Editorial Information

Editors

Kenneth N. Timmis (Editor-in-Chief)
Environmental Microbiology Laboratory
Helmholtz Center for Infection Research
Inhoffenstrasse 7
D-38124 Braunschweig
Germany
Tel: +49 531 6181 4000
Fax: +49 531 6181 4199
e-mail: kti@helmholtz-hzi.de

Juan L. Ramos
Estación Experimental del Zaidín - CSIC
C/ Prof. Albareda, 1
E-18008 Granada
Spain
Phone: +34 958 181 608
Fax:     +34 958 135 740
e-mail: jlramos@eez.csic.es

Willem M. de Vos
Laboratory of Microbiology
Department of  Biomolecular Sciences
Wageningen Agricultural University
Dreijenplein 10 Building 316
6703 HB Wageningen
The Netherlands
Tel: +31 317 483 100
Fax: +31 317 483 829
e-mail: willem.deVos@wur.nl 

Willy Verstraete
Laboratory of Microbial Ecology and Technology (LabMET)
Ghent University
Coupure Links 653
B-9000 Ghent
Belgium
Tel.:+32 9264 5976
Fax: +32 9264 6248
e-mail: willy.verstraete@ugent.be

Steven J. Projan
Wyeth Research
87 Cambridge Park Dr., W1009
Cambridge
MA 02140
USA
phone: +1 617 665 8162
fax: +1 617 665 7519
e-mail: projans@wyeth.com

Martin Rosenberg
Research & Development
Promega Corporation
2800 Woods Hollow Road
Madison
WI 53711-5399
USA
e-mail: martin.rosenberg@promega.com

Reviews and Special Issue Editor
Juan L. Ramos, Estación Experimental del Zaidín, Grenada, Spain

Web Alerts
Larry Wackett, University of Minnesota, St Paul, USA

Genomics Updates
Roland Siezen, Radboud University Nijmegen, The Netherlands

Editorial Board

Steven A. Banwart, Univeristy of Sheffield, UK
Shimshon Belkin, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel
Giovanni Bertoni, Università degli Studi di Milano, Italy
Ian Booth, University of Aberdeen, UK
Uwe Bornscheuer, Greifswald University, Germany
Michael Bott, Institut für Biotechnologie, Jülich, Germany
Harald Brussow, Nestle Research Centre, Switzerland
Rita Colwell, University of Maryland, USA
Milton Costa, Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal
Jiri Damborsky, Masaryk University, Czech Replublic
Craig Daniels, Estación Experimental del Zaidín - CSIC, Granada, Spain
Eduardo Diaz, Centro de Investigaciones Biologicas, Spain
Gerrit Eggink, Wageningen University, Germany
Thomas Egli, Swiss Federal Institute for Environmental Science and Technology (EAWAG), Switzerland
Romilio Espejo, Universidad de Chile, Chile
Manuel Ferrer, Institute of Catalysis, Spain
Julia Foght, University of Alberta, Canada
Jim K Fredrickson, Pacific Northwest National Lab, USA
Michael Galperin, National Center for Biotechnology Information, USA
Jose Luis Garcia, Centro de Investigaciones Biologicas, Spain
Harry Gilbert, University of Newcastle upon Tyne, UK
Bernardo Gonzalez, La Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Chile
Guido Grandi, Novartis Vaccines Research, Italy
Miguel G. Guerrero, Universidad de Sevilla - CSIC, Spain
Carlos A. Guzman, Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research, Germany
Ken Hammel, University of Wisconsin, USA
Bernhard Hauer, University of Stuttgart, Germany
Terry C. Hazen, University of California, USA
Michael Hecker, University of Greifswald, Germany
Hermann J. Heipieper, Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research - UFZ-Leipzig-Halle, Germany
Monica Höfte, Ghent University, Belgium
Karl-Erich Jaeger, Heinrich-Heine-Universität Duesseldorf, Germany
Dieter Jahn, Technical University Braunschweig, Germany
Junichi Kato, Hiroshima University, Japan
Staffan Kjelleberg, The University of New South Wales, Australia
Todd R. Klaenhammer, North Carolina State University, USA
Alexander M. Klibanov, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA
Tino Krell, Estación Experimental del Zaidín, Spain
Oscar Kuipers, University of Groningen, The Netherlands
Robert Larossa, DuPont, USA
Daniel van der Lelie, Brookhaven National Laboratory, USA
Steven Lindow, University of California, USA
Mark van Loosdrecht, Technical University Delft, The Netherlands
Victor de Lorenzo, Centro Nacional de Biotecnologia, Spain
José M. Luengo, Universidad de León, Spain
Ben Lugtenberg, Leiden University, The Netherlands
Mohamed A. Marahiel, Philipps University of Marburg, Germany
Angel T. Martínez, Centro de Investigaciones Biologicas, Spain
Michael McInerney, University of Oklahoma, USA
Rainer U. Meckenstock, GSF-Forschungszentrum für Umwelt und Gesundheit, Germany
Jan Roelof van der Meer, University of Lausanne, Switzerland
Diego de Mendoza, Universidad Nacional de Rosario, Argentina
Gabriella Molinari, Helmholtz Centre for Infection Resarch, Germany
Jens Nielsen, Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg, Sweden
Per Halkjær Nielsen, Aalborg University, Denmark
Fergal O'Gara, National University of Ireland, Ireland
Sven Panke, ETH Zurich, Switzerland
David Payne, GlaxoSmithKline, USA
Miguel A. Peñalva, Centro de Investigaciones Biológicas, Spain
Dietmar Pieper, Helmholtz Center for Infection Research, Germany
Fernando Rojo, Centro Nacional de Biotecnología, Spain
Wilfred F.M. Röling, VU Univsersity Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Eliora Z. Ron, Tel Aviv University, Israel
Sima Sariaslani, DuPont Central Research and Development, USA
Uwe Sauer, ETH Zurich, Switzerland
Bernhard Schink, Universität Konstanz, Germany
Ana Segura, Estación Experimental del Zaidín, Spain
Roland J. Siezen, Radboud University Nijmegen, The Netherlands
Douwe van Sinderen, National University of Ireland, Ireland
Gloria Soberón Chávez, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, México
Alexander Steinbüchel, Institut für Molekulare Mikrobiologie und Biotechnologie, Germany
Bas Teusink, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Svein Valla, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway
Erick Vandamme, Ghent University, Belgium
Jos Vanderleyden, Centre of Microbial and Plant Genetics, K.U. Leuven, Belgium
L. A. M. van der Wielen, Technische Universiteit Delft, The Netherlands
Rene H. Wijffels, Wageningen University, Germany
Roland  Wohlgemuth, Sigma-Aldrich, Switzerland
Thomas K. Wood, Texas A & M University, USA
Gary Woodnutt, San Diego, USA
Michail Yakimov, Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Italy