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.
Marco Iacoboni
I am a neurologist and systems neuroscientist originally from Rome. I am interested in perception-action coupling. My interest in perception-action coupling led me to the study, among other things, of mirror neurons. Mirror neurons led me to study human imitation, empathy, and more generally what is called social cognition. As a neurologist, however, I also have a strong interest in the neurobiological mechanisms of neuropsychiatric conditions and how to intervene on those mechanisms.
Lilia M Iakoucheva
Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of California San Diego, USA. Currently investigates the molecular basis of neurodevelopmental and psychiatric diseases using genomic and systems biology approaches.
Dr. Iakoucheva’s research focuses on understanding of the molecular basis of autism and schizophrenia using systems biology approaches. The aim is to discover functional protein interaction networks connecting seemingly unrelated candidate genes for psychiatric diseases. Dr. Iakoucheva’s lab is building comprehensive protein-protein interaction networks for autism and schizophrenia candidate genes and their splicing isoforms. In addition, they are integrating gene expression data with our experimentally derived networks to understand spatio-temporal dynamics of protein interactions in the brain. Their immediate goal is to investigate perturbations of the disease networks by the Copy Number Variants (CNVs) and protein-damaging Single Nucleotide Variants (SNVs) identified in the patients using the Whole Exome Sequencing (WES) studies. Additionally, they are interested in interpreting non-coding genetic variation with relevance to psychiatric diseases. They are investigating functional impact of UTR, promoter and splice site mutations identified in the Whole Genome Sequencing (WGS) studies of autism and schizophrenia using in vitro cellular systems.
Izwandy Idris
Dr. Izwandy Idris is Head of the South China Sea Repository and Reference Centre (RRC) within the Institute of Oceanography and Environment at the Universiti Malaysia Terengganu.
His research interests include the systematics (taxonomy), biology, and ecology of marine invertebrates, with in-depth works on the marine worm (Annelida: Polychaeta). Dr. Idris' research group works on several aspects including small-scale biogeography in coastal and estuary, biofouling ecology, biology, and ecology of commercially related species for sustainable application. His group also has started taking an interest in deep-sea polychaetes.
The overarching objectives of Dr. Idris' research group is to systematically catalogue the marine invertebrate diversity in Malaysia and to apply the knowledge on the ecological and biological requirements of the species for the betterment of people through economic empowerment, health, and the environment in a sustainable manner.
Yasuyuki I. Igarashi
Professor of Graduate School of Advanced Life Science of Hokkaido University. Director of Frontier Research Center for Post-genome Science and Technology. Editorial board member of BBA and Biol. Chem. Chair of 2012 Gordon Research Conference of Sphingolipid and Glycolipid Biology (Italy) and 2013 FASEB Summer Research Conference of Lysophospholipid (Japan).
Franco Milko Impellizzeri
Prof. Franco Impellizzeri is a professor within the School of Sport, Exercise and Rehabilitation at the University of Technology Sydney. He specializes in sport and exercise science and medicine, with extensive experience in applied sport science as both a researcher and practitioner, as well as in orthopedics, focusing on clinical outcome studies and clinimetrics.
Prof. Impellizzeri's research interests span research methodology and diverse areas of exercise science, including training and testing for both high-performance and health-focused outcomes. He has worked with elite Olympic athletes across various disciplines, encompassing both winter and summer sports, and has collaborated with international sports organizations.
Edsel B Ing
Edsel Ing MD, FRCSC, MPH, CPH, MIAD is a Professor at the University of Toronto and Surgeon at Michael Garron Hospital.
Clinical & Research interests: Eyelid/Orbital diseases (oculoplastics), Strabismus surgery & Neuro-ophthalmology
MPH & GCSRT: Harvard
CEduHP: Hopkins
MD & Residency: U Toronto
Fellowships: Mayo Clinic, Wills Eye, Allegheny General
PhD Candidate (May 2020): Kingston U
Masters of International Affairs: United Nations ITR & U Catalonia
Section Editor: Can J Ophthalmology, Can J Diagnosis, Medscape Ophthalmology
Karin Ingold
Karin Ingold is Professor of Policy Analysis and Environmental Govenrance. Her main area of Research is climate Change Adaptation and mitigation as well as politics dealing with question of water Quality and quantity. She applies social Network Analysis and other quantitative and qualitative methods in her Research.
Gwyneth C Ingram
CNRS Research Director and group leader in the Laboratory of Plant Reproduction and Development at the Ecole Normale Supérieure de Lyon, France. Royal Society of London University Research Fellow, then lecturer at the University of Edinburgh, UK from 2000-2010.
Mohammad Irfan
Dr. Mohammad Irfan is a plant biologist having research interests in abiotic stress biology of crop plants particularly horticultural crops. During his doctoral and postdoctoral projects, he studied the fruit quality traits affected by abiotic stresses. In his current projects, he investigates the molecular mechanism underlying plant-specialized metabolic pathways and biosynthesis of high-value phytochemicals, such as anthocyanins and carotenoids of horticultural crops under abiotic stresses using transcriptomics, metabolomics, glycomic and functional genomic approaches.
Marcello Iriti
Dr. Marcello Iriti is an Associate Professor of Plant Biology and Pathology within the Department of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences at the University of Milan.
He has been studying nutraceuticals, functional foods, phytotherapeutics and essential oils relevant for human and animal health, focusing on their preclinical (in vitro/in vivo) and in human pharmacological activities. He has also been investigating the health-promoting effects of traditional Mediterranean diet as well as the ethnopharmacology of herbal remedies of traditional healing systems.
Dr. Iriti is a Member of the World Academy of Sciences, Asian Council of Science Editors and Society of African Journal Editors. Founding Member of the Italian Society of Environmental Medicine. Member of the Working Group ‘Pharmacognosy, Phytotherapy and Nutraceuticals’ of the Italian Pharmacological Society.
Ryouhei Ishii
Dr. Ryouhei Ishii is Professor of Occupational Therapy Course, Osaka Prefecture University Graduate School of Comprehensive Rehabilitation. He completed his medical training at the Osaka University Hospital, he then worked under Professor Masatoshi Takeda as a graduate student on the clinical application of magnetoencephalography (MEG) in the Department of Clinical Neuroscience, Psychiatry, the Graduate School of Medicine, Osaka University. Dr. Ishii received his PhD degrees in medicine at the Osaka University in 1999.
Rutsuko Ito
Associate Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience, University of Toronto at Scarborough.
PhD in Behavioural Neuroscience, Cambridge University