-Pévèle, France

Interests: biotechnology; plant breeding; omics; marker-assisted selection; genome editing; cellular biology; genomic selection; biotic and abiotic stresses; AI

Piergiorgio Gentile, PhD

Centre for Biomaterials and Tissue Engineering, Universitat Politècnica de València, Valencia, España

Interests: Biomaterials; Tissue engineering; Scaffolds

Adem Gharsallaoui, PhD

Laboratoire d'Automatique, de Génie des Procédés et de Génie Pharmaceutique, University Claude Bernard Lyon 1, Villeurbanne, France

Interests: microencapsulation; emulsions; proteins/polysaccharides interactions; antimicrobial packaging; biopolymers; interfacial rheology

Edgar Grinstein, PhD

Department of Haematology, Oncology and Clinical Immunology, Heinrich Heine University, Düsseldorf, Germany

Interests: hematopoietic stem and progenitor cells; signal transduction; gene transcription; molecular medicine; molecular cancer; molecular targets for therapy

Gary Hardiman, PhD

School of Biological Sciences, Institute for Global Food Security (IGFS), Queen’s University Belfast, Belfast BT7 1NN, Northern Ireland, UK

Interests: Computational Biology; Genomics and Genetics; Big Data; Endocrine Disruption; Contaminants of Emerging Concern; Bisphenol A; Impacts of MNPs on Terrestrial and Aquatic Systems; Bioplastics; Prostate Cancer; Non Coding RNAs

Sherif T.S. Hassan, PhD

Department of Applied Ecology, Faculty of Environmental Sciences, Czech University of Life Sciences Prague, Prague, Czech Republic

Interests: infectious diseases; herpesviruses; tumor viruses; pharmacology and toxicology; molecular medicine; natural products; oncology; drug discovery

Gaetano Isola, DDS, PhD

Department of General Surgery and Surgical-Medical Specialties, Unit of Periodontology, School of Dentistry, University of Catania, Catania, Italy

Interests: periodontology; oral surgery; oral medicine; oral diseases; biomaterials; oral biomarkers

Suresh G. Joshi, MD, MSc, PhD

Center for Plasma in Health & Biomedical Engineering, School of Biomedical Engineering, Science & Health Systems, Philadelphia, PA, USA,Center for Surgical Infections & Biofilms, Institute of Molecular Medicine and Infectious diseases, Department of Microbiology & Immunology, Philadelphia, PA, USA,Department of Surgery, Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA, USA

Interests: molecular medicine; infectious disease & infection control; epidemiology; surgical infections & wound healing; medical devices; novel strategies in antimicrobial agents and resistance; biofilm; plasma medicine; oxidative stress; vaccine biology; biotechnology

Ruslan Kalendar, PhD

Helsinki Institute of Life Science HiLIFE, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland

Interests: genomics and evolution; biology of mobile elements; applications as markers for biodiversity and breeding; identification of mobile elements; bioinformatics (string searching and complexity analysis, search of repeats, DNA alignment and assembly, PCR primer/probe design)

Hidetsugu Kohzaki, PhD

Faculty of Nursing, Shumei University, Yachiyo, Chiba, Japan

Interests: anatomy; physiology; immunology; microbiology; molecular biology; genetics

Christos K. Kontos, PhD

Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Faculty of Biology, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Athens, Greece

Interests: transcriptomics; circular RNA; microRNAs; tRNA fragments; alternative splicing; apoptosis; anticancer drugs; colorectal cancer; hematological malignancies; tumor biomarkers

Yiannis Kourkoutas, MD, PhD

Laboratory of Applied Microbiology & Biotechnology, Department of Molecular Biology & Genetics, Democritus University of Thrace, Alexandroupolis, Greece

Interests: Functional cultures; Food & gut microbiome; Probiotics/prebiotics; Human nutrition; Antimicrobials

Dirk W Lachenmeier, PhD

Chemical and Veterinary Investigation Agency (CVUA) Karlsruhe, Karlsruhe, Germany

Interests: food toxicology; food safety; exposure assessment; food contaminants; acetaldehyde; cannabis; CBD; unrecorded alcohol

Guangbi Li, PhD

Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology, School of Medicine, Virginia Commonwealth University, MMRB, Room 3055, 1220 East Broad Street, Richmond, VA 23298, USA

Interests: Chronic kidney disease; Nephrotic syndrome; Glomerular disease; Renal medullary regulation of blood pressure

Angela Roberta Lo Piero, MD, PhD

Department of Agriculture, Food and Environment, University of Catania, Via Santa Sofia 98, 95123, Catania, Italy

Interests: Plant Genetics; Plant Epigenetics; Plant Transcriptomics; Abiotic and Biotic Stress

Fabiola Marino, PhD

Department of Experimental and Clinical Medicine, University Magna Graecia of Catanzaro, CZ, Italy

Interests: stem cells; regeneration; cell therapy; cardiac organoids; senescence

Ana-Belen Martin-Cuadrado, PhD

Department of Physiology, Genetics and Microbiology, University of Alicante, Carr. de San Vicente del Raspeig, s/n, 03690 San Vicente del Raspeig, Alicante, Spain

Interests: environmental microbiology; next generation sequencing; microbial diversity; bioinformatics and computational biology; genome sequencing

Emmanouil H. Papaioannou, PhD

School of Engineering, Lancaster University, Lancaster, UK

Interests: biotechnology; downstream processing; membranes technology; chemistry of surfaces; natural products and food chemistry

Tünde Pusztahelyi, PhD

Central Laboratory of Agricultural and Food Products, Faculty of Agricultural and Food Sciences and Environmental Management, University of Debrecen, Debrecen, Hungary

Interests: secondary metabolite; mycotoxin; cell wall; microbial

David González Pérez, PhD

Department of Biocatalysis, Institute of Catalysis and Petrochemistry, CSIC, C/Marie Curie 2, Madrid, Spain

Interests: directed evolution; high-throughput screening; applied biocatalysis; plastic degradation; sustainable chemistry; computational design

Anuj Ranjan, PhD

Academy of Biology and Biotechnology, Southern Federal University, Rostov-on-Don, Russia

Interests: beneficial microbes; environmental health; molecular modelling and dynamics

Yasuhito Shimada, MD, PhD

Department of Integrative Pharmacology, Mie University Graduate School of Medicine, Mie, Japan

Interests: zebrafish; obesity; cancer; aging; chemical screening; drug discovery; transcriptome; microbiome; bioinformatics

Xiaolei Tang, MD, MSc, PhD

College of Veterinary Medicine, Long Island University, Brookville, NY, USA; Division of Regenerative Medicine, Department of Basic Sciences, School of Medicine, Loma Linda University, Loma Linda, CA, USA

Interests: regulatory T cells; adult stem cells; vitamin D; retinoic acid; multiple sclerosis; inflammatory bowel disease; type 1 diabetes

Muthu Thiruvengadam, PhD

Department of Applied Bioscience, Konkuk University, Seoul, Republic of Korea

Interests: biomedical sciences; metabolic engineering; nanotechnology; metabolic diseases; food science and technology

Hongwei Yao, MD, PhD

Departments of Medicine, and Molecular Biology, Cell Biology & Biochemistry (Research), Brown University Warren Alpert Medical School, Providence, RI, USA

Interests: bronchopulmonary dysplasia; chronic obstructive pulmonary disease; pulmonary hypertension; oxidative stress; inflammatory responses; cellular senescence/premature aging; mitochondrial dysfunction; metabolism