Editors for Genetics and Genomics
Senior editors
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Naama Barkai
Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel
Naama Barkai is a systems and computational biologist interested in how bio-molecular circuits are designed. She joined the Weizmann Institute in 1999, following a post-doc (Princeton) and graduate studies (Hebrew University) in physics. She is currently chair of the Department of Molecular Genetics, and the head of the Azrieli and Kahan Centers for Systems Biology at the Weizmann Institute. In 2013, Barkai was elected to a Vallee Foundation Visiting Professorship and awarded the Abisch Frankel prize.
- Expertise
- Computational and Systems Biology
- Physics of Living Systems
- Genetics and Genomics
- Research focus
- systems biology
- modeling
- functional genomics
- yeast genetics
- morphogen gradients
- Competing interests statement
- Naama Barkai's main funding sources are from the European Research Council (ERC), the Human Frontier Science Program (HFSP), the Israel Science Foundation (ISF), Minerva, and the Bi-national Science Foundation (BSF). Barkai also serves on the editorial board of Development.
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Kathryn Cheah
The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR China
Kathryn Cheah is a developmental geneticist and Jimmy & Emily Tang Professor in Molecular Genetics and Chair Professor of Biochemistry at the University of Hong Kong. She received her BSc Hons degree in Biology from the University of London and PhD in Molecular Biology from Cambridge University, U.K. After postdoctoral training at the University of Manchester and Imperial Cancer Research Fund in the UK, she joined the University of Hong Kong. Her research focuses on using functional genomics and mouse models to understand gene function and regulation, the associated gene regulatory networks and mechanisms of disease, with a focus on skeletal and inner ear development, congenital and common skeletal disorders. Notable contributions are the identification of SOX2 as essential for prosensory development in the inner ear, SOX9 as a key regulator of COL2A1 and the cartilage gene regulatory network, a lineage continuum for cartilage and bone cells and a causative mechanistic link between endoplasmic reticulum stress and skeletal disorders. She is an elected Fellow of the Global Science Academy, The World Academy Sciences (TWAS).
She was the founding President of the Hong Kong Society for Developmental Biology and the Hong Kong representative for the Asia-Pacific Developmental Biology Network and the International Society of Developmental Biology (2004-2013), elected President of the International Society for Matrix Biology (2006-2008), Senior External Fellow of the University of Freiburg Institute of Advanced Studies (2011-2012) and elected member of the Board of Directors of the International Society of Differentiation (2012-2018).
She brings editorial expertise to eLife having previously served as Associate Editor for Genesis, guest Associate Editor for PLOS Genetics, Asian Editor for Development Growth & Differentiation (2015-2016), editorial board member of Matrix Biology, BioEssays, Annual Reviews of Genomics & Human Genetics, and as Reviewing Editor of eLife.
- Expertise
- Developmental Biology
- Genetics and Genomics
- Research focus
- gene regulation and development
- inherited and degenerative skeletal disorder
- inner ear
- matrix biology
- Experimental organism
- mouse
- human
- Competing interests statement
- Kathryn Cheah receives research funding from the Hong Kong Research Grants Council and the Hong Kong Health and Medical Research Fund. She is serving as a member of Hong Kong’s University Grants Council Biology Panel for the Research Assessment Exercise 2020. She currently also serves on the editorial boards of Scientific Reports, Genesis and Journal of Orthopaedic Research. She is also serving on the Hong Kong Advisory Board of the Gordon Research Conferences (GRC) and the GRC Conference Evaluation Committee.
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Michael B Eisen
HHMI, University of California, Berkeley, United States
Michael Eisen majored in math as an undergraduate at Harvard, exploiting the department’s lack of interest in what students did outside of the field to pursue his true love of ecology and evolutionary biology. Trying to unite his quantitative side with his interest in biology, he entered the Harvard Graduate Program in Biophysics, completing his PhD with Don Wiley, using X-ray crystallography to study the evolution of influenza virus proteins.
After a stint as the play-by-play voice of the Columbia (Tennessee) Mules Professional Baseball Club, he joined the labs of Pat Brown and David Botstein at Stanford at the dawn of the era of functional genomics, where he played multiple roles in the development of DNA microarrays as a tool for studying biology. His most notable contribution was a 1998 paper showing how clustering methods can reveal underlying biological structure in genomic data that helped to establish many analytical paradigms in genomics.
He began his independent career at Lawrence Berkeley National Lab, before moving to the Department of Molecular and Cell Biology at UC Berkeley. In addition to the main focus of his lab – using experimental, computational and evolutionary methods to study spatial patterns of gene regulation in the early Drosophila embryo – he has a longstanding interest in understanding the molecular basis for the varied microorganisms that have evolved to manipulate animal behavior.
Outside of the lab, he has been a fervent and occasionally strident advocate for opening up the system of scholarly publishing, founding, along with Brown and Harold Varmus, the Public Library of Science (PLOS). More recently he has dabbled in politics and serves as an advisor to Impossible Foods, a company Brown started to create plant-based meats to end the planetary scourge of animal farming.
- Expertise
- Developmental Biology
- Genetics and Genomics
- Research focus
- development
- genomics
- embryogenesis
- computational biology
- Experimental organism
- D. melanogaster
- Competing interests statement
- Impossible Foods: I am an advisor to Impossible Foods, a company founded by my former postdoctoral advisor Patrick Brown, to develop plant-based alternatives to foods derived from animal projects. I got involved in the company because animal farming has a massively negative effect on the planet, and because I believe we can reduce this negative impact by offering consumers products that satisfy their desire for meat, cheese and other dairy products that have less of an impact on the environment. I spend time on the company because I believe deeply in its mission, but I also receive a small stipend for my work and own equity. 23andMe: I used to serve on the Scientific Advisory Board of 23andMe, a company that provides consumers with information on their DNA through genotyping and through a website that offers information on ancestry and ties the unique collection of DNA variants they contain to the emerging scientific literature on the effect of these mutation. I do not hold any equity in the company, but I support their mission and my long affiliation with them may constitute a conflict of interest. Public Library of Science: For 20 years I have been a public advocate for reforming the way scientists communicate, and much of my work in this domain focused on the Public Library of Science, a non-profit publisher of open-access scientific and medical journals on whose board of directors I served from 2002–18. My work for PLOS was strictly on a volunteer basis: at no point did I receive any compensation from the company for my role. Despite having no financial interest in PLOS, I have put a huge amount of blood, sweat and tears into the company. I believe fervently in its mission and have an obvious personal stake in its success, even though I am no longer affiliated with them. Science funding: As a working scientist who has received grants from a variety of government funding agencies, I have a professional interest in promoting science funding and in influencing the way research funds are distributed. Anyone who follows me knows that I speak my mind freely on the NIH and other funding agencies and their problems, but I will admit that I used to pull my punches occasionally for fear that it would influence my prospects of funding. I currently receive virtually all of my lab’s funding from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, and thus I clearly have a professional conflict when talking about HHMI. Institutional: I work at the University of California, Berkeley, and have an institutional conflict of interest on anything dealing with UCB, with the University of California writ large, educational funding in California, and, arguably, public higher education policy at the national and state level. I also have a conflict of interest when talking about areas where UC, UCB or my department (Molecular and Cell Biology) have a financial interest, especially on patents. This is currently most relevant in regards to the patent interference case being contested by Berkeley, MIT and others over CRISPR technology. (Modified from “My Conflicts of Interest” at michaeleisen.org/blog.)
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Matt Kaeberlein
University of Washington, United States
Dr Matt Kaeberlein is a Professor of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology at the University of Washington School of Medicine, with Adjunct appointments in Genome Sciences and Oral Health Sciences. Dr Kaeberlein’s research interests are focused on biological mechanisms of aging in order to facilitate translational interventions that promote healthspan and improve quality of life. He has published more than 200 scientific papers and has been recognized by several prestigious awards including young investigator awards from the Ellison Medical Foundation and the Alzheimer’s Association, the Vincent Cristofalo Rising Start in Aging Research Award, the Murdock Trust Award, and the NIA Nathan W. Shock Award. Dr Kaeberlein has been awarded Fellow status with the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), the American Aging Association (AGE), and the Gerontological Society of America (GSA). Dr Kaeberlein is currently the CEO of the American Aging Association and has served on the Board of Directors for the Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology (FASEB), AGE, and GSA. Dr Kaeberlein is the founding Director of the University of Washington (UW) Healthy Aging and Longevity Research Institute, the Director of the UW Nathan Shock Center of Excellence in the Basic Biology of Aging, Director of the UW Biological Mechanisms of Healthy Aging Training Program, and founder and co-Director of the Dog Aging Project.
- Expertise
- Chromosomes and Gene Expression
- Cell Biology
- Genetics and Genomics
- Immunology and Inflammation
- Neuroscience
- Stem Cells and Regenerative Medicine
- Research focus
- aging
- longevity
- mitochondria
- proteostasis
- neurodegeneration
- inflammation
- senescence
- geroscience
- Experimental organism
- yeast
- C. elegans
- mouse
- dog
- Competing interests statement
- Dr Kaeberlein receives funding from the NIH (NIA and NINDS) and NSF. He is the Editor-in-chief of Translational Medicine of Aging and an editorial board member at Science, GeroScience, Aging Research Reviews, and BioEssays.
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George H Perry
Pennsylvania State University, United States
George Perry received his PhD in 2008 from Arizona State University, and did postdoctoral work at the University of Chicago. In 2011, he began a faculty position at Penn State University, where he is now Associate Professor of Anthropology and Biology, Chair of the Bioinformatics and Genomics Graduate Degree Program, and member of the Huck Institutes of the Life Sciences. His research interests focus on human evolution, evolutionary ecology, and evolutionary medicine, and how human behavior and biology have affected non-human evolutionary biology. Research methods and theory from anthropology, evolutionary biology, parasitology, and population, comparative, functional, and paleo (ancient DNA) genomics are integrated in this work. He has received the Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Award from the National Science Foundation, among others.
- Expertise
- Evolutionary Biology
- Ecology
- Genetics and Genomics
- Research focus
- human evolution
- evolutionary ecology
- evolutionary biology
- population genomics
- comparative genomics
- functional genomics
- paleogenomics
- Experimental organism
- human
- primates
- parasites
- Competing interests statement
- George Perry has received research support from the National Institutes of Health, National Science Foundation, Wenner-Gren Foundation, and L.S.B. Leakey Foundation. He is currently an Associate Editor of Evolutionary Anthropology.
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Jessica Tyler
Weill Cornell Medicine, United States
Jessica Tyler is a Professor at Weill Cornell Medicine, New York City, where she heads the Laboratory of Epigenetics and Genome Integrity. Her research currently focuses on the regulation of DNA double strand break repair by chromatin structure and vice versa, as well as mechanisms of aging. During her postdoctoral studies with Dr. James Kadonaga at the University of California, San Diego, she identified the key chromatin assembly factors Anti-silencing Function 1 (Asf1) and characterized Chromatin Assembly Factor 1 (CAF-1) from Drosophila. Dr. Tyler’s earlier work revealed that chromatin assembly and disassembly not only regulates S phase events, but also gene expression and the DNA damage response. Dr. Tyler was a Leukemia and Lymphoma Society Scholar and was awarded the Tenovus Medal and the Charlotte Friend Woman in Cancer Research Award from the American Association of Cancer Research (AACR).
- Expertise
- Chromosomes and Gene Expression
- Genetics and Genomics
- Research focus
- epigenetic regulation
- chromatin
- genome instability
- aging
- Experimental organism
- S. cerevisiae
- mammalian cells
- Competing interests statement
- Previous funding has come from March of Dimes, Susan Komen, the Leukemia and Lymphoma Foundation, NIH, The Emerson Collective, The STARR foundation and CPRIT. Jessica Tyler serves on the editorial boards of Journal of Biological Chemistry, Molecular and Cellular Biology, Microbial Cell, and Chromatin and Epigenetics.
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Detlef Weigel
Max Planck Institute for Developmental Biology, Germany
Detlef Weigel received his PhD in 1988 from the Max Planck Institute for Developmental Biology. After postdoctoral work at the California Institute of Technology, he joined the faculty of the Salk Institute in 1993. Since 2002, he has been director of the Department of Molecular Biology at the Max Planck Institute for Developmental Biology. His current research interests focus on natural genetic variation and evolutionary genomics of plants. Examples of recent important projects are the 1001 Genomes project for Arabidopsis thaliana, and the systematic dissection of deleterious epistasis between Arabidopsis strains due to autoimmunity. Among the awards he has received are the Young Investigator Award of the National Science Foundation, the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Award of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, and the Otto Bayer Award. He is a member of the US National Academy of Sciences, the German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina and the Royal Society.
- Expertise
- Plant Biology
- Genetics and Genomics
- Evolutionary Biology
- Research focus
- natural variation
- epigenetics
- evolutionary genomics
- plant biology
- genomics
- evolutionary biology
- immunity
- Experimental organism
- A. thaliana
- Competing interests statement
- Detlef Weigel has received funding from the Max Planck Society, the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, the Foundation of the State of Baden-Württemberg, the German Ministry for Education and Research, the European Commission, the Human Frontiers Science Program Organization, and several US Federal agencies. He serves on the Editorial Boards of Annual Review of Cell and Developmental Biology and Genome Biology. He is Chair of EMBO Council, and is serving or has recently served on the Advisory Boards of the Epigenomics of Plants International Consortium, Bayer Crop Science, The Arabidopsis Information Resource, Flanders Institute of Biotechnology, Temasek Life Sciences Laboratory, and the Sainsbury Laboratory. He is a co-founder of Computomics and CeMet.
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Patricia Wittkopp
University of Michigan, United States
Patricia Wittkopp received a BS from the University of Michigan, a PhD from the University of Wisconsin, and did postdoctoral work at Cornell University. In 2005, she began a faculty position at the University of Michigan, where she is now an Arthur F Thurnau Professor in the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Department of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology, Center for Computational Medicine and Bioinformatics, and LSA Honors Program. Her research investigates the genetic basis of phenotypic evolution, with an emphasis on the evolution of gene expression. Molecular and developmental biology, population and quantitative genetics, genomics and bioinformatics are integrated in this work. She was a Damon Runyon Cancer Research Fellow, an Alfred P Sloan Research Fellow, Guggenheim Fellow, and a recipient of a March of Dimes Starter Scholar Award, the Margaret Dayhoff Mid-Career Award from the Society of Molecular Biology and Evolution, and the Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel Research Award from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation.
- Expertise
- Computational and Systems Biology
- Genetics and Genomics
- Evolutionary Biology
- Research focus
- evolutionary genetics
- evolution and development
- gene expression
- regulatory networks
- allele-specific expression
- Experimental organism
- D. melanogaster
- S. cerevisiae
- Competing interests statement
- Patricia Wittkopp has received research support from the National Institutes of Health, National Science Foundation, March of Dimes, Alfred P Sloan Foundation, John Simon Guggenheim Foundation, and Alexander von Humboldt Foundation. She is currently an Associate Editor of Molecular Biology and Evolution and GENETICS, and serves on the Advisory Editorial Board of Trends in Genetics.
Reviewing editors
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Cheryl Ackert-Bicknell
University of Colorado, United States
- Expertise
- Medicine
- Genetics and Genomics
- Research focus
- bone biology
- genetics
- musculoskeletal
- aging
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Richard Amasino
University of Wisconsin-Madison, United States
- Expertise
- Plant Biology
- Genetics and Genomics
- Chromosomes and Gene Expression
- Research focus
- plant development and epigenetics
- Experimental organism
- A. thaliana
- B. distachyon
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Nicholas Banovich
Translational Genomics Research Institute (TGen), United States
- Expertise
- Cancer Biology
- Genetics and Genomics
- Chromosomes and Gene Expression
- Research focus
- single cell biology
- CAR T cell therapy
- gene regulation
- pulmonary fibrosis
- quantitative trait loci
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Rebecca Bart
The Donald Danforth Plant Science Center, United States
- Expertise
- Plant Biology
- Genetics and Genomics
- Microbiology and Infectious Disease
- Research focus
- host-pathogen-environment interactions
- non-model organisms
- cassava
- Xanthomonas
- genetics
- genomics
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Hugo J Bellen
Baylor College of Medicine, United States
- Expertise
- Neuroscience
- Developmental Biology
- Genetics and Genomics
- Research focus
- neurobiology
- human neurological disease
- Alzheimer's disease
- Parkinson's disease
- diagnosis of human genetic diseases
- fly technology
- CRIMIC
- MiMIC
- Experimental organism
- D. melanogaster
- mouse
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Jan E Carette
Stanford University School of Medicine, United States
- Expertise
- Microbiology and Infectious Disease
- Genetics and Genomics
- Research focus
- virology
- virus-host interactions
- AAV gene therapy
- virus entry
- viral pathogenesis
- picornaviruses
- flaviviruses
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Jean-Laurent Casanova
The Rockefeller University, United States
- Expertise
- Genetics and Genomics
- Microbiology and Infectious Disease
- Immunology and Inflammation
- Medicine
- Research focus
- human genetics
- immunology
- infectious diseases
- primary immunodeficiency
- inborn errors of immunity
- Experimental organism
- human
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Nyasha Chambwe
St Jude Children's Research Hospital, United States
- Expertise
- Cancer Biology
- Computational and Systems Biology
- Genetics and Genomics
- Research focus
- bioinformatics
- computational biology
- cancer genomics
- population genomics
- data analysis
- Experimental organism
- human
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Howard Y Chang
Stanford University, United States
- Expertise
- Medicine
- Chromosomes and Gene Expression
- Genetics and Genomics
- Research focus
- cancer
- immunotherapy
- RNA
- genomics
- epigenomics
- dermatology
- Experimental organism
- human
- mouse
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Sara Cherry
University of Pennsylvania, United States
- Expertise
- Microbiology and Infectious Disease
- Genetics and Genomics
- Research focus
- virus
- genomics
- RNAi
- genetics
- innate immunity
- Experimental organism
- D. melanogaster
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Irene E Chiolo
University of Southern California, United States
- Expertise
- Chromosomes and Gene Expression
- Genetics and Genomics
- Research focus
- DNA repair
- double strand break repair
- DNA recombination
- chromosome dynamics
- nuclear architecture
- nuclear dynamics
- nuclear actin filaments
- Experimental organism
- D. melanogaster
- mouse
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L Stirling Churchman
Harvard Medical School, United States
- Expertise
- Chromosomes and Gene Expression
- Genetics and Genomics
- Research focus
- transcription elongation
- splicing
- mitochondrial gene regulation
- translation
- mammalian tissue culture
- Experimental organism
- S. cerevisiae
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Graham Coop
University of California, Davis, United States
- Expertise
- Genetics and Genomics
- Evolutionary Biology
- Research focus
- population genetics
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Vaughn S Cooper
University of Pittsburgh, United States
- Expertise
- Evolutionary Biology
- Microbiology and Infectious Disease
- Genetics and Genomics
- Research focus
- experimental evolution
- antimicrobial resistance
- biofilms
- education
- adaptation
- cancer
- Experimental organism
- Pseudomonas
- E. coli
- Burkholderia
- Acinetobacter
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Virginie Courtier-Orgogozo
Université Paris-Diderot CNRS, France
- Expertise
- Evolutionary Biology
- Genetics and Genomics
- Research focus
- genotype-phenotype
- evolutionary genetics
- morphological evolution
- physiological evolution
- gene drive
- Experimental organism
- D. melanogaster
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Weiwei Dang
Baylor College of Medicine, United States
- Expertise
- Cell Biology
- Genetics and Genomics
- Chromosomes and Gene Expression
- Research focus
- aging
- epigenetics
- histone modifications
- chromatin
- chromatin remodeling
- yeast
- yeast aging
- stem cell aging
- Experimental organism
- S. cerevisiae
- C. elegans
- mouse
- human
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Jeremy Day
University of Alabama at Birmingham, United States
- Expertise
- Neuroscience
- Chromosomes and Gene Expression
- Genetics and Genomics
- Research focus
- CRISPR/Cas
- gene regulation
- genomic enhancers
- long non-coding RNAs
- drug addiction
- dopamine
- reward
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Jeremy J Day
University of Alabama at Birmingham, United Kingdom
- Expertise
- Neuroscience
- Chromosomes and Gene Expression
- Genetics and Genomics
- Research focus
- CRISPR/Cas
- gene regulation
- genomic enhancers
- long non-coding RNAs
- drug addiction
- dopamine
- reward
- energy conversion
- Experimental organism
- rat
- mouse
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Job Dekker
University of Massachusetts Medical School, United States
- Expertise
- Chromosomes and Gene Expression
- Computational and Systems Biology
- Genetics and Genomics
- Research focus
- chromosome folding
- mitosis
- chromatin
- gene regulation
- Experimental organism
- human
- mouse
- yeast
- dinoflagellates
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Claude Desplan
New York University, United States
- Expertise
- Developmental Biology
- Evolutionary Biology
- Genetics and Genomics
- Neuroscience
- Research focus
- evo-devo
- neural development
- retina
- vision
- color vision
- stochasticity
- Experimental organism
- D. melanogaster
- ants
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Samuel L Díaz-Mu?oz
University of California, Davis, United States
- Expertise
- Evolutionary Biology
- Genetics and Genomics
- Microbiology and Infectious Disease
- Research focus
- social evolution
- reassortment
- experimental evolution
- genomics
- sex
- environmental microbiology
- behavior
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Dieter Ebert
University of Basel, Switzerland
- Expertise
- Evolutionary Biology
- Genetics and Genomics
- Research focus
- coevolution
- experimental evolution
- host-parasite interactions
- population genetics
- balancing selection
- evolution
- biogeography
- Experimental organism
- Daphnia
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Eduardo Eyras
Australian National University, Australia
- Expertise
- Genetics and Genomics
- Cancer Biology
- Research focus
- RNA biology
- cancer
- long-read sequencing technologies
- machine learning
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Jonathan Flint
University of California, Los Angeles, United States
- Expertise
- Genetics and Genomics
- Medicine
- Research focus
- genetics
- genomics
- psychiatric disorders
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Evangelos J Giamarellos-Bourboulis
Attikon University Hospital, Greece
- Expertise
- Immunology and Inflammation
- Microbiology and Infectious Disease
- Genetics and Genomics
- Medicine
- Research focus
- sepsis
- hidradenitis suppurativa
- pathogenesis of infection
- biomarkers
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Thomas Gingeras
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, United States
- Expertise
- Chromosomes and Gene Expression
- Genetics and Genomics
- Research focus
- non-coding RNA
- genome organisation
- transcriptome analyses
- DNA sequencing methods
- computational biology
- Experimental organism
- D. melanogaster
- human
- mouse
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David Ginsburg
University of Michigan, United States
- Expertise
- Medicine
- Genetics and Genomics
- Research focus
- hemostasis
- thrombosis
- human genetics
- mouse genetics
- endothelial cells
- cargo receptor
- secretion
- Experimental organism
- human
- mouse
- zebrafish
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Tatiana Giraud
Université Paris-Sud, France
- Expertise
- Evolutionary Biology
- Genetics and Genomics
- Ecology
- Research focus
- evolution
- pathogenesis
- fungi
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Rosalyn Gloag
University of Sidney, Australia
- Expertise
- Evolutionary Biology
- Genetics and Genomics
- Ecology
- Research focus
- invasive species
- population genetics
- brood parasitism
- social parasitism
- eusociality
- Experimental organism
- birds
- bees
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Jan Gruber
Yale-NUS College, Singapore
- Expertise
- Cell Biology
- Genetics and Genomics
- Chromosomes and Gene Expression
- Research focus
- aging
- molecular mechanisms of aging
- mitochondria
- damage
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Sara H?gg
Karolinska Institutet, Sweden
- Expertise
- Epidemiology and Global Health
- Genetics and Genomics
- Research focus
- aging
- geroscience
- age-related diseases
- molecular epidemiology
- genetics
- mendelian randomization
- biological age predictors
- Experimental organism
- human
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William C Hahn
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, United States
- Expertise
- Cancer Biology
- Genetics and Genomics
- Medicine
- Research focus
- cancer
- transformation
- functional genomics
- RAS
- YAP1
- Experimental organism
- human
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Jing-Dong Jackie Han
Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
- Expertise
- Chromosomes and Gene Expression
- Genetics and Genomics
- Cell Biology
- Research focus
- genomics
- functional genomics
- disease-related networks
- genetic networks
- aging
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Kathryn Paige Harden
University of Texas at Austin, United States
- Expertise
- Genetics and Genomics
- Research focus
- genome-wide association studies
- polygenic scores
- developmental psychology
- clinical psychology
- education
- behavioral genetics
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Karmella Haynes
Emory University, United States
- Expertise
- Chromosomes and Gene Expression
- Genetics and Genomics
- Research focus
- synthetic biology
- gene expression
- chromatin
- epigenetics
- cancer epigenetics
- histones
- transcriptome
- epigenome
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P Robin Hiesinger
Institute for Biology Free University Berlin, Germany
- Expertise
- Cell Biology
- Genetics and Genomics
- Developmental Biology
- Research focus
- synaptogenesis
- synaptic function
- synaptic maintenance
- endocytosis
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Simon C Johnson
Seattle Children's Research Institute, United States
- Expertise
- Cell Biology
- Genetics and Genomics
- Research focus
- mitochondrial disease
- pediatric genetic disorders
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Koichi Kawakami
National Institute of Genetics, Japan
- Expertise
- Developmental Biology
- Genetics and Genomics
- Neuroscience
- Research focus
- genetic basis of development
- behavioural genetics
- calcium imaging
- functional neuronal circuits
- transgenesis
- transposable elements
- Experimental organism
- zebrafish
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Megan C King
Yale School of Medicine, United States
- Expertise
- Cell Biology
- Chromosomes and Gene Expression
- Genetics and Genomics
- Physics of Living Systems
- Research focus
- nuclear envelope
- nuclear lamins
- LINC complex
- nuclear mechanics
- DNA repair
- genome organisation
- Experimental organism
- mouse
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Daniel J Kliebenstein
University of California, Davis, United States
- Expertise
- Biochemistry and Chemical Biology
- Computational and Systems Biology
- Ecology
- Genetics and Genomics
- Plant Biology
- Research focus
- genetics
- genomics
- transcriptomics
- metabolomics
- pathogen
- plant metabolism
- fitness
- Experimental organism
- A. thaliana
- B. cinerea
- eudicots
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Genevieve Konopka
The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, United States
- Expertise
- Neuroscience
- Genetics and Genomics
- Evolutionary Biology
- Research focus
- comparative genomics
- autism
- schizophrenia
- neurogenomics
- cognition
- language
- molecular neuroscience
- Experimental organism
- human
- mouse
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Beno?t Kornmann
University of Oxford, United Kingdom
- Expertise
- Biochemistry and Chemical Biology
- Cell Biology
- Genetics and Genomics
- Research focus
- membrane contact sites
- mitochondria
- membrane dynamics
- membrane trafficking
- phospholipids
- Experimental organism
- S. cerevisiae
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Shigehiro Kuraku
RIKEN Center for Biosystems Dynamics Research, Japan
- Expertise
- Evolutionary Biology
- Genetics and Genomics
- Developmental Biology
- Research focus
- molecular evolution
- gene family evolution
- developmental roles of duplicated genes
- early vertebrate genome evolution
- Experimental organism
- reptiles
- cyclostomes
- chondrichthyans
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Ashish Lal
National Institutes of Health, United States
- Expertise
- Cancer Biology
- Biochemistry and Chemical Biology
- Chromosomes and Gene Expression
- Genetics and Genomics
- Research focus
- RNA biology
- lncRNAs
- microRNAs
- gene regulation
- cancer biology
- p53
- Experimental organism
- human
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Scott F Leiser
University of Michigan, United States
- Expertise
- Cell Biology
- Chromosomes and Gene Expression
- Genetics and Genomics
- Neuroscience
- Research focus
- aging
- longevity
- hypoxia
- geroscience
- proteostasis
- stress response
- flavin-containing monooxygenase
- healthspan
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Mia T Levine
University of Pennsylvania, United States
- Expertise
- Chromosomes and Gene Expression
- Evolutionary Biology
- Genetics and Genomics
- Research focus
- evolution
- conflict
- heterochromatin
- telomere
- phylogenomics
- paternal chromatin
- epigenetics
- Experimental organism
- D. melanogaster
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Yuk Ming Dennis Lo
The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR China
- Expertise
- Medicine
- Genetics and Genomics
- Cancer Biology
- Research focus
- molecular diagnostics
- liquid biopsies
- noninvasive prenatal testing
- epigenetics
- Experimental organism
- human
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Ruth Loos
The Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, United States
- Expertise
- Epidemiology and Global Health
- Medicine
- Genetics and Genomics
- Research focus
- genetic epidemiology
- obesity
- prediction
- gene discovery
- precision medicine
- Experimental organism
- human
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Sebastian Lourido
Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research, United States
- Expertise
- Microbiology and Infectious Disease
- Cell Biology
- Genetics and Genomics
- Biochemistry and Chemical Biology
- Research focus
- calcium signaling
- host-pathogen interactions
- genetic screening
- protein kinases
- genomics
- quantitative proteomics
- Apicomplexan parasites
- Experimental organism
- T. gondii
- P. falciparum
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Bernard Malissen
Aix-Marseille University, France
- Expertise
- Genetics and Genomics
- Immunology and Inflammation
- Research focus
- immunology
- T cells
- T cell activation
- T cell development
- interactomics
- functional genomics
- dendritic cells
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Jean-Christophe Marine
Vlaams Instituut voor Biotechnologie, Belgium
- Expertise
- Cancer Biology
- Genetics and Genomics
- Research focus
- mouse genetics
- molecular oncology
- cancer genomics
- Experimental organism
- mouse
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Adèle L Marston
University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom
- Expertise
- Cell Biology
- Chromosomes and Gene Expression
- Genetics and Genomics
- Research focus
- meiosis
- mitosis
- cohesin
- kinetochores
- pericentromeres
- Experimental organism
- S. cerevisiae
- S. pombe
- human oocyte
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Sheila McCormick
University of California, Berkeley, United States
- Expertise
- Cell Biology
- Plant Biology
- Developmental Biology
- Genetics and Genomics
- Research focus
- pollen
- receptor tyrosine kinases
- plant gametophyte development
- plant reproductive development
- Experimental organism
- A. thaliana
- tomato
- maize
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Philipp W Messer
Cornell University, United States
- Expertise
- Evolutionary Biology
- Genetics and Genomics
- Research focus
- evolutionary biology
- population genetics
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Subburaman Mohan
Loma Linda University, United States
- Expertise
- Medicine
- Genetics and Genomics
- Research focus
- bone biology
- endochondral bone formation
- insulin-like growth factors
- osteoporosis
- osteoarthritis
- skeletal development
- Experimental organism
- human
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Alan Moses
University of Toronto, Canada
- Expertise
- Computational and Systems Biology
- Evolutionary Biology
- Genetics and Genomics
- Research focus
- data analysis
- bioinformatics
- molecular evolution
- intrinsically disordered proteins
- signaling pathways
- regulatory networks
- Experimental organism
- S. cerevisiae
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Sacha B Nelson
Brandeis University, United States
- Expertise
- Genetics and Genomics
- Neuroscience
- Research focus
- genome-wide gene expression in the nervous system
- cellular and systems neurophysiology
- forebrain development and function
- synaptic plasticity
- Experimental organism
- other mammals
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Magnus Nordborg
Gregor Mendel Institute of Molecular Plant Biology, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Austria
- Expertise
- Genetics and Genomics
- Plant Biology
- Evolutionary Biology
- Research focus
- adaptation
- population genetics
- evolutionary genetics
- genetics
- genomics
- genome-wide association studies
- epigenetics
- Experimental organism
- Arabidopsis
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Stephen Parker
University of Michigan, United States
- Expertise
- Genetics and Genomics
- Chromosomes and Gene Expression
- Computational and Systems Biology
- Research focus
- diabetes
- disease susceptibility
- functional genomics
- comparative genomics
- population genomics
- Experimental organism
- human
- mouse
- rat
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Chris Ponting
University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom
- Expertise
- Computational and Systems Biology
- Genetics and Genomics
- Research focus
- computational genomics
- long non-coding RNAs
- functional genomics
- transcription factors
- Experimental organism
- human
- mouse
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Molly Przeworski
Columbia University, United States
- Expertise
- Evolutionary Biology
- Genetics and Genomics
- Research focus
- meiotic recombination
- mutation
- natural selection
- human genetics
- polygenic scores
- hybridization
- Experimental organism
- mammals
- human
-
Margaret S Robinson
University of Cambridge, United Kingdom
- Expertise
- Cell Biology
- Genetics and Genomics
- Research focus
- membrane traffic
- coated vesicles
- cell biology
- endocytosis
- endosomes
- golgi
- clathrin
- Experimental organism
- human
- mammalian cells
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Daniela Robles-Espinoza
International Laboratory for Human Genome Research, Mexico
- Expertise
- Cancer Biology
- Genetics and Genomics
- Research focus
- melanoma
- bioinformatics
- telomeres
- acral lentiginous melanoma
- sequencing
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Jiwon Shim
Hanyang University, South Korea
- Expertise
- Cell Biology
- Developmental Biology
- Genetics and Genomics
- Immunology and Inflammation
- Research focus
- hematopoiesis
- innate immunity
- hemocyte
- development
- signaling
- inter-organ communication
- Experimental organism
- D. melanogaster
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Wenying Shou
Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, United States
- Expertise
- Computational and Systems Biology
- Ecology
- Evolutionary Biology
- Genetics and Genomics
- Research focus
- quantitative biology
- mathematical biology
- evolutionary biology
- synthetic biology
- molecular genetics
- evolution of cooperation
- computer simulations
- Experimental organism
- S. cerevisiae
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Owen Tamplin
University of Wisconsin-Madison, United States
- Expertise
- Genetics and Genomics
- Developmental Biology
- Stem Cells and Regenerative Medicine
- Research focus
- hematopoeitic stem cells
- microenvironment
- zebrafish
- blood development
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Rudolph E Tanzi
Harvard University, United States
- Expertise
- Neuroscience
- Genetics and Genomics
- Medicine
- Research focus
- Alzheimer's disease
- genetics
- innate immunity
- neuroinflammation
- neurogenesis
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Kristin Tessmar-Raible
University of Vienna, Austria
- Expertise
- Genetics and Genomics
- Neuroscience
- Evolutionary Biology
- Ecology
- Research focus
- chronobiology
- marine biology
- photobiology
- behavior
- reproductive timing
- seasons
- lunar rhythms
- tool establishment for "non-conventional animal models”
- Experimental organism
- P. dumerilii
- C. marinus
- zebrafish
- medakafish
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Dario Riccardo Valenzano
Max Planck Institute for Biology of Ageing, Germany
- Expertise
- Evolutionary Biology
- Genetics and Genomics
- Immunology and Inflammation
- Microbiology and Infectious Disease
- Research focus
- biology of aging
- microbiome
- killifish
- neutral evolution
- mutation load
- comparative genomics
- immunosenescence
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Kevin Verstrepen
VIB-KU Leuven Center for Microbiology, Belgium
- Expertise
- Evolutionary Biology
- Genetics and Genomics
- Microbiology and Infectious Disease
- Research focus
- yeast
- aroma
- fermentation
- genomics
- molecular evolution
- Experimental organism
- S. cerevisiae
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Joseph T Wade
Wadsworth Center, United States
- Expertise
- Microbiology and Infectious Disease
- Chromosomes and Gene Expression
- Genetics and Genomics
- Research focus
- transcription
- regulatory RNA
- CRISPR
- gene regulation
- Experimental organism
- E. coli
- S. enterica
- M. smegmatis
- M. tuberculosis
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Eric J Wagner
University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston, United States
- Expertise
- Chromosomes and Gene Expression
- Biochemistry and Chemical Biology
- Cancer Biology
- Genetics and Genomics
- Research focus
- RNA biology
- transcription
- RNA processing
- gene expression
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Oliver Weichenrieder
Max Planck Institute for Developmental Biology, Germany
- Expertise
- Biochemistry and Chemical Biology
- Structural Biology and Molecular Biophysics
- Genetics and Genomics
- Research focus
- retrotransposition
- regulatory mRNA
- x-ray crystallography
- structural biology
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Raymund Wellinger
Université de Sherbrooke, Canada
- Expertise
- Biochemistry and Chemical Biology
- Cell Biology
- Chromosomes and Gene Expression
- Genetics and Genomics
- Research focus
- chromosome biology
- DNA replication
- telomeres
- telomerase
- yeast cell biology
- Experimental organism
- yeast
- mouse
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Jerry L Workman
Stowers Institute for Medical Research, United States
- Expertise
- Chromosomes and Gene Expression
- Genetics and Genomics
- Developmental Biology
- Research focus
- protein complexes
- chromatin modification
- regulation of gene transcription
- Experimental organism
- D. melanogaster
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Jian Xu
University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, United States
- Expertise
- Chromosomes and Gene Expression
- Genetics and Genomics
- Research focus
- enhancers
- epigenetics
- transcription
- hematopoiesis
- leukemia
- Experimental organism
- human
- mouse
-
Hao Yu
National University of Singapore & Temasek Life Sciences Laboratory, Singapore
- Expertise
- Genetics and Genomics
- Plant Biology
- Research focus
- functional genomics
- plant reproductive development
- phytohormone signalling
- Experimental organism
- rice
- orchid
- A. thaliana
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María Mercedes Zambrano
CorpoGen, Colombia
- Expertise
- Microbiology and Infectious Disease
- Genetics and Genomics
- Research focus
- environmental microbiology
- microbial communities
- biodiversity
- microbiome
- antimicrobial resistance
- extreme environments
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Daniel Zilberman
John Innes Centre, United Kingdom
- Expertise
- Chromosomes and Gene Expression
- Genetics and Genomics
- Plant Biology
- Research focus
- DNA methylation
- chromatin
- epigenetics
- epigenomics
- evolution
- Experimental organism
- rice
- A. thaliana
