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.
Charles H Williams
Dr. Charles (Chuck) Williams is an Assistant Professor at Michigan State University, and is a basic scientist whose research centers on chemical genetics of vertebrate development and early drug discovery. His research functions at the intersection of developmental biology, chemical biology, computational biology, and personalized medicine. Dr. Williams' work includes innovative chemical biologic approaches to study embryonic development as well as developing resources to facilitate academic drug discovery.
His research has made contributions to the emerging field of chemical genetics through the discovery of chemical modulators of several key developmental pathways, including the Eggmanone, a small molecule inhibitor of the Hedgehog pathway. This work revealed novel biological insights and new therapeutic opportunities for targeting cancers downstream of the Smoothened receptor which handles the clinical problem of acquired smoothened resistance in medulloblastoma. In addition, Dr. Williams edited a book covering the latest methods and protocols in chemical biology. He has recently co-founded a start-up around a new technology for targeting glioblastoma.
Dr. Williams received a PhD in cell and developmental biology from Vanderbilt University, where he also received his BS in Molecular and Cellular Biology.
S. Joseph Wright
Senior Scientist, Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Balboa, Republic of Panama. Past President of the Association for Tropical Biology and Conservation.
Helen M Roe
Dr Helen Roe is a Reader in Physical Geography in the School of Natural and Built Environment, Queen's University Belfast. She received her PhD (Quaternary palaeoecology) from the University of Cambridge.
Her research interests centre around the reconstruction of late Quaternary environmental change in wetlands and coastal environments. Major research foci include (i) applications of benthic protozoans (e.g. testate amoebae and foraminifera) and diatoms in biomonitoring and restoration; (ii) the use of palaeoecological, palaeolimnological and geochemical approaches for understanding long-term climate and sea-level change; iii) use of quantitative, multi-proxy techniques to aid palaeoenvironmental reconstruction.
She is an Adjunct Research Professor, Department of Earth Sciences, Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada and a Co-Director of the Queen's University Centre of Canadian Studies.
Joshua C Carr
Dr. Joshua Carr is an Assistant Professor in the Kinesiology Department at Texas Christian University and the Department of Medical Education at the Burnett School of Medicine. He is the Director of the Neuromuscular Physiology Laboratory on TCU’s main campus and was recently awarded the BIGXII Faculty Fellowship Award. His primary research focus relates to exercise training with a specific interest in the adaptations that occur with single-limb exercise and interventions that restore and enhance neuromuscular function. He uses surface electromyography, mechanomyography, and neuromuscular stimulation techniques to assess the human neuromuscular system with fatigue, training, injury, and disease.
Nicola Traverso
Dr. Nicola Traverso is an Associate Professor within the Department of Experimental Medicine at the University of Genova.
Chenkai Ma
Chenkai Ma is a postdoctoral researcher in CSIRO, working on the diagnostic biomarkers identification for diabetes. His expertise is in bioinformatic analysis for DNA methylation, RNA and ChIP sequencing. He has solid knowledge for biomarkers (including liquid biopsy) discovery and clinically usable assay designing. During his PhD, he identified a panel of circulating miRNAs biomarkers for glioma and exploration of the biological regulation in tumor microenvironment via extracellular vesicles. His knowledge also extends to immuno-oncology.
Arthur Gruber
Prof. Arthur Gruber received his Bachelor’s in Veterinary Medicine, PhD in Biochemistry, Associate degree in Animal Pathology from the University of São Paulo. He is Associate Professor at the Institute of Biomedical Sciences, University of São Paulo, affiliated member, European Viral Bioinformatics Center, and member of the directory board, Brazilian Association for Bioinformatics and Computational Biology (AB3C). Prof. Gruber is PI of the Viral Genomics and Bioinformatics research group, developing bioinformatics methods and tools for viral detection, classification and discovery.
Travis Gerke
Assistant Member in Cancer Epidemiology and Scientific Director of Collaborative Data Services, Moffitt Cancer Center.
Malcolm Jobling
Professor of Fish Biology and Aquaculture. Authored and edited books on fish biology, physiology and nutrition, and aquaculture, and serving editorial board member for fisheries and aquaculture journals. Formerly, member of EUCost, ICES and academic society steering committees.
Luisa A.M. Pinto
Luisa Pinto is Assistant Researcher at the Life and Health Sciences Research Institute (ICVS), University of Minho in Portugal, and Invited Assistant Professor at the School of Health Sciences, University of Minho. She is also manager of a spin-off enterprise “BNML – Behavioural & Molecular Lab” of the ICVS. Luisa is Associate Member of EpiGeneSys, a FP7 European Community-funded Network of Excellence; Editor of the journal Advances in Biology.
Luca Cerniglia
I have a PhD in Dynamic, Clinical and Developmental Psychology.
My main areas of interest are: mother-infant and father infant interactions; eating disorders; loss and trauma; attachment; adoelscence.
I am currently working in Rome, Italy, at International Telematic University Uninettuno.
Henning Walczak
Recipient of the Wellcome Trust Senior Investigator Award (2011) and an ERC Advanced Grant (2011). Director of the European Workshop on Cell Death (EWCD) Charity.