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.
Steven YC Tong
Infectious diseases physician at the Victorian Infectious Diseases Service, Royal Melbourne Hospital. Co-head Translational and Clinical Research and Co-head Indigenous Health at Doherty Institute for Infection and Immunity, University of Melbourne. Deputy Chair of the Australasian Society for Infectious Diseases Clinical Research Network.
Jonathan D Tonkin
My research is focused around what promotes and maintains biodiversity at a range of spatial scales. Much of my work focuses on stream ecosystems, but my interests are question focused, not system specific. While my central interest lies in disentangling the mechanisms that structure metacommunities, I also tackle questions ranging from local to global, and from community ecology through to macroecology. I focus on a variety of basic ecological concepts and processes, including linkages between disturbance, productivity and diversity, biodiversity loss, ecosystem function, dispersal, and community assembly. I also aim to tackle applied ecological issues such as global change, land-use change, river regulation, and restoration, with the goal of applying ecological theory to effectively manage threatened ecosystems. My current research ties these issues together into the following three main themes: 1) Metacommunity ecology; 2) Global change ecology and macroecology; and 3) Restoration ecology. In light of these three themes, I am particularly focusing on the unique hierarchical and dendritic structure of river networks, and how this structure influences the biodiversity patterns of river communities.
Robert J Toonen
Research professor of Marine Biology at the Hawaii Institute of Marine Biology in the School of Ocean & Earth Sciences & Technology at the University of Hawaii at Manoa.
Jeffrey A. Toretsky
Professor of Pediatrics and Oncology at Georgetown Universitys Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center in Washington, DC. Leads the Molecular Oncology Program. Board certified in Pediatric Hematology/Oncology. Received the Burroughs-Wellcome Clinical Scientist Award in Translational Research in 2008.
Ali Torkamani
Dr. Torkamani obtained his undergraduate degree in chemistry at Stanford University, where he received a Bing Foundation Chemistry Research Fellowship, and his doctorate in biomedical sciences at the University of California, San Diego under the mentorship of Dr. Nicholas Schork as an NIH Genetics Predoctoral Training awardee. In 2008, he joined the Scripps Translational Science Institute as a Research Scientist and Donald C. and Elizabeth M. Dickinson Fellow, and shortly thereafter as an Assistant Professor of Molecular and Experimental Medicine and Mario R. Alvarez Fellow. As an Assistant Professor Dr. Torkamani received a Blasker Science and Technology and PhRMA Foundation Award. In 2012, Dr. Torkamani advanced to Director of Genome Informatics at STSI where he leads various human genome sequencing and other genomics initiatives. Dr. Torkamani is also co-founder and Chief Scientific Officer of Cypher Genomics, Inc.
Dr. Torkamani’s research covers a broad range of areas centered on the use of genomic technologies to identify the genetic etiology and underlying mechanisms of human disease in order to define precision therapies for diseased individuals. Major focus areas include human genome interpretation and genetic dissection of novel rare diseases, predictive genomic signatures of response to therapy – especially cancer therapy, and novel sequencing-based assays as biomarkers of disease.
Zoltán Tóth
My current research focuses on investigating whether or not the utilization of social information is taxonomically widespread, beneficial in different ecological conditions, and independent of permanent group-living similarly to the exploitation of other biotic or abiotic cues in the environment. I use several model systems to test related predictions in the contexts of foraging and predator avoidance, and build individual-based models to investigate how social information-mediated behavioural adjustments may affect population dynamics and species interactions.
Nicola Traverso
Dr. Nicola Traverso is an Associate Professor within the Department of Experimental Medicine at the University of Genova.
Andrew Tredennick
I am a quantitative ecologist interested in ecological forecasting and the stability of populations, communities, and ecosystems. I have expertise in statistical analyses of ecological systems, population modeling, and the analysis of remote sensing data to address environmental problems.
João Paulo Mendes Tribst
Dr. Tribst is a passionate dentist with Master's and PhD in restorative dentistry, with a specialty in dental prosthesis, from São Paulo State University. He has experience in dentistry with an emphasis on dental materials, dental prosthesis, dental ceramics, finite element analysis, dental implants, and mouthguards. He completed a sandwich PhD at ACTA (Academisch Centrum Tandheelkunde Amsterdam), School of Dentistry at Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, Netherlands from 09/2018 to 09/2019. He is an Assistant Professor in the Academisch Centrum Tandheelkunde Amsterdam (ACTA).
Ralph A Tripp
Dr. Tripp joined the University of Georgia in 2004 from the Centers of Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in Atlanta. He is a Professor and Georgia Research Alliance Eminent Scholar working in vaccine and therapeutic studies in the Department of Infectious Diseases at UGA.
Research interests include understanding the mechanisms of immunity and disease pathogenesis associated with respiratory virus infection, and using this information to develop therapeutic protocols and vaccines that will confer long-term protective immunity.
Brett Trost
Dr. Brett Trost is a Scientist in the Molecular Medicine Program at the Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Canada. He is a computational biologist with a particular interest in human genetics.
Lucy J Troup
Dr. Lucy J. Troup is a chartered psychologist (CPsychol) in the Strategic Hub for Psychology, Social Work, Health Behaviours and Addictions at the University of the West of Scotland. She is also holds an Affiliate Faculty appointment at Colorado State University, Colorado, USA. Her research focus is centered round Emotion Processing using Event Related Potentials to better understand the endogenous and exogenous variables that influence emotional expression recognition. Currently the main emphasis in the Troup lab is to understand how Cannabis effects emotion processing.
Dr. Troup received her Undergraduate degree in Psychology form the University of Plymouth in the UK. Her graduate work, translational M.Sc. in Intelligent Systems and Ph.D in Computational and Cognitive Neuroscience were also awarded from the University of Plymouth under the direction of Prof. Mike Denham, Professor Emeritus Center for Theoretical and Computational Neuroscience.