Academic Editors
The following people constitute the Editorial Board of Academic Editors for PeerJ. These active academics are the Editors who seek peer reviewers, evaluate their responses, and make editorial decisions on each submission to the journal. Learn more about becoming an Editor.
Hong-Wei Sun
Chief, Biodata Mining and Discovery Section, OST, IRP, NIAMS, NIH
Twenty years of experience in Bioinformatics since post-doc at Yale, where I solved the x-ray crystal structure of a cytokine (MIF). Developed and implemented in recent years a significant number of NGS data analysis pipelines and methods with emphasis on ChIP-Seq, ATAC-Seq, RNA-Seq, scATAC-Seq, scRNA-Seq, Enhancers & Super Enhancers, and AI/ML. Co-authored more than 60 NGS data-based publications since 2010, including 33 in high impact journals such as Nature, Science, Cell, Nature Immunology, Science Immunology, Nature Cell Biology, Nature Structural Biology, Immunity, Molecular Cell, and PNAS. A founding member of four Bioinformatics groups. Co-author of two published Java programs. Also a co-author of a Medical Bioinformatics textbook and a co-inventor of nine issued patents.
Anita E Wluka
Anita is an Associate Professor in the School of Public Health and Preventive Medicine, Monash University, and a Clinical Rheumatologist, Alfred Hospital, Melbourne.
Recognised as a world-leader in osteoarthritis research, Anita is based at The Alfred hospital where she combines research with clinical practice as a physician. Her work has contributed to guidelines for managing hip and knee osteoarthritis developed through the Royal Australasian College of General Practitioners National Health and Medical Research Council.
Dimitri de Araujo Costa
Dr. Dimitri Costa is a Biologist, PhD Researcher and Permanent Professor of the Post-Graduate Programme in Aquatic Ecology and Fisheries (PPGEAP), Núcleo de Ecologia Aquática e Pesca da Amazônia (NEAP), Federal University of Pará (UFPA), Belém, Pará, Brasil.
He is also affiliated with the following:
Research Group for Integrated Biological Investigation (GIBI), Centre for Advanced Biodiversity Studies (CEABIO), Federal University of Pará (UFPA), Belém, Pará, Brasil.
PhD Researcher at the Interdisciplinary Centre of Marine and Environmental Research (CIIMAR), Faculty of Sciences of the University of Porto (FCUP), Portugal.
More information about Dr Costa's professional background can be found here:
http://lattes.cnpq.br/7509693462303861
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5399-2483
Andreas Stavropoulos
After having completed his dental technology education, Andrea Stavropoulos studied dentistry in Heidelberg, Germany, Thessaloniki and Athens, Greece. After a few years of work in private practice limited to periodontics and implant dentistry, he joined the Department of Periodontology, School of Dentistry, Aarhus University, Denmark, where he received his postgraduate training. Andreas Stavropoulos received his Ph.D. in 2002 and his dr.odont. degree in 2011 from Aarhus University. In 2012, Andreas Stavropoulos joined Malmö University as the Professor and Chair of the Department of Periodontology. Andreas Stavropoulos has received several awards for his research, including the Anthony Rizzo Young Investigator Award from the Periodontal Research Group (PRG) of the International Association of Dental Research (IADR) in 2006, the 1st Basic Research Prize of the European Association of Osseointegration in 2011, the Straumann Award in Regenerative Periodontal Medicine, conferred by the PRG of the IADR. Andreas Stavropoulos has authored several publications in international peer reviewed journals and book chapters, and he is member of the Editorial Boards of Journal of Clinical Periodontology, Clinical Oral Implants Research, Quintessence International, and PeerJ. Andreas Stavropoulos is a member of the Undergraduate Committee of the EFP, the Education Committee of the EAO, Fellow of the International Team for Implantology (ITI), and he is currently the Councilor for PRG at IADR.
Martin Hartmann
Senior Researcher at ETH Zurich with strong interests in microbial ecology, molecular biology, bioinformatics and statistics.
Emmanuel Serrano
Dr. Emmanuel Serrano is Associate Professor and wildlife ecologist at the Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona. He leads th
He leads the Wildlife Ecology & Health (WE&H) group and is a member of the SEFaS at the UAB.
Hhis research integrates different disciplines to address wildlife disease and management issues.
Sam Griffiths-Jones
Professor of Computational Biology, Faculty of Biology, Medicine and Health, University of Manchester. Manages the miRBase database of microRNA sequences. Founded the Rfam RNA families database. Interested in RNA structure, function and evolution.
Yuliang Zhang
Dr. Zhang is a Staff Scientist from Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. He holds a PhD in Pharmaceutical Sciences. His research mainly focuses on bio-molceular interaction by using microscopy and Molecular Dynamic simulations. He served as PI and Co-I in two projects.
Jay F Levine
Dr. Levine, Professor and interim department head in the Department of Marine, Earth and Atmospheric Sciences and Professor in the Department of Population Health and Pathobiology, North Carolina State University.
His research work, initially focused on arthropod-borne diseases and in particular Lyme disease. Dr. Levine has also coordinated studies focused on shellfish safety, marine finfish, numerous veterinary health problems in companion animals, and ecosystem health. The work of this laboratory, the Aquatic Epidemiology and Conservation Laboratory (AECL) focuses on some of the most imperiled animals on the planet, freshwater mussels and snails. Dr. Levine, his staff and students have been working to further our understanding of these freshwater invertebrates, develop new diagnostic techniques for studying their health and refining techniques that support their conservation and their captive propagation for the augmentation of remaining populations.
Gian Gaetano Tartaglia
* October 2014 - ICREA Research Professor * May 2010 - Group Leader, Bioinformatics and Genomics Program, Centre for Genomic Regulation, Barcelona (Spain) * November 2011 - Clare Hall Life Member, University of Cambridge (UK) * 2005-2010 - Postdoctoral Fellow, Clare Hall College, Chemistry Department, University of Cambridge (UK) * 2001-2005 - PhD, Biochemistry Department, University of Zurich, Zurich (CH) * 1996-2000 - MPhil Theoretical Physics, Statistical Mechanics, University la Sapienza, Rome (Italy)
Brett Trost
Dr. Brett Trost is a Scientist in the Molecular Medicine Program at the Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Canada. He is a computational biologist with a particular interest in human genetics.
Felipe G Naveca
I am a microbiologist with experience in classical and molecular techniques applied to the study of human pathogens, mainly threatening RNA and DNA viruses. My research focuses on developing diagnostic tools, molecular epidemiology, and evolution, mostly on emergent and reemergent viruses. My team approaches include genomics and phylogenetic studies to characterize known and unknown viruses; field studies on arboviral emergence in a rural area in the Brazilian Amazon; immunogenetics studies related to susceptibility or resistance against microbial infections; studies on biomarkers of acute viral illness; in vitro & in vivo virus-host interactions and evolution; and SARS-CoV-2 and other respiratory viruses molecular epidemiology. Senior investigator of Fiocruz Amazonas and Deputy Director of Research and Innovation. Member of the Brazilian Society for virology since 1997. Member of the Brazilian network of specialists in Zika and correlated diseases.