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Three New Co-Editors-in-Chief of
FEMS Microbiology Reviews
We are very pleased to announce that a new team of three Co-Editors-in-Chief will
be starting at FEMS Microbiology Reviews. We also extend our greatest thanks to
Alain Filloux who, after acting as Editor-in-Chief of the journal for five years, has
decided to step down. The editorial lead of the journal will continue with three Co-
Editors-in-Chief with a range of complementary areas of expertise:
Karin Sauer: Department of Biological Sciences,
Binghamton Biofilm Research Center, Binghamton
University, USA. Karin’s research group utilizes
the model organism Pseudomonas aeruginosa to
elucidate regulatory and signaling events underlying
the formation and development of highly antimicrobial
resistant biofilms.
David Blackbourn: Head, School of Biosciences
and Medicine, Faculty of Health and Medical
Sciences, University of Surrey, UK. David’s group
studies viruses that are responsible for causing cancer.
In particular, his interests lie in how such viruses cause
disease, evade the immune response and interact with
the DNA damage response.
‘‘I became a virologist purely by chance: I wanted to post-doc in the US and was
offered a position with the late Professor Roy H. Doi at UC Davis. By the time I arrived
in California in 1990, the project had changed to a simian immunodeficiency virus
(SIV) project with other investigators at UC Davis,
initially for 1 year.’’ - David Blackbourn
Bart Thomma: Laboratory of Phytopathology,
Wageningen University, The Netherlands. Bart’s group
studies fungal plant pathogens with particular emphasis
on pathogen genome evolution and functional analysis
of effectors that are secreted by these pathogens to
establish disease on their hosts.
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Contents
• Page 2: Last chance
to apply to the FEMS
Summer School
for Microbiology
Educators! A New
Publishing Agreement
with OUP
• Page 3: Out Now:
Careers Thematic
Issue; Childcare at
FEMS2019; A New
Journal Social Media
Editor
• Pages 4-5: Curated
research published
in each of the FEMS
Journals; Microbiology
in Action II
• Page 6: Grants Corner
• Page 7: Opportunities
• Page 8: Deadlines;
Events; and Extras...
“As son of a fruit grower I spent a lot of time in the orchards during my childhood. I
got fascinated by the microbial diseases that appeared in these orchards from time
to time, was amazed by the impact of some of them, and wanted to understand
how these diseases occurred.’’ - Bart Thomma
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MAY 2019