Congratulations to Dr. Vanessa Varaljay, IDI chief research officer, who will serve as an editor for the American Society for Microbiology journal, Microbiology Spectrum(impact factor 3.7). Microbiology Spectrum (Spectrum) is an online-only, fully open-access journal that publishes research from all domains of basic, applied, and clinical microbial sciences. Spectrum publishes research studies that are of high technical quality and are useful to the community. Dr. Varaljay will serve a three-year term in this role beginning January 2025 and will bring much needed expertise in genomics and next-generation sequencing.