The American Society for Microbiology has announced the appointment of Dr. Christina Cuomo as Editor-in-Chief of Microbiology Spectrum which is being re-launched as ASM’s sixth fully open-access journal, and will launch in spring 2021.
Microbiology Spectrum’s editorial team is committed not just to open-access, but to open science. The journal will welcome manuscripts posted on preprint servers, will allow authors to publish their peer review records and will support authors in linking raw data to their published papers. The journal will provide authors with fair, rapid and rigorous peer review.
Dr. Cuomo is the group leader for the Fungal Genomics Group and associate director in the Genomic Center for Infectious Diseases at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard. Her group studies species across the fungal kingdom, using genomic methods to characterize the evolution of fungal pathogens.
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