Editorial Board
Our team of Academic Editors, who assist and advise our in-house editors on manuscripts during the review process.
Biophysics and Biomechanics
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
University of Oxford, UK
Biomechanics, flight dynamics, swimming, control systems, sensory systems, sensory ecology (also: avian palaeontology, animal navigation, migration)
Biophysics
Nathalie Balaban
The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel
Systems biology, biophysics, nanoscience, bacteriology
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
Nancy Hynes
Advisory Board Member
Friedrich Miescher Institute for Biomedical Research, University of Basel, Switzerland
Breast cancer, receptor tyrosine kinases and signaling, breast cancer metastasis and migration
Pascal Meier
Institute of Cancer Research, London, UK
Cell death and inflammation, cancer, ubiquitin-mediated regulation of cell survival, cancer therapeutics
Jeremy Rich
University of California, San Diego, USA
Glioblastoma, cancer stem cells, medulloblastomas
Matt van de Rijn
Stanford University School of Medicine, USA
Prognostic markers in sarcoma and cancer, cancer genomics
Cell Biology, Cell Cycle, and Cell Migration
Renata Basto
Institut Curie, France
Centriole and cilia biogenesis, microtubule organising center, stem cells, cancer
Bruce Edgar
University of Utah, USA
Drosophila cell growth, cell cycle, intestinal stem cell regulation, TOR signaling
David Pellman
Advisory Board Member
Dana–Farber Cancer Institute, USA
Cell division, genome stability, chromosome segregation, cytoskeletal dynamics
Jonathon Pines
Institute of Cancer Research, London, UK
Cancer, mitosis, chromosome segregation, cyclins
Anna Huttenlocher
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
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)
Trafficking and Cellular Dynamics
Anna Akhmanova
Utrecht University, Netherlands
Organisation 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)
Sandra Schmid
Advisory Board Member
UT Southwestern Medical Center, USA
Membrane/vesicular trafficking, endocytosis, biochemistry
Trina Schroer
Johns Hopkins University, USA
Cytoplasmic dynein, microtubule dynamics, trafficking, localization of endomembranes and macromolecular complexes, behavior of intracellular pathogens (bacteria and viruses), architecture and intracellular trafficking in polarized cells (epithelia and neurons), primary ciliogenesis, centrosome biology (also: axonemes)
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
University of Oslo, Norway
Autophagy, membrane trafficking, endocytosis
Chronobiology
Fernanda Ceriani
Fundación Instituto Leloir, Argentina
Drosophilacircadian clocks, circadian control of behavior, neuronal structural plasticity (also: use of C. elegans, Drosophila, invertebrate models for mechanisms of neurodegeneration and aging)
Achim Kramer
Charité–Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Germany
Mammalian circadian rhythms, post-translational regulation, circadian clock in the olfactory system and immune system, chronobiology, sleep
Paul Taghert
Washington University in St. Louis, USA
Circadian rhythms, neurobiology, neuronal development and differentiation, transcriptional regulation
Aging
Judith Campisi
Buck Institute for Research on Aging, USA
Cancer, aging, cell senescence, inflammation
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
Development and Signaling
Konrad Basler
University of Zurich, Switzerland
Signaling pathways in development, Wnt, Hh, TGFbeta, TNF
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)
Caroline Hill
Advisory Board Member
The Francis Crick Institute, UK
Growth factors, TGF-beta, cancer, development
Simon Hughes
King’s College London, UK
Muscle fibres, muscle patterning, somite assembly, tracking cell processes in vivo
Cecilia Lo
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
University of Pennsylvania, USA
BMP, development, vertebrate body plan
Emma Rawlins
Gurdon Institute, University School 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)
François Schweisguth
Institut Pasteur, FranceMedicine, USA
Notch signaling, tissue repair, asymmetric cell division, epithelial polarity and morphogenesis, cell fate decisions, developmental patterning, Drosophila cell and developmental processes
Nicolas 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
Gene Expression Regulation
Peter Becker
Advisory Board Member
Adolf Butenandt Institute, Ludwig-Maximilians University, Germany
Chromatin dynamics, nucleosome remodeling, transcription, Drosophila dosage compensation, epigenetics
Jeff Coller
Case Western Reserve University, USA
RNA Biology, mRNA translation, mRNA stability, RNA processing
Wendy Gilbert
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA
Translational control, ribosomes, RNA modifications (also: RNA Biology)
James Kadonaga
University of California, San Diego, USA
RNA polymerase II-mediated transcription, chromatin dynamics, promoter elements, ribosome biogenesis, chromatin assembly process, nucleosomes
Tom Misteli
Advisory Board Member
National Cancer Institute, USA
Chromatin, nuclear architecture, epigenetics, splicing, imaging
Phillip Zamore
University of Massachusetts Medical School, USA
miRNAs, siRNAs, piRNAs
Genome Stability and DNA Repair
Daniel Durocher
Lunenfeld–Tanenbaum Research Institute, Canada
DNA damage, ubiquitin, telomeres
Scott Keeney
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)
Ion Channels and Transporters
Raimund Dutzler
University of Zurich, Switzerland
Transmembrane ion transport mechanisms, chloride channels and transporters, X-ray crystallography
Metabolism
Heather Christofk
University of California, Los Angeles, USA
Cancer metabolism, viral metabolism, metabolomics, stem cell metabolism, signaling pathway regulation of metabolism
Alex Gould
The Francis Crick Institute, UK
Drosophila metabolism, development, lifespan, physiology, endocrinology, developmental neurobiology (also: cancer metabolism, metabolomics, neural stem cells, cell signaling, cell competition)
Gökhan Hotamisligil
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
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
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)
Rong Tian
University of Washington, USA
Energy metabolism, cardiovascular disease, mitochondrial dysfunction, metabolic signaling, NMR
Neurodegeneration and Protein Folding
Gillian Bates
University College London, UK
Neurodegeneration, Huntington’s disease, polyglutamine disorders, amyloid, proteostasis, preclinical evaluation
David Ron
University of Cambridge, UK
Proteotoxicity, protein folding/aggregation, ER stress and metabolism
Parasite Biology
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 and Regeneration
Phillip Newmark
Morgridge Institute for Research, USA
Planarian regeneration, regenerative stem cells, germ cell development and differentiation, schistosomiasis, schistosome biology
Mariana Wolfner
Cornell University, USA
Reproduction, function of seminal fluid proteins, oocyte activation
Stem Cells
Joshua Brickman
University of Copenhagen, Denmark
Early embryonic development, stem cells, differentiation, transcription
Sally Lowell
University of Edinburgh, UK
Stem cell biology, pluripotent cells, early mouse embryonic development (also: vertebrate developmental biology, biology of regeneration)
Sara Rankin
Imperial College London, UK
Leukocyte trafficking, chemokines, mesenchymal stem cells, stem cell mobilization, neutrophil clearance by bone marrow, role of endothelial progenitor cells in angiogenesis in models of allergic airways inflammation (also: adult stem cells)
Kate Storey
University of Dundee, UK
Neural differentiation, embryonic stem cells, FGF, retinoic acid
Yukiko Yamashita
University of Michigan, USA
Adult stem cells, stem cell niche, spindle orientation, polarity, asymmetric stem cell division, germ cells
Virology
Andrea Cimarelli
International Center for Research in Infectiology (CIRI), Université Lyon, France
Virology, immunology, retroviruses, interferon, restriction factors, cell biology
Karla Kirkegaard
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
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
Anthony Barnosky
Stanford University, USA
Biodiversity, global change, climate, ecosystems, paleobiology, geology
Isabelle Côté
Advisory Board Member
Simon Fraser University, Canada
Marine ecology, coastal ecosystems, coral reef, marine invasions, meta-analyses
Pedro Jordano
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
Georgina Mace
Advisory Board Member
University College London, UK
Biodiversity, climate change impacts, conservation
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
Andrew Dobson
Princeton University, USA
Ecology of infectious diseases, conservation, carnivores
Evolutionary Biology
Jeff Gore
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA
Microbial populations, experimental evolution, evolutionary and ecological dynamics of populations, evolution of cooperative behaviors, antibiotic resistance
Csaba Pál
Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Hungary
Experimental evolution, microbial evolution, antibiotic resistance, network evolution (evolutionary systems biology)
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)
Harmit Malik
Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, USA
Genome evolution, evolution of centromeres, innate and intrinsic immunity against viruses, mobile genetic elements in Drosophila
Leonie Moyle
Indiana University, USA
Genome evolution, genetics, speciation, adaptation, evolutionary ecology, sexual conflict (also: sexual selection, plant reproductive biology, evolutionary genomics)
Chris Tyler-Smith
The Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, UK
Genome evolution, genetic variation in human populations, human evolution, Y chromosome, positive selection
Laurence Hurst
Advisory Board Member
University of Bath, UK
Evolutionary genetics and genomics, computational and mathematical modelling
Gerald Joyce
The Scripps Research Institute, USA
Chemical biology, experimental evolution, evolution in RNA world, ribozymes, enzyme evolution
David Hillis
University of Texas at Austin, USA
Evolution, biotic diversity, phylogenetics, speciation
Nick Barton
Advisory Board Member
Institute of Science and Technology, Austria
Evolutionary biology, population genetics, mathematical models of evolution, species adaptation, natural selection
Laurent Keller
University of Lausanne, Switzerland
Animal behaviour, ecology, evolutionary genetics and genomics, insects
Mark Siegal
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)
Immunology
Avinash Bhandoola
National Cancer Institute, USA
Hematopoietic progenitor cells, migration to the thymus, Nature Helper Cells (T cell like cells), T cell leukemias and immunodeficiencies
Philippa Marrack
Advisory Board member
National Jewish Health and University of Colorado, USA
Immunology, T cell specificity and response
Paula Oliver
University of Pennsylvania, USA
T cell biology, ubiquitin pathway biology, adaptive immunity, autoimmune and allergic disease
Kenneth Cadwell
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
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).
David Nemazee
Scripps Research Institute, USA
Receptor editing in B lymphocytes, antigen receptors, autoreactive lymphocytes, B cells, recombinase genes
Hidde Ploegh
Advisory Board Member
Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research, USA
Immunology, antigen processing, MHC, viral response
Infectious Disease Dynamics
Christophe Fraser
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)
Katia Koelle
Emory University, USA
Viral phylodynamics, ecological and evolutionary dynamics of viral infectious diseases, mathematical modelling/statistics, RNA viruses, influenza, dengue, HIV, host–pathogen systems and climate variability, public heath and disease dynamics (also: molecular epidemiology)
Andrew Read
Penn State University, USA
Evolution, ecology of infectious diseases, vaccines, insecticides, malaria, drug resistance
Roland Regoes
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
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
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
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
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
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
Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência, Portugal
Host-microbe interactions, endosymbionts, Wolbachia, microbiota, insect immunity, antiviral immunity, innate immunity (also: Drosophila genetics and physiology)
Joseph Heitman
Duke University Medical Center, USA
Microbial pathogenesis, sexual reproduction and evolution, virulence, fungal pathogens, antifungal drugs
Aaron Mitchell
Carnegie Mellon University, USA
Virulence mechanisms, biofilm formation, fungal pathogen–host interactions, Candida
Anita Sil
University of California, San Francisco, USA
Fungal pathogens, temperature-sensing, cell shape, host-pathogen interactions, innate immune response.
Neuroscience
Behavior
Eric Nestler
Advisory Board Member
Mount Sinai School of Medicine, USA
Addiction and depression, epigenetics
Cellular Physiology and Molecular Neurobiology
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
Matthias Landgraf
University of Cambridge, UK
Drosophilaneural network development, dendrites, axon pathfinding, motor system development and function, synapse formation/development (also: neuronal differentiation, oxidative stress related to nervous system, neurodegenerative conditions and animal models)
Franck Polleux
Columbia University, USA
Mammalian brain connectivity, neuronal differentiation, synaptic development, human brain evolution, mouse brain development, cellular and molecular mechanisms of neurodegeneration
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)
Mikael Simons
German Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases (DZNE), Germany
Glia, myelin, regeneration (also: neurodegeneration, neuroinflammation)
Heather Cameron
National Institute of Mental Health, USA
Neurogenesis in hippocampus, granule cells, stress, depression, learning and memory
Joshua Dubnau
Stony Brook University, USA
Drosophila neurogenetics, Drosophila models of neurodegeneration, olfactory behavior, 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
Alberto Bacci
Institut du Cerveau et de la Moelle Épinière, France
Cellular neurophysiology, neocortex, synaptic inhibition and auto-modulation of brain cortex microcircuits
Hugo Bellen
Baylor College of Medicine, USA
Peripheral nervous system development, synaptic vesicle transmission, trafficking, exocytosis, endocytosis, neurodegeneration, senseless, Notch
Matthew Dalva
Thomas Jefferson University, USA
Synapse and neural circuit generation, cell adhesion
Cagla Eroglu
Duke University Medical Center, USA
Synaptic network formation during development and remodeling during learning and disease, glial cells, astrocytes
Peter Scheiffele
University of Basel, Switzerland
Neuronal circuit assembly, synapse formation, psychiatric disorders, synapses, autism, schizophrenia
Tom Sudhof
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
Carl Petersen
Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland
Sensory and motor systems neuroscience, neuronal circuits, synaptic transmission, electrophysiology and optical imaging techniques
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
Christopher Pack
McGill University, Canada
Visual neurophysiology, visual cortex, system identification methods
Richard Benton
University of Lausanne, Switzerland
Sensory biology, chemosensation, Drosophila genetics and behavior (also: evolutionary neurobiology and neurodevelopment in invertebrate systems)
Piali Sengupta
Advisory Board Member
Brandeis University, USA
Sensory neurons, neuron specification, cilia development, pheromone signaling, chemoreceptor genes, cellular memory, thermosensation
Leslie Vosshall
Rockefeller University, USA
Odor simuli, chemosensory cues, neurogenetics, olfactory psychophysics, mosquito genetics and behavior
Systems and Cognitive Neuroscience
Lars Chittka
Queen Mary University of London, UK
Sensory, behaviour, vision, olfaction, communication, learning
Frans de Waal
Emory University, USA
Primate behavior, cultural learning, behavioral economics, empathy, communication, social reciprocity and conflict resolution in primates
Robert Zatorre
McGill University, Canada
Auditory cognitive neuroscience, perception and memory for pitch and melody, speech processing
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
Ole Jensen
Radboud University, Netherlands
Attention, memory, perception, decision making, human electrophysiology, human brain stimulation, multiple modal approaches
Genevieve Konopka
University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, USA
Molecular neurobiology, cognitive neuroscience, evolutionary biology, genomics of the nervous system, comparative/evolutionary genomics and cognitive disorders
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
James Ashe
University of Minnesota, USA
Motor learning and adaptation, modulation of learning through reward
Jozsef Csicsvari
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)
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
Plant Biology
Xuemei Chen
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
Ueli Grossniklaus
University of Zurich, Switzerland
Developmental genetics of plant reproduction, epigenetics, morphogenesis, differentiation, apomixis
Sophien Kamoun
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
Daniel Herschlag
Advisory Board Member
Stanford University, USA
RNA structure, catalysis and function, protein catalysis
Raquel Lieberman
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)
Christine Orengo
University College, London, UK
Computational structural biology, protein structure analysis, protein family classification, protein function prediction (also: chronic pain)
Gregory Petsko
Advisory Board Member
Weill Cornell Medical College, USA
Structural biology, protein crystallography, enzyme structure and function
Ann Stock
Advisory Board Member
Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, USA
Protein structure, receptor-mediated signal transduction, bacterial chemotaxis, X-ray chrystallography
Janet Thornton
European Bioinformatics Institute, UK
Structure/function of enzymes, 3D protein structure and evolution, computational techniques
Synthetic Biology
Chaitan Khosla
Stanford University, USA
Chemical engineering, polyketide biosynthesis, antibiotic biosynthesis, celiac disease, antivirals
Systems Biology
Sui Huang
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
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
Université Paris Descartes, France
Evaluation of non-pharmacological treatments, risk of bias, the problems of knowledge and transparency of research
Ulrich Dirnagl
Charité–Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Germany
Neurology, pre-clinical research, stroke, brain damage, cerebral blood flow regulation, brain imaging
John Ioannidis
Stanford University, USA
Evidence-based medicine, clinical investigation, clinical and molecular epidemiology, clinical research methodology, empirical research methods, statistics, and genomics
Jonathan Kimmelman
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
University of Edinburgh, UK
Neurology, pre-clinical research, evidence-based translational medicine, sources of bias in experimental design
David Vaux
Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research, Australia
Cellular and molecular biology, apoptosis