Editorial Board Members
Jackson Champer, PhD, Peking University, China
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Research interests: gene drive, mosquitoes, computational modeling, evolution, synthetic biology, genetic engineering
Jackson Champer is a faculty member at Peking University School of Life Sciences in the Center for Bioinformatics, which he joined in 2021 after completing a postdoctoral fellowship at Cornell University. He specializes in gene drives. These are engineered alleles that can bias inheritance in their favor to quickly spread throughout populations. They can be used to modify or suppress populations of disease vectors or invasive species, potentially providing great benefit to human health and the natural environment. Jackson studies gene drive in mosquitoes, fruit flies, and in computational simulations. He focuses on creating improved drives that can avoid resistance alleles and optionally be confined to target populations.
Jianhai Jiang, PhD, Fudan University, China
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Research interests: Cancer stem cell, glycobiology, cancer stem cell, CD133, self-renewal, tumorigenesis
Dr. Jiang Jianhai received his PhD in biochemistry and molecular biology from Fudan University in 2007, and Received the title of professor from Fudan University in 2013. Dr. Jiang has long been engaged in the study on the glycobiology of cancer stem cell. His group systematically explored the function and mechanism of N-glycan and cancer stem cell marker CD133 in cancer development. Till now, Dr. Jiang has published more than 10 papers as a corresponding author in PNAS, J. Biol. Chem. J Hepatol, Cell reports, and Advanced Science. We were invited to write the chapter on the international classical enzymology technical book Methods in Enzymology.
Zhihui Liu, PhD, National Cancer Institute, USA
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Research interests: Cancer biology, oncogenes, tumor suppressors, transcriptional regulation, epigenetics, signaling pathways
Dr. Zhihui Liu earned his B.S. in biochemistry from Nanjing University and completed his Ph.D. degree at the Institute of Biochemistry and Cell Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences. Currently, Dr. Liu serves as a Senior Associate Scientist in the Pediatric Oncology Branch at the National Cancer Institute. His primary research focus lies in cancer biology, specifically in unraveling the intricate molecular mechanisms that drive cancer initiation and progression. Dr. Liu's expertise spans multiple domains, including molecular and cellular biology, signaling pathways, oncogenes, tumor suppressors, transcriptional regulation, and epigenetics. Within his research framework, he adeptly integrates both fundamental and translational research approaches to advance our understanding of cancer. The overarching goal of Dr. Liu's work is to translate scientific knowledge into practical and impactful applications. He achieves this by identifying critical genes and elucidating their roles, with a particular emphasis on the realm of epigenetics. Dr. Liu's efforts actively contribute to the development of innovative therapeutic strategies, offering renewed hope for patients battling treatment-resistant forms of cancer.
Greg Longmore, MD, Washington University, USA
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Research interests: Cancer metastasis; cell migration; mechanobiology
Greg Longmore is Professor of Medicine (Oncology) and Cell Biology at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis and director of the ICCE Institute, a multidisciplinary cancer research center dedicated to understanding tumor-environment communications that facilitate cancer progression. He also directs the Molecular Oncology section of the division of Oncology in the Department of Medicine and co-directs the basic science research program of the Siteman Cancer Center at Washington University. He has been a member of multiple National Institutes for Health and American Cancer Society grant review panels, chairing at least three of these panels as well as a member of the Council for extramural grants at the American Cancer Society. His major research focus is to understand how tumor cells and their immediate environment communicate with one another to facilitate tumor cell invasion and metastasis.
Soulafa Mamlouk, PhD, Charité – University Hospital Berlin, Germany
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Research interests: Colorectal cancer, cancer evolution, cancer treatment
Soulafa Mamlouk received her PhD in Molecular Cancer Biology from the Technical University of Dresden (TUD) in Germany. She then moved to Berlin for a postdoctoral position at the Charité University Hospital (Charité-Universitätsmedizin Berlin) where she worked on DNA heterogeneity of colorectal cancer progression and treatment. Dr. Mamlouk then received an independent research position (German Research foundation, DFG) to work on the evolution of resistance in colorectal cancer metastases using 3D organoid models. Tumor samples from patients at the hospital are grown into 3D cultures which better represent their natural environment, providing a model to follow patient progression and response to treatment. Dr. Mamlouk’s research focuses on using such models to investigate the evolution or resistance to common treatments, and interfere with their evolutionary trajectories on multiple genomic levels. Recently she has started a junior research group (Cancer Evolution working group, CanEvo AG) at the department of Pediatric Hematology and Oncology at Charité University Hospital.
Fu Wang, PhD, Xi’an Jiaotong University, China
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Research interests: Cancer theranostics, biomedical imaging, synthetic gene circuits, gene regulation, RNA biology, molecular probe
Dr. Fu Wang is a Professor at Xi’an Jiaotong University School of Basic Medical Sciences. He received his Ph.D. in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology from Wuhan University. He was previously a Visiting scholar at National Institutes of Health (NIH) and Emory University. His current research interests are mainly engaged in biomedical imaging and cancer theranostics. In recent years, Dr. Wang has published more than 50 papers including PNAS, Nature Protocols, Nucleic Acids Research, Molecular Therapy and Cancer Letters among them. He is also an Editorial Board Member of BMC Cancer.
Shengtao Zhou, MD, Sichuan University, China
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Research interests: Tumor Immunology; Tumor microenvironment; Tumor metabolism; Nuclear receptors
Shengtao Zhou is a professor in cancer biology, who uses systems biology approaches to tackle layers of complexity of tumor immunology heterogeneity during the evolution of cancer development and progression. These complexities include signaling and metabolic reprogramming, immune co-evolution and the master regulators of such cancer phenotypic plasticity.
Kumar Selvarajoo, PhD, Bioinformatics Institute, ASTAR, Singapore
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Research interests: Systems biology, computational biology, multiomics, transcriptomics, dynamic modeling
Kumar Selvarajoo is a Senior Principal Investigator of the Computational Biology & Omics laboratory at A*STAR’s Bioinformatics Institute. He is also an Adjunct Associate Professor at the Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore, and the School of Biological Sciences, Nanyang Technological University (NTU). Prior, he was an Associate Professor in Systems Biology at the Institute for Advanced Biosciences, Keio University, Japan. Kumar obtained his PhD in NTU and MEng from the Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine, London. He also serves on the editorial board of Genomics, Frontiers in Immunology, and Biotechnology Notes and has lead research teams in computational biology, systems biology, bioinformatics, data analytics and statistical genetics. In particular, Selvarajoo has used original ideas, utilising fundamental physical and statistical laws, to investigate multi-dimensional datasets, deterministic and stochastic modelling of complex signaling and metabolic networks. He has authored over 80 scientific articles, written and edited books.
Qianqian Song, PhD, University of Florida, USA
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Research interests: Bioinformatics, graph-based artificial intelligence, multi-omics data modeling
Dr. Qianqian Song is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Health Outcomes & Biomedical Informatics at the University of Florida. Dr. Song’s research focuses on developing innovative computational methods and graph-based artificial intelligence algorithms to decipher disease mechanisms and identify therapeutic biomarkers. Her primary research interests are to advance precision medicine and personalized therapy through the data-driven informatics approach and the integration of multi-modality biomedical data. With specialized expertise in the large-scale biomedical data, spanning from the molecular level including genomics, transcriptomics, and proteomics data, to the cell-level with the cutting-edge single-cell and high-plex spatial imaging data, and to the population-level EHR data, Dr. Song has developed a series of tailored deep learning, machine learning, and statistical methods for data analysis, representation, and interpretation, to facilitate the understanding of human diseases such as cancers and neurodegenerative diseases.
Michalis Barkoulas, PhD, Imperial College London, UK
Kristen Kroll, PhD, Washington University School of Medicine, USA
Brigitte Malgrange, PharmD, PhD, University of Liège, Belgium
Margherita Perillo, PhD, Marine Biological Laboratory, USA
Marc Yeste, PhD, University of Girona, Spain
Shuiqiao Yuan, PhD, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China
John Brookfield, PhD, University of Nottingham, UK
Cristian Capelli, PhD, University of Parma, Italy
Joel Dacks, PhD, University of Alberta, Canada
Eugene Koonin, PhD, National Center for Biotechnology Information, USA
Raquel López-Antoñanzas, PhD, Institute of Evolutionary Sciences of Montpellier, France
Ferdinand Marlétaz, PhD, University College London, UK
Rajendhran Rajakumar, PhD, University of Ottawa, Canada
Xiang-Yi Li Richter, Dr. rer. nat., University of Neuchâtel, Switzerland
Arun Sethuraman, PhD, San Diego State University, USA
Josefin Stiller, PhD, University of Copenhagen, Denmark
Erin Green, PhD, University of Maryland Baltimore County, USA
Marco Mangone, PhD, Arizona State University, USA
Peter Sarkies, PhD, University of Oxford, UK
Ningbo Chen, PhD, Northwest A&F University, China
Guanglin He, PhD, West China Hospital of Sichuan University, China
Ruslan Kalendar, PhD, University of Helsinki, Finland
Xiangtao Li, PhD, Jilin University, China
Yafei Mao, PhD, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China
Ben Pascoe, DPhil, University of Oxford, UK
Fei Shen, Dr. Sci. (Biol.), Beijing Academy of Agriculture and Forestry Sciences, China
Maojun Wang, Dr. Sci. (Biol.), Huazhong Agricultural University, China
Zhongying Zhao, PhD, Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong
Joseph Larkin, PhD, University of Florida, USA
Jérémie Rossy, PhD, Biotechnology Institute Thurgau at the University of Konstanz, Switzerland
Alistair Senior, PhD, University of Sydney, Australia
Eric Cascales, PhD, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Aix-Marseille University, France
Igor Iatsenko, Dr. rer. nat. Max Planck Institute for Infection Biology, Germany
Senthil Arumugam, PhD, Monash Biomedicine Discovery Institute, Australia
Jiajie Diao, PhD, University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, USA
Yang Zhang, PhD, Harbin Institute of Technology (Shenzhen), China
Brian Ackley, PhD, University of Kansas, USA
Daniel da Silva, PhD, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, USA
Ho Ko, PhD, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Jean-Pierre Mothet, PhD, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) - University of Paris-Saclay, France
Louis-Jan (LJ) Pilaz, PhD, Sanford Research, USA
Sridhar Ravi, PhD, University of New South Wales, Australia
Estuardo Robles, PhD, Purdue University, USA
Feng He, PhD, Shanghai University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, China
Erica Heinrich, PhD, University of California, Riverside School of Medicine, USA
Arpita Mukhopadhyay, PhD, St. John's Research Institute, India
Kevin Murach, PhD, University of Arkansas, USA
Gaetano Santulli, MD, PhD, FAHA, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, USA
William Ka Fai Tse, PhD, Kyushu University, Japan
Synan AbuQamar, PhD, United Arab Emirates University, UAE
Xianqing Jia, PhD, Northwest University, China
Sambasivam Periyannan, PhD, University of Southern Queensland, Australia
Meiliang Zhou, PhD, Institute of Crop Sciences, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, China
Lan Guan, MD, PhD, Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center, USA
Kristina Haslinger, Dr. rer. nat., University of Groningen, Netherlands
Radhakrishnan Mahalakshmi, PhD, Indian 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
2022 Citation Impact
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7.1 - 5-year Impact Factor
1.461 - SNIP (Source Normalized Impact per Paper)
2.324 - SJR (SCImago Journal Rank)
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