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Michael Olson
PeerJ Editor & Reviewer
235 Points

Contributions by role

Reviewer 35
Editor 200

Contributions by subject area

Molecular Biology
Hematology
Biochemistry
Cell Biology
Bioinformatics

Michael F Olson

PeerJ Editor & Reviewer

Summary

Professor and Tier 1 Canada Research Chair in the Department of Chemistry and Biology of Ryerson University in Toronto Canada. Professor Olson's lab has focused on characterizing how Rho GTPase signalling pathways contribute to cancer, with the ultimate goal of identifying critical elements that could be targeted with small molecule inhibitors. Editor in Chief of the journal Small GTPases, and on the editorial boards of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Journal of Molecular Medicine, PLoS One, Scientific Reports. Science Proceedings, F1000 Research and PeerJ. Elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Biology.

Cell Biology

Editorial Board Member

PeerJ - the Journal of Life & Environmental Sciences

Past or current institution affiliations

Ryerson Polytechnic University
University of Glasgow

Work details

Professor

Ryerson Polytechnic University
July 2004 - March 2018
Chemistry and Biology

Websites

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PeerJ Contributions

  • Edited 2
  • Reviewed 1

Academic Editor on

February 10, 2022
Depletion of RIPK4 parallels higher malignancy potential in cutaneous squamous cell carcinoma
Jing Xu, Dongping Wu, Bicheng Zhang, Chi Pan, Yinglu Guo, Qichun Wei
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.12932 PubMed 35186499
August 25, 2021
Importance of experimental information (metadata) for archived sequence data: case of specific gene bias due to lag time between sample harvest and RNA protection in RNA sequencing
Tomoko Matsuda
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.11875 PubMed 34527435

Signed reviews submitted for articles published in PeerJ Note that some articles may not have the review itself made public unless authors have made them open as well.

January 16, 2019
CRISPR/Cas9-mediated deletion of the Wiskott-Aldrich syndrome locus causes actin cytoskeleton disorganization in murine erythroleukemia cells
Vanessa Fernández-Calleja, María-José Fernández-Nestosa, Pablo Hernández, Jorge B. Schvartzman, Dora B. Krimer
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.6284 PubMed 30671311