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.
Feng Pan
Dr. Pan is a Senior Research Fellow at Menzies Institute for Medical Research. He has been researching both epidemiology and clinical interventions to osteoarthritis-related pain. Much of his work has been on identifying biomechanical risk factors for chronic pain and osteoarthritis, identifying pain and osteoarthritis phenotypes and testing new therapeutic treatments.
Vera Pancaldi
I was trained as a physicist at Imperial College London and soon found my way in systems and computational biology. Since 2018 I lead a computational biology team at the Cancer Research Center of Toulouse (CRCT) working on modelling cancer and its interactions with the immune system.
I have worked on various projects on stress response in fission yeast and prediction of protein interactions (in the group of Jurg Bahler at Sanger Institute/University College London), epigenomics and hybrid vigour in plants (with David Baulcombe at Cambridge University) and integrative epigenomics in cancer (with Alfonso Valencia at CNIO, Madrid and Barcelona Supercomputing Center). My main current focus is understanding the relationship between genome architecture and heterogeneity at various levels and relating heterogeneity of tumour infiltrating immune cells to patient's prognoses in different cancers. I also co-founded Cambridge Networks Network in 2011, an online forum for scientists interested in networks in Cambridge in beyond.
Anna Panchenko
National Center for Biotechnology Information, National Institutes of Health. Editor, Journal of Molecular Biology
Amaresh Chandra Panda
Dr. Panda obtained his Ph.D. in Biotechnology from National Centre for Cell Science, University of Pune, India. He worked as a Postdoctoral Fellow for five years at the National Institute on Aging, National Institutes of Health (NIH), Baltimore, USA. He also worked as an Assistant Scientist at the University of Miami, Miami, USA, and as a Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Colorado, Denver, USA. His studies have uncovered new mechanistic details of the post-transcriptional regulation by RNA-binding proteins, microRNAs, and circular RNAs in physiological processes, including insulin production, myogenesis, and cellular senescence. In 2019, he was awarded the prestigious Intermediate Fellowship by Wellcome Trust/DBT India Alliance. Currently, he is working as a Scientist-D at ILS Bhubaneswar under the Department of Biotechnology, Government of India. His research group at ILS is working to understand the role of poorly characterized circRNAs in muscle regeneration and insulin biosynthesis.
Renu Pandey
Dr. Renu Pandey is Principal Scientist at ICAR-Indian Agricultural Research Institute, New Delhi. The focus of her team is on mineral nutrition of crop plants, exploring the physiological and molecular mechanisms, and identifying superior ‘donors’ and ‘traits’ for nitrogen and phosphorus use efficiency in crops such as rice, wheat, maize, soybean, mungbean, and sesame. The functional characterization of uncharacterized genes identified from leaf proteome which were differentially expressed during foliar absorption of iron, and from root proteome in response to phosphorus starvation in soybean is underway. The interaction between nutrients and other abiotic stresses like drought, high temperature, and CO2 are also under investigation. In the area of genomics of plant nutrition, Dr. Pandey's team are conducting genome-wide and candidate gene association studies for phosphorus and nitrogen use efficiency in wheat and rice. Her lab is fully equipped to carry out physiological, biochemical, and molecular studies with the facility for field phenotyping using handheld instruments, and hydroponics system.
Santosh Pandey
Dr. Santosh Pandey is an Associate Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Iowa State University.
His research areas include bioengineering, microelectronics, microfluidics, sensors, machine intelligence, plant pathology, electrophysiology, data analytics, and drug screening.
Pierpaolo Pani
Dr. Pierpaolo Pani is a Associate Professor within the Department of Physiology and Pharmacology, SAPIENZA, University of Rome. He received a MSc in Experimental Psychology and PhD in Neurophysiolgy (Behavioral and Integrative) at Sapienza University (Rome), and was a post-doc in KULeuven (Laboratory for Neuro- and Psychophysiology).
Dr. Pani's main topics of investigation include Cognitive control, executive functions, goal-oriented behavior and decision making. These topics include behavioral and psychophysiological investigations in humans; behavioral and neuronal dynamics investigations in mammals; characterization of executive functions control in psychiatric conditions.
Kalliope K Papadopoulou
Kalliope K. Papadopoulou is a Professor in Plant Biotechnology at the Department of Biochemistry and Biotechnology, Laboratory of Plant and Environmental Biotechnology, University of Thessaly. She has a first degree in Biology, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki and a PhD in Plant Molecular Biology from the Department of Agricultural Biotechnology, Agricultural University of Athens.
Her main research interests are in plant-microbe interactions, with emphasis on: the molecular basis of symbiotic interactions of plants with soil microorganisms, including multi-partite interactions, and their effect on plant responses to abiotic and biotic stresses; She also has long term experience in plant specialized metabolis (biosynthesis, production in heterologous systems, metabolic engineering in plant systems), focusing lately on the functional roles of plant natural products in beneficial rhizosphere interactions.
Spyridon Ν. Papageorgiou
Spyros Papageorgiou’s main scientific interests encompass biological and mechanical aspects of orthodontic treatment, giving emphasis in improving treatment outcome and reducing treatment duration and side-effects. His focus is on evidence-based orthodontics founded on systematic reviews with conventional meta-analysis or network meta-analysis of randomized clinical trials, clinical trials assessing the comparative effectiveness or adverse effects of different orthodontic treatment modalities, factors influencing the length and outcome of orthodontic treatment, sources of bias in clinical research in orthodontics, optimization of treatment mechanics to enhance their efficiency by investigating clinical scenarios with numerical (finite element) simulations, and the effect of health and systematic diseases on the biology of orthodontic tooth movement.
Danai Papageorgiou
Danai is a behavioural ecologist interested in how group living animals coordinate their lives together. She did her PhD at the Max Planck Institute of Animal Behaviour and the University of Konstanz, on the social structure and collective decision making of wild vulturine guineafowl. She was then a postdoc at the Department of Evolutionary Biology and Environmental Studies, at the University for Zurich on the vulturine guineafowl project (2021-2022). After her first postdoc, she became a fellow at the College for Life Sciences at the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin (2022-2023) working on how animal societies respond to the rise of inequality. Danai is now a Marie Curie Research Fellow at the Universities of Bristol and Zurich researching how the ability of individual male bottlenose dolphins to synchronise during motor and acoustic displays is linked to their reproductive success and how epigenetics shape this link.
Anurag N Paranjape
Passionate about understanding the mechanisms governing cancer metastasis with a hope of finding new targetable pathways. Have worked on breast cancer stem cells, EMT, prostate cancer stem cells, breast cancer brain metastasis, and blood-brain barriers.
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.