Contributors
MARTIN ALTVATER
Department of Biotechnology, University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences
Vienna, Vienna, Austria
Austrian Centre of Industrial Biotechnology (ACIB GmbH), Vienna, Austria
HUGO AMOEDO
Institut fu ¨r Mikrobiologie und Genetik, Abteilung Molekulare Mikrobiologie und
Genetik, Go ¨ttinger Zentrum fu ¨r Molekulare Biowissenschaften (GZMB), GeorgAugust-Universita ¨t Go ¨ttingen, Go ¨ttingen, Germany
LEONIE BAUMANN
Institute of Molecular Biosciences, Faculty of Biological Sciences, Goethe-University Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany
PAOLA BONFANTE
Dipartimento di Scienze della Vita e Biologia dei Sistemi, Universita ` di Torino,
Torino, Italy
SANDRA BORN
Institute of Molecular Biosciences, Faculty of Biological Sciences, Goethe-University Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany
AXEL A. BRAKHAGE
Department of Molecular and Applied Microbiology, Leibniz Institute for Natural
Product Research and Infection Biology (HKI), Jena, Germany
Institute of Microbiology, Friedrich Schiller University, Jena, Germany
GERHARD H. BRAUS
Institut fu ¨r Mikrobiologie und Genetik, Abteilung Molekulare Mikrobiologie und
Genetik, Go ¨ttinger Zentrum fu ¨r Molekulare Biowissenschaften (GZMB), GeorgAugust-Universita ¨t Go ¨ttingen, Go ¨ttingen, Germany
JOSE ´ T. CA ´ NOVAS-MA ´ RQUEZ
Departamento de Gene ´tica y Microbiologı ´a, Facultad de Biologı ´a, Universidad de
Murcia, Murcia, Spain
GENNARO CAROTENUTO
Dipartimento di Scienze della Vita e Biologia dei Sistemi, Universita ` di Torino,
Torino, Italy
ZACHARY A. CHASE
Department of Biological Sciences, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY,
USA
YANFEN CHENG
Laboratory of Gastrointestinal Microbiology, Nanjing Agricultural University,
Nanjing, China
ABIGAIL J. COURTNEY
Department of Microbiology, University of Georgia, Athens, GA, USA
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