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.
Thomas D Tullius
Professor of Chemistry, and Director of the Program in Bioinformatics, Boston University. Elected Fellow of the AAAS. Recipient of the Herbert A. Sober Award of the ASBMB. Research interests include developing new chemical probe methods (in particular, hydroxyl radical footprinting) for determining the structure of DNA, RNA, and DNA-protein complexes.
Mona Ahmed Hussein
Dr. Mona Ahmed Hussein is an Entomologist and Nematologist, currently working as a Professor of Biological Control at Pests & Plant Protection Dept., Agricultural & Biological Research Institute, National Research Centre, Cairo, Egypt.
She received her B.Sc. from the faculty of Science, Ain Shams University, Egypt. She received a full M.Sc. scholarship from both the United State of America Ministry of Agriculture and the New Mexico State University (NMSU) in the field of Biological Control. She received her Ph.D. degree through scholarship from German Academic Exchange Service (Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst DAAD), Germany in corporation with Fac. Science, Ain Shams Univ., Cairo, Egypt.
Prof. Hussein’s work is focused mainly on the production, formulation and field application of the entomopathogenic nematodes and their symbiotic bacteria.
Claire B Paris
Claire Beatrix Paris is a Professor in the department of Ocean Science, University of Miami’s Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science. Director of the Physical-Biological Interactions Lab, she focuses on biophysical dispersion at sea, as well as the transport and fate of pollutants and oil spills from deep-sea blowout. Paris has brought recognition to the key role of behavior of the pelagic larval stage in the connectivity of marine populations and the function of ecosystems.
Paris has developed numerical and empirical tools for her laboratory’s research, both used worldwide: the Connectivity Modeling System (CMS) is an Open-Source Software (OSS) that virtually tracks biotic and abiotic particles in the ocean, and the Drifting In Situ Chamber (DISC) is a field instrument used to track the movement behavior of the early life history stages of marine organisms and detect the signals they use to orient and navigate.
Jürg Bähler
Jürg Bähler is a Professor of Systems Biology at University College London. His laboratory studies genome regulation during cellular proliferation, quiescence, and ageing using fission yeast (Schizosaccharomyces pombe) as a model system. They apply multiple genetic, computational and genome-wide approaches for systems-level understanding of regulatory processes and complex relationships between genotype, phenotype, and environment, including roles of genome variation and evolution, transcriptome regulation, and non-coding RNAs.
Jürg Bähler is an elected Member of the European Molecular Biology Organisation (EMBO) and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Biology, and he received a Wellcome Trust Senior Investigator Award and a Royal Society Wolfson Research Merit Award.
Suresh Gawande
Dr. Suresh Gawande is a Principal Scientist at ICAR-Directorate of Onion and Garlic Research, Pune, India. He obtained his Ph.D. from the Indian Agricultural Research Institute, New Delhi, India in the discipline of Plant Pathology. His areas of interest are genomics of biotic and abiotic stress, host-pathogen-vector interaction of tospoviruses, microbial metagenomics, plant-pathogen diagnostics, mechanism of genetic and induced host plant resistance. Currently, he is working on biotechnological approaches for biotic stress management.
Renu Pandey
Dr. Renu Pandey is Principal Scientist at ICAR-Indian Agricultural Research Institute, New Delhi. The focus of her team is on mineral nutrition of crop plants, exploring the physiological and molecular mechanisms, and identifying superior ‘donors’ and ‘traits’ for nitrogen and phosphorus use efficiency in crops such as rice, wheat, maize, soybean, mungbean, and sesame. The functional characterization of uncharacterized genes identified from leaf proteome which were differentially expressed during foliar absorption of iron, and from root proteome in response to phosphorus starvation in soybean is underway. The interaction between nutrients and other abiotic stresses like drought, high temperature, and CO2 are also under investigation. In the area of genomics of plant nutrition, Dr. Pandey's team are conducting genome-wide and candidate gene association studies for phosphorus and nitrogen use efficiency in wheat and rice. Her lab is fully equipped to carry out physiological, biochemical, and molecular studies with the facility for field phenotyping using handheld instruments, and hydroponics system.
Alexis Verger
Senior Molecular Biologist (CR1 CNRS) at the Interdisciplinary Research Institute (IRI) - Lille 1 University - France.
My lab studies how human genes can be turned on and off by transcription factors. We investigate the fundamental mechanisms underlying specific gene control in the context of diseases, such as cancer.
Huashan Shi
Professor Shi Huashan is an Associate Professor at Sichuan University. His expertise is in the molecular biology of tumours and tumour transcriptomics. He is currently engaged in clinical and basic translational research, including tumour microenvironment and novel immunotherapeutic modalities, and research on the mechanisms and medical applications related to tumour cell vaccines.
Ornella Calderini
I have a PhD from the University of Vienna, Austria, on plant MAP kinase signalling. Currently I am a staff scientist of the National Research Council at the Institute of Bioscience and Bioresources in Italy. I am curating a mutant collection of the model specie Medicago truncatula. I am using different approaches to understand gene function in several aspects of plant science (e.g development, synthesis of secondary compounds). I have an interest in characterization and valorization of local plant genetic resources.
Jerson L. Silva
Professor of Biochemistry in the Institute of Medical Biochemistry at Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro. Awards include Fellow of the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation, TWAS Prize in Biology. Member of the Brazilian Academy of Sciences; the National Academy of Medicine; and Fellow of the Academy of Sciences for the Developing World (TWAS). Director of the Jiri Jonas National Center for Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (UFRJ)
Graham P Wallis
Professor in Genetics, University of Otago. Past Vice-President, Society for the Study of Evolution. Past Convenor of EEB Panel, Marsden Fund, New Zealand. Past Marsden Fund Council Member. Associate Editor: Pacific Conservation Biology. Past Associate Editor: Evolution, Molecular Ecology. Temminck Fellow, National Museum of Natural History, Leiden, 2008, 2011. Research Interests: hybrid zones, biogeography, molecular evolution, molecular systematics, conservation genetics. Current projects: Adaptive evolution of a larval glycoprotein in galaxiid fishes (with Luca Jovine, Karolinska Institutet); New Zealand biogeography (with Jon Waters & Dave Craw, Otago); Minimising adaptation to captivity for conservation of threatened species (with Catherine Grueber, Univ Sydney); Molecular systematics of European newts (with Pim Arntzen, National Museum of Natural History, Leiden)
Darren Norris
Lecturer at the Federal University of Amapá, Brazil. My research interests are broad and are currently focused on the conservation of biodiversity and traditional livelihoods around waterways that traverse political (national and international), cultural and ecological boundaries. I am particularly interested in inter-disciplinary approaches, comprising population and community ecology, population biology, landscape and spatial statistics.