Advisory Board and Editors Molecular Biology
Denis Larkin
Reader in Comparative Genomics at the Royal Veterinary College, University of London. Interests include the evolutionary and applied genomics, chromosome research and computer sciences. Associate Editor of Animal Biotechnology.
B Duncan X Lascelles
After graduating from the veterinary program at the University of Bristol, U.K., with honors, Dr. Lascelles completed a PhD in aspects of pre-emptive/perioperative analgesia at the University of Bristol. After an internship there, he completed his surgical residency at the University of Cambridge, U.K. and then a Fellowship in Oncological Surgery at Colorado State University. He is currently Professor in Small Animal Surgery and Pain Management at North Carolina State University.
Patrizia Lavia
Research Director at Institute of Molecular Biology and Pathology (IBPM), CNR, Rome (Italy). Main research interests:
- control of the cell cycle, mitosis, and the mitotic apparatus in human cells
- origins of genetic instability and cancer
- roles of nuclear transport receptors in nuclear organization and cell division
- signalling by GTPases and kinases
- innovative drug design, drugs targeting the cell cycle
-cellular imaging
Tong Geon Lee
Genetics, Genomics, Bioinformatics, Corn, Tomato, Soybean, Wheat-Rye Translocation
Bill P Leggat
I was awarded my PhD from James Cook University in 2001 where my research project focussed on photosynthesis and bleaching in the symbiotic giant clam Tridacna gigas. I then moved to the University of Queensland where I was a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the Centre for Marine Studies in the laboratory of Prof Ove Hoegh-Guldberg. In 2007 I returned to James Cook Univeristy as a Lecturer in the discpline of Biochemistry, I am now a Associate Professor and head of the Symbiosis Genomics Research Group and a Chief Investigator in the ARC Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies. The overarching aim of my research is to link transcriptomic and metabolomic changes to whole organism responses and acclimation. My research utilises genomic and metabolomic techniques to determine how the coral holobiont responds to anthropogenic changes, including increasing temperatures, ocean acidification and eutrophication.
Marcello Salvatore Lenucci
Dr. Marcello Salvatore Lenucci graduated with honors in Biological Sciences at the University of Lecce in 1996. He obtained the qualification to the profession of biologist in 1998. In 2000 he specialized with honors in Biotechnological Applications at the University of Bari. In 2001, during his PhD, he spent a period of 18 months in the laboratory of Prof. SC Fry at the "Institute of Cell and Molecular Biology" , University of Edinburgh, UK. In 2003 he obtained the title of PhD in Biology and Biotechnology at the University of Lecce and received the "Italian Botanical Society Award" for the best doctoral thesis of the year 2003. From 2003 to 2008 he carried out activities as research fellow. Since 2008 he has been a researcher at the University of Salento. He is currently Associate Professor and holds various teaching positions in the study courses of Biology. He is part of the teaching staff for the PhD in Nanotechnology of the University of Salento. He has participated in several research projects; he is the author of numerous publications in national and international journals, mostly in JCR newspapers. He is a member of the Italian Botanical Society. he is the author of numerous publications in national and international journals, mostly in JCR journals. He is a member of the Italian Botanical Society. he is the author of numerous publications in national and international journals, mostly in JCR journals. He is a member of the Italian Botanical Society.
Jack C. Leo
I study bacterial pathogenesis, focusing on autotransporters of Gram-negative bacteria. These proteins are self-contained secretion systems and surface molecules that mediate a number of virulence functions. I aim to understand three aspects of autotransporter-mediated pathogenesis: 1) the mechanisms of virulence functions, 2) the biogenesis of autotransporters and 3) regulation of gene expression. All three are potential sites for intervention to prevent host colonisation and infection.
Liudmila P Leppik
Assistant Director, Frankfurt Initiative for Regenerative Medicine, J.W. Goethe-Universität, Friedrichsheim Orthopedic University Hospital.
Dr. Leppik’s research background is in the fields of molecular biology and virology in Russia and Germany. Specifically her research focused on human genome activity and regulation of gene expression during tumor genesis and development and differentiation. Her current research at FIRM focuses on tissue development and regeneration.
Florian Lesage
Florian Lesage is senior research director at INSERM (French National Health Institute). He is a molecular biologist with extensive experience in ion channel cloning, expression and characterization, in particular in the neurosensory systems. He has authored 15 international patents and >120 publications that have received more than 15,000 citations (http://scholar.google.fr/citations?user=4RXbfuMAAAAJ&hl=fr&oi=ao).
Florian Lesage is the director of the Laboratoire d'Excellence "Ion Channel Science and Therapeutics" (LabEx ICST, www.labex-icst.fr/en).
Zhiming Li
Dr. Zhiming Li is an early career researcher at Columbia University. His primary research focus is on epigenetic inheritance and cancer epigenetics, and his long-term goals are to understand the fundamental mechanisms of epigenetic inheritance and how such mechanisms and epigenetic alterations are involved in tumorigenesis, which eventually would allow him to identify druggable targets for cancer intervention.
Cong-Jun Li
A molecular biologist in the Bovine Functional Genomics Laboratory, Agricultural Research Service, USDA. My research is focused on the interaction of nutrients and epigenomic regulation; analyze histone-DNA interaction in the bovine genome that is responsive to volatile fatty acid modulation to understand the functional roles of histone modification in gene expression regulation, cell cycle regulation, as well as rumen development.
Xing Li
Dr. Xing Li is an Assistant Professor and Associate Consultant in the Division of Biomedical Statistics and Informatics, Department of Health Science Research at Mayo Clinic - voted the best hospital by U.S. News & World Report. Dr. Li completed his PhD in Bioinformatics from The University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA. Dr. Li also holds a Masters Degree in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology and Bachelors Degree in Microbiology. Dr. Li’s research interests focus on machine learning, bioinformatics, and statistical data mining in large scale data in biomedical research, such as next generation sequencing data (whole genome sequencing, RNA-seq, microarray data), in the file. He has published more than 20 peer-reviewed papers in reputable journals and book chapters in the fields of Bioinformatics and Biostatistics, cancer research, cardiovascular disease, embryonic stem cell (ESC) and induced pluripotent stem cell (iPSC) research, and human genomics, genetics and development, and Microbiology. Dr. Li’s publications have been highlighted as Journal Cover Stories, Journal Featured Articles, Highlights Section Papers, Must Read by Faculty 1000, and ESC & iPSC News, etc. Dr. Li has been developing data analysis tools, such as RCircle and PCA3d, etc. Dr. Li is also a member of American Association for Cancer Research (AACR), International Society for Computational Biology (ISCB), American Statistics Association (ASA) and American Heart Association (AHA).