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Reviewer acknowledgement 2015

Contributing reviewers

Biotechnology for Biofuels would like to thank all reviewers who have contributed to the journal in 2015.

Gabriel Acien

Spain

Sunil Adav

Singapore

Felix Adom

USA

Mukund Adsul

India

George Aggelis

Greece

Deepti Agrawal

India

Gennaro Agrimi

Italy

André Aguiar

Brazil

Joong-Hoon Ahn

South Korea

M Kalim Akhtar

UK

Gabriela Alfaro-Espinoza

Germany

Benjamin Allardyce

Australia

Grant Allen

Canada

Doug Allen

USA

João R M Almeida

Brazil

David Alonso

USA

Hal Alper

USA

Alberto Amaretti

Italy

Diletta Ami

Italy

Pratheep Annamalai

Australia

Jens Appel

Germany

Klaus-J Appenroth

Germany

Munehito Arai

Japan

Patricia Armshaw

Ireland

Vincent Arondel

France

Mikko Arvas

Finland

Mark Peter Ashe

UK

Arun Athmanathan

USA

Melani Atmodjo

USA

Shota Atsumi

USA

Manfred Auer

USA

Fengwu Bai

China

John Baker

USA

Venkatesh Balan

USA

Jie Bao

China

Xiaoming Bao

China

Luis Barahona-Perez

Mexico

Abdellatif Barakat

France

Brian Barr

USA

Laura Bartley

USA

Mirko Basen

Germany

Vinod Bathula

USA

Stefan Bauer

USA

Gregg Beckham

USA

Matthew Bennett

USA

Alex Berlin

USA

Rafael Bernardi

USA

Nicolas Bernet

France

Jean-Guy Berrin

France

Gwénaëlle Bestel-Corre

France

Maurizio Bettiga

Sweden

Fabrizio Bezzo

Italy

Samarthya Bhagia

USA

Aditya Bhalla

USA

Hem Bhandari

USA

Peter Biely

Slovakia

Damla Bilgin

USA

D Biria

Iran

Kateřina Bišová

Czech Republic

Rajib Biswas

USA

Jeffrey Blanchard

USA

Hans Blaschek

USA

Bastin Blombach

Germany

Sara Blumer-Schuette

USA

Wout Boerjan

Belgium

Rafal Bogel-Lukasik

Portugal

Gregory Bokinsky

The Netherlands

Silvia Bolado

Spain

Eckhard Boles

Germany

Antonio Bonomi

Brazil

Mallika Boonmee

Thailand

Alasdair Boraston

Canada

Florent Bouxin

UK

Paola Branduardi

Italy

Tore Brembu

Norway

Andreas Bremges

Germany

Michel Brienzo

Brazil

Patrick Brown

USA

Steven Brown

USA

T Bruck

Germany

Mahesh Bule

USA

Renata Bura

USA

Michael Burkart

USA

Gloria Burow

USA

Kara Cafferty

USA

Zhen Cai

China

Zeynep Petek Cakar

Turkey

Jesus Campos-García

Mexico

Thomas Canam

USA

Isaac Cann

USA

Danilo A Cantero

Spain

Yi Cao

China

Marta Carballa

Spain

Magnus Carlquist

Sweden

Ross Carlson

USA

Alberta Carpenter

USA

Rosario Castillo

Chile

Jamie Cate

USA

Ewelina Celinska

Poland

Verawat Champreda

Thailand

Richard Chandra

Canada

Matthew Chang

Singapore

Jo-Shu Chang

Taiwan

Varodom Charoensawan

Thailand

Afroditi Chatzifragkou

UK

Benjamas Cheirsilp

Thailand

Shreeshivadasan Chelliapan

Malaysia

Guo-Qiang Chen

China

Hongge Chen

China

Hongzhang Chen

China

Xin-de Chen

China

Yinguang Chen

China

Chun-Yen Chen

Taiwan

Bor-Yann Chen

Taiwan

Xiaowen Chen

USA

Gang Cheng

China

Yu-Shen Cheng

Taiwan

David Chiaramonti

Italy

C Perry Chou

Canada

Te-Jin Chow

Taiwan

Soumitra Chowdhury

Germany

Paul Christakopoulos

Sweden

Kung-Hui Chu

USA

Christopher Chuck

UK

Marek Cieplak

Poland

Anthony Clarke

Canada

James Coker

USA

Andre Coleman

USA

Ulrich Commandeur

Germany

Cristobal Corpas

Spain

Aline Costa

Brazil

Qiu Cui

China

Ting Cui

China

Yi Cui

China

Dan Cullen

USA

Etienne Dague

France

Junbiao Dai

China

Jean-Marc Daran

The Netherlands

Maurycy Daroch

China

Debabrata Das

India

Mark Davis

USA

Brian Davison

USA

Eduardo R de Azevedo

Brazil

Heizir De Castro

Brazil

Riaan de Haan

South Africa

Marcos Antonio De Morais Jr.

Brazil

Wanderley de Souza

Brazil

Ronald de Vries

The Netherlands

Steve Decker

USA

Cristina Del Bianco

Italy

Luis Del Rio

Canada

Deborah Delmer

USA

Jaclyn DeMartini

USA

Marie Demuez

Spain

Santino Di Berardino

Portugal

Bruce Dien

USA

Maria Dimarogona

Sweden

Shi-You Ding

USA

Elio Dinuccio

Italy

Jayna Ditty

USA

Lucilia Domingues

Portugal

Bryon Donohoe

USA

Carl Douglas

Canada

Arnold Driessen

The Netherlands

Dorra Driss

Tunisia

Irina Druzhinina

Austria

Guocheng Du

China

Zhuwei Du

China

Kow Jen Duan

Taiwan

Tim Dumonceaux

Canada

Laurence Dumon-Seignovert

France

Jennifer Dunn

USA

Robert Dunn

USA

Simon Dusseau

France

Paul Dyer

UK

Armin Ehrenreich

Germany

Vincent Eijsink

Norway

W Eisenreich

Germany

Thomas Elder

USA

James Elkins

USA

José Empis

Portugal

Borbala Erdei

Sweden

Jaime Eyzaguirre

Chile

Thaddeus Ezeji

USA

Zhiliang Fan

USA

Xu Fang

China

Zhen Fang

China

Jianmin Fang

UK

Vincenza Faraco

Italy

Qiang Fei

USA

Claus Felby

Denmark

Jiaxun Feng

China

Francisco Jesus Fernandez Morales

Spain

Andre Ferraz

Brazil

Antônio Djalma Ferraz Júnior

Brazil

Marcia Ferreira

Brazil

Viridiana Ferreira-Leitão

Brazil

Manuel Ferrer

Spain

Henri-Pierre Fierobe

France

Francisco Florencio

Spain

César Fonseca

Portugal

Marcus Foston

USA

Eric Fouilland

France

Brian Fox

USA

Marco Fraaije

The Netherlands

Mary Ann Franden

USA

Stefano Freguia

Australia

Jesper Frickmann

USA

Pengcheng Fu

China

Zui Fujimoto

Japan

Papa Gabriella

USA

Mats Galbe

Sweden

Anna Maria Galletti

Italy

Xue Gao

USA

María del Prado García Aparicio

South Africa

Xin Ge

USA

Xumeng Ge

USA

Anli Geng

Singapore

Donna Gibson

USA

Glenda E Gillaspy

USA

S Gkelis

Greece

N Louise Glass

USA

D V Gokhale

India

Gustavo Goldman

Brazil

Paula Goncalves

Portugal

Cristina Gonzalez

Spain

Maria I González Siso

Spain

K Gopalakrishnan

India

Johann Gorgens

South Africa

Steven Gorsich

USA

Ester Gouveia

Brazil

Bernhard Grimm

Germany

Dominique Grizeau

France

Melanie Grogger

USA

Amy Grunden

USA

Yang Gu

China

Steinn Gudmundsson

Iceland

Jianhua Guo

China

Wan-Qian Guo

China

Miao Guo

UK

Vijai Kumar Gupta

Ireland

Raghu Gurram

USA

Adam Guss

USA

Gisela Guthausen

Germany

Ji-Sook Hahn

South Korea

Patrick Hallenbeck

Canada

Jerome Hamelin

France

Sung Ok Han

South Korea

Taizo Hanai

Japan

Henrik Hansson

Sweden

Valerie Harmon

USA

Annele Hatakka

Finland

Samuel Hazen

USA

Ning He

China

Pinjing He

China

Zhen He

USA

Ronald Hector

USA

Kai Heimel

Germany

Klaas Hellingwerf

The Netherlands

Bernard Henrissat

France

Michael Henson

USA

Pérez Herminia Inés

Mexico

Mark Hildebrand

USA

Shih-Hsin Ho

Taiwan

David Hodge

USA

Mitsuo Horita

Japan

Svein Jarle Horn

Norway

Jinguang Hu

Canada

Hanhua Hu

China

Zhenhu Hu

China

He Huang

China

Chi-Yu Huang

Taiwan

Fang Huang

USA

Paul Hudson

Sweden

Michael Huesemann

USA

Steve Hutcheson

USA

David Ibarra

Spain

Marja Ilmen

Finland

Augusta Isaac

Brazil

Takuro Ito

Japan

Christa Ivanova

France

Makio Iwahashi

Japan

Javier Izquierdo

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Jungho Jae

USA

Nikhil Jaikumar

USA

Yu-Sin Jang

South Korea

Kaemwich Jantama

Thailand

Grzegorz Janusz

Poland

Cy Jeffries

Germany

Tina Jeoh

USA

Byong-Hun Jeon

South Korea

Min Jiang

China

Rongrong Jiang

Singapore

Diego Jimenez

The Netherlands

Eon Seon Jin

South Korea

Mingjie Jin

USA

Katja Johansen

Sweden

Jane Johnson

USA

Patrik Jones

Finland

Ann-Sofi Jonsson

Sweden

Chijioke Joshua

USA

Yi-Je Juang

Taiwan

Gyoo Yeol Jung

South Korea

David Kaftan

Czech Republic

Katy Kao

USA

Keikhosro Karimi

Iran

Susan Karp

Brazil

Rui Katahira

USA

Katariina Kemppainen

Finland

William Kenealy

USA

Eduard Kerkhoven

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Byung-Gee Kim

South Korea

Dong-Hoon Kim

South Korea

K Thomas Klasson

USA

Sabine Kleinsteuber

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Mario Klimacek

Austria

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USA

Magdalena Kolbusz

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Akihiko Kondo

Japan

Ioannis Kookos

Greece

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Takuya Koseki

Japan

Kornel L Kovacs

Hungary

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Emma Kreuger

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Malgorzata Krzywonos

Poland

Ajay Kumar

India

Ravindra Kumar

India

Shashi Kumar

India

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USA

Rajeev Kumar

USA

Masao Kunioka

Japan

Rodrigo Labatut

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Paulo Lacava

Brazil

Michael Ladisch

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Cecilia Laluce

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Ethan Lan

Taiwan

Siegmund Lang

Germany

Lene Lange

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Lakkana Laopaiboon

Thailand

Edmundo Larenas

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Taiwan

Zbigniew Lazar

France

Changsoo Lee

South Korea

Jin-Woo Lee

South Korea

Jung-Kul Lee

South Korea

Cheng-Kang Lee

Taiwan

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Y Y Lee

USA

Gustavo Leite

Canada

Patricia Inés Leonardi

Argentina

Susanna Leong

Singapore

Fuli Li

China

Hong-Ye Li

China

Jianzheng Li

China

Shengying Li

China

Shizhong Li

China

Yin Li

China

Si-Yu Li

Taiwan

Chenlin Li

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Hongjia Li

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Shundai Li

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Xiaobo Li

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Yonghua Li-Beisson

France

Gunnar Liden

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Carmen Limon

Spain

Shanzhi Lin

China

Chih-Sheng Lin

Taiwan

Jeff Linger

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Dehua liu

China

Jianhua Liu

China

Tiangang Liu

China

Weifeng Liu

China

Zhidan Liu

China

Dajiang Liu

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Fang Liu

USA

Hong Liu

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Xiaoguang Margaret Liu

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Yan Liu

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Adrian Lopez Garcia de Lomana

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Isabel M Lopez-Lara

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Etienne Low-Decarie

UK

Roland Ludwig

Austria

Taina Lundell

Finland

Xiaolan Luo

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Jason Lupoi

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Francisco Luque

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Jeremy Luterbacher

Switzerland

Gary Lye

UK

Lee Lynd

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Kesen Ma

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Cuiqing Ma

China

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Austria

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Austria

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Miia Mäkelä

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Greece

Isabel Marques

Portugal

Paula Marques

Portugal

Darren Martin

Australia

Alfredo Martinez

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Pablo Martín-Ramos

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Christopher Marx

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Emma Master

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Cesar Mateo

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Leonidas Matsakas

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Harold D May

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John McBride

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Mark McBride

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Armando McDonald

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Lauren McKee

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Anastasios Melis

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Italy

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Denmark

Christian Meyer

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Isabelle Meynial-Salles

France

Krystian Miazek

Belgium

Todd Michael

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Michele Michelin

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Célia Miguel

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Michel Minier

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Aindrila Mukhopadhyay

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Argentina

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Jean-Marc Nicaud

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Susanne Theuerl

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Liang Tian

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Evangelos Topakas

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Cong Trinh

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Cong Trinh

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Suguru Tsuchimoto

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Shi-An Wang

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Xin Wang

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Yong Wang

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Yi Wang

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Ethan Warner

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Kazuya Watanabe

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Dong-Zhi Wei

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du Preez, J., Himmel, M., Mohnen, D. et al. Reviewer acknowledgement 2015. Biotechnol Biofuels 9, 46 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1186/s13068-016-0453-x

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