About this journal

The intestinal microbiota plays a pivotal role in human physiology. Characterizing its structure and function has implications for health and disease, impacting nutrition and obesity, brain function, allergic responses, immunity, inflammatory bowel disease, irritable bowel syndrome, cancer development, cardiac disease, liver disease, and others.

Gut Microbes provides a platform for presenting and discussing cutting-edge research on all aspects of microorganisms populating the intestine. The journal focuses in particular on mechanistic and cause and effect studies.

Gut Microbes is the sister journal of Gut Microbes Reports , which has a greater focus on emerging topics and comparative and incremental studies. 

Gut Microbes brings together a multidisciplinary community of scientists working in the areas of:

• Profiling the intestinal microbiota
• Gastrointestinal disease: mechanisms, host defense, diagnosis, epidemiology
• Host-pathogen interactions including enteric disease and bacterial pathogenesis
• Quorum sensing and toxicity
• Probiotics and prebiotics
• Novel treatments and clinical trials
• Role of intestinal microbiota in health and disease

Gut Microbes accepts Research Papers/Reports, Reviews, Brief Reports, Research Letters, Commentaries and Views, Creative Commentaries,  Meeting Reports, Data Notes, Invited Editorials for publication. 

*Please note that Gut Microbes converted to a fully open access journal beginning with Volume 12 (2020). The Print ISSN is not in active use as this journal is no longer published in print.

Editor-in-Chief
Beth McCormick
University of Massachusetts Medical School
Worcester, MA, US

Editor Emeritus
Gail Hecht
Loyola University Stritch School of Medicine
Maywood, IL, US

Acquisitions Editor

Adam Weiss
[email protected]
Prague, CZ

Associate Editors

Michael Bailey - The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, US
Megan Baldridge - Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO, US
Vanni Bucci - University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, MA, US
Benoit Chassaing - Institut Pasteur, Paris, FR
Grace Chen - University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, US
Yingzi Cong - University of Texas, Galveston, TX, US
Timothy L. Cover - Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN
Soumita Das - University of Massachusetts-Lowell, Lowell, MA, US
Andrew Gewirtz - Georgia State University, Atlanta, GA, US
Ravinder Gill - University of Illinois, Chicago, IL, US
Jennifer Gommerman - University of Toronto, Toronto, CA
Yan He -  Southern Medical University, Guangzhou, CN
Rheinallt M. Jones - Emory University, Atlanta, GA, US
Purna C. Kashyap - Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, US
Simon Keely - University of Newcastle, Callaghan, AU
Leigh Knodler - University of Vermont, Burlington, VT, US
Kun Lu - University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC, US
Shonna McBride - Emory University, Atlanta, GA, US
Andrew D. Patterson - Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA, US
J. Christian Pérez - The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Houston, TX, US
Geoffrey A. Preidis - Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, US
Rachel Rigby - Lancaster University, Lancaster, UK
Tor Savidge - Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, US
David Sela - University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA, US
Amar Singh - University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, NE, US
Jun Sun - University of Illinois, Chicago, IL, US
Ki-Tae Suk - Hallym University, Chuncheon-si, KR
Alfredo G. Torres - University of Texas, Galveston, TX, US
V.K. Viswanathan - University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, US
Yinglin Xia - University of Illinois, Chicago, IL, US

Junior Editors

Evan Bradley - University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, MA, US
Alberto Caminero - McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, CA
Jessie Ellis - National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, Bethesda, MD, US
Heather Galipeau - McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, CA
Jennifer Roxas - University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, US
 

Editorial Board

Jasmohan Bajaj - Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA, US
Brian DeBosch - Washington UniversitySchool of Medicine, St. Louis, MO, US
Robert Britton - Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, US
Patrice Cani - UCLouvain, Brussels, BE
Muriel Derrien - Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Leuven, BE
Suzanne Devkota - Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, CA, US
Sara Di Rienzi - Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, US
Sharon M. Donovan - University of Illinois at Urbana, Urbana, IL, US
Youjun Feng - Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, CN
Harry Flint - University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen, Scotland, UK
Dale Gerding - Hines VA Hospital, Hines, IL, US
Glenn R. Gibson - University of Reading, Reading, UK
Uri Gophna - Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, IL
John Haran - University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, MA, US
Masanori Hatakeyama - University of Tokyo, Tokyo, JP
Kenya Honda - RIKEN Center for Integrative Medical Sciences, Kanagawa, JP
Lora Hooper - University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX, US
John Y. Kao - University of Michigan Health System, Ann Arbor, MI, US
James B. Kaper - University of Maryland, Baltimore, MD, US
Ciaran Kelly - Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, US
Denise Kelly - University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen, Scotland, UK
Rob Knight - University of California, San Diego, CA, US
Wayne Lencer - Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, US
John Leong - Tufts University School of Medicine, MA, US
Xi Ma - China Agricultural University, Beijing, China
Ana Maldonado-Contreras - University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, MA, US
Abdul Malik - Washingtom University in St. Louis, Saint Louis, MO, US
Sven Pettersson - Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, SE
Dana J. Philpott - University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, CA
Eamonn Quigley - Houston Methodist Hospital, TX, US
John F. Rawls - Duke University, Durham, NC, US
Yehuda Ringel - University of North Carolina School of Medicine, Chapel Hill, NC, US
Ilan Rosenshine - Hadassah-Hebrew University School of Medicine, Jerusalem, IL
Nita H. Salzman - Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI
Mary Ellen Sanders - International Scientific Association for Probiotics and Prebiotics, Davis, CA, US
Philippe Sansonetti - Institut Pasteur and Collège de France, Paris, FR
Balfour Sartor - University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC, US
Karla Fullner Satchell - Northwestern University, Chicago, IL, US
Fergus Shanahan - University College Cork, Cork, IE
Nanda Kumar Navalpur Shanmugam - Massachusetts General Hospital/Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA
Vanessa Sperandio - University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI, US
Christopher Staley - University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, US
Phil Tarr - Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO, US
Casey Theriot - North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC, US
Gayatri Vedantam - University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, US
Elena Verdú - McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, CA
Gary D. Wu - University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, US
Fang Yan - Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, US
Vincent B Young - University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, US
Melody Zeng - Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY, US
Liping Zhao - Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, NJ, USA

News, offers and calls for papers

News and offers

• Our sister journal Gut Microbes Reports is now live!