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.
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