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.
Dawn E Bowles
Dr. Dawn Elizabeth Bowles, PhD is Assistant Professor in Surgery within the Division of Surgical Sciences at Duke University School of Medicine. She obtained her Ph.D. in Microbiology from Louisiana State University.
Hong-Wei Sun
Chief, Biodata Mining and Discovery Section, OST, IRP, NIAMS, NIH
Twenty years of experience in Bioinformatics since post-doc at Yale, where I solved the x-ray crystal structure of a cytokine (MIF). Developed and implemented in recent years a significant number of NGS data analysis pipelines and methods with emphasis on ChIP-Seq, ATAC-Seq, RNA-Seq, scATAC-Seq, scRNA-Seq, Enhancers & Super Enhancers, and AI/ML. Co-authored more than 60 NGS data-based publications since 2010, including 33 in high impact journals such as Nature, Science, Cell, Nature Immunology, Science Immunology, Nature Cell Biology, Nature Structural Biology, Immunity, Molecular Cell, and PNAS. A founding member of four Bioinformatics groups. Co-author of two published Java programs. Also a co-author of a Medical Bioinformatics textbook and a co-inventor of nine issued patents.
Hugo Sarmento
My work broadly focuses on the performance analysis, training load monitoring, match analysis, small-sided and conditioned games, and physical activity and health. Research in this area has been supported by qualitative and qualitative methodologies, in order to capture the dynamic and multifactorial reality that characterizes performance in sport. Although most of my research focuses on football, I am interested in the study of other sports, especially team ball sports, on which I have also developed several research works.
Biplab Joarder
He received his Ph.D. from the Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Pune in 2015 on functional properties of biomolecule-based coordination polymers. He was an AITF postdoctoral researcher with Prof. George Shimizu at the University of Calgary followed by a JSPS postdoctoral fellow at Kyushu University, Japan. His current research endeavors are focused on developing inorganic and organic hybrid porous materials for energy and environmental applications.
Frederico F Salles
Dr. Frederico Falcão Salles is Associate Professor in the Department of Entomology at the Federal University of Viçosa (UFV). He received his BSc in Biology from Universidade Federal do Estado do Rio de Janeiro, and both Masters and Doctorate degrees from UFV, working with the systematics of Ephemeroptera. From 2006 to 2018 Dr. Salles was a professor at UFES with a sabbatical leave in the Museum of Zoology in Lausanne, Switzerland. He currently works with the systematics of aquatic insects with an emphasis on Ephemeroptera in both neotropical and global contexts, and also with other orders in a less complex geographical context. Other areas of interest includes: biology, ecology, biogeography, biomonitoring and scientific communication for public outreach.
Julia Kehr
Professor Hamburg University, Germany
Professor Politechnic University Madrid, Spain
Group Leader Max Planck Institute Potsdam, Germany
Hatice Gökçe Hasanhocaoğlu
After graduating from Food Engineering, I completed my M.Sc and Ph.D in seafood processing technology. Finished my doctoral thesis titled as "Effect Of Some Microbiological Metabolites On Specific Spoilage Microorganisms In Gilthead Sea Bream (Sparus aurata), And Their Usage Potential In Cold Storage" in 2020. My studies focus on important microorganisms in food technology.
Jay F Levine
Dr. Levine, Professor and interim department head in the Department of Marine, Earth and Atmospheric Sciences and Professor in the Department of Population Health and Pathobiology, North Carolina State University.
His research work, initially focused on arthropod-borne diseases and in particular Lyme disease. Dr. Levine has also coordinated studies focused on shellfish safety, marine finfish, numerous veterinary health problems in companion animals, and ecosystem health. The work of this laboratory, the Aquatic Epidemiology and Conservation Laboratory (AECL) focuses on some of the most imperiled animals on the planet, freshwater mussels and snails. Dr. Levine, his staff and students have been working to further our understanding of these freshwater invertebrates, develop new diagnostic techniques for studying their health and refining techniques that support their conservation and their captive propagation for the augmentation of remaining populations.
Edward R C Hornibrook
Edward Hornibrook is a Professor in the Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences at The University of British Columbia, Okanagan Campus and the UBCO Associate Vice-Principal, Research and Innovation. He is a biogeochemist specializing in stable isotopes with research interests in land-water-atmosphere exchange of trace gases. He employs a range of techniques, including gas and ion chromatography, laser spectroscopy and stable isotope ratio mass spectrometry, to study gases that have the potential to alter Earth’s climate, in particular, methane and carbon dioxide. Key topics are how such gases are produced and consumed in natural and anthropogenic environments, and the rates and mechanisms by which they are exchanged with the atmosphere.
Gian Gaetano Tartaglia
* October 2014 - ICREA Research Professor * May 2010 - Group Leader, Bioinformatics and Genomics Program, Centre for Genomic Regulation, Barcelona (Spain) * November 2011 - Clare Hall Life Member, University of Cambridge (UK) * 2005-2010 - Postdoctoral Fellow, Clare Hall College, Chemistry Department, University of Cambridge (UK) * 2001-2005 - PhD, Biochemistry Department, University of Zurich, Zurich (CH) * 1996-2000 - MPhil Theoretical Physics, Statistical Mechanics, University la Sapienza, Rome (Italy)
Brett Trost
Dr. Brett Trost is a Scientist in the Molecular Medicine Program at the Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Canada. He is a computational biologist with a particular interest in human genetics.
Felipe G Naveca
I am a microbiologist with experience in classical and molecular techniques applied to the study of human pathogens, mainly threatening RNA and DNA viruses. My research focuses on developing diagnostic tools, molecular epidemiology, and evolution, mostly on emergent and reemergent viruses. My team approaches include genomics and phylogenetic studies to characterize known and unknown viruses; field studies on arboviral emergence in a rural area in the Brazilian Amazon; immunogenetics studies related to susceptibility or resistance against microbial infections; studies on biomarkers of acute viral illness; in vitro & in vivo virus-host interactions and evolution; and SARS-CoV-2 and other respiratory viruses molecular epidemiology. Senior investigator of Fiocruz Amazonas and Deputy Director of Research and Innovation. Member of the Brazilian Society for virology since 1997. Member of the Brazilian network of specialists in Zika and correlated diseases.