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.
Larry Forney
Dr. Larry Forney is a University Distinguished Professor and a member of the American Academy of Microbiology with academic appointments in the Department of Biological Sciences and Bioinformatics and Computational Biology at the University of Idaho. He is an evolutionary ecologist who conducts research on bacterial community ecology of the human microbiome and mutation-selection processes that govern the occurrence and persistence of genetic diversity in spatially structured environments.
Susanta Lahiri
Professor Susanta Lahiri is a highly visible radiochemist of international fame. He has made pioneering contribution in heavy ion assisted production of clinically important radionuclides. However, his interest has been diversified in the areas of environmental radioactivity, green chemistry, cosmochemical analysis, bioaccumulation studies, speciation studies, as well as trace analysis. Currently he is working as Senior Professor at Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics, Kolkata, India. He received a doctorate degree from the University of Calcutta in 1994 and the University of Calcutta conferred upon him a D.Sc degree in 2009.
Professor Lahiri received the highest international honour in the field of Nuclear and Radiochemistry, the Hevesy Medal Award in 2015 and became the first Indian to receive the award in the history of ~50 years. The award was instituated in 1968 in honour of Nobel Laureate George de Hevesy. Earlier he received the prestigious associateship of Third World Academy of Sciences (TWAS) twice. He also received Professor J. C. Ghosh Memorial Award (2014) by Indian Chemical Society.
Professor Lahiri is the editorial board member of JRNC and Radiochimica Acta. He is also the member of CERN Medicis programme. He has more than 220 publications in international peer reviewed journal and 270 reports in international and national conference. He has guided 13 Ph. D students (including on board students).
Jim van Os
Professor of Psychiatry and Chairman of the Department of Psychiatry and Psychology at Maastricht University Medical Centre, The Netherlands, and Visiting Professor of Psychiatric Epidemiology at the Institute of Psychiatry, London, UK. Academic Editor at PLoS ONE. Member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (2011).
Quamarul Hassan
Dr. Quamarul Hassan is a Professor within the School of Dentistry/Cell Developmental and Integrative Biology at the University of Alabama, Birmingham.
While I was a master's student at Indian Veterinary Research Institute, I became fascinated with monoclonal antibody gene diversity theory. It was 1987 when Susumu Tonegawa won the Nobel Prize for his discovery of V(D)J recombination. I mostly credited him for inspiring my interest in molecular and cellular biology.
I have a long-standing interest in the genetic, epigenetic, and non-coding RNA mediated mechanisms regulating skeletal development and maintenance, specifically the functional role of miRNAs, lncRNAs, and chromatin regulation and their significance linked to gene regulation. During the last 20 years, I have developed highly effective ex vivo and in vivo strategies, including novel methods and genetic mouse models for studying bone tissue-specific-chromatin organization and modifications, miRNA, and LncRNA function. These models and strategies allow us to unravel the fundamental basis of tissue-specific gene activation and repression. Previously, my research has identified HOX transcription factor switching is critical for bone formation and homeostasis. The novel concept of epigenetic bookmarking of genes allows a cell to retain a “memory bank” for osteoblast lineage. In 2010, my research on the non-coding miRNA 23a-cluster revealed the microRNA-epigenetic regulatory mechanism critical for bone mass maintenance. I believe that my contribution will significantly advance the understanding of the genetic and epigenetic basis of skeletogenesis. Further, these conceptual understandings will likely inform novel therapeutics for bone regeneration, skeletal disorders, consumptive hypothyroidism, and osteosarcoma.
Elizabeth Hemming-Schroeder
Dr. Hemming-Schroeder is an Assistant Professor and member of the Center for Vector-borne Infectious Diseases. Dr. Hemming-Schroeder's research training includes the study of malaria, a disease that affects nearly half of the world's population, as well as tick-borne diseases in the United States. Her research primarily uses methods in molecular biology, population genetics, and bioinformatics to study vector-borne disease ecology and epidemiology. She is broadly interested in how ecological factors, environmental modifications, and public health interventions impact pathogen and vector population dynamics and how genetic and epidemiological information on pathogens and vectors can be used to improve infectious disease control and elimination.
Ryan Christopher Sullivan
Associate Professor of Chemistry, and Mechanical Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University, with a courtesy appointment in Civil and Environmental Engineering. He is also a faculty member in the Center for Atmospheric Particle Studies. Hon.B.Sc. in Chemistry from the University of Toronto, Ph.D. in Chemistry from the University of California, San Diego. Before moving to Carnegie Mellon University in 2012 he completed his postdoctoral research in Atmospheric Science at Colorado State University. Recipient of a Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) award from the National Science Foundation, and the National Academy of Science’s Cozzarelli Prize.
Developing laser-based analytical techniques for real-time analysis of individual aerosol particle composition. These include laser ablation single-particle mass spectrometry, aerosol optical tweezers, and microfluidic devices for ice nucleation research. The multi-phase chemical evolution of biomass burning aerosol from wood smoke is a major current focus. Experimental studies include the alteration of the ice nucleation properties of smoke particles induced by chemical aging; and the activation of photo-labile chlorinated gases from heterogeneous reactions of nitrogen oxides with smoke aerosol. Recently active in evaluating the kinetics and biosafety of catalysts for sustainable ultra-dilute oxidation catalysis.
Moin Syed
Moin Syed is an Associate Professor of Psychology at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities. His research is broadly concerned with identity and personality development among ethnically and culturally-diverse adolescents and emerging adults. Much of his current scholarly work focuses on methods, theories, and practices within the broad frameworks of open science and meta-psychology, with a particular emphasis on ethnic minority psychology, diversity within the field, and building bridges across the fractured sub-disciplines of psychology. He is currently serving as the Editor of Infant and Child Development
Houtan Noushmehr
Associate scientist and professor of epigenomics and bioinformatics at the department of neurosurgery and genetics.
Jean Twenge
Jean M. Twenge, Professor of Psychology at San Diego State University, is the author of more than 100 scientific publications and the books The Narcissism Epidemic: Living in the Age of Entitlement and Generation Me: Why Today’s Young Americans Are More Confident, Assertive, Entitled — and More Miserable Than Ever Before. She earned her BA and MA from the University of Chicago and her Ph.D. in psychology from the University of Michigan.
Volker Bahn
I am an Associate Professor of Biological Sciences at Wright State University. Previously I was a postdoctoral fellow at McGill University working in Macroecology with Brian McGill. My PhD is from the University of Maine in Wildlife Ecology with advisers Bill Krohn and Raymond O'Connor, and MS (German Diplom) in Conservation Biology from Philipps University Marburg with Harald Plachter and Peter Poschlod, in collaboration with Alan Burger from University of Victoria.
Annika Lindblom
Professor in medical genetics, senior consultant at the department of Clinical Genetics Karolinska University Hospital.
Leila Taher
Leila Taher received her Ph.D. in Natural Sciences from the University of Bielefeld, Germany, in 2006. After postdoctoral training at the Instituto Miguel Lillo (2006-2007) in Tucumán, Argentina, and at the National Institutes of Health (2008-2012) in the USA, she returned to Germany, where she started her own research group on computational modelling of transcriptional regulation at the University of Rostock. Since 2015 she is an assistant professor at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg.