Dr Muhammad Kamruzzaman (PhD, Kyoto University, Japan, 2008) is a senior lecturer at the University of Sydney and a research scientist at Westmead Institute for Medical Sciences. Previously, he was a Research Fellow at the University of Sydney (2011–14) and an Associate Scientist (2008–13) at the Molecular Microbiology Research Group of the International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh. Kamruzzaman’s research expertise includes antibiotic resistance genetics, mobile genetic elements (plasmids and phages), bacterial genetics, and synthetic biology. Kamruzzaman is a professional member of the Australian Society for Microbiology, an examiner of Honours and PhD theses, is serving as a Special Issue Editor in the journals Frontiers in Microbiology (2020–21) and Microorganisms (2020–21), and is a reviewer of many well-reputed scientific journals. He is an Associate Editor at Frontiers in Microbiology and a Topical Advisory panel member at Microorganisms.