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.
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.
Gabriela Parra Olea
Full time Professor at the Instituto de Biologia, Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico.
Giuseppe Parrella
Dr. Giuseppe Parrella is a Senior Researcher at the Institute for Sustainable Plant Protection of CNR, Italy.
Dr. Parrella's primary areas of expertise include plant virology, specifically with particular reference to bio-molecular characterization, diagnostics and epidemiology. He also considers Phytoplasmas and viroids among his study interests.
Dr. Parrella's current research topics include the study of the biological-molecular variability of the main viruses of horticultural, ornamental and aromatic crops; the development and validation of sensitive and highly specific diagnostic methods for the rapid diagnosis of viruses, with particular reference to emerging or recently introduced viruses and spread throughout the national territory (RT-PCR, cold probes, LAMP, real time RT-PCR, etc. .). Other interests of Dr. Parrella concern the research and characterization of sources of resistance to viruses in wild or cultivated germplasm; the use of beneficial microorganisms and their metabolites in the control of viroses; the identification and characterization of mitochondrial variants of Bemisia tabaci and of the associated geminiviruses and endosymbionts; the study of the impact of phytoviruses on human health.
Darren M Parsons
Darren completed degrees at the University of Auckland where he used acoustic tracking technology to study fish movement within a marine reserve. He then completed a PhD at North Carolina State University where he investigated the effect of a recreational fishery on spiny lobster. Since 2006 Darren has been at NIWA, where he has investigated a range of fish ecology projects, focusing on the value of juvenile fish nurseries and climate change effects on fish larvae. More recently Darren's work has focused on fisheries monitoring projects such as describing the age distribution of inshore fisheries and estimating relative indices of abundance via trawl and potting survey's and CPUE analyses. In 2017 Darren was co-appointed through the University of Auckland's Joint Graduate School in Coastal and Marine Science.
Anup Singh Pathania
Dr. Anup Pathania is an Assistant Professor at the University of Nebraska Medical Center (UNMC).
His research interests include non-coding RNAs in cancer, pharmacology, and immunology. He is currently investigating the underlying mechanisms in the stabilization of PD-L1 by exosomal non-coding RNAs in neuroblastoma cells within the tumor microenvironment.
Santosh K Patnaik
After completing my training as a physician, I enrolled in a Ph.D. program to become a biomedical researcher. My doctoral training, in the broad field of biochemistry, and cell and molecular biology, focused on mechanisms of glycosylation, which is altered in diseases such as cancer and neuromuscular dystrophy. My current primary research focus is on RNA editing, and on microRNAs.
Robert S Paton
After graduating top of his year in Natural Sciences at the University of Cambridge, Rob obtained his PhD in 2008 with Jonathan Goodman in Cambridge working on the automated parameterization of molecular mechanics methods to study stereoselective C-C bond formation. In 2008 he took up an independent Junior Research Fellowship at St Catharine’s College, Cambridge, and courtesy of an HPC-Europa award in 2009 spent time in the group of Feliu Maseras at ICIQ, Spain.
As recipient of the UK’s’ Fulbright-AstraZeneca Fellowship and a Science Fellowship from the Royal Commission of the Exhibition of 1851, Rob conducted postdoctoral research with K. N. Houk at the University of California, Los Angeles from 2009-2010. In 2010 Rob was appointed to a University Lectureship and Tutorial Fellowship at Oxford, progressing to Associate Professor in the Department of Chemistry in 2014. In 2018 he moved to Colorado State University as an Associate Professor. Rob has received the MGMS Silver Jubilee Prize, the RSC Harrison-Meldola Memorial Prize and an ACS OpenEye Outstanding Junior Faculty Award.
Surya Paudel
Dr. Surya Paudel is an Assistant Professor (Poultry) at the Department of Infectious Diseases and Public Health, City University of Hong Kong. He is a veterinarian and obtained his PhD degree in poultry medicine from the University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna, Austria in 2015. Dr. Paudel is a resident at the European College of Poultry Veterinary Science within the European Board of Veterinary Specialization. He is also serving as a member of methodology task force for drafting “Veterinary guidelines on antimicrobial use in poultry colibacillosis” in the European Network for Optimization of Veterinary Antimicrobial Treatment (ENOVAT) programme. Previously, he worked as a postdoctoral researcher at Clinic for Poultry and Fish Medicine, University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna (2015-2022). In addition, his work experience includes conservation and management of critically endangered wildlife species, in particular, in restoring the natural population of dramatically declining vultures in South East Asia (2008-2010).
Ana Pavasovic
Dr. Pavasovic is an academic in the School of Biomedical Sciences at QUT. Her research interests are primarily in the area of physiological and functional genomics of marine invertebrates. Dr. Pavasovic uses molecular and bioinformatic approaches to answer questions relating to stress physiology and novel gene evolution in animal systems.
George N. Pavlakis
MD, University of Athens, Greece
PhD, Syracuse University, NY
Chief of the Human Retrovirus Section of the National Cancer Institute, USA
Interests: HIV pathogenesis, Molecular Biology, gene regulation, Biotechnology, protein engineering, cytokines, Immunotherapy, Vaccines, Nucleic acid vaccines, gene therapy
Ajinkya M Pawar
Dr. Ajinkya Pawar is a dedicated researcher and enthusiastic adopter of new technologies which improve treatment results both for doctors and patients. He has decided to dedicate his work life to broaden and expand his knowledge for Endodontics. In his young span as Endodontist, he has already published more than 90 scientific studies in both National and International Indexed Journals with high Impact Factors, and a few more in press and under preparation, together with high ranked International Researchers.
He is passionate about learning new developments in Endodontics and he has travelled around the world pursuing this passion. He has attended various numerous National and International Conferences as a Student, Delegate, Keynote/Guest Speaker, Chairperson, and Moderator. He also serves as the Editorial Board member of various journals.
Dr. Ajinkya has been awarded with Fellowship by Pierre Fauchard Academy (India and USA Section) in 2016, Best Endodontist of the Year 2016, 2017, 2019 by FamDent India and India's Young Dental Researcher of the Year 2017.
Godfrey D Pearlson
Professor of Psychiatry and Neurobiology at Yale University School of Medicine and founding Director of the Olin Neuropsychiatry Research Center at the Institute of Living, Hartford, CT. Medical school, University of Newcastle/Tyne, UK. Graduate degree in philosophy, Columbia University, NY. Psychiatry chief residency & postdoctoral training, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD. Founding Director & Professor, Division of Psychiatry Neuroimaging, Johns Hopkins SOM.