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
- 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”.
Reviewing editors
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Toby W Allen
RMIT University, Australia
- Expertise
- Structural Biology and Molecular Biophysics
- Physics of Living Systems
- Neuroscience
- Research focus
- computational biophysics
- molecular dynamics
- free-energy calculations
- ion channels
- ion permeation
- membranes
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Ariel Amir
Harvard University, United States
- Expertise
- Physics of Living Systems
- Research focus
- mathematical modeling
- stochastic processes
- microbial growth
- cell size control
- gene expression
- microbial evolution
- phenotypic variability
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Nathalie Q Balaban
The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel
- Expertise
- Physics of Living Systems
- Research focus
- self-replicating matter
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Patricia Bassereau
Institut Curie, France
- Expertise
- Cell Biology
- Physics of Living Systems
- Structural Biology and Molecular Biophysics
- Research focus
- physics of cells
- membrane biophysics
- mechanobiology
- intracellular traffic
- endocytosis
- adhesion
- cellular protrusions
- biomimetic membranes
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Kurt Beam
University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, United States
- Expertise
- Structural Biology and Molecular Biophysics
- Neuroscience
- Physics of Living Systems
- Research focus
- excitation-contraction coupling in skeletal muscle
- voltage-gated calcium channels
- calcium release channels
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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
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Anne-Florence Bitbol
Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne , Switzerland
- Expertise
- Physics of Living Systems
- Computational and Systems Biology
- Research focus
- biophysics
- theory and modeling
- protein sequence data
- models of evolution
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Felix Campelo
The Institute of Photonic Sciences, Spain
- Expertise
- Physics of Living Systems
- Cell Biology
- Structural Biology and Molecular Biophysics
- Research focus
- membrane mechanics
- membrane curvature
- intracellular trafficking
- membrane organization
- membrane contact sites
- Golgi complex
- endoplasmic reticulum exit sites
- super-resolution microscopy
- single-molecule microscopy
- Experimental organism
- human
- S. cerevisiae
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Irene Giardina
Università Sapienza, Italy
- Expertise
- Physics of Living Systems
- Research focus
- active living matter
- collective behavior in groups (physicist perspective)s
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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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Martin Graña
Institut Pasteur de Montevideo, Uruguay
- Expertise
- Biochemistry and Chemical Biology
- Computational and Systems Biology
- Evolutionary Biology
- Physics of Living Systems
- Structural Biology and Molecular Biophysics
- Research focus
- protein 3D structure
- structural bioinformatics
- structure/function relationships
- evolution
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Yaroslav Ispolatov
Universidad de Santiago de Chile, Chile
- Expertise
- Computational and Systems Biology
- Ecology
- Evolutionary Biology
- Physics of Living Systems
- Research focus
- evolution
- diversification
- adaptive dynamics
- ecology
- systems biology
- CRISPR
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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
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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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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
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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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Karsten Kruse
University of Geneva, Switzerland
- Expertise
- Biochemistry and Chemical Biology
- Physics of Living Systems
- Research focus
- cell migration
- cell signalling
- theoretical biology
- molecular evolution
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Melike Lakadamyali
University of Pennsylvania, United States
- Expertise
- Cell Biology
- Physics of Living Systems
- Research focus
- super resolution microscopy
- imaging
- image analysis
- chromatin structure
- genome organisation
- organelle trafficking
- motor proteins
- microtubule cytoskeleton
- Experimental organism
- human
- mouse
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David Lentink
University of Groningen, Netherlands
- Expertise
- Ecology
- Evolutionary Biology
- Physics of Living Systems
- Research focus
- animal locomotion
- comparative biomechanics
- animal navigation
- movement ecology
- evolutionary biology
- biofluids
- biophysics
- bioinspired robotics
- bioinspiration & biomimetics
- Experimental organism
- birds
- insects
- bats
- plant seeds
- fish
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Matthieu Louis
University of California, Santa Barbara, United States
- Expertise
- Neuroscience
- Physics of Living Systems
- Research focus
- olfaction
- sensorimotor
- computational ethology
- motor control
- locomotion
- biomechanics
- tool development
- Experimental organism
- D. melanogaster
- C. elegans
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Pascal Martin
Institut Curie, France
- Expertise
- Neuroscience
- Physics of Living Systems
- Research focus
- active mechanical processes
- hair cells of the inner ear
- molecular motors and the cytoskeleton
- oscillations
- mechanosensitivity
- frequency selectivity
- in vitro reconstituted motor systems
- Experimental organism
- rat
- Xenopus
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Alphee Michelot
Institut de Biologie du Développement, France
- Expertise
- Cell Biology
- Physics of Living Systems
- Research focus
- cytoskeleton
- actin dynamics
- motility
- endocytosis
- cytokinesis
- actin mechanics
- energy conversion
- force transduction
- Experimental organism
- S. cerevisiae
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Babak Momeni
Boston College, United States
- Expertise
- Computational and Systems Biology
- Microbiology and Infectious Disease
- Physics of Living Systems
- Research focus
- microbial communities
- community ecology
- mathematical modelling
- computational biology
- applied microbiology
- bioremediation
- mycotoxins
- nasal microbiota
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Arvind Murugan
University of Chicago, United States
- Expertise
- Physics of Living Systems
- Research focus
- biological learning and adaptation in changing environments
- learned behavious in materials
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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
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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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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
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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
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Rohit V Pappu
Washington University in St Louis, United States
- Expertise
- Biochemistry and Chemical Biology
- Structural Biology and Molecular Biophysics
- Physics of Living Systems
- Research focus
- biophysics
- intrinsically disordered proteins
- intracellular phase transition phenomena
- organization of proteins and nucleic acids
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Benjamin L Prosser
University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine, United States
- Expertise
- Cell Biology
- Physics of Living Systems
- Chromosomes and Gene Expression
- Research focus
- cardiac function
- muscle
- cardiomyocytes
- mechanotransduction
- cytoskeleton
- microtubules
- sarcomere
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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
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Pierre Sens
Institut Curie, France
- Expertise
- Physics of Living Systems
- Research focus
- statistical physics
- soft matter
- membrane
- cell mechanics
- cell motility
- organelles
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Daniel Y Takahashi
Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil
- Expertise
- Computational and Systems Biology
- Ecology
- Neuroscience
- Physics of Living Systems
- Research focus
- social interaction
- vocal learning
- neurophysiology
- computational modeling
- ontogeny of behavior
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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
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Jie Xiao
Johns Hopkins University, United States
- Expertise
- Biochemistry and Chemical Biology
- Cell Biology
- Chromosomes and Gene Expression
- Microbiology and Infectious Disease
- Physics of Living Systems
- Structural Biology and Molecular Biophysics
- Research focus
- single molecule biophysics
- microbiology
- cell division
- cell wall
- gene expression
- Experimental organism
- E. coli
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Gary Yellen
Harvard Medical School, United States
- Expertise
- Biochemistry and Chemical Biology
- Cell Biology
- Physics of Living Systems
- Research focus
- neuronal metabolism
- control of energy metabolism
- fluorescent biosensors
- metabolic control of excitability
- Experimental organism
- mouse
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Ahmet Yildiz
University of California, Berkeley, United States
- Expertise
- Biochemistry and Chemical Biology
- Physics of Living Systems
- Research focus
- dynein
- kinesin
- myosin
- intraflagellar transport
- Experimental organism
- human
- yeast
- Chlamydomonas