Journal of Developmental Biology — Editors

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Editor-in-Chief
Prof. Dr. Andy Wessels
Department of Regenerative Medicine and Cell Biology, Medical University of South Carolina, 173 Ashley Avenue, Charleston, South Carolina 29466, USA
Website: http://regmed.musc.edu/Faculty/WesselsA.htm
E-Mail: wesselsa@musc.edu
Interests: cardiovascular development; valvuloseptal morphogenesis; development of the cardiac conduction system; epicardial development and differentiation; etiology of congenital heart disease; developmental basis of acquired cardiovascular diseases; cell lineage tracing; extracellular matrix

Managing Editor
Ms. Candy Wan
MDPI Beijing Office, Suite 2011, Ruidu International Center, No. 1 Cuijingbeili, Tongzhou District, Beijing, China
Tel. +86 10 81521170; Fax: +86 10 59011089
E-Mail: candy.wan@mdpi.com

Publisher
Dr. Shu-Kun Lin
MDPI AG, Kandererstrasse 25, CH-4057 Basel, Switzerland
Tel. +41 79 322 33 79
Website: http://www.mdpi.org/lin/
E-Mail: lin@mdpi.com

Editorial Board

Prof. Dr. Mohammed Akaaboune
Department of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA
Website: http://www.mcdb.lsa.umich.edu/labs/makaabou/
E-Mail: makaabou@umich.edu
Interests: synaptic development and dynamics of synaptic components in living mice

Prof. Dr. Thomas Brand
National Heart & Lung Institute, Imperial College London, South Kensington Campus, London SW7 2AZ, UK
Website: http://www1.imperial.ac.uk/medicine/people/t.brand/
E-Mail: t.brand@imperial.ac.uk
Interests: heart development; proepicardial development; left-right asymmetry; cardiac pacemaker development; popeye genes
Contribution: Special Issue: Epicardial Development and Cardiovascular Disease

Prof. Dr. Thomas L. Brown
Laboratory of Cell Death, Differentiation, and Development, Department of Neuroscience, Cell Biology, and Physiology, Boonshoft School of Medicine, Wright State University, 011 Medical Sciences Building, 3640 Colonel Glenn Highway, Dayton, Ohio 45435, USA
Tel. +1 937 775 3809; Fax: +1 937 775 3391
Website: http://www.med.wright.edu/ncbp/brown
E-Mail: thomas.l.brown@wright.edu
Interests: placental development; trophoblast stem cells; hypoxia; apoptosis; lineage analysis

Prof. Dr. Gregor Bucher
Department of Developmental Biology, Georg-August-University Göttingen, Justus-von-Liebig-Weg 11, 37077 Göttingen, Germany
Website: http://www.uni-goettingen.de/de/44999.html
E-Mail: gbucher1@uni-goettingen.de
Interests: arthropod pattern formation; head patterning; brain patterning;segmentation; evolution and development; emerging model organisms; transgenic techniques and RNAi

Dr. Patrick Collombat
INSERM U636, University of Nice Sophia-Antipolis, 06108 Nice, France
Website: http://collombat.com
E-Mail: collombat@unice.fr
Interests: diabetes; mouse pancreas development; Arx; Pax4

Prof. Dr. Tom P. Fleming
Department of Developmental Biology, School of Biological Sciences, University of Southampton, Mailpoint 840, Level D Lab & Path Block, Southampton General Hospital, Tremona Road, Southampton, SO16 6YD, UK
Tel. +44 2380 794145
Website: http://www.southampton.ac.uk/biosci/about/staff/tpf.page
E-Mail: tpf@soton.ac.uk
Interests: blastocyst morphogenesis; epithelial differentiation; trophectoderm; cell polarity; developmental programming

Prof. Dr. David L. Herrin
Section of Molecular Cell and Developmental Biology and Institute for Cellular and Molecular Biology, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX 78712, USA
Website: http://www.biosci.utexas.edu/mcdb/profiles.aspx?id=1585
E-Mail: herrin@mail.utexas.edu
Interests: DNA repair; gene regulation; molecular evolution; RNA splicing; ribozymes; plant molecular biology; organelle molecular biology

Prof. Dr. Johnny Huard
Stem Cell Research Center, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, School of Medicine, University of Pittsburgh, USA
E-Mail: jhuard@pitt.edu
Interests: muscle stem cells; musculoskeletal tissue regeneration and repair; angiogenesis; fibrosis
Contribution: Special Issue: Regenerative Medicine/Tissue Engineering

Prof. Dr. Herbert Jäckle
Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry, Department of Molecular Developmental Biology, Göttingen Graduate School for Neurosciences and Molecular Biosciences (GGNB), Am Fassberg 11, 37077 Göttingen, Germany
Tel. +49 551 201 1482; Fax: +49 551 201 1755
Website: http://www.mpibpc.mpg.de/groups/jaeckle/
E-Mail: hjaeckl@gwdg.de
Interests: molecular processes and the mechanisms involved in the phenomenon of biological pattern formation during Drosophila embryogenesis; biochemical pathways and the molecular characterization of the regulatory networks leading to the establishment of the segmental organization of the embryo, organ formation and cell behaviour underlying morphogenesis; genetic basis for energy homeostasis in cells

Prof. Dr. Manuela Martins-Green
Department of Cell Biology & Neuroscience, University of California, Riverside, CA 92521, USA
Website: http://cbns.ucr.edu/faculty/martins-green.html
E-Mail: manuela.martins@ucr.edu
Interests: wound repair and regeneration; prostate cancer growth and metastasis

Prof. Dr. Patrick Matthias
Friedrich Miescher Institute for Biomedical Research, Maulbeerstr. 66, 4058 Basel, Switzerland
Website: http://www.fmi.ch/research/groupleader/?group=21
E-Mail: patrick.matthias@fmi.ch
Interests: gene regulation; transcription factors; histone deacetylases; chromatin; B cell development; immunoglobulin gene regulation

Prof. Dr. Annette Neubüser
Institute of Biology 1, Department of Developmental Biology, Faculty of Biology, Albert-Ludwigs-University Freiburg, Hauptstrasse 1, D-79104 Freiburg, Germany
Website: http://www.biologie.uni-freiburg.de/data/bio1/neubueser/index.htm
E-Mail: annette.neubueser@biologie.uni-freiburg.de
Interests: craniofacial development; palatogenesis; inner ear development; development of the olfactory placode and GnRH neurons; FGF signaling; SoxE genes; Vax genes

Prof. Dr. Steven N. Popoff
Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology, School of Medicine, Temple University, 3500 North Broad Street, Philadelphia, PA 19140, USA
Tel. +1 215 707 3163
Website: http://www.temple.edu/medicine/faculty/p/popoff.asp?pms=%28popoff%20S[au]%20Temple%20University[affiliation]%29
E-Mail: spopoff@temple.edu
Interests: bone cell biology; osteoblasts; osteoclasts; bone formation; bone resorption; metabolic bone disease; osteoporosis; bone loss; osteopenia; growth factors; connective tissue growth factor; osteoactivin; fracture repair

Prof. Dr. Gerald Schatten
University of Pittsburgh, 204 Craft Ave Pittsburgh, PA 15213, USA
Website: http://www.cbp.pitt.edu/faculty/schatten.html
E-Mail: gschatten@pdc.magee.edu
Interests: fertilization; embryogenesis; gametogenesis; stem cells; reprogramming; motility; meiosis; mitosis

Prof. Dr. Rosa Serra
Department of Cell Biology, University of Alabama at Birmingham, 1918 University Blvd., Birmingham, AL 35294, USA
Website: http://services.medicine.uab.edu/facultyDirectory/FacultyData.asp?FID=22590
E-Mail: rserra@uab.edu
Interests: skeletal development; cartilage biology; intervertebral disc biology; skeletal tissue engineering; mammary gland development; branching morphogenesis; mammary stem cells; breast cancer

Prof. Dr. Claudio D. Stern
Department of Cell and Developmental Biology, University College London, Gower Street, London, WC1E 6BT, UK
E-Mail: c.stern@ucl.ac.uk
Interests: early vertebrate embryo development; pattern formation; morphogenesis; gastrulation; induction; somite formation; segmentation; early neural development; neural induction; gastrulation; embryonic axis development; stem cells; regeneration

Prof. Dr. Gary Stuart
Department of Biology, Science Building, Room S-231, Indiana State University, 218 North Sixth Street Terre Haute, Indiana, USA
Tel. +1 812 237 7898
Website: http://www.indstate.edu/biology/faculty/stuart.htm
E-Mail: gary.stuart@indstate.edu
Interests: molecular evolution and development; genome evolution; gene regulation; transcription factors; transgene markers and transgenesis; DNA recombination and repair; zebrafish

Prof. Dr. David A. Weisblat
Department of Molecular & Cell Biology, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720-3200, USA
Website: http://mcb.berkeley.edu/labs/weisblat/
E-Mail: weisblat@berkeley.edu
Interests: invertebrate development; cell lineage analysis; cell-cell signaling; segmentation; development and evolution in the super-phylum lophotrochozoa/spiralia

Prof. Dr. David Whitmore
Department of Cell and Developmental Biology, University College London, Gower Street, London, WC1E 6BT, UK
Website: http://www.ucl.ac.uk/cdb/research/whitmore/lab
E-Mail: d.whitmore@ucl.ac.uk
Interests: circadian rhythms; cell cycle regulation; transcriptional regulation; evolutionary mechanisms; light-regulated biology

Dr. Dagmar Wilhelm
Department of Anatomy and Developmental Biology, Bldg. 76 Monash University, Wellington Rd Clayton VIC3800, Australia
Website: http://www.med.monash.edu.au/anatomy/staff/wilhelm2.html
E-Mail: dagmar.wilhelm@monash.edu
Interests: mouse development; non-coding RNA; sex determination; gonad development; microRNA; gene regulation

Prof. Dr. Ernst Wolvetang
Stem Cell Engineering Group, Australian Institute for Bioengineering and Nanotechnology, Level 4, Building 75, University of Queensland, St Lucia, QLD 4072, Australia
Tel. +61 7 33463894
Website: http://www.aibn.uq.edu.au/
E-Mail: e.wolvetang@uq.edu.au
Interests: iPS cells; embryonic stem cells; epigenetic regulation of stem cell fate; regenerative medicine; bioreactors

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