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.
Ela Eroglu
Dr. Eroglu is an expert in renewable energy technologies with a strong background in wastewater treatment and nano-biotechnological processes. Her PhD was focused on biotechnological processes for photosynthetic hydrogen production from agricultural wastewater in addition to the bioremediation of those wastes. She did her Postdoctoral studies at the University of California Berkeley that focused on biofuel production from several microalgal cultures. Before her current role at Curtin University, she was a Research Assistant Professor at the University of Western Australia. In both of those roles she has focused on gaining insightful knowledge about nanotechnology and green chemistry, and uses her expertise on photosynthetic microorganisms during the fabrication of various nano-bio hybrid materials for the development of sustainable process technologies and bioremediation of aqueous environment.
Xiaotian Tang
Dr. Xiaotian Tang is now an assistant professor (ZJU100 Young Professor) at Zhejiang University. He was a postdoctoral associate at Yale School of Medicine. His research interests include vector-borne diseases of animals and plants, and arthropod-pathogen-host interactions. He is also interested in evolutionary biology of arthropods.
He has over 40 publications in high-quality peer-reviewed journals, including Cell, PLOS Biology, eLife, Cell Reports, and Science Translational Medicine. He has served as academic or review editor for 4 journals and reviewer for over 20 journals.
Tuan V. Nguyen
Dr. Nguyen is Distinguished Professor of Predictive Medicine at the School of Biomedical Engineering, University of Technology Sydney (Australia). He also holds joint appointments as Professor, St Vincent's Clinical School, University of New South Wales (UNSW Sydney); and adjunct Professor of Epidemiology and Biostatistics at the School of Medicine, University of Notre Dame Australia.
Christopher J Glasby
Chris Glasby is a specialist in the systematics – taxonomy, phylogeny and biogeography – of Annelida, specifically polychaetes (marine bristle worms). He is currently Senior Curator of Annelids at the Museum & Art Gallery of the Northern Territory and an Honorary Research Associate of Charles Darwin University, Darwin.
Wei Ma
Wei Ma received his PhD in Plant Science at the University of Connecticut (USA). He did his postdoctoral training at Michigan State University (USA). In January 2018, he joined the faculty of School of Biological Sciences, Nanyang Technological University (Singapore) as a tenure-track Assistant Professor. Research focus in his lab includes plant signal transduction, plant gene regulation, plant lipid metabolism, and protein engineering. Over 30 refereed research journal articles and book chapters have been published.
Rita M Zrenner
Researcher at the Leibniz-Institute of Vegetable and Ornamental Crops (IGZ) performing functional examination of plant physiological processes and the underlying metabolic signal transduction pathways that control plant growth and secondary metabolite production in relation to plant health and environmental stimuli.
Reema Singh
I am a computational Biologist/Bioinformatician with more than 14 years of research experience. I obtained my Master's and Ph.D. degrees in “Bioinformatics” from Chaudhary Charan Singh Haryana Agricultural University (Hisar, India) in 2006 and Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU, New Delhi, India) in 2015, respectively. I worked as Scientist-1 in the “Biomedical Informatics center” at the Indian Council of Medical Research (New Delhi, India) from 2006 to 2012. During my stay in ICMR, I developed an antimicrobial resistance (AMR) gene database of ß-lactamase proteins (Dlact) from 814 publically available bacterial genomes. This database contains 2020 ß-lactamases which were further classified using graph-based clustering of best bidirectional hits to identify the group-specific signature of ß-lactamases.
I moved to Scotland (United Kingdom) in 2013 for my first postdoc in Bioinformatics at the University of Dundee. In my first postdoc, I performed the bioinformatics analysis of next-generation data generated from various projects related to the model organism Dictyostelium discoideum (which aims to probe the genetic pathways involved in different stages of development). In 2017, I joined the university of Saskatchewan for a second postdoc to work on a research project entitled “A Disruptive Whole Genome Sequencing Platform for the Simultaneous Identification and Characterization of Multiple Sexually Transmitted Pathogens”. As a part of the project, I have developed a computational Whole Genome Sequencing (WGS) pipeline, named Gen2Epi, to link full genomes to antimicrobial susceptibility and molecular epidemiological data in Neisseria gonorrhoeae. In my current position (since March 2022) as Bioinformatician and Data Manager at the Vaccine and Infectious Disease Organization, I am applying my bioinformatics skills to understand host response to viral infections.
Theerapong Krajaejun
Professor of Clinical Pathology, Department of Pathology, Faculty of Medicine, Ramathibodi Hospital, Mahidol University, Bangkok, Thailand.
John J. Stegeman
Sr. Scientist and former Head of Biology and Watson Chair, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution. Director, NSF/NIH Woods Hole Center for Oceans and Human Health. Editorial Boards of several journals, former Editor-in-Chief, Aquatic Toxicology. Honorary Doctorate from Goteborg University.
Chris M Yeager
I am a broadly-trained microbiologist with a research background in molecular biology, microbial ecology, genomics and biogeochemistry. Over the past 12 years I have served as a Staff Scientist within the Department of Energy National Laboratory system, first in the Environmental Biotechnology Section at Savannah River National Laboratory (2005-2011) and then in the Biosciences and Chemistry Divisions at Los Alamos National Laboratory (2011-current). As a staff scientist, I developed and managed a variety of research programs, focusing on microbial communities involved in processes relevant to climate change, fate and transport of radionuclides in the environment and bioenergy production. I received a BS degree from the University of Wyoming in Biochemistry, after which I worked as a laboratory technologist at the University of Utah and the VA medical center in Salt Lake City, UT with a team investigating the molecular underpinnings of diabetes. I received my doctorate in Cellular and Molecular Biology at Oregon State University in 2001 under Drs. Daniel Arp and Peter Bottomley investigating biodegradation of toxic compounds, such as trichloroethylene and toluene, by soil microorganisms. I completed postdoctoral training (2001-2004) at Los Alamos National Laboratory under Dr. Cheryl Kuske examining how the microorganisms that build and maintain biocrusts in soils of arid environments might respond to climate change.
Mark C. Benfield
Professor in the Department of Oceanography and Coastal Sciences, College of the Coast and Environment at Louisiana State University. Adjunct (Guest Investigator) in the Biology Department at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution. Member and Past-Chair of the ICES Working Group on Zooplankton Ecology, member of the ICES Working Group on Integrated Morphological and Molecular Taxonomy, Director of the Gulf SERPENT Project. Ph.D. (Wildlife and Fisheries Sciences) from Texas A&M University.
Hilmar Lapp
Aside from my role as Director of Informatics at Duke University's Center for Genomic and Computational Biology (GCB), I am a PI for the NSF-funded project on creating a model and standard for phyloreferencing (http://phyloref.org), and I am a co-PI of the (also NSF-funded) Phenoscape project (http://phenoscape.org) on ontological annotation of evolutionary phenotype observations. I am a co-founder and current Board of Directors member of Data Carpentry (http://datacarpentry.org), and I was part of the founding team for Dryad (http://datadryad.org), a digital repository for data supporting scientific publications. I have also served in the leadership of the Open Bioinformatics Foundation (OBF) since its inception in 2001.
Before joining Duke's GCB, I was at the US National Evolutionary Synthesis Center (NESCent), where I initiated many of NESCent's cyberinfrastructure initiatives aimed at grass-roots building of community capacity, including the NESCent's hackathon program and Google Summer of Code™ (GSoC) participation.