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.
Kentaro Yano
Past; Associate Professor of Bioinformatics lab, Department of Life Sciences,
School of Agriculture, Meiji University.
Past; Graduate School of Agricultural and Life Sciences, The University of Tokyo.
Kazusa DNA Research Institute.
Plent Breeding, Kyoto University.
Carine Van Lint
After performing her PhD thesis at the National Institutes of Health (NIH, Bethesda, USA) from 1991 to 1994 and a postdoctoral fellowship in New York from 1994 to 1997, Carine Van Lint joined the Faculty of Sciences of the "Université Libre de Bruxelles" as the head of the Laboratory of Molecular Virology. As a biochemist, Carine Van Lint has developed for the last 25 years a specific interest for pathogenic retroviruses. Her laboratory is mainly studying the role played by epigenetic modifications (such as histone acetylation, histone methylation and DNA methylation) and by non-epigenetic regulatory elements in transcriptional latency and reactivation of HIV-1 (Human Immunodeficiency Virus type 1 - the ethiologic agent of the acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS)), BLV (Bovine Leukemia Virus - the etiologic agent of a chronic lymphoproliferative disease termed enzootic bovine leucosis) and HTLV-1 (Human T-cell leukemia virus 1 - the etiologic agent of an aggressive lymphoproliferative disease (Adult T-cell Leukemia/Lymphoma) and a neurological degenerative syndrome (tropical spastic paraparesis/HTLV-1-associated myelopathy (TSP/HAM)).
Maria del Mar Bibiloni Esteva
Dr. Bibiloni Esteva has a degree in Biology (2007) and Biochemistry (2008) and PhD in Human Nutrition (2012) from the University of the Balearic Islands. She is a researcher at the Institute of Health Carlos III (CIBERobn, Pathophysiology of Obesity and Nutrition) and Assistant Professor of the Department of Fundamental Biology and Health Sciences of the University of the Balearic Islands.
Andrew M Osborn
Professor, RMIT University, U.K. Previously. Professor of Biotechnology, University of Lincoln, UK; Professor of Biological Sciences, University of Hull, UK; Senior Lecturer in Environmental Microbiology, University of Sheffield, UK; Lecturer in Microbiology, University of Essex UK; Postdoctoral Scientists, GBF National Research Centre for Biotechnology, Germany, Postdoctoral Research Associate, University of Liverpool, UK;
Ph.D. University of Liverpool, UK; B.Sc (Hons) Genetics & Microbiology, University of Sheffield, UK.
Dawn N Albertson
Ph.D. in Cellular & Clinical Neurobiology from Wayne State University School of Medicine. Associate Professor of Psychology at Minnesota State University, Mankato.
Anja Ehrhardt
Anja Ehrhardt studied biology at the Universities Göttingen and Hamburg in Germany and performed her PhD thesis at the Fraunhofer Insitute of Toxicology and Aerosol Research in Germany. From 1999-2005 she was a postdoctoral fellow at Stanford University focusing on adenovirus and gene therapy. In 2005 she bacame a group leader at the LMU Munich, Germany, and since 2011 she is a full professor and chair of Medical Microbiology at the Private University Witten/Herdecke in Germany.
Jan-Hendrik Hehemann
Research Group Leader at the Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology and at the Marum, the Center for Marine Environmental Science at the University of Bremen.
Researching algal polysaccharides in the Marine Glycobiology group.
Charles GIllespie
I am an Assistant Professor of Psychiatry (M.D., Ph.D.) and the Associate Director of Medical Student Education in Psychiatry at Emory University. My clinical work focuses on the treatment of mood, anxiety, and stress/trauma-related disorders in adolescents and young adults. My primary research interest is the study of the psychobiology of trauma and stress across the lifespan. In addition to the complications of trauma-related psychopathology (post-traumatic stress disorder, depression, personality disorders, and substance abuse), individuals exposed to trauma also often bear a heavy burden of stress-related medical illness including obesity, diabetes mellitus, metabolic syndrome, and cardiovascular disease. Impoverished minority populations in particular are at high risk for trauma exposure and have limited access to behavioral and medical healthcare. My current research focuses on the genetic mechanisms, environmental exposures, and stress pathobiology that contribute to risk for these disorders with particular emphasis on diabetes mellitus.
Jing Shang
Jing Shang’s research interest are heterogeneous atmospheric chemistry, and environmental photocatalysis. She is currently an Associate Professor of College of Environmental Sciences and Engineering, Peking University. Dr Shang has published over 60 peer-reviewed scientific articles that have attracted over 1100 citations.
David Butman
I am currently an assistant professor in both the School of Environmental and Forest Science and Civil & Environmental Engineering at the University of Washington since the fall of 2014. I was hired as part of the Freshwater Initiative here at UW.
I received my PhD in Forestry and Environmental Studies from Yale University (2011), a masters in Environmental Science from the Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies, and a B.A. in Economics and Environmental Studies from Connecticut College.
I came to the University of Washington from the U.S. Geological Survey and Yale University where I was a postdoctoral associate involved in a national assessment of carbon sequestration potential within natural ecosystems focusing on aquatic environments.
My focus is on freshwater environments and I study the influence of humans and climate on carbon cycling at the intersection of terrestrial and aquatic systems.
Rubim Santos
Dr. Rubim Santos is Associate Professor at the School of Health, P. Porto and Director of the Center for Rehabilitation Research.
His primary research interests include biomechanics, human movement and postural control.