Advisory Board and Editors Biodiversity
Shahla Nargis
Dr. Shahla Nargis, Former Ph.D. Scholar at the University of Agriculture, Faisalabad, Pakistan. Former Research Scholar at Michigan State University, USA. Currently, Working in Sichuan Agricultural University, China.
Alison G Nazareno
Dr. Alison Nazareno is a Forest Engineer and Adjunct Professor in the Department of Genetics, Ecology, and Evolution at the Federal University of Minas Gerais, Brazil. His research is focused on studying ecological, genetics, and genomics data to inform conservation efforts of endangered species. In addition to PeerJ, he is an Editor at Molecular Ecology, Molecular Ecology Resources, Conservation Biology, Biological Conservation, Frontiers in Plant Sciences, Ecology and Evolution, Conservation Genetics, Frontiers in Genetics, Biodiversity and Conservation, Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, Wildlife Letters, and Integrative Conservation.
Corey Nislow
Corey Nislow's laboratory develops and uses cutting edge tools to address this central question: how can we understand the biological commonalities in all of the life sciences; from embryonic development, to the spread of infectious diseases to better ways to treat cancer. Each of these disciplines can be explained in the context of competition, interaction and evolution. His lab studies the interface between genes and the environment using parallel genome-wide screens, high throughput cell-based assays and next generation sequencing. Most recently, he and his scientific partner, Dr. Guri Giaever, are exploring how laboratory experiments can co-opt evolutionary processes to understand drug action. He enjoys teaching all aspects of biotechnology, genomics and drug discovery. He got his PhD from the University of Colorado, worked at several Biotechnology companies and was at Stanford and University of Toronto before joining UBC in 2013. He has published 161 papers and run 19 marathons.
Darren Norris
Lecturer at the Federal University of Amapá, Brazil. My research interests are broad and are currently focused on the conservation of biodiversity and traditional livelihoods around waterways that traverse political (national and international), cultural and ecological boundaries. I am particularly interested in inter-disciplinary approaches, comprising population and community ecology, population biology, landscape and spatial statistics.
Fabrice Not
I'm a staff researcher at CNRS-Station Biologique de Roscoff (France). As a biological oceanographer, my research interest focus on plankton ecology and evolution using genomics and microscopy approaches.
Rodrigo Nunes-da-Fonseca
Associate Professor at the Center for Ecology and Socio-Environmental Development of Macaé, (NUPEM), Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ-Macaé). Affiliate Member of the Brazilian Academy of Sciences (2017-2021). Scientist of Our State at FAPERJ (2019-nowadays), PhD (2008) and Postdoctoral studies (2009) in Functional Genomics and Evolutionary Developmental Biology (Evo-Devo) at the University of Cologne, Germany.
Published more than 85 articles in specialized journals with more than 3500 citations (Google Scholar-Fator H = 24). He serves as a reviewer for several international journals (NAR, Cell Reports, Dev. Gen Evol, Dev. Biol, FEBS J, Plos One, Gene, among others) particularly in the evolutionary genetics of arthropod development.
Chinedu Christopher Obieze
Dr. Chinedu Christopher Obieze is a Researcher within the Center for Forest Studies, Institute of Integrative and Systems Biology at Laval University, Canada.
He earned his Ph.D. in Environmental Microbiology from the University of Port Harcourt in 2020, and is an experienced researcher with skills in microbial ecology, molecular microbiology, bioinformatics and data science. Currently a Postdoctoral Research Associate at Universite Laval, Quebec city, Canada.
Dr. Obieze's research interests include; Microbial Ecology (microbial communities in disturbed environments; plant-associated microbiomes in natural and disturbed ecosystems; freshwater and marine microbial ecology), Environmental genomics, Biodiversity and conservation, Bioinformatics, and Data science and machine learning.
Further credentials include:
Research Fellowship, Agricultural Research Council, Institute for Soil, Climate and Water, Pretoria, South Africa
Postdoctoral Research Associate, Institute of Systems and Integrative Biology, Universite Laval, Canada.
Karen Osborn
Midwater biologist by way of Western Washington University, Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute (MBARI), University of California Berkeley, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History.
Thiago Parente
Scientist in Public Health at the Laboratory of Functional Genomics and Bioinformatics at the Oswaldo Cruz Institute (IOC, Fiocruz), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Scientific coordinator of the Institutional Bioinformatics Platform. CNPq Level 2 Research Productivity Scholar (Genetics). Permanent professor at the Graduate program on Systems and Computational Biology IOC, Fiocruz. Graduated in Biological Sciences - Genetics major - from the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (2006), with a Master's degree in Cell and Molecular Biology from the IOC (2008) and PhD in Biophysics from UFRJ (2012). Through high performance technologies for DNA sequencing and computational data analysis, I investigate the effects of pollution on fauna, using fish as model organisms, and their responses and genetic adaptations to pollutants, especially those involved in the xenobiotic biotransformation system.
Donovan H Parks
Donovan Parks holds a PhD in computer science and has developed a number of bioinformatic programs used by the research community including CheckM, STAMP, and GenGIS. He has expertise in bioinformatics relating to microbial ecology, phylogenetics, and metagenome-assembled genomes. He is currently working as a bioinformatic consultant with the Australian Centre for Ecogenomics where he is working on an initiative to resolve long-standing issues within bacterial and archaeal nomenclature and developing new tools for reconstructing and validating genomes obtained directly from environmental samples.
Marcio R Pie
Associate Professor of Zoology, Universidade Federal do Paraná, Brazil.
Stuart L Pimm
Doris Duke Chair of Conservation Ecology at the Nicholas School of the Environment at Duke University. His international honours include the Tyler Prize for Environmental Achievement (2010), the Dr. A.H. Heineken Prize for Environmental Sciences from the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (2006), and the International Cosmos Prize 2019.