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.
Giribabu Nelli
Dr. Giribabu Nelli is a Senior Lecturer within the Department of Physiology at Universiti Malaya.
Hi primary research areas include, Reproductive Biology, Diabetes and their complications, and Natural Products Research.
Maximiliano Gutierrez
Max studied biochemistry and molecular biology in Argentina. In 2005, he was awarded a PhD in cell biology where he focused on the interactions between intracellular pathogens and the autophagic pathway. After that, he was in Gareth Griffiths Laboratory at EMBL, Heidelberg, Germany as a postdoctoral fellow of the von Humboldt foundation and EMBO focusing on the cell biology of macrophages and mycobacteria. In 2009, he became the head of the Junior Research Group “Phagosome Biology” at the Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research in Braunschweig, Germany. In 2012, he was recruited as a Programme Leader Track at the National Institute for Medical Research in London. Since 2015, he is a group leader at the Francis Crick Institute in London where he is developing imaging technologies and cellular models of infection to investigate the host-pathogen interactions in tuberculosis.
Rubén Rellán Álvarez
I am an Assistant Professor at the National Laboratory of Genomics and Biodiversity in México since 2015. I did a postdoc in the Plant Biology Department of the Carnegie Institution for Science at Stanford and a PhD in the Aula Dei Experimental Station in Zaragoza, Spain.
Francisco José Hernández Fernández
Francisco Jose Hernández Fernández is a professor at Department of Chemical and Environmental Engineering, Technical University of Cartagena, Spain. He received his degree in Chemistry and degree in Chemical Engineering from the University of Murcia (Spain), being awarded with the Extraordinary Award in both degrees and with Special Mention in the National Award in Chemical Engineering by the Spanish Ministry of Education and Science. He received his PhD degree (European Doctorate) in Chemical Engineering at the Faculty of Chemistry of the University of Murcia, being awarded with the distinction of Extraordinary Award of Doctorate. He has realized research stays in Delft University of Technology (The Netherlands) with the Professor Roger Sheldon, Professor Fred van Rantwijk and Isabel Arends and in The University of Nottingham (United Kingdom) with the Professor Gillian Stephens and Professor Peter Licence. His current research lines include the development of green reaction and separation processes using ionic liquids and of sustainable processes to produce energy using microbial fuel cells. Derived from his research, he has published over hundred papers in the fields of Engineering, Chemical; Engineering, Environmental; Biotechnology & Applied Microbiology and Chemistry and several patents. He is also editor of several international journals.
Sarah J Butcher
Sarah Butcher did her PhD in EMBL Heidelberg, mentored by Stephen Fuller and Helen Saibil, she carried out postdoctoral training in the MRC Virology Unit in Glasgow, before moving to Helsinki University where she is currently Programme Director of the Structural Biology and Biophysics Programme, Institute of Biotechnology, Head of Instruct-FI National Affiliate Center, Finland & Head of National cryoEM facility. She works on macromolecular structure and assembly, especially of viruses.
Gianni Barcaccia
Since 2017, Dr. Gianni Barcaccia is a full Professor of Plant Genetics and Genomics at the School of Agriculture Science and Veterinary Medicine of the University of Padova (Italy) and Adjunct Professor of Plant Breeding at the University of Georgia, Athens (USA). Education: M.Sc. degree in Plant Genetics and Breeding in 1991 and Ph.D. title on Plant Reproductive Systems and Population Genetics in 1995 at the University of Perugia, Italy. Tenured Professor of Plant Genetics and Genomics at the University of Padova from 2001 to 2016.
Head of the Department of Agronomy Food Natural resources Animals and Environment (DAFNAE) at the University of Padova for the academic years 2019-2023 (www.dafnae.unipd.it). Vice-director and Coordinator of the Department Commissions for Scientific Research, Technology Transfer and Third Mission from 2014 to 2019.
Head of the Laboratory of Genomics for Plant Breeding, University of Padova. Research expertise on plant reproductive systems and barriers (male-sterility, self-incompatibility and apomixis), use of molecular markers for population genetics and genomics selection, and marker-assisted breeding. Principal investigator of BreedOmics, a laboratory service of genomics for breeding populations and for genetic identification of varieties and genetic authentication of their foodstuffs. Molecular techniques: DNA fingerprinting, SSR genotyping, SNP haplotyping, DNA barcoding, NGS sequencing (www.giannibarcaccia.com).
Gary M King
Professor of microbial biology with extensive experience in numerous aspects of microbial ecology, biogeochemistry and ecophysiology. Elected fellow American Academy of Microbiology
Research interests include:
*Benthic marine biogeochemistry and animal-microbe interactions
* Biology, phylogeny and ecology of marine acorn worms (Hemichordata: Enteropneusta)
* Role of microorganisms in the dynamics of atmospheric trace gases (methane, carbon monoxide)
* Plant-microbe interactions, carbon cycling, trace gases in marine & freshwater ecosystems
* Microbial ecology of soils and community dynamics in volcanic soils
* Structure and function of lithotrophic bacterial communities
* Microbiology, physiology and ecology of aerobic CO-oxidizing bacteria
Joseph C Wu
Joseph C. Wu, MD, PhD is Director of the Stanford Cardiovascular Institute and Simon H. Stertzer Professor of Medicine (Cardiology) and Radiology at the Stanford School of Medicine. Dr. Wu received his MD from Yale University School of Medicine. He trained in internal medicine and cardiology at UCLA followed by a PhD in the Dept of Molecular Pharmacology. His clinical interests involve cardiovascular imaging and adult congenital heart disease. His lab works on biological mechanisms of patient-specific and disease-specific induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs). The main goals are to (i) understand basic cardiovascular disease mechanisms, (ii) accelerate drug discovery and screening, (iii) develop “clinical trial in a dish” concept, and (iv) implement precision cardiovascular medicine for prevention and treatment of patients. His lab uses a combination of genomics, stem cells, cellular & molecular biology, physiological testing, and molecular imaging technologies to better understand molecular and pathophysiological processes.
Danielle Posthuma
Fenna Diemer Lindenbaum Chair in Statistical Genetics; VU University & VU University Medical Centre, Amsterdam, The Netherlands; Executive Board Member Dutch IPSc Center; Director of Genetic Cluster Computer; Elected Member Young Academy of Netherlands Royal Society of Arts and Sciences.
L.Maria Lois
Current position: Group leader at CRAG
Research: Role of SUMO in Plant Development
Career:
2008- :Assistant Professor, Spanish Research Council CSIC.
2004 2008: RyC Research Associate, University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain.
2003- 2004: Postdoctoral associate, MSKCC, N.Y., USA.
2002- 2003: Postdoctoral associate, WMC of Cornell University, N.Y., USA.
1999- 2002: Postdoctoral fellow, The Rockefeller University, New York, N.Y., USA.
1999: Ph.D. in Biochemistry, University of Barcelona.
David C Wedge
Group Leader in Cancer Genomics at the University of Oxford, Big Data Institute. I hold a BA in Chemistry from the University of Oxford, an MSc in Software Development from the University of Huddersfield and a PhD in Computing and Mathematics from Manchester Metropolitan University. I have previously worked as a researcher in the areas of Artificial Intelligence, Metabolomics, Proteomics and Genomics at the University of Manchester and the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute. I have also previously taught in Primary Schools in schools in West Yorkshire.
Deb Finn
Stream Ecologist, wandering scholar, currently Prometeo Fellow of the Secretariat for Higher Education, Science, Technology, and Innovation of the Republic of Ecuador. Formerly Marie Curie International Incoming Fellow, University of Birmingham. Board of Directors, Freshwaters Illustrated. Newsletter editor and Hynes Award winner, Society for Freshwater Science.