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.
Sunhee Lee
Dr. Sunhee Lee received her Ph.D. from the University of Arizona, where she worked in the laboratory of Dr. Christina Kennedy. Her graduate studies and research were focused on the area of plant-microbe interactions. After completing her graduate studies, Dr. Lee trained as a postdoctoral fellow in Dr. William Jacobs's laboratory at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine. In Dr. Jacob's laboratory, she researched the pathogenicity and immune responses of Mycobacterium tuberculosis and generated and tested live TB vaccine candidates that had been genetically engineered. Dr. Lee moved to Duke University as an Assistant Professor at the Human Vaccine Institute and Department of Molecular Genetics and Microbiology. As an investigator at Duke University, she continued to expand the research field to other host-mycobacterial interactions and their impact on immunogenicity and pathogenicity. Additionally, Dr. Lee's laboratory developed recombinant mycobacteria capable of eliciting strong HIV/SIV-specific immune responses. Currently, Dr. Lee is an Associate professor at the University of Texas Medical Branch, where she has been working to discover and develop new therapeutics and vaccines against M. tuberculosis and nontuberculous mycobacteria.
Laurence Vandel
University of Clermont-Auvergne
Director of research at CNRS
Research fields include, epigenetic enzymes, transcription regulation, cell differentiation and cancer.
Lesley A Stark
Lesley Stark received a B.Sc (1st) from the University of Aberdeen (1990). She carried out her PhD with C. Bird at the University of Edinburgh and her first postdoc with RT Hay at the University of St Andrews. She moved back to the University of Edinburgh in 1997 to the lab of MG Dunlop. In 2002 was awarded a CRF fellowship to investigate NF-kB and aspirin chemoprevention. She was appointed as a lecturer/PI at the University of Edinburgh in 2005, a senior lecturer in 2008 then a reader in 2012.
Heedoo Lee
Dr. Heedoo Lee is an Assistant Professor within the Department of Biology and Microbiology at Changwon National University, Changwon, South Korea. His research interests include Immunophysiology, Respiratory disease, Lung injury and inflammation, Extracellular vesicles and Exosomes.
My S Andersson
Dr Andersson is an Assistant Professor in Experimental Neurology at Lund University and group leader of Cellular Neurophysiology and Epilepsy group. Her research focuses on underlying mechanisms of and new treatments for epilepsy in the developing brain. This is done using different methods, the main one being electrophysiology, in vivo and in vitro.
Xiaodong Zhang
Xiaodong Zhang graduated from Peking University in 1988, majoring in Nuclear Physics. She then went to Stony Brook University to pursue her PhD in Physics in the group of Professor Janos Kirz . After her PhD in 1995, she went to Harvard University for her postdoctoral training in X-ray crystallography under the guidance of Professor Don Wiley. She took up a lecturership at Imperial College London in 2001. She was promoted to Professor of Macromolecular Structure and Function in 2008. Her current research focuses on elucidating the structures and molecular mechanisms of macromolecular machines, especially those involved in DNA processing including the transcription apparatus and its regulators, components in DNA damage signaling and repair.
Brian Child
I work on private and community conservation in Africa, with specialisation in governance and economics. As a scholar practitioner and Associate Professor at University of a Florida my goal is to bridge science, practice and policy, including in training. I combine teaching/research with working in field conservation with TNC and on the Scientific and Technical Advisory Panel of GEF
Benedikt Ley
Dr. Benedikt Ley is a Senior Scientist at Menzies School of Health Research, Darwin, Australia. He is a public health expert with a focus on diagnostics, vivax Malaria and G6PD deficiency. He is also a lecturer at the Charles Darwin University and coordinates the Vivax Working Group of the Asia Pacific Malaria Elimination Network (APMEN).
Anne-Marie Mouly
Senior researcher at the Lyon Neuroscience Research Center. Neurobiology of emotional olfactory memory in rats and neural networks involved in odor fear conditioning. Long-term effects of neonatal olfactory associative experiences on adult cognitive abilities. Neural circuits involved in interval timing in fear conditioning. Editorial board Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience. Past Secretary of the European Brain and Behaviour Society from 2011 to 2014.
Jian He
Dr. He obtained her Ph.D. degree from a joint Ph.D. program in Jilin University and University of California, San Diego under Prof. Shu Chien which is the Academician of National Academy of Sciences, National Academy of Engineering, Institute of Medicine, and American Academy of Arts and Sciences of US. Dr. He then worked in Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) in the United States, Chinese Academy of Sciences and Shanghai Jiao Tong University in China. In 2019, Dr. He joined the Center for Single-Cell Omics in Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine as the core director of the genomics core.
Dr. He’s research focused on developing more sophisticated technology of single-cell multiple-omics analysis, using systems biology strategies to elucidate the underlying mechanism of major diseases, especially oncology and discover novel biomarkers, and AI Drug Screening. As of June. 2022, Dr. He has authored 60 high-quality scholarly articles including 25 first-authored and correspondence author papers, which have been extensively cited. Also, Dr. He has filed 15 patents. Also, she has been awarded research grants and awards from National Natural Science Foundation, China Postdoctoral Science Special Foundation, and so on. Dr. He was invited to contribute review articles by highly influential research journals in her field and give oral presentations at national and international conferences. Dr. He also serves as an article reviewer of numerous notable international journals.
Garry Myers
PhD (1999) at U. Sydney, followed by a postdoc at The Institute for Genome Research (TIGR). I joined the TIGR Faculty in 2005. In 2007, I was a co-founder of the Institute for Genome Sciences at the University of Maryland School of Medicine. In 2014, I joined the ithree Institute at the University of Technology Sydney as Associate Professor. My research interests are the application of bioinformatics and genomic-scale tools to bacterial pathogens and the host response, particularly Chlamydia.
Jay Shah
Prof. Jay Shah is a Professor of Surgery at Patan Hospital, a tertiary care teaching hospital of health science university, ‘Patan
Academy of Health Sciences’, Lalitpur, Kathmandu, Nepal. He is responsible for managing and leading the unit in-charge of the surgery department, comprising of more than 30 faculties, residents, interns and medical students. His unit manages 3 outpatients and 3 operation theatre days a week.
Prof. Shah is involved in undergraduate and postgraduate teaching programs of the school of medicine, nursing, and public health.
In addition, he is also involved with the Primary Trauma Course (PTC), research, writing and publishing in scientific journals, and the post-graduate committee.