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Editorial Advisors and Editorial Board Members

Editorial Board Members

Bioengineering

Jackson ChamperPeking University, China

Cancer Biology

Zhihui LiuNational Cancer Institute, USA
Greg Longmore, Washington University, USA
Soulafa MamloukCharité – University Hospital Berlin, Germany
Fu WangXi’an Jiaotong University, China
Shengtao ZhouSichuan University, China

Computational and Systems Biology

Kumar Selvarajoo, Bioinformatics Institute, ASTAR, Singapore
Qianqian SongUniversity of Florida, USA

Developmental Biology

Michalis BarkoulasImperial College London, UK
Kristen Kroll, Washington University School of Medicine, USA
Brigitte MalgrangeUniversity of Liège, Belgium
Marc Yeste, University of Girona, Spain
Shuiqiao YuanHuazhong University of Science and Technology, China

Evolutionary Biology

John Brookfield, University of Nottingham, UK
Cristian CapelliUniversity of Parma, Italy
Joel DacksUniversity of Alberta, Canada
Michael Ginger, University of Huddersfield, UK
Eugene Koonin, National Center for Biotechnology Information, USA
Raquel López-AntoñanzasInstitute of Evolutionary Sciences of Montpellier, France
Ferdinand Marlétaz, University College London, UK
Margherita PerilloMarine Biological Laboratory, USA
Rajendhran RajakumarUniversity of Ottawa, Canada
Xiang-Yi Li RichterUniversity of Neuchâtel, Switzerland
Arun SethuramanSan Diego State University, USA
Josefin StillerUniversity of Copenhagen, Denmark

Gene Expression and Regulation

Erin Green, University of Maryland Baltimore County, USA
Marco Mangone, Arizona State University, USA

Genetics and Genomics

Ningbo ChenNorthwest A&F University, China
Guanglin HeWest China Hospital of Sichuan University, China
Ruslan Kalendar, University of Helsinki, Finland
Xiangtao Li, Jilin University, China
Yafei MaoShanghai Jiao Tong University, China
Ben PascoeUniversity of Oxford, UK
Fei ShenBeijing Academy of Agriculture and Forestry Sciences, China
Maojun Wang, Huazhong Agricultural University, China
Zhongying ZhaoHong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong

Immunology

Joseph LarkinUniversity of Florida, USA
Jérémie Rossy, Biotechnology Institute Thurgau at the University of Konstanz, Switzerland

Meta-Analysis 

Alistair SeniorUniversity of Sydney, Australia

Microbiology

Eric CascalesCentre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Aix-Marseille University, France
Igor IatsenkoMax Planck Institute for Infection Biology, Germany

Molecular and Cell Biology

Senthil ArumugamMonash Biomedicine Discovery Institute, Australia
Jiajie Diao, University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, USA
Yang ZhangHarbin Institute of Technology (Shenzhen), China

Neurobiology

Brian AckleyUniversity of Kansas, USA
Daniel da SilvaIcahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, USA
Ho KoThe Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Jean-Pierre MothetCentre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) - University of Paris-Saclay, France
Louis-Jan (LJ) PilazSanford Research, USA
Estuardo RoblesPurdue University, USA
Sridhar RaviUniversity of New South Wales, Australia

Physiology

Feng HeShanghai University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, China
Erica HeinrichUniversity of California, Riverside School of Medicine, USA
Arpita MukhopadhyaySt. John's Research Institute, India
Kevin MurachUniversity of Arkansas, USA
Gaetano Santulli, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, USA
William Ka Fai TseKyushu University, Japan

Plant Biology

Synan AbuQamarUnited Arab Emirates University, UAE
Sambasivam PeriyannanUniversity of Southern Queensland, Australia
Meiliang ZhouInstitute of Crop Sciences, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, China

Structural Biology and Molecular Biophysics

Lan GuanTexas Tech University Health Sciences Center, USA
Kristina HaslingerUniversity of Groningen, Netherlands
Radhakrishnan MahalakshmiIndian Institute of Science Education and Research Bhopal, India


Editorial Advisors

Biochemistry

Michael Adams, University of Georgia, United States of America

Stephen J. Benkovic, The Pennsylvania State University, United States of America

William Bentley, University of Maryland, United States of America

James E. Cleaver, University of California, San Francisco, United States of America

Philip A. Cole, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, United States of America 

Adrian Elcock, University of Iowa, United States of America

Hermann-Georg Holzhütter, Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Germany

James Wells, University of California, San Francisco, United States of America

 

Bioengineering

James J. Collins, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, United States of America

Shuh Narumiya, Kyoto University, Japan

Laura Segatori, Rice University, United States of America

Mathias Uhlen, AlbaNova University Center, Sweden

 

Cancer Biology

Gregory D. Longmore, Washington University School of Medicine, United States of America

Nahum Sonenberg, McGill University, Canada

Jane Visvader, Walter and Eliza Hall Institute, Australia

Bruce R. Zetter, Harvard Medical School, United States of America

 

Computational and Systems Biology

James Ferrell, Stanford University School of Medicine, United States of America

Anders Krogh, University of Copenhagen, Denmark

Gerard Manning, Genentech, United States of America

Zoltan Oltvai, University of Pittsburgh, United States of America

Michael Springer, Harvard Medical School, United States of America

Masaru Tomita, Keio University, Japan

Michael Zhang, Cold Spring Harbor Lab, United States of America

Steven Wiley, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, United States of America

 

Developmental Biology

Naama Barkai, Weizmann Institute, Israel

Konrad Basler, University of Zürich, Switzerland

Anna-Katerina Hadjantonakis, Sloan-Kettering Institute, United States of America

Peter W.H. Holland, University of Oxford, United Kingdom

Philip Ingham, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

Marc Kirschner, Harvard Medical School, United States of America

Arthur D. Lander, University of California, Irvine, United States of America

Keith E. Mostov, University of California, San Francisco, United States of America

Brian Oliver, National Institutes of Health, United States of America

Paul Sternberg, California Institute of Technology, United States of America

Masatoshi Takeichi, RIKEN Center for Biosystems Dynamics Research, Japan

 

Ecology

Charles Godfray, University of Oxford, United Kingdom

Sönke Johnsen, Duke University, United States of America

Anne Magurran, University of St Andrews, United Kingdom

Shinichi Nakagawa, University of Otago, New Zealand

 

Evolutionary Biology

John M. Archibald, Dalhousie University, Canada

John Brookfield, University of Nottingham, United Kingdom

Dieter Ebert, Basel University, Switzerland

Laurence Hurst, University of Bath, United Kingdom

Francis Jiggins, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom

Alexander Johnson, University of California, San Francisco, United States of America

Eugene Koonin, National Center for Biotechnology Information, NIH, United States of America

Claus Nielsen, University of Copenhagen, Denmark

Ralf Sommer, Max-Planck-Institut fur Entwickslungbiologie, Germany

 

David Stern, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, United States of America

Jan Pawlowski, University of Geneva, Switzerland

 

Gene Expression and Regulation

Susan M. Gasser, Friedrich Miescher Institute for Biomedical Research, Basel, Switzerland

James L. Manley, Columbia University, United States of America

Danesh Moazed, Harvard Medical School, United States of America

Gerd Pfeifer, Van Andel Research Institute, United States of America

John Rinn, University of Colorado, United States of America

Carmen Sapienza, Temple University School of Medicine, United States of America

Kevin Struhl, Harvard Medical School, United States of America
 

Jonathan Weissman, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, United States of America

 

Genetics and Genomics

George M. Church, Harvard Medical School, United States of America

Antoine Danchin, AMAbiotics, France

Michael B. Eisen, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, United States of America

Cedric Feschotte, Cornell University, United States of America

James Gusella, Massachusetts General Hospital/ Harvard Medical School, United States of America

H. Robert Horvitz, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, United States of America

Steven Salzberg, Johns Hopkins University, United States of America

 

Immunology

Sally Blower, University of California, Los Angeles, United States of America

Ronald N. Germain, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, United States of America

Douglas Green, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, United States of America

Gillian Griffiths, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom

Jonathan Howard, The Instituto Gulbenkian Ciência, Portugal

Nancy Maizels, University of Washington School of Medicine, United States of America

Philippa Marrack, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, United States of America

Brigitta Stockinger, The Francis Crick Institute, United Kingdom

Ulrich von Andrian, Harvard Medical School, United States of America

Robin Weiss, University College London, United Kingdom

Arturo Zychlinsky, Max Planck Insitute for Infection Biology, Germany

 

Microbiology

Alex Andrianopoulos, University of Melbourne, Australia

Mark Marsh, University College London, United Kingdom

Malcolm J. McConville, The University of Melbourne, Australia

Dominique Soldati-Favre, University of Geneva, Switzerland

 

Molecular and Cell Biology

Buzz Baum, University College London, United Kingdom

Michael Brown, University of Texas Southwestern, United States of America

Patrick O. Brown, Stanford University, United States of America

Ivan Dikic, Goethe University, Germany

Joseph L. Goldstein, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, United States of America

Rachel Green, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, United States of America

Michael O. Hengartner, Universität Zürich, Switzerland

Angus I. Lamond, University of Dundee, United Kingdom

Cynthia Kenyon, University of California, San Francisco, United States of America

Alan R. Kimmel, National Institutes of Health, United States of America

Sandhya Koushika, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, India

Bruce Mayer, University of Connecticut Health Center, United States of America

Heidi McBride, McGill University, Canada

Timothy Mitchison, Harvard University, United States of America

David O. Morgan, University of California, San Francisco, United States of America

Sean Munro, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, United Kingdom

Ewa Paluch, University College London, United Kingdom

Norbert Perrimon, Harvard University, United States of America

Anne Ridley, University of Bristol, United Kingdom

John Rossi, City of Hope National Medical Center, United States of America

Frank Slack, Harvard Medical School, United States of America

Julie Theriot, University of Washington School of Medicine, United States of America

Aurelio Teleman, German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Germany

Frank Uhlmann, The Francis Crick Institute, United Kingdom

Peter Walter, University of California, San Francisco, United States of America

 

Neuroscience

Richard W. Aldrich, University of Texas, United States of America

Richard Benton, University of Lausanne, Switzerland

Anne Calof, University of California, Irvine, United States of America

Sandeep Robert Datta, Harvard Medical School, United States of America

Viviana Gradinaru, California Institute of Technology, United States of America

Nancy Ip, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong

Alla Karpova, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, United States of America

Andrew Lumsden, King's College London, United Kingdom

Jacopo Meldolesi, Vita-Salute San Raffaele University, Italy

Michelle Monje, Stanford University, United States of America   

Mu-Ming Poo, University of California, Berkeley, United States of America

Joshua R. Sanes, Harvard University, United States of America

Michael P. Stryker, University of California, San Francisco, United States of America

 

Plant Biology

David Baulcombe, Cambridge University, United Kingdom
Wolf B. Frommer, Carnegie Institution for Science and Stanford University, United States of America

Elliot M. Meyerowitz, California Institute of Technology, United States of America
Guenter Theissen, Friedrich Schiller University, Germany

Virginia Walbot, Stanford University, United States of America

 

Structural Biology

Stephen Harrison, Harvard University, United States of America

Richard Henderson, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, United Kingdom
Judy Hirst, MRC Mitochondrial Biology Unit, Cambridge, United Kingdom

Gregory Petsko, Weill Cornell Medical College, United States of America

Dagmar Ringe, Brandeis University, United States of America
Stephen Sprang, University of Montana, United States of America

Jamie Williamson, Scripps Research Institute, United States of America

 

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