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.
Mirela Sedic
Dr Mirela Sedic (born Bauman) is Principal Scientist at the Institute for Anthropological Research Zagreb. She has authored over 50 scientific publications in peer-reviewed journals including high-impact journals such as BBA Molecular Basis of Disease, Molecular Cancer, The Journal of Pathology, Molecular Cancer Therapeutics, Journal of Medicinal Chemistry, European Journal of Medicinal Chemistry and Cancer Treatment Reviews.
She was the co-PI of international collaborative project with Functional Genomics Center Zurich in Switzerland (PRIME-XS-0000184 Proteomic profiling of retinal proteins from rat model of age-related macular degeneration 2012-2014) and the PI of the University of Rijeka grant “Screening and biological evaluation of acid ceramidase and sphingosine kinase inhibitors as a new class of anti-tumour agents” (2014 – 2017). She is currently the PI of the project funded by the Croatian Science Foundation “Dissecting the mechanisms of therapy resistance in BRAF-mutant colon cancer using an integrated –omics approach” (2019 – 2023) and the PI of the University of Rijeka research grant “Molecular features associated with BRAFV600E-mutated versus wild type BRAF colorectal cancer” (2019-2022). She is also the PI of the project No. 3238 - EPIC-XS 012: “Proteomic analysis of acquired resistance to vemurafenib in BRAF V600E–mutant colon cancer cells” (2019 - 2022) in collaboration with the Functional Genomics Center Zurich in Switzerland.
Violaine Sée
Violaine See completed her doctorate on progammed cell death signaling at the University of Strasbourg (France). After a post-doctoral position in Liverpool on NF-kappaB dynamics she obtained a Fellowship to work on intracellular signalling dynamics at the University of Liverpool. She now leads a research group focusing on cellular adaptation to low oxygen levels and the dynamics of hypoxia inducible factor using single cell imaging and advanced fluorescence microscopy
Erik R Seiffert
Erik Seiffert's research is focused on the phylogenetic relationships, adaptations, and historical biogeography of mammals, with an emphasis on the endemic placental mammals of Africa and Arabia. He has a B.A. from the University of California at Berkeley (1995), an M.A. from the University of Texas at Austin (1998), and a Ph.D. from Duke University (2003). He was previously Lecturer in Palaeobiology and Palaeoenvironments at University of Oxford and Curator of Geological Collections at the Oxford University Museum of Natural History (2004-2007), Assistant and Associate Professor of Anatomical Sciences at Stony Brook University (2007-2016), and is now a Professor of Integrative Anatomical Sciences at the Keck School of Medicine of the University of Southern California (2016-Present). He is also a Research Associate at the Duke Lemur Center's Division of Fossil Primates and in the Department of Mammalogy, Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County.
Lennart Seizer
Dr. Lennart Seizer is a a biologist, psychologist, neuro immunologist, and post-doctoral research fellow at the University of Tübingen, Germany.
Dr. Seizer's areas of expertise include psycho neuroimmunology, time-series analysis, and ambulatory assessment.
Federica Semprucci
Dr. Federica Semprucci is a Researcher with the Department of Biomolecular Sciences of the University of Urbino. Her research interests include analysis of invertebrate biodiversity, taxonomic identification of nematodes, and ecological quality assessment of ecosystems by means of nematode bioindicators.
Yosuke Senju
Dr. Yosuke Senju received his BS in Physics from Tohoku University. He obtained his PhD in Physics from the Department of Physics, Graduate School of Science, Tohoku University, where he studied actin cytoskeleton and myosin motor protein in membrane dynamics. He studied lipid–protein interactions as a postdoc and an assistant professor at the University of Tokyo, and as a postdoc at University of Helsinki.
He is currently a lecturer at the Research Institute for Interdisciplinary Science at Okayama University.
His research focuses on membrane–cytoskeleton interface to understand lipid–protein interactions using biophysical techniques and structural biology.
Florian Sennlaub
Senior staff researcher at the French National Institute of Health Research (Inserm). Head of the therapeutics department and director of the research team "Inflammation, degeneration and vascular remodelling in retinal disease" at the Vision Institute in Paris. Recipient of a ERC starting grant.
Ahmet Tansel Serim
Dr. Ahmet Tansel Serim is an Associate Professor at Bilecik Seyh Edebali University. Turkey. He completed his B.Sc. in Plant Protection at Ankara University in 1997, and his Ph.D. in Weed Science at Ankara University in 2010.
Dr. Serim has worked at the Plant Protection Central Research Institute as an agricultural engineer, Directorate of Testing Agricultural Machinery and Tools, and General Directorate of Agricultural Research and Policy. He has also been a visiting researcher at Tuscia University, researching sustainable soil and water management.
Dr. Serim's research interests include weed science, weed biology and ecology, weed management strategies, herbicides, herbicide resistance, integrated weed management, rare arable weeds, weed suppression, allelopathy, cropping systems, population dynamics, carryover of herbicides, water stress-effects on crops and selectivity of herbicides.
Emmanuel Serrano
Dr. Emmanuel Serrano is Associate Professor and wildlife ecologist at the Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona. He leads th
He leads the Wildlife Ecology & Health (WE&H) group and is a member of the SEFaS at the UAB.
Hhis research integrates different disciplines to address wildlife disease and management issues.
Maria R. Servedio
Associate Professor of Biology at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. Council member for the Society for the Study of Evolution. Member of the Operations Committee for the National Evolutionary Synthesis Center (NESCent). Recipient of the Young Investigators Award from the American Society of Naturalists.
Tavpritesh Sethi
Dr. Tavpritech Sethi is founding Head of Center of Excellence in Healthcare at IIIT-Delhi. Associate Professor in the Department of Computational Biology. Clinician Data Scientist. Fellow of the DBT/Wellcome India Alliance and the Kavli Foundation (National Academy of Sciences, USA).
Dr. Sethi specializes in improving outcomes in neonatal, child and maternal health by bridging medicine and artificial intelligence. His research is focused on development and deployment of machine-learning based solutions to enable decisions and policy in pressing healthcare questions such as antimicrobial resistance, sepsis and health inequalities in intensive care and public health settings.
Joao C Setubal
João Setubal is full professor in the Biochemistry Department of the Institute of Chemistry at the University of São Paulo, Brazil. Setubal has a PhD in Computer Science (1992) from the University of Washington (USA). He was a faculty member at the University of Campinas (Unicamp, Brazil) (1992-2004), then Associate Professor at the Biocomplexity Institute of Virginia Tech, USA (formerly the Virginia Bioinformatics Institute) (2004-2011), where he still is an Adjunct Faculty. His research interests are in computational tools for genomics, metagenomics, and transcriptomics, and applications of such tools primarily in microbiology and microbial ecology.