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.

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Gaetana Messina

I am a Thoracic Surgeon Specialist from 2013.
I am currently working at University of Campania "Luigi Vanvitelli" in Thoracic Surgery Division from 2016.

My clinical work includes expertise in broncoscopy for diagnosis of lung cancers.
My main research focus is on the role of US in studying lung diseases.

Laurent Metzinger

Laurent Metzinger has completed his PhD in Biological Sciences and Pharmaceutical studies in Strasbourg, France and was a postdoctoral fellow from the University of Oxford (UK) in a leading lab on Duchenne muscular Dystrophy (Pr. Kay Davies). He works on microRNA regulation in the HEMATIM team in Amiens, and focuses on anemia and related vascular disorders associated with Chronic Kidney DIsease. He has authored some of the first papers showing a role for microRNAs in CKD and published in reputed journals, including Nature and Cell. He teaches Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology in the Pharmacy School of Amiens (Université de Picardie Jules Verne).

David Meyre

David Meyre completed a PhD in quantitative plant genetics in France. Since 2001, he has been working on the elucidation of the genetic bases of obesity and type 2 diabetes. In 2004, he published the first family-based genome-wide scans for childhood and severe adult obesity. He completed the two first successful positional cloning efforts for childhood and severe adult obesity, which identified the positional candidate genes ENPP1 and PCSK1. In 2007, he contributed to the identification of the major susceptibility gene for polygenic obesity FTO. In 2009, he published the first genome-wide association study of extreme obesity in the French population and identified four novel susceptibility-loci. In 2010, he conducted the first genome-wide association meta-analysis for early-onset extreme obesity in German and French populations. In 2012, he identified the third more common form of monogenic obesity (PCSK1 partial deficiency) and demonstrated an important role of the lipid sensor GPR120 in human obesity. He also discovered the first molecular link between obesity and major depression. In 2013, he discovered a novel gene (SIM1) responsible for a syndromic Mendelian form of childhood obesity. In 2016, he discovered that physical activity can blunt the effect of the obesity predisposing gene FTO in diverse ethnic groups. He also demonstrated that genes can predict the outcomes of different types of bariatric surgery.

Eva M Mezey

Dr. Mezey earned her M.D. from the Semmelweis University Medical School in Budapest, Hungary. She received her Ph.D. in neuroendocrinology from the Hungarian Academy of Sciences in Budapest. Dr. Mezey subsequently came to the NIH as a postdoctoral fellow in the Laboratory of Cell Biology, NIMH. She later returned to the NIH as a visiting scientist in NINDS. In 2004 she transferred to the NIDCR and heads the Adult Stem Cell Section to study the biology of bone marrow derived stem cells.

Marta Miaczynska

Head of Laboratory of Cell Biology at the International Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology in Warsaw, Poland. Former recipient of the Wellcome Trust International Senior Fellowship and HHMI International Scholar.

Francisco Javier Miana-Mena

I am a Veterinary Doctor since 2002. The results obtained in my Doctoral Thesis served as the beginning of a line of research on neurodegenerative diseases. Although I have participated in other research groups working within the field of oxidative stress and muscle bioengineering, my work has never moved away from the study of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS).

Since 2005 I work at the University of Zaragoza, within the Department of Pharmacology and Physiology, until today. In this time I have published around 30 articles in international scientific journals indexed in the JCR.

I have done research stays at the Pasteur Institute in Paris (France), at the Cochin Hospital in Paris (France) and the University of Granada (Spain).

Fernanda Michalski

Dr. Fernanda Michalski is Associate Professor of Ecology and Conservation of Vertebrates at the Federal University of Amapá, Macapá, Brazil. Member of the British Ecological Society. Her research focuses on understanding the effects of anthropogenic disturbance on Neotropical mid sized and large-bodied vertebrates. She is particularly interested in ecology and conservation of mammals, and in understanding human-wildlife conflicts in the Brazilian Amazon.

Hope A Michelsen

Distinguished Member of the Technical Staff in the Combustion Research Facility at Sandia National Laboratories. A.B. in Chemistry from Dartmouth College, Ph.D. in Chemistry with a minor in Physics from Stanford University. Elected Fellow of the Optical Society (OSA).

My current research interests include developing and using optical and X-ray techniques for studying the chemistry of combustion-generated particles inside the combustor and their evolution after release into the atmosphere. My research experience includes gas-surface scattering experiments, atmospheric modeling, soot-formation studies, combustion-diagnostics development, atmospheric black-carbon measurements, and greenhouse-gas source attribution.

Sumit Middha

Providing translational genomics + bioinformatics solutions for Next Generation Sequencing (NGS) big-data applications and interpretation of human variation for functional genomics and precision medicine.

Koji Mikami

Prof. Koji Mikami is Professor of Department of Food Resource Development in School of Food Industrial Sciences at Miyagi University, Japan. He is also President of the Japanese Society of Applied Phycology. Prof. Mikami received his PhD in Plant Science from Hokkaido University in 1990. His area of expertise focuses on the physiology and molecular biology of development and environmental stress response in seaweeds, and the biotechnology of seaweeds (gene transfer and genetic transformation, application of seaweed genes for land green plants).

Alexander S Mikheyev

I am principally interested in how ecological forces shape genomic evolution. To do this I have been taking advantage of ongoing developments in sequencing technology. I try to remain on the cutting edge of this fast-moving field by developing new molecular and analytical methods for sequencing, with a particular focus on degraded DNA, such as in museum specimens. I choose study organisms for their suitability to the project at hand, and have worked on everything from microorganisms, to insects to snakes. Despite this diversity, much of my work has focused on the biology of social insects, and they remain a personal passion.

A. Harvey Millar

Professor of Plant Biochemistry and Director of The Comparative Analysis of Biomolecular Networks Research and Training Centre (CABiN) at the University of Western Australia. Editorial Board Member: The Journal of Biological Chemistry, Plant Methods, The Arabidopsis Book. Recipient of the 2012 Fenner Medal for Biology from Australian Academy of Science; Science Minister's Prize -Life Scientist of the Year 2005, Australian Federal Government.