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, Germany
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 

National Cancer Institute, 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

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

Yvonne Buckley

orcid.org/0000-0001-7599-3201
Trinity College Dublin, Ireland
Biodiversity conservation, invasive species management and habitat restoration, comparative plant population dynamics, predicting responses of populations to global change

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
National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS), 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
Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, USA
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​
Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência, Portugal
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
The Roslin Institute and Royal (Dick) School of Veterinary Studies, University of Edinburgh, UK
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

Melanie Blokesch  

Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland
Microbiology, regulatory networks, horizontal gene transfer, quorum-sensing, secretion systems, surface colonization (also: metalloenzymes, bacterial physiology, host-pathogen interactions, cell shape)

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

Christina Stallings 

orcid.org/0000-0002-2747-5618​
Washington University in St Louis, USA
Bacterial pathogenesis, mycobacteria, immunology of host responses

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

Ghislaine Dehaene-Lambertz

INSERM–CEA Cognitive Neuroimaging Unit, France
Pediatrics, brain organization, human cognitive development, higher cognitive functions (language, music, mathematics), brain imaging techniques in children, neurological/clinical research in children

Simon Hanslmayr

orcid.org/0000-0003-4448-2147
University of Birmingham, 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)

Karunesh Ganguly

University of California, San Francisco, USA
Systems and cognitive neuroscience, motor learning and control, neurophysiology, neural engineering, sleep, cortical plasticity

Ben Seymour

University of Cambridge, 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

Leslie Ungerleider

Advisory Board Member
National Institute of Mental Health, USA
Neurocircuitry, neural structure and cognitive function, visual modality, physiology and behavior of nonhuman primates

Simon 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  

University of Colorado, Boulder, 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 snalysis 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 Sydney, Australia
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

John Ioannidis

orcid.org/0000-0003-3118-6859
Stanford University, USA
Evidence-based medicine, clinical investigation, clinical and molecular epidemiology, clinical research methodology, empirical research methods, statistics, and genomics

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
Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Germany
Meta-research, Bayesian inference, models of decision making; human-centred research methodology, including observational studies, and clinical trials (also: thrombosis/hemostasis, coagulation factor)

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