Villaverde Microbial Cell Factories (2015) 14:34 DOI 10.1186/s12934-015-0215-7 REVIEWER ACKNOWLEDGEMENT Open Access Annual acknowledgement of manuscript reviewers Antonio Villaverde1,2,3 Contributing reviewers The Editors of Microbial Cell Factories would like to thank all our reviewers who have contributed to the journal in Volume 13 (2014). Usama Ramadan Abdelmohsen Germany Anjali Apte-Deshpande India Uttam Banerjee India Pratul Agarwal United States of America Joaquin Arino Spain François Baneyx United States of America Tatiana Aguiar Portugal Herb Arst United Kingdom Imrich Barak Slovakia Beth Ahner United States of America Ranjana Arya India Paolo Barghini Italy Rinji Akada Japan Magnus Ask Austria Rodolphe Barrangou United States of America Andres R. Alcantara Spain Shota Atsumi United States of America Stefan Barth Germany Pietro Alifano Italy Bernhard Auer Austria Gerold Barth Germany Josef Altenbuchner Germany Loredana Baccigalupi Italy Karl Bayer Austria Ricardo Amils Spain Herwig Bachmann Netherlands Carmela Belloch Spain Largus Angenent United States of America Linquan Bai China Heather Benson Australia Jozef Anne Belgium Fengwu Bai China Gabriele Berg Austria Josephine Anthony India Antonio O Ballasteros Spain Maria Celia Bertolini Brazil Correspondence: antoni.villaverde@uab.cat 1 Institut de Biotecnologia i de Biomedicina, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona Bellaterra, Barcelona 08193, Spain 2 Department de Genètica i de Microbiologia, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Bellaterra, Barcelona 08193, Spain 3 CIBER de Bioingeniería, Biomateriales y Nanomedicina (CIBER-BBN), Bellaterra, Barcelona 08193, Spain © 2015 Villaverde; licensee BioMed Central. 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