BMC Microbiology welcomes submissions to a collection on ‘Bacterial defense systems’. Through this collection, we acknowledge that research on bacterial defense mechanisms, as well as their potential applications, is rapidly evolving and fundamentally changing the way we understand microbial ecology and evolution, and possibly treat human diseases. The overall goal of the collection is to explore the diverse strategies employed by bacteria to combat challenges such as phage attacks, antimicrobial agents, environmental stresses, and interactions with other microorganisms.
https://www.biomedcentral.com/collections/BacDS
Meet the Guest Editors:
Prasanth Manohar: Texas A&M University, USA
Dr Manohar is a postdoctoral research associate in the Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics at Texas A&M University (USA). His research interests are bacteriophage discovery, phage biology, phage therapy, phage-bacterial interactions, antibiotic resistance mechanisms, and mobile genetic elements. He obtained a Ph.D. in Bioscience from Vellore Institute of Technology (VIT) University (India) and worked as a post-doctoral fellow at the Zhejiang University-University of Edinburgh Institute (ZJE; China) with research focused on phage therapy and animal infection models. Dr Manohar has 65 scientific contributions including research/review publications and book chapters, and he edited a book.
Jumei Zeng: Sichuan University, China
Dr Zeng holds the position of Senior Microbiologist specializing in Mycobacteriology, alongside her role as an Associate Professor of Public Health and Laboratory Science at the West China School of Public Health, at Sichuan University. She has gained extensive expertise in transcriptome, proteome, lipidome, and metabolome analyses during her postdoctoral experience at Boston Children’s Hospital/Harvard Medical School (USA). Her research interests focus on the pathogenesis and drug resistance mechanisms of both Mycobacterium tuberculosis and Mycobacterium abscessus.
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