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

Research focus
cytoskeletal dynamics
microtubule-binding proteins
microtubule-based motors
membrane transport
cell migration

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.
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
Neuroscience

Research focus
signaling pathways
cell migration
phosphorylation
cell transformation

Competing interests statement
Jon Cooper receives research grants from the NIH.
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
Biochemistry and Chemical Biology

Research focus
diabetes
metabolism
insulin action
protein phosphorylation
signal transduction

Experimental organism
D. melanogaster
human
mouse

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.
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.
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

Research focus
membrane traffic
endosomes
lysosomes
golgi complex
secretory pathway
cholesterol transport

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 and current Chair of 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 is currently a chartered member of the NCF study section at the NIH, serves as ad hoc member of additional NIH panels, and is 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.
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 biology
cancer biology
transcription mechanisms
transcription
gene regulatory circuits
epigenetics
mRNA decay
biological function
cellular transformation
cancer stem cells
molecular biology

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.

Reviewing editors

Michel Bagnat

Duke University, United States

Expertise
Cell Biology
Developmental Biology

Research focus
morphogenesis

Experimental organism
zebrafish
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
Structural Biology and Molecular Biophysics
Cell Biology
Physics of Living Systems

Research focus
membrane mechanics
membrane trafficking
endocytosis
in vitro reconstituted membrane systems
membrane curvature
filopodia
membrane organization
Victoria L Bautch

University of North Carolina, United States

Expertise
Cell Biology
Developmental Biology

Research focus
growth and interactions of cells
blood vessel formation
Nils Brose

Max Planck Institute of Experimental Medicine, Germany

Expertise
Neuroscience
Cell Biology

Research focus
synapses
synaptogenesis
transmitter release
synaptic plasticity
synaptopathies
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
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
Michael Czech

University of Massachusetts Medical School, United States

Expertise
Cell Biology
Human Biology and Medicine

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

Experimental organism
human
mouse
Roger J Davis

University of Massachusetts Medical School, United States

Expertise
Cell Biology
Chromosomes and Gene Expression

Research focus
signal transduction

Experimental organism
mouse
Ralph J DeBerardinis

University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, United States

Expertise
Cancer Biology
Cell Biology
Human Biology and Medicine

Research focus
metabolism
cancer
genetics
medicine
pediatrics
genomics
mitochondria

Experimental organism
human
mouse
Elisabetta Dejana

FIRC Institute of Molecular Oncology, Italy

Expertise
Cancer Biology
Cell Biology
Developmental Biology

Research focus
angiogenesis
cell adhesion
VE-cadherin
vascular permeability
vascular development and patterning
endothelium
blood brain barrier

Experimental organism
mouse
Jennifer DeLuca

Colorado State University, United States

Expertise
Cell Biology

Research focus
mitosis
cell division
cell cycle
kinetochores
microtubules
spindle
Abby Dernburg

University of California, Berkeley, United States

Expertise
Cell Biology
Chromosomes and Gene Expression

Research focus
meiosis
chromosome structure
genetic recombination
evolutionary cell biology
cell cycle
LINC complex
fluorescence microscopy

Experimental organism
C. elegans
P. pacificus
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

Research focus
ubiquitination
autophagy
bacterial effectors
Legionella
ER-phagy
Volker Dötsch

Goethe University, Germany

Expertise
Structural Biology and Molecular Biophysics
Cell Biology

Research focus
membrane protein
signal transduction
Joaquin Espinosa

University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, United States

Expertise
Cancer Biology
Cell Biology
Human Biology and Medicine

Research focus
cancer biology
apoptosis
p53
tumor suppressors
trisomy 21
Down syndrome
gene expression
chromatin
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
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
Matthew Freeman

University of Oxford, United Kingdom

Expertise
Cell Biology
Biochemistry and Chemical Biology

Research focus
cell signalling
trafficking
quality control

Experimental organism
D. melanogaster
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

Research focus
cell cycle control
septin cytoskeleton
phase separation
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
Biochemistry and Chemical Biology
Cell Biology
Chromosomes and Gene Expression
Immunology and Inflammation
Neuroscience

Research focus
ER stress
ER calcium
neuroinflammation
gene therapy
cellular neuroscience
gene delivery

Experimental organism
rat
mouse
human cells
Silke Hauf

Virginia Tech, United States

Expertise
Cell Biology

Research focus
mitosis
cell cycle
quantitative biology
spindle

Experimental organism
S. pombe
Ramanujan S Hegde

MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, United Kingdom

Expertise
Biochemistry and Chemical Biology
Cell Biology

Research focus
protein translocation
endoplasmic reticulum
quality control
protein degradation
membrane protein insertion
protein aggregation
in vitro reconstitution
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
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
Tiffany Horng

ShanghaiTech University, China

Expertise
Immunology and Inflammation
Cell Biology

Research focus
immunometabolism
macrophage biology
intermediary metabolism
macrophage metabolism
mitochondria

Experimental organism
mouse
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
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
Human Biology and 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
Werner Kühlbrandt

Max Planck Institute for Biophysics, Germany

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

Research focus
high-resolution cryo-EM
membrane protein structure and function
biological energy conversion
ATP synthase structure and function
photosynthesis
membrane transporters

Experimental organism
E. coli
S. cerevisiae
Melike Lakadamyali

University of Pennsylvania, United States

Expertise
Cell Biology
Physics of Living Systems

Research focus
super-resolution microscopy
single molecule biophysics
chromosome structure
cytoskeleton
motor proteins
intracellular transport

Experimental organism
human
mouse
mammalian cells
Pekka Lappalainen

University of Helsinki, Finland

Expertise
Cell Biology

Research focus
actin
cytoskeleton
cell migration
endocytosis
mechanosensation

Experimental organism
S. cerevisiae
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
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
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
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
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
Human Biology and Medicine
Stem Cells and Regenerative Medicine

Research focus
autophagy
mitochondria
stress responses
tumor progression and metastasis
tumor stem cells
hepatic steatosis and hepatocellular carcinoma
breast cancer
pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma
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
Chromosomes and Gene Expression
Cell Biology
Genetics and Genomics

Research focus
chromosome segregation
meiosis
mitosis
chromosome organisation
cohesin
kinetochore
centromere
yeast
oocytes

Experimental organism
S. cerevisiae
S. pombe
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

Research focus
plant reproductive development
genetics
plant gametophyte development
receptor tyrosine kinases

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
live cell imaging
electron microscopy

Experimental organism
A. thaliana
Alphee Michelot

Institut de Biologie du Développement, France

Expertise
Cell Biology
Physics of Living Systems

Research focus
cytoskeleton
actin
yeast
motility
endocytosis
cytokinesis

Experimental organism
S. cerevisiae
Elizabeth A Miller

MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, United Kingdom

Expertise
Cell Biology
Biochemistry and Chemical Biology

Research focus
membrane traffic
endoplasmic reticulum
protein quality control
COPII vesicles

Experimental organism
S. cerevisiae
Noboru Mizushima

University of Tokyo, Japan

Expertise
Biochemistry and Chemical Biology
Cell Biology

Research focus
protein degradation
lysosome
autophagy
protein/organelle degradation
autophagosome

Experimental organism
mouse
yeast
Jacqueline Monaghan

Queen's University, Canada

Expertise
Plant Biology
Cell Biology

Research focus
plant immunology
plant molecular biology
plant immune signal transduction
plant genetics

Experimental organism
A. thaliana
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
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
Kassandra Ori-McKenney

University of California , United States

Expertise
Cell Biology

Research focus
Drosophila
microtubule cytoskeletal dynamics
neuronal development
Duojia Pan

UT Southwestern Medical Center, United States

Expertise
Cancer Biology
Cell Biology
Human Biology and Medicine

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
centrosome
basal body
microtubules
motors

Experimental organism
C. reinhardtii
Maddy Parsons

King's College London, United Kingdom

Expertise
Cell Biology

Research focus
adhesion
migration
cytoskeleton
microscopy
signaling
cancer
fibrosis
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
Biochemistry and Chemical Biology

Research focus
mechanobiology
cytoskeleton
microtubules
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
Neuroscience
Cell Biology

Research focus
neurogenetics
neural circuits
olfaction
learning and memory
mechanisms of neuronal translational control
mRNA localization
synaptic plasticity

Experimental organism
D. melanogaster
insects
Michael Rape

University of California, Berkeley, United States

Expertise
Biochemistry and Chemical Biology
Cell Biology

Research focus
stem cells
ubiquitin
ubiquitylation
degradation
proteasome
E3 ligase
p97/VCP
differentiation
quality control

Experimental organism
human
mouse
Xenopus
Peter Ratcliffe

University of Oxford, United Kingdom

Expertise
Cell Biology
Human Biology and Medicine

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

King's College London, United Kingdom

Expertise
Cell Biology
Human Biology and Medicine
Cancer Biology

Research focus
apoptosis
mitosis
cell extrusion
epithelial
homeostasis
morphogenesis
cancer cell biology
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
Maya Schuldiner

Weizmann Institute, Israel

Expertise
Cell Biology

Research focus
organelles
contact sites
targeting
translocation
high content screening
functional genomics

Experimental organism
yeast
Ranjan Sen

National Institute on Aging, United States

Expertise
Cell Biology
Immunology and Inflammation

Research focus
B cell biology
Tricia Serio

The University of Massachusetts, Amherst, United States

Expertise
Biochemistry and Chemical Biology
Cell Biology

Research focus
prion
protein misfolding
chaperones
amyloid

Experimental organism
S. cerevisiae
Mahak Sharma

Indian Institute of Science Education and Research Mohali (IISER), India

Expertise
Cell Biology

Research focus
lysosome
lysosomal positioning
vesicular transport
Rab and Arl GTPases
Arl8
HOPS complex
Rab effectors
endocytic recycling

Experimental organism
human cells
mouse cells
Kang Shen

Stanford University, United States

Expertise
Cell Biology
Neuroscience

Research focus
synapse
neuronal cytoskeleton
neuronal cell biology
developmental neurobiology
Robert H Singer

Albert Einstein College of Medicine, United States

Expertise
Cell Biology
Chromosomes and Gene Expression

Research focus
transcription
mRNA localization
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
Jonathan P Staley

University of Chicago, United States

Expertise
Cell Biology
Chromosomes and Gene Expression

Research focus
splicing
gene expression
RNA
spliceosome

Experimental organism
S. cerevisiae
mammalian cells
Thomas Surrey

The Francis Crick Institute, United Kingdom

Expertise
Cell Biology
Computational and Systems Biology
Structural Biology and Molecular Biophysics

Research focus
cytoskeleton
microtubules
motor proteins
self-organization
cell division
mitotic spindle
in vitro reconstitution
fluorescence microscopy

Experimental organism
human
Xenopus
J Paul Taylor

St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, United States

Expertise
Neuroscience
Cell Biology

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
Peter Tontonoz

University of California, Los Angeles, United States

Expertise
Cell Biology
Human Biology and Medicine

Research focus
lipid metabolism
cholesterol
nuclear receptors
adipocytes
obesity
atherosclerosis
diabetes

Experimental organism
mouse
Ivan Topisirovic

Jewish General Hospital, Canada

Expertise
Cancer Biology
Chromosomes and Gene Expression
Cell Biology

Research focus
protein synthesis
mRNA translation
signal transduction
post-transcriptional regulation of gene expression
metabolism
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
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
Karsten Weis

ETH Zürich, Switzerland

Expertise
Cell Biology

Research focus
nuclear transport
nuclear pore
mRNA transport

Experimental organism
S. cerevisiae
Julie P I Welburn

University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom

Expertise
Cell Biology
Structural Biology and Molecular Biophysics

Research focus
kinesin motors
microtubules
kinetochores
kinases
cell division
in vitro reconstitution
cytoskeleton
Jie Xiao

Johns Hopkins University, United States

Expertise
Cell Biology
Chromosomes and Gene Expression
Microbiology and Infectious Disease
Physics of Living Systems

Research focus
single molecule biophysics
bacteria
cell wall
cell division
gene regulation
chromosome conformation

Experimental organism
B. subtilis
E. coli
human
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
Gene W Yeo

University of California, San Diego, United States

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

Research focus
RNA biology
computational biology
CRISPR
neurodegeneration
single cell biology

Experimental organism
human
mouse
Li Yu

Tsinghua University, China

Expertise
Cell Biology

Research focus
migrasome
autophagy
lysosome
membrane shaping
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