Pathogens Best Paper Awards for 2015

Pathogens is instituting annual awards to recognize the most outstanding papers in the areas of all aspects of pathogens and pathogen-host interactions published in Pathogens.

We are pleased to announce the recipients of the first “Pathogens Best Paper Awards”. Nominations were selected by the Editor-in-Chief and several Editorial Board members of Pathogens from all original research articles published in 2013 or 2014.

We are pleased to announce that the following three papers were chosen to receive “Pathogens Best Paper Awards” for 2015. I congratulate all of the authors and thank them for their significant and important contributions to the field of pathogens. I also thank the members of the Selection Committee for their efforts.

Article Award

• First Prize
  Eric W. Rogier, Aubrey L. Frantz, Maria E. C. Bruno and Charlotte S. Kaetzel
  Secretory IgA is Concentrated in the Outer Layer of Colonic Mucus along with Gut Bacteria
  Pathogens 2014, 3(2), 390-403; doi:10.3390/pathogens3020390
  Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2076-0817/3/2/390
• Second Prize
  Anthony F. Barbet, Basima Al-Khedery, Snorre Stuen, Erik G. Granquist, Roderick F. Felsheim and Ulrike G. Munderloh
  An Emerging Tick-Borne Disease of Humans Is Caused by a Subset of Strains with Conserved Genome Structure
  Pathogens 2013, 2(3), 544-555; doi:10.3390/pathogens2030544
  Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2076-0817/2/3/544
• Third Prize
  Philippe Gérard
  Metabolism of Cholesterol and Bile Acids by the Gut Microbiota
  Pathogens 2014, 3(1), 14-24; doi:10.3390/pathogens3010014
  Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2076-0817/3/1/14

Award Selection Committee

• Editor-in-Chief
  Prof. Dr. Lawrence S. Young
  Pro-Vice Chancellor, Warwick Medical School, University of Warwick, Coventry CV4 7AL, UK
  E-Mail: [email protected]
• Editorial Board Member
  Dr. Jean-Pierre Gorvel
  Centre d'immunologie de Marseille Luminy, Case 906, 13288 Marseille, CEDEX 09, France
  E-Mail: [email protected]
• Editorial Board Member
  Prof. Dr. Moriya Tsuji
  HIV and Malaria Vaccine Program, Aaron Diamond AIDS Research Center, Affiliate of The Rockefeller University, 455 First Ave, Room 747, New York, NY 10016, USA
  E-Mail: [email protected]
• Editorial Board Member
  Prof. Dr. Howard F. Jenkinson
  University of Bristol, School of Oral and Dental Sciences, Lower Maudlin Street, Bristol, BS1 2LY, UK
  E-Mail: [email protected]
• Editorial Board Member
  Prof. Dr. Jean E. Crabtree
  Molecular Gastroenterology Section, Leeds Institute of Molecular Medicine, Wellcome Trust Brenner Building, St. James's University Hospital, Leeds LS9 7TF, UK
  E-Mail: [email protected]
• Editorial Board Member
  Dr. Frank Lafont
  Center of Infection and Immunity of Lille, Institut Pasteur de Lille-CNRS UMR8204-INSERM U1019- 1 rue du Prof Calmette, F-59021 Lille, France
  E-Mail: [email protected]