Advisory Board and Editors Genetics
Aarti Gupta
Dr. Aarti Gupta is a Research Scientist at the Institute of Genomics for Crop Abiotic Stress Tolerance (IGCAST), Texas Tech University.
She obtained her Ph.D in Plant Genetics and has expertise in the area of plant stress biology and plant molecular biology
Ying Ying Han
Associate Researcher in Center of System Biomedical Sciences, University of Shanghai for Science and Technology
Xavier A Harrison
Senior Lecturer in Ecology, University of Exeter, UK
Co-Secretary, Microbial Ecology Special Interest Group, British Ecological Society.
How important are microbes for determining animal health? My work seeks to understand how host-associated microbial communities can affect traits like digestion, nutrition, and disease susceptibility. I use amphibians as a model system for studying the vertebrate skin microbiome and how it protects against infection by the lethal pathogens Ranavirus and chytrid fungus.
I also study the structure and function of the gut microbiome in migratory birds.
Quamarul Hassan
Dr. Quamarul Hassan is a Professor within the School of Dentistry/Cell Developmental and Integrative Biology at the University of Alabama, Birmingham.
While I was a master's student at Indian Veterinary Research Institute, I became fascinated with monoclonal antibody gene diversity theory. It was 1987 when Susumu Tonegawa won the Nobel Prize for his discovery of V(D)J recombination. I mostly credited him for inspiring my interest in molecular and cellular biology.
I have a long-standing interest in the genetic, epigenetic, and non-coding RNA mediated mechanisms regulating skeletal development and maintenance, specifically the functional role of miRNAs, lncRNAs, and chromatin regulation and their significance linked to gene regulation. During the last 20 years, I have developed highly effective ex vivo and in vivo strategies, including novel methods and genetic mouse models for studying bone tissue-specific-chromatin organization and modifications, miRNA, and LncRNA function. These models and strategies allow us to unravel the fundamental basis of tissue-specific gene activation and repression. Previously, my research has identified HOX transcription factor switching is critical for bone formation and homeostasis. The novel concept of epigenetic bookmarking of genes allows a cell to retain a “memory bank” for osteoblast lineage. In 2010, my research on the non-coding miRNA 23a-cluster revealed the microRNA-epigenetic regulatory mechanism critical for bone mass maintenance. I believe that my contribution will significantly advance the understanding of the genetic and epigenetic basis of skeletogenesis. Further, these conceptual understandings will likely inform novel therapeutics for bone regeneration, skeletal disorders, consumptive hypothyroidism, and osteosarcoma.
Ziarih Hawi
Dr Ziarih Hawi is a Senior Research Fellow in Psychiatric Genetics at the Institute of Cognitive and Clinical Neuroscience. Dr Hawi has been investigating genetic predisposition to psychiatric disorders with particular emphasis on the genetic of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). He has successfully identified risk gens for ADHD, narrowed down regions of associations and has functionally characterised some of the ADHD-associated genes.
Karmella A Haynes
Karmella Haynes is an assistant professor at Arizona State University’s School of Biological and Health Systems Engineering and judge emeritus for the International Genetically Engineered Machines Competition. Her work with Davidson College students on bacterial computers was featured on NPR's Science Friday and was recognized as "Publication of the Year" in 2008 by the Journal of Biological Engineering. Her research aims to regulate therapeutic genes by engineering human chromosomes.
Peng He
Dr. He is Associated Professor of Entomology of Center for Research and Development of Fine Chemicals of Guizhou University. His lab focuses on Insect Molecular Biology and Pest management, especially on insect olfactory mechanism and insect development. He received his PhD in 2012 from Nanjing Agricultural University.
Fenglei He
I am a developmental biologist interested in craniofacial morphogenesis and malformation. Our current research focuses on understanding cellular and molecular mechanisms underlying midfacial and calvarial development.
Elizabeth Hemming-Schroeder
Dr. Hemming-Schroeder is an Assistant Professor and member of the Center for Vector-borne Infectious Diseases. Dr. Hemming-Schroeder's research training includes the study of malaria, a disease that affects nearly half of the world's population, as well as tick-borne diseases in the United States. Her research primarily uses methods in molecular biology, population genetics, and bioinformatics to study vector-borne disease ecology and epidemiology. She is broadly interested in how ecological factors, environmental modifications, and public health interventions impact pathogen and vector population dynamics and how genetic and epidemiological information on pathogens and vectors can be used to improve infectious disease control and elimination.
Steven Heritage
Dr. Steven Heritage is a teaching professor in the Department of Genetics, Cell Biology, and Anatomy at the University of Nebraska Medical Center. He is a a clinical & evolutionary anatomist, mammalogist, and phylogenetic biologist mainly working on African mammals. He also serves as a coordinator for the IUCN SSC Afrotheria Specialist Group.
Camilla B Hill
Dr Camilla Hill was awarded a Ph.D. in crop biochemistry and genetics (2014) from the University of Melbourne (Australia). Her main areas of expertise are plant genetics and genomics, analytical plant biochemistry, plant phenology and plant stress physiology. She has a strong background in using molecular and quantitative genetics as well as genomics technologies (metabolomics, next-generation sequencing, bioinformatics) to understand the impact of environmental stresses on plant growth, development, and grain yield potential.
Heribert Hirt
Director of the URGV Plant Genomics Research, Paris. Distinguished EMBO member, and President of EPSO, the European Plant Science Organisation. Recipient of the 2001 Wittgenstein Award. Editorial Board member of 7 journals.