Advisory Board and Editors Developmental Biology
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.
Keiko Sugimoto
Group leader at RIKEN Plant Science Center. Editorial Board Member of Cell Reports, The Plant Cell, Genes to Cells, Plant and Cell Physiology, and Frontiers in Plant Science
Qing-Yuan Sun
Professor of Reproductive and Developmental Biology, vice-president of Chinese Society of Zoology, president of Chinese Society for Cellular and Molecular Microscopy, Secretary General of Chinese Society of Reproductive Biology, and former director of the State Key Laboratory of Reproductive Biology, Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences.
Awards and Honors:
- Distinguished Young Scientist of The Chinese Academy of Sciences (1999);
- Grants for Outstanding Young Scientists from National Natural Science Foundation of China (2002);
- National Award for Distinguished Scholars Returned From Abroad (2003);
- Distinguished Youth of The Chinese Academy of Sciences (2003);
- National Award for Outstanding Young Scientists (2004);
- National Award for Outstanding Post-Docs (2006);
- National Natural Science Prize (Second) (2006)
- BHP Billiton Supervisor Research Award, Graduate School of Chinese Academy of Sciences (2007)
- The Outstanding Researcher during the National 11th Five-Year Plan, Ministry of Science and Technology (2011)
- The First Prize for Science and Technology Progress, National Population and Family Planning Council (2011)
Shao-Chen Sun
Professor of Reproductive Biology at Nanjing Agricultural University. Focused on molecular mechanisms of mammalian oocyte maturation and reprodutive toxiology.
Terje Svingen
Assoc. Prof. Svingen is Head of Research group for Molecular & Reproductive Toxicology at the National Food Institute, Technical University of Denmark (DTU Food). His research group focuses on how early life exposure to environmental chemicals, particularly endocrine disruptors, can adversely affect development and lead to disease. His research group conducts basic research alongside involvement in regulatory toxicology. Main focus is on the mechanisms of effects leading to reproductive and neurodevelopmental disorders.
Gianluca Tettamanti
- Degree in Biology (University of Milano), 1997
- PhD in Evolution and Development (University of Insubria), 2003
- Assistant Professor (Zoology), University of Insubria, 2005-2011
- Associate Professor (Zoology), University of Insubria, 2011-present
Research topics addressed:
- Cell death and regeneration in insect development
- Insect biotechnology
- Immune response in insects
- Author of 90 papers in peer-reviewed journals
- Author of 11 book chapters
Mahendra Pratap Singh Tomar
Dr. Mahendra Tomar is a Veterinary Professor and Anatomist at the N.T.R. College of Veterinary Science, Gannavaram.
Dr. Tomar works in the field of comparative anatomy of animals, particularly mammals, and his research focuses on macroscopic and microscopic anatomy including the developmental biology of animals. More specifically, his fields of expertise are histology, histochemistry, enzyme histochemistry and forensic animal anatomy.
Niels M. 'Hans' Tommerup
Professor of Medical Genetics and director of Wilhelm Johannsen Centre for Functional Genome Research, Department of Cellular and Molecular Medicine, University of Copenhagen. Former president of the Danish Society of Reproduction and Fetal Development. Former Chair of the International Standing Committee on Human Cytogenetic Nomenclature (ISCN).
Shibiao Wan
Dr. Shibiao Wan is currently an Assistant Professor in the Department of Genetics, Cell Biology and Anatomy, and the Assistant Director for Bioinformatics and Systems Biology Core at University of Nebraska Medical Center (UNMC). He is also an Assistant Professor (courtesy) in the Department of Biostatistics at UNMC.
With more than 14 years of experience in machine learning, bioinformatics, and computational biology, Dr. Wan has published >50 articles in top-tiered journals such as Genome Research, Nature Communications, Science Advances, Circulation Research, Briefings in Bioinformatics, and Bioinformatics. Dr. Wan is the Editor-in-Chief for Current Proteomics, and an Editorial Board Member for a series of prestigious journals such as Briefings in Functional Genomics, Heliyon, BMC Bioinformatics, International Journal of Microbiology, PeerJ Computer Science, BioMed Research International, and Computational and Mathematical Methods, and a guest associate editor for multiple high-impact journals including Frontiers in Immunology, Frontiers in Cell and Developmental Biology, Frontiers in Pharmacology, Biology, Frontiers in Genetics, and Genes.
Dr Wan is a TPC member for >20 machine learning related international conferences including IEEE ICTAI. Dr. Wan is also a reviewer for >50 prestigious journals including Nature Methods, Nature Communications, Nature Computational Science, Nucleic Acids Research, Cancer Research, Genome Medicine, and Briefings in Bioinformatics. Dr. Wan has received a number of accolades including the New Investigator Award in 2024 by UNMC, the FIRST Award in 2023 by Nebraska EPSCoR, the Outstanding Young Alumni Award in 2022 by HK PolyU as well as the Global Peer Review Awards (top 1%) in “Cross-Field” and “Biology and Biochemistry” in 2019 awarded by Clarivate. Dr. Wan is a member of AACR, ISCB and ACM and an IEEE Senior Member.
Katja Wassmann
Head of the Mammalian Oocyte Meiosis (MOM) research group, at the Institut de Biologie Paris Seine (IBPS), Paris, France. She is currently a Research Director with the CNRS.
After her PhD in G. Ammerer's lab in Vienna on signal transduction in budding yeast, and a Postdoc in R. Benezra's lab (MSKCC, New York, USA) where she worked on mitotic checkpoint control in human cells, she decided to continue on cell cycle and spindle checkpoint control in oocyte meiosis.
Christine J Watson
Professor of Cell and Cancer Biology in the Department of Pathology, University of Cambridge. Graduate of the University of Glasgow and Imperial College, London.
Ingrid M Weiss
Professor for Biobased Materials at IBBS - Institute of Biomaterials and Biomolecular Systems, University of Stuttgart, Germany.
Past Head of Biomineralization at INM – Leibniz Institute for New Materials, Saarbrücken, Germany and Private Lecturer "Biochemistry" at the University of Regensburg, Germany.