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.
Christian Rinke
Christian Rinke is a Research Officer at the Australian Centre for Ecogenomics (ACE), University of Queensland, Australia. He received his PhD in Zoology from the Marine Biology Department at the University of Vienna, Austria and has since shifted his focus to the microbial world.
His research interests include genomics and the phylogeny and ecology of symbiotic and free living microbes. He focuses in particular on the uncultured majority of microbes (99%) which elude current culturing efforts. This so called “Microbial Dark Matter” can only be explored with culture-independent methods. Chris pioneered methods in high throughput single-cell genomics, the separation and sequencing of single bacterial and archaeal cells, and also employs metagenomics (the direct sequencing of environmental samples) to illuminate microbial dark matter.
Lennart Martens
Professor of Systems Biology at Ghent University, Belgium and Group Leader of the Computational Omics and Systems Biology (CompOmics) group at VIB, Belgium. Editor or Editorial Board Member for several other journals, including PLoS ONE, Proteomics, Amino Acids, Molecular BioSystems, and BBA - Proteins and Proteomics. Author of three text books in the field of Proteomics Informatics.
Lian Pin Koh
Lian Pin is Assistant Professor of Applied Ecology and Conservation at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH Zurich). He is a tropical ecologist by training. He received his Ph.D. from Princeton University (2008), where he studied the environmental and policy implications of oil-palm development in Southeast Asia. Since then, his research has focused on key scientific and policy issues concerning tropical deforestation and its impacts on carbon emissions, biodiversity and people.
Barbara L Langille
I am currently an Associate Research Scientist at the Huntsman Marine Science Centre, working in the Atlantic salmon breeding and genetics division. I am tackling various research projects that involve genomically characterizing qualitative and quantitative traits. I recently finished a postdoc position at the Bedford Institute of Oceanography, working on various population structure and evolutionary genetics projects. Specifically, I was focusing on mito-nuclear interactions in trans-Atlantic fish, environmental associations and population structure in cleaner fish, and structural variants.
Dr. Barbara Langille obtained a PhD from the University of Adelaide, where she investigated the regression of vision/eye genes in subterranean diving beetles, evaluated modes of speciation, and determined behavioral responses of eyeless beetles to light. Dr. Langille also obtained a MSc from Memorial University of Newfoundland and Labrador, where she investigated the refugial origins and hybridization of freshwater fish.
Alain Dubois
Professor of zoology at the Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle, Paris. Specialist of the systematics of amphibians, of zoological taxonomy and nomenclature, and of biological terminology. Former Director of the herpetology laboratory of the MNHN. Former Chief Editor of “Amphibia-Reptilia” and “Alytes”. Chief Editor of “Bionomina”, Nomenclature Editor of “Zootaxa”. Large teaching experience in taxonomy and nomenclature, currently within the frame of the Distributed European School of Taxonomy.
Giovanni Federico
Giovanni is a Cognitive Neuroscientist. He works as a tenure-track Assistant Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience at Suor Orsola Benincasa University in Naples, Italy. Giovanni holds a PhD in Experimental Psychology and Cognitive Neuroscience. His research areas include Cognitive Neuroscience, Experimental Psychology, and Neuropsychology.
Brian L Beatty
Dr. Brian Beatty is a comparative anatomist, paleobiologist at New York Institute of Technology. He is especially interested in convergent/unique evolution of aquatic amniotes to similar physiological constraints, as well as surface metrology and its relationship to underlying microstructure of bone, skin, and endothelia.
Violaine Sée
Violaine See completed her doctorate on progammed cell death signaling at the University of Strasbourg (France). After a post-doctoral position in Liverpool on NF-kappaB dynamics she obtained a Fellowship to work on intracellular signalling dynamics at the University of Liverpool. She now leads a research group focusing on cellular adaptation to low oxygen levels and the dynamics of hypoxia inducible factor using single cell imaging and advanced fluorescence microscopy
Jianguo Xia
My research is mainly on integrating computational methods and different omics technologies (metabolomics, RNAseq, microbiomics, chemoinformatics and biological networks) to understand gene-environment interactions, within the broad context of diet, microbiome, infectious agents and environmental chemicals.
Corinne F Maurice
CIFAR Azrieli Global Scholar and Tier 2 Canada Research Chair in Gut Microbial Physiology in the Department of Microbiology and Immunology at McGill University. Board member of the Microbiome and Disease Tolerance Centre.
Research in our lab aims to address two major goals:
* Identify and characterize the metabolically active microbial members of the gut microbiota.
* Determine the role of bacteriophages as regulators of the active gut microbiota.
Barbara E. Engelhardt
Senior Investigator at Gladstone Institutes, Professor of Biomedical Data Science at Stanford University. My group develops statistical models and methods for high-dimensional genomic data, modeling human genetic variation and its impact on gene expression and splicing, with the goal of identifying mechanisms of human disorders and diseases.
Raymond Niaura
Director of Science at the Schroeder Institute, and Adjunct Professor, Department of Health, Behavior and Society in The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. Past President of the Society for Research on Nicotine & Tobacco; Fellow of the American Psychological Association, the Society for Behavioral Medicine, and the American Academy of Health Behavior.