Advisory Board and Editors Genomics
Juan L Rodriguez-Flores
I am a Computational Biologist, Assistant Professor at Weill Medical College of Cornell University. I use -omic data to understand the mechanisms of disease risk.
I began my career as a Biology Undergraduate at MIT, where my first research project was to invent a method for attaching DNA to glass as part of the then-unfinished Human Genome Project. After MIT, I explored career options in Medical School Sillicon Valley and NIH, eventually earning a PhD in Bioinformatics and Systems Biology from UCSD. My doctoral dissertation involved characterizing the regulatory genetics of the adrenaline-synthesis gene PNMT, as well as more broadly studying the human adrenergic stress pathway. Seeking additional training in genomics and statistics, I spent a year working with Kelly Frazer at the Moores UCSD Cancer Center, followed by a move to Weill Cornell Medical College in 2010. As a postdoc, I developed a set of genomic analysis skills and tools that I applied to numerous projects, both locally and with international collaborators such as the 1000 Genomes Project, Weill Cornell Medical School in Qatar, and the University of Puerto Rico. In my current appointment as Assistant Professor, I am tasked with developing biotechnology tools for precision medicine.
Rob Russell
Co-director of Bioquant and Professor of Protein Evolution at Heidelberg University. Previously Group Leader at EMBL, Heidelberg, Academic Editor at FEBS Letters at PLoS Computational Biology.
Francesco Russo
I am a molecular and cellular biologist with a long experience in non-coding RNAs (in particular microRNAs). My main interest is about computational biology. Currently, I am a member of the Brunak lab at the NNF Center for Protein Research, University of Copenhagen and I'm also an affiliated member of the Computational Biology Lab at the Danish Cancer Society in Papaleo lab. I am working on data integration of omics data, electronic patients records, analysis of laboratory tests and drug effects in cancer patients.
I am also interested in non-invasive biomarkes. In 2012 I designed and developed the miRandola database (https://academic.oup.com/nar/article/46/D1/D354/4191335), the first extracellular circulating microRNA database.
Ligia Rusu
Dr. Ligia Rusu is a Professor within the Department of Kinetotherapy and Sport Medicine at the University of Craiova, Romania.
HIs research areas include neurologic rehabilitation, neuromuscular assessment, physiology and biomechanics. More specifically, sports medicine, neurologic rehabilitation, orthopedic rehabilitation, and orthotics and prosthetics.
Antonio Salas
I am a Professor at the University of Santiago de Compostela (Galicia, Spain). During the last few years I have been investigating in various fields of biomedical research, such as the analysis of genetic susceptibility to complex and common diseases (breast cancer, schizophrenia, autism, etc.), rare diseases (Wilson's disease, congenital ichthyosis, mitochondriopathies, etc.), bioinformatics / biostatistics (regarding HapMap, 1000 Genomes, statistical procedures in epidemiology and genetics, etc.), molecular / archeo-genetic anthropology, and forensic genetics (population sub-structure, interpretation (statistics) of the test Medical-legal research haplotype markers, etc).
I am the head of a consolidated research group, GenPoB (Population Genetics in Biomedicine), based at the Health Research Institute (IDIS) of Santiago de Compostela (Galicia, Spain), that is in turn integrated into the Genetics and Systems Biology group.
For more than a decade I have been heavily involved in a variety of projects related to genomics and other fields of -omic ’sciences (e.g. transcriptomic, epigenomic), in complex pediatric diseases, infectology and vaccinomics.
Steven Salzberg
Steven Salzberg is a Bloomberg Distinguished Professor of Biomedical Engineering, Computer Science, and Biostatistics at Johns Hopkins University, and the Director of the Center for Computational Biology. His research focuses on the development of novel computational methods for analysis of DNA from the latest sequencing technologies. His software has been downloaded >1,000,000 times and he writes a popular science blog at Forbes magazine. He's an elected Fellow of AAAS and ISCB.
Sarah Samadi
Sarah Samadi is professor at the Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle in Paris. The common background of all her scientific activities is the analysis of the conceptual grounds of systematics and evolutionary biology. Her present empirical projects are mainly in the fields of species delimitations and of speciation processes. Most of her projects are focusing on organisms from poorly known environments (mainly deep-sea environments, notably seamounts and organic remains sunken on the deep-sea floor) and are developed in the methodological framework of “Integrative Taxonomy”, in which methods in phylogenetics, population genetics and ecology are combined.
Hugo Sarmento
Professor in the Department of Hydrobiology of the Universidade Federal of São Carlos (UFSCar). Head of the Laboratory of Microbial Processes and Biodiversity, my research area is aquatic microbial ecology, with emphasis on biotic interactions, structure and function of planktonic communities in all compartments of the food web (viruses, bacteria, phytoplankton, zooplankton) mainly in tropical aquatic environments.
Alexander Schliep
Alexander Schliep received a PhD degree in computer science from the Center for Applied Computer Science (ZAIK/ZPR) at the Universität zu Köln, Germany (2001), working in collaboration with the Theoretical Biology and Biophysics Group (T-10) at Los Alamos National Laboratory. From 2002-2009 he was the group leader of the Bioinformatics Algorithms Group in the Department for Computational Molecular Biology at the Max Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics in Berlin. From 2009–2016 he held a joint position as associate professor in the Department of Computer Science and the BioMaPS Institute for Quantitative Biology. From August 2016–February 2025 he held a faculty position (part-time since Oct 2022) at the University of Gothenburg in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, which is a joint department of Chalmers and the University of Gothenburg. Since October 2022 he is the chair for medical bioinformatics at the Faculty of Health Sciences Brandenburg. His group is located at the Brandenburg Technical University Cottbus-Senftenberg.
He serves as an associate editor for BMC Bioinformatics and as an editor of PeerJ.
Joao C Setubal
João Setubal is full professor in the Biochemistry Department of the Institute of Chemistry at the University of São Paulo, Brazil. Setubal has a PhD in Computer Science (1992) from the University of Washington (USA). He was a faculty member at the University of Campinas (Unicamp, Brazil) (1992-2004), then Associate Professor at the Biocomplexity Institute of Virginia Tech, USA (formerly the Virginia Bioinformatics Institute) (2004-2011), where he still is an Adjunct Faculty. His research interests are in computational tools for genomics, metagenomics, and transcriptomics, and applications of such tools primarily in microbiology and microbial ecology.
Yuan Shang
Dr. Yuan Shang works on Alzheimer's Disease (AD) at the University of Arizona. He combines any potential methods and data to search potential therapeutic opportunities for AD. He is an expert on omics data analysis, multi-omics integrations, network-based pattern recognition, and machine learning-based biomarker discoveries.
Katsuhiko Shirahige
Professor, Laboratory of Genome Structure and Function, Institute of Molecular and Cellular Biosciences, The University of Tokyo.
Director of Research Center for Epigenetic Disease, The University of Tokyo