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.
Veerasathpurush Allareddy
Dr. Veerasathpurush Allareddy is an Associate Professor in the Department of Orthodontics at College of Dentistry - The University of Iowa.
Wenbao Qi
Director of Department of Animal Infectious Diseases, College of Veterinary Medicine,South China Agricultural University(SCAU),Guangzhou,China.
Associated Director of National and Regional Joint Engineering Laboratory for Medicament of Zoonoses Prevention and Control, Guangzhou, China.
Focusing on animal influenza viruses and Japanese Encephalitis Viruses(JEV), include (1) The molecular basis of the host range and virulence of influenza viruses, (2) New vaccines of avian influenza viruses(AIV), (3) The evolution of AIVs, (4) Virus protein(AIV,JEV) and host interaction.
Nichole N Price
Nichole Price is a Senior Research Scientist and Director of a new center focused on securing sustainable, nutritious, and safe seafood for generations to come at the Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences in East Boothbay, Maine. The center for Seafood Security seeks to translate cutting-edge marine science to bridge the gap between knowledge and action. Nichole’s research and partnerships with NOAA, the Nature Conservancy, the US Geological Survey, and US Fish and Wildlife have taken her SCUBA diving around the globe on coral reefs in Africa, Asia, and across remote islands in the Central Pacific. More recently, she has focused her work in Southern California and the Gulf of Maine where she has partnered closely with members of the seaweed and shellfish industries to develop remediation strategies for ocean acidification, nutrient loading, and low oxygen conditions.
Nichole earned her Ph.D. in marine ecology at the University of California, Santa Barbara and became a postdoctoral scholar and project scientist at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography before moving to Maine. She has 10 years experience on the studying impacts of climate change and ocean acidification on marine ecosystems and uses this knowledge to help find evidence-based, local solutions to global challenges.
Fatima Saqib
Dr. Fatima Saqib, has a PhD in Pharmacology from Bahauddin Zakariya University. Currently, she is serving as Professor (Assistant) in BZU, Multan. Previously she served as Lecturer for 8 years. She has supervised 34 M.Phil students and 5 PhD students under supervision. She has published 38 international research articles and review paper with a total IF120 with h-index 12, i-index 16 and total google scholar citations 437.
Natarajan Kannan
Dr. Natarajan Kannan is Professor of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology at the Institute of Bioinformatics, University of Georgia.
Dr. Kannan's research group is an interdisciplinary research group using concepts and techniques from diverse disciplines including biophysics, biochemistry, and bioinformatics to understand how proteins, the molecular machines of life, work. Their current efforts are focused on protein kinases, a large and diverse family of enzymes that propagate cellular signals through the controlled phosphorylation of protein and small molecule substrates. They are additionally exploring other enzyme superfamilies, such as glycosyltransferases, critical in protein folding and metabolic pathways. They use a combination of computational and experimental approaches to understand how natural sequence variation contributes to functional variation in these enzyme superfamilies, and how non-natural variation contributes to disease.
Abdullatif Husseini
Abdullatif Husseini, Ph.D., MPH, MS is currently an Associate Professor of Public Health and Director of the Master of Community and Public Health Program at the Birzeit University. He received his MS in life sciences from Indiana State University, his MPH from the University of Wales, and his Ph.D. in epidemiology and preventive medicine from the University of Oslo, Norway. Dr. Husseini research interests include epidemiology of non-communicable diseases and their risk factors and public health in emergencies. His publications in peer reviewed journals covered various topics, including diabetes mellitus, cardiovascular diseases, and obesity, among other important public health issues in the region. He led and participated in various research projects. Dr. Husseini taught different graduate and the undergraduate courses including: classical epidemiology, advanced epidemiology, research methods, and introduction to public health Dr. Husseini is a tenured associate professor at Birzeit University.
Tracy D Ainsworth
I am a senior research fellow studying marine organism responses to environmental change based at James Cook University in ARC Center of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies. I undertook my PhD at the University of Queensland where my thesis investigated links between stress and disease in reef building corals. My research encompasses coral biology, microbial ecology, molecular biology, and I utilize a whole organism/ whole system approach to understanding change in marine systems.
Edy Sousa de Brito
Dr. Edy Brito is currently a researcher at Embrapa Alimentos e Território and permanent professor at the Graduate Program in Chemical Engineering at the Federal University of Ceará (PGEQ-UFC).
His research is directed towards increasing the sustainability of small scale agro-industrial processing by observing the principles of the Sustainable Development Goals. The research actions take place in three lines: a) Define how food processing, mainly non-conventional methods, affect the composition; b) valorization of agro-industry residues, through sequential extractions of bioactive compounds; and c) Definition of chromatographic parameters for the preparative scale isolation of bioactive compounds. The main processes and methodologies employed are: ultrasound, extraction with pressurized liquid, UHT, HTST, plasma, ozone, multivariate statistics, chromatography, spectroscopy (NMR); and spectrometry (MS).
Dr. Brito has been active in collegiate bodies such as: Internal Technical Committee (Embrapa), FUNCAP advisory committees (Innovation; Agricultural and Veterinary Sciences); and Embrapa's Portfolio Management Committee (Valuation of Fruticulture, Bioactives; and Food, Nutrition and Health). He also participated in the setting up and management of Embrapa's Multi-user Laboratory of Chemistry of Natural Products.
Vasanta Subramanian
Vasanta Subramanian is currently an Associate Professor in Vertebrate Developmental Genetics and Stem cell Biology. Her research focus is in three main areas- (1) Polycomb group genes, signalling and embryonic development (2) stem cells and reprogramming and (3) stem cell and transgenic mouse models for neurodegenerative diseases.She is a Fellow of theRoyal Society of Biology.
Nikolai Slavov
I received my undergraduate education from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in 2004. Then, I pursued doctoral research in the Botstein laboratory at Princeton University, aiming to understand how cells coordinate their growth, gene expression, and metabolism. We discovered a simple mechanism that can account for the growth-rate dependent transcriptional responses across a wide range of growth conditions and growth rates. After defending my dissertation in 2010, I began a postdoctoral project in the van Oudenaarden laboratory at MIT, aiming to understand the Warburg effect, a hallmark of cancer cells characterized by the fermentation of glucose in the presence of enough oxygen to support respiration. This work demonstrated that aerobic glycolysis can reduce the energy demands associated with respiratory metabolism and stress survival and that, contrary to expectations and decades-long assumptions, exponential growth at a constant rate can represent not a single metabolic/physiological state but a continuum of changing states characterized by different metabolic fluxes. Following a lead from these experiments, we obtained direct evidence for differential stoichiometry among core ribosomal proteins in unperturbed wild-type cells. Our findings support the existence of ribosomes with distinct protein composition and physiological function that represent an explored layer of regulating gene expression.
Pablo Nuñez Demarco
Dr. Pablo Nunez Demarco is Assistant Professor in the Faculty of Sciences, Universidad de la República.
His research skills and expertise include Tectonics, Structural Geology, Field Geology, Sedimentology, Petrography, Geological Processes, Sedimentary Basins, Geological Mapping, Biomechanics and Geology.
Sarah Caronni
Graduated in Natural Sciences at Pavia University, where se also obtained her PhD in Experimental Ecology and Geobotany, she works mainly on terrestrial and marine alien plants (including also algae) at the University of Milan Bicocca, focusing on both their ecology and biology.