Editorial Board
Members of the PLOS Genetics Editorial Board are representatives of their respective research communities who volunteer their time overseeing peer review and guiding journal direction.
Editors-in-Chief
Gregory S. Barsh
orcid.org/0000-0002-0838-1042
HudsonAlpha Institute of Biotechnology; Stanford University School of Medicine
Huntsville, AL; Stanford, CA, USA
Email: gbarsh@plos.org
Gregory P. Copenhaver
orcid.org/0000-0002-7962-3862
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Chapel Hill, NC, USA
Email: gcopenhaver@plos.org
Section Editors
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Cancer Genetics
David J. Kwiatkowski
orcid.org/0000-0002-5668-5219
Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard
Boston, MA, USA
Epigenetics
Wendy A. Bickmore
orcid.org/0000-0001-6660-7735
Medical Research Council Human Genetics Unit
Edinburgh, UK
John M. Greally
orcid.org/0000-0001-6069-7960
Albert Einstein College of Medicine
New York, NY, USA
Evolution
Justin C. Fay
orcid.org/0000-0003-1893-877X
University of Rochester
Rochester, NY, USA
Kelly A. Dyer
orcid.org/0000-0001-7480-2055
University of Georgia
Athens, GA, USA
Methods
Michael P. Epstein
orcid.org/0000-0001-9647-9738
Emory University
Atlanta, GA, USA
Expertise: statistical genetics, genetic epidemiology, human complex disease
Xiaofeng Zhu
orcid.org/0000-0003-0037-411X
Case Western Reserve University
Cleveland, OH, USA
Quanjiang Ji
orcid.org/0000-0002-2321-8462
ShanghaiTech University
Shanghai, China
Human Genetic Variation and Disease
Hua Tang
orcid.org/0000-0002-0177-8864
Stanford University
Stanford, CA, USA
Scott M. Williams
orcid.org/0000-0002-4835-9544
Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine
Cleveland, OH, USA
Microbial Genetics
Lotte Søgaard-Andersen
orcid.org/0000-0002-0674-0013
Max Planck Institute for Terrestrial Microbiology
Marburg, Germany
Expertise: Bacteria and Archaea
Sean Crosson
orcid.org/0000-0002-2942-4750
Michigan State University
East Lansing, MI, USA
Expertise: Bacteria and Archaea
Eva H. Stukenbrock
orcid.org/0000-0001-8590-3345
Christian-Albrechts University of Kiel and Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Biology
Kiel, Germany
Expertise: Fungal and Protists
Geraldine Butler
orcid.org/0000-0002-1770-5301
University College Dublin
Dublin, Ireland
Expertise: Fungal and Protists
Plant Genetics
Claudia Köhler
orcid.org/0000-0002-2619-4857
Max Planck Institute of Molecular Plant Physiology
Potsdam, Germany
Li-Jia Qu
orcid.org/0000-0002-1765-7311
Peking University
Beijing, China
Front Section Editors
Jonathan Flint
University of California Los Angeles
Los Angeles, CA, USA
Front Matter Section Editor
Petra Anne Levin
orcid.org/0000-0003-2071-0547
Washington University in St. Louis
St. Louis, MI, USA
Reviews Editor
Christine Queitsch
University of Washington
Seattle, WA, USA
Reviews Editor
Thomas Shafee
orcid.org/0000-0002-2298-7593
La Trobe University
Melbourne, Australia
Topic Pages Editor
Associate Editors
A. Aziz Aboobaker
University of Oxford
Oxford, UK
Expertise: regenerative biology, the evolution of development, functional genomics, ageing biology
Devin Absher
HudsonAlpha Institute of Biotechnology
Huntsville, AL, USA
Expertise: human genetics, epigenetics, bioinformatics
Kaveh Ashrafi
University of California San Francisco
San Francisco, CA, USA
Expertise: analysis of genetic and neuronal circuits of fat and feeding, C. elegans genetics
Karen B. Avraham
orcid.org/0000-0002-4913-251X
Tel Aviv University
Tel Aviv, Israel
Expertise: mouse genetics and genomics, epigenetics, human disease, hearing and deafness
David Balding
orcid.org/0000-0002-1480-6115
Melbourne Integrative Genomics
School of BioSciences and School of Mathematics & Statistics
University of Melbourne
Melbourne, Australia
Marisa S. Bartolomei
orcid.org/0000-0001-9410-5222
University of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia, PA, USA
Expertise: mouse genetics, genomic imprinting, mammalian epigenetics
Adam Bass
orcid.org/0000-0002-8193-4758
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
Boston, MA, USA
Expertise: cancer genomics, targeted therapy, gastrointestinal carcinogenesis
David R. Beier
orcid.org/0000-0002-0325-8520
Seattle Children's Research Institute
Seattle, WA, USA
Expertise: mouse genetics, positional cloning, development, mutagenesis, kidney disease
Nicolas Bierne
orcid.org/0000-0003-1856-3197
CNRS and University of Montpellier
Montpellier, France
Expertise: population genetics, marine evolution, hybridization, transmissible cancers
Marnie Blewitt
The Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research
Parkville, Australia
Expertise: epigenetic control of gene expression, genomic technologies, genetic screens
Giovanni Bosco
Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth
Hanover, NH, USA
Expertise: chromosome structure/function, epigenetics & transgenerational effects, neurogenetics & behaviour
Jürgen Brosius
University of Münster
Münster, Germany
Expertise: RNomics, phylogenomics, functional genomics
Ken M. Cadigan
University of Michigan
Ann Arbor, MI, USA
Expertise: Drosophila developmental genetics, cell signaling, gene regulation, transcription factors and chromatin
Susana Campino
orcid.org/0000-0003-1403-6138
London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
London, UK
Expertise: genomics, population genetics, drug and insecticide resistance; Organisms: Plasmodium and other parasites, flavivirus, and vectors like Anopheles and Aedes
Jackson Champer
Peking University
Beijing, China
Expertise: gene drive, genetic engineering, evolutionary modeling
Lin Chen
orcid.org/0000-0002-6645-5708
University of Chicago
Chicago, IL, USA
Expertise: Statistical genetics and genomics, causal inference, integrative genomics analysis, multivariate analysis, missing data
Andrew D. Chisholm
orcid.org/0000-0001-5091-0537
University of California San Diego
La Jolla, CA, USA
Expertise: genetics of neuronal and epidermal morphogenesis, C. elegans genetics
Bruce E. Clurman
Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
Seattle, WA, USA
Expertise: cancer biology, cell cycle control, proteolysis
Gitta Coaker
orcid.org/0000-0003-0899-2449
University of California, Davis
Davis, CA, USA
Expertise: plant innate immunity, bacterial pathogenesis, bacterial effectors
Paula Cohen
Cornell University
Ithaca, NY, USA
Expertise: meiosis, mammalian germ cells, reproduction, non-coding RNAs in mammals
Mónica P. Colaiácovo
orcid.org/0000-0001-7803-4372
Harvard Medical School
Boston, MA, USA
Expertise: meiosis, germ cells, chromosome structure/function, C. elegans genetics
Maralice Conacci-Sorrell
Department of Cell Biology
UT Southwestern Medical Center
Dallas, TX, USA
Expertise: oncogenes, tumor suppressors, metabolic reprograming, tumor metabolism, nucleolar function, cell growth
Frank Conlon
orcid.org/0000-0002-5027-0397
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Chapel Hill, NC, USA
Expertise: developmental genetics, heart disease, cardiac differentiation
Gregory M. Cooper
HudsonAlpha Institute for Biotechnology
Huntsville, AL, USA
Expertise: human genetics and genomics, genome annotation, clinical genome sequencing, variant interpretation
Heather J. Cordell
orcid.org/0000-0002-1879-5572
Newcastle University
Newcastle upon Tyne, UK
Expertise: statistical genetics, genetic epidemiology, biostatistics
Chris Cotsapas
orcid.org/0000-0002-7772-5910
Yale School of Medicine
New Haven, CT, USA
Expertise: complex trait genetics, immune-mediated diseases, genomics
Gregory A. Cox
The Jackson Laboratory
Bar Harbor, ME, USA
Expertise: neuromuscular disease, mouse genetics, positional cloning
Ankur Dalia
Indiana University
Bloomington, IN, USA
Expertise: bacterial horizontal gene transfer, natural transformation, bacterial signal transduction, type IV pili, Vibrio
Takaaki Daimon
Kyoto University
Kyoto, Japan
Expertise: insect physiology and endocrinology, insect development genetics, non-model insects, genome editing, Bombyx mori (silkworm)
Xavier Didelot
orcid.org/0000-0003-1885-500X
University of Warwick
Coventry, UK
Expertise: bacterial population genetics, microbial genomics, infectious disease epidemiology
Anna Di Rienzo
University of Chicago
Chicago, IL, USA
Expertise: population genetics, genetics of gene expression, pharmacogenetics
Aimee M. Dudley
orcid.org/0000-0003-3644-0625
Pacific Northwest Research Institute
Seattle, WA, USA
Expertise: yeast, genetics, genomics
Susan K. Dutcher
orcid.org/0000-0001-5689-5753
Washington University School of Medicine
St. Louis, MO, USA
Expertise: Chlamydomonas genetics, ciliary and basal body biology, cytoskeleton, positional cloning, chloroplast genetics
John Ewer
orcid.org/0000-0002-6806-3628
Universidad de Valparaiso
Valparaiso, Chile
Expertise: insect circadian rhythms, insect endocrinology, neurogenetics
Cédric Feschotte
Cornell University
Ithaca, NY, USA
Expertise: mobile genetic elements, evolutionary genomics, genetic novelty, non-coding RNA and DNA
Aleksandra Filipovska
The University of Western Australia
Nedlands, Australia
Expertise: mitochondrial biology, RNA-binding proteins, gene expression, RNA metabolism, protein synthesis
Anthony B. Firulli
orcid.org/0000-0001-6687-8949
Indiana University School of Medicine
Indianapolis, IN, USA
Expertise: cardiac development, bHLH factors, transcription
Wayne N. Frankel, Founding Editor
Columbia University Medical Center
New York, NY, USA
Expertise: genetics of epilepsy, neurogenetics, complex traits
Matthew L. Freedman
Dana Farber Cancer Institute and The Broad Institute
Boston, MA, USA
Expertise: complex trait analysis, functional interpretation of inherited variation, epigenetics
Michael Freitag
Oregon State University
Corvallis, OR, USA
Expertise: chromatin, epigenetics, fungal genetics
Jingyuan Fu
orcid.org/0000-0001-5578-1236
University of Groningen
Groningen, The Netherlands
Expertise: systems genetics, integrative genomics, microbiome
Danielle A. Garsin
The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston
Houston, TX, USA
Expertise: prokaryotic genetics and gene regulation, C. elegans stress and pathogen responses, model systems of infection
Ronald B. Gartenhaus
VCU Massey Cancer Center
Richmond, VA, USA
Expertise: translation, non-coding RNAs, hematologic malignancies
Santhosh Girirajan
orcid.org/0000-0003-0598-4945
Pennsylvania State University
University Park, PA, USA
Expertise: human genetics and genomics, genetic interactions, model systems for developmental disorders
Takashi Gojobori
National Institute of Genetics
Mishima, Japan
Expertise: evolutionary genetics, population genetics, bioinformatics, genomics-oriented human genetics
Dmitry Gordenin
orcid.org/0000-0002-8399-1836
National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences
Durham, NC, USA
Expertise: genome stability, DNA repair and replication, mutagenesis in cancer
Henry T. Greely
Stanford Law School
Stanford, CA, USA
Expertise: legal, ethical, and social issues surrounding health law and the biosciences
Mathilde Grelon
Institut Jean-Pierre Bourgin, INRA de Versailles
Versailles, France
Expertise: meiosis, recombination, plant biology
Martien A. M. Groenen
orcid.org/0000-0003-0484-4545
Wageningen University
Wageningen, The Netherlands
Expertise: domestic animals, genome evolution, genome assembly, comparative genomics, complex traits, genome variation
Sarah Hake
University of California Berkeley
Albany, CA, USA
Expertise: maize genetics, plant development, plant biology
Bruce A. Hamilton
University of California San Diego
La Jolla, CA, USA
Expertise: neurogenetics, mouse models, modifier genes
Peter Hammerman
Novartis
Cambridge, MA, USA
Expertise: lung, head and neck cancer genetics, experimental therapeutics, tumor immune microenvironment
Anne C. Hart
orcid.org/0000-0001-7239-4350
Brown University
Providence, RI, USA
Expertise: C. elegans, neuroscience, behavior
Gaiti Hasan
orcid.org/0000-0001-7194-383X
National Centre for Biological Sciences, TIFR
Bengaluru, India
Expertise: neurogenetics, cell signaling, Drosophila
R. Scott Hawley
Stowers Institute for Medical Research
Kansas City, MO, USA
Expertise: meiosis, chromosome pairing, chromosome segregation, mutant screens and mutational analysis in Drosophila, mitosis, chromosome structure
Lin He
University of California, Berkeley
Berkeley, CA, USA
Expertise: microRNAs, long non-coding RNAs and mouse models
Joseph Heitman
orcid.org/0000-0001-6369-5995
Duke University Medical Center
Durham, NC, USA
Expertise: fungal genetics, microbial pathogenesis, sexual reproduction and sex determination
Ian Henderson
Department of Plant Sciences
University of Cambridge
Cambridge, UK
Expertise: meiosis, epigenetics, recombination
Ville I. Hietakangas
orcid.org/0000-0002-9900-7549
University of Helsinki
Helsinki, Finland
Expertise: nutrient sensing, energy metabolism, growth control, stem cell biology, Drosophila genetics
Anita K. Hopper
Ohio State University
Columbus, OH, USA
Expertise: tRNA biology, nucleus/cytoplasm exchange, yeast genetics
Diarmaid Hughes
orcid.org/0000-0002-7456-9182
Uppsala University
Uppsala, Sweden
Expertise: prokaryotic genetics, infectious disease, antibiotic resistance, evolution
Kent W. Hunter
orcid.org/0000-0001-5963-8808
National Cancer Institute
Bethesda, MD, USA
Expertise: mouse quantitative genetics, cancer genetics, breast cancer, metastasis susceptibility
Jean-René Huynh
Collège de France CNRS
Paris, France
Expertise: Drosophila, meiosis, chromosome dynamics, germarium
Javier E. Irazoqui
orcid.org/0000-0001-6553-1329
University of Massachusetts Medical School
Worcester, MA, USA
Expertise: C. elegans stress and pathogen responses, model systems of infection, intestinal and mucosal infection and inflammation, gene regulation in phagocytes, mouse innate immunity
Sudha K. Iyengar
Case Western University
Cleveland, OH, USA
Expertise: genomics of disorders with complex inheritance, ocular diseases, speech and language disorders
Hongbin Ji
Chinese Academy of Sciences and Shanghai Institute of Biochemistry and Cell Biology
Shanghai, China
Expertise: mouse genetics, lung tumorigenesis, cancer plasticity, metastasis, targeted therapy
Sue Jinks-Robertson
Duke University
Durham, NC, USA
Expertise: homologous recombination, mutagenesis, yeast genetics
Marcel Kool
orcid.org/0000-0002-6557-5468
Hopp-Children's Cancer Center KiTZ and German Cancer Research Center DKFZ
Heidelberg, Germany
Expertise: pediatric brain tumors, (epi)genomics, pediatric brain tumor model systems
Artyom Kopp
University of California Davis
Davis, CA, California
Expertise: evolution of development, evolutionary genetics, developmental genetics
Achim Kramer
Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin
Berlin, Germany
Expertise: circadian biology, transcriptional regulation, posttranslational mechanisms
Zoltán Kutalik
University of Lausanne
Lausanne, Switzerland
Expertise: statistical genetics, association studies, Mendelian randomisation
Nils-Göran Larsson
Karolinska Institutet
Stockholm, Sweden
Expertise: mitochondria, mitochondrial DNA/mtDNA, aging
Tosso Leeb
orcid.org/0000-0003-0553-4880
University of Bern
Bern, Switzerland
Expertise: domestic animals, monogenic traits, coat color
Mingyao Li
University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine
Philadelphia, PA, USA
Expertise: single-cell genomics, spatial transcriptomics, statistical genetics
Yun Li
orcid.org/0000-0002-9275-4189
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Chapel Hill, NC, USA
Expertise: statistical genomics, chromatin 3D organization, single cell genomics, spatial transcriptomics
Michael Lichten
orcid.org/0000-0001-9707-2956
National Cancer Institute
Bethesda, MD, USA
Expertise: meiosis
Jiandie Lin
orcid.org/0000-0001-8069-5647
University of Michigan Life Sciences
Michigan, MI, USA
Expertise: metabolic disease, signaling, liver biology
Xiaorong Lin
orcid.org/0000-0002-3390-8387
University of Georgia
Athens, GA, USA
Expertise: sexual reproduction, dimorphism, fungal infection
Fanxin Long
The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia
Philadelphia, PA, USA
Expertise: bone metabolism, genetics of skeleton, developmental signals
Bingwei Lu
Stanford University School of Medicine
Stanford, CA, USA
Expertise: neurodegenerative disease modeling in Drosophila, developmental neurobiology, neural stem cells
Harmit S. Malik
orcid.org/0000-0001-6005-0016
Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
Seattle, WA, USA
Expertise: eukaryotic mobile elements and host defenses, heterochromatin, molecular evolution, multigene families
Jonathan Marchini
orcid.org/0000-0003-0610-8322
Regeneron
New York, NY, USA
Expertise: association mapping, statistical methods, human complex disease, population structure
Ivan Matic
orcid.org/0000-0003-0393-1241
Université Paris Descartes, INSERM U1001
Paris, France
Expertise: prokaryotic genetics, recombination, DNA repair, mutagenesis, evolution, infectious diseases
Rodney Mauricio
orcid.org/0000-0002-3969-8552
University of Georgia
Athens, GA, USA
Expertise: plant population genetics, plant ecological genetics, genetic basis of complex traits
Michael T. McManus
University of California San Francisco
San Francisco, CA, USA
Expertise: RNA expression arrays, mouse transgenics, mechanisms of small RNA biology
Eric A. Miska
The Gurdon Institute, University of Cambridge
Cambridge, UK
Expertise: non-coding RNA, epigenetics and genome stability
Aaron P. Mitchell
orcid.org/0000-0002-0868-4000
University of Georgia
Athens, GA, USA
Expertise: fungal genetics, Candida, transcription, biofilm, gene regulation, stress response
Ortrun Mittelsten Scheid
orcid.org/0000-0002-7757-4809
Gregor Mendel Institute of Molecular Plant Biology
Vienna, Austria
Expertise: plant epigenetics, nucleus and chromatin, DNA repair
Cecilia Moens
Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
Seattle, WA, USA
Expertise: zebrafish genetics, neural development, planar cell polarity
Gloria K. Muday
Wake Forest University
Winston-Salem, NC, USA
Expertise: control of gene expression, plant hormone signaling, plant development genetics
Mary C. Mullins
orcid.org/0000-0002-9979-1564
University of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia, PA, USA
Expertise: zebrafish genetics, positional cloning, developmental genetics
Stefan Mundlos
Max Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics
Berlin, Germany
Expertise: human genetics of developmental disorders, gene regulation, disease mechanisms
Coleen T. Murphy
orcid.org/0000-0002-8257-984X
Princeton University
Princeton, NJ, USA
Expertise: C. elegans, aging/longevity, genomics
Amanda J. Myers
University of Miami
Miami, FL, USA
Expertise: human complex disease, gene mapping, genomics, expression analysis, proteomics
Jeremy Nance
orcid.org/0000-0003-4212-7731
NYU School of Medicine
New York, NY, USA
Expertise: cell polarity, morphogenesis, gastrulation
Anne O’Donnell-Luria
Boston Children’s Hospital and The Broad Institute
Boston, MA, USA
Expertise: human syndromes & phenotypes, variant interpretation, genomics, epigenetics
Joseph Opferman
St Jude Children's Research Hospital
Memphis, TN, USA
Expertise: apoptosis, mitochondrial function, hematological malignancies
Harry T. Orr
orcid.org/0000-0001-6118-741X
University of Minnesota
Minneapolis, MN, USA
Expertise: mammalian genetics, neurodegeneration, triplet repeat diseases
Subba R. Palli
orcid.org/0000-0002-0873-3247
University of Kentucky
Lexington, KY, USA
Expertise: insect developmental genetics, functional genomics, genome editing
Kai Papenfort
University of Jena
Jena, Germany
Expertise: post-transcriptional gene regulation, small RNAs, RNA binding proteins, microbial communication
Bret Payseur
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Madison, WI, USA
Expertise: evolution of extreme phenotypes, genetic recombination, speciation, population genomics
Christopher E. Pearson
The Hospital for Sick Children and University of Toronto
Toronto, Canada
Expertise: disease-associated repeat instability, DNA replication, repair, recombination, mutagenesis, epigenetics
Norbert Perrimon
Harvard Medical School, Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Boston, MA, USA
Expertise: Drosophila developmental genetics, signal transduction
Steven Petrou
The Florey Institute of Neuroscience and Mental Health
Melbourne, Australia
Expertise: neurogenetics, electrophysiology, epilepsy, in vivo and in vitro genetic models
Vincent Plagnol
orcid.org/0000-0002-5597-9215
Genomics plc
Oxford, UK
Expertise: rare disease genetics, association studies, transcriptomics, circulating DNA
Tiancong Qi
School of Life Sciences
Tsinghua University
Beijing, China
Expertise: plant-bacteria interactions, effector-triggered immunity, pathogen effectors
Tim Reddy
orcid.org/0000-0002-7629-061X
Duke University
Durham, NC, USA
Expertise: human genetics, genomics, epigenetics, gene regulation, computational biology, nuclear receptors
Lynn M. Riddiford
University of Washington
Friday Harbor Laboratories
Friday Harbor, WA, USA
Expertise: insect endocrinology, metamorphosis, evolution of metamorphosis, ecdysone, juvenile hormone, Drosophila, Manduca sexta (tobacco hornworm), Thermobia domestica (firebrat), crustacean endocrinology, Drosphila neurodevelopment
Gordon Robertson
orcid.org/0000-0002-2839-596X
BC Cancer Agency
Vancouver, BC, Canada
Expertise: cancer genomics, small RNAs, regulatory networks/regulons
Pascale Romby
orcid.org/0000-0002-4250-6048
Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) and the University of Strasbourg
Strasbourg, France
Expertise: bacteria, post-transcriptional regulation, regulatory RNAs
Mikkel H. Schierup
University of Aarhus
Aarhus, Denmark
Expertise: molecular evolution, comparative genomics, population genetics
Robert Schneider
Institute of Functional Epigenetics
Munich, Germany
Expertise: chromatin biochemistry, histone modifications, epigenetics
Liliane Schoofs
KU Leuven
Leuven, Belgium
Expertise: neuropeptides, G protein-coupled receptors, learning and memory, reproduction
Dirk Schübeler
Friedrich Miescher Institute for Biomedical Research
Basel, Switzerland
Expertise: DNA methylation, chromatin structure, genomics approaches to studying transcriptional regulation
Benjamin Schwessinger
Australian National University
Canberra, Australia
Expertise: fungal genetics / genomics, plant genomics, plant immunity, genome evolution, effector biology, rust fungi, wheat
Hamish S. Scott
orcid.org/0000-0002-5813-631X
Centre for Cancer Biology, SA Pathology
Adelaide, Australia
Expertise: genomics, cancer genetics, epigenetics
Licia Selleri
orcid.org/0000-0002-6817-1469
University of California San Francisco
San Francisco, CA, USA
Expertise: organogenesis, transcription factors, transcriptional control of morphogenesis
Anna Selmecki
University of Minnesota
Minneapolis, MN, USA
Expertise: Aneuploidy, Polyploidy, and copy number variation (CNV) in yeast and fungi, Antifungal drug resistance, Genome Plasticity in fungi, Structural variants in fungi, Human fungal pathogen genetics / genomics
Tricia R. Serio
The University of Massachusetts - Amherst
Amherst, MA, USA
Expertise: prions, protein misfolding, chaperones
Bertrand Servin
orcid.org/0000-0001-5141-0913
INRAE
Toulouse, France
Expertise: domestic animals, population genetics, quantitative genetics, statistical genetics, recombination
Aimee Shen
orcid.org/0000-0002-9786-5742
Tufts University School of Medicine
Boston, MA, USA
Expertise: clostridial genetics, sporulation, spore germination, cell biology, phenotypic heterogeneity, epigenetics
Julie H. Simpson
University of California Santa Barbara
Santa Barbara, CA, USA
Expertise: Drosophila, neural circuits, behavior, sensory motor integration, neurogenetics
Giorgio Sirugo
University of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia, PA, USA
Expertise: human genetics, medical genetics, genetic susceptibility to infectious disease
Tanja Slotte
Stockholm University
Stockholm, Sweden
Expertise: plants, population genomics, plant mating system evolution, supergenes
Michael Snyder
Stanford University School of Medicine
Stanford, CA, USA
Expertise: yeast and human genomics and proteomics, chromosome segregation, morphogenesis, cell cycle
Yan Song
orcid.org/0000-0002-1413-6123
Peking University
Beijing, China
Expertise: neural stem cells, cell fate decisions, Drosophila
Nathan M. Springer
orcid.org/0000-0002-7301-4759
Bayer Crop Sciences
St. Paul, MN, USA
Expertise: plant genetics, epigenetics, imprinting, structural genomic variation
Barbara Stranger
University of Chicago
Chicago, IL, USA
Expertise: genetics of gene expression, genomics, complex trait genetics
Lisa Stubbs
orcid.org/0000-0002-9556-1972
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Urbana, IL, USA
Expertise: mammalian genetics, comparative genomics, genome evolution, gene regulation
Yousin Suh
Columbia University
New York, NY, USA
Expertise: functional genomics, longevity, (epi)genetic variants in human aging and disease
Beth A. Sullivan
orcid.org/0000-0001-5216-4603
Duke University
Durham, NC, USA
Expertise: chromosome biology, mitosis, chromatin organization, epigenetics
Christopher Sullivan
University of Texas at Austin
Austin, TX, USA
Expertise: (Mammalian) virology as it relates to host response to infection, cytokines, RNA interference, microRNAs, and noncoding RNA
Lorraine S. Symington
orcid.org/0000-0002-1519-4800
Columbia University
New York, NY, USA
Expertise: DNA repair, homologous recombination, genome integrity
Man-Wah Tan
orcid.org/0000-0002-7748-212X
Genentech
South San Francisco, CA, USA
Expertise: host-pathogen interactions, bacterial genetics, innate immunity
Zhixi Tian
orcid.org/0000-0001-6051-9670
Chinese Academy of Sciences
Beijing, China
Expertise: plants, genetics, genomics
Sarah A. Tishkoff
University of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia, PA, USA
Expertise: human evolution, human genomics, natural selection (or adaptation)
David P. Toczyski
University of California San Francisco
San Francisco, CA, USA
Expertise: yeast, the DNA damage checkpoint, cell cycle regulation
Jessica Tollkuhn
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
Cold Spring Harbor, NY, USA
Expertise: Animal social behavior, neurodevelopmental disorders, epigenetics, DNA modification
Aleksandra Trifunovic
orcid.org/0000-0002-5472-3517
University of Cologne
Cologne, Germany
Expertise: mitochondrial stress responses, mitochondrial genetics, C. elegans, mouse models
Bas van Steensel
orcid.org/0000-0002-0284-0404
Netherlands Cancer Institute
Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Expertise: chromosome biology, chromatin genomics, nuclear lamina, bioinformatics
Jan-Willem Veening
orcid.org/0000-0002-3162-6634
University of Lausanne
Lausanne, Switzerland
Expertise: Streptococcus pneumoniae, bacterial genetics, gene regulation, competence development, bacterial cell cycle, antibiotic resistance
Hongyan Wang
orcid.org/0000-0003-4623-1878
Duke-NUS Medical School
Singapore, Singapore
Expertise: neural stem cells, nervous system development, neurological diseases
Jue D. Wang
orcid.org/0000-0003-1503-170X
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Madison, WI, USA
Expertise: prokaryotic genetics, bacterial stress response, cellular conflicts
Pablo Wappner
Instituto Leloir and School of Exact and Natural Sciences
University of Buenoes Aires
Buenos Aires, Argentina
Expertise: Drosophila genetics and cell biology, mechanisms of adaptation to stress conditions, cell signalling during development
Melissa Wasserstein
Children’s Hospital at Montefiore
Albert Einstein College of Medicine
Bronx, NY, USA
Expertise: medical genetics, inborn errors of metabolism
Christine A. Wells
orcid.org/0000-0003-3133-3628
The University of Melbourne
Melbourne, Australia
Expertise: natural variation, genomics and transcriptomics, innate immunity
Andrew O. M. Wilkie
orcid.org/0000-0002-2972-5481
University of Oxford
Oxford, United Kingdom
Expertise: genetics of craniofacial and limb development, mechanisms of mutation, molecular pathophysiology
Michael Worobey
University of Arizona
Tucson, AZ, USA
Expertise: virus, phylogenetics, molecular evolution
Xia Yang
University of California, Los Angeles
Los Angeles, CA, USA
Expertise: genomics, multi-omics, systems biology, cardiometabolic diseases
Fengwei Yu
Temasek Life Sciences Laboratory
Singapore, Singapore
Expertise: neuronal remodeling in Drosophila, axon/dendrite pruning, dendrite morphogenesis, neurodegeneration
Hao Yu
orcid.org/0000-0002-9778-8855
National University of Singapore and Temasek Life Sciences Laboratory
Singapore, Singapore
Expertise: plant functional genomics, plant reproductive development, phytohormone signaling
Mihaela Zavolan
orcid.org/0000-0002-8832-2041
University of Basel
Basel, Switzerland
Expertise: computational biology, miRNAs, polyadenylation
Hongbing Zhang
orcid.org/0000-0001-6291-1027
Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences and Peking Union Medical College
Beijing, China
Expertise: genomics, metabolism, and targeted therapy of mouse and human liver cancer, endometrial cancer, tuberous sclerosis complex, Peutz-Jeghers syndrome, LKB1, TSC1, TSC2, PTEN, AKT, mTOR, β-catenin, Kras, Notch, autophagy, glycolysis
Jianzhi Zhang
orcid.org/0000-0001-6141-1290
University of Michigan
Ann Arbor, MI, USA
Expertise: molecular evolution, genome evolution, evolutionary systems biology
Zhiwu Zhang
orcid.org/0000-0002-5784-9684
Washington State University
Pullman, WA, USA
Expertise: Genome Wide Association Study, Genomic Prediction, Genomic Selection, Machine Learning, and Artificial Intelligence
Jin-Qiu Zhou
Chinese Academy of Sciences
Shanghai, China
Expertise: telomeres/telomerase, cellular ageing, yeast epigenetics
Xiang Zhou
University of Michigan
Ann Arbor, MI, USA
Expertise: Statistical methods, machine learning, computational methods, GWAS, single cell, spatial transcriptomics
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Xuemei Chen
orcid.org/0000-0002-5209-1157
University of California Riverside
Riverside, CA, USA
Expertise: small RNAs, epigenetics, plant development
Vivian G. Cheung
University of Michigan
Ann Arbor, MI, USA
Expertise: human genetics, genomics, genetics of gene expression
Andrew G. Clark
Cornell University
Ithaca, NY, USA
Expertise: adaptive variation in natural populations, population genetics, evolution, genetic basis of complex disease
Claude Desplan
orcid.org/0000-0002-6914-1413
New York University
New York, NY, USA
Expertise: pattern formation in insect development
Greg Gibson
orcid.org/0000-0002-5352-5877
Georgia Institute of Technology
Atlanta, GA, USA
Expertise: natural variation, model organism association studies, microarray analysis, gene expression profiling
James E. Haber
orcid.org/0000-0002-1878-0610
Brandeis University
Waltham, MA, USA
Expertise: yeast genetics, recombination, DNA repair, replication
Hopi Hoekstra
orcid.org/0000-0003-1431-1769
Harvard University
Cambridge, MA, USA
Expertise: population genetics, evolutionary genomics, genetic basis of adaptation in vertebrates
Marshall S. Horwitz
University of Washington
Seattle, WA, USA
Expertise: human genetics, cancer genetics, mutagenesis
Nicole King
orcid.org/0000-0002-6409-1111
University of California Berkeley
Berkeley, CA, USA
Expertise: cell and developmental biology, choanoflagellates, evolution
Jeannie T. Lee
Massachusetts General Hospital, Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Boston, MA, USA
Expertise: noncoding RNA, gene silencing, heterochromatin, sex chromosome biology, imprinting, transgenerational inheritance
Trudy F. C. Mackay
Clemson University
Clemson, SC, USA
Expertise: complex trait genetics, QTL mapping, LD mapping, evolutionary genetics
Dmitri A. Petrov
Stanford University
Stanford, CA, USA
Expertise: inference of evolutionary patterns from molecular data, genome evolution, molecular population genetics, eukaryotic transposable elements
Wolf Reik
orcid.org/0000-0003-0216-9881
The Babraham Institute
Cambridge, UK
Expertise: mammalian epigenetics, DNA methylation, epigenetic reporgramming
Susan M. Rosenberg
Baylor College of Medicine
Houston, TX, USA
Expertise: molecular mechanisms of genome instability in evolution, antibiotic resistance, cancer, E. coli, functional systems biology, synthetic biology
Patrick S. Schnable
Iowa State University
Ames, IA, USA
Expertise: plant/crop genetics and genomics, cytoplasmic male sterility, meiotic recombination, heterosis
Peter M. Visscher
Queensland Institute of Medical Research
Brisbane, Australia
Expertise: quantitative genetics, methods in statistical genetics and genetic epidemiology, complex disease genetics