Editorial Board
Our team of Academic Editors, who assist and advise our in-house editors on manuscripts during the review process.
Aging
Jennifer Garrison
orcid.org/0000-0002-5621-2139
Buck Institute, USA
Neuromodulators, neuropeptide signaling, aging, imaging, genetics, C. elegans, mouse
Guang-Hui Liu
orcid.org/0000-0001-9289-8177
CAS Beijing, China
Aging, stem cell, regeneration
Jing Qu
orcid.org/0000-0002-3988-5067
Laboratory of Stem Cell and Reproductive Biology Beijing, China
Molecular and cellular mechanism of aging, interventions in aging, stem cell senescence, regenerative medicine
Heidi Tissenbaum
University of Massachusetts Medical School, USA
Aging, insulin, IGF1, lifespan, fat storage, forehead transcription factor DAF-16
Biophysics and Biomechanics
Anders Hedenström
Lund University, Sweden
Biomechanics, flight, aerodynamics, movement, migration, ecology and evolution of animal flight, high-speed wing motion analysis, airflow visualization, force measurement
Graham Taylor
orcid.org/0000-0001-8289-755X
University of Oxford, UK
Biomechanics, flight dynamics, swimming, control systems, sensory systems, sensory ecology (also: avian palaeontology, animal navigation, migration)
Biotechnology
CRISPR
Jacob Corn
orcid.org/0000-0002-2458-0121
ETH Zurich, Switzerland
CRISPR-Cas biotechnology, DNA damage, protein, and organelle remodelling
Synthetic biology
Matthew Wook Chang
orcid.org/0000-0001-6448-6319
National University of Singapore, Singapore
Synthetic Biology, metabolic Engineering, microbiome Engineering
Chaitan Khosla
Stanford University, USA
Chemical engineering, synthetic biology, polyketide biosynthesis, antibiotic biosynthesis, celiac disease, antivirals
Baojun Wang
orcid.org/0000-0002-4858-8937
Zhejiang University, China
Synthetic biology, gene expression regulation, genetic circuits, biosensors, biological computation
Cell Cycle and cancer
Hilary Coller
University of California, Los Angeles, USA
Molecular basis of quiescent cells; cancer-associated fibroblasts, genomic approaches to cell cycle and cancer
Albana Gattelli
Ciudad Universitaria, Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales (FCEN), Argentina
Breast and other solid cancers, cancer signaling and cancer immunology, mammary gland development (also: cell proliferation, migration, and motility)
Monika Hegi
orcid.org/0000-0003-0855-6495
University of Lausanne, Switzerland
Glioblastoma, brain tumours, epigenetics
Jon Pines
Institute of Cancer Research, London, UK
Cancer, mitosis, chromosome segregation, cyclins
Matt van de Rijn
Stanford University School of Medicine, USA
Prognostic markers in sarcoma and cancer, cancer genomics
Mariia Yuneva
orcid.org/0000-0003-3455-9374
Francis Crick Institute, UK
cancer metabolism, in vivo mouse models, spatial omics analysis
Cell migration and cell death
Renata Basto
orcid.org/0000-0001-5556-2770
Institut Curie, France
Centriole and cilia biogenesis, microtubule organising center, stem cells, cancer
Mathieu Bertrand
VIB Center for Inflammation Research, University of Ghent, Belgium
Signal transduction, cell death, inflammation, innate immune receptors, tumour necrosis factor receptors (TNFRs)
Ana Garcia-Sáez
CECAD Research Center, University of Cologne, Germany
Membrane biology and organization, regulated cell death, Bcl-2 proteins, membrane dynamics and biophysics, single molecule techniques, fluorescence correlation spectroscopy, super resolution microscopy, FRAP, FRET, live cell imaging, model membrane systems
Robert Insall
orcid.org/0000-0003-4898-040X
University College London, UK
Quantitative cell biology, computational modelling, cell migration, chemotaxis, SCAR/WAVE complex, pseudopods
Laura Machesky
University of Cambridge, UK
Cell migration, invasion, metastasis, actin cytoskeleton
Pascal Meier
Institute of Cancer Research, London, UK
Cell death and inflammation, cancer, ubiquitin-mediated regulation of cell survival, cancer therapeutics
Carole Parent
orcid.org/0000-0002-1518-1452
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)
Dagmar Wachten
orcid.org/0000-0003-4800-6332
University of Bonn, Germany
Cilia biology, including sperm and primary cilia; ciliary signaling and ciliary function in health and disease; cell biology including cyclic nucleotide signaling; optogenetics and high-resolution microscopy
Chronobiology
Fernanda Ceriani
orcid.org/0000-0001-8945-3070
Fundación Instituto Leloir, Argentina
Drosophila circadian clocks, circadian control of behaviour, neuronal structural plasticity (also: use of C. elegans, Drosophila, invertebrate models for mechanisms of neurodegeneration and aging)
Samer Hattar
NIMH, USA
Light, circadian rhythms, sleep; light detection in mammalian retina
Achim Kramer
orcid.org/0000-0001-9671-6078
Charité—Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Germany
Mammalian circadian rhythms, post-translational regulation, circadian clock in the olfactory system and immune system, chronobiology, (also: sleep)
Pierre-Hervé Luppi
orcid.org/0000-0002-0503-423X
Uni Lyon, France
REM (paradoxical sleep) mechanisms and function, muscle atonia, REM sleep behaviour disorder, narcolepsy, animal models of sleep pathology, functional neuroanatomy, NREM and wakefulness neuronal networks
Martha Merrow
orcid.org/0000-0002-8688-2360
LMU Munich, Germany
circadian rhythms, chronobiology
Paul Shaw
orcid.org/0000-0003-2261-8381
Washington University in St. Louis, USA
Sleep, neuronal plasticity, and memory in Drosophila
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)
Kim Cooper
University of California, San Diego, USA
Limb development, musculoskeletal development, skeletal growth, bone reshaping; evolution and development; non-traditional model system - the Lesser Egyptian Jerboa, Jaculus jaculus
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
Ursula Jakob
University of Michigan, USA
Bacterial response to oxidative stress; redox regulation; oxidative stress in host defence and aging
Colin Jamora
orcid.org/0000-0003-2127-2972
Institute for Stem Cell Science and Regenerative Medicine, India
Wound healing in the skin, cutaneous stem cells, inflammation, tissue fibrosis
Anna Kicheva
orcid.org/0000-0003-4509-4998
IST, Austria
Morphogen signaling, pattern formation, tissue and organ growth control, neural tube development, biophysical models of development
Cecilia Lo
orcid.org/0000-0003-4314-3434
University of Pittsburgh, USA
Cardiovascular development, congenital heart disease, cilia biology, ciliopathies, left-right patterning, mouse models, developmental genetics (also: neurodevelopment, live cell and embryo imaging, general embryology, gap junction biology)
Mary Mullins
orcid.org/0000-0002-9979-1564
University of Pennsylvania, USA
BMP, development, vertebrate body plan
François Schweisguth
Institut Pasteur, France
Notch signaling, asymmetric cell division, epithelial polarity and morphogenesis, cell fate decisions, developmental patterning, Drosophila cell and developmental processes
Yi-Hsien Su
orcid.org/0000-0001-6798-9632
Academia Sinica, Taiwan
Evolution of the gene regulatory circuitries patterning body axes and specifying cell fates, early embryogenesis, BMP signaling, developmental mechanisms of deuterostomes (echinoderm sea urchin, hemichordate acorn worm)
Nic Tapon
The Francis Crick Institute, UK
Tissue growth control, morphogenesis in model organisms, Hippo pathway, organ size and shape control (also: cell polarity, cell cycle, programmed cell death, mechanotransduction, cellular signaling 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
Ecology
Behavioral ecology
Lars Chittka
orcid.org/0000-0001-8153-1732
Queen Mary University of London, UK
Sensory, behaviour, vision, olfaction, communication, learning
Catherine Hobaiter
orcid.org/0000-0002-3893-0524
University of St. Andrews, Scotland
Evolution of communication and social behaviour, primate behaviour, animal cognition (also: socio-ecology in mammals, human behaviour)
Elli Leadbeater
orcid.org/0000-0002-4029-7254
RHUL, UK
Animal behaviour, anthropogenic stressors, honeybees, bumblebees, animal communication, animal cognition
Gail Patricelli
University of California, Davis, USA
Behavioral ecology, bioacoustics, visuals signals and conservation in birds, reproduction, sexual selection and signaling in birds
Simon W. Townsend
orcid.org/0000-0003-1504-1801
University of Zurich, Switzerland
Animal behavioral ecology, bird song, vocalization, animal cognition and sociality, evolutionary linguistics
Biodiversity and conservation
Andy Dobson
Princeton University, USA
Ecology of infectious diseases, conservation, carnivores
Pedro Jordano
orcid.org/0000-0003-2142-9116
Estación Biológica de Doñana, CSIC, Spain
Biodiversity, integrative ecology, ecological interactions and systems (e.g., mutualistic networks between plants, pollinators and seed dispersers), evolutionary ecology, population genetics, theoretical ecology
Michel Loreau
Advisory Board Member
National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS), France
Biodiversity, ecosystem functioning, ecology, evolutionary ecology
Uma Ramakrishnan
orcid.org/0000-0002-5370-5966
NCBS/TIFR Bangalore, India
Conservation genomics, Molecular Ecology, Population genetics, Conservation Biology, Evolution, Ecology
Evolutionary Ecology
Anurag Agrawal
Cornell University, USA
Ecology, evolution, plant–insect interaction, herbivory, community ecology
Jean-Michel Gaillard
orcid.org/0000-0003-0174-8451
U Lyon, France
Dynamics and evolutionary processes in populations of large mammals; life history strategies of vertebrates; comparative studies; evolution; demography; population dynamics, sexual selection, habitat use/selection
Michael Jennions
The Australian National University, Australia
Behavioural and reproductive ecology, whole organism evolutionary biology, sexual selection, meta-research
Thomas Kirkwood
Newcastle University, UK
Mechanisms of cellular aging, evolution and genetics of aging, caloric restriction, mathematical biology, biological standardization
Global change biology
Andrew Tanentzap
orcid.org/0000-0002-2883-1901
University of Cambridge, UK
Ecosystem ecology, biogeochemistry, global change, macroecology, biodiversity, plant-animal interactions, conservation, mathematical and statistical modelling, plant ecology, phylogenetics, macroevolution
Lauren Buckley
orcid.org/0000-0003-1315-3818
U Washington, USA
Physiological ecology, Functional Ecology, Climate change ecology, Biogeography, Global Change
Pamela Ronald
U California Davis, USA
Genetic basis of plant resistance to disease and tolerance to environmental stress; global food security
Tien Ming Lee
orcid.org/0000-0003-2698-9358
Sun Yat-Sen U, China
Global change biology, sustainable use, endangered species, biodiversity conservation, conservation science
Evolution
Evolutionary developmental biology
Selene Fernández Valverde
LANGEBIO Cinvestav, Irapuato, Mexico
Transcriptomics, gene regulation and non-coding RNAs in model and non-model organisms, genomic/bioinformatic approaches in evolution of gene regulatory systems, RNA-Seq and small RNA sequencing, genome annotation (also: novel sequencing techniques, development of genomic techniques for non-classical model organisms)
Andreas Hejnol
orcid.org/0000-0003-2196-8507
University of Bergen, Norway
Developmental biology, evolutionary developmental biology and comparative genomics; molecular phylogenetics and gene regulation
Abdou Khila
orcid.org/0000-0003-0908-483X
IGFL Lyon, France
Developmental genomics and evolution; selective pressures in shaping animal diversity, body plan organization, morphogenetic segmentation; conquest of new ecological habitats, water strider
Genome evolution
Peter Sarkies
orcid.org/0000-0003-0279-6199
Oxford, UK
Evolution of epigenetic mechanisms, in particular those involved in transposon silencing; role of transgenerational epigenetic inheritance in evolution
Harmit Malik
orcid.org/0000-0001-6005-0016
Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, USA
Genome evolution, evolution of centromeres, innate and intrinsic immunity against viruses, mobile genetic elements in Drosophila
Leonie Moyle
orcid.org/0000-0003-4960-8001
Indiana University, USA
Genome evolution, genetics, speciation, adaptation, evolutionary ecology, sexual conflict (also: sexual selection, plant reproductive biology, evolutionary genomics)
Laurence Hurst
Advisory Board Member orcid.org/0000-0002-1002-1054
University of Bath, UK
Evolutionary genetics and genomics, computational and mathematical modelling
Aoife McLysaght
orcid.org/0000-0003-2552-6220
Trinity College Dublin, Ireland
Gene and genome duplication, origin of new genes
Erin S. Kelleher
orcid.org/0000-0002-1827-067X
University of Houston, USA
Transposable elements, gametogenesis, genetic conflict
Mark Siegal
orcid.org/0000-0001-6930-2988
New York University, USA
Drosophila and yeast evolutionary systems biology (variation in regulatory systems using experimental and/or theoretical methods), evolution and genetics of complex traits, robustness, canalization, evolutionary plasticity, stochasticity, cryptic genetic variation, high-throughput phenotyping/image analysis, genetics and evolution of sexual differentiation in invertebrates (also: Drosophila and yeast developmental genetics, vertebrate sexual differentiation, analysis of human genetic variation)
Sarah Zanders
Stowers Institute for Medical Research, USA
Molecular genetics and evolution; meiosis, meiotic drive, meiotic recombination, and genome evolution (also: fungal genomes and fungal evolution)
Macroevolution
Tiago B. Quental
USP, Sao Paolo, Brazil
Paleobiology, macroevolution, speciation, extinction, diversity dynamics, biotic interactions, ecology
Hélène Morlon
École Normale Supérieure, France
Macroevolution, macroecology, community assembly, microbial biogeography, biodiversity, conservation
Population genetics
Priya Moorjani
orcid.org/0000-0002-0947-5673
UC Berkeley, USA
Mutation rate, Population genetics, ancient DNA, human evolution, early modern humans
Nick Barton
Advisory Board Member
The Institute of Science and Technology, Austria
Evolutionary biology, population genetics, mathematical models of evolution, species adaptation, natural selection
Qiaomei Fu
orcid.org/0000-0002-7141-0002
Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
Population genetics, ancient human genomics, human evolution, ancient DNA, early modern humans
Chris Jiggins
orcid.org/0000-0002-7809-062X
University of Cambridge, UK
Population genetics, speciation, introgression
Gene expression regulation
Jeff Coller
orcid.org/0000-0001-5662-8110
Johns Hopkins University, USA
RNA Biology, mRNA translation, mRNA stability, RNA processing
Wendy Gilbert
Yale University, USA
Translational control, ribosomes, RNA modifications (also: RNA Biology)
René Ketting
IMB, Mainz, Germany
Non-coding RNAs, piRNA and siRNA biology, zebrafish and C. elegans, gene regulation, general germ cell development and early embryogenesis
Eros Lazzerini-Denchi
National Cancer Institute, USA
Telomere biology, genomic instability, DNA damage/repair, chromosome structure, replication
Tom Misteli
Advisory Board Member
National Cancer Institute, USA
Chromatin, nuclear architecture, epigenetics, splicing, imaging
Marcelo Nollmann
orcid.org/0000-0003-3339-2349
Montpellier, France
Chromatin, nuclear architecture, epigenetics, imaging, transcription, Drosophila
Shalini Oberdoerffer
orcid.org/0000-0003-4942-2514
NCI, USA
Chromatin, nuclear architecture, epigenetics, imaging, transcription, Drosophila
Genome stability and DNA repair
Scott Keeney
orcid.org/0000-0002-1283-6417
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, USA
Meiosis, recombination (using following tools - genetics, biochemistry, cytology, and genomics/bioinformatics), DNA repair, chromosome structure, topoisomerases, chromatin structure, DNA replication (also: gametogenesis, chromosome segregation, cell cycle)
Tanya Paull
The University of Texas at Austin, USA
DNA damage response, checkpoint activation, DNA double-strand breaks, oxidative stress signaling, protein kinases and signaling
Immunology
Adaptive immunity
Avinash Bhandoola
orcid.org/0000-0002-4657-8372
National Cancer Institute, USA
Hematopoietic progenitor cells, migration to the thymus, Nature Helper Cells (T cell like cells), T cell leukemias and immunodeficiencies; establishment and maintainance of T cell identity; T cell regeneration and bone marrow transplantation; thymic epithelial cells
David Nemazee
Scripps Research Institute, USA
Receptor editing in B lymphocytes, antigen receptors, autoreactive lymphocytes, B cells, recombinase genes
Paula Oliver
University of Pennsylvania, USA
T cell biology, ubiquitin pathway biology, adaptive immunity, autoimmune and allergic disease
Takeshi Tsubata
orcid.org/0000-0003-0760-1258
Tokyo Medical and Dental University, Japan
B lymphocyte biology, antibody responses, autoimmune diseases (also: lectins)
Host-pathogen interactions
Ken Cadwell
orcid.org/0000-0002-5860-0661
University of Pennsylvania, USA
Host–pathogen interactions, basic immunology, inflammation, autophagy, microbiome (virome), norovirus, mucosal immunity, inflammatory bowel disease (also: lymphocyte differentiation, molecular bacteriology)
Maximiliano G. Gutierrez
orcid.org/0000-0003-3199-0337
Crick, UK
Tuberculosis, Macrophages, Autophagy, iPSC, phagosome, Rab GTPases, innate immunity
Katherine Kedzierska
Doherty Institute, Australia
immunity to viral infections; CD8+ T cell immunity to influenza viruses
Alice Prince
orcid.org/0000-0002-7399-9295
Columbia University, USA
Immunometabolism, Innate immune defense, pulmonary infection, bacteriology
Sarah Rowland-Jones
Advisory Board Member
Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine, University of Oxford, UK
Immunity to virus infection, immune response, HIV, vaccines
Inflammation
Feng Shao
orcid.org/0000-0002-9562-7791
NIBS (National Institute of Biological Sciences), China
Innate immunity, pyroptosis, inflammation, cell death, bacterial-host interaction
Hans-Uwe Simon
University of Bern, Switzerland
Innate immunity, inflammation, allergy, cell death, eosinophils, neutrophils, neutrophil extracellular traps, autophagy, immunopharmacology, cancer, apoptosis and autophagy in inflammatory diseases and cancer
Systems immunology
Tom Freeman
orcid.org/0000-0001-5235-8483
Janssen Immunology, USA
Transcriptomics, network analysis, pathway modelling, immunobiology, macrophages (also: cell cycle and cancer)
John Tsang
orcid.org/0000-0003-3186-3047
Yale University, USA
Systems and quantitative immunology; human immunology; computational biology; single cell biology; single cell technologies; genomics
Vaccines
Ali Ellebedy
orcid.org/0000-0002-6129-2532
WUSTL, USA
Immune memory, B cells, Plasma cells, Antibodies, Germinal Center B cells, Influenza, SARS-CoV-2
Infectious disease dynamics
Jonathan Dushoff
orcid.org/0000-0003-0506-4794
McMaster University, Canada
Disease dynamics, influenza, HIV, COVID-19, canine rabies, hypothesis testing, statistical fitting of dynamical models, Statistical philosophy
Jason Ladner
orcid.org/0000-0001-7751-4366
Northern Arizona University, USA
Highly-multiplexed serology, evolutionary biology, phylogenetics, population genetics, genomics
Jamie Lloyd-Smith
orcid.org/0000-0001-7941-502X
UCLA, USA
Pathogen emergence, zoonotic infections and spillover, wildlife disease ecology, viral dynamics across scales, mathematical and computational modelling
Roland Regös
orcid.org/0000-0001-8319-5293
Institute of Integrative Biology, Zurich, Switzerland
Theoretical and quantitative biology – virus dynamics (HIV, SIV, Salmonella typhimurium, LCMV), infectious disease dynamics, mathematical immunology, epidemiology and evolutionary ecology
Steven Riley
orcid.org/0000-0001-7904-4804
Imperial College London, UK
Transmission of human pathogens, emerging viruses (influenza), disease dynamics, mathematical models, public health, spatial ecology, host–pathogen interactions, phylogenetic studies
Metabolism
Heather Christofk
University of California, Los Angeles, USA
Cancer metabolism, viral metabolism, metabolomics, stem cell metabolism, signaling pathway regulation of metabolism
Giovanni D’Angelo
Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland
Biosynthetic pathways, glycosphingolipids, membrane trafficking, lipid biology (also: imaging mass spectrometry and organoids biology)
Alex Gould
orcid.org/0000-0002-6875-6985
The Francis Crick Institute, UK
Drosophila – metabolism, development, lifespan, physiology, endocrinology, developmental neurobiology (also: cancer metabolism, metabolomics, neural stem cells, cell signaling, cell competition)
Rebecca Haeusler
orcid.org/0000-0002-6973-9845
Columbia University, USA
Metabolic diseases, energy metabolism, bile acid metabolism, lipoproteins, diabetes, insulin resistance and signaling, obesity, cardiovascular diseases, atherosclerosis
Jason Locasale
orcid.org/0000-0002-7766-3502
Duke University School of Medicine, USA
Structure and function of metabolic networks in health and pathology, cancer metabolism, metabolic control of chromatin state and epigenetics, metabolomics, computational approaches to understanding metabolic networks
Susanne Mandrup
University of Southern Denmark, Denmark
Metabolism, transcriptional regulation of metabolism in adipocytes and pancreatic beta-cells, adipocyte differentiation, lineage commitment of human mesenchymal stem cells, acyl-CoA binding protein (ACBP)
Nicole Soranzo
The Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, UK
Human complex trait genomics and genetics, metabolomics, 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
Microbiology
Bacterial biology
Jeremy Barr
orcid.org/0000-0001-5603-5294
Monash University, Australia
Bacteriophage, phage, phage therapy, symbiosis
Michael Laub
Advisory Board Member orcid.org/0000-0002-8288-7607
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA
Phage, anti-phage defense, toxin-antitoxin systems, bacterial signal transduction, bacterial cell cycle
Lotte Sogaard-Andersen
orcid.org/0000-0002-0674-0013
Max Planck Institute for Terrestrial Microbiology, Germany
Bacterial differentiation, sporulation, bacterial development, bacterial motility, bacterial cell cycle control, bacterial signal transduction, bacterial motility, bacterial cell polarity, type IV pili, bacterial gliding motility, nucleotide-based bacterial second messenger
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.)
Matt Waldor
Advisory Board Member orcid.org/0000-0003-1843-7000
Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, USA
Evolution, bacterial pathogenicity, mechanisms of bacterial cell processes (e.g. cell polarity), enteric pathogens, virulence control and therapeutics
Sebastian Winter
orcid.org/0000-0003-1532-9178
University of California, Davis, USA
Host-microbe interactions; enteric pathogens; bacterial metabolism; microbiota
Microbial genomics and microbiome
Mani Arumugam
orcid.org/0000-0002-0886-9101
University of Copenhagen,Denmark
Human microbiome; metagenomics; bioinformatics; multi-omics
Ran Blekhman
orcid.org/0000-0003-3218-613X
U Minnesota, USA
Human genomics, host-microbe interactions, computational biology, systems biology, meta-research
Jonathan Eisen
Advisory Board Member orcid.org/0000-0002-0159-2197
University of California, Davis, USA
Microbes, microbiome, phylogenetics, functional genomics
Emiley Eloe-Fadrosh
orcid.org/0000-0002-8162-1276
Joint Genome Institute, USA
Microbial ecology; Metagenomics; Environmental genomics
Cara Haney
orcid.org/0000-0002-6099-6677
University of Pittsburgh, USA
Plant-microbiome interactions, bacterial commensalism and pathogenesis, plant immunity, genomics
Kathryn Holt
orcid.org/0000-0003-3949-2471
London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, Department of Infection Biology, UK
Antimicrobial resistance, Microbial evolution and Ecology
Jotham Suez
orcid.org/0000-0003-3836-972X
Johns Hopkins University, USA
Microbiome, Systems Microbiology, Microbial Ecology, Precision Medicine
Microbial evolution and ecology
Deepa Agashe
orcid.org/0000-0002-0374-8159
NCBS, India
Bacterial genome evolution, host-microbe association, niche expansion, mutation bias, experimental evolution
Claudia Bank
orcid.org/0000-0003-4730-758X
University of Bern, Switzerland
Microbial evolution, population genetics, speciation, statistics, experimental evolution, theory, mathematical modeling
Tobias Bollenbach
orcid.org/0000-0003-4398-476X
University of Cologne, Germany
Systems biology, microbial ecology and evolution, drug combinations and antibiotic resistance, biophysics, computational biology, ecosystem modeling, gene regulatory networks, population modeling
Sam Brown
orcid.org/0000-0003-1892-9275
Georgia Tech, USA
Socio-microbiology, microbial cooperation, quorum sensing, evolution of antibiotic resistance, evolution of virulence, within-host dynamics, polymicrobial infections, biofilms
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)
Isabel Gordo
orcid.org/0000-0003-1622-5143
Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência, Portugal
Bacterial evolution, population genetics, microbiome
Simonetta Gribaldo
orcid.org/0000-0002-7662-021X
Pasteur Institute, France
Microbial evolution, cell envelope, archaea, tree of life
Csaba Pál
Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Hungary
Experimental evolution, microbial evolution, antibiotic resistance, network evolution (evolutionary systems biology)
Wenying Shou
orcid.org/0000-0001-5693-381X
University College, London, UK
Quantitative experimental biology, mathematical modeling of biological systems, ecology and evolution in microbial communities, evolution of cooperation and multi-level selection, spatial patterning and self-organization
Fungal biology
Joseph Heitman
orcid.org/0000-0001-6369-5995
Duke University Medical Center, USA
Microbial pathogenesis, sexual reproduction and evolution, virulence, fungal pathogens, antifungal drugs
Aaron Mitchell
orcid.org/0000-0002-0868-4000
University of Georgia, USA
Virulence mechanisms, biofilm formation, fungal pathogen-host interactions, Candida
Anita Sil
orcid.org/0000-0002-3987-7534
University of California, San Francisco, USA
Fungal pathogens, temperature-sensing, cell shape, host-pathogen interactions, innate immune response
Parasite biology
Tania De Koning-Ward
orcid.org/0000-0001-5810-8063
Deakin University, Australia
Malaria, host-pathogen interactions, pathogenesis and protein trafficking, virulence mechanisms and immunity to human and animal model pathogens
Michael Duffy
orcid.org/0000-0001-5635-4033
University of Melbourne, Australia
Plasmodium biology, malaria, antigenic variation, chromatin structure, epigenetics, transcription, nuclear biology (also: other parasites, serology of infectious disease, Illumina sequencing based projects)
Kami Kim
University of South Florida, USA
Infectious diseases, parasitology, especially Apicomplexan parasites (Plasmodium, Toxoplasma, Cryptosporidium), host-pathogen interactions including bacteria, fungi, parasites; systems biology; epigenetics
André Schneider
orcid.org/0000-0001-5421-0909
University of Bern, Switzerland
Mitochondrial biogenesis in Trypanosoma brucei, mitochondrial tRNA and protein import, mitochondrial biogenesis; organelles in parasitic protist
Boris Striepen
University of Pennsylvania, USA
Protozoan parasites, parasite chloroplast, drug development, Apicomplexa, Toxoplasma
Gary Ward
University of Vermont, USA
Toxoplasma, host cell invasion, parasite multiplication and host cell lysis, apicomplexan parasites
Symbiosis
Nancy Moran
University of Texas at Austin, USA
Biology of symbiosis, insect and bacterial symbionts, aphid genes, carotenoid biosynthesis
Luis Teixeira
orcid.org/0000-0001-8326-6645
Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência, Portugal
Host-microbe interactions, endosymbionts, Wolbachia, microbiota, insect immunity, antiviral immunity, innate immunity (also: Drosophila genetics and physiology)
Virology
Frank Kirchhoff
orcid.org/0000-0002-7052-2360
Uni Ulm, Germany
HIV/AIDS, SARS-CoV-2, innate immunity, antiviral factors, viral accessory proteins
Karla Kirkegaard
orcid.org/0000-0001-7628-3770
Stanford University School of Medicine, USA
Virology, genetic susceptibility to infectious disease, autophagy, long noncoding RNAs
Louis Lambrechts
orcid.org/0000-0001-5958-2138
Institute Pasteur, France
Ecology and evolution of host-pathogen interactions, mosquito-borne diseases, vector biology, arbovirus transmission, mosquito genomics, insect immunity, virus evolution
Andrew Mehle
orcid.org/0000-0001-6060-4330
University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA
Influenza virus replication, viral RNA-dependent RNA polymerase, viral replication machinery, virus:host interactions, viral host range restriction, RNA:protein interactions at the virus:host interface, dual pro- and anti-viral functions of host proteins
Eng Eong Ooi
orcid.org/0000-0002-0520-1544
Duke and National University of Singapore, Singapore
Flavivirology, virus-host interactions, viral vaccinology
Bill Sugden
orcid.org/0000-0002-8724-4504
University of Wisconsin–Madison, USA
EBV, Burkitts lymphoma, herpesvirus, mononucleosis, B cell lymphomas, LMP1 gene, cellular unfolded protein response, autophagy in B-cells, EBNA1, oriP, viral replication
Xuping Xie
orcid.org/0000-0003-0918-016X
UTMB, USA
RNA viruses (SARS-CoV-2, flavivirus, alphavirus), vaccine development, antiviral research, the molecular mechanism of RNA virus replication, assembly, and pathogenesis
Neuroscience
Behavior
Mark Alkema
orcid.org/0000-0002-1311-5179
UMass, USA
Neurogenetics, transmitter systems, behavior, neuroethology, microbiome, C. elegans
Heather Cameron
National Institute of Mental Health, USA
Neurogenesis in hippocampus, granule cells, stress, depression, learning and memory
Ingrid Fetter Pruneda
orcid.org/0000-0002-9122-3159
UNAM, Mexico
Social insects, ants, social behavior, neuropeptides, neuromodulators, phenotypic plasticity, reproduction
Erich Jarvis
orcid.org/0000-0001-8931-5049
Rockefeller U, USA
Language, evolution, genome, brain, songbirds, comparative genomics
Eric Nestler
Advisory Board Member orcid.org/0000-0002-7905-2000
Mount Sinai School of Medicine, USA
Addiction and depression, epigenetics
Chris Pierce
Rutgers University, USA
Drug addiction, cocaine addiction
Circuits and sensory neuroscience
Tom Baden
orcid.org/0000-0003-2808-4210
University of Sussex, UK
Methods, open hardware; vertebrate retina, systems neuroscience, zebrafish (also: mice, primates, salamander, birds)
Richard Benton
orcid.org/0000-0003-4305-8301
University of Lausanne, Switzerland
Sensory biology, chemosensation, Drosophila genetics and behavior (also: evolutionary neurobiology and neurodevelopment in invertebrate systems)
Jozsef Csicsvari
orcid.org/0000-0002-5193-4036
Institute of Science and Technology, Austria
Hippocampus, oscillations, systems neuroscience, behavior, learning and memory, neurophysiology – cellular, network, synaptic (also: computational and complex data analysis, imaging)
Jonathan Demb
Yale University, USA
Sensory and visual neuroscience, retina, visual cortex, two-photon imaging, patch-clamp recording of synapses, imaging glutamate sensors
Patrick Drew
orcid.org/0000-0002-7483-7378
Penn State, USA
Neurovascular coupling, cerebral spinal fluid flow using optical, chemigenetic, electrophysiological and computational approaches
Henry Kennedy
orcid.org/0000-0002-2796-7663
INSERM, France
Brain physiology, anatomy and development, connectivity, cortical development; large-scale structural and dynamic models of cortex (also: rodent primate distinctions in adult and development)
Thomas Klausberger
orcid.org/0000-0001-7269-3158
Uni Wien, Austria
Hippocampus, Prefrontal cortex, Interneurons, Learning, Decision making, Network Oscillations
Manuel Malmierca
orcid.org/0000-0003-0168-7572
University of Salamanca, Spain
Auditory neurophysiology; coding of stimulus-specific neuronal adaptation, sensory processing, neurocircuitry and neuropharmacology, cortical and subcortical plasticity, subcortical processing
Chris Pack
McGill University, Canada
Visual neurophysiology, visual cortex, system identification methods
Carl Petersen
Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland
Sensory and motor systems neuroscience, neuronal circuits, synaptic transmission, electrophysiology and optical imaging techniques
Piali Sengupta
Advisory Board Member orcid.org/0000-0001-7468-0035
Brandeis University, USA
Sensory neurons, neuron specification, cilia development, pheromone signaling, chemoreceptor genes, cellular memory, thermosensation
Peter Thier
orcid.org/0000-0001-5909-4222
Tuebingen, Germany
Role of the cerebellar system in eye movement control and visual perception, neural underpinnings of gaze following and joint attention, role of mirror neurons in action selection and understanding
Computational neuroscience
Claus Hilgetag
orcid.org/0000-0003-2129-8910
University of Hamburg, Germany
Experimental, computational and theoretical approaches to understanding structural and functional connectivity of the mammalian cerebral cortex; analytical tools, computational neuroscience
Developmental neuroscience
Matthew Dalva
Thomas Jefferson University, USA
Synapse and neural circuit generation, cell adhesion
Claude Desplan
orcid.org/0000-0002-6914-1413
New York University, USA
Visual system development, evo–devo, neurogenesis, electrophysiology, cell fate, Drosophila
Cagla Eroglu
orcid.org/0000-0002-7204-0218
Duke University Medical Center, USA
Synaptic network formation during development and remodeling during learning and disease, glial cells, astrocytes
Bassem Hassan
Institut du Cerveau et de la Moelle Épinière, France
Neurogenetics, development, whole-brain culture and imaging, Wnt, cell fate
Yi-Ping Hsueh
orcid.org/0000-0002-0866-6275
Academica Sinica, Taiwan
Neuronal morphogenesis, synapse formation, neurodevelopmental disorders, neurodegeneration, mouse genetic models for autism spectrum disorders and other neurodevelopmental disorders; neuroinflammation, endoplasmic reticulum, protein synthesis and cytoskeletons in neuronal morphogenesis and related disorders
Franck Polleux
orcid.org/0000-0003-4313-0481
Columbia University, USA
Mammalian brain connectivity, neuronal differentiation, synaptic development, human brain evolution, mouse brain development, cellular and molecular mechanisms of neurodegeneration
Cody J. Smith
orcid.org/0000-0002-9831-1514
Notre Dame, USA
Neural development, glial cell biology, neuronal biology, glial-neuronal interactions, neuronal branching, nerve regeneration, model organism genetics - C. elegans, zebrafish (also: CNS and PNS development, model organism neurobiology, astroglia, microglia and ensheathing glia)
Bing Ye
orcid.org/0000-0002-8828-4065
University of Michigan, USA
Cellular and molecular mechanisms underlying the morphogenesis of neurons and the assembly of Drosophila neural circuits
Molecular neurobiology and cellular physiology
Alberto Bacci
orcid.org/0000-0002-3355-5892
Institut du Cerveau et de la Moelle Épinière, France
Cellular neurophysiology, neocortex, synaptic inhibition and auto-modulation of brain cortex microcircuits
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
Joshua Dubnau
orcid.org/0000-0002-9285-7444
Stony Brook University, USA
Drosophila neurogenetics, Drosophila models of neurodegeneration, olfactory behavior and learning, impact of mobile elements on aging, neurodegeneration and the nervous system (also: somatic mosaicism, animal models of aging, single cell RNAseq and DNA sequencing)
Veronica Egger
orcid.org/0000-0002-5869-8523
Regensburg University, Germany
Coding in the rodent olfactory bulb, reciprocal mitral cell - granule cell synapse, dendritic integration, two-photon Ca2+ imaging, multisite holographic uncaging, semi-intact nose-brain preparation, methods development
Ben Emery
orcid.org/0000-0002-9132-3045
Oregon Health & Science University, USA
Myelin biology, glial biology, axoglial interactions, demyelinating diseases (e.g., multiple sclerosis) and animal models of demyelination/remyelination; oligodendrocytes and their progenitors (also: astrocytes, Schwann cells, microglia)
Eunjoon Kim
orcid.org/0000-0001-5518-6584
KAIST, Korea
Molecular organization and functional coordination of neuronal synapses; synapse development, synaptic scaffolding and adhesion molecules, synaptic transmission and plasticity, psychiatric disorders, autism, intellectual disability; synaptopathies; molecular, cell-biological, biochemical, anatomical, imaging, electrophysiological, and behavioral tools
Kelly Monk
Vollum Institute, Oregon Health & Science University, USA
Glia, myelin, neuron-glial interactions, adhesion GPCRs, zebrafish and mouse genetics (also: neurodevelopment, model organism genetics, peripheral nervous system development and repair)
Mikael Simons
German Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases (DZNE), Germany
Glia, myelin, regeneration (also: neurodegeneration, neuroinflammation)
Tom Südhof
Stanford University School of Medicine, USA
Synapse formation and synaptic transmission (synaptic cell biology, physiology, circuits), Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s disease, autism and schizophrenia
Guang Yang
orcid.org/0000-0002-5739-9126
Columbia, USA
synaptic plasticity, neuroinflammation, sleep, pain
Systems and cognitive neuroscience
Jennifer Bizley
orcid.org/0000-0001-6605-2362
University College London, UK
Auditory physiology, object recognition and perceptual invariance, selective attention
Roi Cohen Kadosh
orcid.org/0000-0002-5564-5469
University of Surrey, UK
Executive functions, brain stimulation, mathematical cognition, cognitive learning, cognitive enhancement
Aniruddha Das
orcid.org/0000-0001-8761-917X
Columbia University, USA
Visual processing; brain hemodynamics and neural/physiological basis of the hemodynamic response (also: sensory processing - auditory, somatosensory)
Ruth de Diego Balaguer
orcid.org/0000-0002-2357-5195
Universitat de Barcelona, Spain
Statistical learning, artificial grammar, development, language learning, rule-learning, temporal attention, basal ganglia, Huntington's disease
Mathew Ernest Diamond
orcid.org/0000-0003-2286-4566
SISSA, Italy
Cognitive neuroscience, behavioral neuroscience, computational neuroscience, systems neuroscience, learning, memory, sensation, sensory coding, perception, neuronal bases of behavior
Alexander Gail
orcid.org/0000-0002-1165-4646
Georg August University of Göttingen, Germany
Sensorimotor integration, cognitive movement planning, neuroprosthetics, neuronal synchronization, visual object coding; methods: awake monkey electrophysiology, extracellular multi-channel microelectrode recordings, psychophysics in human and non-human primates, correlation and spectral coherence analysis, pattern recognition
Simon Hanslmayr
orcid.org/0000-0003-4448-2147
University of Glasgow, UK
Neural oscillations in human memory and attentions; MEG, EEG, combined EEG-fMRI, intracranial EEG and human single unit recordings, brain stimulation methods (tACS, tDCS, rTMS and intracranial electrical stimulation)
Thorsten Kahnt
orcid.org/0000-0002-3575-2670
Northwestern, USA
Learning and decision-making, reward learning, reinforcement, olfaction, fMRI, TMS
Raphael Kaplan
orcid.org/0000-0002-5023-1566
Universitat Jaume I, Spain
Cognitive neuroscience of memory and decision making, Social neuroscience, Spatial cognition, Neuroimaging, Medial temporal lobe, Cognitive computational neuroscience
Adam Kohn
Albert Einstein College of Medicine, USA
Systems and computational neuroscience, visual processing, cortical plasticity, population coding
Laura Lewis
orcid.org/0000-0002-4003-0277
Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Massachusetts General Hospital, USA
Neuroimaging methods (fMRI, EEG, PET), sleep and arousal, brain states, cerebrospinal fluid, hemodynamics, thalamocortical dynamics, brainstem, aging
Huan Luo
orcid.org/0000-0002-8349-9796
Peking University, China
Attention, working memory, EEG/MEG, neural dynamics, sequence memory, speech.
Uta Noppeney
orcid.org/0000-0002-7697-2290
Radbound U, Netherlands
Human (computational) cognitive neuroscience; multisensory/audiovisual
perception, decision making, binding, learning and attention.
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
Ben Seymour
University of Oxford, UK
Computational and systems neuroscience of pain, pain and aversive/fear learning, pain perception, behavior and decision-making, functional neuroimaging (fMRI) and learning theory, body-machine and brain-machine applications for chronic pain (also: reward, motivation, and decision-making; somatosensory neuroscience)
Frank Tong
Vanderbilt University, USA
Human visual perception, orientation and motion perception, face and object perception, mechanisms of visual attention, visual working memory and imagery
Simon van Gaal
orcid.org/0000-0001-6628-4534
U Amsterdam, Netherlands
Human cognitive science/neuroscience, neural basis of consciousness, perception, sensory awareness, EEG, fMRI, cognitive control and decision making, neuromodulation
Ed K. Vogel
orcid.org/0000-0003-1556-5613
U Chicago, USA
Electrophysiology; Individual differences in cognitive ability; working memory; capacity limits; attentional control
Tor Wager
Dartmouth College, USA
Pain and emotion, multivariate brain connectivity, predictive models of brain activity
Plant Biology
Xinnian Dong
Duke University, USA
Plant–microbe interactions, pathogens, plant immunity, hormones
Mark Estelle
University of California, San Diego, USA
Plant hormones, auxin, ubiquitin, transcription
Sophien Kamoun
orcid.org/0000-0002-0290-0315
The Sainsbury Laboratory, UK
Plant host–pathogen interaction, effector biology, genome evolution
Wenbo Ma
The Sainsbury Laboratory, UK
noncoding RNAs, plant-pathogen interactions, plant immunity, microbial pathogenesis
June Nasrallah
Advisory Board Member
Cornell University, USA
Cell–cell interactions, pollination biology, comparative genomics
Reproduction
Masahito Ikawa
orcid.org/0000-0001-9859-6217
Osaka University, Japan
Mammalian reproductive systems, sperm and male fertility, spermatogenesis, sperm function, fertilization, oocyte activation
Polina Lishko
University of California, Berkeley, USA
Physiology of mammalian fertilization, human sperm cells and sperm ion channels, sperm motility and male infertility
Rocio Rivera
orcid.org/0000-0002-9832-9618
University of Missouri, USA
Mammalian reproductive biology, epigenetics, superovulation, fertility and aging
Carmen Williams
NIEHS, USA
Physiology of mammalian fertilization, human sperm cells and sperm ion channels
Mariana Wolfner
orcid.org/0000-0003-2701-9505
Cornell University, USA
Reproduction, function of seminal fluid proteins, oocyte activation
Stem cells
Joshua Brickman
University of Copenhagen, Denmark
Early embryonic development, stem cells, differentiation, transcription
Christa Bücker
Max Perutz Labs, Vienna, Austria
Stem cell biology (early embryonic development, pluripotent stem cell states, cell fate transitions, differentiation, transcription, enhancers) and gene expression regulation (enhancers, PolII transcription, chromatin dynamics, transcription factors)
Catarina Homem
orcid.org/0000-0003-4243-0298
CEDOC / NOVA Medical School, Lisbon, Portugal
Neurogenesis, neurodevelopment, stem cells, neural stem cells, stem cell metabolism, Drosophila metabolism, Drosophila endocrinology and physiology, cancer metabolism, cell growth, cell fate decisions, asymmetric cell division
Bon-Kyoung Koo
orcid.org/0000-0002-4134-8033
Institute for Basic Science, Daejeon, South Korea
Mouse genetics - development, cancer genetics, organogenesis, tissue homeostasis, Notch and Wnt signaling pathways, ubiquitination; organoids, intestinal and gastric adult tissue stem cells, adult and pluripotent stem cells; development of genetic tools for lineage tracing and advanced genetic engineering, CRISPR/Cas9 technology (also: cancer modeling, single cell RNA sequencing)
Madeline Lancaster
University of Cambridge, UK
Organoids, developmental neurobiology, neural stem cells, neural differentiation, brain evolution
Joo-Hyeon Lee
orcid.org/0000-0002-7364-6422
University of Cambridge, UK
Stem cell biology (adult tissue stem cells, stem cell niche, tissue homeostasis and regeneration, cell competition), cancer stem cell, inflammation, organoids
Sally Lowell
orcid.org/0000-0002-4018-9480
University of Edinburgh, UK
Stem cell biology, pluripotent cells, early mouse embryonic development (also: vertebrate developmental biology, biology of regeneration)
Tom Rando
Stanford University, USA
Muscle cell and stem cell biology, aging, Wnt and Notch signaling, muscular dystrophy, tissue regeneration, tissue engineering
Yukiko Yamashita
orcid.org/0000-0001-5541-0216
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA
Adult stem cells, stem cell niche, spindle orientation, polarity, asymmetric stem cell division, germ cells
Structural biology
David Bhella
orcid.org/0000-0003-2096-8310
Glasgow, USA
Virus structure, virus assembly, virus entry, negative sense RNA viruses, positive sense RNA viruses, cryo-electron microscopy, cryo-electron tomography, structural biology
Raimund Dutzler
University of Zurich, Switzerland
Transmembrane ion transport mechanisms, chloride channels and transporters, X-ray crystallography
Raquel Lieberman
orcid.org/0000-0001-9345-3735
Georgia Institute of Technology, USA
Structural biology, structure-function of proteins and enzymes, protein mis/folding, molecular chaperones, molecular/chemical biophysics (also: enzymology, metallo-enzymology, medicinal chemistry/drug discovery, eye diseases, biomedical engineering)
Yunsun Nam
orcid.org/0000-0002-7939-8626
UT Southwestern, USA
Protein and nucleic acid structural biology, X-ray crystallography, cryo-electron microscopy, microRNA biogenesis, RNA modifications, RNA methylation, RNA-protein complexes
Ann Stock
Advisory Board Member
Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, USA
Protein structure, receptor-mediated signal transduction, bacterial chemotaxis, X-ray crystallography
Kylie Walters
National Cancer Institute, USA
Structural biology, NMR spectroscopy, x-ray crystallography, proteasome, ubiquitin signaling, protein quality control, myosin VI (also: protein folding/molecular chaperones, autophagy, endocytosis)
Systems biology
Nathalie Balaban
The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel
Systems biology, biophysics, nanoscience, microbiology
Sui Huang
orcid.org/0000-0002-3545-4665
Institute for Systems Biology, USA
Application of dynamical systems modeling to mammalian cells, stem cell differentiation and cancer, computational biology, theory of complex dynamical systems applied to higher organisms and medicine, cell plasticity in progression and drug resistance, evolution of complex systems, pattern formation, evolutionary constraints, gene networks, single-cell transcriptomics (also: bioinformatics, cancer genomics, tumor angiogenesis, stroma, signal transduction in mammalian cells)
Trafficking and cellular dynamics
Anna Akhmanova
Utrecht University, Netherlands
Organization and dynamics of the microtubule dynamics, microtubule-based organelle transport and motor proteins (kinesins, dyneins), microtubule-based processes in neurons (also: vesicle trafficking, Rab GTPases, cell polarity, migration, mitotic spindle organization)
Simon Bullock
orcid.org/0000-0001-9491-4548
MRC, UK
Microtubule-based transport, dynein, kinesin, microtubules, mRNA localization, local translation, Drosophila cell biology, in vitro reconstitution
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)
Anne Simonsen
orcid.org/0000-0003-4711-7057
University of Oslo, Norway
Autophagy, membrane trafficking, endocytosis
Sharon Tooze
The Francis Crick Institute, UK
Autophagy, biogenesis of autophagosomes, Atg proteins
Meta-research
Lisa Bero
University of Colorado, USA
Research evidence, bias in preclinical and clinical studies, research communication with social, political and ethical context, methodological analyses of nutrition research (prevention of obesity, diabetes and cardiovascular disease), improving medicines for noncommunicable diseases in low-resource settings
Isabelle Boutron
orcid.org/0000-0002-5263-6241
Université Paris Descartes, France
Evaluation of non-pharmacological treatments, risk of bias, the problems of knowledge and transparency of research
Chris Chambers
orcid.org/0000-0001-6058-4114
Cardiff University, UK
Registered Reports and meta-research; brain stimulation (TMS, TES) and brain imaging techniques (fMRI, MRS, MEG) to understand cognitive control, attention and awareness in the human brain; translational applications of cognitive neuroscience in the domain of obesity and behaviour change
Ulrich Dirnagl
orcid.org/0000-0003-0755-6119
Charité–Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Germany
Reproducibility, research assessment, open science; neurology, pre-clinical research, stroke, brain damage, cerebral blood flow regulation, brain imaging
Jonathan Kimmelman
orcid.org/0000-0003-1614-6779
McGill University, Canada
Bioethics of translational clinical research, investigation of risk, prediction, validity and knowledge value across the trajectory of drug development, the role and content of clinical research ethics
Malcolm Macleod
orcid.org/0000-0001-9187-9839
University of Edinburgh, UK
Neurology, pre-clinical research, evidence-based translational medicine, sources of bias in experimental design
Marcus Munafò
University of Bristol, UK
Registered Reports & meta-research; genome-wide association studies/genomics (also: genetic and cognitive influences on addictive behaviour and tobacco and alcohol use)
Bob Siegerink
orcid.org/0000-0002-8454-9142
Leiden University Medical Center, Netherlands
Meta-research, Bayesian inference, models of decision making; human-centred research methodology, including observational studies, and clinical trials (also: thrombosis/hemostasis, coagulation factor)
Anita Bandrowski
orcid.org/0000-0002-5497-0243
UCSD, USA
Data Curation, Rigor and Reproducibility, Open Data, neuroinformatics
Cilene Lino-de-Oliveira
orcid.org/0000-0002-0627-530X
Fed U Santa Catarina, Brazil
Registered reports, heuristic models, methodology, systematic reviews; research focus on antidepressants, stress, animal models