Advisory Board and Editors Biochemistry
Primo Schär
PhD University of Berne, Switzerland with Prof. J. Kohli; Research focus: Yeast genetics, mechanisms of meiotic recombination.
Postdoctoral fellow at the University of Berne, Switzerland with Prof. J. Kohli; Research focus: Yeast genetics and DNA Mismatch Repair in Meiotic Recombination.
Postdoctoral fellow at the Imperial Cancer Research Fund (Cancer Research UK), London UK, with Prof. Tomas Lindahl; Research focus: Function of DNA ligases in yeast and mammalian DNA repair, DNA base excision repair.
Junior research group leader at the Institute of Molecular Cancer Research, University of Zürich, Switzerland; Research focus: Genome Stability, DNA double strand-break repair and DNA base excision repair in yeast and mammalian cells.
Since 2003 Professor and research group leader at the Department of Biomedicine, University of Basel, Switzerland; Research focus: Molecular mechanisms underlying (Epi)Genome plasticity in stem cells, DNA base excision repair in DNA demethylation and cell fate programming.
Martina Schroeder
Dr Martina Schroeder is a Lecturer and Head of the Host-Pathogen Interaction Lab at Maynooth University. Her research addresses viral recognition, innate immune signaling pathways, and the roles of DEAD-box proteins in immunity. Previously Dr Schroeder conducted postdoctoral research with Prof. Andrew Bowie at Trinity College Dublin. In 2007, she was awarded a postdoctoral career development fellowship by the Irish HRB. She completed her PhD at the Charité University Hospital in Berlin in 2003.
Mirela Sedic
Dr Mirela Sedic (born Bauman) is Principal Scientist at the Institute for Anthropological Research Zagreb. She has authored over 50 scientific publications in peer-reviewed journals including high-impact journals such as BBA Molecular Basis of Disease, Molecular Cancer, The Journal of Pathology, Molecular Cancer Therapeutics, Journal of Medicinal Chemistry, European Journal of Medicinal Chemistry and Cancer Treatment Reviews.
She was the co-PI of international collaborative project with Functional Genomics Center Zurich in Switzerland (PRIME-XS-0000184 Proteomic profiling of retinal proteins from rat model of age-related macular degeneration 2012-2014) and the PI of the University of Rijeka grant “Screening and biological evaluation of acid ceramidase and sphingosine kinase inhibitors as a new class of anti-tumour agents” (2014 – 2017). She is currently the PI of the project funded by the Croatian Science Foundation “Dissecting the mechanisms of therapy resistance in BRAF-mutant colon cancer using an integrated –omics approach” (2019 – 2023) and the PI of the University of Rijeka research grant “Molecular features associated with BRAFV600E-mutated versus wild type BRAF colorectal cancer” (2019-2022). She is also the PI of the project No. 3238 - EPIC-XS 012: “Proteomic analysis of acquired resistance to vemurafenib in BRAF V600E–mutant colon cancer cells” (2019 - 2022) in collaboration with the Functional Genomics Center Zurich in Switzerland.
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
Jerson L. Silva
Professor of Biochemistry in the Institute of Medical Biochemistry at Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro. Awards include Fellow of the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation, TWAS Prize in Biology. Member of the Brazilian Academy of Sciences; the National Academy of Medicine; and Fellow of the Academy of Sciences for the Developing World (TWAS). Director of the Jiri Jonas National Center for Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (UFRJ)
Alison J Sinclair
BSc in Biochemistry from UCL London UK; PhD Cancer Virology at the Imperial Cancer Research Fund, London UK; post-doctoral fellowship at the European Molecular Biology Laboratory in Heidelberg, Germany, researching transcription; post-doctoral fellowship and assistant member of staff at the Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research in London, investigating a transcription factor network in Epstein-Barr virus and cell cycle regulation. Faculty School of Life Sciences at the University of Sussex, UK.
Nikolajs Sjakste
Experience
1978 -1987; Researcher in the Cancer Cell Chemistry Laboratory, Institute of Experimental and Clinical Medicine, Riga, Latvia.
Professor of Medical Biochemistry and Medical Genetics, University of Latvia, Faculty of Medicine (since 1998). Address: Jelgavas Street 1, Riga LV1004 Latvia. Chief of the Department of Medical Biochemistry (2011).
Leading researcher (since 2011) and Head of the Biochemistry Group, Department of Medicinal Chemistry, Latvian Institute of Organic Synthesis (since 1990).
1995 and 1997 “Red position” of CNRS 1993-1998; Institut Jacques Monod, Université Paris VII, Laboratoire de Biochimie de Différentiation, Paris, France.
Education:
Degree of Doctor of Biological Sciences (Dr. habil.), 1992, Institute of Experimental Medicine, St.-Petersburg, Russia. Degree of Candidate of Biological Sciences (Ph. D.), 1984, Cancer Research Centre, Moscow, Russia. Diploma with Distinction in Medical Biophysics, graduated from the Medico-Biological faculty of the 2nd Moscow Medical Institute, Moscow, Russia, 1978.
Adriano Sofo
Adriano Sofo graduated with a Master Degree in Biological Sciences from the University of Bari, Italy, in 1997. He spent three years (1999-2002) at the University of Basilicata, Italy, with a Doctorate in Crop Productivity. From 2000 to 2001, he also was Researcher at the National Agency for New Technologies, Energy and Sustainable Economic Development (ENEA), Italy. As Postdoctoral Training, in 2002, he worked at the Institute of Molecular Biology and Biotechnology, Heraklion, Greece, within a Marie Curie Fellowship. In 2007, he graduated with a second Master Degree in Plant Biotechnology from the University of Basilicata. He then trained for four years as a Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Basilicata, where he also worked as Assistant Professor in Agricultural Chemistry. In 2015, he was awarded with a Fulbright Research Scholar grant to spend at the University of California, Davis. In 2017, he received a fellowship award from the OECD's Co-operative Research Programme at the University of Waikato, New Zealand.
Rogerio R Sotelo-Mundo
Prof. Sotelo-Mundo contributes as an academic editor in PeerJ, PeerJ Inorganic. Chemistry and PeerJ Materials Science. He holds a Ph.D. in Biochemistry from The University of Arizona (USA) with Prof. William Montfort. Back in Mexico in 1999 at Centro de Investigación en Alimentación y Desarrollo (http://www.ciad.mx), Dr. Sotelo-Mundo has contributed to the biochemistry and structural biology of proteins from marine invertebrates. Being at a food science institute has applied biochemistry to food science and technology. Also, he collaborates in the materials science graduate program at Universidad de Sonora as a visiting professor, participating in research about macrocyclic biomimetic molecules. His research focuses on the structure and function of proteins related to disease, and the chemical structure of natural and synthetic molecules related to biomedical applications. The experimental approach is the crystallography of proteins and small molecules, along with biochemical and biophysical techniques. Our group collaborates with a range of groups from disciplines from genomics and metagenomics, biochemistry, supramolecular chemistry, and material sciences. PubMed http://goo.gl/uW67bK ResearchGate http://goo.gl/llPHxI and Publons https://publons.com/researcher/1220970/rogerio-sotelo-mundo/
Clara Stefen
PhD in Biology in Bonn, Postdoc in Berkeley, Museum of Paleontology. Currently Curator of Senckenberg Naturhistorische Sammlungen Dresden.
John J. Stegeman
Sr. Scientist and former Head of Biology and Watson Chair, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution. Director, NSF/NIH Woods Hole Center for Oceans and Human Health. Editorial Boards of several journals, former Editor-in-Chief, Aquatic Toxicology. Honorary Doctorate from Goteborg University.
Ursula Stochaj
Associate Professor in the Department of Physiology at McGill University, Montreal.
Research interests: protein and RNA transport, nuclear function and organization, stress, signaling, chaperones, nanobiology, stem cell biology, microscopy, quantitative image analysis, high-throughput screening.