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Editors for Genetics and Genomics

We aim to review research in areas including the genetic basis of health and disease, comparative and functional genomics, epigenetics, genomics, medical genetics, genetic epidemiology, and population genetics. We welcome studies in all areas of human genetics as well as those that use cellular and animal models to explore traits of broad relevance to health and disease. We are particularly keen to see studies that use human genetics to drive risk variant discovery, and/or apply such information to provide further mechanistic insights into disease biology, to dissect the genetic architecture of disease, to explore the impact of modifiable risk factors, and/or to support translational advances. Read the latest research in this subject area.

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Senior editors

Kathryn Cheah

The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR China

Kathryn Cheah is a developmental geneticist and Jimmy & Emily Tang Professor in Molecular Genetics and Chair Professor of Biochemistry at the University of Hong Kong. She received her BSc Hons degree in Biology from the University of London and PhD in Molecular Biology from Cambridge University, U.K. After postdoctoral training at the University of Manchester and Imperial Cancer Research Fund in the UK, she joined the University of Hong Kong. Her research focuses on using functional genomics and mouse models to understand gene function and regulation, the associated gene regulatory networks and mechanisms of disease, with a focus on skeletal and inner ear development, congenital and common skeletal disorders. Notable contributions are the identification of SOX2 as essential for prosensory development in the inner ear, SOX9 as a key regulator of COL2A1 and the cartilage gene regulatory network, a lineage continuum for cartilage and bone cells and a causative mechanistic link between endoplasmic reticulum stress and skeletal disorders. She is an elected Fellow of the Global Science Academy, The World Academy Sciences (TWAS).

She was the founding President of the Hong Kong Society for Developmental Biology and the Hong Kong representative for the Asia-Pacific Developmental Biology Network and the International Society of Developmental Biology (2004-2013), elected President of the International Society for Matrix Biology (2006-2008), Senior External Fellow of the University of Freiburg Institute of Advanced Studies (2011-2012) and elected member of the Board of Directors of the International Society of Differentiation (2012-2018).

She brings editorial expertise to eLife having previously served as Associate Editor for Genesis, guest Associate Editor for PLOS Genetics, Asian Editor for Development Growth & Differentiation (2015-2016), editorial board member of Matrix Biology, BioEssays, Annual Reviews of Genomics & Human Genetics, and as Reviewing Editor of eLife.

Expertise
Developmental Biology
Genetics and Genomics

Research focus
gene regulation and development
inherited and degenerative skeletal disorder
inner ear
matrix biology

Experimental organism
mouse
human

Competing interests statement
Kathryn Cheah receives research funding from the Hong Kong Research Grants Council and the Hong Kong Health and Medical Research Fund. She is serving as a member of Hong Kong’s University Grants Council Biology Panel for the Research Assessment Exercise 2020. She currently also serves on the editorial boards of Scientific Reports, Genesis and Journal of Orthopaedic Research. She is also serving on the Hong Kong Advisory Board of the Gordon Research Conferences (GRC) and the GRC Conference Evaluation Committee.
Murim Choi

Seoul National University College of Medicine, South Korea

Murim Choi’s main scientific question is to elucidate the genetic mechanisms of human diseases. To address this, his expertise lies in the functional interpretation of human genetic variants using genomic and bioinformatic methodologies. He graduated from Seoul National University (SNU), Seoul, Korea, majoring in Molecular Biology (BS and MS). During the Ph.D course at Duke University, he studied cardiovascular system development in mice. In his postdoctoral training at Yale University, he studied human genetics, setting up a whole exome sequencing pipeline and applying it to various human diseases to identify causal genes. He received a K99/R00 grant for the postdoctoral works and was a recipient of SNU Invitation Program for Distinguished Scholar grant.

Establishing his independent lab at SNU, he has been studying the genetic mechanisms of rare disease pathogenesis, focusing on cases with neurodevelopmental defects. His current approach combines developmental biology and genetics, shaped by the fact that most pediatric rare disease patients experience congenital problems. More recently, his group has undertaken common disease research. His group recently established a bioinformatic pipeline that allows screening of eQTL signals only functioning in the non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) status and validated its utility. At SNU, he has been instrumental in establishing genetics and genomics methodologies by collaborating with clinicians in SNU Hospital. His lab has recently established protocols in advanced functional genomics approaches, including single-cell sequencing, saturation mutagenesis, modifier screening, and cell tracing technique to understand the genetic mechanisms underlying disease progression.

He has a strong interest in clinical and translational research, especially in elucidating genotype-phenotype relationships that may lead to human diseases. In 2018, he was selected as a member of the Young Korean Academy of Science and Technology.

Expertise
Genetics and Genomics
Medicine

Research focus
rare diseases
neurodevelopmental disorders
functional characterization of genetic variants
bioinformatics
Mendelian genetics

Competing interests statement
Current funding: Genetic elucidation of rare developmental disorders (200M KRW/year (~152,800 USD); Apr. 2014-Sep.2022; National Research Foundation of Ministry of Science and ICT); Genetic elucidation of gene expression noises (300M KRW/year (~229,200 USD); Mar. 2021-Feb. 2025; National Research Foundation of Ministry of Science and ICT); Discovery of NAFLD causing genes using single cell expression quantitative trait loci approach (80M KRW/year (~61,120 USD); Apr. 2021-Dec. 2025; National Research Foundation of Ministry of Science and ICT).Other editorial roles: editor of Experimental and Molecular Medicine (Springer Nature)
Michael B Eisen

HHMI, University of California, Berkeley, United States

Michael Eisen majored in math as an undergraduate at Harvard, exploiting the department’s lack of interest in what students did outside of the field to pursue his true love of ecology and evolutionary biology. Trying to unite his quantitative side with his interest in biology, he entered the Harvard Graduate Program in Biophysics, completing his PhD with Don Wiley, using X-ray crystallography to study the evolution of influenza virus proteins.

After a stint as the play-by-play voice of the Columbia (Tennessee) Mules Professional Baseball Club, he joined the labs of Pat Brown and David Botstein at Stanford at the dawn of the era of functional genomics, where he played multiple roles in the development of DNA microarrays as a tool for studying biology. His most notable contribution was a 1998 paper showing how clustering methods can reveal underlying biological structure in genomic data that helped to establish many analytical paradigms in genomics.

He began his independent career at Lawrence Berkeley National Lab, before moving to the Department of Molecular and Cell Biology at UC Berkeley. In addition to the main focus of his lab – using experimental, computational and evolutionary methods to study spatial patterns of gene regulation in the early Drosophila embryo – he has a longstanding interest in understanding the molecular basis for the varied microorganisms that have evolved to manipulate animal behavior.

Outside of the lab, he has been a fervent and occasionally strident advocate for opening up the system of scholarly publishing, founding, along with Brown and Harold Varmus, the Public Library of Science (PLOS). More recently he has dabbled in politics and serves as an advisor to Impossible Foods, a company Brown started to create plant-based meats to end the planetary scourge of animal farming.

Expertise
Developmental Biology
Genetics and Genomics

Research focus
development
genomics
embryogenesis
computational biology

Experimental organism
D. melanogaster

Competing interests statement
Impossible Foods: I am an advisor to Impossible Foods, a company founded by my former postdoctoral advisor Patrick Brown, to develop plant-based alternatives to foods derived from animal projects. I got involved in the company because animal farming has a massively negative effect on the planet, and because I believe we can reduce this negative impact by offering consumers products that satisfy their desire for meat, cheese and other dairy products that have less of an impact on the environment. I spend time on the company because I believe deeply in its mission, but I also receive a small stipend for my work and own equity. 23andMe: I used to serve on the Scientific Advisory Board of 23andMe, a company that provides consumers with information on their DNA through genotyping and through a website that offers information on ancestry and ties the unique collection of DNA variants they contain to the emerging scientific literature on the effect of these mutation. I do not hold any equity in the company, but I support their mission and my long affiliation with them may constitute a conflict of interest. Public Library of Science: For 20 years I have been a public advocate for reforming the way scientists communicate, and much of my work in this domain focused on the Public Library of Science, a non-profit publisher of open-access scientific and medical journals on whose board of directors I served from 2002–18. My work for PLOS was strictly on a volunteer basis: at no point did I receive any compensation from the company for my role. Despite having no financial interest in PLOS, I have put a huge amount of blood, sweat and tears into the company. I believe fervently in its mission and have an obvious personal stake in its success, even though I am no longer affiliated with them. Science funding: As a working scientist who has received grants from a variety of government funding agencies, I have a professional interest in promoting science funding and in influencing the way research funds are distributed. Anyone who follows me knows that I speak my mind freely on the NIH and other funding agencies and their problems, but I will admit that I used to pull my punches occasionally for fear that it would influence my prospects of funding. I currently receive virtually all of my lab’s funding from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, and thus I clearly have a professional conflict when talking about HHMI. Institutional: I work at the University of California, Berkeley, and have an institutional conflict of interest on anything dealing with UCB, with the University of California writ large, educational funding in California, and, arguably, public higher education policy at the national and state level. I also have a conflict of interest when talking about areas where UC, UCB or my department (Molecular and Cell Biology) have a financial interest, especially on patents. This is currently most relevant in regards to the patent interference case being contested by Berkeley, MIT and others over CRISPR technology. (Modified from “My Conflicts of Interest” at michaeleisen.org/blog.)
Benoît Kornmann

University of Oxford, United Kingdom

Benoit Kornmann is Associate Professor at the Department of Biochemistry, University of Oxford, and fellow of St Hugh’s College. Benoit Kornmann studies membrane contact sites, how intracellular organization impinges on organelle function and how lipid molecules are distributed among the many membranes of a eukaryotic cell. Benoit Kornmann is an expert in yeast genetics, membrane biology, organelle dynamics and signalling. He holds a PhD of the University of Geneva, and previously held the positions of Assistant Professor at the ETH Zurich, Professor of the Swiss National Science Foundation, and fellow of the Swiss National Science Foundation.

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

Competing interests statement
Benoit Kornmann is funded by the Wellcome trust and Syngenta Crop Protection. He is a board member of Review Commons and Contact, a faculty member of Faculty Opinions, and an advisory board member of F1000 Research.
Christian R Landry

Université Laval, Canada

Christian Landry received a BSc and a MSc in Biology from Université Laval and a PhD from Harvard University. His postdoc was in Biochemistry at Université de Montréal. He was then recruited as a New Investigator of the Canadian Institute of Health Research at Université Laval. He now holds the Canada Research Chair in Cellular Systems and Synthetic Biology. His research interests are in understanding how genetic variation and the organization of cellular systems interact to shape the ways evolution proceeds.

Expertise
Evolutionary Biology
Genetics and Genomics
Computational and Systems Biology

Research focus
evolutionary genomics
experimental evolution
gene duplication
evolution of proteins
genome engineering
cellular networks

Experimental organism
S. cerevisiae
E. coli
Fungal pathogens

Competing interests statement
Christian Landry’s research is funded by the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada, the Canadian Institute of Health Research, Genome Canada, Genome Québec, Fonds de recherche du Québec - Nature and Technologies and the Human Frontiers Science Program. He is a member of the editorial board of Review Commons, Molecular Systems Biology, Yeast and Genetics.
Sacha B Nelson

Brandeis University, United States

Sacha Nelson is the Tauber Professor of Biology and Chair of the Program in Neuroscience at Brandeis University in Waltham, Massachusetts. He received his MDPhD (Biology) from UCSD in 1991, did postdoctoral work at MIT and has been at Brandeis University since 1994. He has received awards from the Sloan, McKnight and Rett Syndrome Research Foundations. His current research focuses on transcriptional networks underlying neuronal plasticity and excitability in the mammalian neocortex.

Expertise
Neuroscience
Genetics and Genomics

Research focus
regulation of neuronal gene expression
cellular and systems electrophysiology
developmental disorders
learning and synaptic plasticity

Experimental organism
mouse

Competing interests statement
Sacha Nelson receives funding from the NIH and from the WM Keck Foundation. He serves on the Advisory Boards for eNeuro and for the Carney Institute for Brain Science at Brown University.
George H Perry

Pennsylvania State University, United States

George Perry received his PhD in 2008 from Arizona State University, and did postdoctoral work at the University of Chicago. In 2011, he began a faculty position at Penn State University, where he is now Associate Professor of Anthropology and Biology, Chair of the Bioinformatics and Genomics Graduate Degree Program, and member of the Huck Institutes of the Life Sciences. His research interests focus on human evolution, evolutionary ecology, and evolutionary medicine, and how human behavior and biology have affected non-human evolutionary biology. Research methods and theory from anthropology, evolutionary biology, parasitology, and population, comparative, functional, and paleo (ancient DNA) genomics are integrated in this work. He has received the Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Award from the National Science Foundation, among others.

Expertise
Evolutionary Biology
Ecology
Genetics and Genomics

Research focus
evolutionary biology
population genomics
evolutionary ecology
paleogenomics
ancient DNA
human evolution

Experimental organism
human
non-human primates
parasites

Competing interests statement
George Perry has received research support from the National Institutes of Health, National Science Foundation, Wenner-Gren Foundation, and L.S.B. Leakey Foundation. He is currently an Associate Editor of Evolutionary Anthropology.
Martin Pollak

Harvard Medical School, United States

Martin Pollak, MD is the Chief for the Division of Nephrology and the George C. Reisman Professor of Medicine with Harvard Medical School.

Dr Pollak is a graduate of Princeton University and the New York University School of Medicine. He did clinical training in Internal Medicine at Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center, completed a nephrology fellowship at the Brigham and Women’s Hospital, followed by postdoctoral research training in the Department of Genetics at Harvard Medical School in the laboratory of Jon and Christine Seidman. Dr. Pollak’s laboratory is interested in the molecular genetic basis of human kidney disease, with a particular focus on diseases of the glomerulus. His laboratory uses a combination of methods, including human genetics, mouse genetics, cell biology, and biochemical tools to understand the connection between phenotype and genotype and to understand glomerular physiology.

He was elected a member of the National Academy of Sciences in 2014, and received the American Society of Nephrology Homer W. Smith Award in 2017.

Expertise
Medicine
Genetics and Genomics

Research focus
nephrology
genetics
kidney
glomerulus

Experimental organism
human
mouse

Competing interests statement
Dr Pollak receives funding from the National Institutes of Health (NIH), the United States Department of Defense, and Vertex Pharmaceuticals. He is an Associated Editor for the Journal of the American Society of Nephrology and an ad hoc editor for PNAS.
Molly Przeworski

Columbia University, United States

Molly Przeworski received a BA in Mathematics from Princeton University and a PhD from the Committee on Evolutionary Biology at the University of Chicago. Her postdoc was in the Statistics Department of the University of Oxford, and was followed by a two-year stint as a research scientist at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology. Before moving to Columbia University, she was a faculty member at the University of Chicago as well as, briefly, at Brown University. Her research interests are in understanding the genetic and evolutionary processes that give rise to variation within and between species, and focus on non-model vertebrate species, notably humans.

Expertise
Evolutionary Biology
Genetics and Genomics

Research focus
population genetics
human genetics
evolutionary biology
meiotic recombination
mutation
natural selection
genome-wide association studies

Experimental organism
human
non-model organisms

Competing interests statement
Molly Przeworski's research is currently funded by the NIH and the Agouron Foundation. Dr Przeworski is a member of the National Academy of Sciences and as such an editor for PNAS.
Dominique Soldati-Favre

University of Geneva, Switzerland

Dr Dominique Soldati-Favre studied biochemistry and earned her PhD degree in molecular biology from the University of Zürich (Switzerland). She is full Professor at the department of Microbiology and Molecular Medicine at the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Geneva. Her laboratory is studying obligate intracellular parasitism using Toxoplasma gondii. The main line of research focuses on the cell biology underlying parasite active invasion into mammalian cells. Her group is also aiming at defining the metabolic needs and capabilities of the parasites as well as how they subvert host cellular functions notably to access nutrients.

Expertise
Microbiology and Infectious Disease
Biochemistry and Chemical Biology
Cell Biology
Genetics and Genomics

Research focus
parasitology
organelle biogenesis
protein trafficking
metabolism
host pathogen interaction
signalling

Experimental organism
T. gondii
apicomplexans
kinetoplastids

Competing interests statement
Dominique Soldati-Favre’s research is currently funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation. She serves as Section Editor at PLOS Pathogens, and Editor at mBio.
Detlef Weigel

Max Planck Institute for Developmental Biology, Germany

Detlef Weigel received his PhD in 1988 from the Max Planck Institute for Developmental Biology. After postdoctoral work at the California Institute of Technology, he joined the faculty of the Salk Institute in 1993. Since 2002, he has been director of the Department of Molecular Biology at the Max Planck Institute for Developmental Biology. His current research interests focus on natural genetic variation and evolutionary genomics of plants. Examples of recent important projects are the 1001 Genomes project for Arabidopsis thaliana, and the systematic dissection of deleterious epistasis between Arabidopsis strains due to autoimmunity. Among the awards he has received are the Young Investigator Award of the National Science Foundation, the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Award of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, and the Otto Bayer Award. He is a member of the US National Academy of Sciences, the German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina and the Royal Society.

Expertise
Plant Biology
Genetics and Genomics
Evolutionary Biology

Research focus
plants
genomics
evolution
genetic variation
evolutionary genomics
adaptation
microbiome

Experimental organism
A. thaliana

Competing interests statement
Detlef Weigel has received funding from the Max Planck Society, the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, the Foundation of the State of Baden-Württemberg, the German Ministry for Education and Research, the European Commission, the Human Frontiers Science Program Organization, and several US Federal agencies. He serves on the Editorial Boards of Annual Review of Cell and Developmental Biology and Genome Biology. He is Chair of EMBO Council, and is serving or has recently served on the Advisory Boards of the Epigenomics of Plants International Consortium, Bayer Crop Science, The Arabidopsis Information Resource, Flanders Institute of Biotechnology, Temasek Life Sciences Laboratory, and the Sainsbury Laboratory. He is a co-founder of Computomics and CeMet.

Reviewing editors

Cheryl Ackert-Bicknell

University of Colorado, United States

Expertise
Medicine
Genetics and Genomics

Research focus
bone
bone biology
genetics
musculoskeletal
aging

Experimental organism
mouse
rat
Fernán Agüero

Universidad Nacional de San Martín, Argentina

Expertise
Biochemistry and Chemical Biology
Chromosomes and Gene Expression
Computational and Systems Biology
Evolutionary Biology
Genetics and Genomics
Immunology and Inflammation
Microbiology and Infectious Disease

Research focus
genomics
drug discovery
diagnostics
infectious diseases
microbial eukaryotes
bioinformatics
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
Richard Amasino

University of Wisconsin-Madison, United States

Expertise
Plant Biology
Genetics and Genomics
Chromosomes and Gene Expression

Research focus
plant development and epigenetics

Experimental organism
A. thaliana
B. distachyon
Joon-Yong An

Korea University, South Korea

Expertise
Medicine
Computational and Systems Biology
Genetics and Genomics
Neuroscience

Research focus
whole genome sequencing
noncoding mutation
neurodevelopment
autism spectrum disorders
multi-omics
Caetano Antunes

University of Kansas, United States

Expertise
Biochemistry and Chemical Biology
Genetics and Genomics
Microbiology and Infectious Disease

Research focus
microbiome
host-microbe interactions
metabolomics
gene regulation
microbial signaling
H. Efsun Arda

National Cancer Institute, United States

Expertise
Developmental Biology
Chromosomes and Gene Expression
Genetics and Genomics

Research focus
pancreas
single-cell
enhancers
chromatin
Muthuswamy Balasubramanyam

ICMR Emeritus Scientist, Madras Diabetes Research Foundation, India

Expertise
Medicine
Biochemistry and Chemical Biology
Cancer Biology
Cell Biology
Developmental Biology
Epidemiology and Global Health
Genetics and Genomics
Immunology and Inflammation
Neuroscience
Stem Cells and Regenerative Medicine

Research focus
disease biology
diabetes
aging
omnics
calcium signaling
endocrine disruptors
probiotics
molecular medicine
Nicholas Banovich

Translational Genomics Research Institute (TGen), United States

Expertise
Cancer Biology
Genetics and Genomics
Chromosomes and Gene Expression

Research focus
single cell biology
CAR T cell therapy
gene regulation
pulmonary fibrosis
quantitative trait loci
Rebecca Bart

The Donald Danforth Plant Science Center, United States

Expertise
Plant Biology
Genetics and Genomics
Microbiology and Infectious Disease

Research focus
host-pathogen-environment interactions
non-model organisms
cassava
Xanthomonas
genetics
genomics
Melissa Bates

University of Iowa, United States

Expertise
Genetics and Genomics
Neuroscience

Research focus
integrative pathophysiology
pathophysiological consequences of chronic intermittent hypoxia
cardiopulmonary function
long-term developmental consequences of prematurity
Regina S Baucom

University of Michigan, United States

Expertise
Plant Biology
Evolutionary Biology
Genetics and Genomics

Research focus
plant adaptation
evolutionary ecology
evolutionary genetics
artificial evolution
plant mating

Experimental organism
plants
Esteban J Beckwith

Universidad de Buenos Aires - CONICET, Argentina

Expertise
Genetics and Genomics
Immunology and Inflammation
Neuroscience

Research focus
circadian
sleep
learning
memory
innate immunity
bacterial infections
insect behaviour

Experimental organism
drosophila
Patrícia Beldade

University of Lisbon, Portugal

Expertise
Evolutionary Biology
Developmental Biology
Ecology
Genetics and Genomics

Research focus
eco-evo-devo
phenotypic variation
developmental plasticity
pigmentation patterns
evolutionary novelty
genetics of diversification
butterfly wing patterns
Hugo J Bellen

Baylor College of Medicine, United States

Expertise
Neuroscience
Developmental Biology
Genetics and Genomics

Research focus
neurobiology
human neurological disease
Alzheimer's disease
Parkinson's disease
diagnosis of human genetic diseases
fly technology
CRIMIC
MiMIC

Experimental organism
D. melanogaster
mouse
Bérénice A Benayoun

University of Southern California, United States

Expertise
Chromosomes and Gene Expression
Genetics and Genomics
Immunology and Inflammation

Research focus
aging
macrophages
inflammation
sex differences
menopause
sex hormones

Experimental organism
mouse
African turquoise killifish
Andres Bendesky

Columbia University, United States

Expertise
Evolutionary Biology
Neuroscience
Genetics and Genomics

Research focus
evolutionary biology
population genetics
quantitative genetics
molecular genetics
social behaviour
systems neuroscience

Experimental organism
deer mice
siamese fighting fish
Benjamin K Blackman

University of California, Berkeley, United States

Expertise
Evolutionary Biology
Genetics and Genomics
Plant Biology

Research focus
evolutionary genetics
evolution of development
phenotypic variation
domestication
local adaptation
plant reproduction
Philip Boonstra

University of Michigan, United States

Expertise
Medicine
Epidemiology and Global Health
Cancer Biology
Genetics and Genomics

Research focus
biostatistics
clinical trials
cancer biostatistics
epidemiology
ECMO
statistical programming
Vincent Castric

Université de Lille, France

Expertise
Evolutionary Biology
Genetics and Genomics
Plant Biology

Research focus
evolutionary genomics
population genetics
small regulatory RNAs
mating systems
transposable elements
gene regulatory networks
self-incompatibility
receptor-ligand interaction

Experimental organism
Arabidopsis
Charlotte Cecil

Erasmus MC, Netherlands

Expertise
Neuroscience
Epidemiology and Global Health
Genetics and Genomics

Research focus
epigenetics
DNA methylation
psychiatric disorders
development
(early life) stress
epidemiology
birth cohort
child mental health
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
Howard Y Chang

Stanford University, United States

Expertise
Medicine
Chromosomes and Gene Expression
Genetics and Genomics

Research focus
cancer
immunotherapy
RNA
genomics
epigenomics
dermatology

Experimental organism
human
mouse
Sara Cherry

University of Pennsylvania, United States

Expertise
Genetics and Genomics
Immunology and Inflammation
Microbiology and Infectious Disease

Research focus
virology
microbiology
innate immunity
genetics
genomics
emerging pathogens

Experimental organism
D. melanogaster
Irene E Chiolo

University of Southern California, United States

Expertise
Chromosomes and Gene Expression
Genetics and Genomics

Research focus
DNA repair
double strand break repair
DNA recombination
chromosome dynamics
nuclear architecture
nuclear dynamics
nuclear actin filaments

Experimental organism
D. melanogaster
mouse
Jungmin Choi

Korea University College of Medicine, South Korea

Expertise
Cancer Biology
Computational and Systems Biology
Genetics and Genomics
Medicine

Research focus
rare disorders
single cell genomics
computational biology
human genomics
L Stirling Churchman

Harvard Medical School, United States

Expertise
Chromosomes and Gene Expression
Genetics and Genomics

Research focus
transcription elongation
splicing
mitochondrial gene regulation
translation
mammalian tissue culture

Experimental organism
S. cerevisiae
Luisa Cochella

Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, United States

Expertise
Chromosomes and Gene Expression
Developmental Biology
Genetics and Genomics

Research focus
microRNAs
transcription factors
chromatin
cell diversification
Maureen L Coleman

University of Chicago, United States

Expertise
Microbiology and Infectious Disease
Ecology
Genetics and Genomics

Research focus
microbial ecology
bacterial genomics
bacteriophage-host interactions
viral ecology
microbial phototrophy
stress response
Graham Coop

University of California, Davis, United States

Expertise
Genetics and Genomics
Evolutionary Biology

Research focus
population genetics
Vaughn S Cooper

University of Pittsburgh, United States

Expertise
Evolutionary Biology
Microbiology and Infectious Disease
Genetics and Genomics

Research focus
experimental evolution
antimicrobial resistance
biofilms
education
adaptation
cancer

Experimental organism
Pseudomonas
E. coli
Burkholderia
Acinetobacter
Leslie D Cope

Johns Hopkins University, United States

Expertise
Cancer Biology
Computational and Systems Biology
Genetics and Genomics

Research focus
bioinformatics
biostatistics
high-throughput genomic data
methods for identifying and validating biomarkers
Virginie Courtier-Orgogozo

Université Paris-Diderot CNRS, France

Expertise
Evolutionary Biology
Genetics and Genomics

Research focus
genotype-phenotype
evolutionary genetics
morphological evolution
physiological evolution
gene drive

Experimental organism
D. melanogaster
Yamini Dalal

National Cancer Institute, United States

Expertise
Cancer Biology
Chromosomes and Gene Expression
Genetics and Genomics

Research focus
chromatin
centromeres
chromosomes
mitosis
chromosome cancer biology
histone variants
nucleosomes

Experimental organism
human
mouse
Weiwei Dang

Baylor College of Medicine, United States

Expertise
Cell Biology
Genetics and Genomics
Chromosomes and Gene Expression

Research focus
aging
epigenetics
histone modifications
chromatin
chromatin remodeling
yeast
yeast aging
stem cell aging

Experimental organism
S. cerevisiae
C. elegans
mouse
human
Jeremy Day

University of Alabama at Birmingham, United States

Expertise
Neuroscience
Chromosomes and Gene Expression
Genetics and Genomics

Research focus
CRISPR/Cas
gene regulation
genomic enhancers
long non-coding RNAs
drug addiction
dopamine
reward
motivated behavior

Experimental organism
rat
mouse
cell cultures
Joris Deelen

Max Planck Institute for Biology of Ageing, Germany

Expertise
Epidemiology and Global Health
Genetics and Genomics

Research focus
aging
longevity
age-related diseases
genetics
functional characterization of genetic variants
CRISPR/Cas9
biomarkers of aging
biology of aging

Experimental organism
mouse
human
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
Filippo Del Bene

Institut de la Vision, France

Expertise
Developmental Biology
Neuroscience
Genetics and Genomics

Research focus
zebrafish
visual system
optogenetics
neural circuits
behavior
brain function
genome editing
Emek Demir

Oregon Health and Science University, United States

Expertise
Cancer Biology
Computational and Systems Biology
Genetics and Genomics
Medicine

Research focus
proteomics
Martin S Denzel

Altos Labs, Cambridge Institute of Science, United Kingdom

Expertise
Biochemistry and Chemical Biology
Genetics and Genomics

Research focus
aging
metabolism
protein homeostasis
cell culture

Experimental organism
C. elegans
mouse
Samuel L Díaz-Muñoz

University of California, Davis, United States

Expertise
Evolutionary Biology
Genetics and Genomics
Microbiology and Infectious Disease

Research focus
social evolution
reassortment
experimental evolution
genomics
sex
environmental microbiology
behavior
Eugene P Duff

Imperial College London, United States

Expertise
Genetics and Genomics
Neuroscience
Chromosomes and Gene Expression

Research focus
proteomics
dementia
functional neuroimaging
functional connectivity
single cell RNA sequencing
gene expression networks
multimorbidity
Dieter Ebert

University of Basel, Switzerland

Expertise
Evolutionary Biology
Genetics and Genomics

Research focus
coevolution
experimental evolution
host-parasite interactions
population genetics
balancing selection
evolution
biogeography

Experimental organism
Daphnia
Hannelore Ehrenreich

Max Planck Institute of Experimental Medicine, Germany

Expertise
Genetics and Genomics
Immunology and Inflammation
Medicine
Neuroscience

Research focus
translational neuroscience
erythropoietin
hypoxia
neuropsychiatric phenotypes
deep phenotyping
autoantibodies

Experimental organism
human
Joel K Elmquist

UT Southwestern Medical Center, United States

Expertise
Neuroscience
Medicine
Genetics and Genomics

Research focus
metabolism
obesity
diabetes
hypothalamus
feeding
autonomic
exercise

Experimental organism
mouse
D. melanogaster
John Ewer

Universidad de Valparaiso, Chile

Expertise
Developmental Biology
Neuroscience
Genetics and Genomics
Medicine

Research focus
animal behaviour
neuropeptides
circadian clocks
insect endocrinology

Experimental organism
D. melanogaster
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
Vilaiwan M Fernandes

University College London, United Kingdom

Expertise
Neuroscience
Developmental Biology
Genetics and Genomics
Cell Biology

Research focus
glial biology
glia-neuron interactions
developmental neurobiology
visual system
inter-cellular signalling
retinotopy

Experimental organism
drosophila
Paula Fernandez

INTA, Argentina

Expertise
Genetics and Genomics
Plant Biology

Research focus
genomics
system biology
ecophysiology
leaf senescence
transcriptomics
metabolomics
phenomics
Jonathan Flint

University of California, Los Angeles, United States

Expertise
Genetics and Genomics
Medicine

Research focus
genetics
genomics
psychiatric disorders
Ziyue Gao

University of Pennsylvania, United States

Expertise
Evolutionary Biology
Genetics and Genomics
Chromosomes and Gene Expression

Research focus
population genetics
human genetics
mutation rate
natural selection
genetic variation
ancient DNA

Experimental organism
human
non-human primates
Gregory G Germino

National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases, United States

Expertise
Medicine
Genetics and Genomics

Research focus
nephrology
genetic renal disease
internal medicine
ciliopathies

Experimental organism
mouse
rat
human
Evangelos J Giamarellos-Bourboulis

Attikon University Hospital, Greece

Expertise
Immunology and Inflammation
Microbiology and Infectious Disease
Genetics and Genomics
Medicine

Research focus
sepsis
hidradenitis suppurativa
pathogenesis of infection
biomarkers
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 Ginsburg

University of Michigan, United States

Expertise
Medicine
Genetics and Genomics

Research focus
hemostasis
thrombosis
protein secretion
human genetics
fibrinolysis

Experimental organism
human
mouse
zebrafish
Rosalyn Gloag

University of Sidney, Australia

Expertise
Evolutionary Biology
Genetics and Genomics
Ecology

Research focus
invasive species
population genetics
brood parasitism
social parasitism
eusociality

Experimental organism
birds
bees
Gustavo H Goldman

Universidade de Sao Paulo, Brazil

Expertise
Biochemistry and Chemical Biology
Cell Biology
Chromosomes and Gene Expression
Genetics and Genomics
Microbiology and Infectious Disease

Research focus
filamentous fungi
Aspergillus
secondary metabolites
gene expression
molecular biology
infectious diseases
drug tolerance
Jan Gruber

Yale-NUS College, Singapore

Expertise
Cell Biology
Genetics and Genomics
Chromosomes and Gene Expression

Research focus
aging
molecular mechanisms of aging
mitochondria
damage
Ilona C Grunwald Kadow

Technical University of Munich, Germany

Expertise
Neuroscience
Genetics and Genomics
Developmental Biology

Research focus
circuit neuroscience
behavior
in vivo imaging
chemosensation
olfactory system
neuromodulation
metabolism
internal state

Experimental organism
D. melanogaster
mouse
Adam Haber

Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health, United States

Expertise
Computational and Systems Biology
Genetics and Genomics
Medicine

Research focus
asthma
machine learning
Sara Hägg

Karolinska Institutet, Sweden

Expertise
Epidemiology and Global Health
Genetics and Genomics

Research focus
aging
gerontology
biomarkers of aging
biological age
molecular epidemiology

Experimental organism
human
Iqbal Hamza

University of Maryland, United States

Expertise
Biochemistry and Chemical Biology
Cell Biology
Genetics and Genomics

Research focus
metals
anemia
iron
heme

Experimental organism
mouse
C. elegans
parasites
Richard P Harvey

The Victor Chang Cardiac Research Institute, Australia

Expertise
Cell Biology
Chromosomes and Gene Expression
Developmental Biology
Genetics and Genomics
Stem Cells and Regenerative Medicine

Research focus
cardiovascular
stem cells
developmental biology
tissue regeneration
fibrosis
single cell biology

Experimental organism
mouse
human
zebrafish
Gaiti Hasan

Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, National Centre for Biological Sciences, India

Expertise
Genetics and Genomics
Neuroscience
Medicine

Research focus
calcium signaling
motor function
regulation of gene expression
IP3R
STIM
Orai

Experimental organism
D. melanogaster
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
Patrick J Hu

Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, United States

Expertise
Medicine
Developmental Biology
Genetics and Genomics

Research focus
signal transduction
genetics
development
aging
cancer
endoplasmic reticulum homeostasis
dauer

Experimental organism
C. elegans
Emilia Huerta-Sanchez

Brown University, United States

Expertise
Ecology
Evolutionary Biology
Genetics and Genomics

Research focus
natural selection
population demography
Gaspar Jekely

University of Exeter, United Kingdom

Expertise
Genetics and Genomics
Neuroscience
Evolutionary Biology

Research focus
nervous system evolution
marine larvae
cilia
sensory systems
eukaryogenesis
neuromodulation

Experimental organism
P. dumerilii
C. hemisphaerica
N. vectensis
Trichoplax
Gerard Karsenty

Columbia University, United States

Expertise
Genetics and Genomics
Medicine

Research focus
endocrinology
bone biology
physiology
bone endocrinology
Koichi Kawakami

National Institute of Genetics, Japan

Expertise
Developmental Biology
Genetics and Genomics
Neuroscience

Research focus
organogenesis
disease models
biotechnology
optogenetics
transposable elements
behavior
brain function
neural circuits

Experimental organism
zebrafish
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
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
Genevieve Konopka

The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, United States

Expertise
Neuroscience
Genetics and Genomics
Evolutionary Biology

Research focus
comparative genomics
autism
schizophrenia
neurogenomics
cognition
language
molecular neuroscience

Experimental organism
human
mouse
Paschalis Kratsios

University of Chicago, United States

Expertise
Developmental Biology
Genetics and Genomics
Neuroscience

Research focus
neuronal development
transcription factors
chromatin factors
neuronal identity
genetics

Experimental organism
C. elegans
mouse
Shigehiro Kuraku

National Institute of Genetics, Japan

Expertise
Evolutionary Biology
Genetics and Genomics
Developmental Biology

Research focus
molecular evolution
gene family evolution
developmental roles of duplicated genes
early vertebrate genome evolution

Experimental organism
reptiles
cyclostomes
chondrichthyans
Ashish Lal

National Institutes of Health, United States

Expertise
Cancer Biology
Biochemistry and Chemical Biology
Chromosomes and Gene Expression
Genetics and Genomics

Research focus
RNA biology
lncRNAs
microRNAs
gene regulation
cancer biology
p53

Experimental organism
human
Dan Larhammar

Uppsala University, Sweden

Expertise
Medicine
Evolutionary Biology
Neuroscience
Cell Biology
Chromosomes and Gene Expression
Genetics and Genomics

Research focus
evolution
gene/genome duplications
cellular and molecular neuroscience
G protein-coupled receptors (GPCR)
neuropeptides
endocrine peptides
phototransduction
ligand-gated ion channels

Experimental organism
human
zebrafish
Sihoon Lee

Gachon University College of Medicine, South Korea

Expertise
Medicine
Genetics and Genomics

Research focus
endocrinology
hormones
parathyroid
bone metabolism
rare diseases
thyroid hormone metabolism
deiodinase
insulin resistance
Scott F Leiser

University of Michigan, United States

Expertise
Cell Biology
Chromosomes and Gene Expression
Genetics and Genomics
Neuroscience

Research focus
aging
longevity
hypoxia
geroscience
proteostasis
stress response
flavin-containing monooxygenase
healthspan
Mia T Levine

University of Pennsylvania, United States

Expertise
Chromosomes and Gene Expression
Evolutionary Biology
Genetics and Genomics

Research focus
evolution
conflict
heterochromatin
telomere
phylogenomics
paternal chromatin
epigenetics

Experimental organism
D. melanogaster
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
Kristen W Lynch

University of Pennsylvania, United States

Expertise
Chromosomes and Gene Expression
Biochemistry and Chemical Biology
Genetics and Genomics

Research focus
RNA
post-transcriptional gene regulation
RNA silencing
RNA binding proteins
Pablo A Manavella

Instituto de Agrobiotecnología del Litoral , Argentina

Expertise
Plant Biology
Chromosomes and Gene Expression
Genetics and Genomics
Developmental Biology

Research focus
small RNA
microRNAs
RNA biology
chromatin
epigenetics
transposable elements
gene silencing
miRNA biogenesis

Experimental organism
A. thaliana
Arya Mani

Yale University School of Medicine, United States

Expertise
Medicine
Genetics and Genomics

Research focus
lipid metabolism
glucose metabolism
fatty liver disease
hyperlipidemia
cardiovascular genetics

Experimental organism
mouse
Jean-Christophe Marine

Vlaams Instituut voor Biotechnologie, Belgium

Expertise
Cancer Biology
Genetics and Genomics

Research focus
mouse genetics
molecular oncology
cancer genomics

Experimental organism
mouse
Adèle L Marston

University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom

Expertise
Cell Biology
Chromosomes and Gene Expression
Genetics and Genomics

Research focus
meiosis
mitosis
cohesin
kinetochores
pericentromeres

Experimental organism
S. cerevisiae
S. pombe
human oocyte
Daniel R Matute

University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, United States

Expertise
Ecology
Evolutionary Biology
Genetics and Genomics

Research focus
genetic mechanisms
evolutionary consequences
reproductive isolation
speciation
John McCutcheon

Arizona State University, United States

Expertise
Cell Biology
Evolutionary Biology
Genetics and Genomics
Microbiology and Infectious Disease

Research focus
organelles
genome evolution
evolutionary cell biology
insects
bacteria
intracellular bacteria
endosymbiosis
Subburaman Mohan

Loma Linda University, United States

Expertise
Medicine
Genetics and Genomics

Research focus
bone biology
endochondral bone formation
insulin-like growth factors
osteoporosis
osteoarthritis
skeletal development

Experimental organism
human
Yehu Moran

The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel

Expertise
Chromosomes and Gene Expression
Evolutionary Biology
Genetics and Genomics

Research focus
molecular evolution
evolutionary genetics
post-transcriptional regulation
microRNAs
ion channels
venom
antiviral innate immunity

Experimental organism
Cnidaria
Marcelo A Mori

State University of Campinas, Brazil

Expertise
Biochemistry and Chemical Biology
Cell Biology
Chromosomes and Gene Expression
Genetics and Genomics
Immunology and Inflammation

Research focus
aging
metabolism
obesity
adipose tissue
microRNAs
endocrinology
integrative physiology
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
Marcos Nahmad

Centre for Research and Advanced Studies, Mexico

Expertise
Computational and Systems Biology
Developmental Biology
Genetics and Genomics
Physics of Living Systems

Research focus
growth control
drosophila genetics
developmental patterning
mathematical modelling
Goutham Narla

University of Michigan, United States

Expertise
Medicine
Cancer Biology
Genetics and Genomics

Research focus
cancer therapeutics
cancer genetics
small molecule drug development
protein phosphatase

Experimental organism
human
mouse
Marisa Nicolás

Laboratório Nacional de Computação Científica, Brazil

Expertise
Chromosomes and Gene Expression
Computational and Systems Biology
Genetics and Genomics
Microbiology and Infectious Disease

Research focus
molecular biology
bioinformatics
genomics
transcriptomics
multi-omics approaches
clinical pathogens
antimicrobial resistance
metabolic regulatory networks
transcriptional regulatory networks
Magnus Nordborg

Gregor Mendel Institute of Molecular Plant Biology, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Austria

Expertise
Genetics and Genomics
Plant Biology
Evolutionary Biology

Research focus
adaptation
population genetics
evolutionary genetics
genetics
genomics
genome-wide association studies
epigenetics

Experimental organism
Arabidopsis
Lauren O'Connell

Stanford University, United States

Expertise
Ecology
Evolutionary Biology
Genetics and Genomics
Neuroscience

Research focus
behavior
evolution
predator-prey interactions
toxins
communication
sensory systems

Experimental organism
amphibians
lizards
fish
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
David A Paz-Garcia

Centro de Investigaciones Biológicas del Noroeste (CIBNOR), Mexico

Expertise
Chromosomes and Gene Expression
Computational and Systems Biology
Ecology
Evolutionary Biology
Genetics and Genomics
Microbiology and Infectious Disease
Plant Biology

Research focus
marine life
coral reefs
phylogenomics
population genomics
morphometrics
gene expression
statistics
coding
Marianoel Pereira-Gómez

Institut Pasteur de Montevideo, Uruguay

Expertise
Evolutionary Biology
Genetics and Genomics
Microbiology and Infectious Disease

Research focus
viruses
evolution
genetics
mutation rate
mutagenesis
experimental evolution
virology
molecular biology
Luca Pinello

Massachusetts General Hospital, United States

Expertise
Medicine
Computational and Systems Biology
Genetics and Genomics

Research focus
bioinformatics
computational biology
CRISPR genome editing
single-cell genomics
Wenfeng Qian

Institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China

Expertise
Evolutionary Biology
Genetics and Genomics

Research focus
codon usage
yeast genomics
mutational spectrum
fitness landscape
gene duplication
translational regulation
Mani Ramaswami

Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland

Expertise
Cell Biology
Genetics and Genomics
Neuroscience

Research focus
RNA granules
RNA binding proteins
neuronal translational control
ALS models
inhibitory plasticity and memory
behavioral circuits
habituation
modulation of behaviour

Experimental organism
D. melanogaster
Jalees Rehman

University of Illinois at Chicago, United States

Expertise
Cell Biology
Genetics and Genomics
Immunology and Inflammation
Medicine
Stem Cells and Regenerative Medicine

Research focus
vascular biology
macrophage biology
inflammation
transcriptomics
single cell analysis
lung biology
cell regeneration
Tania Reis

University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, United States

Expertise
Genetics and Genomics
Chromosomes and Gene Expression
Neuroscience

Research focus
obesity
energy homeostasis
RNA binding proteins
sex differences
alternative splicing

Experimental organism
D. melanogaster
Jeffrey Ross-Ibarra

University of California, Davis, United States

Expertise
Plant Biology
Evolutionary Biology
Genetics and Genomics

Research focus
evolutionary genetics
domestication
local adaptation
transposable elements
Tamer I Sallam

University of California, Los Angeles, United States

Expertise
Medicine
Genetics and Genomics

Research focus
atherosclerosis
lipid metabolism
cardiovascular disease
noncoding RNA
gene regulation
Marcus M Seldin

University of California, Irvine, United States

Expertise
Biochemistry and Chemical Biology
Computational and Systems Biology
Genetics and Genomics

Research focus
systems genetics
endocrine physiology
metabolism
cell-cell communication
Guy Sella

Columbia University, United States

Expertise
Evolutionary Biology
Genetics and Genomics

Research focus
population genetics
evolutionary genetics
modeling
quantitative genetics
adaptation
disease
Reut Shalgi

Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, Israel

Expertise
Cell Biology
Genetics and Genomics
Computational and Systems Biology
Chromosomes and Gene Expression

Research focus
stress response
ER stress
UPR
heat shock response
chaperones
protein aggregation
Jiwon Shim

Hanyang University, South Korea

Expertise
Cell Biology
Developmental Biology
Genetics and Genomics
Immunology and Inflammation

Research focus
hematopoiesis
innate immunity
hemocyte
development
signaling
inter-organ communication

Experimental organism
D. melanogaster
Wenying Shou

University College London, United Kingdom

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
Mashaal Sohail

National Autonomous University of Mexico, Mexico

Expertise
Computational and Systems Biology
Evolutionary Biology
Genetics and Genomics
Epidemiology and Global Health

Research focus
population genetics
complex traits
natural selection
population structure
demographic history
genomics
equity
anthropological genetics
Kumaravel Somasundaram

Indian Institute of Science Bangalore, India

Expertise
Cell Biology
Medicine
Cancer Biology
Genetics and Genomics
Chromosomes and Gene Expression

Research focus
cell signalling
glioma
gene regulation
cancer therapeutics
cancer genomics
cancer stem cells
non-coding RNA
chemoresistance
Renan P Souza

Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Brazil

Expertise
Genetics and Genomics
Medicine

Research focus
molecular epidemiology
genomics
biomarkers
statistical modeling
cohort studies
case-control studies
simulation studies
Andrea Sweigart

University of Georgia, United States

Expertise
Evolutionary Biology
Genetics and Genomics
Plant Biology

Research focus
speciation
quantitative genetics
population genomics
plant evolution
Owen Tamplin

University of Wisconsin-Madison, United States

Expertise
Genetics and Genomics
Developmental Biology
Stem Cells and Regenerative Medicine

Research focus
hematopoeitic stem cells
microenvironment
zebrafish
blood development
Rudolph E Tanzi

Harvard University, United States

Expertise
Neuroscience
Genetics and Genomics
Medicine

Research focus
Alzheimer's disease
genetics
neurodegenerative disease
amyloid
neuroinflammation

Experimental organism
mouse
human
brain organoids
Kristin Tessmar-Raible

University of Vienna, Austria

Expertise
Cell Biology
Developmental Biology
Ecology
Evolutionary Biology
Genetics and Genomics
Neuroscience

Research focus
chronobiology
marine
photobiology
rhythms
clocks
physiology

Experimental organism
platynereis
clunio
danio
medakafish
oryzias
Jenny Tung

Duke University, United States

Expertise
Ecology
Evolutionary Biology
Genetics and Genomics

Research focus
social behaviour
evolutionary ecology
evolutionary functional genomics
hybridization

Experimental organism
primates
Dario Riccardo Valenzano

Max Planck Institute for Biology of Ageing, Germany

Expertise
Evolutionary Biology
Genetics and Genomics
Immunology and Inflammation
Microbiology and Infectious Disease

Research focus
biology of aging
microbiome
killifish
neutral evolution
mutation load
comparative genomics
immunosenescence
Kevin Verstrepen

VIB-KU Leuven Center for Microbiology, Belgium

Expertise
Evolutionary Biology
Genetics and Genomics
Microbiology and Infectious Disease

Research focus
yeast
aroma
fermentation
genomics
molecular evolution

Experimental organism
S. cerevisiae
Joseph T Wade

Wadsworth Center, United States

Expertise
Chromosomes and Gene Expression
Genetics and Genomics
Microbiology and Infectious Disease

Research focus
bacterial gene regulation
bacterial CRISPR systems
bacterial regulatory RNA

Experimental organism
E. coli
S. typhimurium
M. tuberculosis
Eric J Wagner

University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston, United States

Expertise
Chromosomes and Gene Expression
Biochemistry and Chemical Biology
Cancer Biology
Genetics and Genomics

Research focus
RNA biology
transcription
RNA processing
gene expression
Linghua Wang

The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, United States

Expertise
Cancer Biology
Computational and Systems Biology
Genetics and Genomics
Immunology and Inflammation
Medicine

Research focus
computational biology
cancer immunogenomics
cancer genomics
Raymund Wellinger

Université de Sherbrooke, Canada

Expertise
Biochemistry and Chemical Biology
Cell Biology
Chromosomes and Gene Expression
Genetics and Genomics

Research focus
chromosome biology
DNA replication
telomeres
telomerase
yeast cell biology

Experimental organism
yeast
mouse
Jian Xu

University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, United States

Expertise
Cancer Biology
Chromosomes and Gene Expression
Developmental Biology
Genetics and Genomics
Stem Cells and Regenerative Medicine

Research focus
hematopoiesis
erythropoiesis
myeloid leukemia
epigenetics
transcription regulation
enhancer
metabolism

Experimental organism
human
mouse
Wei Yan

University of California, Los Angeles, United States

Expertise
Developmental Biology
Genetics and Genomics
Medicine

Research focus
fertility
germ cells
reproduction
epigenetic inheritance
epigenomics
noncoding RNAs
post-transcriptional regulation
Gene W Yeo

University of California, San Diego, United States

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

Research focus
RNA biology
computational biology
CRISPR
neurodegeneration
single cell biology

Experimental organism
human
mouse
Chunling Yi

Georgetown University, United States

Expertise
Cancer Biology
Cell Biology
Chromosomes and Gene Expression
Genetics and Genomics

Research focus
cancer signaling
mouse models
drug resistance
transcription regulation
Alexander Young

University of California, Los Angeles, United States

Expertise
Genetics and Genomics

Research focus
statistical genetics
sociogenomics
Hao Yu

National University of Singapore & Temasek Life Sciences Laboratory, Singapore

Expertise
Genetics and Genomics
Plant Biology

Research focus
functional genomics
plant reproductive development
phytohormone signalling

Experimental organism
rice
orchid
A. thaliana
María Mercedes Zambrano

CorpoGen, Colombia

Expertise
Microbiology and Infectious Disease
Genetics and Genomics

Research focus
environmental microbiology
microbial communities
biodiversity
microbiome
antimicrobial resistance
extreme environments
Siming Zhao

Dartmouth College, United States

Expertise
Medicine
Computational and Systems Biology
Genetics and Genomics

Research focus
statistical genetics
genomics
human genetics
sequencing data
Bian Zhuan

Wuhan University, China

Expertise
Medicine
Genetics and Genomics

Research focus
craniofacial genetics
oral and craniofacial developmental defects
orofacial clefts
tooth agenesis
Daniel Zilberman

John Innes Centre, United Kingdom

Expertise
Chromosomes and Gene Expression
Genetics and Genomics
Plant Biology

Research focus
DNA methylation
chromatin
epigenetics
epigenomics
evolution

Experimental organism
rice
A. thaliana