Editorial Board

Prof. Ghassan Matar

Department of Experimental Pathology, Immunology and Microbiology/ Facultyof Medicine, American University of Beirut, Beirut, Lebanon.

Email: gmatar@aub.edu.lb

Research Interests: mechanisms of bacterial antimicrobial resistance (AMR); molecular epidemiology of infectious agents.

Dr. Julian Tang

Respiratory Sciences, University of Leicester, Leicester, UK.

Email: jwtang49@hotmail.com

Research Interests: human viruses; transmission; epidemiology; antivirals; vaccines; infection control; human behavioural factors related to transmission and infection control.

Prof. Jean-Pierre Hugot

Museum National d’Histoire Naturelle, Département Origine et Evolution, Institut de Systématique, Evolution et Biodiversité, Paris, France.

Email: hugot@mnhn.fr

Research Interests: phylogenetic; biogeography & evolution.

Prof. Christophe Sola

• 1. Life Sciences Department, Université Paris-Saclay, Saint Aubin, France.
• 2. IAME Laboratory, UMR 1137 INSERM, Université Paris-Cité, Paris, France.

Email: christophe.sola@universite-paris-saclay.fr

Research Interests: tuberculosis; evolution; infectious diseases history; global history; public health.

Prof. Jean-Claude Piffaretti

Interlifescience, Massagno, Switzerland.

Email: piffaretti@interlifescience.ch

Research Interests: clinical microbiology; infectious diseases; evolution; genetics; antibiotic resistance; deontology.

Prof. Seyed Ehtesham Hasnain

• 1. Department of Biomedical Engineering and Biotechnology, Indian Institute of Technology, New Delhi, India.
• 2. School of Basic Sciences & Research, Sharda University, Greater Noida, India.

Email: seyedhasnain@gmail.com

Research Interests: molecular and functional epidemiology; interventional biology; infectious diseases.

Prof. Hirokazu Kimura

Department of Health Sciences, Gunma Paz University Graduate School, Takasaki, Gunma, Japan.

Email: h-kimura@paz.ac.jp

Research Interests: infectious diseases; genomics; pathogen evolution; molecular epidemiology; host defense mechanisms.

Dr. Igor Mokrousov

Laboratory of Molecular Epidemiology and Evolutionary Genetics, St. Petersburg Pasteur Institute, St. Petersburg, Russia.

Email: igormokrousov@yahoo.com

Research Interests: phylogeography; phylogenomics; human migration; tuberculosis; drug resistance; virulence.

Prof. Niyaz Ahmed

Department of Biotechnology & Bioinformatics, University of Hyderabad, Hyderabad, Telangana State, India.

Email: niyaz.ahmed@uohyd.ac.in

Research Interests: functional molecular infection epidemiology of gastric/enteric pathogens at human-animal-environment interfaces.

Dr. Ran Wang

Beijing Children's Hospital, Capital Medical University, Beijing, China.

Email: randall@mail.ccmu.edu.cn

Research Interests: epstein–barr virus; pediatric; infectious diseases; flavivirus; vaccine.

Dr. Vijay Kumar Prajapati

Department of Biochemistry, University of Delhi South Campus, New Delhi, India.

Email: vijay84bhu@gmail.com

Research Interests: parasitology; infectious diseases.

Dr. Tung Phan

Department of Pathology, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA.

Email: phantg@upmc.edu

Research Interests: clinical microbiology; clinical virology; metagenomics; evolution; epidemiology.

Dr. Carmen Taype-Roberts

McLeod Regional Medical Center, Pulmonary & Critical Care Associates, Florence, SC, USA.

Email: carmentaype@yahoo.com

Research Interests: genetic susceptibility to infectious diseases; pathogen population genetics; mycobacterial infection; pulmonary fibrosis; sleep apnea; noninvasive mechanical ventilation.

Dr. Shoukat Qari

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Atlanta, GA, USA.

Email: shqari@gmail.com

Research Interests: infectious diseases; emergency preparedness and response.

Dr. Cleber Galvão

Laboratório Nacional e Internacional de Referência em Taxonomia de Triatomíneos, Instituto Oswaldo Cruz (FIOCRUZ), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

Email: clebergalvao@gmail.com

Research Interests: taxonomy; systematics; Chagas disease; vectors.

Dr. Jirod Nararak

Department of Entomology, Kasetsart University, Bangkok, Thailand.

Email: jirod.nar@ku.ac.th

Research Interests: vector ecology; mosquitoes; insect repellent; insecticides resistance; mosquito behavior.

Dr. Sofía Ocaña-Mayorga

Center for Research on Health in Latin America, Pontificia Universidad Católica del Ecuador, Quito, Ecuador.

Email: sbocana@puce.edu.ec

Research Interests: chagas disease; malaria; zoonosis; triatomines; Anophelines; vector control; Trypanosoma cruzi; disease ecology.

Prof. Dimitrios Paraskevis

Department of Hygiene Epidemiology and Medical Statistics, School of Medicine, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Athens, Greece.

Email: dparask@med.uoa.gr

Research Interests: epidemiology; molecular epidemiology; public health; virology; AIDS/HIV; STIs; hepatitis.

Dr. Urmila Kulkarni Kale

• 1. Department of Natural Sciences and Environmental Health, University of South-Eastern Norway, Bo, Norway.
• 2. Citadel Precision Medicine India Pvt. Ltd., Pune, India.

Email: urmila.kulkarni.kale@gmail.com

Research Interests: One health; precision medicine; health informatics; oncology; omics data analysis; tumor immune environment; bioinformatics; immunoinformatics; virus evolution & typing; virus genomics.

Prof. Shailendra K Saxena

Centre for Advanced Research, Faculty of Medicine, King George's Medical University, Lucknow, India.

Email: shailen@kgmcindia.edu

Research Interests: infectious diseases; medical virology & immunology; vaccines & therapeutics; medical biotechnology; molecular medicine & neuroscience.

Dr. Loubna Tazi

Department of Medical Microbiology & Immunology, School of Medicine, University of California at Davis, Davis, USA.

Email: ltazi@ucdavis.edu

Research Interests: evolutionary and population genetics of pathogens; host-pathogen interactions.

Dr. Veronica Lion

• 1. Gender Studies Department, Bar Ilan University, Ramat Gan, Israel.
• 2. Leonard Davis Institute for International Studies, Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel.

Email: veronic.lion@gmail.com, lion.veronica@biu.ac.il

Research Interests: gender; social movements; peace; intersectionality; feminist theory; ethnography; interdisciplinarity.

Dr. Audrey Arnal

French Research Institute for Sustainable Development, MIVEGEC, Montpellier, France.

Email: audrey.arnal@ird.fr

Research Interests: infectious diseases; zoonoses; virus; public health; conservation.