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Sari filtration proves effective in Bangladesh

Tue, 11 May 2010 16:06:23 -0400

A new article accepted for the inaugural issue of mBio shows that simple water filtration with sari fabric is effective for preventing cholera. The article follows up on communities in Matlab, Bangladesh, where researchers and public health authorities had trained villagers in the filtration technique. The follow-up shows a detectable impact not only for those who filter, but also for their entire villages.

Universal vaccines: more birds, fewer stones

Tue, 11 May 2010 15:58:38 -0400

A new Perspective article accepted for the inaugural issue of mBio argues that the days of single pathogen- or single disease-targeted vaccines may be on the wane, as genomic analyses uncover more and more antigens that can be used to develop universal vaccines.

Meet Derek Lovley, new mBio Editor

Thu, 6 May 2010 11:14:15 -0400

Dr. Derek Lovley has joined the Board of Editors of mBio, ASM's forthcoming open access journal. Dr. Lovley was featured in Time magazine�s profile of top innovators in environmental science and recently was also cited in Time for one of the top 50 inventions for 2009. He also serves on the editorial boards of Environmental Microbiology and ISME Journal.

Meet Paul Keim, new mBio Editor

Thu, 6 May 2010 11:08:17 -0400

Dr. Paul Keim has joined the Board of Editors of mBio, ASM's forthcoming open access journal. Dr. Keim's approach of using genomic analysis for microbial forensics and molecular epidemiological analyses has been used in many biodefense programs. He also serves on the editorial boards of Investigative Genetics and Biotechniques.

Meet Keith Gull, new mBio Editor

Thu, 6 May 2010 11:01:35 -0400

Dr. Keith Gull is one of the outstanding scientists who has agreed to serve on the Board of Editors of mBio. Dr. Gull is a Past-Chairman of the Biochemical Society. His research focuses on African trypanosomes and has recently extended to include comparative studies on the Leishmania parasites.

Meet Vinayaka Prasad, new mBio Editor

Tue, 20 Apr 2010 09:04:04 -0400

Dr. Vinayaka Prasad is one of the outstanding scientists who has agreed to serve on the Board of Editors of mBio. Research in Dr. Prasad�s lab is focused on the biology, therapeutics, and pathogenesis of HIV. His lab was among the first to recognize that genetic differences in HIV-1 clades affect the severity of HIV-associated dementia (HAD), and they seek to exploit clade differences to unravel the mechanisms behind HAD.

Meet Glen Nemerow, new mBio Editor

Tue, 20 Apr 2010 08:52:47 -0400

Dr. Glen Nemerow has joined the Board of Editors of mBio, ASM's forthcoming open access journal. Dr. Nemerow is a Professor in the Department of Immunology and Microbial Science at The Scripps Research Institute in La Jolla, California. He has also served on the editorial boards for Virology, Journal of Virology, and Trends in Microbiology.

The mBiosphere

Thu, 15 Apr 2010 13:52:33 -0400

The mBio blog is now live! mBio's Social Media Editor, Dr. Merry Buckley, interviews mBio staff, editors, and authors to get the stories behind the developing journal and its most interesting articles.

Bad company: Cryptococcus neoformans

Thu, 15 Apr 2010 13:47:47 -0400

Cryptococcus neoformans is responsible for an estimated 1 million cases of cryptococcal disease every year. These cases are often fatal. A new study shows that many cases thought to be caused by a single type of C. neoformans may actually be mixed infections. And Cryptococcus is probably not an isolated case; clinicians may have to reconsider many of their assumptions about the one organism/one infection model.

C. neoformans can utilize myo-inositol as its only source of carbon

Tue, 6 Apr 2010 14:28:38 -0400

Cryptococcus neoformans wants to infect your central nervous system, and a new discovery may explain how it adapted to this inhospitable environment within nerve cells. The latest paper accepted for mBio's inaugural issue describes an expanded myo-inositol transporter (ITR) gene family in C. neoformans and its close relative, C. gatii.

KinD as a developmental checkpoint kinase

Tue, 6 Apr 2010 14:23:06 -0400

When Bacillus subtilis gets the chance, it establishes thick, gluey biofilms held together by a matrix of exopolysaccharides and protein. But until now, we haven�t known much about how these cells sense that there is enough matrix and start the business of sporulation. A new paper selected for the inaugural issue of mBio begins to shed some light on the matter and reveals a role for the sensor kinase KinD.

Antisense RNAs may be an important tool for mRNA regulation

Fri, 19 Mar 2010 12:01:57 -0400

A new paper accepted for the inaugural issue of mBio finds 1,000 antisense RNAs in E. coli, and asks "Are they playing a pivotal role in regulation?"

New mBio paper shows mutations that make other flu viruses more virulent don�t help H1N1

Wed, 17 Mar 2010 10:22:56 -0400

The H1N1 pandemic hasn�t been the devastating and deadly global event the WHO once feared it might be, but public health officials worry that a more virulent form of the virus could emerge and cause a second, more lethal wave of cases. The authors of a new paper accepted for the inaugural issue of mBio tested whether two mutations in key residues in a gene in the RNP complex called PB2 would make the H1N1 virus more virulent.

Will global warming make fungal infections a bigger problem for humans?

Wed, 17 Mar 2010 10:18:08 -0400

Fungi usually prefer to keep the thermostat turned down around 12�C to 30�C, a bit colder than the human body. This preference for cooler temperatures is part of the reason relatively few fungi have emerged as human pathogens. But the authors of a new Opinions & Hypotheses piece accepted for publication in the inaugural issue of mBio point out that global warming is expected to raise ambient temperatures by 2-5�C in the coming decades, a trend that could not only step up the evolution of warm-loving fungi, it could also increase the prevalence of pathogenic strains.

Exploring virulence in Entamoeba

Fri, 5 Mar 2010 14:17:51 -0500

Every year, the parasite Entamoeba histolytica causes an estimated 40 million cases of amoebic dysentery and liver abscesses and 100,000 deaths, mainly in developing countries. A new paper accepted for publication in mBio shows that a transcription factor called Upstream Regulatory Element 3-Binding Protein (URE3-BP) promotes the expression of the virulence phenotype, turning a mostly harmless protozoan into a very unwelcome resident of your liver or intestinal tract.

Meet Richard G. Brennan, new mBio Editor

Thu, 4 Mar 2010 09:40:34 -0500

Dr. Richard G. Brennan has joined the Board of Editors of mBio, ASM's forthcoming open access journal. Dr. Brennan is director of the Center for Biomolecular Structure and Function at the University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center and also serves on the editorial boards of Molecular Microbiology and the Journal of Bacteriology.

Modeling cholera

Mon, 1 Mar 2010 15:48:50 -0500

Studying cholera just got a little easier, thanks to a new (old) animal model. A new paper by Ritchie et al. describes another approach to using infant rabbits for studying this devastating disease.

Meet John W. Taylor, new mBio Editor

Fri, 19 Feb 2010 13:30:30 -0500

Dr. John W. Taylor is one of the outstanding scientists who has agreed to serve on the Board of Editors of mBio. Dr. Taylor is Professor of Plant and Microbial Biology at the University of California at Berkeley and is Vice-President of the International Mycological Association.

Meet Judith Berman, new mBio Editor

Fri, 19 Feb 2010 13:27:33 -0500

Dr. Judith Berman has joined the Board of Editors of mBio, ASM's forthcoming open access journal. Dr. Berman is Distinguished McKnight University Professor at the University of Minnesota and also serves on the editorial boards of Eukaryotic Cell and Yeast.

Meet Gerald B. Pier, new mBio Editor

Fri, 19 Feb 2010 13:25:36 -0500

Dr. Gerald B. Pier is one of the outstanding scientists who has agreed to serve on the Board of Editors of mBio. Dr. Pier is a Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School and has authored over 200 peer-reviewed papers on microbial virulence and pathogenesis.

mBio's second accepted article is now online

Wed, 17 Feb 2010 13:13:34 -0500

S�nchez-Romero et al. show that SeqA stays busy all over the Escherichia coli K-12 chromosome, and its distribution changes over the course of replication. This indicates that SeqA binding is more dynamic than previously thought and is responsive to changes in the cell cycle.

mBio's first accepted article is now online

Fri, 12 Feb 2010 16:20:30 -0500

Steel et al. show that a flu vaccine with a 'headless' molecule may confer resistance to multiple flu strains.

Meet Jizhong Zhou, new mBio Editor

Wed, 3 Feb 2010 12:16:53 -0500

Dr. Jizhong Zhou is one of the outstanding scientists who has agreed to serve on the Board of Editors of mBio, ASM's forthcoming open access journal. Dr. Zhou is Director of the Institute for Environmental Genomics at the University of Oklahoma and also serves as an Editor for Applied and Environmental Microbiology.

Meet Jack R. Bennink, new mBio Editor

Fri, 29 Jan 2010 13:35:10 -0500

Dr. Jack R. Bennink has joined the Board of Editors of mBio, ASM's forthcoming open access journal. Dr. Bennink is a Senior Investigator and Chief of the Viral Immunology Section in the Laboratory of Viral Diseases at the NIAID and is currently on the Editorial Boards of Viral Immunology and Microbes and Infection.

Meet Michael W. Russell, new mBio Editor

Fri, 29 Jan 2010 13:32:52 -0500

Dr. Michael W. Russell is one of the outstanding scientists who has agreed to serve on the Board of Editors of mBio, ASM's forthcoming open access journal. Dr. Russell is a Professor in the Departments of Microbiology and Immunology and of Oral Biology at the University at Buffalo and has served on the editorial boards of Infection and Immunity, Oral Microbiology and Immunology, Immunological Investigations, and Human Vaccines.

Meet Herbert Virgin, new mBio Editor

Fri, 29 Jan 2010 11:28:04 -0500

Dr. Herbert Virgin has joined the Board of Editors of mBio, ASM's forthcoming open access journal. Dr. Virgin is the Edward Mallinckrodt Professor and Chair of the Department of Pathology and Immunology at the Washington University School of Medicine and he serves on several editorial boards, including PLoS Biology, Virology, and Cell Host and Microbe.

ASM Announces mBio Call for Papers

Mon, 25 Jan 2010 17:13:12 -0500

ASM�s new online journal, mBio, announces a call for papers today. The scope of mBio is broad and the journal welcomes any paper that deals with microbes, microbial communities, physiology, population biology, immune responses, new applications, and even exobiology. If the work is in any way related to microbiology, and it is top-tier science, then submit to mBio.

Meet John Mekalanos, new mBio Editor

Fri, 22 Jan 2010 11:20:10 -0500

Dr. John Mekalanos is one of the outstanding scientists who has agreed to serve on the Board of Editors of mBio, ASM's forthcoming open access journal. Dr. Mekalanos is the Adele H. Lehman Professor of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics at Harvard Medical School and a co-founder of three biotechnology firms.

Meet David M. Mosser, new mBio Editor

Fri, 22 Jan 2010 11:14:25 -0500

Dr. David M. Mosser has joined the Board of Editors of mBio, ASM's forthcoming open access journal. Dr. Mosser is a Professor of Cell Biology and Molecular Genetics at the University of Maryland, College Park, and Past-President of the Society for Leukocyte Biology.

Meet Claire M. Fraser-Liggett, new mBio Editor

Thu, 21 Jan 2010 13:51:54 -0500

Dr. Claire M. Fraser-Liggett has joined the Board of Editors of mBio, ASM's forthcoming open access journal. Dr. Fraser-Liggett is Director of the Institute for Genome Sciences at the University of Maryland School of Medicine and past President and Director of The Institute for Genomic Research.

Meet Donald E. Low, new mBio Editor

Wed, 13 Jan 2010 13:55:18 -0500

The mBio Board of Editors continues to grow. We now welcome Dr. Donald E. Low, the Head of the Division of Microbiology at the University of Toronto and a past president of the Canadian Infectious Disease Society.

Meet W. Ian Lipkin, new mBio Editor

Wed, 13 Jan 2010 13:53:48 -0500

Dr. W. Ian Lipkin has joined the Board of Editors of mBio, ASM's forthcoming open access journal. Dr. Lipkin is the John Snow Professor of Epidemiology at Columbia University and is credited with the discovery of more than 75 viruses.

Meet Francoise Dromer, new mBio Editor

Thu, 17 Dec 2009 14:08:17 -0500

Dr. Francoise Dromer has joined the Board of Editors of mBio, ASM's forthcoming open access journal. Dr. Dromer is the head of the molecular mycology unit at the Institut Pasteur, Paris, France. Dr. Dromer currently serves as academic editor on the editorial board of PLoS One.

Meet Terence S. Dermody, new mBio Editor

Thu, 17 Dec 2009 13:40:56 -0500

Dr. Terence S. Dermody has joined the Board of Editors of mBio, ASM's forthcoming open access journal. Dr. Dermody is the Dorothy Overall Wells Professor of Pediatrics and Director of the Medical Scientist Training Program and the Division of Pediatric Infectious Diseases at the Vanderbilt University School of Medicine. Dr. Dermody is an editor for the Journal of Virology.

Meet Antonio Cassone, new mBio Editor

Thu, 17 Dec 2009 13:14:19 -0500

Dr. Antonio Cassone is one of the outstanding scientists who has agreed to serve on the Board of Editors of mBio, ASM's forthcoming open access journal. Dr. Cassone is currently Visiting Professor at the Science Faculty, Imperial College, London and was formerly Director of the Department of Infectious, Parasitic and Immune-mediated Diseases at Istituto Superiore di Sanita (National Health Institute, ISS) in Rome.

Meet Peter Gilligan, new mBio Editor

Thu, 17 Dec 2009 12:42:53 -0500

The mBio Board of Editors continues to grow and now numbers 70 outstanding scientists. Here, we introduce Dr. Peter Gilligan, the Director of the Clinical Microbiology-Immunology Laboratories at the UNC Hospitals and an editor for the Journal of Clinical Microbiology.

Meet Stephen P. Goff, new mBio Editor

Thu, 17 Dec 2009 12:29:32 -0500

Dr. Stephen P. Goff has joined the Board of Editors of mBio, ASM's forthcoming open access journal. Dr. Goff is an HHMI Investigator and Higgins Professor of Biochemistry at Columbia University.

mBio discussion at the Tree of Life blog

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 10:47:31 -0500

UC Davis professor Jonathan Eisen recently posted about mBio at the Tree of Life blog. mBio Editor in Chief Arturo Casadevall responded with comments.

Meet Sang Yup Lee, new mBio Editor

Mon, 16 Nov 2009 16:38:58 -0500

Dr. Sang Yup Lee has joined the Board of Editors of mBio, ASM's forthcoming open access journal. Dr. Lee is Dean of the College of Life Science and Bioengineering at Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology and Editor-in-Chief of Biotechnology Journal.

Meet George Jacoby, new mBio Editor

Mon, 16 Nov 2009 16:34:17 -0500

Dr. George A. Jacoby is one of the outstanding scientists who has agreed to serve on the Board of Editors of mBio, ASM's forthcoming open access journal. Dr. Jacoby heads a lab at the Lahey Clinic and is a past Editor-in-Chief of Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy.

Meet John Boothroyd, new mBio Editor

Tue, 20 Oct 2009 09:17:45 -0400

Dr. John Boothroyd is one of the outstanding scientists who has agreed to serve on the Board of Editors of mBio, ASM's forthcoming open access journal. Dr. Boothroyd is a Professor of Microbiology and Immunology at Stanford University School of Medicine and a former Burroughs Wellcome Scholar.

Meet Stanley Maloy, new mBio Editor

Thu, 15 Oct 2009 09:09:43 -0400

Dr. Stanley Maloy has joined the Board of Editors of mBio, ASM's forthcoming open access journal. Dr. Maloy is the Dean of the College of Sciences at San Diego State University and Past-President of ASM.

Meet Michael Buchmeier, new mBio editor

Fri, 2 Oct 2009 13:21:43 -0400

Dr. Michael Buchmeier is one of the outstanding scientists who has agreed to serve on the Board of Editors of mBio, ASM's forthcoming open access journal. Dr. Buchmeier, Deputy Director of the Pacific-Southwest Center for Biodefense and Emerging Infectious Diseases Research at UC Irvine, also serves as an editor of the ASM journal Microbiology and Molecular Biology Reviews.

Meet Keith Klugman, new mBio Editor

Fri, 2 Oct 2009 13:13:16 -0400

Dr. Keith Klugman has joined the Board of Editors of mBio, ASM's forthcoming open access journal. Dr. Klugman, the William H. Foege Chair and Professor in the Hubert Department of Global Health at the Rollins School of Public Health at Emory University, in Atlanta, also serves as Chair of the International Board of the ASM.

Meet Bonnie Bassler, new mBio Editor

Fri, 2 Oct 2009 10:41:40 -0400

The mBio Board of Editors continues to grow and now numbers 51 outstanding scientists. As Editors make their profiles available, we will post them so that you can get to know the people who will be helping to shape the forthcoming open access journal from the American Society for Microbiology. Here, we introduce Dr. Bonnie Bassler, an HHMI Investigator at Princeton University and President Elect of the American Society for Microbiology.

mBio is Official!

Wed, 30 Sep 2009 17:06:36 -0400

ASM officially launched mBio at a reception at the 49th ICAAC meeting in San Francisco. mBio's Editor in Chief Arturo Casadevall outlined his vision for the new journal and engaged the audience on a variety of issues.

keep up with mBio

Fri, 4 Sep 2009 15:17:20 -0400

The mBio rss feed will help you stay up to date as we move towards launch. Subscribe now to be notified about all the new features we will offer to authors and readers, and to track our editorial board as it continues to develop. After launch, check this feed for announcements of all of our newest articles.