Editorial Board for section 'Bacterial Toxins'

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Please note that the order in which the Editors appear on this page is alphabetical, and follows the structure of the editorial board presented on the MDPI website under information for editors: editorial board responsibilities.

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Department of Medical and Surgical Sciences and Neurosciences, Functional and Surgical Urology Unit, University of Siena, 53100 Siena, Italy
Interests: functional urology; female urology; neuro-urology; oncological urology
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Section of Molecular Engineering for Health (SIMoS), JOLIOT, CEA, Université Paris-Saclay, F-91191 Gif Sur Yvette, France
Interests: bacterial toxins; diphtheria toxin; ricin toxin; Shiga toxins; botulinum toxins; intracellular trafficking; biodefense; toxin inhibitors; antitoxin drug development
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Department of Cell Biology and Cancer (UMR CNRS 144), Institut Curie, 26 rue d'Ulm, 75248 Paris cedex 05, France
Interests: small GTPases; secretory pathway; Golgi complex; intracellular transport; cell biology, biophysics;toxin-host interactions; molecular mechanisms of intracellular bacterial toxins

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Department of Neurosurgery, Upstate Medical University, Syracuse, NY 13210, USA
Interests: brain cancer; glioblastoma; immunotoxins; brain metastases; nanoparticle technology; targeted toxins; brain tumor antigen expression

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Research Molecular Biologist, USDA, ARS, WRRC, 800 Buchanan Street, Albany, CA 94710, USA
Interests: molecular tools and technologies for rapid; accurate; and sensitive detection and quantification of zoonotic pathogens and toxins in food; mechanisms of interactions between bacterial toxins and host cells; binding between antigen and antibody or receptors
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Department of Physiology & Biophysics, University of California, Irvine, CA 92697, USA
Interests: bacterial toxin; host-pathogen interaction; antitoxin; protein engineering; structural biology; X-ray crystallography

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1. Department of Clinical Neurological Sciences, London Health Sciences Centre—Lawson Health Research Institute, 339 Windermere Road, A10-026, London, ON N6A 5A5, Canada
2. Schulich School of Medicine and Dentistry, University of Western, 1151 Richmond Street, London, ON N6A 3K7, Canada
Interests: botulinum toxins; movement disorders; smart technologies; computational neuroscience; motor control and machine learning
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Cellular and Chemical Biology Unit, Institut Curie, PSL Research University, U1143 INSERM, UMR3666 CNRS, 26 rue d’Ulm, 75248 Paris CEDEX 05, France
Interests: endocytosis; intracellular trafficking; protein toxins; lectins; glycobiology; glycosphingolipids; lipid rafts; membrane compartmentalization; intracellular delivery; membrane translocation; immunotherapy; tumor targeting
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Department of Entomology and Plant Pathology, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN, USA
Interests: insecticidal proteins; bacillus thuringiensis; cry toxins; vip toxins; RNAi

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Department of Neurology, University of Rostock, Gehlsheimer Str. 20, 18147 Rostock, Germany
Interests: movement disorders; neurogenetics; botulinum toxin; dystonia
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Division of Clinical Research, National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, National Institutes of Health, 6001 Executive Blvd, Rockville, MD 20852, USA
Interests: dystonia; spasticity; chemodenervation; botulinum toxin; movement disorders
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Department of Biological Sciences, Texas Tech University, Box 43131 Lubbock, TX 79409, USA
Interests: cholesterol-dependent cytolysin; membrane repair; inflammasome; macrophage; Dnase1L3
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Movement Disorders Section, Department of Neurology, Hannover Medical School, Carl-Neuberg-Str. 1, 30625 Hannover, Germany
Interests: botulinum neurotoxin; spasticity; dystonia; chronic migraine


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Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, MA 02118, USA
Interests: Disseminated Intravascular Coagulation (DIC); Thrombotic Microangiopathy (TMA); Sepsis and septic shock; Protein C pathway; Development of pre-clinical animal models of human diseases; Shiga-toxins; and Hemolytic Uremic Syndrome (HUS).

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Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Department of Pathology, Microbiology and Immunology, A-4116A Medical Center North, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, TN 37232-2363, USA
Interests: bacterial protein toxins; Clostridioides difficile; Helicobacter pylori; host responses to bacterial pathogens; structural biology

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1. Department of Biomolecular Science, KRIBB School of Bioscience, Korea University of Science and Technology (UST), 127 Gajeong-ro, Yuseong-gu, Daejeon 34113, Republic of Korea
2. Environmental Diseases Research Center, Korea Research Institute of Bioscience and Biotechnology, 125 Gwahak-ro, Daejeon 34141, Republic of Korea
Interests: Bacterial toxins; Shiga toxin-producing E.coli; Shiga toxins; hemolytic uremic syndrome
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Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, University of Texas Health Science Center – Houston, Houston, TX 77030, USA
Interests: spasticity; motor recovery; neuromodulation; neuropathic pain; neurorehabilitation
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Molecular Medicine Peter Gilgan Centre for Research & Learning, The Hospital for Sick Children, 686 Bay Street, Toronto, ON M5G 0A4, Canada
Interests: glycosphingolipids(GSLs); GSL metabolism; GSL traffic; GSL function; shiga toxin; verotoxin cholera toxin; globotriaosylceramide; glucosylceramide; endoplasmic reticulum associated degradation (ERAD)
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Institute of Biochemistry and Cell Biology, National Council of Research of Italy, Via Ercole Ramarini 32, 00015 Monterotondo, Italy
Interests: botulinum neurotoxins; neuropathic pain; peripheral nerve; motor function; functional recovery; animal model; glial cells; Schwann cells
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Laboratoire de Physique et Chimie Theoriques, Universite de Lorraine, 54000 Nancy, France
Interests: structural bioinformatics; molecular modeling; biomolecular structure calculation; molecular dynamics; host–pathogen interactions; bacterial toxins

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Department of Anesthesia, University of California, San Francisco, CA, USA
Interests: antibody engineering; phage display; yeast display; recombinant antibodies; antibody drugs
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Equipe ATIP AVENIR, CRCINA, INSERM, Université de Nantes, Université d’Angers, 4 rue Larrey, F-49933 Angers, France
Interests: microbiology; infectious diseases; Buruli ulcer; Mycobacterium ulcerans; Mycolactone; environment

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Department of Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN, USA
Interests: bacterial pore-forming toxins; Clostridium perfringens toxins; Etx_Mtx2 family proteins; Helicobacter pylori toxins; bacterial lipoproteins

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Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, PA 15219, USA
Interests: clostridium perfringens toxins; enterotoxins; pore-forming toxins; toxin genetics; toxin action


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Department of Microbiology & Immunology, Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, 4301 Jones Bridge Road, Bethesda, MD 20814, USA
Interests: Shiga toxin; O157; enteroaggregative; enterohemorrhagic; Escherichia coli; O104; Stx1; Stx2; Stx2d; Stx2c; Stx2e; Stx2b; Stx; hemolytic uremic syndrome

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Department of Biological Sciences, Virginia Tech Blacksburg, Blacksburg, VA 24061, USA
Interests: Clostridium toxins; toxin secretion by Gram-positive bacteria; bacterial pathogenesis; regulation of toxin synthesis; Clostridium perfringens; effects of cytotoxins on phagocytic cells; Gram positive type IV pili-mediated toxin secretion

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Graduate School of Medicine, Dentistry and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Okayama University 1-1-1, Tsushima-Naka, Kita-Ku, Okayama-City, Okayama 700-8530, Japan
Interests: bacterial protein toxins; pore-forming toxins; cell membrane proteins/receptors; proteolytic enzymes
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1. Department of Biomedical Sciences, University of Padova, Via Ugo Bassi n. 58/B, 35121 Padova, Italy
2. Institute for Neuroscience, National Research Council, Via Ugo Bassi n. 58/B, 35121 Padova, Italy
Interests: neurotoxins; peripheral neurodegeneration; neuroregeneration

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Association of British Neurologists (ABN), Movement Disorder Society (MDS), Cochrane Collaboration (CC), British Neurotoxin Network (BNN), Liverpool L9 7LJ, UK
Interests: movement disorders; dystonia; spasticity; clinical uses botulinum toxins; systematic reviewing
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