Editors for Computational and Systems Biology

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Senior editors

  1. Naama Barkai

    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.

  2. 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.

  3. 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, 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
    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, 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

  1. Woo-Young Ahn

    Seoul National University, South Korea

    Expertise
    Computational and Systems Biology
    Neuroscience
    Research focus
    decision neuroscience
    reinforcement learning
    computational modeling
    computational psychiatry

  2. 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

  3. 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

  4. 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

  5. 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

  6. 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

  7. 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

  8. 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

  9. 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

  10. David D Ginty

    HHMI, 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
    Experimental organism
    mouse

  11. Thorsten Kahnt

    Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, United States

    Expertise
    Neuroscience
    Computational and Systems Biology
    Research focus
    Neural and computational principles of learning and decision-making
    psychophysics
    computational modeling
    TMS
    fMRI
    Experimental organism
    human

  12. 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

  13. 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

  14. 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

  15. 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

  16. Markus Meister

    California Institute of Technology, United States

    Expertise
    Neuroscience
    Computational and Systems Biology
    Research focus
    retinal electrophysiology
    systems neuroscience
    physics

  17. 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

  18. 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

  19. 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

  20. 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

  21. 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

  22. 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

  23. 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
    Experimental organism
    S. cerevisiae

  24. Cassidy Sugimoto

    Indiana University Bloomington, United States

    Expertise
    Computational and Systems Biology
    Research focus
    scholarly communication
    scientometrics
    gender
    science policy

  25. 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

  26. M Dawn Teare

    Newcastle University, United Kingdom

    Expertise
    Computational and Systems Biology
    Epidemiology and Global Health
    Research focus
    statistics
    population genetics
    epidemiology

  27. 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

  28. 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

  29. Gaël Varoquaux

    INRIA, France

    Expertise
    Computational and Systems Biology
    Neuroscience
    Research focus
    human brain connectivity
    machine learning
    Experimental organism
    human

  30. Timothy Verstynen

    Carnegie Mellon University, United States

    Expertise
    Computational and Systems Biology
    Neuroscience
    Research focus
    cognition
    decision-making
    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

  31. 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

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