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Section Editors

Section Editors

PLOS Pathgoens Section Editors are experts in the fields of research they serve, experienced in the peer review process, ambassadors for Open Science, and active participants in their communities. Section Editors lead the subject sections within the journal scope and advise a group of Academic Editors with expertise in their discipline. To view a Section Editor’s specific expertise, search for them on our Editorial Board page.

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Alex Andrianopoulos

University of Melbourne
Australia
Section: Mycology

Debra Bessen

New York Medical College
United States
Section: Evolutionary Biology 

Sonja Best

National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases
United States
Section:  Positive SSRNA Viruses and Double-Stranded RNA Viruses

Antje Blumenthal

The University of Queensland
Frazer Institute
Australia
Section: Reviews

Helena Boshoff

National Institutes of Health
United States
Section: Gram-positive Bacteria

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Blossom Damania

University of North Carolina At Chapel Hill
United States
Section: DNA Viruses

Savithramma Dinesh-Kumar

University of California Davis
United States
Section: Plant Pathogens

Shou-Wei Ding

University of California Riverside
United States
Section: Plant Pathogens

Jeffrey Dvorin

Harvard Medical School
United States
Section: Parasitology

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Alexander E. Gorbalenya

Leiden University
The Netherlands
Section: RNA Viruses

Thomas Guillard

Université de Reims Champagne-Ardenne
France
Section: Gram-Negative Bacteria

Eva Heinz

University of Strathclyde
United Kingdom
Section: Gram-Negative Bacteria

Joseph Heitman

Duke University Medical Center
United States
Section: Pearls

N. Luisa Hiller

Carnegie Mellon University
United States
Section: Reviews

Thomas Hoenen

Friedrich-Loeffler-Institut
Germany
Section: Negative SSRNA Viruses

Anne Jamet

Institut Necker-Enfants Malades
France
Section: Gram-positive Bacteria

Francis Jiggins

University of Cambridge
United Kingdom
Section: Evolutionary Biology 

Björn Kafsack

Weill Cornell Medical College
United States
Section: Reviews

Rob Kalejta

University of Wisconsin-Madison
United States
Section: DNA Viruses

Richard Koup

National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health
United States
Section: HIV and Retroviruses

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Tracey Lamb

University of Utah
United States
Section: Parasitology

Michael Letko

Washington State University
United States
Section: RNA Viruses

Neil A. Mabbott

University of Edinburgh
United Kingdom
Section: Prions

Alison McBride

National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases
United States
Section: DNA Viruses

Aaron Mitchell

University of Georgia
United States
Section: Reviews

Edward Mitre

Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences
United States
Section: Parasitology

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Donna Neumann

University of Wisconsin-Madison
United States
Section: DNA Viruses

Michal A. Olszewski

University of Michigan Medical School
United States
Section: Mycology

Michael Otto

National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health
United States
Section: Gram-positive Bacteria

Margaret Phillips

University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
United States
Section: Parasitology 

Alice Prince

Columbia University
United States
Section: Gram Positive Bacteria

Susan R. Ross

University of Illinois, College of Medicine
United States
Section: HIV and Retroviruses

D. Scott Samuels

University of Montana
United States
Section: Gram-negative Bacteria

Matthias Schnell

Thomas Jefferson University
United States
Section: RNA Viruses

David Skurnik

University Paris-Descartes
France
Section: Gram-negative Bacteria

Dominique Soldati-Favre

University of Geneva
Switzerland
Section: Parasitology 

Ashley St. John

Duke-National University of Singapore
Singapore
Section: RNA Viruses

Kanta Subbarao

The Peter Doherty Institute for Infection and Immunity
Australia
Section: RNA Viruses

Surachai Supattapone

Dartmouth University School of Medicine
United States
Section: Prions

Ronald Swanstrom

University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
United States
Section: Evolutionary Biology

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Michael Wessels

Harvard Medical School
United States
Section: Gram-positive Bacteria

Craig Wilen

Yale School of Medicine
United States
Section: Reviews

Matthew Wolfgang

University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
United States
Section: Gram-negative Bacteria

Reviews Academic Editors

PLOS Pathogens Reviews Academic Editors oversee peer review for our Reviews article type

To view a Reviews Editor’s specific expertise, search for them on our Editorial Board page.

Elizabeth Ballou

University of Exeter
United Kingdom
Section: Mycology

Daniel Blanco-Melo

Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center
United States
Section: Virology

Jennifer Bomberger

Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth
United States
Section: Bacteriology

Eric Calvo

National Institutes of Health, Laboratory of Malaria and Vector Research
United States
Section: Parasitology

Chetan Chitnis

Institut Pasteur
France
Section: Parasitology

Alison Criss

 orcid.org/0000-0001-7738-3757
University of Virginia
United States
Section: Gram Negative Bacteria

Christoph Dehio

University of Basel
Switzerland
Section: Bacteriology

Allison Didychuk

Yale University 
United States
Section: Virology

Keke Fairfax

 orcid.org/0000-0002-8382-2960
University of Utah
United States
Section: Parasitology

Rachel Fearns

 orcid.org/0000-0003-0783-7498
Boston University School of Medicine
United States
Section: Virology

Eva Gluenz

 orcid.org/0000-0003-4346-8896
Universoty of Bern
Switzerland
Section: Parasitology

Tom Hobman

University of Alberta
Canada
Section: Virology

Helen Lazear

 orcid.org/0000-0002-8649-4579
University of North Carolina At Chapel Hill
United States
Section: Virology

Salomé LeibundGut-Landmann

 orcid.org/0000-0002-5724-4837
University of Zürich
Switzerland
Section: Mycology

Hayley Newton

Monash University, Biomedicine Discovery Institute 
United States
Section: Bacteriology

Julia Oh

 orcid.org/0000-0002-5534-7023
The Jackson Laboratory
United States
Section: Bacteriology

Mattie Pawlowic

University of Dundee
United Kingdom
Section: Parasitology

Kenneth Stapleford

New York University School of Medicine
United States
Section: Virology

Makrina Totsika

University of Queensland
Australia
Section: Bacteriology

Daria Van Tyne

University of Pittsburgh
United States
Section: Bacteriology

Xiaofeng Wang

 orcid.org/0000-0002-3850-3274
Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
United States
Section: Virology

Chaoyang Xue

 orcid.org/0000-0001-8196-1468
Rutgers New Jersey Medical School
United States
Section: Mycology
 

Pearls Academic Editors

PLOS Pathogens Pearls Academic Editors oversee peer review for our Pearls article type

Joseph Heitman (Section Editor)

Duke University Medical Center
United States
Section: Pearls

Anuradha Chowdhary

Vallabhbhai Patel Chest Institute
India
Section: Mycology

Jörn Coers

Duke University Medical Center
United States
Section: Bacteriology

Matt Evans

Mount Sinai School of Medicine
United States
Section: Virology

Cathryn Haigh

National Institute of Health
United States
Section: Prions

Deborah Hogan

Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth
United States
Section: Mycology

Mary Ann Jabra-Rizk

University of Maryland
United States
Section: Mycology

Leo James

University of Cambridge
United Kingdom
Section: Virology

Dan Jarosz

Stanford University
United States
Section: Prions

Kimberly Kline

Nanyang Technological University
Singapore
Section: Bacteriology

Laura Knoll

University of Wisconsin-Madison
United States
Section: Parasitology

John Leong

Tufts University
United States
Section: Bacteriology

Rosa Lozano-Durán

University of Tübingen
Germany
Section: Plant Pathogens

Julius Lukeš

Biology Centre, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic
Czechia
Section: Mycology

Wendy Maury

University of Iowa
United States
Section: Virology

Andy Mehle

University of Wisconsin-Madison
United States
Section: Virology

Audrey Odom John

Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
United States
Section: Parasitology

Don Sheppard

McGill University
Canada
Section: Mycology

Neal Silverman

University of Massachusetts Medical School
United States
Section: Mycology