Editors for Stem Cells and Regenerative Medicine
Senior editors
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Utpal Banerjee
University of California, Los Angeles, United States
Utpal Banerjee is the Irving and Jean Stone Professor and Chair of the Department of Molecular, Cell and Developmental Biology at the University of California, Los Angeles, with a joint appointment in the Department of Biological Chemistry at the David Geffen School of Medicine. He also serves as Co-Director of the Broad Stem Cell Research Center and as Director of the UCLA Interdepartmental Minor in Biomedical Research. He is a member of UCLA’s Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center and is affiliated with the Brain Research Institute and the Neuroscience Graduate Program.
Banerjee’s laboratory has worked on several oncogenic and metabolic signals that are important in development and disease. The lab studies the effects of systemic signals on the maintenance of blood progenitors in Drosophila, and the role of metabolic pathways in the control of proliferation and differentiation in the preimplantation mouse embryo.
- Expertise
- Developmental Biology
- Stem Cells and Regenerative Medicine
- Cancer Biology
- Research focus
- haematopoiesis
- cancer biology
- Experimental organism
- D. melanogaster
- mouse
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Marianne E Bronner
California Institute of Technology, United States
Marianne Bronner is a developmental biologist with a long-standing interest in specification, migration and differentiation of neural crest stem cells. Using a pan-vertebrate approach, her lab has been systematically studying the gene regulatory network responsible for neural crest formation and evolutionary origin. Born in Budapest, Hungary, Marianne’s family escaped to Austria during the Hungarian revolution when she was a small child. She received her ScB in Biophysics from Brown University and then a PhD in Biophysics from Johns Hopkins University. She assumed her first faculty position at the University of California, Irvine, before moving to Caltech in 1996. Marianne received the Conklin Medal from The Society for Developmental Biology in 2013, the Women in Cell Biology Senior Award from the American Society for Cell Biology in 2012, as well as several teaching awards from her institution. She was elected to American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2009 and the National Academy of Sciences in 2015.
- Expertise
- Developmental Biology
- Stem Cells and Regenerative Medicine
- Neuroscience
- Cell Biology
- Research focus
- evo-devo
- cell lineage
- cell migration
- developmental neurobiology
- Experimental organism
- chick
- zebrafish
- lamprey
- Competing interests statement
- Marianne Bronner is employed by the California Institute of Technology and receives research funding from the National Institutes of Health. She is on the board of the International Society for Stem Cell Research, and member of several other societies (e.g., Society for Developmental Biology, the American Society for Cell Biology, Society for Neuroscience, International Society for Differentiation). In addition to being a Senior Editor for eLife, she is a Chief Editor for Natural Sciences and serves as monitoring editor for Journal of Cell Biology, PLOS Biology and PNAS. She is presently on the boards of the Sontag Foundation and Curci Foundation as well as the Conference Evaluation Committee of the Gordon Research Conferences.
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Edward Morrisey
University of Pennsylvania, United States
Edward E Morrisey, PhD is the Robinette Professor of Medicine and a Professor of Cell and Developmental Biology at the University of Pennsylvania. Dr Morrisey received his BS degree from the University of Illinois and his PhD from Northwestern University. He is the founding Director of the Penn-CHOP Lung Biology Institute (LBI), an organization dedicated to identifying new therapeutic approaches to alleviate pulmonary disease by supporting research that spans basic discovery through translational application. The Morrisey Lab has identified many of the key cell lineages and molecular pathways that are critical for development and regeneration of the mouse and human lungs. Findings from his lab have been leveraged to generate human lung epithelial cells from pluripotent stem cells. The overall goals of his lab are to better understand how the lung responds to injury, whether pathways important for lung development are reactivated or suppressed after injury, and use this knowledge to identify ways to promote proper repair and regeneration of the respiratory system.
- Expertise
- Developmental Biology
- Stem Cells and Regenerative Medicine
- Cell Biology
- Research focus
- lung development
- tissue regeneration
- tissue specific stem cells
- transcription factors
- signaling pathways
- Experimental organism
- mouse
- human
- Competing interests statement
- Dr Morrisey has been an editor for several scientific journals including the Journal of Clinical Investigation and eLife. He has been or currently is a principal investigator on several NIH and privately supported research consortia related to stem cell and regenerative biology, including the Progenitor Cell Biology Consortium, the Lung Repair and Regeneration Consortium, the NextGen Stem Cell Consortium, the Progenitor Cell Translational Consortium, and the Longfonds BREATH Consortium.
Reviewing editors
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Sofia J Araujo
University of Barcelona, Spain
- Expertise
- Cell Biology
- Developmental Biology
- Neuroscience
- Stem Cells and Regenerative Medicine
- Research focus
- morphogenesis
- organogenesis
- tubulogenesis
- cell migration
- axon guidance
- branching morphogenesis
- cytoskeletal dynamics
- tissue repair
- Experimental organism
- D. melanogaster
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Narayan Avadhani
University of Pennsylvania, United States
- Expertise
- Stem Cells and Regenerative Medicine
- Cell Biology
- Medicine
- Research focus
- mitochondrial genetics
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Erika A Bach
New York University School of Medicine, United States
- Expertise
- Developmental Biology
- Stem Cells and Regenerative Medicine
- Research focus
- stem cell self-renewal
- stem cell differentiation
- cell competition
- stem cell competition
- transdifferentiation
- stem cell aging
- sex determination
- Experimental organism
- D. melanogaster
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Anita Bhattacharyya
University of Wisconsin, Madison, United States
- Expertise
- Developmental Biology
- Neuroscience
- Stem Cells and Regenerative Medicine
- Research focus
- neural development
- neurodevelopmental disorders
- neurogenesis
- iPSCs
- Down syndrome
- intellectual disability
- Experimental organism
- human
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Clare Blackburn
MRC Centre for Regenerative Medicine, University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom
- Expertise
- Stem Cells and Regenerative Medicine
- Research focus
- thymus development, maintainance, and regeneration
- thymic epithelial progenitor cell biology and regulation
- differentiation of pluripotent cells
- transcription factor networks
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Déborah Bourc'his
Institut Curie, France
- Expertise
- Chromosomes and Gene Expression
- Developmental Biology
- Genetics and Genomics
- Stem Cells and Regenerative Medicine
- Research focus
- epigenetics
- chromatin
- DNA methylation
- transposable elements
- RNA methylation
- germline
- mouse development
- Experimental organism
- mouse
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Joshua Brickman
Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Stem Cell Biology (DanStem), Denmark
- Expertise
- Chromosomes and Gene Expression
- Developmental Biology
- Stem Cells and Regenerative Medicine
- Research focus
- embryonic stem cells
- endoderm
- pluripotency
- lineage priming
- transcription factors
- Experimental organism
- mouse
- Xenopus
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Caroline E Burns
Boston Children's Hospital, United States
- Expertise
- Developmental Biology
- Stem Cells and Regenerative Medicine
- Research focus
- cardiopharyngeal
- cardiovascular disease modeling
- cardiac development
- cardiac function
- cardiovascular regeneration
- cardiomyocyte proliferation
- Experimental organism
- zebrafish
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Michael Buszczak
UT Southwestern Medical Center, United States
- Expertise
- Developmental Biology
- Stem Cells and Regenerative Medicine
- Research focus
- stem cells
- germ cells
- ribosomes
- mRNA translation
- chromatin
- DNA damage
- meiosis
- Experimental organism
- D. melanogaster
- human
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Danelle Devenport
Princeton University, United States
- Expertise
- Cell Biology
- Developmental Biology
- Stem Cells and Regenerative Medicine
- Research focus
- cell polarity
- planar cell polarity
- epidermis
- skin
- oriented cell divisions
- morphogenesis
- epithelia
- Experimental organism
- mammals
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Lydia W S Finley
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, United States
- Expertise
- Cell Biology
- Cancer Biology
- Stem Cells and Regenerative Medicine
- Research focus
- cell metabolism
- cancer
- stem cells
- epigenetics
- cell fate
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Elaine Fuchs
Rockefeller University, United States
- Expertise
- Stem Cells and Regenerative Medicine
- Research focus
- skin stem cells
- stem cells
- tissue morphogenesis
- epithelial polarity
- transcriptional regulation during development
- cytoskeletal dynamics and adhesion
- epithelial cancers
- Experimental organism
- mouse
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Florent Ginhoux
Agency for Science Technology and Research, Singapore
- Expertise
- Immunology and Inflammation
- Neuroscience
- Stem Cells and Regenerative Medicine
- Research focus
- dendritic cells
- monocytes
- macrophages
- development
- hematopoiesis
- Experimental organism
- human
- mouse
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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
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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
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Valerie Horsley
Yale University, United States
- Expertise
- Cell Biology
- Developmental Biology
- Stem Cells and Regenerative Medicine
- Research focus
- epithelial stem cells
- adipocyte stem cells
- adipose tissue
- epithelial-mesenchymal interactions
- mechanical regulation of tissues
- tissue regeneration
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Melanie Königshoff
University of Colorado, United States
- Expertise
- Stem Cells and Regenerative Medicine
- Medicine
- Cell Biology
- Research focus
- lung regeneration
- wnt signaling
- pulmonary fibrosis
- chronic obstructive pulmonary disease
- epithelial cell biology
- Experimental organism
- human
- mouse
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Carole LaBonne
Northwestern University, United States
- Expertise
- Developmental Biology
- Stem Cells and Regenerative Medicine
- Research focus
- neural crest
- stem cells
- Experimental organism
- Xenopus
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Beate Lichtenberger
Medical University of Vienna, Austria
- Expertise
- Cancer Biology
- Stem Cells and Regenerative Medicine
- Research focus
- Cancer-associated fibroblasts (CAFs)
- fibroblast-mediated skin pathologies
- skin cancer
- stem cell fate decisions
- Experimental organism
- human
- mouse
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Cristina Lo Celso
Imperial College London, United Kingdom
- Expertise
- Developmental Biology
- Stem Cells and Regenerative Medicine
- Research focus
- hematopoietic stem cell function
- intravital microscopy
- hematopoietic system
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Paul Lucassen
University of Amsterdam, Netherlands
- Expertise
- Cell Biology
- Developmental Biology
- Immunology and Inflammation
- Neuroscience
- Stem Cells and Regenerative Medicine
- Research focus
- brain plasticity
- (early life) stress
- neurogenesis
- stem cells
- hippocampus
- microglia
- depression
- dementia
- cognition
- nutrition/metabolism
- exercise
- Experimental organism
- human
- mouse
- rat
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Simón Méndez-Ferrer
University of Cambridge, United Kingdom
- Expertise
- Stem Cells and Regenerative Medicine
- Developmental Biology
- Cancer Biology
- Medicine
- Research focus
- haematopoietic stem cell niche
- mesenchymal stem cells
- myeloproliferative neoplasms
- acute myeloid leukemia
- neuroimmunology
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Roel Nusse
Stanford University, United States
- Expertise
- Developmental Biology
- Stem Cells and Regenerative Medicine
- Research focus
- wnt signaling
- stem cells
- tissue repair
- Experimental organism
- mouse
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Elke Ober
University of Copenhagen, Denmark
- Expertise
- Stem Cells and Regenerative Medicine
- Research focus
- liver development
- regeneration
- Experimental organism
- zebrafish
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Martin Pera
University of Melbourne, Australia
- Expertise
- Stem Cells and Regenerative Medicine
- Research focus
- embryonic stem cells
- induced pluripotent stem cells
- regenerative medicine
- tissue stem cells
- pluripotent stem cell
- Experimental organism
- human
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Tatjana Piotrowski
Stowers Institute for Medical Research, United States
- Expertise
- Developmental Biology
- Stem Cells and Regenerative Medicine
- Research focus
- sensory organ development and regeneration
- morphogenesis
- transcriptional regulation of development and regeneration
- cell migration
- cell lineage
- developmental neurobiology
- Experimental organism
- zebrafish
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Lynne-Marie Postovit
University of Alberta, Canada
- Expertise
- Cancer Biology
- Cell Biology
- Stem Cells and Regenerative Medicine
- Research focus
- cellular plasticity
- tumour microenvironment
- hypoxia
- stem cells
- metastasis
- ovarian cancer
- breast cancer
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Milica Radisic
University of Toronto, Canada
- Expertise
- Stem Cells and Regenerative Medicine
- Research focus
- organ-on-a-chip
- organoid
- tissue engineering
- microfluidics
- biomaterials
- heart
- cardiomyocyte
- Experimental organism
- human
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Michaela Reagan
Maine Medical Center Research Institute, United States
- Expertise
- Medicine
- Cancer Biology
- Cell Biology
- Stem Cells and Regenerative Medicine
- Research focus
- multiple myeloma
- bone marrow adipocyte
- fatty acid binding protein
- cancer-induced bone disease
- osteolysis
- Experimental organism
- mouse
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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
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Jeremy Reiter
University of California, San Francisco, United States
- Expertise
- Cell Biology
- Developmental Biology
- Stem Cells and Regenerative Medicine
- Research focus
- cilia
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Lee L Rubin
Harvard Stem Cell Institute, Harvard University, United States
- Expertise
- Stem Cells and Regenerative Medicine
- Research focus
- spinal muscular atrophy
- amyotrophic lateral sclerosis
- huntington's disease
- reprogramming
- Experimental organism
- human
- mouse
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Fayez Safadi
Northeast Ohio Medical University, United States
- Expertise
- Medicine
- Stem Cells and Regenerative Medicine
- Research focus
- biomechanics
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Alejandro Sanchez Alvarado
Stowers Institute for Medical Research, United States
- Expertise
- Cell Biology
- Stem Cells and Regenerative Medicine
- Research focus
- regeneration
- stem cells
- Experimental organism
- planaria
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Ernestina Schipani
University of Pennsylvania, United States
- Expertise
- Medicine
- Stem Cells and Regenerative Medicine
- Cell Biology
- Developmental Biology
- Cancer Biology
- Research focus
- hypoxia
- hypoxia-inducible factors
- mitochondria
- skeleton
- chondrocytes
- bone
- G protein-coupled receptors (GPCR)
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Sonia Sen
Tata Institute for Genetics and Society, India
- Expertise
- Developmental Biology
- Neuroscience
- Stem Cells and Regenerative Medicine
- Research focus
- neural stem cells
- neural circuits
- evo-devo
- Drosophila
- mosquito
- Experimental organism
- D. melanogaster
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Lori Sussel
University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, United States
- Expertise
- Chromosomes and Gene Expression
- Developmental Biology
- Stem Cells and Regenerative Medicine
- Research focus
- pancreas development
- islet biology
- transcriptional regulation
- long non-coding RNAs
- diabetes
- Experimental organism
- mouse
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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
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Gordana Vunjak-Novakovic
Columbia University, United States
- Expertise
- Stem Cells and Regenerative Medicine
- Research focus
- cardiac and bone regeneration
- tissue engineering
- in vitro models of development and disease
- biophysical regulation of stem cells
- Experimental organism
- human
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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
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Yukiko M Yamashita
HHMI, University of Michigan, United States
- Expertise
- Cell Biology
- Developmental Biology
- Chromosomes and Gene Expression
- Stem Cells and Regenerative Medicine
- Research focus
- stem cell niche
- asymmetric cell division
- satellite DNA
- germline immortality
- ribosomal DNA
- Experimental organism
- D. melanogaster
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Karina Yaniv
Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel
- Expertise
- Developmental Biology
- Stem Cells and Regenerative Medicine
- Research focus
- angiogenesis
- lymphatic
- vascular
- organogenesis
- Experimental organism
- mouse
- zebrafish
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Norma Ybarra
Research Institute McGill University Health Center, Canada
- Expertise
- Cancer Biology
- Stem Cells and Regenerative Medicine
- Research focus
- radiation biology
- radiotherapy
- cancer cell metabolism
- cancer therapies
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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
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Yi Arial Zeng
Shanghai Institute of Biochemistry and Cell Biology, China
- Expertise
- Stem Cells and Regenerative Medicine
- Cell Biology
- Research focus
- tissue stem cells
- organoids
- wnt signaling
- mammary development
- hormone
- Experimental organism
- mouse
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Hao Zhu
University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, United States
- Expertise
- Cancer Biology
- Stem Cells and Regenerative Medicine
- Medicine
- Research focus
- mechanisms of tissue repair and organ regeneration
- liver cancer
- hepatocellular carcinoma
- epigenetics
- polyploidy
- Experimental organism
- human
- mouse
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Juan Carlos Zúñiga-Pflücker
University of Toronto, Sunnybrook Research Institute, Canada
- Expertise
- Immunology and Inflammation
- Stem Cells and Regenerative Medicine
- Research focus
- developmental immunology
- thymus
- T cell development
- notch signaling
- lymphopoiesis
- preTCR signaling
- gamma/delta T cell differentiation
- Experimental organism
- human
- mouse
