Editorial Board
Our team of Academic Editors, who assist and advise our in-house editors on manuscripts during the review process.
Biophysics and Biomechanics
Anders Hedenström
Lund University, Sweden
Biomechanics, flight, aerodynamics, movement, migration, ecology and evolution of animal flight, high-speed wing motion analysis, airflow visualization, force measurement
Graham Taylor
orcid.org/0000-0001-8289-755X
University of Oxford, UK
Biomechanics, flight dynamics, swimming, control systems, sensory systems, sensory ecology (also: avian palaeontology, animal navigation, migration)
Cellular and Molecular Biology
Cancer Biology
Connie Eaves
Terry Fox Laboratory, Canada
Hematopoiesis, leukemic stem cells, chronic myeloid leukemia, breast cancer, mammary stem cells, transplantation, single cell studies
Albana Gattelli
Ciudad Universitaria, Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales (FCEN), Argentina
Breast and other solid cancers, cancer signalling and cancer immunology, mammary gland development (also: cell proliferation, migration and motility)
Monika Hegi
orcid.org/0000-0003-0855-6495
University of Lausanne, Switzerland
Glioblastoma, brain tumours, epigenetics
Pascal Meier
Institute of Cancer Research, London, UK
Cell death and inflammation, cancer, ubiquitin-mediated regulation of cell survival, cancer therapeutics
Mario Suva
orcid.org/0000-0001-9898-5351
Harvard University, USA
Glioblastoma, genomics, single cell analysis
Matt van de Rijn
Stanford University School of Medicine, USA
Prognostic markers in sarcoma and cancer, cancer genomics
Cell Cycle
Hilary Coller
University of California, Los Angeles, USA
Molecular basis of quiescent cells; cancer-associated fibroblasts, genomic approaches to cell cycle and cancer
Bruce Edgar
University of Utah, USA
Drosophila cell growth, cell cycle, intestinal stem cell regulation, TOR signaling
Marcos Malumbres
orcid.org/0000-0002-0829-6315
CNIO, Spain
Cell cycle, cell division/proliferation and cell differentiation, cell growth, mitosis, cancer metabolism, microcephaly (also: microRNAs, pluripotent stem cells)
David Pellman
Advisory Board Member
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, USA
Cell division, genome stability, chromosome segregation, cytoskeletal dynamics
Jon Pines
Institute of Cancer Research, London, UK
Cancer, mitosis, chromosome segregation, cyclins
Sarah Zanders
Stowers Institute for Medical Research, USA
Molecular genetics and evolution; meiosis, meiotic drive, meiotic recombination, and genome evolution (also: fungal genomes and fungal evolution)
Cell Migration and Cell Death
Mathieu Bertrand
VIB Center for Inflammation Research, University of Ghent, Belgium
Signal transduction, cell death, inflammation, innate immune receptors, tumor necrosis factor receptors (TNFRs)
Ana Garcia-Sáez
CECAD Research Center, University of Cologne, Germany
Membrane biology and organization, regulated cell death, Bcl-2 proteins, membrane dynamics and biophysics, single molecule techniques, fluorescence correlation spectroscopy, super resolution microscopy, FRAP, FRET, live cell imaging, model membrane systems
Hans-Uwe Simon
University of Bern, Switzerland
Role of apoptosis and autophagy in inflammatory diseases and cancer; innate immunity, inflammation, allergy, eosinophils, neutrophils, neutrophil extracellular traps, autophagy, immunopharmacology
Anna Huttenlocher
orcid.org/0000-0001-7940-6254
University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA
Cell migration, chemotaxis, innate immunity and inflammation, zebrafish immunity, wound healing and cancer biology, leukocyte migration, regeneration
Laura Machesky
The Beatson Institute for Cancer Research, UK
Cell migration, invasion, metastasis, actin cytoskeleton
Carole Parent
The University of Michigan, USA
Cell migration, amoeboid migration in Dictyostelium and neutrophils, signal transduction, GPCR signaling, cytoskeleton dynamics, live cell imaging (also: metastatic migration and invasion)
Renata Basto
orcid.org/0000-0001-5556-2770
Institut Curie, France
Centriole and cilia biogenesis, microtubule organising center, stem cells, cancer
Dagmar Wachten
orcid.org/0000-0003-4800-6332
University of Bonn, Germany
Cilia biology, including sperm and primary cilia; ciliary signaling and ciliary function in health and disease; cell biology including cylic nucleotide signaling; optogenetics and high-resolution microscopy
Development and Signaling
Marianne Bronner
California Institute of Technology, USA
Developmental neurobiology, neural crest, epigenetics of development, evo-devo, early patterning and morphogenesis (also: stem cell biology, cell biology, neuroscience)
Kim Cooper
University of California, San Diego, USA
Limb development, musculoskeletal development, skeletal growth, bone reshaping; evolution and development; non-traditional model system - the Lesser Egyptian Jerboa, Jaculus jaculus
Cecilia Lo
orcid.org/0000-0003-4314-3434
University of Pittsburgh, USA
Cardiovascular development, congenital heart disease, cilia biology, ciliopathies, left-right patterning, mouse models, developmental genetics (also: neurodevelopment, live cell and embryo imaging, general embryology, gap junction biology)
Mary Mullins
orcid.org/0000-0002-9979-1564
University of Pennsylvania, USA
BMP, development, vertebrate body plan
Emma Rawlins
orcid.org/0000-0001-7426-3792
Gurdon Institute, University of Cambridge, UK
Developmental biology (lung development and similar organs), organogenesis in vertebrates, adult stem cell biology (also: cell fate decisions in model organisms e.g. Drosophila, stem cell-related cancer biology, cell biology)
Yi-Hsien Su
orcid.org/0000-0001-6798-9632
Academia Sinica, Taiwan
Evolution of the gene regulatory circuitries patterning body axes and specifying cell fates, early embryogenesis, BMP signaling, developmental mechanisms of deuterostomes (echinoderm sea urchin, hemichordate acorn worm)
Nic Tapon
The Francis Crick Institute, UK
Tissue growth control, morphogenesis in model organisms, Hippo pathway, organ size and shape control (also: cell polarity, cell cycle, programmed cell death, mechanotransduction, cellular signalling in development, coupling between growth and nutrition, actin cytoskeleton)
Amy Weinmann
University of Alabama at Birmingham, USA
Cell fate decisions during development, lineage-specifying transcription factors, metabolism, T cell differentiation
Simon Hughes
King's College, London, UK
Muscle fibres, muscle patterning, somite assembly, tracking cell processes in vivo
Konrad Basler
University of Zurich, Switzerland
Signaling pathways in development, Wnt, Hh, TGFbeta, TNF
Caroline Hill
Advisory Board Member
The Francis Crick Institute, UK
Growth factors, TGF-beta, cancer, development
François Schweisguth
Institut Pasteur, France
Notch signaling, asymmetric cell division, epithelial polarity and morphogenesis, cell fate decisions, developmental patterning, Drosophila cell and developmental processes
Ursula Jakob
University of Michigan, USA
Bacterial response to oxidative stress; redox regulation and the role of oxidative stress in host defense and aging
Stem Cells
Joshua Brickman
University of Copenhagen, Denmark
Early embryonic development, stem cells, differentiation, transcription
Christa Bücker
Max Perutz Labs, Vienna, Austria
Stem cell biology (early embryonic development, pluripotent stem cell states, cell fate transitions, differentiation, transcription, enhancers) and gene expression regulation (enhancers, PolII transcription, chromatin dynamics, transcription factors)
Catarina Homem
CEDOC / NOVA Medical School, Lisbon, Portugal
Neurogenesis, neurodevelopment, stem cells, neural stem cells, stem cell metabolism, Drosophila metabolism, Drosophila endocrinology and physiology, cancer metabolism, cell growth, cell fate decisions, asymmetric cell division
Bon-Kyoung Koo
orcid.org/0000-0002-4134-8033
Institute for Basic Science, Daejeon, South Korea
Mouse genetics - development, cancer genetics, organogenesis, tissue homeostasis, Notch and Wnt signaling pathways, ubiquitination; organoids, intestinal and gastric adult tissue stem cells, adult and pluripotent stem cells; development of genetic tools for lineage tracing and advanced genetic engineering, CRISPR/Cas9 technology (also: cancer modeling, single cell RNA sequencing)
Madeline Lancaster
University of Cambridge, UK
Organoids, developmental neurobiology, neural stem cells, neural differentiation, brain evolution
Sally Lowell
orcid.org/0000-0002-4018-9480
University of Edinburgh, UK
Stem cell biology, pluripotent cells, early mouse embryonic development (also: vertebrate developmental biology, biology of regeneration)
Tom Rando
Stanford University, USA
Muscle cell and stem cell biology, aging, Wnt and Notch signaling, muscular dystrophy, tissue regeneration, tissue engineering
Kate Storey
orcid.org/0000-0003-3506-1287
University of Dundee, UK
Neural differentiation, embryonic stem cells, FGF, retinoic acid
Yukiko Yamashita
orcid.org/0000-0001-5541-0216
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA
Adult stem cells, stem cell niche, spindle orientation, polarity, asymmetric stem cell division, germ cells
Aging
Judith Campisi
Buck Institute for Research on Aging, USA
Cancer, aging, cell senescence, inflammation
Jennifer Garrison
orcid.org/0000-0002-5621-2139
Buck Institute, USA
Neuromodulators, neuropeptide signaling, aging, imaging, genetics, C. elegans, mouse
Thomas Kirkwood
Newcastle University, UK
Mechanisms of cellular aging, evolution and genetics of aging, caloric restriction, mathematical biology, biological standardization
Heidi Tissenbaum
University of Massachusetts Medical School, USA
Aging, insulin, IGF1, lifespan, fat storage, forkhead transcription factor DAF-16
Chronobiology
Fernanda Ceriani
orcid.org/0000-0001-8945-3070
Fundación Instituto Leloir, Argentina
Drosophila circadian clocks, circadian control of behavior, neuronal structural plasticity (also: use of C. elegans, Drosophila, invertebrate models for mechanisms of neurodegeneration and aging)
Samer Hattar
NIMH, USA
Light, circadian rhythms, sleep; light detection in mammalian retina
Achim Kramer
orcid.org/0000-0001-9671-6078
Charité–Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Germany
Mammalian circadian rhythms, post-translational regulation, circadian clock in the olfactory system and immune system, chronobiology, (also: sleep)
Gene Expression Regulation
Peter Becker
Advisory Board Member
orcid.org/0000-0001-7186-0372
Adolf Butenandt Institute, Ludwig-Maximilians University, Germany
Chromatin dynamics, nucleosome remodeling, transcription, Drosophila dosage compensation, epigenetics
Jeff Coller
Johns Hopkins University, USA
RNA Biology, mRNA translation, mRNA stability, RNA processing
Wendy Gilbert
orcid.org/0000-0003-2807-9657
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA
Translational control, ribosomes, RNA modifications (also: RNA Biology)
Petra Hajkova
MRC London Institute of Medical Sciences, UK
Epigenetic reprogramming and chromatin remodeling in the developing mouse germ line and in the mouse zygote; DNA modifications, chromatin assembly/disassembly and underlying histone dynamics (also: early mammalian development and pluripotency)
James Kadonaga
University of California, San Diego, USA
RNA polymerase II-mediated transcription, chromatin dynamics, promoter elements, ribosome biogenesis, chromatin assembly process, nucleosomes
René Ketting
IMB, Mainz, Germany
Non-coding RNAs, piRNA and siRNA biology, zebrafish and C. elegans, gene regulation, general germ cell development and early embryogenesis
Eros Lazzerini-Denchi
National Cancer Institute, USA
Telomere biology, genomic instability, DNA damage/repair, chromosome structure, replication
Tom Misteli
Advisory Board Member
National Cancer Institute, USA
Chromatin, nuclear architecture, epigenetics, splicing, imaging
Phil Zamore
University of Massachusetts Medical School, USA
miRNAs, siRNAs, piRNAs
Genome Stability and DNA Repair
Scott Keeney
orcid.org/0000-0002-1283-6417
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, USA
Meiosis, recombination (using following tools - genetics, biochemistry, cytology, and genomics/bioinformatics), DNA repair, chromosome structure, topoisomerases, chromatin structure, DNA replication (also: gametogenesis, chromosome segregation, cell cycle)
Tanya Paull
The University of Texas at Austin, USA
DNA damage response, checkpoint activation, DNA double-strand breaks, oxidative stress signaling, protein kinases and signaling
Agata Smogorzewska
Rockefeller University, USA
DNA repair (also: telomeres, human genetics)
Metabolism
Heather Christofk
University of California, Los Angeles, USA
Cancer metabolism, viral metabolism, metabolomics, stem cell metabolism, signaling pathway regulation of metabolism
Giovanni D’Angelo
Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland
Biosynthetic pathways, glycosphingolipids, membrane trafficking, lipid biology (also: imaging mass spectrometry and organoids biology)
Alex Gould
orcid.org/0000-0002-6875-6985
The Francis Crick Institute, UK
Drosophila – metabolism, development, lifespan, physiology, endocrinology, developmental neurobiology (also: cancer metabolism, metabolomics, neural stem cells, cell signaling, cell competition)
Rebecca Haeusler
orcid.org/0000-0002-6973-9845
Columbia University, USA
Metabolic diseases, energy metabolism, bile acid metabolism, lipoproteins, diabetes, insulin resistance and signaling, obesity, cardiovascular diseases, atherosclerosis
Gökhan Hotamışlıgil
Harvard School of Public Health, USA
Energy metabolism and metabolic homeostasis, interactions between metabolism and immune response, metabolic diseases (e.g. obesity, diabetes), adipocyte differentiation and function, lipid nutrient biology
Jason Locasale
orcid.org/0000-0002-7766-3502
Duke University School of Medicine, USA
Structure and function of metabolic networks in health and pathology, cancer metabolism, metabolic control of chromatin state and epigenetics, metabolomics, computational approaches to understanding metabolic networks
Susanne Mandrup
University of Southern Denmark, Denmark
Metabolism, transcriptional regulation of metabolism in adipocytes and pancreatic beta-cells, adipocyte differentiation, lineage commitment of human mesenchymal stem cells, acyl-CoA binding protein (ACBP)
Nicole Soranzo
The Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, UK
Human complex trait genomics and genetics, cardiometabolic diseases (e.g. coronary artery disease and type 2 diabetes)
Mary Teruel
orcid.org/0000-0002-2854-3598
Weill Cornell Medical College, Cornell University, USA
Systems biology of cell differentiation; adipogenesis and osteogenesis; microscopy/imaging and mass spec tools; fluorescent probe development; quantitative biology; biological oscillations (such as circadian rhythms, hormonal signals, cell cycle), cell-to-cell variation/noise/heterogeneity; proteomics; understanding how feedback, noise, and the timing of oscillatory inputs critically control cell-fate decisions in the context of obesity, diabetes, cancer, aging, and tissue regeneration; insulin resistance (also: computational modeling)
Rong Tian
University of Washington, USA
Energy metabolism, cardiovascular disease, mitochondrial dysfunction, metabolic signaling, NMR
Parasite Biology
Tania De Koning-Ward
Deakin University, Australia
Malaria, host-pathogen interactions, pathogenesis and protein trafficking, virulence mechanisms and immunity to human and animal model pathogens
Michael Duffy
orcid.org/0000-0001-5635-4033
University of Melbourne, Australia
Plasmodium biology, malaria, antigenic variation, chromatin structure, epigenetics, transcription, nuclear biology (also: other parasites, serology of infectious disease, Illumina sequencing based projects)
Kami Kim
University of South Florida, USA
Infectious diseases, parasitology, especially Apicomplexan parasites (Plasmodium, Toxoplasma, Cryptosporidium), host-pathogen interactions including bacteria, fungi, parasites; systems biology; epigenetics
André Schneider
orcid.org/0000-0001-5421-0909
University of Bern, Switzerland
Mitochondrial biogenesis in Trypanosoma brucei, mitochondrial tRNA and protein import, mitochondrial biogenesis; organelles in parasitic protist
Boris Striepen
University of Pennsylvania, USA
Protozoan parasites, parasite chloroplast, drug development, Apicomplexa, Toxoplasma
Gary Ward
University of Vermont, USA
Toxoplasma, host cell invasion, parasite multiplication and host cell lysis, apicomplexan parasites
Reproduction
Masahito Ikawa
orcid.org/0000-0001-9859-6217
Osaka University, Japan
Mammalian reproductive systems, sperm and male fertility, spermatogenesis, sperm function, fertilization, oocyte activation
Polina Lishko
University of California, Berkeley, USA
Reproductive physiology of mammalian fertilization, human sperm cells and sperm ion channels, sperm motility and male infertility, ovarian aging; calcium channels, ligand-gated ion channels, proton channels; mitochondria
Rocio Rivera
University of Missouri, USA
Mammalian reproductive biology, epigenetics, superovulation, fertility and aging
Carmen Williams
NIEHS, USA
Physiology of mammalian fertilization, human sperm cells and sperm ion channels
Mariana Wolfner
orcid.org/0000-0003-2701-9505
Cornell University, USA
Reproduction, function of seminal fluid proteins, oocyte activation
Trafficking and Cellular Dynamics
Anna Akhmanova
Utrecht University, Netherlands
Organization and dynamics of the microtubule dynamics, microtubule-based organelle transport and motor proteins (kinesins, dyneins), microtubule-based processes in neurons (also: vesicle trafficking, Rab GTPases, cell polarity, migration, mitotic spindle organization)
Fred Hughson
Princeton University, USA
Intracellular trafficking, membrane vesicles, bacterial communication and quorum sensing
Sophie Martin
University of Lausanne, Switzerland
Cell polarity, cytoskeleton, membrane fusion/trafficking, cell cycle (also: yeast cell biology)
Maya Schuldiner
Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel
Yeast systems biology and cell biology, translocation into organelles, protein sorting, membrane contact sites and trafficking
Anne Simonsen
orcid.org/0000-0003-4711-7057
University of Oslo, Norway
Autophagy, membrane trafficking, endocytosis
Sharon Tooze
The Francis Crick Institute, UK
Autophagy, biogenesis of autophagosomes, Atg proteins
Virology
Andrea Cimarelli
orcid.org/0000-0003-0892-0488
INSERM-CNRS, Université Lyon, France
Virology, immunology, retroviruses, interferon, restriction factors, cell biology
Karla Kirkegaard
orcid.org/0000-0001-7628-3770
Stanford University School of Medicine, USA
Virology, genetic susceptibility to infectious disease, autophagy, long noncoding RNAs
Sarah Rowland-Jones
Advisory Board Member
Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine, University of Oxford, UK
Immunity to virus infection, immune response, HIV, vaccines
Bill Sugden
orcid.org/0000-0002-8724-4504
University of Wisconsin–Madison, USA
EBV, Burkitts lymphoma, herpesvirus, mononucleosis, B cell lymphomas, LMP1 gene, cellular unfolded protein response, autophagy in B-cells, EBNA1, oriP, viral replication
Ecology
Pedro Jordano
orcid.org/0000-0003-2142-9116
Estación Biológica de Doñana, CSIC, Spain
Biodiversity, integrative ecology, ecological interactions and systems (e.g. mutualistic networks between plants, pollinators and seed dispersers), evolutionary ecology, population genetics, theoretical ecology
Michel Loreau
Advisory Board Member
Theoretical and Experimental Ecology Station, CNRS & Paul Sabatier University, Moulis, France
Biodiversity, ecosystem functioning, ecology, evolutionary ecology
Anurag Agrawal
Cornell University, USA
Ecology, evolution, plant–insect interaction, herbivory, community ecology
Craig Moritz
Australian National University, Australia
Ecology, evolution, molecular markers to infer population processes, habitat changes, faunas, rainforest biota, conservation biology
Hélène Morlon
École Normale Supérieure, France
Macroevolution, macroecology, community assembly, microbial biogeography, biodiversity, conservation
Wenying Shou
orcid.org/0000-0001-5693-381X
University College, London, UK
Quantitative experimental biology, mathematical modeling of biological systems, ecology and evolution in microbial communities, evolution of cooperation and multi-level selection, spatial patterning and self-organization
Andrew Tanentzap
orcid.org/0000-0002-2883-1901
University of Cambridge, UK
Ecosystem ecology, biogeochemistry, global change, macroecology, biodiversity, plant-animal interactions, conservation, mathematical and statistical modelling, plant ecology, phylogenetics, macroevolution
Gail Patricelli
University of California, Davis, USA
Behavioral ecology, bioacoustics, visuals signals and conservation in birds, reproduction, sexual selection and signaling in birds
Andy Dobson
Princeton University, USA
Ecology of infectious diseases, conservation, carnivores
Evolutionary Biology
Mark Siegal
orcid.org/0000-0001-6930-2988
New York University, USA
Drosophila and yeast evolutionary systems biology (variation in regulatory systems using experimental and/or theoretical methods), evolution and genetics of complex traits, robustness, canalization, evolutionary plasticity, stochasticity, cryptic genetic variation, high-throughput phenotyping/image analysis, genetics and evolution of sexual differentiation in invertebrates (also: Drosophila and yeast developmental genetics, vertebrate sexual differentiation, analysis of human genetic variation)
Tiago Bosisio Quental
USP, Sao Paolo, Brazil
Paleobiology, macroevolution, speciation, extinction, diversity dynamics, biotic interactions, ecology
Michael Jennions
The Australian National University, Australia
Behavioural and reproductive ecology, whole organism evolutionary biology, sexual selection, meta-research
Laurent Keller
University of Lausanne, Switzerland
Animal behaviour, ecology, evolutionary genetics and genomics, insects
Catherine Hobaiter
orcid.org/0000-0002-3893-0524
University of St. Andrews, Scotland
Evolution of communication and social behaviour, primate behaviour, animal cognition (also: socio-ecology in mammals, human behaviour)
Selene Fernández Valverde
LANGEBIO Cinvestav, Irapuato, Mexico
Transcriptomics, gene regulation and non-coding RNAs in model and non-model organisms, genomic/bioinformatic approaches in evolution of gene regulatory systems, RNA-Seq and small RNA sequencing, genome annotation (also: novel sequencing techniques, development of genomic techniques for non classical model organisms)
Andreas Hejnol
orcid.org/0000-0003-2196-8507
University of Bergen, Norway
Developmental biology, evolutionary developmental biology and comparative genomics; molecular phylogenetics and gene regulation
Abdou Khila
orcid.org/0000-0003-0908-483X
IGFL Lyon, France
Developmental genomics and evolution; selective pressures in shaping animal diversity, body plan organization, morphogenetic segmentation; conquest of new ecological habitats, water strider
Arjan de Visser
Wageningen University, Netherlands
Microbial experimental evolution, epistasis, evolution of sex and recombination, evolution of antibiotic resistance (also: evolutionary genetics and evolutionary ecology relating to bacteria and fungi)
Csaba Pál
Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Hungary
Experimental evolution, microbial evolution, antibiotic resistance, network evolution (evolutionary systems biology)
Harmit Malik
orcid.org/0000-0001-6005-0016
Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, USA
Genome evolution, evolution of centromeres, innate and intrinsic immunity against viruses, mobile genetic elements in Drosophila
Leonie Moyle
orcid.org/0000-0003-4960-8001
Indiana University, USA
Genome evolution, genetics, speciation, adaptation, evolutionary ecology, sexual conflict (also: sexual selection, plant reproductive biology, evolutionary genomics)
Nora Besansky
orcid.org/0000-0003-0646-0721
University of Notre Dame, USA
Evolutionary adaptation, hybridization, introgression, cryptic speciation, gene flow, invertebrate genomics, malaria, vector biology
Laurence Hurst
Advisory Board Member
orcid.org/0000-0002-1002-1054
University of Bath, UK
Evolutionary genetics and genomics, computational and mathematical modelling
Claudia Bank
orcid.org/0000-0003-4730-758X
University of Bern, Switzerland
Microbial evolution, population genetics, speciation, statistics, experimental evolution, theory, mathematical modeling
Isabel Gordo
orcid.org/0000-0003-1622-5143
Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência, Portugal
Bacterial evolution, population genetics, microbiome
Nick Barton
Advisory Board Member
The Institute of Science and Technology, Austria
Evolutionary biology, population genetics, mathematical models of evolution, species adaptation, natural selection
Qiaomei Fu
orcid.org/0000-0002-7141-0002
Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
Population genetics, ancient human genomics, human evolution, ancient DNA, early modern humans
Chris Jiggins
orcid.org/0000-0002-7809-062X
University of Cambridge, UK
Population genetics, speciation, introgression
Kelly Swarts
orcid.org/0000-0002-0578-7426
University of Vienna, Austria
Population genetics, ancient DNA, plants
Immunology
Avinash Bhandoola
orcid.org/0000-0002-4657-8372
National Cancer Institute, USA
Hematopoietic progenitor cells, migration to the thymus, Nature Helper Cells (T cell like cells), T cell leukemias and immunodeficiencies
Ken Cadwell
orcid.org/0000-0002-5860-0661
New York University, USA
Host–pathogen interactions, basic immunology, inflammation, autophagy, microbiome (virome), norovirus, mucosal immunity, inflammatory bowel disease (also: lymphocyte differentiation, molecular bacteriology)
Tom Freeman
orcid.org/0000-0001-5235-8483
Janssen Immunology, USA
Transcriptomics, network analysis, pathway modelling, immunobiology, macrophages (also: cell cycle and cancer).
Philippa Marrack
Advisory Board member
National Jewish Health and University of Colorado, USA
Immunology, T cell specificity and response
David Nemazee
Scripps Research Institute, USA
Receptor editing in B lymphocytes, antigen receptors, autoreactive lymphocytes, B cells, recombinase genes
Paula Oliver
University of Pennsylvania, USA
T cell biology, ubiquitin pathway biology, adaptive immunity, autoimmune and allergic disease
Feng Shao
orcid.org/0000-0002-9562-7791
NIBS (National Institute of Biological Sciences), China
Innate immunity, pyroptosis, inflammation, cell death, bacterial-host interaction
Takeshi Tsubata
orcid.org/0000-0003-0760-1258
Tokyo Medical and Dental University, Japan
B lymphocyte biology, antibody responses, autoimmune diseases (also: lectins)
Infectious Disease Dynamics
Tobias Bollenbach
orcid.org/0000-0003-4398-476X
University of Cologne, Germany
Systems biology, microbial ecology and evolution, drug combinations and antibiotic resistance, biophysics, computational biology, ecosystem modeling, gene regulatory networks, population modeling
Christophe Fraser
orcid.org/0000-0003-2399-9657
University of Oxford , UK
Mathematical and computational modelling of pathogen dynamics, epidemiology of infectious disease, evolutionary/within host pathogen dynamics, pathogen genetics &genomics, HIV, Streptococcus pneumoniae, antimicrobial resistance, evolution of virulence & emerging outbreaks (also: population genetics, mathematical modelling of biological processes, bioinformatics software, non-infectious disease epidemiology)
Andrew Read
orcid.org/0000-0001-7604-7903
Penn State University, USA
Evolution, ecology of infectious diseases, vaccines, insecticides, malaria, drug resistance
Roland Regös
orcid.org/0000-0001-8319-5293
Institute of Integrative Biology, Zurich, Switzerland
Theoretical and quantitative biology – virus dynamics (HIV, SIV, Salmonella typhimurium, LCMV), infectious disease dynamics, mathematical immunology, epidemiology and evolutionary ecology
Steven Riley
orcid.org/0000-0001-7904-4804
Imperial College London, UK
Transmission of human pathogens, emerging viruses (influenza), disease dynamics, mathematical models, public health, spatial ecology, host–pathogen interactions, phylogenetic studies
David Schneider
Advisory Board Member
orcid.org/0000-0002-2391-9963
Stanford University, USA
Microbiology and immunology, infectious disease
Microbiology
Michael Laub
Advisory Board Member
orcid.org/0000-0002-8288-7607
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA
Bacterial signal transduction, cell cycle progression, cellular asymmetry, two-component signal transduction, stress, checkpoints, genome stability
Matt Waldor
Advisory Board Member
orcid.org/0000-0003-1843-7000
Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, USA
Evolution, bacterial pathogenicity, mechanisms of bacterial cell processes (e.g. cell polarity), enteric pathogens, virulence control and therapeutics
Jonathan Eisen
Advisory Board Member
orcid.org/0000-0002-0159-2197
University of California, Davis, USA
Microbes, microbiome, phylogenetics, functional genomics
Victor Sourjik
Max Planck Institute for Terrestrial Microbiology & LOEWE Center for Synthetic Microbiology, Germany
Bacterial motility, systems biology, chemotaxis, signal transduction, bacterial cell biology, biofilms, synthetic biology (also: applications of fluorescence microscopy techniques, experimental evolution and mathematical modeling to study microorganisms.)
Nancy Moran
University of Texas at Austin, USA
Biology of symbiosis, insect and bacterial symbionts, aphid genes, carotenoid biosynthesis
Luis Teixeira
orcid.org/0000-0001-8326-6645
Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência, Portugal
Host-microbe interactions, endosymbionts, Wolbachia, microbiota, insect immunity, antiviral immunity, innate immunity (also: Drosophila genetics and physiology)
Joseph Heitman
orcid.org/0000-0001-6369-5995
Duke University Medical Center, USA
Microbial pathogenesis, sexual reproduction and evolution, virulence, fungal pathogens, antifungal drugs
Aaron Mitchell
orcid.org/0000-0002-0868-4000
Carnegie Mellon University, USA
Virulence mechanisms, biofilm formation, fungal pathogen-host interactions, Candida
Anita Sil
orcid.org/0000-0002-3987-7534
University of California, San Francisco, USA
Fungal pathogens, temperature-sensing, cell shape, host-pathogen interactions, innate immune response
Janelle Ayres
Salk Institute of Biological Studies, USA
Host-bacterial interactions (commensal and pathogens), microbial tolerance and resistance, antimicrobials and therapeutics
Neuroscience
Behavior
Chris Pierce
Rutgers University, USA
Behavioral neuroscience, systems neuroscience, addiction (drug addiction, cocaine addiction), epigenetics, transgenerational epigenetics
Eric Nestler
Advisory Board Member
orcid.org/0000-0002-7905-2000
Mount Sinai School of Medicine, USA
Addiction and depression, epigenetics
Cellular Physiology and Molecular Neurobiology
Gillian Bates
University College, London, UK
Neurodegeneration, Huntington’s disease, polyglutamine disorders, amyloid, proteostasis, preclinical evaluation
Richard Daneman
University of California, San Diego, USA
Neurovascular development, blood-brain barrier, neurovascular disease, glial cell biology, neurovascular coupling, neuron glial interactions, neuroinflmmation, multiple sclerosis, stroke, CNS drug delivery, regulation of neurotransmitters, mouse models of neurological disease
Franck Polleux
orcid.org/0000-0003-4313-0481
Columbia University, USA
Mammalian brain connectivity, neuronal differentiation, synaptic development, human brain evolution, mouse brain development, cellular and molecular mechanisms of neurodegeneration
Ben Emery
orcid.org/0000-0002-9132-3045
Oregon Health & Science University, USA
Myelin biology, glial biology, axoglial interactions, demyelinating diseases (e.g., multiple sclerosis) and animal models of demyelination/remyelination; oligodendrocytes and their progenitors (also: astrocytes, Schwann cells, microglia)
Marc Freeman
Oregon Health & Science University, USA
Neurodevelopment, glial cell biology, axon biology, axon degeneration, neuronal pruning, engulfment signaling or phagocytosis, nerve injury, model organism genetics – Drosophila, C. elegans, Zebrafish (also: cell death, development, tissue patterning, lineages, cell-cell signaling)
Kelly Monk
Vollum Institute, Oregon Health & Science University, USA
Glia, myelin, neuron-glial interactions, adhesion GPCRs, zebrafish and mouse genetics (also: neurodevelopment, model organism genetics, peripheral nervous system development and repair)
Mikael Simons
German Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases (DZNE), Germany
Glia, myelin, regeneration (also: neurodegeneration, neuroinflammation)
Bing Ye
orcid.org/0000-0002-8828-4065
University of Michigan, USA
Cellular and molecular mechanisms underlying the morphogenesis of neurons and the assembly of Drosophila neural circuits
Heather Cameron
National Institute of Mental Health, USA
Neurogenesis in hippocampus, granule cells, stress, depression, learning and memory
Joshua Dubnau
orcid.org/0000-0002-9285-7444
Stony Brook University, USA
Drosophila neurogenetics, Drosophila models of neurodegeneration, olfactory behavior and learning, impact of mobile elements on aging, neurodegeneration and the nervous system (also: somatic mosaicism, animal models of aging, single cell RNAseq and DNA sequencing)
Bassem Hassan
Institut du Cerveau et de la Moelle Épinière, France
Neurogenetics, development, whole-brain culture and imaging, Wnt, cell fate
Paul Shaw
orcid.org/0000-0003-2261-8381
Washington University in St. Louis, USA
Sleep, neuronal plasticity and memory in Drosophila
Alberto Bacci
orcid.org/0000-0002-3355-5892
Institut du Cerveau et de la Moelle Épinière, France
Cellular neurophysiology, neocortex, synaptic inhibition and auto-modulation of brain cortex microcircuits
Matthew Dalva
Thomas Jefferson University, USA
Synapse and neural circuit generation, cell adhesion
Cagla Eroglu
orcid.org/0000-0002-7204-0218
Duke University Medical Center, USA
Synaptic network formation during development and remodeling during learning and disease, glial cells, astrocytes
Yi-Ping Hsueh
orcid.org/0000-0002-0866-6275
Academica Sinica, Taiwan
Neuronal morphogenesis, synapse formation, neurodevelopmental disorders, neurodegeneration, mouse genetic models for autism spectrum disorders and other neurodevelopmental disorders; neuroinflammation, endoplasmic reticulum, protein synthesis and cytoskeletons in neuronal morphogenesis and related disorders
Eunjoon Kim
orcid.org/0000-0001-5518-6584
KAIST, Korea
Molecular organization and functional coordination of neuronal synapses; synapse development, synaptic scaffolding and adhesion molecules, synaptic transmission and plasticity, psychiatric disorders, autism, intellectual disability; synaptopathies; molecular, cell-biological, biochemical, anatomical, imaging, electrophysiological, and behavioral tools
Peter Scheiffele
University of Basel, Switzerland
Neuronal circuit assembly, synapse formation, psychiatric disorders, synapses, autism, schizophrenia
Tom Südhof
Stanford University School of Medicine, USA
Synapse formation and synaptic transmission (synaptic cell biology, physiology, circuits), Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s disease, autism and schizophrenia
Claude Desplan
New York University, USA
Visual system development, evo–devo, neurogenesis, electrophysiology, cell fate, Drosophila
Sensory Systems/Biology
Richard Benton
orcid.org/0000-0003-4305-8301
University of Lausanne, Switzerland
Sensory biology, chemosensation, Drosophila genetics and behavior (also: evolutionary neurobiology and neurodevelopment in invertebrate systems)
Manuel Malmierca
orcid.org/0000-0003-0168-7572
University of Salamanca, Spain
Auditory neurophysiology; coding of stimulus-specific neuronal adaptation, sensory processing, neurocircuitry and neuropharmacology, cortical and subcortical plasticity, subcortical processing
Carl Petersen
Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland
Sensory and motor systems neuroscience, neuronal circuits, synaptic transmission, electrophysiology and optical imaging techniques
Piali Sengupta
Advisory Board Member
orcid.org/0000-0001-7468-0035
Brandeis University, USA
Sensory neurons, neuron specification, cilia development, pheromone signaling, chemoreceptor genes, cellular memory, thermosensation
Tom Baden
orcid.org/0000-0003-2808-4210
University of Sussex, UK
Methods, open hardware; vertebrate retina, systems neuroscience, zebrafish (also: mice, primates, salamander, birds)
Jonathan Demb
Yale University, USA
Sensory and visual neuroscience, retina, visual cortex, two-photon imaging, patch-clamp recording of synapses, imaging glutamate sensors
Adam Kohn
Albert Einstein College of Medicine, USA
Systems and computational neuroscience, visual processing, cortical plasticity, population coding
Chris Pack
McGill University, Canada
Visual neurophysiology, visual cortex, system identification methods
Systems and Cognitive Neuroscience
Jennifer Bizley
orcid.org/0000-0001-6605-2362
University College London, UK
Auditory physiology, object recognition and perceptual invariance, selective attention
Simon Hanslmayr
orcid.org/0000-0003-4448-2147
University of Glasgow, UK
Neural oscillations in human memory and attentions; MEG, EEG, combined EEG-fMRI, intracranial EEG and human single unit recordings, brain stimulation methods (tACS, tDCS, rTMS and intracranial electrical stimulation)
David Poeppel
New York University, USA
Neural basis of speech perception, language processing, auditory perception and cognition, music, MEG, EEG, and fMRI (also: systems neuroscience)
Matthew Rushworth
University of Oxford, UK
Experimental psychology, decision-making, brain connections and interactions, social cognition, neuro-rehabilitation, frontal lobes
Chris Summerfield
orcid.org/0000-0002-2941-2653
University of Oxford, UK
Human cognitive science/neuroscience, visual cognition, attention, learning and memory systems, executive function and decision-making, including systems-level computational models and neural network models
Lars Chittka
orcid.org/0000-0001-8153-1732
Queen Mary University of London, UK
Sensory, behaviour, vision, olfaction, communication, learning
Frans de Waal
orcid.org/0000-0003-2021-6653
Emory University, USA
Primate behavior, cultural learning, behavioral economics, empathy, communication, social reciprocity and conflict resolution in primates
Alexander Gail
orcid.org/0000-0002-1165-4646
Georg August University of Göttingen, Germany
Sensorimotor integration, cognitive movement planning, neuroprosthetics, neuronal synchronization, visual object coding; methods: awake monkey electrophysiology, extracellular multi-channel microelectrode recordings, psychophysics in human and non-human primates, correlation and spectral coherence analysis, pattern recognition
Jozsef Csicsvari
orcid.org/0000-0002-5193-4036
Institute of Science and Technology, Austria
Hippocampus, oscillations, systems neuroscience, behavior, learning and memory, neurophysiology – cellular, network, synaptic (also: computational and complex data analysis, imaging)
Ben Seymour
University of Oxford, UK
Computational and systems neuroscience of pain, pain and aversive/fear learning, pain perception, behavior and decision-making, functional neuroimaging (fMRI) and learning theory, body-machine and brain-machine applications for chronic pain (also: reward, motivation, and decision-making; somatosensory neuroscience)
Aniruddha Das
orcid.org/0000-0001-8761-917X
Columbia University, USA
Visual processing; brain hemodynamics and neural/physiological basis of the hemodynamic response (also: sensory processing - auditory, somatosensory)
Frank Tong
Vanderbilt University, USA
Human visual perception, orientation and motion perception, face and object perception, mechanisms of visual attention, visual working memory and imagery
Simon W. Townsend
orcid.org/0000-0003-1504-1801
University of Zurich, Switzerland
Animal behavioral ecology, bird song, vocalization, animal cognition and sociality, evolutionary linguistics
Tor Wager
Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH, USA
Pain and emotion, multivariate brain connectivity, predictive models of brain activity
Systems/Computational Neuroscience
Claus Hilgetag
orcid.org/0000-0003-2129-8910
University of Hamburg, Germany
Structural and functional connectivity of the mammalian cerebral cortex; analytical tools, computational neuroscience
Henry Kennedy
orcid.org/0000-0002-2796-7663
INSERM, France
Brain physiology, anatomy and development, connectivity, cortical development; large-scale structural and dynamic models of cortex (also: rodent primate distinctions in adult and development)
Plant Biology
Xuemei Chen
orcid.org/0000-0002-5209-1157
University of California at Riverside, USA
Plant development, noncoding RNAs, stem cell maintenance
Xinnian Dong
Duke University, USA
Plant–microbe interactions, pathogens, plant immunity, hormones
Mark Estelle
University of California, San Diego, USA
Plant hormones, auxin, ubiquitin, transcription
Sophien Kamoun
orcid.org/0000-0002-0290-0315
The Sainsbury Laboratory, UK
Plant host–pathogen interaction, effector biology, genome evolution
June Nasrallah
Advisory Board Member
Cornell University, USA
Cell–cell interactions, pollination biology, comparative genomics
Structural Biology
Charlotte Deane
orcid.org/0000-0003-1388-2252
University of Oxford, UK
Structure and computational biology, protein structure prediction and protein interaction networks, biological networks, small molecule design
Raimund Dutzler
University of Zurich, Switzerland
Transmembrane ion transport mechanisms, chloride channels and transporters, X-ray crystallography
Franca Fraternali
King's College London, UK
Structural biology of proteins and nucleic acids; systems biology; protein structure prediction; molecular dynamics of folded and misfolded proteins; statistical analysis of protein interaction networks; bioinformatics and computational biology
Raquel Lieberman
orcid.org/0000-0001-9345-3735
Georgia Institute of Technology, USA
Structural biology, structure-function of proteins and enzymes, protein mis/folding, molecular chaperones, molecular/chemical biophysics (also: enzymology, metallo-enzymology, medicinal chemistry/drug discovery, eye diseases, biomedical engineering)
Ann Stock
Advisory Board Member
Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, USA
Protein structure, receptor-mediated signal transduction, bacterial chemotaxis, X-ray chrystallography
Kylie Walters
National Cancer Institute, USA
Structural biology, NMR spectroscopy, x-ray crystallography, proteasome, ubiquitin signaling, protein quality control, myosin VI (also: protein folding/molecular chaperones, autophagy, endocytosis)
Synthetic Biology
Chaitan Khosla
Stanford University, USA
Chemical engineering, polyketide biosynthesis, antibiotic biosynthesis, celiac disease, antivirals
Systems Biology
Nathalie Balaban
The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel
Systems biology, biophysics, nanoscience, microbiology
Naama Barkai
orcid.org/0000-0002-2444-6061
Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel
Design principles of biological circuits, phenotypic heterogeneity & persistence, DNA replication & chromatin, hybrid vigor, morphogen gradients & scaling, cell size control
Sui Huang
orcid.org/0000-0002-3545-4665
Institute for Systems Biology, USA
Application of dynamical systems modeling to mammalian cells, stem cell differentiation and cancer, computational biology, theory of complex dynamical systems applied to higher organisms and medicine, cell plasticity in progression and drug resistance, evolution of complex systems, pattern formation, evolutionary constraints, gene networks, single-cell transcriptomics (also: bioinformatics, cancer genomics, tumor angiogenesis, stroma, signal transduction in mammalian cells)
Robert Insall
orcid.org/0000-0003-4898-040X
The Beatson Institute for Cancer Research, UK
Quantitative cell biology, computational modeling, cell migration, chemotaxis, SCAR/WAVE complex, pseudopods
Meta-Research
Lisa Bero
University of Colorado, USA
Research evidence, bias in preclinical and clinical studies, research communication with social, political and ethical context, methodological analyses of nutrition research (prevention of obesity, diabetes and cardiovascular disease), improving medicines for noncommunicable diseases in low-resource settings
Isabelle Boutron
orcid.org/0000-0002-5263-6241
Université Paris Descartes, France
Evaluation of non-pharmacological treatments, risk of bias, the problems of knowledge and transparency of research
Chris Chambers
orcid.org/0000-0001-6058-4114
Cardiff University, UK
Registered Reports and meta-research; brain stimulation (TMS, TES) and brain imaging techniques (fMRI, MRS, MEG) to understand cognitive control, attention and awareness in the human brain; translational applications of cognitive neuroscience in the domain of obesity and behaviour change
Ulrich Dirnagl
orcid.org/0000-0003-0755-6119
Charité–Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Germany
Neurology, pre-clinical research, stroke, brain damage, cerebral blood flow regulation, brain imaging
Jonathan Kimmelman
orcid.org/0000-0003-1614-6779
McGill University, Canada
Bioethics of translational clinical research, investigation of risk, prediction, validity and knowledge value across the trajectory of drug development, the role and content of clinical research ethics
Malcolm Macleod
orcid.org/0000-0001-9187-9839
University of Edinburgh, UK
Neurology, pre-clinical research, evidence-based translational medicine, sources of bias in experimental design
Marcus Munafò
University of Bristol, UK
Registered Reports & meta-research; genome-wide association studies/genomics (also: genetic and cognitive influences on addictive behaviour and tobacco and alcohol use)
Bob Siegerink
orcid.org/0000-0002-8454-9142
Leiden University Medical Center, Netherlands
Meta-research, Bayesian inference, models of decision making; human-centred research methodology, including observational studies, and clinical trials (also: thrombosis/hemostasis, coagulation factor)