2025 Acknowledgment of mSphere Ad Hoc Reviewers
Ira Blader
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EDITORIAL
As we approach the end of 2025, I have been reflecting on the past year’s events as well as how mSphere has moved forward. Scientific research, funding, and publishing have certainly seen more headlines in 2025 than any other year that I can remember. And while several headlines highlighted the best of what science can do, often we were greeted by unprecedented attacks on science and the scientific enterprise. Although I cannot speak for everyone, I think that it is safe to say that most of these stories have left us in shock and with trepidation over what science may look like in 2026 and beyond. Despite all this, microbiologists continue to show up. We are still working to make the world healthier and more sustainable by the research that we do as well as other activities that support and complement research, and this includes our reviewers. It is truly inspiring as an editor to see how many people readily accept our invitations to review a manuscript while the world surrounding us is hectic, chaotic, and stressful. Reviewers are the soul of any journal and are critical in helping us as a journal provide an outlet for scientists to publish their “news” or scientific discoveries. The fact that reviewers can do this while the world is metaphorically burning around them is a testament to their perseverance and dedication.
On behalf of the mSphere senior editors, Editorial Board, and staff, I want to thank the following individuals, who served as reviewers for the journal from December 2024 through November 2025:
Ghulam Abbas
Zack Abbott
Sabrina Absalon
Muhammad Afzal
Matthew Agler
Alain Bernardin Agnememel
Olusola Anuoluwapo Akanbi
Cesar G. Albarino
Emma Allen-Vercoe
Jontana Allkja
José M. Almendral
Francis Alonzo
Ingrun Alseth
Mohammed Alsharifi
J. Andrew Alspaugh
Craig Altier
Samuel Alvarez-Arguedas
John Alverdy
Stephanie J. Ambrose
Rocio Amorín De Hegedüs
Cheryl P. Andam
J. Christopher Anderson
Mark T. Anderson
Konstantin Andreev
Sergio O. Angel
Øystein Angen
Medini K. Annavajhala
Masaki Anraku
Haike Antelmann
Aileen Aoshoff
Amir Arastehfar
Linda S. Archambault
Benjamin Aroeti
Fiorentina Ascenzioni
Luís Augusto Nero
Michael A. Bachman
Maria Bagattini
Sue Baigent
Frederik Bak
Erin Baker
Gabriela Balikova Novotna
Hannah J. Barbian
Daniel Barkan
Francisco Barona Gómez
Christine Marie Bassis
Joyoti Basu
Dwayne M. Baxa
Arden Baylink
Özgür Bayram
Inga Bazukyan
Daan Beentjes
Samantha L. Bell
Mark Benedict
Maria Soledad Benitez
Jane Claryn Benjamin
Teresa M. Bergholz
Hanna Leah Berman
Ananda Bhattacharjee
Disha Bhattacharjee
R. Blake Billmyre
Marco Binder
Svend Birkelund
Susan E. Birket
Karishma Bisht
Indranil Biswas
Matthew G. Blango
Elisa Blinda
Pavel Bobrovsky
Lydia M. Bogomolnaya
Francois-Michel Boisvert
Mariangela Bonnizoni
Eric M. Bottos
Dawn M. E. Bowdish
Prosper Boyaka
Angela K. Boysen
Patricia A. Bradford
Volker Briken
Françoise Bringel
Andrew James Broadbent
Kenneth Brockman
Christopher B. Brooke
Heike Brötz-Oesterhelt
Ian H. Brown
Patrick Jeffrey Browne
John H. Brumell
Mary Ann V. Bruns
Bryan D. Bryson
Dengpan Bu
Lindsey Burcham
Silvia Buroni
Laura S. Burrack
Ruben D. Cadena-Nava
Laty Adriella Cahoon
Yi Cai
Kenneth Campellone
Maria Jorge Campos
Kyle J. Card
Andrés Carrazco Montalvo
Ronan K. Carroll
Monica Cartelle Gestal
Arturo Casadevall
Santiago Castillo-Ramírez
Meaghan Castledine
Clayton C. Caswell
Jean Celli
Kateřina Černá
Benjamin Chadwick
Serafeim C. Chaintoutis
Ankur Chakravarthy
Josephine R. Chandler
Jeff H. Chang
Theresa L. Chang
Dipankar Chatterji
Alfredo Chavez-Arroyo
Changbin Chen
Chen Chen
Chia-Yu Chen
Ji-Ming Chen
Juanjuan Chen
Ko-Hsuan Chen
Liang Chen
Qing Chen
Qu Chen
Loo Wee Chia
Chuan Chiang-Ni
Delma Childers
You-Hee Cho
Oana Ciofu
Christine Citti
Sarah E. Clark
Carolina Coelho
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Sarah S. Comstock
Sean Conlan
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Anindya Das
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Bryan W. Davies
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