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.
Vincent Courdavault
Associate Professor at the University of Tours, studying plant specialized metabolism with a particular emphasize on monoterpene indole alkaloids. I'm using transcriptomics, functional genomics tools to elucidate biosynthetic pathways. My resarch interests also include the transfert of plant pathways in heterologous organisms ubcluding the budding yeast.
Elizabeth A Archie
Associate Professor of Biology at the University of Notre Dame. Associate Director of the Amboseli Baboon Research Project in Kenya. Elizabeth Archie received her PhD from Duke University. She was an undergraduate at Bowdoin College.
The goal of our research is to understand the evolutionary costs and benefits of social relationships, especially how these evolutionary consequences pertain to individual health, disease risk, and survival.
Our research follows two main strands:
* How do social organization and behavior influence the spread of infectious organisms, including bacteria and parasites?
* How does an individual’s social context influence their physiology, immune responses, and life span?
Sjirk Geerts
I am fascinated by the complex interactions among ecosystem entities. Human impacts on ecosystems call for a better understanding of the resilience of ecosystem functions in the face of rapid environmental changes. The study of spatial interactions between plants and animals, in particularly the study of pollination, is therefore important. Bird pollination in particular is one of my main interests.
One of the main impacts on ecosystems in Cape Fynbos are alien invasive plant species. Other than trying to understand the ecological processes enabling alien species to invade, I am also focused on the best management of emerging alien invasive plant species.
Lastly, I also have a keen interest in restoration, plant demography and the ecological interaction between termites, aardwolf and herbivores.
G. William Wong
Dept. of Physiology and Center for Metabolism and Obesity Research, Johns Hopkins University.
Dr. G. William Wong is Professor of Physiology at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. His research focuses on mechanisms governing metabolic homeostasis, function of adipose-and skeletal muscle-derived hormones, and mechanisms of insulin resistance and type 2 diabetes.
He received in B.S. from Washington State University and his Ph.D. from Harvard University in 2000. Dr. Wong completed post-doctoral work in biochemistry, cell biology, and physiology at M.I.T’s Whitehead Institute from 2001 - 2007. He joined the Johns Hopkins faculty in 2008.
Dr. Wong’s lab seeks to understand mechanisms employed by cells and tissues to maintain metabolic homeostasis and is currently addressing how adipose- and skeletal muscle-derived hormones (adipokines and myokines), discovered in his lab, regulate tissue crosstalk and signaling pathways to control energy metabolism.
David Cappelletti
Full Professor of Environmental Chemistry at the University of Perugia. Coordinator of the Environmental Chemistry and Technology (ECT) research group. Member of the Italian Glaciological Committee (CGI) and Italian Aerosol Society (IAS). He participated in several Italian Arctic Expeditions (2011-2019). Italian delegate at the Arctic Science Forum Ministerial (Berlin, 2018).
Co-author of more than 150 scientific ISI publications, including well-renowned international journals of high impact factor (such as Nature, Angewandte Chemie, Journal of the American Chemical Society, Physical Review Letters, Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics). He has contributed to important review papers (Accounts of Chemical Research, International Reviews in Physical Chemistry, Progress in Surface Science, Advances in Quantum Chemistry).
Lead Editor of the Special Issues "Environmental Changes in the Arctic: an Italian Perspective" appeared on Rendiconti Lincei (2016, Springer) and "Mineral Dust: Sources, Atmospheric Processing and Impacts" appeared on Atmosphere (2018, MDPI).
Research in the ECT group is based on the chemical and morphological characterization of atmospheric aerosols in the urban, remote and indoor environments, vertical profile measurements of aerosol properties by tethered balloon experiments and aerosol source apportionment methodologies, implementation and optimization of chemical transport models (Lagrangian and Eulerian).
Darren W Williams
Group Leader and Reader at King's College London. My research focuses on the mechanisms that control the assembly of neural networks. I have explored how network components are generated from distinct neural precursors, how axons and dendrites are guided to their targets and the way dendrites undergo large-scale pruning. Although my lab uses Drosophila, my experience with zebrafish and teaching human neuroanatomy to medical students broadly influences the questions I ask.
Daniel Mirman
Dan is a Senior Lecturer in Psychology at the University of Edinburgh, UK. His research investigates the neurobiology of language processing and language disorders using behavioural and eye-tracking experiments, neuroimaging, and computational modeling methods. His primary focus areas are the organisation of semantic knowledge and the functional neuroanatomy of spoken language.
Chris J Creevey
Prof. Chris Creevey is Professor for Computational Biology in the Institute for Global Food Security at Queen's University Belfast. His main interests are identifying the genomic factors influencing phenotypic changes in organisms from Bacteria to Eukaryotes with a focus on animal microbiomes. He received his Ph.D. in 2002 from the National University of Ireland for his work in the area of phylogenetics and comparative genomics. Following this he worked as a postdoctoral researcher in NUI Maynooth and the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL) in Heidelberg, Germany. In 2009 he was awarded a Science Foundation Ireland Stokes lectureship in Teagasc Ireland and was awarded a Readership in Rumen Systems Biology in Aberystwyth University 2013. He started his current position in Queen's University Belfast in 2018.
Robert J. Deschenes
Professor and Chair of the Department of Molecular Medicine, Morsani College of Medicine, University of South Florida, Fred Wright Professor of Cancer Biology
Surya Paudel
Dr. Surya Paudel is an Assistant Professor (Poultry) at the Department of Infectious Diseases and Public Health, City University of Hong Kong. He is a veterinarian and obtained his PhD degree in poultry medicine from the University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna, Austria in 2015. Dr. Paudel is a resident at the European College of Poultry Veterinary Science within the European Board of Veterinary Specialization. He is also serving as a member of methodology task force for drafting “Veterinary guidelines on antimicrobial use in poultry colibacillosis” in the European Network for Optimization of Veterinary Antimicrobial Treatment (ENOVAT) programme. Previously, he worked as a postdoctoral researcher at Clinic for Poultry and Fish Medicine, University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna (2015-2022). In addition, his work experience includes conservation and management of critically endangered wildlife species, in particular, in restoring the natural population of dramatically declining vultures in South East Asia (2008-2010).
Silvia Rivara
Professor of Medicinal Chemistry, University of Parma, Italy.
My research interests are related to drug design, structure-activity relationships and molecular modelling applied to compounds of pharmaceutical interest.
Qing Nie
Qing Nie is a Professor of Mathematics and Biomedical Engineering at University of California, Irvine. Dr. Nie's primary research areas include systems biology, stem cells, developmental biology, regulatory networks, stochastic dynamics, and computational mathematics.