Editors for Computational and Systems Biology
Senior editors
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Naama Barkai
Senior Editor
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
- 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
Senior Editor
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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Arup K Chakraborty
Senior Editor
Arup K Chakraborty is the Robert T Haslam Professor of Chemical Engineering, Physics, Chemistry, and Biological Engineering at MIT. He is the founding Director of MIT’s Institute for Medical Engineering and Science. He is also a founding steering committee member of the Ragon Institute of MIT, MGH, and Harvard, and an Associate Member of the Broad Institute of MIT & Harvard. After obtaining his PhD in chemical engineering and postdoctoral studies, he joined the faculty at the University of California at Berkeley in December 1988. He rose through the ranks, and ultimately served as the Warren and Katherine Schlinger Distinguished Professor and Chair of Chemical Engineering, Professor of Chemistry, and Professor of Biophysics at Berkeley. He was also Head of Theoretical and Computational Biology at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. In September 2005, Chakraborty moved to MIT.
His entire career has been focused on research at the intersection of disciplines. After an early career in engineering of polymers and catalysts, since 2000 Chakraborty’s work has focused on bringing together immunology and the physical and engineering sciences; more specifically, the intersection of statistical mechanics and immunology. His interests span T-cell signaling, T-cell development and repertoire, and a mechanistic understanding of HIV evolution, antibody evolution, and vaccine design. Chakraborty’s work at the intersection of disciplines has been recognized by numerous honors, including the NIH Director’s Pioneer Award, the EO Lawrence Medal for Life Sciences from the US DOE, the Allan P Colburn and Professional Progress awards from the AIChE, a Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar award, and a National Young investigator award. Chakraborty was elected a member of the National Academy of Sciences and the National Academy of Engineering for completely different bodies of work. He is also a member of the National Academy of Medicine, making him one of 21 individuals who are members of all three branches of the US National Academies. He is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences and the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and serves on the US Defense Science Board. Chakraborty has received four teaching awards at Berkeley and MIT.
- Expertise
- Computational and Systems Biology
- Immunology and Inflammation
- Physics of Living Systems
- Research focus
- computational biology
- immunology
- statistical mechanics
- signaling
- virology
- protein evolution
- Competing interests statement
- Arup Chakraborty is funded by the NIH and the Ragon Institute of MGH, MIT, and Harvard.
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Aviv Regev
Senior Editor
Aviv Regev is a computational biologist who joined the Broad Institute as a core member and MIT as a faculty member in 2006. Her work investigates how complex molecular networks function and evolve in the face of genetic and environmental changes, over time-scales ranging from minutes to millions of years. Regev received her MSc from Tel Aviv University, studying biology, computer science, and mathematics in the Interdisciplinary Program for the Fostering of Excellence, where she undertook research in both theoretical and experimental biology. She received her PhD in computational biology from Tel Aviv University. Prior to joining the Broad Institute, Regev was a fellow at the Bauer Center for Genomics Research at Harvard University, where she developed new approaches to the reconstruction of regulatory networks and modules from genomic data. Regev is also an associate professor in the Department of Biology at MITâ¨and director of the Klarman Cell Observatory at the Broad. Regev is the Director of the Cell Circuits Program at the Broad and a lead principal investigator for the Center for Cell Circuits at the Broad Institute, a Center of Excellence in Genomic Science (CEGS). Regev has been a Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) Early Career Scientist since 2009, and was named a Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) Investigator in 2013. She is a recipient of the NIH Director’s Pioneer Award, a Sloan fellowship from the Sloan Foundation, the Overton Prize from the International Society for Computational Biology, and the Earl and Thressa Stadtman Scholar Award from the American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (ASBMB).
(Image Credit: Maria Nemchuk)
- Expertise
- Computational and Systems Biology
- Genetics and Genomics
- Chromosomes and Gene Expression
- Evolutionary Biology
- Cancer Biology
- Research focus
- systems biology
- molecular networks
- computational biology
- single cell genomics
- regulatory networks
- systems immunology
- gene regulation
- evolution
- Competing interests statement
- Aviv Regev receives funding from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, the National Institutes of Health, and the Sloan Foundation. She is on the external advisory board of the San Diego Center for Systems Biology, the FAS Center for Systems Biology at Harvard, the Simons Institute for the Theory of Computing, the Jackson Laboratory, the European Molecular Biology Lab (EMBL), the SciLife Lab in Sweden, and ThermoFisher Scientific. She is on the advisory editorial board of Molecular Systems Biology and is an editorial board member of Genome Biology and Development. Regev is a consultant for Syros Phramaceuticals, GenePeeks, and CTIG (Cancer Therapeutics Innovation Group). Regev also worked for several years in the biotech industry in Israel, where she established and directed a bioinformatics research and development team at QBI, a functional genomics company.
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Patricia Wittkopp
Senior Editor
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, and a recipient of a March of Dimes Starter Scholar Award.
- Expertise
- Computational and Systems Biology
- Ecology
- Genetics and Genomics
- Evolutionary Biology
- Research focus
- evolutionary genetics
- evolution and development
- gene expression
- regulatory networks
- allele-specific expression
- Competing interests statement
- Patricia Wittkopp has received research support from the National Institutes of Health, National Science Foundation, March of Dimes, and the Alfred P Sloan Foundation. She is currently an Associate Editor of Molecular Biology and Evolution and Genome Biology and Evolution, and also serves on the Advisory Editorial Board of Trends in Genetics.
Reviewing editors
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Timothy Verstynen
Carnegie Mellon University, United States
- Expertise
- Computational and Systems Biology
- Neuroscience
- Research focus
- cognition
- decision-making
- Experimental organism
- human
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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
- evolutionary genomics
- long non-coding RNAs
- functional genomics
- transcriptomics
- Experimental organism
- D. melanogaster
- human
- mouse
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Michael Breakspear
QIMR Berghofer Medical Research Institute, Australia
- Expertise
- Computational and Systems Biology
- Neuroscience
- Research focus
- systems neuroscience
- computational neuroscience
- clinical neuroscience
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Christian R Landry
Universite Laval, Canada
- Expertise
- Computational and Systems Biology
- Evolutionary Biology
- Research focus
- evolutionary genetics
- evolution
- bioinformatics
- cell and systems biology
- yeast genetics
- Experimental organism
- S. cerevisiae
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Thorsten Kahnt
Northwestern University, United States
- Expertise
- Neuroscience
- Computational and Systems Biology
- Research focus
- Neural and computational principles of learning and decision-making
- psychophysics
- computational modeling
- TMS
- fMRI
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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
- Ecology
- Evolutionary Biology
- Research focus
- game theory
- network science
- evolution
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Alexander Borst
Max Planck Institute of Neurobiology, Germany
- Expertise
- Computational and Systems Biology
- Neuroscience
- Research focus
- visual processing
- systems neuroscience
- computational neuroscience
- Experimental organism
- Drosophila
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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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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
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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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David D Ginty
Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Harvard Medical School, United States
- Expertise
- Computational and Systems Biology
- Developmental Biology
- Neuroscience
- Research focus
- neurotrophic factors
- peripheral nervous system development
- mechanosensory neurons
- tactile processing
- spinal cord
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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
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Peter Latham
University College London, United Kingdom
- Expertise
- Computational and Systems Biology
- Neuroscience
- Research focus
- 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
- origins and evolution of folded proteins
- coiled coils
- bioinformatics
- transmembrane signal tranduction
- bacterial surface proteins
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Andrew Morris
University of Liverpool, United Kingdom
- Expertise
- Computational and Systems Biology
- Genetics and Genomics
- Research focus
- statistical genetics
- genetic epidemiology
- methodological development
- genome-wide association studies
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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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Molly Przeworski
Columbia University, United States
- Expertise
- Computational and Systems Biology
- Evolutionary Biology
- Genetics and Genomics
- Research focus
- population genetics
- evolutionary biology
- recombination
- Experimental organism
- primates
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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
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Wenying Shou
Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, United States
- Expertise
- Computational and Systems Biology
- Ecology
- Evolutionary Biology
- Research focus
- evolution of cooperation and multi-level selection
- microbial ecology and evolution
- quantitative experimental biology
- theoretical biology
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Cassidy Sugimoto
Indiana University Bloomington, United States
- Expertise
- Computational and Systems Biology
- Research focus
- scholarly communication
- scientometrics
- gender
- science policy
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M Dawn Teare
University of Sheffield, 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
- structural bioinformatics
- evodevo
- cancer genomics
- text mining
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Mark CW van Rossum
University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom
- Expertise
- Computational and Systems Biology
- Neuroscience
- Research focus
- synaptic plasticity
- noise in neural systems
- the early visual system
- retina
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Aleksandra Walczak
Ecole normale superieure, France
- Expertise
- Computational and Systems Biology
- Physics of Living Systems
- Research focus
- systems biology
- gene regulatory networks
- immune system
- population genetics
- Experimental organism
- zebrafish
