Editorial Office
Editor-in-Chief
Prof. Dr. J. Peter W. Young *
Department of Biology 3, University of York, PO Box 373, York YO10 5YW, UK
Tel. +44 1904 328630; Fax: +44 1904 328505
Website: http://bioltfws1.york.ac.uk/biostaff/staffdetail.php?id=jpwy
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Interests: bacterial genomes; population genetics; phylogenomics; phylogenetics; genome projects; genetic diversity
* Founding Editor-in-Chief of Genes
Managing Editor
Ms. Frauke Muenzel
MDPI, Kandererstrasse 25, CH-4057 Basel, Switzerland
Tel. +41 61 683 77 34; Fax: +41 61 302 89 18
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Editorial Board
Dr. Arkhat Abzhanov
Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology/FAS, Biological Laboratories 4105, 16 Divinity Avenue, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA
Tel. +1 617 496 9704; Fax: +1 617 496 9507
Website: http://genepath.med.harvard.edu/~tabin/Arkhat_Abzhanov.htm
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Interests: invertebrate and vertebrate developmental biology; evolutionary developmental biology; molecular evolution
Prof. Dr. Björn Andersson
Department of Cell- and Molecular Biology, Karolinska Institutet, Berzelius vag 35, S-171 77 Stockholm, Sweden
Tel. +46 8 5248 3987; Fax: +46 8 323950
Website: http://ki.se/cmb
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Interests: protozoan parasites; human microbiome; genomics; bioinformatics
Prof. Dr. Michael L. Arnold
Department of Genetics, Life Sciences Building, University of Georgia, Athens, GA 30602, USA
Tel. +1 706 542 1407; Fax: +1 706 542 3910
Website: http://www.genetics.uga.edu/people_bio_arnold_m.html
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Interests: reticulate evolution; web of life; speciation; adaptation
Contribution:
Special Issue: Reticulate Evolution
Prof. Dr. Anne Bowcock
Department of Genetics, Washington University School of Medicine in Saint Louis, 4566 Scott Ave., St. Louis, MO 63110, USA
Tel. +1 314 747 3261; Fax: +1 314 747 2489
Website: http://humgen.wustl.edu/bowcock/
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Interests: human genetic disease; complex traits; systems biology; functional genomics; autoimmunity; cancer
Dr. Frank Buchholz
Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics, Pfotenhauerstr. 108, 01307 Dresden, Germany
Tel. +49 351 210 2888; Fax: +49 351 210 1289
Website: http://www.mpi-cbg.de/research/research-groups/frank-buchholz.html
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Interests: cancer stem cells; functional genomics; systems biology; RNAi screens
Dr. David Burgner
Murdoch Childrens Research Institute, Infection, Immunity & Environment, The Royal Children’s Hospital, Flemington Road, Parkville Victoria 3052, Australia
Tel. +613 9936 6530; Fax: +613 9936 6528
Website: http://www.mcri.edu.au/
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Interests: susceptibility to paediatric and neonatal infectious diseases; Kawasaki disease; refugee health
Dr. Paolo Cinelli
Institute of Laboratory Animal Science, University of Zürich, Winterthurerstrasse 190, CH-8057 Zürich, Switzerland
Tel. +41 44 635 54 61; Fax: +41 44 635 68 75
Website: http://www.ltk.uzh.ch/de/
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Interests: transcriptomics; microarrays; gene expression analysis; genotyping; molecular genetics; mouse genetics; transgenic technologies; embryonic stem cells; pluripotency
Contribution:
Special Issue: Natural and Induced Pluripotency in Stem Cells
Dr. Keith D. Crawford
Center For Molecular Orthopaedics, Harvard Medical School/Brigham and Women's Hospital, 75 Francis Street, Boston, MA 02115, USA
Tel. +1 617 732 8607; Fax: +1 617 730 2846
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Interests: adult stem cell: molecular pathway of pluripotency; APC-biosensor
Dr. Elodie Ghedin
University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, 3550 Terrace Street, Scaife Hall Room 830, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15261, USA
Tel. +1 412 383 5850; Fax: +1 412 383 5851
Website: http://ghedin.lab.dept-med.pitt.edu/GhedinLab/Home
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Interests: genomics and bioinformatics; viral genomics; nematode genomics; genome projects
Prof. Dr. Leif Groop
Department of Clinical Sciences, Diabetes and Endocrinology, CRC, Entr 72, building 91, level 12, University Hospital Malmö, SE-205 02 Malmö, Sweden
Tel. +46 40 391202; Fax: +46 40 391222
Website: http://www.ludc.med.lu.se/research-units/diabetes-and-endocrinology/
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Interests: diabetes genetics; type 2 diabetes; genetics of diabetic complications; genome wide association studies; endocrinology
Dr. Min-Xin Guan
Division of Human Genetics, Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center, 3333 Burnet Avenue, Cincinnati, Ohio 45229, USA
Tel. +1 513 636 3337; Fax: +1 513 636 3468
Website: http://www.cincinnatichildrens.org/research/div/genetics/fs/fac/min-xin-guan.htm
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Interests: genetics of mitochondrial disorders; especially hearing loss; visual loss; hypertension and diabetes; transcriptional and posttranscriptional regulation; tRNA and rRNA metabolisms; human genetics; medical genetics
Dr. Roderic Guigó
Centre de Regulacio Genomica, C/ Dr. Aiguader, 88, 08003 Barcelona, Spain & Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Plaça de la Mercè, 10-12, 08002 Barcelona, Spain
Tel. +34 93 3160110; Fax: +34 93 3969983
Website: http://genome.crg.cat/
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Interests: genome informatics and sequence analysis; any computational/statistical problem arising in the pathway from DNA sequences to protein structures; gene identification; evolution of genome structure; reconstruction of molecular phylogenies; machine learning from biosequence databases
Prof. Dr. Bernhard Herrmann
Max-Planck-Institute for Molecular Genetics (MPI-MG), Department Developmental Genetics, Ihnestr. 63-73, D-14195 Berlin, Germany
Tel. +49 30 8413 1409; Fax: +49 30 8413 1229
Website: http://www.molgen.mpg.de/~abt_herrmann/
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Interests: developmental genetics of the mouse; trunk development; regulatory networks controlling tissue formation and organ development; EMT; tissue engineering; tumorigenesis; non-Mendelian inheritance in the mouse
Prof. Dr. Simon Kasif
Center for Advanced Genomic Technology (CAGT), Computational Genomics Laboratory, Department of Bioengineering, Boston University, 44 Cummington St. Boston, MA 02215, USA
Tel. +1 617 358 1845; Fax: +1 617 353 6766
Website: http://cagt.bu.edu/
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Interests: computational genomics; bioinformatics; probabilistic modeling of biological systems; computational learning; artificial intelligence; algorithm design
Prof. Dr. Toyomasa Katagiri
Division of Genome Medicine, Institute for Genome Research, The University of Tokushima, 3-18-15, Kuramoto-cho, Tokushima, 770-8503, Japan
Tel. +81 88 633 9477; Fax: +81 88 633 7989
Website: http://www.ims.u-tokyo.ac.jp/nakamura/katagiri/emain_kata.html
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Interests: breast cancer; microarrays; gene expression analysis; carcinogenesis; molecular-targeted cancer therapy; estrogen-receptor-regulation
Prof. Dr. Yun-Fai Chris Lau
Laboratory of Cell and Developmental Genetics, Department of Medicine, VA Medical Center, University of California, San Francisco, 4150 Clement Street, San Francisco, CA 94121, USA
Tel. +1 415 379 5526; Fax: +1 415 750 6633
Website: http://labs.medicine.ucsf.edu/chrislau/
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Interests: Y chromosome genes; sex determination; sexual dimorphisms; developmental genetics; cell cycle; male-specific cancers
Contribution:
Special Issue: The TSPY Gene Family
Prof. Dr. Hans Lehrach
Max Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics (MPI-MG), Department Vertebrate Genomics, Ihnestr. 63-73, D-14195 Berlin, Germany
Tel. +49 30 8413 1220; Fax: +49 30 8413 1380
Website: http://www.molgen.mpg.de
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Interests: genome research; tumor systems biology; technology development
Prof. Dr. Brendan Loftus
Conway Institute, University College Dublin, Belfield, Dublin 4, Ireland
Tel. +353 17166718
Website: http://www.ucd.ie/conway/research/researchers/conwayfellowsa-z/professorbrendanloftus/home/
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Interests: host-pathogen interaction; sequencing; genomics; transcription; bioinformatics; genome analysis
Prof. Dr. James R. Lupski
Department of Molecular and Human Genetics, Baylor College of Medicine, One Baylor Plaza, MS BCM225, Houston, TX, 77030, USA
Tel. +1 713 798 6530; Fax: +1 713 798 5073
Website: http://www.bcm.edu/genetics/facultyaz/lupski.html
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Interests: genomic disorders; genome rearrrangements; neurogenetics; genomics; human genetics; personal genome sequencing; medical genetics
Prof. Dr. Bryan Mowry
Queensland Brain Institute, University of Queensland, Brisbane QLD 4072, Australia & Queensland Centre for Mental Health Research, The Park - Centre for Mental Health, Wacol, Queensland 4076, Australia
Tel. +617 334 66351; Fax: +617 3271 8682
Website: http://www.qbi.uq.edu.au/index.html?page=111068
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Interests: molecular genetics of schizophrenia and other psychiatric disorders; statistical genetics; functional genomics; gene expression
Dr. Lukas Mueller
Boyce Thompson Institute for Plant Research, Tower Road, Ithaca, New York 14853-1801, USA
Tel. +1 607 255 6557
Website: http://sgn.cornell.edu/
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Interests: plant genomics; biochemistry; genome sequencing; bioinformatics
Dr. Josyf C. Mychaleckyj
Center for Public Health Genomics, University of Virginia, PO Box 800717, Charlottesville, VA 22908-0717, USA
Tel. +1 434 982 1107; Fax: +1 434 982 1815
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Interests: genetics of complex disease, especially diabetes and complications; bioinformatics; computational statistics
Contribution:
Special Issue: Genome Wide Association Studies: Human Disease Genetics
Prof. Dr. Peter Myler
Seattle Biomedical Research Institute (SBRI), 307 Westlake Ave N., Suite 500, Seattle, WA 98109-5219, USA & Department of Global Health, and Division of Biomedical and Health Informatics, Department of Medical Education and Biomedical Informatics, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195, USA
Tel. +1 206 256 7332; Fax: +1 206 256 7229
Website: http://www.sbri.org/research/myler.asp
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Interests: regulation of gene expression in protozoan parasites; genomics and bioinformatics; structural genomics
Dr. Nora L. Nock
Division of Genetic and Molecular Epidemiology, Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Case Western Reserve University, 2103 Cornell Road, Cleveland OH 44106-7281, USA
Tel. +1 216 368 5653; Fax: +1 216 368 4880
Website: http://epbiwww.cwru.edu/faculty/nock.html
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Interests: genetic and molecular epidemiology; multivariate modeling; biochemical pathway modeling; gene expression; carcinogenesis; metabolic disorders
Contribution:
Special Issue: Cancer Genetics
Dr. Dale R. Nyholt
Neurogenetics Laboratory, Queensland Institute of Medical Research, PO Royal Brisbane Hospital, QLD, 4029, Australia
Tel. +61 7 33620258; Fax: +61 7 33620101
Website: http://genepi.qimr.edu.au/general/daleN/
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Interests: genetic epidemiology; gene mapping; complex genetic disease; statistical genetics; migraine; neurogenetics
Prof. Dr. Roel Ophoff
Department of Medical Genetics and Rudolf Magnus Institute of Neuroscience, University Medical Center Utrecht, Universiteitsweg 100, 3584 CG Utrecht, The Netherlands
Tel. +31 88 75 68603; Fax: +31 88 756 8479
Website: http://www.umcutrecht.nl/subsite/genetics/People-and-Contact/Roel-Ophoff-PhD.htm
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Interests: genetics of schizophrenia and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS)
Prof. Dr. Leena Peltonen-Palotie
Institute for Molecular Medicine, Finland FIMM, Nordic EMBL Partnership for Molecular Medicine, Biomedicum Helsinki 2U, University of Helsinki and National Institute for Health and Welfare, P.O.Box 212, FI-00251 Helsinki, Finland & Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Wellcome Trust Genome, Campus, Hinxton, Cambridge, CB10 1SA, UK
Tel. +358 20 610 8393; Fax: +358 20 610 8480
Website: http://www.leenapeltonen.eu/index.html
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Interests: integrated genome wide profiling of common traits: genetics of cardiovascular and neuropsychiatric diseases
PD Dr. Matthias Platzer
Genome Analysis, Leibniz Institute for Age Research - Fritz Lipmann Institute (FLI), Beutenbergstr. 11, 07745 Jena, Germany
Tel. +49 3641 656241; Fax: +49 3641 656255
Website: http://genome.fli-leibniz.de/
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Interests: genome research; comparative and functional genomics; structural variations; transcriptomics; alternative splicing; genetic of complex diseases and ageing
Contribution:
Special Issue: Genomics of Aging
Prof. Dr. Selvarangan Ponnazhagan
Departement of Pathology, The University of Alabama at Birmingham, 701, 19th Street South - LHRB 513, Birmingham, AL 35294-0007, USA
Tel. +1 205 934 6731; Fax: +1 205 975 9927
Website: http://138.26.61.118/depts/MEB/SOMResearchFaculty/currentfacultydata.asp?s_lname=ponnaz&s_keyword=&s_fname=&s_Department_Name=&s_ResearchTitle=&ID=sponnazhagan
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Interests: adeno-associated virus (AAV)-mediated gene therapy for cancer; AAV-mediated gene therapy for metabolic diseases; development of targeted-AAV for human gene therapy; biology, life cycle and molecular virology of adeno-associated virus
Dr. Paul Richardson
Progentech Limited, 5885 Hollis St., Suite 155, Emeryville, CA 94608, USA
Tel. +1 510 292 4654; Fax: +1 510 655 5940
Website: http://www.progentech.com/about-us/management
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Interests: microbial genomics; technology development; infectious diseases; gene expression
Contribution:
Special Issue: Next Generation DNA Sequencing
Dr. Walter Salzburger
Zoologisches Institut, Universität Basel, Vesalgasse 1, CH-4051 Basel, Switzerland
Tel. +41 61 267 0303; Fax: +41 61 267 0301
Website: http://www.evolution.unibas.ch/salzburger/
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Interests: molecular evolution; speciation; adaptive radiation; genome evolution; evo-devo
Prof. Dr. Ralph Schlapbach
Functional Genomics Center Zurich, ETH Zurich / University of Zurich, Winterthurerstrasse 190 / Y32H52, CH-8057 Zurich, Switzerland
Tel. +41 44 635 39 20/21; Fax: +41 44 635 39 22
Website: http://www.fgcz.ch/
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Interests: genomics and transcriptomics technologies; microarrays; next generation sequencing; bioinformatics
Prof. Dr. Susann Schweiger
Centre for Oncology & Molecular Medicine, Division of Medical Sciences, Ninewells Hospital & Medical School, University of Dundee, DD1 9SY Dundee, UK
Tel. +44 1382 496235; Fax: +44 1382633952
Website: http://www.dundee.ac.uk/cmdn/staff/susann_schweiger
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Interests: Huntington's Chorea; Spinocerebellar Ataxias; CAG repeat expansion disorders; neurodegeneration; Alzheimer's disease; Opitz BBB/G syndrome; dysmorphology; prostate carcinoma; androgen receptor; protein phosphatase 2A; small molecule screens; mTOR signaling; Shh signaling; GLI proteins; ventral midline; neural crest cells; ephrin ligands and receptors; regulation of translation; microtubules
Dr. Pavel Tomancak
Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics, D-01307 Dresden, Germany
Tel. +49 351 210 2670; Fax: +49 351 210 1389
Website: http://www.mpi-cbg.de/en/research/research-groups/pavel-tomancak/research-focus.html
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Interests: functional genomics; developmental biology; gene expression; imaging; image analysis; evolution of cis-regulation
Prof. Dr. Cornelia M. van Duijn
Department of Epidemiology & Biostatistics, Erasmus MC-Faculty, Dr. Molewaterplein 50, 3015 GE Rotterdam, The Netherlands
Tel. +31 10 70 43391; Fax: +31 10 70 44681
Website: http://www.epib.nl/faculty/vanduijn.html
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Interests: Alzheimer's disease; endocrinologic epidemiology; genetic epidemiology; sex hormones; thyroid hormones; Parkinson's disease; pediatric epidemiology; osteoporosis; osteoarthrosis
Dr. Lily Wang
Department of Biostatistics, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, S-2323 Medical Center North, Nashville, TN 37232-2158, USA
Tel. +1 615 343 3856; Fax: +1 615 343 4924
Website: http://biostat.mc.vanderbilt.edu/wiki/Main/LilyWang
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Interests: gene expression; pathway analysis; gene set analysis; statistical significance; statistical models; analysis of high throughput omics datasets
Prof. Dr. Thierry Wirth
Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle - EPHE, Department of Systematics and Evolution, UMR-CNRS 7205, 16, rue Buffon, 75231 Paris cedex 05, France
Tel. +33 1 4079 8036; Fax: +33 648155320
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Interests: evolution; population genetics and genomics; evolutionary microbiology; molecular epidemiology
Prof. Dr. Horst Zitzelsberger
Institute of Molecular Radiation Biology, Helmholtz Zentrum München, German Research Center for Environmental Health (GmbH), Ingolstädter Landstr. 1, 85764 Neuherberg, Germany
Tel. +49 89 318 73421; Fax: +49 89 318 72873
Website: http://www.helmholtz-muenchen.de/forschung/forschungsinstitute/molekulare-strahlenbiologie-ims/
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Interests: cytogenetics; chromosome aberrations; cancer cytogenetics; molecular cytogenetics; radiation biology; thyroid cancer; radiation-induced carcinogenesis; positional cloning of chromosomal breakpoints
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