Biological Sciences Staff Awards & Honors

October 2016

Bernstein Named to Microbiology Editorial Board at Scientific Reports

Congratulations are in order. Chemical engineer and microbiologist Hans Bernstein, a former Linus
Pauling Distinguished Postdoctoral Fellow, was invited to serve as an Editorial
Board member for Scientific Reports,
an online open-source journal from the Nature Publishing Group, the publishers
of Nature and related prestigious
journals. It is the young scientist's first such membership.

The journal has editorial boards in 41 science categories, each with
hundreds of representative scientists from around the world. Bernstein's
category alone, microbiology, has almost 240 members. Such editorial boards
oversee the peer review process and make final decisions on which papers are
accepted in a given category.

Bernstein's multidisciplinary background equips him for his original
(and prolific) research, particularly on how species within microbial consortia
regulate and coordinate metabolic activities and gene expression events.

Learning how such consortia interact in nature informs an important
scientific goal: to "rationally" design microbial communities that can be
controlled for targeted outputs, including biofuels and sustainable ecosystems
services.