Editorial Board for section 'Bacterial Toxins'

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Unité “Bactéries anaérobies et Toxines”, Institut Pasteur, 25-28 Rue du Dr Roux, F-75015 Paris, France
Interests: bacterial protein toxins; clostridial toxins; pore-forming toxins; cellular uptake of bacterial toxins; Rho-GTPases; interactions of clostridial toxins with the actin cytoskeleton; botulinum neurotoxins; passage of the neurotoxins through the epithelial barrier; regulation of clostridial toxin synthesis
* Section: Bacterial Toxins
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Departments of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology and Entomology, University of Georgia, Athens, GA 30602, USA
Interests: Bacillus thuringiensis; Cry proteins; Lysinibacillus sphaericus; Bin toxin; insect midgut; uptake of protein toxins
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Microbiology and Immunology, Medical College of Wisconsin, 8701 Watertown Plank Rd., Microbiology and Immunology, BSB-255, Milwaukee, WI 53226, USA
Interests: protein toxins; type-III effectors; structure-based mechanisms of toxin action; botulinum toxins; tetanus toxin; cellular microbiology
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Professor of Neurology, Distinguished Chair in Movement Disorders Director, Parkinson's Disease Center and Movement Disorders Clinic, Department of Neurology, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX 77030, USA
Interests: neurology; movement disorders; botulinum toxin; dystonia, blepharospasm; hemifacial spasm; tremor; tics

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Laboratory for Microbial Dynamics (LaMDa), Department of Pharmaceutical Biosciences, University of Oslo, Blindern, 0316 Oslo, Norway
Interests: Bacillus thuringiensis; Bacillus anthracis; Bacillus cereus; genetic structure of bacterial toxins
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Molecular Medicine Research Institute, The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, ON M5G0A4, Canada
Interests: molecular mechanisms of intracellular bacterial toxins; protein biochemistry; protein engineering; toxin-host interactions; toxin translocation; clostridium difficile; diphtheria toxin; drug discovery; development of antivirulence agents

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CNR, Institute of Cell Biology and Neurobiology, via del Fosso di Fiorano 64/65 00143 Roma, Italy
Interests: botulinum neurotoxins; inflammatory pain; neuropathic pain; immunohistochemistry; nerve injury; nerve regeneration; spinal cord; glial cells; analgesia; behavior; animal models of pain

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Institute of Experimental and Clinical Pharmacology and Toxicology, Faculty of Medicine, Albert-Ludwigs-University Freiburg, Alberstr. 25, Otto-Krayer-Haus, D-79104 Freiburg, Germany
Interests: Bacterial protein toxins; ADP-ribosylating toxins; glycosylating toxins; deamidating toxins; Rho GTPase activating and inhibiting toxins; Clostridial glucosylating toxins; Pasteurella multocida toxin; Legionella glucosyltransferases; Photorhabdus toxins; Yersinia toxins

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Department of Microbial Biotechnology, Centro Nacional de Biotecnología, CNB-CSIC, 28049 Madrid, Spain
Interests: genome stability; recombination-dependent replication; chromosome segregation; toxin-antitoxins
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Department of Food Safety, Nutrition and Veterinary Public Health, Istituto Superiore di Sanità, Viale Regina Elena, 299, 00161 Rome, Italy
Interests: Botulism; botulinum toxins
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Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Wichita State University, Wichita, KS, USA
Interests: anthrax; anthrax toxin; anthrax protective antigen; Bacillus anthracis; molecular biology; protein folding; membrane spanning channels
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Institut für Pharmakologie und Toxikologie, Universitätsklinikum Ulm, Albert-Einstein-Allee 11, 89081 Ulm, Germany
Interests: actin; bacterial protein toxins; macrophages; rho-gtpases; cellular uptake and intracellular membrane transport of bacterial toxins; interaction of bacterial toxins with host cell chaperones; bacterial toxins as molecular trojan horses for drug delivery
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Department of Microbiology, Paul-Ehrlich-Institut, 63225 Langen, Germany
Interests: vaccines; human immunology; nosocomial infections; toxoid antigens
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1. Department of Biological Sciences, California Baptist University, Magnolia Avenue, Riverside, CA 92504, USA
2. Department of Entomology, University of California, Riverside, CA 92521, USA
Interests: Bacillus thuringiensis; Lysinibacillus sphaericus; biological control; bioinsecticides; ascoviruses; baculoviruses; chitinases; bacteriocins

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Centre Méditerranéen de Médecine Moléculaire (C3M), INSERM U1065, Université Côte d’Azur, 06204 Nice, France
Interests: bacterial toxins; RhoGTPases; innate immunity; inflammasomes
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Instituto de Biotecnología, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Cuernavaca 62250, Mexico
Interests: Bacillus thuringiensis; Cry toxins; Vip3A toxins; pore formation; toxin receptors; resistance mechanisms; Cyt toxin
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Dipartimento di Medicina Specialistica, Diagnostica e Sperimentale (DIMES), Sede di Patologia Generale, Università di Bologna, Via San Giacomo, 14, 40126 Bologna, Italy
Interests: bacterial toxins; Shiga toxins; hemolytic uremic syndrome; ribosome-inactivating proteins
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1. Department of Surgery, Fondazione Policlinico Universitario A Gemelli IRCCS, Largo A Gemelli 8, 00168 Rome, Italy
2. Department of Medical and Surgical Sciences, Università Cattolica S Cuore, Largo A Gemelli 8, 00168 Rome, Italy
Interests: gastric cancer; colorectal cancer; anal fissure; clinical application of botulinum toxin in gastrointestinal diseases

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Inst. Clinical Physiology / Nutritional Medicine, Dept. Gastroenterology, Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin, 10117 Berlin, Germany
Interests: gut pathogens; epithelial barrier function; tight junction regulation; clostridial toxins; bacterial pore-forming toxins and toxic metabolites; campylobacter toxins; colonization; invasion; leaky gut phenomenon; immune cell—epithelial cell co-culture and organoids; barrier-breaking mechanisms of arcobacter; aeromonas; campylobacter; clostridioides difficile; escherichia coli; klebisella oxytoca; salmonella; yersinia enterocoltitica; helicobacter pylori
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Group of Molecular Microbiology, i3S-Instituto de Investigação e Inovação em Saúde, IBMC, Universidade do Porto, 4200-135 Porto, Portugal
Interests: host-pathogen interactions; bacterial virulence factors; bacterial pore forming toxins; Listeria monocytogenes
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Service of Neuropsychology & Neurorehabilitation, Department of Clinical Neurosciences, University Hospital of Lausanne (CHUV), CH-1011 Lausanne, Switzerland
Interests: spasticity treatment; spinal cord injuries; stroke rehabilitation; gait; neurologic gait disorders
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1. Department of Agricultural Biotechnology, Center for Food Safety and Toxicology, Seoul National University, Seoul 08826, Republic of Korea
2. Center for Food and Bioconvergence, Seoul National University, Seoul 08826, Republic of Korea
Interests: molecular microbiology and toxicology

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Department of Medicine, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, TN 37232, USA
Interests: bacteria-host interactions; bacterial toxins; Helicobacter pylori; gastric cancer
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Molecular Gastroenterology Section, Leeds Institute of Biomedical and Clinical Sciences, Wellcome Trust Brenner Building, St. James's University Hospital, Leeds LS9 7TF, UK
Interests: Helicobacter pylori; host-pathogen interactions in gastrointestinal tract; infection and gastrointestinal cancer; mucosal immunology
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Department of Neurology/Movement Disorders, School of Medicine, Faculty of Medical Offices, 11370 Anderson, Suite B-100, Loma Linda, CA 92354, USA
Interests: blepharospasm; dystonia; parkinson’s disease; torticollis; botulinum toxins
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Head of Movement Disorders Section, Department of Neurology, Hannover Medical School, Carl-Neuberg-Str. 1, D-30625 Hannover, Germany
Interests: botulinum toxin therapy; dystonia; functional movement disorders; movement disorders; neuropsychology

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Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Monash University, Melbourne 3800, Australia
Interests: pore forming proteins; pore forming toxins; cryo-EM; crystallography; structural biology; MACPF/CDC family; beta-pore forming proteins
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Instituto de Biotecnología y Biomedicina (BIOTECMED), Department of Genetics, Universitat de València, 46100 Burjassot, Spain
Interests: understanding the biochemical and genetic bases of insect resistance to Bacillus thuringiensis toxins; to study the mode of action of Vip3 insecticidal proteins
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Department of Bacteriology, Graduate School of Medical Sciences, Kanazawa University, Kanazawa 920-8640, Japan
Interests: Clostridium botulinum; botulinum toxin; clostridial neurotoxins
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Institute of Toxicology, Hannover Medical School, D-30625 Hannover, Germany
Interests: clostridium difficile toxins; large clostridial glycosylating toxins; actin cytoskeleton; cell motility; cytoskeletal proteins; infection; signaling; Rho; Ras
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