Editors for Computational and Systems Biology
Senior editors
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Naama Barkai
Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel
Naama Barkai is a systems and computational biologist interested in how bio-molecular circuits are designed. She joined the Weizmann Institute in 1999, following a post-doc (Princeton) and graduate studies (Hebrew University) in physics. She is currently chair of the Department of Molecular Genetics, and the head of the Azrieli and Kahan Centers for Systems Biology at the Weizmann Institute. In 2013, Barkai was elected to a Vallee Foundation Visiting Professorship and awarded the Abisch Frankel prize.
- Expertise
- Computational and Systems Biology
- Physics of Living Systems
- Genetics and Genomics
- Research focus
- systems biology
- modeling
- functional genomics
- yeast genetics
- morphogen gradients
- Competing interests statement
- Naama Barkai's main funding sources are from the European Research Council (ERC), the Human Frontier Science Program (HFSP), the Israel Science Foundation (ISF), Minerva, and the Bi-national Science Foundation (BSF). Barkai also serves on the editorial board of Development.
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Ronald L Calabrese
Emory University, United States
Ron Calabrese earned his BS in Biochemistry from Cornell University and a PhD in Neurobiology from Stanford University. He has been on the Faculty of the Department of Biology, Emory University since 1986 and is currently the Samuel Candler Dobbs Professor of Biology and Senior Associate Dean for Research. Calabrese's research focuses on the cellular mechanisms of motor control by central pattern generator (CPG) networks and the importance and implications of individual variation for network function and motor performance. His group uses an invertebrate model system, leeches, and focuses on the CPG that controls the beating of the animals two coordinated hearts. His research closely integrates electrophysiological experiments and computational modeling. They are particularly excited about their discovery, in collaboration with GS Cymbalyuk, that the Na/K pump current contributes to the bursting dynamics of oscillator neurons that pace the CPG, and in their recent eLife publication on output variability across animals and levels in a the leech-heartbeat motor system. Calabrese has been actively engaged in training 12 doctoral students, 2 masters' students, and 22 postdoctoral fellows. In 2017, he received the Award for Education in Neuroscience of the Society for Neuroscience.
- Expertise
- Computational and Systems Biology
- Neuroscience
- Research focus
- motor pattern generation
- neuronal and small networks models
- electrophysiological properties of neurons and synapse
- computational neuroscience
- Experimental organism
- leech
- Competing interests statement
- Over the past 30 years, Ron Calabrese has been consistently supported by NIH R01 grants. Since 2015, Calabrese has been a regular member of the SMI study section of NIH.
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Aleksandra Walczak
Ecole Normale Superieure, France
Aleksandra Walczak received her PhD in physics at UCSD working on models of stochastic gene expression. After a graduate fellowship at KITP, she was a Princeton Center for Theoretical Science Fellow, focusing on applying information theory to signal processing in small gene regulatory networks. Currently she is a CNRS researcher at the Ecole Normale Superieure in Paris, interested in a variety of problems in the physics of living systems.
She actively works on development, collective behavior of bird flocks and statistical descriptions of the immune system.
- Expertise
- Computational and Systems Biology
- Physics of Living Systems
- Research focus
- systems biology
- gene regulatory networks
- immune system
- population genetics
- Competing interests statement
- Aleksandra Walczak is the recipient of a CNRS-Chicago Cooperation Grant, a FACCTS CNRS-Chicago Cooperation Grant, an IRN CNRS Predictability, Adaptability Evolution network collaboration grant, a CNRS-MIT Cooperation Grant, a q-Life Grant "The physics of repair and silencing foci?, an ERC Proof of Concept Grant "Automated evaluation and correction of generation bias in immune receptor repertoires", a DFG CRC "Predictability in evolution", an ERC International Training Network QuanTII grant, and an ERC Consolidator Grant "Statistical physics of immune-viral co-evolution”.
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Patricia Wittkopp
University of Michigan, United States
Patricia Wittkopp received a BS from the University of Michigan, a PhD from the University of Wisconsin, and did postdoctoral work at Cornell University. In 2005, she began a faculty position at the University of Michigan, where she is now an Arthur F Thurnau Professor in the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Department of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology, Center for Computational Medicine and Bioinformatics, and LSA Honors Program. Her research investigates the genetic basis of phenotypic evolution, with an emphasis on the evolution of gene expression. Molecular and developmental biology, population and quantitative genetics, genomics and bioinformatics are integrated in this work. She was a Damon Runyon Cancer Research Fellow, an Alfred P Sloan Research Fellow, Guggenheim Fellow, and a recipient of a March of Dimes Starter Scholar Award, the Margaret Dayhoff Mid-Career Award from the Society of Molecular Biology and Evolution, and the Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel Research Award from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation.
- Expertise
- Computational and Systems Biology
- Genetics and Genomics
- Evolutionary Biology
- Research focus
- evolutionary genetics
- evolution and development
- gene expression
- regulatory networks
- allele-specific expression
- Experimental organism
- D. melanogaster
- S. cerevisiae
- Competing interests statement
- Patricia Wittkopp has received research support from the National Institutes of Health, National Science Foundation, March of Dimes, Alfred P Sloan Foundation, John Simon Guggenheim Foundation, and Alexander von Humboldt Foundation. She is currently an Associate Editor of Molecular Biology and Evolution and GENETICS, and serves on the Advisory Editorial Board of Trends in Genetics.
Reviewing editors
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Nir Ben-Tal
Tel Aviv University, Israel
- Expertise
- Structural Biology and Molecular Biophysics
- Computational and Systems Biology
- Research focus
- structural bioinformatics
- structure, function and motion in membrane proteins
- protein interactions
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Carl T Bergstrom
University of Washington, United States
- Expertise
- Computational and Systems Biology
- Research focus
- metaresearch
- science of science
- science studies
- metaknowledge
- philosophy of science
- bibliometrics
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Gordon Berman
Emory University, United States
- Expertise
- Computational and Systems Biology
- Neuroscience
- Physics of Living Systems
- Research focus
- theorectical and computational biophysics
- animal behavior
- bio-locomotion
- computational neuroscience
- machine learning
- dimensionality reduction
- dynamical systems
- Experimental organism
- D. melanogaster
- mouse
- rat
- human
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Alexander Borst
Max Planck Institute of Neurobiology, Germany
- Expertise
- Computational and Systems Biology
- Neuroscience
- Research focus
- computation
- vision
- insect
- motion detection
- neurogenetics
- compartmental modeling
- Experimental organism
- D. melanogaster
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Ben Cooper
Mahidol Oxford Tropical Medicine Research Unit, Thailand
- Expertise
- Computational and Systems Biology
- Epidemiology and Global Health
- Research focus
- population biology of communicable diseases
- antimicrobial resistance
- epidemiological methods
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Noah J Cowan
The Johns Hopkins University, United States
- Expertise
- Neuroscience
- Evolutionary Biology
- Computational and Systems Biology
- Research focus
- sensorimotor control
- active sensing
- navigation
- biomechanics
- robotics
- control theory
- motor learning
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Charlotte M Deane
University of Oxford, United Kingdom
- Expertise
- Computational and Systems Biology
- Structural Biology and Molecular Biophysics
- Research focus
- structural bioinformatics computational methods
- protein folding
- protein structure prediction
- protein structure evolution
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Job Dekker
University of Massachusetts Medical School, United States
- Expertise
- Computational and Systems Biology
- Chromosomes and Gene Expression
- Research focus
- spatial organisation of genomes
- chromatin interaction networks
- Experimental organism
- S. cerevisiae
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Michael Doebeli
University of British Columbia, Canada
- Expertise
- Computational and Systems Biology
- Ecology
- Evolutionary Biology
- Research focus
- mathematical modelling
- evolution of diversity
- social insects
- ecology and evolution of microbial communities
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Sarel Fleishman
Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel
- Expertise
- Computational and Systems Biology
- Structural Biology and Molecular Biophysics
- Research focus
- molecular recognition
- computational protein design
- protein folding
- antibody
- enzyme design
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David D Ginty
HHMI, Harvard Medical School, United States
- Expertise
- Computational and Systems Biology
- Developmental Biology
- Neuroscience
- Research focus
- somatosensation
- mouse molecular genetics
- sensory neuron development
- sensory neuron physiology
- spinal cord physiology
- development of the peripheral nervous system
- Experimental organism
- mouse
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Thorsten Kahnt
Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, United States
- Expertise
- Neuroscience
- Computational and Systems Biology
- Research focus
- learning
- decision making
- olfaction
- orbitofrontal cortex
- dopamine
- computational modeling
- fMRI
- transcranial magnetic stimulation
- Experimental organism
- human
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Mary B Kennedy
California Institute of Technology, United States
- Expertise
- Biochemistry and Chemical Biology
- Computational and Systems Biology
- Neuroscience
- Research focus
- synaptic plasticity
- synaptic regulation
- biochemical signal transduction networks
- systems biology
- Experimental organism
- mouse
- rat
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Sandeep Krishna
National Centre for Biological Sciences ‐ Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, India
- Expertise
- Physics of Living Systems
- Computational and Systems Biology
- Research focus
- gene regulatory networks
- phage-bacteria interactions
- microbial communities
- multistability
- oscillations and synchronization
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Christian R Landry
Universite Laval, Canada
- Expertise
- Computational and Systems Biology
- Evolutionary Biology
- Research focus
- systems biology
- evolution
- molecular evolution
- synthetic biology
- hybridization
- Experimental organism
- S. cerevisiae
- S. paradoxus
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Peter Latham
University College London, United Kingdom
- Expertise
- Computational and Systems Biology
- Neuroscience
- Research focus
- computational neuroscience
- bayesian inference
- network dynamics
- neural coding
- synaptic plasticity
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Andrei Lupas
Max Planck Institute for Developmental Biology, Germany
- Expertise
- Computational and Systems Biology
- Biochemistry and Chemical Biology
- Structural Biology and Molecular Biophysics
- Research focus
- bacterial surface proteins
- bioinformatics
- coiled coils
- protein design
- protein evolution
- protein structure
- transmembrane signal tranduction
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Andrea E Martin
Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, Netherlands
Donders Centre for Cognitive Neuroimaging, Netherlands- Expertise
- Neuroscience
- Computational and Systems Biology
- Research focus
- language
- speech
- cognition
- computational modeling
- oscillations
- structured representations in neural systems
- magnetoencephalography (MEG)
- electroencephalography (EEG)
- neuroimaging
- Experimental organism
- human
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Markus Meister
California Institute of Technology, United States
- Expertise
- Neuroscience
- Computational and Systems Biology
- Research focus
- computational neuroscience
- theoretical neuroscience
- systems neuroscience
- vision
- retina
- superior colliculus
- electrophysiology
- magnetoreception
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Andrew Morris
University of Liverpool, United Kingdom
- Expertise
- Computational and Systems Biology
- Genetics and Genomics
- Chromosomes and Gene Expression
- Research focus
- statistical genetics
- genetic epidemiology
- methodological development
- genome-wide association studies
- Experimental organism
- human
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Alan Moses
University of Toronto, Canada
- Expertise
- Computational and Systems Biology
- Evolutionary Biology
- Genetics and Genomics
- Research focus
- data analysis
- bioinformatics
- molecular evolution
- intrinsically disordered proteins
- signaling pathways
- regulatory networks
- Experimental organism
- S. cerevisiae
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Richard A Neher
University of Basel, Switzerland
- Expertise
- Computational and Systems Biology
- Physics of Living Systems
- Evolutionary Biology
- Research focus
- population genetics
- evolution of RNA viruses
- bioinformatics
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Armita Nourmohammad
University of Washington, United States
- Expertise
- Computational and Systems Biology
- Evolutionary Biology
- Physics of Living Systems
- Immunology and Inflammation
- Research focus
- population genetics
- computational immunology
- adaptive immunity
- statistical physics
- deep mutational scanning
- information theory
- statistical inference
- gene expression evolution
- Experimental organism
- D. melanogaster
- human
- viruses
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Stephen Parker
University of Michigan, United States
- Expertise
- Genetics and Genomics
- Chromosomes and Gene Expression
- Computational and Systems Biology
- Research focus
- diabetes
- disease susceptibility
- functional genomics
- comparative genomics
- population genomics
- Experimental organism
- human
- mouse
- rat
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Chris Ponting
University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom
- Expertise
- Computational and Systems Biology
- Genetics and Genomics
- Research focus
- computational genomics
- long non-coding RNAs
- functional genomics
- transcription factors
- Experimental organism
- human
- mouse
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Molly Przeworski
Columbia University, United States
- Expertise
- Computational and Systems Biology
- Evolutionary Biology
- Genetics and Genomics
- Research focus
- evolutionary biology
- population genetics
- human genetics
- meiotic recombination
- germline mutation
- natural selection
- Experimental organism
- primates
- human
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Agnese Seminara
Université Côte d'Azur, France
- Expertise
- Computational and Systems Biology
- Physics of Living Systems
- Research focus
- biomechanics of bacterial biofilm growth
- violent discharge
- atmospheric dispersal of fungal spores
- computational navigation
- Experimental organism
- B. subtilis
- mouse
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John T Serences
University of California, San Diego, United States
- Expertise
- Neuroscience
- Computational and Systems Biology
- Research focus
- attention
- working memory
- short-term memory
- decision making
- neural coding
- information processing
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Yibing Shan
DE Shaw Research, United States
- Expertise
- Structural Biology and Molecular Biophysics
- Computational and Systems Biology
- Research focus
- computational structural biology
- signaling
- computational chemistry
- molecular dynamics
- computer-aided drug design
- protein kinases
- small G protein
- receptor tyrosine kinases
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Wenying Shou
Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, United States
- Expertise
- Computational and Systems Biology
- Ecology
- Evolutionary Biology
- Genetics and Genomics
- Research focus
- quantitative biology
- mathematical biology
- evolutionary biology
- synthetic biology
- molecular genetics
- evolution of cooperation
- computer simulations
- Experimental organism
- S. cerevisiae
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Cassidy Sugimoto
Indiana University Bloomington, United States
- Expertise
- Computational and Systems Biology
- Research focus
- metaresearch
- science of science
- science policy
- gender
- scholarly communication
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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
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M Dawn Teare
Newcastle University, United Kingdom
- Expertise
- Computational and Systems Biology
- Epidemiology and Global Health
- Research focus
- statistics
- population genetics
- epidemiology
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Alfonso Valencia
Barcelona Supercomputing Center, Spain
- Expertise
- Cancer Biology
- Computational and Systems Biology
- Research focus
- bioinformatics
- computational biology
- structural bioinformatics
- co-evolution
- cancer genomics
- text mining
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Mark CW van Rossum
University of Nottingham, United Kingdom
- Expertise
- Computational and Systems Biology
- Neuroscience
- Research focus
- computational neuroscience
- synaptic plasticity
- noise in neural systems
- the early visual system
- retina
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Gaël Varoquaux
INRIA, France
- Expertise
- Computational and Systems Biology
- Neuroscience
- Research focus
- human brain connectivity
- machine learning
- Experimental organism
- human
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Timothy Verstynen
Carnegie Mellon University, United States
- Expertise
- Computational and Systems Biology
- Neuroscience
- Research focus
- neuroscience
- white matter
- brain sensorimotor pathways
- plasticity
- action planning
- decision-making
- complex skill learning
- obesity
- basal ganglia
- striatum
- drift diffusion models
- attractor networks
- Experimental organism
- human
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Martin Vinck
Ernst Strüngmann Institute (ESI) for Neuroscience in Cooperation with Max Planck Society, Germany
- Expertise
- Neuroscience
- Computational and Systems Biology
- Research focus
- neural coding
- vision
- computation
- behavioral State
- functional connectivity
- cell types
- oscillations
- predictive coding
- Experimental organism
- mouse
- rat
- human
- R.macaque
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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
