Editors for Physics of Living Systems
Senior editors
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Naama Barkai
Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel
Naama Barkai is a systems and computational biologist interested in how bio-molecular circuits are designed. She joined the Weizmann Institute in 1999, following a post-doc (Princeton) and graduate studies (Hebrew University) in physics. She is currently chair of the Department of Molecular Genetics, and the head of the Azrieli and Kahan Centers for Systems Biology at the Weizmann Institute. In 2013, Barkai was elected to a Vallee Foundation Visiting Professorship and awarded the Abisch Frankel prize.
- Expertise
- Computational and Systems Biology
- Physics of Living Systems
- Genetics and Genomics
- Research focus
- systems biology
- modeling
- functional genomics
- yeast genetics
- morphogen gradients
- Competing interests statement
- Naama Barkai's main funding sources are from the European Research Council (ERC), the Human Frontier Science Program (HFSP), the Israel Science Foundation (ISF), Minerva, and the Bi-national Science Foundation (BSF). Barkai also serves on the editorial board of Development.
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Aleksandra Walczak
Ecole Normale Superieure, France
Aleksandra Walczak received her PhD in physics at UCSD working on models of stochastic gene expression. After a graduate fellowship at KITP, she was a Princeton Center for Theoretical Science Fellow, focusing on applying information theory to signal processing in small gene regulatory networks. Currently she is a CNRS researcher at the Ecole Normale Superieure in Paris, interested in a variety of problems in the physics of living systems.
She actively works on development, collective behavior of bird flocks and statistical descriptions of the immune system.
- Expertise
- Computational and Systems Biology
- Physics of Living Systems
- Research focus
- systems biology
- gene regulatory networks
- immune system
- population genetics
- Competing interests statement
- Aleksandra Walczak is the recipient of a CNRS-Chicago Cooperation Grant, a FACCTS CNRS-Chicago Cooperation Grant, an IRN CNRS Predictability, Adaptability Evolution network collaboration grant, a CNRS-MIT Cooperation Grant, a q-Life Grant "The physics of repair and silencing foci?, an ERC Proof of Concept Grant "Automated evaluation and correction of generation bias in immune receptor repertoires", a DFG CRC "Predictability in evolution", an ERC International Training Network QuanTII grant, and an ERC Consolidator Grant "Statistical physics of immune-viral co-evolution”.
Reviewing editors
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Patricia Bassereau
Institut Curie, France
- Expertise
- Structural Biology and Molecular Biophysics
- Cell Biology
- Physics of Living Systems
- Research focus
- membrane mechanics
- membrane trafficking
- endocytosis
- in vitro reconstituted membrane systems
- membrane curvature
- filopodia
- membrane organization
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Gordon Berman
Emory University, United States
- Expertise
- Computational and Systems Biology
- Neuroscience
- Physics of Living Systems
- Research focus
- theorectical and computational biophysics
- animal behavior
- bio-locomotion
- computational neuroscience
- machine learning
- dimensionality reduction
- dynamical systems
- Experimental organism
- D. melanogaster
- mouse
- rat
- human
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Stephanie Fraley
University of California San Diego, United States
- Expertise
- Stem Cells and Regenerative Medicine
- Physics of Living Systems
- Research focus
- cell-ECM interactions
- biomaterials
- cell migration
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Raymond E Goldstein
University of Cambridge, United Kingdom
- Expertise
- Physics of Living Systems
- Research focus
- Biological physics
- fluid dynamics
- multicellularity
- developmental biology
- Experimental organism
- Chlamydomonas
- volvox
- choanoflagellates
- dinoflagellates
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Frank Jülicher
Max Planck Institute for the Physics of Complex Systems, Germany
- Expertise
- Structural Biology and Molecular Biophysics
- Physics of Living Systems
- Research focus
- active cellular processes
- physics of the cytoskeleton and motor proteins
- physics of cell division
- tissues and developmental processes
- biophysics of hearing
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Michael Kozlov
Tel Aviv University, Israel
- Expertise
- Cell Biology
- Physics of Living Systems
- Research focus
- modeling membrane shapes
- membrane curvature
- membrane fusion
- membrane fission
- membrane bending by proteins
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Sandeep Krishna
National Centre for Biological Sciences ‐ Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, India
- Expertise
- Physics of Living Systems
- Computational and Systems Biology
- Research focus
- gene regulatory networks
- phage-bacteria interactions
- microbial communities
- multistability
- oscillations and synchronization
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Tam Mignot
Aix-Marseille University, France
- Expertise
- Microbiology and Infectious Disease
- Physics of Living Systems
- Research focus
- signal transduction
- motility
- bacterial development
- bacterial cell biology
- Experimental organism
- M. xanthus
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Richard A Neher
University of Basel, Switzerland
- Expertise
- Computational and Systems Biology
- Physics of Living Systems
- Evolutionary Biology
- Research focus
- population genetics
- evolution of RNA viruses
- bioinformatics
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Armita Nourmohammad
University of Washington, United States
- Expertise
- Computational and Systems Biology
- Evolutionary Biology
- Physics of Living Systems
- Immunology and Inflammation
- Research focus
- population genetics
- computational immunology
- adaptive immunity
- statistical physics
- deep mutational scanning
- information theory
- statistical inference
- gene expression evolution
- Experimental organism
- D. melanogaster
- human
- viruses
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Pierre Sens
Institut Curie, France
- Expertise
- Physics of Living Systems
- Research focus
- physics of living matter
- physics and organization of cellular processes
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Jie Xiao
Johns Hopkins University, United States
- Expertise
- Cell Biology
- Chromosomes and Gene Expression
- Microbiology and Infectious Disease
- Physics of Living Systems
- Research focus
- single molecule biophysics
- bacteria
- cell wall
- cell division
- gene regulation
- chromosome conformation
- Experimental organism
- B. subtilis
- E. coli
- human
