Editors for Cell Biology

We aim to publish significant research in all areas of cell biology, including but not limited to studies on cell cycle, cell polarity and fate, nuclear and chromosome organization and segregation/division, signal transduction, and vesicle transport. Read the latest research in this subject area.

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Senior editors

Anna Akhmanova

Utrecht University, Netherlands

Anna Akhmanova is a Professor of Cell Biology at the Department of Biology, Faculty of Science, Utrecht University, the Netherlands. She studied biochemistry and molecular biology at the Moscow State University and obtained her PhD at the University of Nijmegen, the Netherlands. Akhmanova studies cytoskeletal organization and trafficking processes, which contribute to cell polarization, differentiation, vertebrate development and human disease. The main focus of the work in her group is the microtubule cytoskeleton. Research in the group relies on combining high-resolution live cell imaging and quantitative analysis of cytoskeletal dynamics with in vitro reconstitution experiments. Her work has resulted in identification and characterization of a broad variety of factors which control microtubule organization and dynamics and motor attachment to membrane organelles. Anna Akhmanova is an elected member of the European Molecular Biology Organization and the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences.

Expertise
Cell Biology
Biochemistry and Chemical Biology

Research focus
cytoskeleton
cytoskeletal dynamics
microtubules
microtubule-binding proteins
motor proteins
membrane transport
cell migration

Experimental organism
human cells
mouse

Competing interests statement
Anna Akhmanova receives funding from the European Research Council, Human Frontier Science Program, and the Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research. She is a member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Netherlands Institute for Neuroscience. She served on the editorial boards of BMC Cell Biology and Journal of Biological Chemistry. She is a currently on the editorial boards of PLOS Biology, Journal of Cell Science, Traffic, and BioArchitecture.
Marianne E Bronner

California Institute of Technology, United States

Marianne Bronner is a developmental biologist with a long-standing interest in specification, migration and differentiation of neural crest stem cells. Using a pan-vertebrate approach, her lab has been systematically studying the gene regulatory network responsible for neural crest formation and evolutionary origin. Born in Budapest, Hungary, Marianne’s family escaped to Austria during the Hungarian revolution when she was a small child. She received her ScB in Biophysics from Brown University and then a PhD in Biophysics from Johns Hopkins University. She assumed her first faculty position at the University of California, Irvine, before moving to Caltech in 1996. Marianne received the Conklin Medal from The Society for Developmental Biology in 2013, the Women in Cell Biology Senior Award from the American Society for Cell Biology in 2012, as well as several teaching awards from her institution. She was elected to American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2009 and the National Academy of Sciences in 2015.

Expertise
Developmental Biology
Stem Cells and Regenerative Medicine
Neuroscience
Cell Biology

Research focus
evo-devo
cell lineage
cell migration
developmental neurobiology

Experimental organism
chick
zebrafish
lamprey

Competing interests statement
Marianne Bronner is employed by the California Institute of Technology and receives research funding from the National Institutes of Health. She is on the board of the International Society for Stem Cell Research, and member of several other societies (e.g., Society for Developmental Biology, the American Society for Cell Biology, Society for Neuroscience, International Society for Differentiation). In addition to being a Senior Editor for eLife, she is a Chief Editor for Natural Sciences and serves as monitoring editor for Journal of Cell Biology, PLOS Biology and PNAS. She is presently on the boards of the Sontag Foundation and Curci Foundation as well as the Conference Evaluation Committee of the Gordon Research Conferences.
Jonathan A Cooper

Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, United States

Jon Cooper is a member of the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center in Seattle and an Affiliate Professor of Biochemistry at the University of Washington. After undergraduate studies at the University of Cambridge and post-graduate research at the University of Warwick, he performed postdoctoral research with Bernard Moss at the NIH and with Tony Hunter at the Salk Institute. With Tony, he found that oncogenic retroviruses (Rous sarcoma virus and others) and growth factors (EGF and PDGF) stimulate the tyrosine phosphorylation of overlapping subsets of cell proteins, which were candidates to regulate cell proliferation and metabolism. He joined Fred Hutch in 1985 to continue the work he started at the Salk, investigating the mechanisms by which protein kinases regulate cell proliferation and transformation. His laboratory played important roles in establishing how Src is regulated, how activated growth factor receptors recruit signaling proteins, and establishing Ras-Raf-MAPK signaling. In 1995, postdoc Brian Howell knocked out the gene for a Src substrate and observed a distinctive brain development phenotype. Efforts by several laboratories rapidly established a signaling pathway that regulates neuron migrations during brain development. Further studies on this pathway revealed the importance of ubiquitination and degradation for terminating signaling, and led in recent years to detailed investigation of the roles of Cullin-RING ligases in regulating signal transduction events in vivo and in cultured cells.

Expertise
Cell Biology

Research focus
signaling pathways
cell migration
post-translational modifications
neuron migrations
immune cell migration
phosphorylation
cell transformation

Competing interests statement
Jon Cooper receives research grants from the NIH.
Erica Golemis

Fox Chase Cancer Center, United States

Erica A Golemis, PhD is a Professor at Fox Chase Cancer Center (FCCC), and Adjunct Professor at the Temple University School of Medicine, the University of Pennsylvania, and the Drexel University College of Medicine. Since 2008, she has served as Co-Leader for the FCCC Molecular Therapeutics program, and as Deputy Chief Science Officer at FCCC. She is an elected Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and holds the William Wikoff Smith Chair in Biology at Fox Chase. Dr Golemis joined FCCC in 1993, after completing graduate training in mechanisms of leukemogenesis at MIT, and postdoctoral work at Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts General Hospital leading to the development of new technology for the identification and analysis of protein interaction networks. One focus of her reserch is the targeted study of a group of oncogenes including NEDD9, AURKA, and associated proteins that regulate cell cycle and metastasis; this work has recently focused on defining non-canonical activities of these proteins in control of ciliation as a mechanism for their oncogenic effect. A second research area is the use of bioinformatics-guided and siRNA screening approaches to elucidate signaling networks that can be targeted to improve therapeutic response; this work is typically highly collaborative with clinical researchers. In the past 25 years, she has served continuously on peer-review panels for the NIH, the American Cancer Society, the DOD, the Komen Foundation, and other agencies.

Expertise
Cancer Biology
Cell Biology

Research focus
signal transduction
targeted therapy
mitosis
cilia
polycystic kidney disease
colorectal cancer
head and neck cancer
invasion
metastasis

Competing interests statement
Dr Golemis currently receives funding from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and holds editorial roles at the following journals: Cancer Biology and Therapy, Frontiers in Oncology, Gene and BMC Cancer.
David James

University of Sydney, Australia

Professor James currently holds the Leonard P Ullmann Chair in Molecular Systems Biology and he is the Domain Leader for Biology at the Charles Perkins Centre, University of Sydney. Professor James has made major contributions to our understanding of insulin action. In the late 1980s he published a series of journal articles in Nature describing the identification and characterization of the insulin responsive glucose transporter GLUT4. Professor James then focused his efforts on unveiling the cellular and molecular control of insulin-stimulated glucose transport. He has also made contributions in the area of SNARE proteins, signal transduction and more recently in systems biology.

Expertise
Cell Biology

Research focus
diabetes
signal transduction
systems biology

Experimental organism
mouse
human
rat

Competing interests statement
David James has been funded by bodies like National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC), Wellcome Trust, Australian Research Council (ARC), NIH, Pfizer, Eli Lilly and Novo, had continuous NHMRC research fellowships since 1998 and is now Senior Principal Research Fellow.

James has served on editorial boards of journals such as The Journal of Biological Chemistry and The American Journal of Physiology for more than 10 years and is currently on five boards with major roles at Cell Metabolism (only Australian) and The Journal of Clinical Investigation. James reviews ~30 manuscripts per year for journals like Nature, Nature Cell Biology, Nature Medicine, Science, PNAS, The Journal Clinical Invest, Molecular Endocrinology, Endocrinology, Molecular Biology of the Cell, Journal of Cell Biology, Traffic, FASEB J, Genes & Development and grants for Diabetes Australia, National Heart, Wellcome Trust, ARC, NHMRC and International Foundations.
Jürgen Kleine-Vehn

University of Freiburg, Germany

Jürgen is a Professor at the University of Freiburg. He obtained his PhD for his work on plant cell polarity at the Flemish Institute of Biotechnology (VIB) at the Ghent University. He has been an Associate Professor at the University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences Vienna and is now full Professor and chair of Molecular Plant Physiology (MoPP) at the University of Freiburg. He works at the interface of quantitative plant cell biology and developmental plant genetics, addressing plant growth control at a subcellular to organ scale.

Expertise
Plant Biology
Cell Biology
Developmental Biology

Research focus
plant hormones
growth control
plant architecture

Competing interests statement
Jürgen Kleine-Vehn has received and profited from funding by the Friedrich Ebert Stiftung, Vienna Science and Technology Fund (WWTF), the Austrian Science Fund (FWF), the Austrian Academy of Sciences (OeAW), the European Research Council (ERC), the European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO), and the German Research Foundation (DFG). He is on the editorial board of the International Journal of Molecular Science and on the advisory board of Review Commons (operated by EMBO). He has been an elected member of the Austrian Academy of Sciences (Young Curia).
Vivek Malhotra

The Barcelona Institute of Science and Technology, Spain

Vivek Malhotra was a professor in the biology division at UC San Diego from 2007 and is now the ICREA Professor and Chair of the Cell and Developmental Biology at Center for Genomic Regulation (CRG) in Barcelona. His research focuses on a central station of the secretory pathway, the Golgi complex. Specifically, his work has resulted in the identification of the machinery required for the sorting and packaging of secretory cargoes. His recent work has uncovered a novel secretory routing that bypasses the conventional pathway of protein secretion. He has identified new genes required for the export of bulky collagens and the regulated secretion of mucins. He received his BSc from Stirling University and was a Pirie–Reid scholar at Oxford, a Damon Runyon Walter Winchell and an American Cancer Society postdoctoral fellow at Stanford, and Basil O’Conner scholar, established Investigator of the American Heart Association, and Senior Investigator of Sandler’s Foundation for Asthma at UC San Diego. He received the MERCK award from the American Society of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, is a fellow of the American association of the arts and science, and is an elected EMBO member.

Expertise
Biochemistry and Chemical Biology
Cell Biology

Research focus
Golgi membranes
protein secretion
collagen
mucins
unconventional protein secretion

Competing interests statement
Vivek Malhotra receives funding from ERC/European Research Council, Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad, AGAUR and the Plan Nacional (Spain) He is a Scientific Advisory Board member of TIGEM (Naples, Italy), CNR (Naples, Italy), CBMSO (Madrid, Spain) and Department of Biotechnology (India). He has served on the editorial board of Cell and was an associate editor of Molecular Biology of the Cell. He is currently on the editorial boards of Journal of Cell Biology and Current Opinion in Cell Biology.
Edward Morrisey

University of Pennsylvania, United States

Edward E Morrisey, PhD is the Robinette Professor of Medicine and a Professor of Cell and Developmental Biology at the University of Pennsylvania. Dr Morrisey received his BS degree from the University of Illinois and his PhD from Northwestern University. He is the founding Director of the Penn-CHOP Lung Biology Institute (LBI), an organization dedicated to identifying new therapeutic approaches to alleviate pulmonary disease by supporting research that spans basic discovery through translational application. The Morrisey Lab has identified many of the key cell lineages and molecular pathways that are critical for development and regeneration of the mouse and human lungs. Findings from his lab have been leveraged to generate human lung epithelial cells from pluripotent stem cells. The overall goals of his lab are to better understand how the lung responds to injury, whether pathways important for lung development are reactivated or suppressed after injury, and use this knowledge to identify ways to promote proper repair and regeneration of the respiratory system.

Expertise
Developmental Biology
Stem Cells and Regenerative Medicine
Cell Biology

Research focus
lung development
tissue regeneration
tissue specific stem cells
transcription factors
signaling pathways

Experimental organism
mouse
human

Competing interests statement
Dr Morrisey has been an editor for several scientific journals including the Journal of Clinical Investigation and eLife. He has been or currently is a principal investigator on several NIH and privately supported research consortia related to stem cell and regenerative biology, including the Progenitor Cell Biology Consortium, the Lung Repair and Regeneration Consortium, the NextGen Stem Cell Consortium, the Progenitor Cell Translational Consortium, and the Longfonds BREATH Consortium.
Suzanne R Pfeffer

Stanford University School of Medicine, United States

Suzanne Pfeffer is the Emma Pfeiffer Merner Professor of Medical Sciences and Professor of Biochemistry at Stanford University School of Medicine. She is an expert in the field of membrane trafficking in the secretory and endocytic pathways, and her research currently focuses on the molecular basis of LRRK2-mediated, familial Parkinson's Disease and Niemann Pick Type C disease, with emphasis on Rab GTPase regulation and cholesterol export from lysosomes. She is a past President of the American Society for Cell Biology and the American Society of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology and a Fellow of the American Society for Cell Biology, the American Association for the Advancement of Science and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

Expertise
Cell Biology
Biochemistry and Chemical Biology
Neuroscience

Research focus
membrane trafficking
endosomes
lysosomes
Golgi complex
neurodegeneration
Parkinson's disease
endocytosis
secretory pathway
Rab GTPase
primary cilia

Experimental organism
human
mouse

Competing interests statement
Suzanne Pfeffer's research is currently funded by the National Institutes of Health, the Michael J. Fox Foundation and the Ara Parseghian Medical Research Foundation. She serves on the Scientific Advisory Board of the Ara Parseghian Medical Research Foundation, the Swiss National Science Foundation funded NCCR program in Chemical Biology at the EPFL and University of Geneva, and she is a chartered member of the NIH NCSD review panel. Suzanne Pfeffer also serves as Co-Section Head for Membranes and Sorting, Faculty of 1000.
David Ron

Cambridge University, United Kingdom

David Ron is a Professor at Cambridge University. He directs a lab at the Cambridge Institute for Medical Research (CIMR) studying protein-folding homeostasis in the endoplasmic reticulum (ER). The lab uses biochemical, biophysical and cell-based tools to research both the molecular mechanisms that recognize the burden of unfolded proteins and thus initiate signalling in the ER unfolded protein response (UPR) and the downstream effector pathways by which cells adapt to unfolded protein stress in their ER. These effector mechanisms engage post-translational regulation of ER chaperone function, regulated translation of mRNA and transcriptional control of gene expression and thus interface with other cellular stress pathways.

To eLife, David Ron brings scientific expertise in the study of the unfolded protein response, chaperone function and stress-induced regulation of mRNA translation and editorial experience from having served as an eLife Reviewing Editor since 2012.

Expertise
Biochemistry and Chemical Biology
Cell Biology

Research focus
chaperones
unfolded protein response
oxidative protein folding
protein synthesis

Experimental organism
C. elegans
E. coli
human
mouse
S. cerevisiae

Competing interests statement
David Ron holds a Wellcome Trust Principal Research Fellowship and is on the editorial advisory boards of J. Cell Science, PLOS Biology and EMBO J.
Piali Sengupta

Brandeis University, United States

Piali Sengupta is a Professor in the Department of Biology at Brandeis University. Dr Sengupta completed her PhD at MIT, and postdoctoral training with Dr Cori Bargmann at UCSF. Her lab uses the C. elegans experimental system to investigate the mechanisms by which animals sense and respond to environmental cues in a context- and experience-dependent manner. In one line of research, her lab examines how sensory cilia are generated and specialized for the unique functions of each neuron type. A second major focus is to identify the molecular and genetic pathways by which neurons sense and transduce chemical and thermal cues, and describe how this information is translated into specific developmental and behavioral responses. She is a MERIT awardee from the NIH, a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and served as elected Treasurer of the Genetics Society of America.

Expertise
Neuroscience
Cell Biology

Research focus
cilia biology
sensory transduction
chemosensation
thermosensation
behavior

Experimental organism
C. elegans

Competing interests statement
Dr Sengupta’s research is funded by the National Institutes of Health and the National Science Foundation. She has served on the NCF and NDPR study sections at the NIH, serves as ad hoc member of additional NIH panels, and was on the Advisory Board of the Searle Scholars Program. She is an Advisory Board Member of PLOS Biology, and on the Editorial Boards of PLOS Biology, Current Opinion in Neurobiology, and Section Editor (Neurobiology and Behavior) of WormBook (in Genetics). She previously served on the Editorial Boards of Genetics, eNeuro, Genes Brain and Behavior, BMC Neuroscience, and Developmental Neurobiology.
Dominique Soldati-Favre

University of Geneva, Switzerland

Dr Dominique Soldati-Favre studied biochemistry and earned her PhD degree in molecular biology from the University of Zürich (Switzerland) in 1990. She then conducted postdoctoral research in the Department of Microbiology and Immunology of the Stanford University School of Medicine. In 1995 she was appointed assistant professor at the Center for Molecular Biology at the University of Heidelberg (Germany). In 2001 she moved to Imperial College London (United Kingdom) and became Reader. Since 2004, she is professor at the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Geneva.

Her laboratory is studying obligate intracellular parasitism using Toxoplasma gondii and is also increasingly engaged in malaria research. The main line of research focuses on the cell biology underlying how these pernicious pathogens glide into mammalian cells. Her group is also aiming at defining the metabolic needs and capabilities of the parasites as well as how they subvert host cellular functions in particular to access nutrients.

Expertise
Microbiology and Infectious Disease
Biochemistry and Chemical Biology
Cell Biology
Genetics and Genomics

Research focus
parasitology
organelle biogenesis
protein trafficking
metabolism
host pathogen interaction
signalling

Experimental organism
T. gondii
apicomplexans
kinetoplastids

Competing interests statement
Dominique Soldati-Favre currently receives funding from the European Research Council and from the Swiss National Science Foundation. She is editor for Parasitology at Molecular Microbiology and she is on the editorial boards of PLOS Pathogens, Traffic and mBio.
Kevin Struhl

Harvard Medical School, United States

Kevin Struhl received a BS and MS from MIT, a PhD from Stanford University Medical School, and did postdoctoral work at the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology in Cambridge, UK. He has been in the Department of Biological Chemistry and Molecular Pharmacology at Harvard Medical School since 1982, was acting Chair from 1997–98, and has been the David Wesley Gaiser Professor since 1991. His research combines genetic, molecular, genomic, and evolutionary approaches to address a wide variety of fundamental questions about transcriptional regulatory mechanisms and chromatin structure in yeast. In addition, he is interested in elucidating transcriptional regulatory circuits that mediate the process of cellular transformation and the formation of cancer stem cells. He has authored or co-authored nearly 300 research articles and reviews, and is an ISI Highly Cited Researcher. He received the Eli Lilly Award in Microbiology and is a Distinguished Researcher at the Institute of Molecular Biology and Biotechnology in Crete. Dr. Struhl is a Fellow of the American Academy of Microbiology, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the National Academy of Sciences, and the National Academy of Medicine.

Expertise
Chromosomes and Gene Expression
Cell Biology

Research focus
chromatin
transcription
genomics
molecular biology
DNA replication
gene regulation
polyadenylation
mRNA stability

Experimental organism
S. cerevisiae
E. coli
mammalian cell culture

Competing interests statement
Kevin Struhl receives funding from the National Institutes of Health. He is on the Scientific Advisory Board of Sangamo, Inc and the Klarman Cell Observatory at the Broad Institute. He is on the editorial boards of Current Protocols in Molecular Biology and Epigenetics and Chromatin.
Richard M White

Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, United States

Richard White, M.D., Ph.D, is a physician-scientist at the Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center and Weill Cornell Medical College. He is interested in basic mechanisms underlying metastasis, using the zebrafish as a model system. His work has established numerous techniques for cancer modeling and high-resolution imaging in the fish. Using these tools, the lab is focused on the cross-talk between tumor cells and the microenvironment, and how this interplay influences metastatic success. His work has revealed novel interactions between melanoma cells and adipocytes in the microenvironment, and how neural crest programs play roles in melanoma progression. He has been awarded the NIH Director’s New Innovator Award, the Pershing Square Foundation Award, and the Mark Foundation ASPIRE award.

Expertise
Cancer Biology
Cell Biology
Developmental Biology
Medicine

Research focus
development
neural crest
zebrafish
cancer
melanoma
metastasis
microenvironment

Experimental organism
zebrafish

Competing interests statement
Richard White receives funding from the National Institutes of Health, the Pershing Square Sohn Foundation, the Mark Foundation, the Melanoma Research Alliance, the American Cancer Society and the Harry J. Lloyd Foundation. He receives consulting fees from N-of-One, Inc.

Reviewing editors

Yousef Abu-Amer

Washington University School of Medicine, United States

Expertise
Cell Biology
Immunology and Inflammation
Medicine

Research focus
osteolysis
osteoclast
osteoarthritis
osteoimmunology
inflammatory arthritis
RANKL
Derek Applewhite

Reed College, United States

Expertise
Cell Biology

Research focus
cytoskeleton
actin
microtubules
non-muscle myosin II
cross-linkers
cell migration
cytoskeletal dynamics

Experimental organism
D. melanogaster
Sofia J Araujo

University of Barcelona, Spain

Expertise
Cell Biology
Developmental Biology
Neuroscience
Stem Cells and Regenerative Medicine

Research focus
morphogenesis
organogenesis
tubulogenesis
cell migration
axon guidance
branching morphogenesis
cytoskeletal dynamics
tissue repair

Experimental organism
D. melanogaster
Narayan Avadhani

University of Pennsylvania, United States

Expertise
Stem Cells and Regenerative Medicine
Cell Biology
Medicine

Research focus
mitochondrial genetics
Michel Bagnat

Duke University, United States

Expertise
Cell Biology
Developmental Biology

Research focus
morphogenesis
tubulogenesis
notochord
spine
gut
epithelial
polarity

Experimental organism
zebrafish
mouse
Claudia Bagni

University of Lausanne, Switzerland

Expertise
Cell Biology
Neuroscience

Research focus
synaptic plasticity
cancer
intellectual disability
Mohan Balasubramanian

University of Warwick, United Kingdom

Expertise
Cell Biology

Research focus
cytokinesis
cell cycle
cytoskeleton

Experimental organism
S. pombe
Frederic A Bard

Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology (A*STAR), Singapore

Expertise
Cell Biology
Cancer Biology

Research focus
Golgi
protein glycosylation
signaling
cancer
matrix degradation
cell migration

Experimental organism
human
mouse
Patricia Bassereau

Institut Curie, France

Expertise
Cell Biology
Physics of Living Systems
Structural Biology and Molecular Biophysics

Research focus
physics of cells
membrane biophysics
mechanobiology
intracellular traffic
endocytosis
adhesion
cellular protrusions
biomimetic membranes
Victoria L Bautch

University of North Carolina, United States

Expertise
Cell Biology
Developmental Biology

Research focus
growth and interactions of cells
blood vessel formation
Anton M Bennett

Yale University, United States

Expertise
Cell Biology
Biochemistry and Chemical Biology
Cancer Biology

Research focus
cell signalling
metabolism
protein tyrosine phosphorylation
protein tyrosine kinases
protein tyrosine phosphatases
Audrey M Bernstein

State University of New York Upstate Medical University, United States

Expertise
Cell Biology
Medicine

Research focus
cornea
scarring
fibrosis
glaucoma
integrins
myofibroblast
Nils Brose

Max Planck Institute of Experimental Medicine, Germany

Expertise
Neuroscience
Cell Biology

Research focus
synapses
transmitter release
synaptogenesis
synaptic transmission
synaptopathies

Experimental organism
mouse
brain slices
cultured neurons
Felix Campelo

The Institute of Photonic Sciences, Spain

Expertise
Physics of Living Systems
Cell Biology
Structural Biology and Molecular Biophysics

Research focus
membrane mechanics
membrane curvature
intracellular trafficking
membrane organization
membrane contact sites
Golgi complex
endoplasmic reticulum exit sites
super-resolution microscopy
single-molecule microscopy

Experimental organism
human
S. cerevisiae
Andrew Carter

MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology (Cambridge), United Kingdom

Expertise
Structural Biology and Molecular Biophysics
Cell Biology

Research focus
x-ray crystallography
cryo-EM
single molecule methods
dynein
microtubules
actin
cytoskeleton
dynactin
cryo-ET
kinesin
myosin
motor proteins
macromolecular machines
ATPase
AAA+ ATPases

Experimental organism
human
mouse
S. cerevisiae
viruses
Agnieszka Chacinska

University of Warsaw, Poland

Expertise
Biochemistry and Chemical Biology
Cell Biology

Research focus
biogenesis
organelles
mitochondria
protein transport
proteasome
protein degradation
protein synthesis

Experimental organism
S. cerevisiae
mammalian cells
nematode
Jean-Ju Chung

Yale School of Medicine, United States

Expertise
Cell Biology

Research focus
calcium signaling
ion channels
mammalian fertilization
sperm biology
male reproduction

Experimental organism
mouse
Henry M Colecraft

Columbia University, United States

Expertise
Structural Biology and Molecular Biophysics
Cell Biology

Research focus
ion channels
ion channel regulation
voltage-gated calcium channels
ubiquitin
ion channelopathy

Experimental organism
human
mouse
rat
Edna Cukierman

Fox Chase Cancer Center, United States

Expertise
Cancer Biology
Cell Biology

Research focus
tumor microenvironment
fibroblastic cells
cancer associated fibroblasts
extracellular matrix fibrillogenesis
extracellular matrix function
wound healing
fibrosis
cancer triad
fibroblastic cell function
stromagenesis
desmoplasia
pancreatic cancer
epithelial cancers
Michael Czech

University of Massachusetts Medical School, United States

Expertise
Cell Biology

Research focus
insulin
metabolism
lipid-protein interactions
signal transduction
membranes
adipose
obesity
insulin resistance
diabetes

Experimental organism
human
mouse
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
Melissa J Davis

The Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research, Australia

Expertise
Computational and Systems Biology
Cancer Biology
Cell Biology
Genetics and Genomics

Research focus
bioinformatics
computational biology
network analysis
network inference
transcriptomics
molecular phenotype prediction
epithelial-mesenchymal transition
Roger J Davis

University of Massachusetts Medical School, United States

Expertise
Biochemistry and Chemical Biology
Cancer Biology
Cell Biology

Research focus
diabetes
NAFLD
NASH
metabolism
insulin resistance
cancer
signal transduction

Experimental organism
mouse
human
Jennifer DeLuca

Colorado State University, United States

Expertise
Cell Biology

Research focus
mitosis
cell division
cell cycle
kinetochores
microtubules
spindle
Danelle Devenport

Princeton University, United States

Expertise
Cell Biology
Developmental Biology
Stem Cells and Regenerative Medicine

Research focus
cell polarity
planar cell polarity
epidermis
skin
oriented cell divisions
morphogenesis
epithelia

Experimental organism
mammals
Ivan Dikic

Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany

Expertise
Biochemistry and Chemical Biology
Cell Biology
Cancer Biology
Microbiology and Infectious Disease

Research focus
ubiquitination
autophagy
ER remodelling
infection
virus
bacteria
cancer

Experimental organism
mouse
C. elegans
S. cerevisiae
Reinhard Fässler

Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry, Germany

Expertise
Cell Biology
Developmental Biology

Research focus
ECM
integrin adhesion and signalling
cell biology
mouse genetics

Experimental organism
mouse
Vilaiwan M Fernandes

University College London, United Kingdom

Expertise
Neuroscience
Developmental Biology
Genetics and Genomics
Cell Biology

Research focus
glial biology
glia-neuron interactions
developmental neurobiology
visual system
inter-cellular signalling
retinotopy

Experimental organism
drosophila
Lydia W S Finley

Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, United States

Expertise
Cell Biology
Cancer Biology
Stem Cells and Regenerative Medicine

Research focus
cell metabolism
cancer
stem cells
epigenetics
cell fate
Edward A Fisher

New York University Grossman School of Medicine, United States

Expertise
Medicine
Cell Biology

Research focus
preventive cardiology
cardiology
lipoprotein metabolism
atherosclerosis

Experimental organism
mouse
Adam Frost

University of California, San Francisco, United States

Expertise
Structural Biology and Molecular Biophysics
Biochemistry and Chemical Biology
Cell Biology

Research focus
cryo-EM
electron cryo-microscopy
membranes
membrane remodeling
proteostasis
stress responses
translation
mitochondria
nuclear envelope
intracellular trafficking
Maribel Isabel Geli

Institut de Biología Molecular de Barcelona (IBMB), Spain

Expertise
Cell Biology

Research focus
actin cytoskeleton
endocytic pathway
type I myosins
phosphoinositides

Experimental organism
yeast
Amy S Gladfelter

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, United States

Expertise
Cell Biology
Physics of Living Systems

Research focus
septins
cell division
phase separation
reconstitution

Experimental organism
fungi
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
Iqbal Hamza

University of Maryland, United States

Expertise
Biochemistry and Chemical Biology
Cell Biology
Genetics and Genomics

Research focus
metals
anemia
iron
heme

Experimental organism
mouse
C. elegans
parasites
Sang Jun Han

Baylor College of Medicine, United States

Expertise
Medicine
Cell Biology

Research focus
nuclear receptors
steroid receptor coactivator
endometriosis
female infertility
J Wade Harper

Harvard Medical School, United States

Expertise
Cell Biology

Research focus
protein turnover
ubiquitin
autophagy
signal transduction
protein interactions

Experimental organism
human
Brandon Harvey

NIDA/NIH, Intramural Research Program, United States

Expertise
Cell Biology
Immunology and Inflammation
Neuroscience

Research focus
neuroinflammation
ER stress
UPR
ER calcium
KDEL receptor
manf
stroke

Experimental organism
rat
mouse
human cells
Richard P Harvey

The Victor Chang Cardiac Research Institute, Australia

Expertise
Cell Biology
Chromosomes and Gene Expression
Developmental Biology
Genetics and Genomics
Stem Cells and Regenerative Medicine

Research focus
cardiovascular
stem cells
developmental biology
tissue regeneration
fibrosis
single cell biology

Experimental organism
mouse
human
zebrafish
Silke Hauf

Virginia Tech, United States

Expertise
Cell Biology
Chromosomes and Gene Expression

Research focus
cell cycle
mitosis
meiosis
mitotic checkpoint
cell size
quantitative biology
gene expression noise
ubiquitin system

Experimental organism
yeast
fission yeast
P Robin Hiesinger

Institute for Biology Free University Berlin, Germany

Expertise
Cell Biology
Computational and Systems Biology
Developmental Biology
Genetics and Genomics
Neuroscience

Research focus
brain development
synapse
neurogenetics
membrane trafficking
Drosophila
neurodegeneration
computational modelling
live-cell imaging

Experimental organism
D. melanogaster
organoids
Ping-Chih Ho

Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research, Switzerland

Expertise
Cancer Biology
Immunology and Inflammation
Cell Biology

Research focus
immunometabolism
cancer immunology
tumor microenvironment
immunotherapy
adaptive immunity
macrophages
metabolic disease

Experimental organism
mouse
Julie Hollien

University of Utah, United States

Expertise
Cell Biology

Research focus
unfolded protein response
protein folding and aggregation
mRNA stability
mRNA decay
endoplasmic reticulum protein folding
lysosome trafficking
Valerie Horsley

Yale University, United States

Expertise
Cell Biology
Developmental Biology
Stem Cells and Regenerative Medicine

Research focus
epithelial stem cells
adipocyte stem cells
adipose tissue
epithelial-mesenchymal interactions
mechanical regulation of tissues
tissue regeneration
Tony Hunter

Salk Institute for Biological Studies, United States

Expertise
Cancer Biology
Cell Biology

Research focus
cancer
signal transduction
phosphorylation
ubiquitylation
sumoylation

Experimental organism
mouse
yeast
Arezu Jahani-Asl

McGill University, Canada

Expertise
Cancer Biology
Cell Biology
Developmental Biology

Research focus
glioblastoma
stem cells
mitochondria
transcription
mental retardation
neurodegeneration
cancer

Experimental organism
mouse
Simon C Johnson

Seattle Children's Research Institute, United States

Expertise
Cell Biology
Medicine
Developmental Biology
Neuroscience

Research focus
mitochondria
neurodegenerative disease
aging
pediatric disease
genetic disease
mTOR
cell culture

Experimental organism
mouse
C. elegans
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
Melanie Königshoff

University of Colorado, United States

Expertise
Stem Cells and Regenerative Medicine
Medicine
Cell Biology

Research focus
lung regeneration
wnt signaling
pulmonary fibrosis
chronic obstructive pulmonary disease
epithelial cell biology

Experimental organism
human
mouse
Benoît 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
Michael Kozlov

Tel Aviv University, Israel

Expertise
Cell Biology
Physics of Living Systems

Research focus
modeling membrane shapes
membrane curvature
membrane fusion
membrane fission
membrane bending by proteins
T Rajendra Kumar

University of Colorado, United States

Expertise
Cell Biology
Developmental Biology

Research focus
reproductive endocrinology
reproductive biology
pituitary
testis
ovary

Experimental organism
mouse
Melike Lakadamyali

University of Pennsylvania, United States

Expertise
Cell Biology
Physics of Living Systems

Research focus
super resolution microscopy
imaging
image analysis
chromatin structure
genome organisation
organelle trafficking
motor proteins
microtubule cytoskeleton

Experimental organism
human
mouse
Christian R Landry

Universite Laval, Canada

Expertise
Computational and Systems Biology
Evolutionary Biology
Cell Biology
Genetics and Genomics

Research focus
systems biology
evolution
genomics
synthetic biology
microbiology

Experimental organism
S. cerevisiae
D. melanogaster
Pekka Lappalainen

University of Helsinki, Finland

Expertise
Cell Biology

Research focus
actin
cytoskeleton
cell migration
endocytosis
mechanosensation

Experimental organism
S. cerevisiae
Dan Larhammar

Uppsala University, Sweden

Expertise
Medicine
Evolutionary Biology
Neuroscience
Cell Biology
Chromosomes and Gene Expression
Genetics and Genomics

Research focus
evolution
gene/genome duplications
cellular and molecular neuroscience
G protein-coupled receptors (GPCR)
neuropeptides
endocrine peptides
phototransduction
ligand-gated ion channels

Experimental organism
human
zebrafish
Michael Laub

Massachusetts Institute of Technology, United States

Expertise
Cell Biology
Microbiology and Infectious Disease

Research focus
bacterial cell cycle
toxin-antitoxin systems
signal transduction
protein evolution
chromosome organisation

Experimental organism
E. coli
C. crescentus
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
Petra Anne Levin

Washington University in St. Louis, United States

Expertise
Cell Biology
Microbiology and Infectious Disease

Research focus
bacterial cytoskeleton
temporal and spatial control of cell division
cell size control
cell cycle dynamics in bacterial systems

Experimental organism
B. subtilis
E. coli
Hening Lin

Cornell University, United States

Expertise
Biochemistry and Chemical Biology
Cell Biology

Research focus
sirtuin
PARP
diphthamide
post-translational modifications
proteomics
Adam Linstedt

Carnegie Mellon University, United States

Expertise
Cell Biology

Research focus
protein secretion
secretory and endocytic pathways
Golgi biogenesis
protein trafficking
Polina V Lishko

University of California, Berkeley, United States

Expertise
Cell Biology

Research focus
ion channels
sperm cell
mitochondria
mammalian reproduction
signal transduction
ion homeostasis
reproductive aging

Experimental organism
human
Paloma B Liton

Duke University School of Medicine, United States

Expertise
Medicine
Cell Biology

Research focus
ophthalmology
glaucoma
trabecular meshwork
autophagy
mechanical stretch
lysosomes
senescence
lysosomal enzymes
fibrosis
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
Paul Lucassen

University of Amsterdam, Netherlands

Expertise
Cell Biology
Developmental Biology
Immunology and Inflammation
Neuroscience
Stem Cells and Regenerative Medicine

Research focus
brain plasticity
(early life) stress
neurogenesis
stem cells
hippocampus
microglia
depression
dementia
cognition
nutrition/metabolism
exercise

Experimental organism
human
mouse
rat
Jens Lüders

Institute for Research in Biomedicine, Spain

Expertise
Cell Biology

Research focus
microtubule nucleation
centrosome
centrioles
mitotic spindle
mitosis
MTOCs
cilia
microcephaly
cytoskeleton

Experimental organism
mouse
human
Yuting Ma

Suzhou Institute of Systems Medicine, China

Expertise
Cancer Biology
Immunology and Inflammation
Cell Biology

Research focus
tumor immunology
immunotherapy
tumor microenvironment
stress responses
neuroendocrine-immune crosstalk
cell death
Kay F Macleod

University of Chicago, United States

Expertise
Cell Biology
Cancer Biology

Research focus
autophagy
mitochondria
pancreatic cancer
breast cancer
liver homeostasis
tumor metabolism

Experimental organism
mouse
human
Mark Marsh

University College London, United Kingdom

Expertise
Microbiology and Infectious Disease
Cell Biology

Research focus
virus entry
membrane trafficking
cellular mechanisms of viral restriction
viral pathogenesis
HIV
Alphaviruses
Flaviviruses
endocytosis
virus receptors

Experimental organism
viruses
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
Satyajit Mayor

National Center for Biological Sciences, India

Expertise
Cell Biology

Research focus
mechanisms of membrane organization
endocytosis
construction of signalling complexes
regulation of membrane trafficking
plasma membrane
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
Heather E McFarlane

University of Toronto, Canada

Expertise
Plant Biology
Cell Biology

Research focus
plant cell biology
plant cell walls
cell wall signalling
protein trafficking
secretion
Golgi
signal transduction

Experimental organism
A. thaliana
Gillian J McLellan

University of Wisconsin-Madison, United States

Expertise
Medicine
Cell Biology
Neuroscience
Chromosomes and Gene Expression

Research focus
ophthalmology
pathology
imaging
glaucoma
retina
optic nerve
animal models
Alphee Michelot

Institut de Biologie du Développement, France

Expertise
Cell Biology
Physics of Living Systems

Research focus
cytoskeleton
actin dynamics
motility
endocytosis
cytokinesis
actin mechanics
energy conversion
force transduction

Experimental organism
S. cerevisiae
Noboru Mizushima

University of Tokyo, Japan

Expertise
Cell Biology

Research focus
autophagy
lysosome
organelle degradation
organelle repair

Experimental organism
mouse
yeast
Binyam Mogessie

University of Bristol, United Kingdom

Expertise
Cell Biology
Developmental Biology
Chromosomes and Gene Expression

Research focus
meiosis
mitosis
oocytes
actin
microtubules
chromosome segregation
chromosome cohesion
chromosome organisation
kinetochores
aneuploidy
fertility

Experimental organism
mouse
human
pig
Kelly Monk

Vollum Institute, Oregon Health & Science University, United States

Expertise
Neuroscience
Developmental Biology
Cell Biology

Research focus
glia
neuron-glial interactions
astrocytes
microglia
glial-glial interactions
myelinating glia

Experimental organism
mouse
zebrafish
Shaeri Mukherjee

University of California, San Francisco, United States

Expertise
Cell Biology
Microbiology and Infectious Disease

Research focus
membrane traffic
host-pathogen interactions
endoplasmic reticulum

Experimental organism
L. pneumophila
Samira Musah

Duke University, United States

Expertise
Cell Biology

Research focus
kidney
Hitoshi Nakatogawa

Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan

Expertise
Cell Biology
Biochemistry and Chemical Biology

Research focus
molecular mechanisms of autophagy
protein/organelle degradation
membrane dynamics

Experimental organism
S. cerevisiae
Thorsten Nurnberger

University of Tübingen, Germany

Expertise
Cell Biology
Microbiology and Infectious Disease
Plant Biology

Research focus
innate immunity
plant-microbe interactions
plant immunity

Experimental organism
A. thaliana
Lucy O'Brien

Stanford University, United States

Expertise
Cell Biology
Developmental Biology
Structural Biology and Molecular Biophysics

Research focus
tissue stem cells
epithelial tissues and organs
multicellularity
collective cell behaviors
cell fate decisions
midgut
intestine

Experimental organism
D. melanogaster
Kassandra Ori-McKenney

University of California , United States

Expertise
Biochemistry and Chemical Biology
Cell Biology
Neuroscience

Research focus
microtubules
microtubule-associated proteins
microtubule motors
tau neurofibrillary tangles
neurodegeneration

Experimental organism
D. melanogaster
mammalian cell culture
Kim Orth

University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, United States

Expertise
Biochemistry and Chemical Biology
Cell Biology
Microbiology and Infectious Disease

Research focus
Vibrio
T3SS
virulence pathogenesis
host-pathogen
AMPylation
Fic-domain

Experimental organism
Vibrio spp
Duojia Pan

UT Southwestern Medical Center, United States

Expertise
Cancer Biology
Cell Biology

Research focus
growth control
tumor suppressors
oncogenes
Hippo signaling
transcription
regeneration

Experimental organism
D. melanogaster
mouse
Junmin Pan

Tsinghua University, China

Expertise
Cell Biology

Research focus
cilia
flagella
centriole
cytoskeleton
motor
intraflagellar transport
cilia motility
protein kinase

Experimental organism
C. reinhardtii
Maddy Parsons

King's College London, United Kingdom

Expertise
Biochemistry and Chemical Biology
Cancer Biology
Cell Biology
Physics of Living Systems

Research focus
adhesion
migration
cytoskeleton
receptor signalling
extracellular matrix
fibrosis
cancer

Experimental organism
mouse
Lotte Pedersen

University of Copenhagen, Denmark

Expertise
Cell Biology

Research focus
primary cilia
centrosomes

Experimental organism
mammalian cell culture
C. reinhardtii
Federico Pelisch

University of Dundee, United Kingdom

Expertise
Cell Biology
Biochemistry and Chemical Biology

Research focus
meiosis
SUMO
phosphorylation
ubiquitin
oocytes
chromosome segregation

Experimental organism
C. elegans
Jon Pines

Institute of Cancer Research, University College London, United Kingdom

Expertise
Biochemistry and Chemical Biology
Cell Biology

Research focus
cyclins and anaphase promoting complex/cycosome (APC/C)
cell cycle
mitosis
spindle assembly checkpoint

Experimental organism
human
Lynne-Marie Postovit

University of Alberta, Canada

Expertise
Cancer Biology
Cell Biology
Stem Cells and Regenerative Medicine

Research focus
cellular plasticity
tumour microenvironment
hypoxia
stem cells
metastasis
ovarian cancer
breast cancer
Ambra Pozzi

Vanderbilt University Medical Center, United States

Expertise
Cell Biology

Research focus
integrins
extracellular matrix
mechanisms of fibrosis
receptor tyrosine kinases
kidney
cell signalling and translation

Experimental organism
human
mouse
Benjamin L Prosser

University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine, United States

Expertise
Cell Biology
Physics of Living Systems
Chromosomes and Gene Expression

Research focus
cardiac function
muscle
cardiomyocytes
mechanotransduction
cytoskeleton
microtubules
sarcomere
Arun Radhakrishnan

University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, United States

Expertise
Biochemistry and Chemical Biology
Cell Biology
Structural Biology and Molecular Biophysics

Research focus
lipid sensors
cholesterol
sphingomyelin
cholesterol transport
SREBP
Scap
cholesterol homeostasis
endoplasmic reticulum

Experimental organism
E. coli
human
mouse
Mani Ramaswami

Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland

Expertise
Cell Biology
Genetics and Genomics
Neuroscience

Research focus
RNA granules
RNA binding proteins
neuronal translational control
ALS models
inhibitory plasticity and memory
behavioral circuits
habituation
modulation of behaviour

Experimental organism
D. melanogaster
Michael Rape

University of California, Berkeley, United States

Expertise
Biochemistry and Chemical Biology
Cell Biology
Developmental Biology

Research focus
ubiquitin
quality control
protein aggregation
mitochondria
proteasome

Experimental organism
human
mouse
Peter Ratcliffe

University of Oxford, United Kingdom

Expertise
Cell Biology
Medicine

Research focus
hypoxia
signaling
hypoxia inducible factor
prolyl hydroxylase
oxygenase
cysteine dioxygenase
von Hippel-Landau
N-degron
Michaela Reagan

Maine Medical Center Research Institute, United States

Expertise
Medicine
Cancer Biology
Cell Biology
Stem Cells and Regenerative Medicine

Research focus
multiple myeloma
bone marrow adipocyte
fatty acid binding protein
cancer-induced bone disease
osteolysis

Experimental organism
mouse
Samara L Reck-Peterson

University of California San Diego, United States

Expertise
Structural Biology and Molecular Biophysics
Cell Biology

Research focus
cytoskeleton
intracellular transport
microtubules
actin
dynein
kinesin
myosin

Experimental organism
S. cerevisiae
Aspergillus
human
Jalees Rehman

University of Illinois at Chicago, United States

Expertise
Cell Biology
Genetics and Genomics
Immunology and Inflammation
Medicine
Stem Cells and Regenerative Medicine

Research focus
vascular biology
macrophage biology
inflammation
transcriptomics
single cell analysis
lung biology
cell regeneration
Jeremy Reiter

University of California, San Francisco, United States

Expertise
Cell Biology
Developmental Biology
Stem Cells and Regenerative Medicine

Research focus
cilia
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
Sarah Russell

Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre, Australia

Expertise
Cell Biology
Developmental Biology
Immunology and Inflammation

Research focus
cell fate determination
T cells
cell polarity
synapse
asymmetric cell division
Scribble

Experimental organism
mouse
Alejandro Sanchez Alvarado

Stowers Institute for Medical Research, United States

Expertise
Cell Biology
Stem Cells and Regenerative Medicine

Research focus
regeneration
stem cells

Experimental organism
planaria
Apurva Sarin

Institute for Stem Cell Science and Regenerative Medicine, India

Expertise
Cell Biology
Immunology and Inflammation

Research focus
apoptosis
Notch1
signal transduction
T cells

Experimental organism
mouse
Randy Schekman

Founding Editor-in-Chief, HHMI, University of California, Berkeley, United States

Expertise
Cell Biology

Research focus
membrane assembly
vesicular trafficking
protein transport
animal and human cell biology

Experimental organism
S. cerevisiae
Ernestina Schipani

University of Pennsylvania, United States

Expertise
Medicine
Stem Cells and Regenerative Medicine
Cell Biology
Developmental Biology
Cancer Biology

Research focus
hypoxia
hypoxia-inducible factors
mitochondria
skeleton
chondrocytes
bone
G protein-coupled receptors (GPCR)
Maya Schuldiner

Weizmann Institute, Israel

Expertise
Cell Biology

Research focus
protein-targeting
organelles
contact sites
mitochondria
endoplasmic reticulum
peroxisomes

Experimental organism
human
yeast
S. cerevisiae
Ranjan Sen

National Institute on Aging, United States

Expertise
Cell Biology
Immunology and Inflammation

Research focus
B cell biology
Kang Shen

Stanford University, United States

Expertise
Cell Biology
Neuroscience

Research focus
synapse
neuronal cytoskeleton
neuronal cell biology
developmental neurobiology
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
Akira Shinohara

Osaka University, Japan

Expertise
Biochemistry and Chemical Biology
Chromosomes and Gene Expression
Cell Biology

Research focus
recombination
DSB repair
meiosis
chromosome
DNA damage response

Experimental organism
S. cerevisiae
human
mouse
Robert H Singer

Albert Einstein College of Medicine, United States

Expertise
Cell Biology
Chromosomes and Gene Expression

Research focus
transcription
mRNA localization
Ihor Smal

Erasmus University Medical Center, Netherlands

Expertise
Cell Biology
Computational and Systems Biology

Research focus
image analysis
machine learning
Nahum Sonenberg

McGill University, Canada

Expertise
Chromosomes and Gene Expression
Neuroscience
Cell Biology

Research focus
biochemistry
mRNA translation
cancer
autism
learning and memory
4EBP
eIF4E
translational control

Experimental organism
mouse
D. melanogaster
Thomas Surrey

The Francis Crick Institute, United Kingdom

Expertise
Biochemistry and Chemical Biology
Cell Biology
Structural Biology and Molecular Biophysics

Research focus
cytoskeleton
spindle assembly
cell division
motor proteins
microtubules
self-organization
active networks

Experimental organism
human
J Paul Taylor

St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, United States

Expertise
Neuroscience
Cell Biology
Medicine

Research focus
liquid-liquid phase separation
RNA granules
biomolecular condensates
neurodegeneration

Experimental organism
D. melanogaster
human
Kelly Ten Hagen

National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research, National Institutes of Health, United States

Expertise
Cell Biology

Research focus
glycobiology
fly physiology

Experimental organism
D. melanogaster
Kristin Tessmar-Raible

University of Vienna, Austria

Expertise
Cell Biology
Developmental Biology
Ecology
Evolutionary Biology
Genetics and Genomics
Neuroscience

Research focus
chronobiology
marine
photobiology
rhythms
clocks
physiology

Experimental organism
platynereis
clunio
danio
medakafish
oryzias
Peter Tontonoz

University of California, Los Angeles, United States

Expertise
Cell Biology
Medicine

Research focus
lipid metabolism
cholesterol
nuclear receptors
adipocytes
obesity
atherosclerosis
diabetes

Experimental organism
mouse
Ivan Topisirovic

Jewish General Hospital, Canada

Expertise
Biochemistry and Chemical Biology
Cancer Biology
Cell Biology

Research focus
mRNA translation
signaling
metabolic regulation
protein quality control

Experimental organism
mouse
human
Mohamed Trebak

University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, United States

Expertise
Structural Biology and Molecular Biophysics
Cell Biology
Biochemistry and Chemical Biology

Research focus
calcium channels
receptor signalling
ion channel regulation
vascular remodeling
smooth muscle
Patrik Verstreken

VIB-KU Leuven, Belgium

Expertise
Neuroscience
Cell Biology

Research focus
neurodegeneration
synaptic communication
vesicle recycling at synapses

Experimental organism
D. melanogaster
human
mouse
David Wallach

The Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel

Expertise
Cell Biology
Immunology and Inflammation

Research focus
apoptosis
caspase
cell death
necroptosis
NF-kB
TNF
TNF-family
Mei Wan

Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, United States

Expertise
Medicine
Cell Biology

Research focus
bone remodeling
osteoarthritis
osteoblasts
osteoclast
cellular senescence
mesenchymal stem cells
progenitor cells
Xiaochen Wang

Institute of Biophysics Chinese Academy of Sciences, China

Expertise
Cell Biology

Research focus
lysosome
cell hemostasis
phagocytosis
apoptotic cells
development
stress responses

Experimental organism
C. elegans
mammalian cells
Yue Wang

Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR), Singapore

Expertise
Cell Biology

Research focus
fungal pathogenesis
fungal cell cycle and morphogenesis
bacterial-fungal interaction

Experimental organism
C. albicans
Julie P I Welburn

University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom

Expertise
Biochemistry and Chemical Biology
Cell Biology
Structural Biology and Molecular Biophysics

Research focus
mitosis
cytoskeleton
motors
phosphorylation
kinase
microtubule
cilia
kinetochore

Experimental organism
human
in vitro
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
Jie Xiao

Johns Hopkins University, United States

Expertise
Biochemistry and Chemical Biology
Cell Biology
Chromosomes and Gene Expression
Microbiology and Infectious Disease
Physics of Living Systems
Structural Biology and Molecular Biophysics

Research focus
single molecule biophysics
microbiology
cell division
cell wall
gene expression

Experimental organism
E. coli
Yukiko M Yamashita

HHMI, University of Michigan, United States

Expertise
Cell Biology
Developmental Biology
Chromosomes and Gene Expression
Stem Cells and Regenerative Medicine

Research focus
stem cell niche
asymmetric cell division
satellite DNA
germline immortality
ribosomal DNA

Experimental organism
D. melanogaster
Gary Yellen

Harvard Medical School, United States

Expertise
Biochemistry and Chemical Biology
Cell Biology
Physics of Living Systems

Research focus
neuronal metabolism
control of energy metabolism
fluorescent biosensors
metabolic control of excitability

Experimental organism
mouse
Gene W Yeo

University of California, San Diego, United States

Expertise
Chromosomes and Gene Expression
Cell Biology
Computational and Systems Biology
Genetics and Genomics
Neuroscience
Stem Cells and Regenerative Medicine

Research focus
RNA biology
computational biology
CRISPR
neurodegeneration
single cell biology

Experimental organism
human
mouse
Chunling Yi

Georgetown University, United States

Expertise
Cancer Biology
Cell Biology
Chromosomes and Gene Expression
Genetics and Genomics

Research focus
cancer signaling
mouse models
drug resistance
transcription regulation
Li Yu

Tsinghua University, China

Expertise
Cell Biology

Research focus
migrasome
autophagy
lysosome
membrane shaping
Giulia Zanetti

Birkbeck, University of London, United Kingdom

Expertise
Biochemistry and Chemical Biology
Cell Biology
Structural Biology and Molecular Biophysics

Research focus
membrane trafficking
coat proteins
COPII
membrane remodeling
structural biology
cryo-EM
cryo-ET
subtomogram averaging

Experimental organism
S. cerevisiae
Yi Arial Zeng

Shanghai Institute of Biochemistry and Cell Biology, China

Expertise
Stem Cells and Regenerative Medicine
Cell Biology

Research focus
tissue stem cells
organoids
wnt signaling
mammary development
hormone

Experimental organism
mouse
Hong Zhang

Institute of Biophysics Chinese Academy of Sciences, China

Expertise
Cell Biology
Developmental Biology

Research focus
autophagy
lysosome
membrane contact

Experimental organism
C. elegans