Editors for Computational and Systems Biology
Senior editors
-
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.
-
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
- Immunology and Inflammation
- Physics of Living Systems
- Research focus
- biophysics
- quantitative immunology
- probabilistic data analysis
- theoretical models
- development
- collective behaviour
- 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”.
-
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
- Genetics and Genomics
- Evolutionary Biology
- Computational and Systems Biology
- Developmental Biology
- Chromosomes and Gene Expression
- Research focus
- genetics
- development
- evolution
- gene expression
- population genetics
- quantitative genetics
- 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
-
David B Allison
Indiana University, United States
- Expertise
- Medicine
- Genetics and Genomics
- Epidemiology and Global Health
- Computational and Systems Biology
- Evolutionary Biology
- Research focus
- experimental design
- statistics
- longevity
- biostatistics
- obesity
- nutrition
- senescence
- research rigour
- science integrity
-
Nir Ben-Tal
Tel Aviv University, Israel
- Expertise
- Biochemistry and Chemical Biology
- Computational and Systems Biology
- Evolutionary Biology
- Structural Biology and Molecular Biophysics
- Research focus
- computational structural biology
- structural biology
- structural bioinformatics
- protein universe
- primordial peptides
- membrane proteins
- transporters
- drug discovery
-
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
-
Gordon Berman
Emory University, United States
- Expertise
- Computational and Systems Biology
- Neuroscience
- Physics of Living Systems
- Research focus
- animal behavior
- theoretical biophysics
- computational neuroscience
- computational ethology
- Experimental organism
- D. melanogaster
- mouse
- rat
-
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
-
Nyasha Chambwe
St Jude Children's Research Hospital, United States
- Expertise
- Cancer Biology
- Computational and Systems Biology
- Genetics and Genomics
- Research focus
- bioinformatics
- computational biology
- cancer genomics
- population genomics
- data analysis
- Experimental organism
- human
-
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
-
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
-
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
-
Job Dekker
University of Massachusetts Medical School, United States
- Expertise
- Chromosomes and Gene Expression
- Computational and Systems Biology
- Genetics and Genomics
- Research focus
- chromosome folding
- mitosis
- chromatin
- gene regulation
- Experimental organism
- human
- mouse
- yeast
- dinoflagellates
-
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
-
Eduardo Eyras
Australian National University, Australia
- Expertise
- Genetics and Genomics
- Cancer Biology
- Chromosomes and Gene Expression
- Computational and Systems Biology
- Research focus
- bioinformatics
- transcriptomics
- long-read sequencing technologies
- RNA splicing
- alternative splicing
- nanopore
-
Jennifer Flegg
University of Melbourne, Australia
- Expertise
- Computational and Systems Biology
- Epidemiology and Global Health
- Research focus
- mathematical modelling
- mathematical biology
- computational biology
- infectious disease dynamics
-
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
-
Thomas Gingeras
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, United States
- Expertise
- Chromosomes and Gene Expression
- Computational and Systems Biology
- Genetics and Genomics
- Microbiology and Infectious Disease
- Research focus
- genomics
- gene expression
- regulatory networks
- chromosomal modification
- Experimental organism
- D. melanogaster
- human
- mouse
-
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
-
Frederik Graw
Heidelberg University, Germany
- Expertise
- Immunology and Inflammation
- Computational and Systems Biology
- Microbiology and Infectious Disease
- Research focus
- mathematical modelling
- theoretical immunology
- host-pathogen interactions
- viral spread
- infection dynamics
- Experimental organism
- mouse
- viruses
-
Rebekah L. Gundry
University of Nebraska Medical Center, United States
- Expertise
- Biochemistry and Chemical Biology
- Computational and Systems Biology
- Stem Cells and Regenerative Medicine
- Research focus
- mass spectrometry
- cell surface glycoproteins
- proteomics
- glycomics
- heart failure
- stem cell derived cardiomyocytes
- biomarkers
-
Shozeb Haider
University College London, United Kingdom
- Expertise
- Medicine
- Structural Biology and Molecular Biophysics
- Computational and Systems Biology
- Microbiology and Infectious Disease
- Research focus
- X-ray crystallography
- molecular dynamics simulations
- allostery
- structure-based drug design
- structural bioinformatics
- computational chemistry
- nucleic acids
- rare diseases
-
P Robin Hiesinger
Institute for Biology Free University Berlin, Germany
- Expertise
- Cell Biology
- Computational and Systems Biology
- Developmental Biology
- Genetics and Genomics
- Neuroscience
- Research focus
- brain development
- synapse
- neurogenetics
- membrane trafficking
- Drosophila
- neurodegeneration
- computational modelling
- live-cell imaging
- Experimental organism
- D. melanogaster
- organoids
-
Caleb Kemere
Rice University, United States
- Expertise
- Neuroscience
- Computational and Systems Biology
- Research focus
- computational tools for hippocampal electrophysiological signals
- place cells
- replay
- hippocampal rhythms
-
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
-
Daniel J Kliebenstein
University of California, Davis, United States
- Expertise
- Biochemistry and Chemical Biology
- Computational and Systems Biology
- Ecology
- Genetics and Genomics
- Plant Biology
- Research focus
- genetics
- genomics
- transcriptomics
- metabolomics
- pathogen
- plant metabolism
- fitness
- Experimental organism
- A. thaliana
- B. cinerea
- eudicots
-
David M Kramer
Michigan State University, United States
- Expertise
- Biochemistry and Chemical Biology
- Plant Biology
- Physics of Living Systems
- Computational and Systems Biology
- Research focus
- photosynthesis
- bioenergetics
- electron and proton transfer
- computation
- phenotyping
- phenomics
-
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
-
Christian R Landry
Universite Laval, Canada
- Expertise
- Computational and Systems Biology
- Evolutionary Biology
- Cell Biology
- Genetics and Genomics
- Research focus
- systems biology
- evolution
- genomics
- synthetic biology
- microbiology
- Experimental organism
- S. cerevisiae
- D. melanogaster
-
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
-
Andrei Lupas
Max Planck Institute for Developmental Biology, Germany
- Expertise
- Biochemistry and Chemical Biology
- Computational and Systems Biology
- Structural Biology and Molecular Biophysics
- Evolutionary Biology
- Research focus
- bacterial surface proteins
- bioinformatics
- coiled coils
- protein design
- protein evolution
- protein structure
- transmembrane signal tranduction
-
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
-
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
-
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
-
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
-
Sacha B Nelson
Brandeis University, United States
- Expertise
- Computational and Systems Biology
- Genetics and Genomics
- Neuroscience
- Research focus
- cell types
- neural plasticity
- neocortex
- synaptic physiology
- autism spectrum disorders
- epilepsy
- Experimental organism
- mouse
- other mammals
-
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
-
Timothy O'Leary
Cambridge University, United Kingdom
- Expertise
- Computational and Systems Biology
- Neuroscience
- Physics of Living Systems
- Research focus
- computational neuroscience
- theoretical neuroscience
- neurophysiology
- systems neuroscience
- homeostasis
- Experimental organism
- mouse
- rat
- D. melanogaster
- cancer borealis
-
C. Brandon Ogbunugafor
Yale University, United States
- Expertise
- Computational and Systems Biology
- Evolutionary Biology
- Epidemiology and Global Health
- Physics of Living Systems
- Microbiology and Infectious Disease
- Research focus
- disease ecology
- microbial evolution
- population genetics
- epidemiology
- evolutionary medicine
- Experimental organism
- E. coli
- human
- P. falciparum
- S. cerevisiae
- viruses
-
Srdjan Ostojic
École Normale Supérieure, France
- Expertise
- Neuroscience
- Computational and Systems Biology
- Research focus
- computational neuroscience
- network dynamics
- neural computations
- population coding
- neural circuits
- plasticity
-
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
-
Chris Ponting
University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom
- Expertise
- Computational and Systems Biology
- Genetics and Genomics
- Evolutionary Biology
- Research focus
- functional genomics
- population genetics
- long non-coding RNAs
- computational genomics
- evolutionary genomics
-
Janice L Robertson
Washington University in St. Louis, United States
- Expertise
- Structural Biology and Molecular Biophysics
- Computational and Systems Biology
- Physics of Living Systems
- Biochemistry and Chemical Biology
- Research focus
- membrane protein folding
- computational modeling
- oligomerization
- membrane transport
- driving forces
- lipids
-
Jeffrey Ross-Ibarra
University of California, Davis, United States
- Expertise
- Computational and Systems Biology
- Ecology
- Evolutionary Biology
- Genetics and Genomics
- Plant Biology
- Research focus
- quantitative genetics
- population genetics
- model plants
- evolutionary genomics of maize
- biological systematics
-
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
-
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
-
Thomas Serre
Brown University, United States
- Expertise
- Computational and Systems Biology
- Neuroscience
- Research focus
- vision
- computational neuroscience
- deep learning
- Experimental organism
- monkey
-
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
-
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
-
Ihor Smal
Erasmus University Medical Center, Netherlands
- Expertise
- Cell Biology
- Computational and Systems Biology
- Research focus
- image analysis
- machine learning
-
Cassidy Sugimoto
Indiana University Bloomington, United States
- Expertise
- Computational and Systems Biology
- Research focus
- metaresearch
- science of science
- science policy
- gender
- scholarly communication
-
M Dawn Teare
Newcastle University, United Kingdom
- Expertise
- Computational and Systems Biology
- Epidemiology and Global Health
- Medicine
- Research focus
- statistics
- population genetics
- epidemiology
-
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
-
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
-
David Van Valen
California Institute of Technology, United States
- Expertise
- Physics of Living Systems
- Computational and Systems Biology
- Research focus
- encoding
- viral decision making
- living systems
- image segmentation
-
Gaël Varoquaux
INRIA, France
- Expertise
- Computational and Systems Biology
- Neuroscience
- Epidemiology and Global Health
- Medicine
- Research focus
- machine learning
- statistics
- brain imaging
- electronic health records
- predictive models
- Experimental organism
- human
-
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
-
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
-
Gene W Yeo
University of California, San Diego, United States
- Expertise
- Chromosomes and Gene Expression
- Cell Biology
- Computational and Systems Biology
- Genetics and Genomics
- Medicine
- Neuroscience
- Stem Cells and Regenerative Medicine
- Research focus
- RNA biology
- computational biology
- CRISPR
- neurodegeneration
- single cell biology
- Experimental organism
- human
- mouse
-
Hang Zhang
Peking University, China
- Expertise
- Neuroscience
- Computational and Systems Biology
- Research focus
- computational modeling
- decision making
- cognition
- learning
- probabilistic structure
- inductive bias
- rational analysis
- EEG/MEG
- Experimental organism
- human