Academic Editors
The following people constitute the Editorial Board of Academic Editors for PeerJ. These active academics are the Editors who seek peer reviewers, evaluate their responses, and make editorial decisions on each submission to the journal. Learn more about becoming an Editor.
Ornella Calderini
I have a PhD from the University of Vienna, Austria, on plant MAP kinase signalling. Currently I am a staff scientist of the National Research Council at the Institute of Bioscience and Bioresources in Italy. I am curating a mutant collection of the model specie Medicago truncatula. I am using different approaches to understand gene function in several aspects of plant science (e.g development, synthesis of secondary compounds). I have an interest in characterization and valorization of local plant genetic resources.
Vince Calhoun
Dr. Calhoun is currently Executive Science Officer at the Mind Research Network and Professor in the Departments of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of New Mexico. He is the author of over 250 full journal articles and over 350 conference proceedings. His focus is the development of data driven approaches for the analysis of brain imaging data, data fusion of multi-modal imaging and genetics data, and the identification of biomarkers for disease.
Tanya Amanda Camacho-Villegas
Tanya Camacho-Villegas is a Researcher for Mexico in the Medical and Pharmaceutical Biotechnology Unit, CIATEJ, A.C., located in Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico (2014-present). She is a member of the Mexican National System of Researchers level I. She works in recombinant protein design, cloning, and production (batch and bioreactor scale). She specializes in phage display for isolating single-domain antibodies such as vNAR´s or peptide isolation with diagnostic applications. Recently, she used the vNAR as an immuno-carrier for NPs for theranostics applications for breast cancer and glioblastomas as models.
She has received a BSc in Biology from the Science Faculty, UABC (2004) and a Marine Biotechnology MSc in CICESE (2007) focusing on the selection and validation of vNARs with anti-cytokines properties as candidates for TNFalpha and VEGF165 neutralizing in humans disorders.
She has received a PhD in Molecular Ecology and Biotechnology from the Marine Science Faculty at UABC (2012). She received a distinction in the Ph.D. dissertation
and fellowships from CONAHCYT for MSc, Ph.D., and Postdoc studies. She was the leader of four projects related to biotechnology companies. She was the author of patents related to vNAR as anti-cytokines or immuno-carriers for drug delivery.
Jesús Campos-García
PhD. Jesús Campos-García.
Professor-Researcher of Microbial Biotechnology Laboratory since 2003, at the Research Institute of Biological Chemistry of the Universidad Michoacana de San Nicolás de Hidalgo, México. He has authored over 80 papers in indexed and peer-reviewed journals. He was the recipient of the National Award for Young Researchers in 2008, for the Mexican Academy of Science. He possesses four Patents and several Technological processes transferred into the Industry.
Research areas are related to the study of the mechanisms of interaction of microorganisms such as Pseudomonas aeruginosa with the environment: mechanisms of organic compounds degradation, heavy metals resistance, host-pathogen interaction, microbial nano-bioactive metabolites, and genetic modification of industrial GEMs used for alcoholic fermentation and biofuels.
Awards
•National Award for Young Researchers in 2008, for the Mexican Academy of Science.
•State Award of Scientific Research in 2009, Michoacán State Government, México.
•Grant Marcos Moshinsky 2013-2014, Chemistry-Biological Sciences. Marcos Moshinsky Funding, México.
•Weizmann Award 2015, Nature Science. Mexican Academy of Science, to Randy Ortíz Castro by PhD thesis: Study of the N-acil-L-homoserin lactones and cyclodipeptides from bacteria of Pseudomonas genus in the plant development regulation.
•Member of the Mexican Academy of Science (since 2008).
•Member of the National System of Researchers (S.N.I.) since 1996.
Laura Cancedda
Dr. Cancedda graduated in Medicinal Chemistry at the University of Genoa in 1999, with a thesis on the role of neurotrophic factors on neurotransmitter release. She received her Ph.D. in neurophysiology from Scuola Normale Superiore in 2003, under the supervision of Dr. Lamberto Maffei. In Pisa, she investigated the molecular and environmental basis of experience-dependent plasticity in the rat brain. In 2003, she moved to University of California at Berkeley in Dr. Poo’s laboratory where she focused on molecular mechanisms of GABAergic-transmission modulation. Starting in 2006, she has also started a collaboration on a project aimed at studying early determinants of neuronal polarization.
Currently, she holds a team-leader position at the Italian Institute of Technology (IIT) in Genoa and a scientist position at the Telethon Dulbecco Institute. Laura is also a scholar of the FENS KAVLI network of excellence. Her research focuses on the role of extracellular factors such as GABA in neurogenesis, migration and morphological maturation of cortical neurons under physiological as well as pathological conditions.
Yunpeng Cao
Dr Yunpeng Cao is Associate Researcher (CAS Key Laboratory of Plant Germplasm Enhancement and Specialty Agriculture) at Wuhan Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences. His research interests mainly focus on the Systematics and Evolution, Genomics, Fruit Development and Regulatory Mechanism.
Domenico Capolongo
Domenico Capolongo is associate professor of physical geography and geomorphology at University of Bari.
Research interests are in the field of geomorphology and environmental sciences.
In particular he studied the spatial and temporal distribution of erosion processes at different spatial and temporal scales in high rate evolving landscapes. The principal effort is an attempt to develop a better quantitative understanding of physical processes operating on the earth surface. He use some combination of theoretical, numerical and experimental approaches. Because the issue is to understand natural systems, integrating observations and field data (both of active processes and recorded in the geologic record) with theoretical and model results is also an essential component of his research.
He uses GIS, remote sensing and computer simulation as principal tool for qualitative and quantitative insight into this complex systems and as a virtual laboratory to explore theory by simulation.
J Gregory Caporaso
I am an Associate Professor of Biology with a focus on microbiome research and bioinformatics.
Fiore Capozzi
Fiore Capozzi is a researcher in Botany at the Department of Biology at Univeristy of Naples Federico II. His research interests concern: i) studies of plants as biomonitor of air quality; ii) studies on phytoremediation and on the effects of pollutants on plant organisms; iii) studies on factors affecting the growth of plants in Space environment.
David Cappelletti
Full Professor of Environmental Chemistry at the University of Perugia. Coordinator of the Environmental Chemistry and Technology (ECT) research group. Member of the Italian Glaciological Committee (CGI) and Italian Aerosol Society (IAS). He participated in several Italian Arctic Expeditions (2011-2019). Italian delegate at the Arctic Science Forum Ministerial (Berlin, 2018).
Co-author of more than 150 scientific ISI publications, including well-renowned international journals of high impact factor (such as Nature, Angewandte Chemie, Journal of the American Chemical Society, Physical Review Letters, Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics). He has contributed to important review papers (Accounts of Chemical Research, International Reviews in Physical Chemistry, Progress in Surface Science, Advances in Quantum Chemistry).
Lead Editor of the Special Issues "Environmental Changes in the Arctic: an Italian Perspective" appeared on Rendiconti Lincei (2016, Springer) and "Mineral Dust: Sources, Atmospheric Processing and Impacts" appeared on Atmosphere (2018, MDPI).
Research in the ECT group is based on the chemical and morphological characterization of atmospheric aerosols in the urban, remote and indoor environments, vertical profile measurements of aerosol properties by tethered balloon experiments and aerosol source apportionment methodologies, implementation and optimization of chemical transport models (Lagrangian and Eulerian).
Cristina Capusa
Associate Professor of Nephrology, PhD and Habilitated Doctor in Nephrology at the "Carol Davila" University of Medicine and Pharmacy in Bucharest and attending physician (consultant in Nephrology and Internal Medicine) at a university-affiliated tertiary-care hospital. Former secretary of the Romanian Society of Nephrology and currently member of the society board.
Research interest in: chronic kidney disease, renal anemia, intravenous iron therapy, mineral metabolism disorders in chronic kidney disease, oxidative stress in kidney disease and glomerular diseases.
Anthony Caravaggi
Dr. Anthony Caravaggi is a Lecturer in Conservation Biology and course leader for BSc (Hons) Wildlife Ecology and Conservation at the The University of South Wales.
His work is broadly focussed on conducting research that increases understanding of species ecologies and informs conservation and management processes.