Editorial Board
Over 140 members of the computational biology community serve on the Editorial Board of PLOS Computational Biology, making decisions about whether submitted manuscripts meet the journal’s publication criteria.
The editorial process is run as a partnership between a group of academic experts who serve as Academic Editors and the Senior Editors, including the Editor-in-Chief, Deputy Editors-in-Chief, and a team of Section Editors.
Editors-in-Chief
Feilim Mac Gabhann
orcid.org/0000-0003-3481-7740
Johns Hopkins University
Baltimore, MD, USA
Jason Papin
orcid.org/0000-0002-2769-5805
University of Virginia
Charlottesville, VA, USA
Deputy Editor-in-Chief
Virginia Pitzer
orcid.org/0000-0003-1015-2289
Yale School of Public Health
New Haven, CT, USA
Section: Epidemiology and Clinical/Translational Studies
Former Editor-in-Chief
Ruth Nussinov
orcid.org/0000-0002-8115-6415
National Cancer Institute
Frederick, MD, USA
Founding Editor-in-Chief
Philip E. Bourne
orcid.org/0000-0002-7618-7292
University of Virginia
Charlottesville, VA, USA
Founding Editors
Steven E. Brenner
orcid.org/0000-0001-7559-6185
University of California, Berkeley
Berkeley, CA, USA
Michael Eisen
orcid.org/0000-0002-7528-738X
University of California, Berkeley
Berkeley, CA, USA
Section Editors
Mark Alber
University of California, Riverside
Riverside, CA, USA
Section: Systems Biology
Daniel Beard
University of Michigan
Ann Arbor, MI, USA
Section: Cell Biology and Physiology
Nir Ben-Tal
Tel Aviv University
Tel Aviv, Israel
Section: Biological Macromolecules
Rob J. de Boer
orcid.org/0000-0002-2130-691X
Utrecht University
Utrecht, The Netherlands
Section: Immunology, Infectious Disease and Microbes
Arne Elofsson
orcid.org/0000-0002-7115-9751
Stockholm University
Stockholm, Sweden
Section: Biological Macromolecules
Lyle J. Graham
Université Paris Descartes, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique
Paris, France
Section: Neuroscience
Jason Haugh
orcid.org/0000-0002-2476-4027
North Carolina State University
Raleigh, NC, USA
Section: Cell Biology and Physiology
Ilya Ioshikhes
orcid.org/0000-0001-9809-3580
University of Ottawa
Ottawa, ON, Canada
Section: Genomics, Epigenomics and Proteomics
Natalia Komarova
University of California, Irvine
Irvine, CA, USA
Section: Evolution, Ecology and Behavior
Douglas Lauffenburger
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Cambridge, MA, USA
Section: Systems Biology
Thomas Leitner
Los Alamos National Laboratory
Los Alamos, NM, USA
Section: Epidemiology and Clinical/Translational Studies
Jian Ma
Carnegie Mellon University
Pittsburgh, PA, USA
Section: Genomics, Epigenomics and Proteomics
Daniele Marinazzo
orcid.org/0000-0002-9803-0122
Ghent University
Ghent, Belgium
Section: Neuroscience
William Stafford Noble
orcid.org/0000-0001-7283-4715
University of Washington
Seattle, WA, USA
Section: Genomics, Epigenomics and Proteomics
James O’Dwyer
orcid.org/0000-0003-1180-8622
Department of Plant Biology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Urbana, IL, USA
Section: Evolution, Ecology and Behaviour
Kiran R. Patil
orcid.org/0000-0002-6166-8640
University of Cambridge
Cambridge, UK
Section: Systems Biology
Sushmita Roy
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Madison, WI, USA
Section: Genomics, Epigenomics and Proteomics
Thomas Serre
orcid.org/0000-0003-0846-0039
Brown University
Providence, RI, USA
Section: Neuroscience
Amber M. Smith
orcid.org/0000-0002-7092-6904
University of Tennessee Health Science Center
Memphis, TN, USA
Section: Immunology, Infectious Disease and Microbes
Marieke Karlijn van Vugt
orcid.org/0000-0003-3200-0059
University of Groningen
Groningen, Netherlands
Section: Neuroscience
Reviews Editors
Ernest Fraenkel
orcid.org/0000-0001-9249-8181
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Cambridge, MA, USA
Samuel Alizon
orcid.org/0000-0002-0779-9543
Maladies Infectieuses et Vecteurs: Ecologie, Génétique, Evolution et Contrôle (MiVEGEC)
Montpellier, France
Benchmarking Editors
Edwin Wang
National Research Council Canada and McGill University
Montréal, Canada
Education Editors
B. F. Francis Ouellette
orcid.org/0000-0003-4676-675X
Montréal Neuro, McGill University
Montréal, Québec, Canada
Patricia Palagi
orcid.org/0000-0001-9062-6303
SIB Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics
Lausanne, Switzerland
Topic Pages Editors
Daniel Mietchen
orcid.org/0000-0001-9488-1870
Museum für Naturkunde
Berlin, Germany
Shoshana Wodak
Vlaamse Institute of Biotechnology, Vrije Universitaet
Brussels, Belgium
Ten Simple Rules Editors
Scott Markel
orcid.org/0000-0003-1488-9042
Dassault Systèmes BIOVIA
San Diego, CA, USA
Russell Schwartz
orcid.org/0000-0002-4970-2252
Carnegie Mellon University
Pittsburgh, PA, USA
Academic Editors
Woo-Young Ahn
Seoul National University
Seoul, Republic of Korea
Expertise: decision making, computational psychiatry, addiction, reinforcement learning, computational modeling, Bayesian data analysis, impulsivity, fMRI, machine learning
Benjamin Althouse
orcid.org/0000-0002-5464-654X
Institute for Disease Modeling
Bellevue, WA, USA
Expertise: Epidemic modeling, disease transmission dynamics, statistical modeling of infectious disease data, statistical prediction models
Rustom Antia
Emory University
Atlanta, GA, USA
Expertise: Theoretical immunology, pathogen-host disease models
Becca Asquith
orcid.org/0000-0002-5911-3160
Imperial College London
London, UK
Expertise: Theoretical immunology
Ferhat Ay
orcid.org/0000-0002-0708-6914
La Jolla Institute for Allergy and Immunology
La Jolla, CA, USA
Expertise: 3D/4D nucleome, chromatin structure, epigenetics, genetic variation, distal gene regulation, immune cells
Joseph Ayers
Northeastern University
Nahant, MA, USA
Expertise: Neurophysiology, behavior, biomimetics, robotics, synthetic biology
Jeff Beck
University of Rochester
Rochester, NY, USA
Expertise: Neural coding, population coding, network dynamics, attractor networks, decision making, systems level computational neuroscience, theoretical neurobiology and statistical neurodynamics
Ulrik R. Beierholm
orcid.org/0000-0002-7296-7996
Durham University
Durham, UK
Expertise: Computational neuroscience, decision making, perception, cognition, reinforcement learning, Bayesian statistics
Hugues Berry
orcid.org/0000-0003-3470-683X
Inria
Lyon, France
Expertise: Computational neuroscience, biophysical models, synaptic plasticity, calcium dynamics in astrocytes, neuron-glia interactions, individual-based reaction-diffusion models, anomalous diffusion, biomedical data analysis
Marc Birtwistle
orcid.org/0000-0002-0341-0705
Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, Department of Bioengineering, Clemson University
Clemson, SC, USA
Expertise: Systems biology and pharmacology, cancer biology, signal transduction, computational modeling, cellular heterogeneity
Kim “Avrama” Blackwell
orcid.org/0000-0003-4711-2344
Krasnow Institute for Advanced Study, George Mason University
Fairfax, VA, USA
Expertise: Computational neuroscience, signaling pathways, basal ganglia, calcium dynamics, hippocampus, biophysics, learning, memory, neurophysiology, synaptic plasticity, biophysically-detailed neural models, cellular and synaptic models and dynamics
Gunnar Blohm
Queen's University
Kingston, ON, Canada
Expertise: Sensory-motor transformation, multi-sensory processing, eye-head-arm movements, 3D/binocular vision,
stochastic systems, adaptation/learning
Tobias Bollenbach
orcid.org/0000-0003-4398-476X
Institute for Biological Physics, University of Cologne
Cologne, Germany
Expertise: Microbial systems biology, biological physics, evolution, ecology, antibiotic resistance
Elhanan Borenstein
University of Washington
Seattle, WA, USA
Expertise: Microbiome, metagenomics, systems biology, metabolic modelling
James Briggs
orcid.org/0000-0001-5863-8945
University of Houston
Houston, TX, USA
Expertise: Computational structural biology, computer aided drug design
Tom Britton
Stockholms Universitet
Stockholm, Sweden
Expertise: Epidemic models, infectious disease data analysis, HIV modelling, population models, evolutionary models, phylodynamics, phylogenetics, model-based statistics, computational statistics, life time/survival analysis
Daniel Bush
orcid.org/0000-0002-5097-8117
University College London
London, UK
Expertise: Neuroscience, mechanisms and dynamics of spatial learning and memory in the hippocampal formation, electrophysiology, MEG and computational modelling techniques
Mingbo Cai
University of Tokyo
Tokyo, Japan
Expertise: Cognitive neuroscience, computational neuroscience, decision making, reinforcement learning, perception, fMRI, Bayes, deep learning
Hayriye Cagnan
University of Oxford
Oxford, UK
Expertise: Theoretical neuroscience, brain stimulation, movement disorders, systems neuroscience, closed-loop stimulation strategies
Shi-Jie Chen
orcid.org/0000-0002-8093-7244
University of Missouri-Columbia
Columbia, MO, USA
Expertise: Computational structural biology, RNA folding, biophysics of nucleic acids
Andrea Ciliberto
orcid.org/0000-0001-6078-8600
IFOM ETS - The AIRC Institute of Molecular Oncology
Milan, Italy
Expertise: Cell proliferation, cancer resistance, deterministic models, cell signaling
Luis Pedro Coelho
orcid.org/0000-0002-9280-7885
Fudan University
Shanghai, China
Expertise: Global microbiome; metagenomics; microbial evolution; bioimage informatics; tool development
Vlad Cojocaru
orcid.org/0000-0003-0886-3401
STAR-UBB Institute, Babes-Bolyai-University of Cluj-Napoca
Cluj-Napoca, Romania
Computational Structural Biology group, University of Utrecht
Netherlands
Expertise:Computational structural biology, gene regulation, transcription factors, molecular simulations, biomolecular recognition, chromatin structure and dynamics, stem cells
Attila Csikász-Nagy
orcid.org/0000-0002-2919-5601
Pázmány Péter Catholic University
Budapest, Hungary
King's College London
London, UK
Expertise: Dynamical networks, ODEs, systems biology, cell cycle, circadian clock, cell polarity, yeast
Hermann Cuntz
orcid.org/0000-0001-5445-0507
Ernst Strüngmann Institute for Neuroscience
in Cooperation with Max Planck Society
Frankfurt/Main, Germany
Expertise: Compartmental models, Computational neuroanatomy, Computation in single neurons and small neural circuits
Jean Daunizeau
orcid.org/0000-0001-9142-1270
Brain and Spine Institute (INSERM)
Paris, France
Expertise: Neuroscience, cognition, brain, behaviour, decision making, learning, perception, motivation, EEG, fMRI, network, dynamics, bayes
Miles Davenport
orcid.org/0000-0002-4751-1831
University of New South Wales
Sydney, Australia
Expertise: Infectious disease dynamics, immunology, viral dynamics, malaria
Rafael D'Andrea
Stony Brook University
Stony Brook, NY, USA
Expertise: Theoretical ecology, plant community ecology, stochastic niche modelling, coexistence theory, neutral theory
Charlotte Deane
orcid.org/0000-0003-1388-2252
University of Oxford
Oxford, UK
Expertise: Structural bioinformatics, protein structure prediction, protein interactions and networks
Roland Dunbrack
Fox Chase Cancer Center
Philadelphia, PA, USA
Expertise: Structural bioinformatics, protein structure prediction, cancer biology
Wolfgang Einhäuser
orcid.org/0000-0001-7516-9589
Chemnitz
Germany
Expertise: Vision, theoretical neuroscience, statistics, psychophysics, attention, eye movements, oculomotor system, computational neuroscience, perceptual rivalry, natural scene, multistable perception, pupillometry
Jonathan Eisen
orcid.org/0000-0002-0159-2197
University of California, Davis
Davis, CA, USA
Expertise: DNA repair, extremophiles, microbial evolution, genome evolution, phylogenetics
Bard Ermentrout
University of Pittsburgh
Pittsburgh, PA, USA
Expertise: Mathematical and theoretical neuroscience, mathematical biology, inflammation, nonlinear dynamics
James Faeder
orcid.org/0000-0001-8127-609X
University of Pittsburgh
Pittsburgh, PA, USA
Expertise: Signaling networks, systems immunology, mathematical modeling, rule-based modeling, stochastic simulation methods, parameter estimation, quantitative systems pharmacology, viral dynamics
A. Aldo Faisal
Imperial College London
London, UK
Expertise: Computational systems neuroscience, quantitative models of behaviour, neural mechanism of behaviour, noise in the nervous system, machine learning in life sciences, neurotechnology
Piero Fariselli
orcid.org/0000-0003-1811-4762
Department of Medical Sciences, bioinformatics, University of Torino
Italy
Expertise: Computational biomedicine, AI-based models, machine learning, variant effect predictions, structural bioinformatics
Elana J. Fertig
orcid.org/0000-0003-3204-342X
Johns Hopkins University
Baltimore, MD, USA
Expertise: Cancer systems biology, genomics, data integration, matrix factorization
Jacquelyn S. Fetrow
orcid.org/0000-0002-0528-2049
Albright College
Reading, PA, USA
Expertise: Protein structure and function, protein function prediction, protein function annotation, functional site analysis
Stacey Finley
orcid.org/0000-0001-6901-3692
University of Southern California
Los Angeles, CA, USA
Expertise: Mathematical modeling, cell signaling networks, cellular metabolism, cancer models, systems biology
Jessica Flack
Sante Fe Institute
Sante Fe, NM, USA
Expertise: Collective computation, collective behavior, collective intelligence, cognition, decision making, conflict & conflict management, social evolution, signaling systems, robustness
Jennifer Flegg
The University of Melbourne
Melbourne, Australia
Expertise: Epidemic modelling, tumour modelling, wound healing modelling
Roland Fleming
Justus Liebig University Giessen
Giessen, Germany
Expertise: Sensory and perceptual systems, vision, perception of surfaces and objects, grasping, deep learning models of perception and action
Feng Fu
orcid.org/0000-0001-8252-1990
Dartmouth College
Hanover, NH, USA
Expertise: Game theory, infectious diseases, cancer modeling, neuroscience, complex systems, dynamical systems, network science, human behavior, public health
James Gallo
University at Buffalo
Buffalo, NY, USA
Expertise: Pharmacokinetics, biophysics and systems pharmacology, anti-cancer drug development
Chaitanya S. Gokhale
orcid.org/0000-0002-5749-3665
Department of Evolutionary Theory, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Biology
Plön, Germany
Expertise: Complex systems, eco-evolutionary models, evolutionary game theory, theoretical ecology
Nir Gov
orcid.org/0000-0001-7774-1139
Weizmann Institute of Science
Rehovot, Israel
Expertise: Membrane biophysics, computational biophysics, theoretical modelling, cytoskeleton biophysics, cellular motility, cellular shape, collective cell migration, collective animal behavior, collective decision-making
Jacopo Grilli
orcid.org/0000-0002-8235-5803
Qualitative Life Sciences
Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics
Trieste, Italy
Expertise: Theoretical ecology, microbial community ecology, stochastic processes, ecological networks, bacterial physiology
Bert de Groot
Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry
Göttingen, Germany
Expertise: Molecular dynamics, membrane channels, collective dynamics, free energy calculations, molecular recognition
Boris S Gutkin
Department of Cognitive Studies, Ecole Normale Superieure
Paris, France
Expertise: Computational neuroscience, neural network dynamics, dynamics of neuronal excitability
Adrian Haith
Johns Hopkins University
Baltimore, MD, USA
Expertise: Motor control, motor learning, behavioral and cognitive neuroscience
Turkan Haliloglu
Bogazici University
Istanbul, Turkey
Expertise: Computational structural biology, Protein dynamics and function, Mechanism of biomolecular machines
Vassily Hatzimanikatis
École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
Lausanne, Switzerland
Expertise: Metabolism, biophysical chemistry, biochemical thermodynamics, bioenergetics, systems and synthetic biology, optimization, kinetics and dynamics, machine learning
Tobias Hauser
orcid.org/0000-0002-7997-8137
University College London
London, UK
Expertise: Cognitive neuroscience, computational psychiatry, cognition, neuropharmacology, reinforcement learning, neuroimaging, human behaviour, learning, decision making
Carl Herrmann
University of Heidelberg
Heidelberg, Germany
Expertise: Gene regulation, epigenetics and chromatin, data integration, biological networks, matrix factorization
Christian Hilbe
orcid.org/0000-0001-5116-955X
Max Planck Research Group: Dynamics of Social Behavior, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Biology
Plön, Germany
Expertise: Classical and evolutionary game theory, evolution of cooperation, human social behavior, decision-making
Alison L. Hill
orcid.org/0000-0002-6583-3623
Johns Hopkins University
Baltimore, MD, USA
Expertise: Infectious disease modeling, viral dynamics, HIV/AIDS, antimicrobial resistance, transmission networks, evolutionary dynamics
Christian Hong
orcid.org/0000-0001-8618-8128
University of Cincinnati College of Medicine
Cincinnati, OH, USA
Expertise: Circadian rhythms, mathematical models related to circadian rhythms
Jochen S. Hub
Theoretical Physics and Center for Biophysics, Saarland University
Saarbrücken, Germany
Expertise: Molecular dynamcis simulations, membrane biophysics, free-energy calculations, experiment-guided simulations
Curtis Huttenhower
Harvard School of Public Health
Boston, MA, USA
Expertise: Microbial communities, human microbiome, applied machine learning, systems biology
Changbong Hyeon
orcid.org/0000-0002-4844-7237
School of Computational Sciences, Korea Institute for Advanced Study
Seoul, Republic of Korea
Expertise: Biological physics, computational biophysics, chromatin structure and function, genome organization, biological machines
Lilia Iakoucheva
orcid.org/0000-0002-4542-5219
University of California, San Diego
La Jolla, CA, USA
Expertise: Protein interactions and networks, intrinsically disordered proteins, disease bioinformatics
Leyla Isik
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Cambridge, MA, USA
Expertise: Cognitive neuroscience, computational neuroscience, vision, social perception, neural networks
Joanna Jędrzejewska-Szmek
Laboratory of Neuroinformatics, Nencki Institute of Experimental Biology
Warsaw, Poland
Expertise: Computational neuroscience, synaptic plasticity, signaling pathways, calcium dynamics
Adrianne Jenner
orcid.org/0000-0001-9103-7092
School of Mathematic Sciences, Queensland University of Technology
Brisbane, QLD, Australia
Expertise: Computational immunology, virology, mathematical modelling, agent-based modelling, data calibration, ODEs
Lars Juhl Jensen
orcid.org/0000-0001-7885-715X
University of Copenhagen
Copenhagen, Denmark
Expertise: Network biology, proteomics, text mining
Marcus Kaiser
orcid.org/0000-0002-4654-3110
Newcastle University
Newcastle, UK
Expertise: Connectome, brain networks, neuroinformatics, theoretical neuroscience
Christoph Kaleta
orcid.org/0000-0001-8004-9514
University in Kiel
Kiel, Germany
Expertise: Constraint-based modeling, microbial community modeling, systems biology of aging, microbiome
Maricel Kann
orcid.org/0000-0003-0116-3883
University of Maryland, Baltimore County
Baltimore, MD, USA
Expertise: Translational Bioinformatics, Protein Interactions, Cancer Genomics
Peter Kasson
University of Virginia
Charlottesville, VA, USA
Expertise: Membrane biophysics, computational biophysics, viral entry, antibiotic resistance, infectious diseases
Alon Keinan
orcid.org/0000-0002-9760-1122
Cornell University
Ithaca, NY, USA
Expertise: Genome-wide association studies, effective population size, genetic drift, natural selection
Melissa Lambeth Kemp
orcid.org/0000-0003-3781-8802
Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology & Emory University
Atlanta, GA, USA
Expertise: Cellular metabolism and energetics, agent-based modeling, cancer systems biology, cell signaling networks, multicellular systems, quantitative redox biology
Ozlem Keskin
Koc University
Istanbul, Turkey
Expertise: Protein structure, function, dynamics, protein-protein interactions
David Khoury
Kirby Institute, University of New South Wales
Sydney, Australia
Expertise: Infection and immunity, malaria, antimalarial drugs, drug development, SARS-CoV-2, immune correlates
Stefan Kiebel
orcid.org/0000-0002-5052-1117
Technische Universität Dresden
Dresden, Germany
Expertise: Computational neuroscience, cognitive neuroscience, neuroimaging, cognition
Tim Kietzmann
Institute of Cognitive Science
University of Osnabrück
Osnabrück, Germany
Expertise: Computational neuroscience, vision, deep neural networks, cognitive visual neuroscience, neuroimaging
Don Klinkenberg
orcid.org/0000-0002-9449-6873
Centre for Infectious Disease Control, National Institute for Public Health and the Environment
Bilthoven, The Netherlands
Expertise: Epidemic modelling, disease transmission dynamics, statistical modelling of infectious disease data, quantitative modelling and analysis to inform public health policy, phylodynamics
Stefan Klumpp
orcid.org/0000-0003-0584-2146
Institute for the Dynamics of Complex Systems, University of Göttingen
Göttingen, Germany
Expertise: Stochastic dynamics, biophysical modeling, molecular motors and machines, gene regulation, bacterial growth, motility, magnetotaxis
Rachel Kolodny
orcid.org/0000-0001-8523-1614
Department of Computer Science, University of Haifa
Haifa, Israel
Expertise: Computational structure biology, computational biophysics, protein structure, protein evolution
Roger Kouyos
orcid.org/0000-0002-9220-8348
University of Zürich
Zürich, Switzerland
Expertise: Epidemiology and evolution of infectious diseases, computational immunology, infectious disease dynamics
Pamela Kreeger
orcid.org/0000-0001-8193-1007
Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Madison, WI, USA
Expertise: Cancer systems biology, cell signaling networks, multicellular systems, ECM-cell interactions
Morgan Langille
Dalhousie University
Halifax, NS, Canada
Expertise: Microbiome, metagenomics, microbial evolution, comparative genomics
Daniel B. Larremore
orcid.org/0000-0001-5273-5234
Department of Computer Science, and BioFrontiers Institute, University of Colorado Boulder
Boulder, CO, USA
Expertise: Infectious disease dynamics, epidemiological modeling, complex networks, metascience
Peter Latham
orcid.org/0000-0001-8713-9328
University College London
London, UK
Expertise: Neural coding, population coding, network dynamics, attractor networks
Eric Lau
orcid.org/0000-0002-6688-9637
School of Public Health, The University of Hong Kong
Hong Kong, China
Expertise: Disease transmission dynamics, statistical methods, surveillance systems
Inna Lavrik
orcid.org/0000-0002-9324-309X
Otto-von-Guericke-Universität Magdeburg
Magdeburg, Germany
Expertise: Cell biology, cell processes, cell death, cell death networks, signalling pathways
Christina S. Leslie
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
New York, NY, USA
Expertise: RNA interference, gene regulatory networks, genome analysis, oncology
Jinyan Li
orcid.org/0000-0003-1833-7413
University of Technology Sydney
Sydney, NSW, Australia
Expertise: Genomic sequence compression, sequencing reads error correction, genome polishing, B-cell epitope prediction, and molecular network analysis
Mingyao Li
orcid.org/0000-0003-2422-9494
University of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia, PA, USA
Expertise: single-cell genomics, spatial transcriptomics, multi-omics integration, statistical genetics, machine learning
Maxwell Libbrecht
orcid.org/0000-0003-2502-0262
School of Computing Science, Simon Fraser University
Burnaby, BC, Canada
Expertise: Epigenomics, chromatin architecture, probabilistic graphical models, deep learning, convex optimization
Jennifer Listgarten
orcid.org/0000-0002-6600-1431
University of California Berkeley
Berkeley, CA, USA
Expertise: directed evolution, machine learning, graphical models, molecule design, protein engineering
Jie Liu
orcid.org/0000-0002-9504-0587
Department of Computational Medicine & Bioinformatics, University of Michigan
Ann Arbor, MI, USA
Expertise: Machine learning, computational genomics, epigenetics, chromatin organization, single cell genomics
Eric T. Lofgren
orcid.org/0000-0003-2052-7240
College of Veterinary Medicine, Washington State University
Pullman, WA, USA
Expertise: Epidemic modeling, infectious disease dynamics, stochastic models, network models, healthcare-associated infections
Matthieu Louis
orcid.org/0000-0002-2267-0262
University of California Santa Barbara
Santa Barbara, CA, USA
Expertise: Computational neuroscience, biophysics, sensory systems, neural-circuit inspections, behavioral quantification and assay development, neurotechnology
Alexander D. MacKerell, Jr.
orcid.org/0000-0001-8287-6804
University of Maryland
Baltimore, MD, USA
Expertise: Computational biophysics, drug design, molecular dynamics simulations, force field development
Shaun Mahony
Center for Eukaryotic Gene Regulation, The Pennsylvania State University
University Park, PA, USA
Expertise: Regulatory genomics; protein-DNA interactions; transcription factors; development; machine learning
Philip K. Maini
orcid.org/0000-0002-0146-9164
Oxford University
Oxford, UK
Expertise: Mathematical modelling related to developmental biology, tumour dynamics
Costas D. Maranas
orcid.org/0000-0002-1508-1398
The Pennsylvania State University
University Park, PA, USA
Expertise: Reconstruction, analysis and redesign of metabolic networks, computational protein design, systems/synthetic biology
Alison Marsden
Stanford University
Stanford, CA, USA
Expertise: Cardiovascular modelling, computational fluid dynamics and fluid structure interaction, paediatric cardiology, coronary artery disease, biomechanics and biofluids, hemodynamics, optimization and uncertainty quantification, computational methods and multi-scale physiology modeling
James Marshall
orcid.org/0000-0002-3701-492X
University of Sheffield/Opteran Technologies Ltd
Sheffield, UK
Expertise: Evolutionary biology, collective behavior and decision theory
Andrea E. Martin
orcid.org/0000-0002-3395-7234
Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics/Radboud University
Nijmegen, The Netherlands
Expertise: Language, language processing, cognitive science, cognitive neuroscience, computational modelling, neural oscillations, EEG, MEG, metascience
Ricardo Martinez-Garcia
orcid.org/0000-0003-2765-8147
International Center for Theoretical Physics - South American Institute for Fundamental Research. Institute for Theoretical Physics, São Paulo State University.
São Paulo, SP, Brazil
Expertise: Animal movement; collective dynamics; eco-evolutionary dynamics; emergent patterns and self-organization; stochastic processes
Manja Marz
Friedrich-Schiller-University
Jena, Germany
Expertise: Virus bioinformatics, non-coding RNAs
Sergei Maslov
orcid.org/0000-0002-3701-492X
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Urbana, IL, USA
Expertise: Microbial community modeling, complex biological systems
Chris Mathys
orcid.org/0000-0003-4079-5453
Interacting Minds Centre (IMC), Aarhus University
Aarhus, Denmark
Expertise: Computational modelling, Bayesian inference, time series, machine learning, computational psychiatry, decision making, reinforcement learning, neuromodulation, neuropharmacology, active inference
James McCaw
orcid.org/0000-0002-2452-3098
School of Mathematics & Statistics, The University of Melbourne
Melbourne, VIC, Australia
Expertise: Epidemic modelling, disease transmission dynamics, host-pathogen dynamics, quantitative modelling and analysis to inform public health policy
Andrew McCulloch
University of California, San Diego
La Jolla, CA, USA
Expertise: Multi-scale modeling, computational cardiac biophysics and physiology, computational cell physiology
Martin Meier-Schellersheim
National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, NIH
Expertise: computational biology, biophysics, signalling networks, numerical simulations, reaction-diffusion problems
Pedro Mendes
orcid.org/0000-0001-6507-9168
University of Connecticut School of Medicine
Farmington, CT, USA
Expertise: Metabolism, signaling networks, kinetics and dynamics, parameter estimation, software, systems biology, iron physiology
Roeland Merks
orcid.org/0000-0002-6152-687X
Universiteit Leiden
Leiden, Netherlands
Expertise: agent-based modeling in biology, cell-based modeling, cellular Potts model, computational modeling of angiogenesis, computational modeling of plant development
Michele Migliore
orcid.org/0000-0002-7584-6292
Institute of Biophysics, National Research Council
Palermo, Italy
Expertise: computational neuroscience; biophysical models; synaptic plasticity; hippocampus; olfactory bulb; large-scale networks
Kathryn Miller-Jensen
Yale University
New Haven, CT, USA
Expertise: Signaling networks, systems biology, viral infection, innate immunity
Yamir Moreno
orcid.org/0000-0002-0895-1893
University of Zaragoza
Zaragoza, Spain
Expertise: Complex Systems and Networks, Evolutionary dynamics, Theoretical Ecology, Epidemic modeling and disease transmission dynamics, evolutionary game theory, quantitative modeling of, and collective, behavior
Alexandre V. Morozov
orcid.org/0000-0003-2598-7000
Rutgers University
Piscataway, NJ, USA
Expertise: Biological physics, chromatin structure and function, molecular evolution, mechanisms of gene regulation
Abigail Morrison
Research Center Jülich
Jülich, Germany
Expertise: Computational neuroscience, neuronal networks, learning, plasticity
Ville Mustonen
orcid.org/0000-0002-7270-1792
Helsinki Institute for Information Technology, University of Helsinki
Helsinki, Finland
Expertise: Drug resistance, therapy optimization, antimicrobial resistance, evolutionary theory, population genetics, optimal control, eco-evolutionary dynamics, experimental evolution, cancer evolution, mutational signatures
Niranjan Nagarajan
Genome Institute of Singapore
Singapore
Expertise: Microbiome studies, metagenomic analysis, microbial community modelling, genome assembly, cancer drivers and drug response prediction
Qing Nie
orcid.org/0000-0002-8804-3368
University of California, Irvine
Irvine, CA, USA
Expertise: Developmental biology, cell fates, stem cells, gene regulatory networks, stochastic dynamics, multiscale modeling, computational tools for single-cell RNA-seq data
Alexey Onufriev
orcid.org/0000-0002-4930-6612
Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
Blacksburg, VA, USA
Expertise: Bio-molecular simulations, computational structural biology, bio-molecular electrostatics, physical epigenetics
Christine Orengo
University College London
London, UK
Expertise: protein structure/sequence analysis, comparative genomics, molecular evolution
Christos A. Ouzounis
The Centre for Research and Technology Hellas
Thessalonica, Greece
Expertise: Comparative genomics, genome databases, metabolic pathways
Stefano Palminteri
orcid.org/0000-0001-5768-6646
Ecole Normale Superieure
Paris, France
Expertise: Cognitive neuroscience, experimental psychology, behavioral economics, reinforcement learning, decision-making
Anna Panchenko
National Institutes of Health
Bethesda, MD, USA
Expertise: Molecular structure and dynamics, chromatin, cancer genomics, machine learning
Elena Papaleo
orcid.org/0000-0002-7376-5894
Cancer Systems Biology, Health and Technology Department, Technical University of Denmark; Cancer Structural Biology, Danish Cancer Society Research Center
Copenhagen, Denmark
Expertise: Protein structures, intrinsically disordered proteins, protein-protein interactions, molecular dynamics, cancer drivers, cancer mutations, cancer genomics
Mercedes Pascual
University of Chicago
Chicago, IL, USA
Expertise: Population dynamics of infectious diseases, ecological networks, theoretical ecology
Shayn Peirce-Cottler
orcid.org/0000-0001-5857-5606
University of Virginia, Department of Biomedical Engineering
Charlottesville, VA, USA
Expertise: Agent-based modeling, computational modeling of multi-cell systems, angiogenesis and vascular development, tissue engineering and tissue regeneration, inflammation and fibrotic disease
Alex Perkins
orcid.org/0000-0002-7518-4014
University of Notre Dame
Notre Dame, IN, USA
Expertise: Disease ecology, epidemics, infectious disease epidemiology, mosquito-borne diseases
Megan Peters
orcid.org/0000-0002-0248-0816
University of California, Irvine
Irvine, CA, USA
Expertise: Computational modelling, consciousness, confidence, fMRI, perception, metacognition
Viola Priesemann
orcid.org/0000-0001-8905-5873
Max Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self-Organization
Göttingen, Germany
Expertise: Epidemic modelling, computational neuroscience
Teresa Przytycka
orcid.org/0000-0002-6261-277X
National Center for Biotechnology Information
Bethesda, MD, USA
Expertise: Systems biology, genotype-phenotype association, gene regulation, molecular structure
Padmini Rangamani
orcid.org/0000-0001-5953-4347
Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, University of California, San Diego
La Jolla, CA, USA
Expertise: Membrane mechanics, cell signaling, reaction-diffusion models, synaptic plasticity, endocytosis, cell biophysics
Christopher V. Rao
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Urbana, IL, USA
Expertise: Signaling networks, motility, chemotaxis
Magnus Rattray
orcid.org/0000-0001-8196-5565
Division of Informatics, Imaging and Data Sciences, Faculty of Biology, Medicine and Health, University of Manchester
Manchester, UK
Expertise: Machine learning, Bayesian inference, single-cell genomics, spatial transcriptomics
Roland Regoes
orcid.org/0000-0001-8319-5293
ETH Zurich
Zurich, Switzerland
Expertise: Population biology of infectious diseases
Blake A. Richards
orcid.org/0000-0001-9662-2151
McGill University
Montréal, Canada
Expertise: Machine learning, reinforcement learning, inhibitory interneurons, synaptic plasticity, memory consolidation
Isidore Rigoutsos
orcid.org/0000-0003-1529-8631
Thomas Jefferson University
Philadelphia, PA, USA
Expertise: Genomics, RNA biogenesis and action, transcription and translation regulation, disease genetics and informatics, motif discovery, retroelements, organism-specific regulation, high-throughput sequencing
Marc Robinson-Rechavi
orcid.org/0000-0002-3437-3329
Department of Ecology and Evolution, University of Lausanne
Lausanne, Switzerland
Expertise: Molecular evolution, databases and ontologies, gene regulation, comparative genomics
Emma Robinson
orcid.org/0000-0002-7886-3426
Kings College London
London, UK
Expertise: neuroimaging, cortical modelling, machine learning for neuroscience
Jonathan Rubin
orcid.org/0000-0002-1513-1551
University Of Pittsburgh
Pittsburgh, PA, USA
Expertise: Mathematical and computational neuroscience, dynamical systems, multiple timescale systems, rhythm generation, basal ganglia, network dynamics, inflammation
Andrey Rzhetsky
orcid.org/0000-0001-6959-7405
University Of Chicago
Chicago, IL, USA
Expertise: Electronic medical records, complex disease, text-mining, molecular networks
Jeffrey J. Saucerman
University of Virginia
Charlottesville, VA, USA
Expertise: Signaling networks, microscopy, cell dynamics, cardiac physiology
Samuel V. Scarpino
orcid.org/0000-0001-5716-2770
Pandemic Prevention Institute, The Rockefeller Foundation
Washington, D.C., USA
Expertise: Complexity and networks, ecology and evolution of infectious diseases, spatial modeling and mobility, forecasting and predictive modeling, public health decision making, surveillance systems, phylodynamics, evolutionary dynamics, machine learning
Avner Schlessinger
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
New York, NY, USA
Expertise: Structural bioinformatics, systems pharmacology, computer-aided drug design
Tamar Schlick
New York University
New York, NY, USA
Expertise: Computational structural biophysics, biomolecular modeling and dynamics, genome organization, chromatin structure and function, RNA structure modeling and design
Dina Schneidman-Duhovny
orcid.org/0000-0003-0480-0438
The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Jerusalem, Israel
Expertise: Macromolecular complexes, protein-protein interactions, protein-protein docking, multi-state modeling, protein flexibility, protein dynamics, cross-linking mass spectronomy, small angle X-ray scattering, antibody-antigen interactions, antibody modeling, epitope prediction
Marcel H. Schulz
orcid.org/0000-0002-1252-3656
Medical Department, Goethe University Frankfurt
Frankfurt, Germany
Expertise: Single-cell genomics, multi-omics integration, 3D genome and epigenomics, gene regulation, cardiovascular diseases, machine learning and deep learning
Nicola Segata
University of Trento
Trento, Italy
Expertise: Microbial genomics, machine learning, metagenomics, genome and sequence analysis, meta-analysis
Donna Slonim
orcid.org/0000-0003-3357-437X
Tufts University
Boston, MA, USA
Expertise: Networks, systems biology, pharmacogenomics, disease bioinformatics
Joanna Slusky
orcid.org/0000-0003-0842-6340
University of Kansas
Lawrence, KS, USA
Expertise: Outer membrane, membrane proteins, antibiotic efflux, protein design, enzyme design
Alireza Soltani
orcid.org/0000-0003-4386-8486
Dartmouth College
Hanover, NH, USA
Expertise: Neuroscience, computational neuroscience, learning, decision making, attention, circuit-level modeling, biophysical models, adaptive behavior, neurobiology, population coding, risk, uncertainty
David van der Spoel
University of Uppsala
Uppsala, Sweden
Expertise: Macromolecular complex analysis, plant pathogens, biophysics
Jörg Stelling
ETH Zurich
Zurich, Switzerland
Expertise: Computational systems biology, network structures and dynamics, circuit design
Dan Stowell
orcid.org/0000-0001-8068-3769
Tilburg University
Naturalis Biodiversity Centre, Netherlands
Expertise: Machine learning, deep learning, acoustics, bioacoustics, multimedia, vocal communication
Claudio Struchiner
School of Applied Mathematics, Fundacao Getulio Vargas
Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil
Expertise: Infectious disease modeling, design and analysis of vaccine studies, ecology of genetically modified insect vectors
Mark Tanaka
orcid.org/0000-0003-2198-1402
University of New South Wales
Sydney, Australia
Expertise: Microbial evolution, molecular epidemiology, model-based statistical inference
Corina E. Tarnita
Princeton University
Princeton, NJ, USA
Expertise: Eco-evolutionary dynamics, multicellularity and social behavior, evolutionary game theory, emergent patterns and behaviors, collective dynamics
Peter Taylor
orcid.org/0000-0003-2144-9838
Newcastle University
Newcastle, UK
Expertise: Neuroimaging, EEG, dynamical systems, brain networks, epilepsy, computational modelling
Frédéric E. Theunissen
orcid.org/0000-0001-8980-0650
University of California at Berkeley
Berkeley, CA, USA
Expertise: Behavioural and systems neuroscience, auditory physiology, speech perception
Denis Thieffry
orcid.org/0000-0003-0271-1757
Ecole Normale Supérieure
Paris, France
Expertise: Computational systems biology, gene regulation, cell fate specification, logical modelling
Roberto Toro
orcid.org/0000-0002-6671-858X
Institut Pasteur
Paris, France
Expertise: Neuroimaging, computational neuroanatomy, development, evolution, neocortex, comparative neuroanatomy, imaging genetics, autism, distributed collaboration
Jonathan Touboul
Brandeis University
Waltham, MA, USA
Expertise: computational neuroscience, dynamical systems, bifurcations, stochastic models, synchronization, synaptic plasticity, learning
Arne Traulsen
orcid.org/0000-0002-0669-5267
Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Biology
Plön, Germany
Expertise: Evolutionary dynamics, evolutionary game theory, finite populations, group selection, mathematical models for cancer
Virginie Uhlmann
European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI), European Molecular Biology Laboratory
Cambridge, UK
Expertise: bioimage analysis, microscopy, applied machine learning, morphometry
David Umulis
Purdue University
West Lafayette, IN, USA
Expertise: development, morphogen gradients, patterning, cell fate, scale invariance, differentiation, data integration and optimization
Ronald van den Berg
orcid.org/0000-0001-7353-5960
University of Uppsala
Uppsala, Sweden
Expertise: Visual perception, visual working memory, cognition, decision making, quantitative models of behaviour, psychophysics, bayesian statistics
Nic Vega
Department of Biology, Emory University
Atlanta, GA, USA
Expertise: microbial ecology, microbiome, host-microbe, population dynamics, antibiotic resistance
Cécile Viboud
National Institutes of Health
Bethesda, MD, USA
Expertise: infectious disease population dynamics, time series analysis, spatial transmission models,
influenza, respiratory viruses, surveillance systems, forecasting
Rebecca Wade
orcid.org/0000-0001-5951-8670
Heidelberg Institute for Theoretical Studies and Heidelberg University
Heidelberg, Germany
Expertise: Biomolecular modelling and simulation, protein-ligand interactions
Anders Wallqvist
orcid.org/0000-0002-9775-7469
Biotechnology HPC Software Applications Institute
Frederick, MD, USA
Expertise: Metabolic networks, infectious diseases, vaccine and immune modeling, predictive toxicology, systems biology
Barbara Webb
University of Edinburgh
Edinburgh, UK
Expertise: Insect neuroscience and behaviour, sensorimotor control, navigation, learning, neuroethology, robotics
Guanghong Wei
orcid.org/0000-0001-5814-3328
Fudan University
Shanghai, China
Expertise: Molecular dynamics simulations, protein folding, protein aggregation, peptide-membrane interaction, peptide-nanoparticle interaction
Xue-Xin Wei
Center for Theoretical and Computational Neuroscience, University of Texas at Austin
Austin, TX, USA
Expertise: Neural coding, quantitative models of behaviour, neural population dynamics, machine learning for neuroscience, spatial navigation, neural networks
Joel Wertheim
University of California, San Diego
San Diego, CA, USA
Expertise: Viral evolution, phylogenetics, molecular epidemiology
Dominik Wodarz
University of California, Irvine
Irvine, CA, USA
Expertise: Mathematical models related to cancer, infectious diseases, the immune system, population dynamics, and evolutionary dynamics
Joseph Wu
orcid.org/0000-0002-3155-5987
School of Public Health, The University of Hong Kong
Hong Kong
Expertise: epidemic modeling, cancer prevention, transmission dynamics
Andrew Yates
orcid.org/0000-0003-4606-4483
Columbia University
New York, NY, USA
Expertise: Quantitative immunology, within-host pathogen dynamics, lymphocyte dynamics
Tianming Yang
orcid.org/0000-0001-6976-9246
Institute of Neuroscience, Chinese Academy of Sciences
Shanghai, China
Expertise: system neuroscience, computational neuroscience, decision making, visual system, attention, sensory-motor transformation, reinforcement learning, neural networks, neural coding
Lingchong You
Duke University
Durham, NC, USA
Expertise: Synthetic biology, quantitative biology, antibiotic resistance, cell signalling
Yinyin Yuan
Division of Molecular Pathology, The Institute of Cancer Research
London, UK
Expertise: Computational Pathology, cancer ecology, deep learning for genomics
Shihua Zhang
orcid.org/0000-0003-0192-7118
Academy of Mathematics and Systems Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences
Beijing, China
Expertise: Single-cell genomics, spatial transcriptomics, multi-omics integration, 3D genome and epigenomics, machine learning and deep learning
Weixiong Zhang
Washington University in St. Louis
St. Louis, MO, USA
Expertise: MicroRNAs and small noncoding RNAs, gene regulation, regulation and regulatory networks, neurodegenerative diseases, machine learning, genome-wide association studies (GWAS)
Zhaolei Zhang
orcid.org/0000-0002-7303-6472
University of Toronto
Toronto, ON, Canada
Expertise: Comparative genomics, noncoding RNA, microRNAs, gene regulation
Lusha Zhu
Peking University
Beijing, China
Expertise: decision making, game theory, cognitive neuroscience, social behavior, reinforcement learning, computational psychiatry, experimental psychology, behavioral economics, neuroimaging
Mark Ziemann
orcid.org/ 0000-0002-7688-6974
School of Life and Environmental Sciences, Deakin University
Geelong, Australia
Expertise: Genomics, epigenomics, multi-omics integration
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Stanford University
Stanford, CA, USA
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orcid.org/0000-0002-6020-4625
Johns Hopkins University
Baltimore, MD, USA
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orcid.org/0000-0001-8052-3925
ETH Zürich
Zürich, Switzerland
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European Molecular Biology Laboratory
Heidelberg, Germany
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University of California, Los Angeles
Los Angeles, CA, USA
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University College London
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Yale University
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Harvard University
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National Center for Biotechnology Information
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Princeton University
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Whitehead Institute
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orcid.org/0000-0002-7680-7527
University of Queensland
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orcid.org/0000-0003-2370-3430
Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research
Braunschweig, Germany
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University of California, San Francisco
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Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
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Indiana University
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