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.
Xiu-Jie Wang
Research Interests: To develop novel computational methods to analyze the fast increasing genomics, transcriptomics, proteomics and other large-scale biological data, to identify new non-coding regulatory RNA genes in eucaryotic genomes, to decipher their transcription regulatory mechanisms and to construct non-coding RNA involved gene regulatory networks.
Kyou-Hoon Han
Professor and Senior Investigator, Department of Bioinformatics, University of Science and Technology. Senior Investigator, Biomedical Translational Research Center, Korea Research Institute of Bioscience and Biotechnology (KRIBB)
Mauro M.M. Picardo
Director of the Cutaneous Physiopathology Laboratory and Metabolomic Center San Gallicano Dermatological Institute in Rome
Chairman Integrated Center of Metabolomic Research
Member of Italian Commission for Dietetic and Nutrition at the Minister of Health (2006- present)
Member of National Health Council (2007-2010)
Member of the Psocare National Commission supported by the Italian Agency on Drugs (AIFA)
Past President of the European Society for Dermatological Research
Past President of the International Federation of Pigment Cell Societies (IFPCS)
Past President of the European Society of Pigment Cell Research (ESPCR)
Board member of the European Society for Dermatological Research (ESDR)
Member of the European Academy of Dermatology and Venereology (EADV)
Member of the Italian Society of Dermatology and Venereology (SIDEMAST)
Member of the Italian Association of Dermatolgists (ADOI)
Coordinator of the Vitiligo European Task Force
Associate Editor of Pigment Cell Research
Editorial board of PeerJ, Experimental Dermatology, Clinical and Experimental Dermatology
Referee ad hoc for many dermatological journals such as Journal of Investigative Dermatology, British Journal of Dermatology, Journal of EADV, Experimental dermatology, and non dermatological journals such as FASEB J, BBA, J Chromatography, Biochem J, PlOS ONE, Free radical in Biology and Medicine
Author of more than 250 publications and of more than 30 chapters in different books
Laura Hertel
Principal Investigator, Center for Immunobiology and Vaccine Development, Children's Hospital Oakland Research Institute, California, USA. Formerly Assistant Professor in Molecular Virology, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Western Ontario, Ontario, Canada.
Michal Mego
Dr. Michal Mego is an Associate Professor at the 2nd Department of Medical Oncology, Faculty of Medicine, Comenius University, National Cancer Institute, Bratislava, Slovakia. He is also a Head of the Translational Research Unit, National Cancer Institute, Bratislava. Dr. Mego's research interests include Circulating tumor cells, Breast Cancer and Testicular cancer.
Delia Goletti
Delia Goletti MD, PhD, Infectious Diseases specialist. In 1992 she joined the Laboratory of Immunoregulation at the National Institutes of Health (chief Dr Fauci) working on HIV pathogenesis. In 1999 she joined the National Institute for Infectious Diseases in Rome. She has clinical duties on the tuberculosis (TB) clinic and responsibility of the Translational Research Unit where she works on TB pathogenesis, TB immunodiagnostic tests and impact of Heminths infection on HIV and TB disease.
Thomas W. Schoener
Distinguished Professor of Biology, University of California, Davis. Member of the US National Academy of Sciences and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Guggenheim Fellow. Received the MacArthur Award of the Ecological Society of America and the Fitch Award of the American Society of Ichthyology and Herpetology.
Niels M. 'Hans' Tommerup
Professor of Medical Genetics and director of Wilhelm Johannsen Centre for Functional Genome Research, Department of Cellular and Molecular Medicine, University of Copenhagen. Former president of the Danish Society of Reproduction and Fetal Development. Former Chair of the International Standing Committee on Human Cytogenetic Nomenclature (ISCN).
Simon Baron-Cohen
Simon Baron-Cohen is Professor of Developmental Psychopathology, University of Cambridge and Fellow at Trinity College, Cambridge. He is Director, Autism Research Centre (ARC) in Cambridge. He has a degree in Human Sciences from New College, Oxford, a PhD in Psychology from UCL, and an M.Phil in Clinical Psychology at the Institute of Psychiatry, Kings College, London, and he held lectureships in these departments. He is author of Mindblindness, The Essential Difference, Prenatal Testosterone in Mind, and Zero Degrees of Empathy. He has edited scholarly anthologies including Understanding Other Minds, Synaesthesia, and The Maladapted Mind. He has written books for parents and teachers including Autism and Asperger Syndrome: The Facts, and Teaching Children with Autism to Mindread. He has celebrated autism in An Exact Mind. He is author of the DVDs Mind Reading and The Transporters, to help children with autism learn emotion recognition, both nominated for BAFTA awards. He is author of >450 scientific articles. He has supervised 32 PhD students.
Stephen R. Durham
Head of Section, Allergy and Clinical Immunology at National Heart and Lung Institute, Imperial College and Honorary Consultant Physician in Allergy and Respiratory Medicine at Royal Brompton Hospital London. The immediate Past President of the British Society for Allergy and Clinical Immunology. Member Steering Committee and head of Allergy Consortium, Immune Tolerance Network/NIAID, USA.
Jeremy C. Smith
Smith directed a research group at the Commissariat à l'énergie atomique (CEA) at Saclay, France (1989–1998) and then held the Chair of Computational Biohysics at he University of Heidelberg (1998-2012). His interests include high-performance computer simulation of biological macromolecules, neutron scattering in biology, the physics of proteins, enzyme catalysis, bioenergy and environmental biogeochemistry. As of 2012 Smith had published over 300 peer-reviewed scientific articles.
John J. Mekalanos
John Mekalanos is the Adele H. Lehman Professor of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics at Harvard Medical School. He has served as Chair of the Microbiology and Molecular Genetics Department since 1996, and he is a member of the National Academy of Sciences and the American Academy of Microbiology.
Dr. Mekalanos has received amongst other honors the Eli Lilly Award and American Association for the Advancement of Science Newcomb Cleveland Prize for the Outstanding Paper of 1993 Published in Science (259:686-688, 1993). He has been a member of the FDA Advisory Committee on Vaccines and Related Biologics, and has consulted for numerous other governmental and private agencies, including NIH, DOD, the World Health Organization, The International Vaccine Institute, the National Academy of Sciences, Massachusetts Public Health Biological Laboratories, and the US-Japan Cooperative Medical Science Program. Dr. Mekalanos has been an active consultant in the pharmaceutical industry for companies including SmithKline, Merck, and Vicuron, and he was a co-founder of three biotechnology firms (Virus Research Institute, PharmAthene and most recently, Matrivax). He received the Sanofi-Institut Pasteur 2012 Award. He and his group have published over 200 research articles, and he has supervised more than 50 trainees in his lab during his career thus far.