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.
Jeremy A. Simpson
Assistant Professor, University of Guelph. Editorial board, Frontiers in Respiratory Physiology
Alison J Sinclair
BSc in Biochemistry from UCL London UK; PhD Cancer Virology at the Imperial Cancer Research Fund, London UK; post-doctoral fellowship at the European Molecular Biology Laboratory in Heidelberg, Germany, researching transcription; post-doctoral fellowship and assistant member of staff at the Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research in London, investigating a transcription factor network in Epstein-Barr virus and cell cycle regulation. Faculty School of Life Sciences at the University of Sussex, UK.
Michael S. Singer
Professor of Biology and Environmental Studies at Wesleyan University. Research focus on the role of tri-trophic interactions in evolutionary, community, and food web ecology. Additional specific expertise in plant-insect interactions and Lepidoptera.
Amit Singh
Dr. Singh received his B.Sc. from the Government Degree College Nahan, H.P. University, India and his M.Sc. and Ph.D from Devi Ahilya University, Indore, India. After a short stint as a Research Associate in the field of Trangenics of silkworm, Bombyx mori, in Indian Institute of Sciences (IISc.), Bangalore, India, Dr. Singh moved to Academic Sinica Taiwan to pursue post doctoral research in the field of eye development using Drosophila melanogaster model system. In 2002, Dr. Singh moved to Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas to further pursue his work on Drosophila eye development and was promoted to an instructor (non-tenure track faculty) position in 2004. Dr. Singh was hired at University of Dayton as a tenure track assistant professor in 2007 and promoted to associate professor in 2013. To date, he has published one book and 52 papers.
Himanshu Singh
Presently, I am working as a Senior Research Scientist at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, USA. My research interest includes “epigenetics and transcriptional regulation”. My research work is focused on exploring microenvironment of high-grade tumors arise in the overall course of the disease and in relation to treatment.
During 2021-22, I worked as Postdoctoral Research Scientist at Columbia University, New York, US. My work was to explore differences between regulatory networks involved in cancer and normal tissues using bioinformatics and computational biology. Earlier, I was working as Post-Doc at TAGC, INSERM, Aix Marseille University, Marseille, France during 2018-21. My research work was focused on the Identification of Epromoters, promoters showing enhancer activity, like clusters in various stress conditions. We have developed a pipeline to identify Epromoter like clusters. During 2016-18, I worked as Research Associate at CSIR-Institute of Genomics & Integrative Biology, New Delhi, India. My work was focused on the identification and validation of genetic and epigenetic biomarkers for high altitude phenotypes using bioinformatics approaches. I pursued my Ph.D. work at the Department of Biochemistry, All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), New Delhi, India, and earned my Ph.D. degree from NIU, India in 2016.
In my tenure, I have published around FIFTY Articles. In addition to this, I was awarded an Independent Research Project from the Indian Council of Medical Research, India. I was also an Invited Researcher (two times) at the Department of Medical Chemistry, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria. I was also awarded various travel grants from Indian and overseas funding agencies to present my research work.
Kashmir Singh
Dr. Kashmir Singh is a Professor in the department of biotechnology, Panjab University, Chandigarh. With a focus on Plant biotechnology, his research interests span, metabolic engineering of secondary metabolites and biotic and abiotic stress tolerance in plants.
Early in his career, he received the Marie Curie Fellowship from European commission on biotechnology. Later, he received International Research Associateship at Missouri state University, USA. He was also a visiting scientist of McGill University, Montreal Canada, where he worked in the area of stress tolerance in cereal crops. Recently he was awarded INSA bilateral exchange fellowship to Poland. His major contribution in research work was understanding the molecular aspects of secondary metabolism in medicinal plants such as chlorophytum borivilianum, Phyllanthus emblica, Saussaurea lappa etc. He is also studying fungal resistance in grapes by identifying molecular markers, genes and non-coding RNAs associated with biotic stress tolerance.
He has guided 21 Ph.D. and 25 M.Sc. students and has over 90 publications. He is member of board of studies, research degree committees, reviewer of international journals and member of grant review committee of USA-Israel BARD grants. He has represented the Institute in international conferences and visited several countries including Poland, USA and Canada.
Anshuman Singh
Dr. Anshuman Singh is a Senior Scientist (Horticulture) at ICAR- Central Institute for Subtropical Horticulture, Lucknow, India. His primary research interests include genetic improvement of tree fruits such as mango, guava and Indian blackberry (jamun) for higher fruit yield and quality, and tolerance to insect-pests, diseases and environmental stresses such as salinity.
Aditya Singh
Aditya Singh is a researcher and academician, presently serving as an Assistant Professor at the Department of Geography in Banaras Hindu University. He is also an External Research Collaborator at the GIRL Centre, Population Council, New York. Dr. Singh has a strong academic background, including a PhD in Health Sciences and Social Work from the University of Portsmouth, United Kingdom, an MPhil in Demography from the International Institute for Population Sciences (IIPS), Mumbai, and an MA and BA in Geography from Banaras Hindu University. Prior to his current position, Dr. Singh held research positions at the University of Portsmouth, UK, Oxford Policy Management, IIPS Mumbai, and Public Health Foundation of India, New Delhi. Dr. Singh's research work is focused on the geographies of health and healthcare, social determinants of health, and socioeconomic inequalities in health and healthcare. He has published over 30 papers in national and international journals, including Lancet Psychiatry, Health Policy and Planning, PLOS One, Journal of Public Health, Social Science and Medicine, Journal of Biosocial Science, and BMC Health Services Research, among others. He has also co-edited a book on 'Urban Poverty in India' with Dr. Olivier Brito, his collaborator from the University of Paris. He has delivered numerous oral and posters presentations in international conferences held in various countries such as USA, UK, Brazil, France, Italy, and UAE. He is currently a member of the editorial boards for several prestigious public health journals, including PLOS Global Public Health, PLOS One, PeerJ Life & Environment, Frontiers in Public Health, and BMC Public Health.
Reema Singh
I am a computational Biologist/Bioinformatician with more than 14 years of research experience. I obtained my Master's and Ph.D. degrees in “Bioinformatics” from Chaudhary Charan Singh Haryana Agricultural University (Hisar, India) in 2006 and Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU, New Delhi, India) in 2015, respectively. I worked as Scientist-1 in the “Biomedical Informatics center” at the Indian Council of Medical Research (New Delhi, India) from 2006 to 2012. During my stay in ICMR, I developed an antimicrobial resistance (AMR) gene database of ß-lactamase proteins (Dlact) from 814 publically available bacterial genomes. This database contains 2020 ß-lactamases which were further classified using graph-based clustering of best bidirectional hits to identify the group-specific signature of ß-lactamases.
I moved to Scotland (United Kingdom) in 2013 for my first postdoc in Bioinformatics at the University of Dundee. In my first postdoc, I performed the bioinformatics analysis of next-generation data generated from various projects related to the model organism Dictyostelium discoideum (which aims to probe the genetic pathways involved in different stages of development). In 2017, I joined the university of Saskatchewan for a second postdoc to work on a research project entitled “A Disruptive Whole Genome Sequencing Platform for the Simultaneous Identification and Characterization of Multiple Sexually Transmitted Pathogens”. As a part of the project, I have developed a computational Whole Genome Sequencing (WGS) pipeline, named Gen2Epi, to link full genomes to antimicrobial susceptibility and molecular epidemiological data in Neisseria gonorrhoeae. In my current position (since March 2022) as Bioinformatician and Data Manager at the Vaccine and Infectious Disease Organization, I am applying my bioinformatics skills to understand host response to viral infections.
Ram Babu Singh
Dr. R.B. Singh is Professor of Geography, at the Delhi School of Economics, University of Delhi. Dr. Singh is Chairman of the Research Council-CSIR- Central Food Technological Research Institute, Mysore; Member of the Research Council-CSIR-CIMAP, Lucknow; Member of the International Council for science (ICSU) Scientific Committee-UHW.
Prof. Singh is Vice-President of the International Geographical Union (IGU) since 2012. He is a Member IAP Working Group for statement on Science and Technology for DRR. He was awarded JSPS Research Fellowship and others for presenting papers and Chairing sessions in more than 40 countries. He has to his credit 13 books, 33 edited research volumes and more than 200 research papers. He was as one of the contributors in the famous-The World Atlas, Australia.
He has supervised 32 Ph.D. and 77 M.Phil students. In 1988 the UNESCO/ISSC (Paris) awarded him Research and Study Grants Award in Social and Human Sciences. He is expert in the prestigious Committees of the Government of India- Ministry of Environment and Forests, Department of Science and Technology, National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA).
Ajay K Singh
Dr. Ajay Singh completed his Ph.D. in Respiratory Medicine (Virology) from King George’s Medical University (KGMU), India, where he researched viral-induced COPD exacerbation.
Currently, he is working in the Oncology, Immunology, and Microbiology Department at Albert Einstein College of Medicine, New York, USA, where he is studying the role of complement proteins in liver cancer.
He has experience in researching Cystic fibrosis to investigate the CFTR-NHERF2-LPA2 complex's role in neutrophil infiltration and lung inflammation at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center, USA. He has also worked on diabetes, where he evaluated human islets and mice transplanted with human islets to understand islet biology and diabetes at Vanderbilt University Medical Center, USA.
Sutthirat Sitthisak
Dr. Sutthirat Sitthisak is an Associate Professor of Microbiology in the Department of Microbiology and Paraitology at Naresuan University.
Her research interests include molecular characterization of antibiotic resistance and virulence genes in Methicillin resistant Staphylococci, Acinetobacter baumannii and Morganella morganii, and molecular characterization of Acinetobacter baumannii, Stenotrophomonas maltophilia and Escherichia coli bacteriophages: applications in medicine and biocontrol.