Advisory Board and Editors Developmental Biology
Martina Manns
Prof. Dr. Martina Manns is a Professor within the Department of Psychiatry, Psychotherapy and Preventive Medicine, at Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Germany.
Her research deals with the neuronal and functional mechanisms of brain development.
Julien GA Martin
I am generally interested in understanding the causes of variation in life history traits in wild populations, with particular on the causes and consequences of within-individual variation in life history. The focus of my research is the evolutionary ecology of reproductive strategies and understanding the impact of environmental variation on adaptation and evolution of traits.
Lecturer, University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen, UK
2013-2015 Marie-Curie Fellow, University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen, UK
2010-2012 Postdoctoral fellow, UCLA, Los Angeles, USA
2006-2010 PhD University of Sherbrooke, Sherbrooke, Canada
Ewa J. Mellerowicz
Professor in plant cell and molecular biology at the Department of Forest Genetics and Plant Physiology, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Umea Plant Science Center.
Koji Mikami
Prof. Koji Mikami is Professor of Department of Food Resource Development in School of Food Industrial Sciences at Miyagi University, Japan. He is also President of the Japanese Society of Applied Phycology. Prof. Mikami received his PhD in Plant Science from Hokkaido University in 1990. His area of expertise focuses on the physiology and molecular biology of development and environmental stress response in seaweeds, and the biotechnology of seaweeds (gene transfer and genetic transformation, application of seaweed genes for land green plants).
David S. Milstone
Assistant Professor of Pathology, Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School.
Thimios A Mitsiadis
Professor of Oral Biology in the Medical Faculty at the University of Zurich, Switzerland since 2006. Research in the fields of stem cells, genetics, molecular and experimental biology related to orofacial developmental and regeneration processes.
DDS degree from the Dental Faculty of the Kapodistrion University of Athens (Greece), Master degree for Immunology, Genetics and Differentiation, and PhD in Developmental Biology from the University of Lyon (France). Postdoctoral studies at the University of Helsinki (Finland), Karolinksa Nobel Institute (Stockholm, Sweden) and Yale University (USA). Previously Professor at the Mediterranean University (Marseilles, France), Visiting Professor at the Ecole Normale Superieure of Lyon (France), Clinical Senior Lecturer at King's College London (UK), Visiting Professor at the Polytechnic University of Marche (Ancona, Italy), Visiting Professor at the Second University of Napoli (Napoli, Italy). Chief-Editor of the “Frontiers of Craniofacial Biology and Dental Research”, Associate Editor of “Stem Cell Research”, Scientific Editor of “European Cells & Materials”, and part of the editorial board in additional 8 scientific journals. More than 110 original articles in journals such as “Journal of Cell Biology”, “Development”, “Developmental Biology”, “Nature Genetics”, “Science Signaling”, “Scientific Reports”, “Frontiers in Physiology” and more than 200 keynote and invited lectures.
Manuela Monti
PhD in Bioingeneering and Bioinformatics (University of Pavia, Italy). Research Leader at the Research Center for Regerative Medicine (Fondazione IRCCS Policlinico San Matteo, Pavia).
Research topics: female gametogenesis and oocyte acqusition of developmental competence and cord blood stem cells regulation and tissue regeneration
Eduardo Moreno
Eduardo Moreno received his PhD in 2000 for research performed with Ginés Morata at the CBMSO, Spain. He stayed there for another 18 months as a postdoc before moving to Zurich, Switzerland, to continue his postdoc with Konrad Basler. From 2004 to 2010, he was a group leader at the CNIO in Madrid, where he received an ERC Starting Grant Award in 2007. Eduardo is at the Institute of Cell Biology in Bern, Switzerland, since 2011. He received the prestigious Dr. Josef Steiner Cancer Award in 2011.
Anne-Marie Mouly
Senior researcher at the Lyon Neuroscience Research Center. Neurobiology of emotional olfactory memory in rats and neural networks involved in odor fear conditioning. Long-term effects of neonatal olfactory associative experiences on adult cognitive abilities. Neural circuits involved in interval timing in fear conditioning. Editorial board Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience. Past Secretary of the European Brain and Behaviour Society from 2011 to 2014.
Jorge P. Muschietti
Professor of Biology at the University of Buenos Aires. Research investigator at the Argentinian National Research Council (CONICET). Vice-director of INGEBI (Institute of Genetic Engineering and Molecular Biology). Associate editor of BMC Plant Biology and Plant Physiology and Biochemistry.
Sushma Naithani
Sushma Naithani is an Associate Professor Senior Research in the Department of Botany and Plant Pathology at Oregon State University, USA. The current focus of her research is on understanding information flow in living systems and how evolution shapes this flow using systems-level pathway modeling supported by high-quality biocuration, gene-orthology-based predictions, and analysis of omics data. She serves as a senior curator for the Plant Reactome knowledgebase. Sushma has authored 31 peer-reviewed refereed research articles in high-impact journals, including Nature, Nature Biotech, PNAS, etc. One of her research papers has been selected by the 'Faculty of 1000 Biology'. In addition, she has authored six book chapters and one Open Textbook (S. Naithani (2021): History and Science of Cultivated Plants published by Oregon State University Open Educational Resources, EBOOK ISBN: 978-1-955101-08-0, available at https://open.oregonstate.education/cultivatedplants). She is also an Associate Editor for Frontiers in Plant Science-Plant Biotechnology and served as the Editor-in-chief of the Current Plant Biology (2017-2023).
Corey Nislow
Corey Nislow's laboratory develops and uses cutting edge tools to address this central question: how can we understand the biological commonalities in all of the life sciences; from embryonic development, to the spread of infectious diseases to better ways to treat cancer. Each of these disciplines can be explained in the context of competition, interaction and evolution. His lab studies the interface between genes and the environment using parallel genome-wide screens, high throughput cell-based assays and next generation sequencing. Most recently, he and his scientific partner, Dr. Guri Giaever, are exploring how laboratory experiments can co-opt evolutionary processes to understand drug action. He enjoys teaching all aspects of biotechnology, genomics and drug discovery. He got his PhD from the University of Colorado, worked at several Biotechnology companies and was at Stanford and University of Toronto before joining UBC in 2013. He has published 161 papers and run 19 marathons.