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.
Denis Larkin
Reader in Comparative Genomics at the Royal Veterinary College, University of London. Interests include the evolutionary and applied genomics, chromosome research and computer sciences. Associate Editor of Animal Biotechnology.
Joshua Wolf
Dr. Joshua Wolf, PhD, MBBS is an associate faculty member and clinical investigator at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital within the Department of Infectious Diseases.
His research interests include; Prediction, Prevention and Treatment of Infections in Immunocompromised Children, and the Management of Device-Associated Infections.
Brigitte Galliot
MD, PhD, Associate Professor at the Faculty of Science, Department of Genetics and Evolution, University of Geneva, Switzerland. Elected Vice-Dean. Member of Academia-net. Post-doctoral stage at the ZMBH, Heidelberg, Germany; PhD in Life Sciences in Strasbourg, France; medical studies in Paris, France. Since my post-doc time, I study the molecular and cellular basis of regeneration, neurogenesis and aging and I use Hydra, a freshwater cnidarian polyp, as model system.
David Hu
Dr. David Hu is a mechanical engineer who studies the interactions of animals with water. He has discovered how dogs shake dry, how insects walk on water, and how eyelashes protect the eyes from drying. Originally from Rockville, Maryland, he earned degrees in mathematics and mechanical engineering from M.I.T., and is now Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Biology and Adjunct Professor of Physics at Georgia Tech. He is a recipient of the National Science Foundation CAREER award for young scientists, the Ig Nobel Prize in Physics, and the Pineapple Science Prize (the Ig Nobel of China). His work has been featured in The Economist, The New York Times, Saturday Night Live, and Highlights for Children. He is the author of the book "How to walk on water and climb up walls," published by Princeton University Press.
Rahul Kumar
Dr. Rahul Kumar is an Assistant Professor at the Indian Institute of Technology Hyderabad. He is a computational biologist working in the field of computational cancer genomics.
Alessandra Crisà
Researcher at the Consiglio per la Ricerca e la sperimentazione in Agricoltura - Animal production research centre, Via Salaria 31 - 00015 Monterotondo (RM) - Italy - Fields of interest: Molecular biology, genetic, genomic and transcriptomic applied to the study of lactation, disease resistance, productive and reproductive traits in domestic animal species.
Marylène Poirié
Professor of Evolutionary Biology and Genetics, Nice Sophia Antipolis University (France). Co-Head of the Sophia Agrobiotech Institute (INRA-CNRS-University of Nice Sophia Antipolis). Recipient of the Integrative Biology prize of the French Academy of Sciences (Balachovski prize). Member of the excutive committee of the Signalife Labex. Past member of the excutive committee of the European Doctoral School "Insect Science and Biotechnology".
Barbara J MacGregor
Research Asst. Professor, Marine Sciences, Univ. of North Carolina - Chapel Hill (2003-2017); Postdoctoral fellow, MPI – Marine Microbiology, Bremen, Germany (2000-2003); Research assistant and postdoctoral associate, Civil Engineering Dept., Northwestern University, Evanston, Ill. (1994-1999); PhD, Bacteriology, University of Wisconsin - Madison (1994); BS (1984) and MS (1986), Biology and Marine Microbiology, University of Massachusetts - Boston.
Research projects include: new methods to directly link species identity with carbon source utilization; direct profiling of microbial communities without PCR; direct detection of microbial enzymes in environmental samples.
Francesca Palladino
My lab in interested in the epigenetic regulation of germline identity, and how epigenetics influences the organismal response to stress, using the nematode C. elegans as a model system. To address these questions, we use a combination of genetic, molecular, microscopy and genome wide approaches.
Anne Galinier
Leader team in the "Laboratoire de Chimie Bactérienne"
Research Director in the "Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique"
Review Editor of "Frontiers in Microbiology" specialty "Microbial Physiology and Metabolism"
Vicky E MacRae
BBSRC Institute Career Path Fellow and Senior Lecturer at The Roslin Institute, University of Edinburgh. My group presently investigates several inter-related research themes in bone formation and vascular calcification.