Life — Editors

Editor-in-Chief
Department of Biomolecular Engineering, University of California, Santa Cruz, CA 95064, USA
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Interests: membrane biophysics; nanopore sequencing; origin of cellular life
Special Issues and Collections Special Issue: Origin of Cellular Life

Section Editor-in-Chief
Department of Chemistry, Portland State University, PO Box 751, Portland, OR 97207, USA
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Interests: origins of life; RNA; ribozymes; recombination; prebiotic chemistry; systems chemistry, cooperation; in vitro evolution
* Section 'Chemistry'
Special Issues and Collections Special Issue: The Origins and Early Evolution of RNA

Section Editor-in-Chief
1. Director, NASA Center for Computational Astrobiology and Fundamental Biology, NASA-Ames Research Center, Mail Stop 239-4, Moffett Field, CA 94035, USA
2. Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, USA
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Interests: statistical mechanics of chemical and biological systems, molecular and cellular-scale computer simulations and modeling, astrobiology, origin of life, protein structure, function and folding, biological membranes, transport through membranes, evolutionary innovation
* Section 'Physics'

Former Editor-in-Chief
Center of Biotechnology and PPGBCM, Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, RS, Brazil
Interests: biotechnology; next generation sequencing; metagenomics; molecular biology and biochemistry of microorganisms; extremophiles; grand challenges
Special Issues and Collections Special Issue: Extremophiles and Extreme Environments
In other journals:
Special Issue: Polar Microbiology: Recent Advances and Future Perspectives
Special Issue: Enzymes and Their Biotechnological Applications
Special Issue: Advances and New Perspectives in Microbial Research
Special Issue: Grand Celebration: 10th Anniversary of the Human Genome Project
Special Issue: Advances and New Perspectives in Marine Biotechnology

Section Editor-in-Chief
1. Department of Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology, University of Cambridge, Tennis Court Road, Cambridge CB2 1QT, UK
2 Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA
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Interests: astrobiology; detection of life; limits of life; origin of life; nature of aging; anti-aging medicine; computational chemistry; science commercialization; biotechnology financing; venture capital
* Section 'Hypotheses in the Life Sciences'
Special Issues and Collections Special Issue: The Physico-Chemical Limits of Life

Head, Biomedical Science Support Center, German Aerospace Center, Institute of Aerospace Medicine, Biomedical Research, Linder Höhe, 51147 Köln, Germany
Interests: gravitational biology; fish as model systems for the understanding of motion sickness/neurovestibular behavior/sensorimotor disorders; aquatic life support systems; bioregeneration

School of Oceanography, University of Washington, Box 357940, Seattle, WA 98195 USA
Interests: life in estreme environments; limits of life; the origin and evolution of life on Earth; astrobiology and the search for life elsewhere
Special Issues and Collections: Special Issue: The Physico-Chemical Limits of Life

Emeritus Professor, Department of Chemistry and Biomolecular Sciences, Macquarie University, North Ryde, Sydney, NSW 2109, Australia
Interests: Metagenomics and metaproteomics of extremophiles; directed evolution; biocatalysis; applied microbiology; environmental microbiology

UP Genomics Research Institute, Room 3-12, NW2 Building, University of Pretoria, Pretoria 0028, South Africa
Interests: extremophiles; microbial ecology (soils, particularly desert soils); environmental microbiology; functional metagenomics; microbial enzymes
Special Issues and Collections: In other journals:
Special Issue: Genomics, Molecular Biology, Environmental Diversity and Evolution of Archaea and their Viruses

1. Department of Biomolecular Engineering, University of California, Santa Cruz, CA 95064, USA
2. DigitalSpace Research, Boulder Creek, CA 95006, USA
Interests: origin of life; computational modeling; space science; theoretical biology
Special Issues and Collections: Special Issue: Origin of Cellular Life

Sens Foundation, 110 Pioneer Way, Suite J, Mountain View, CA 94041,USA
Interests: biology of aging; regenerative medicine

1. Professor and Head of the Laboratory of Microbiology, Wageningen University, Wageningen, The Netherlands
2. Finland Academy Professor at the Departments of Bacteriology & Immunology and Department of Veterinary Biosciences, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
Interests: understand and exploit microbes using molecular, (meta)genomics and systems approaches; human intestinal tract microbiota and its relation with health and disease

Department of Biology and Biochemstry, University of Houston, 369 Science & research Bldg. 2, Houston, TX 77204-5001, USA
Interests: ribosome evolution; RNA sequence space; RNA structure; Archaea

Laboratory of Biochemistry, University of Liège, Institute of Chemistry, B6a, B-4000, Liège, Belgium
Interests: protein chemistry; enzymology; microbiology; molecular adaptations to low temperature; extremophiles
Special Issues and Collections: In other journals:
Special Issue: Protein Folding 2011

Emeritus Professor, Cambridge Centre for Brain Repair, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB2 0PY, UK
Interests: neuroscience; endocrinology; financial decision-making; psychiatric disorders

Department of Geological Sciences, Stockholm University, SE-106 91, Stockholm, Sweden
Interests: geobiology; astrobiology; hydrothermal organic geochemistry; subsurface biosphere

Head, School of Biology, Ridley Building, Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE1 7RU, UK
Interests: origins of life; archaea; actinomycetes; phages; life in extreme environments; microbial genomics; phylogenomics; taxonomy; microbial diversity; systems biology
Special Issues and Collections: Special Issue: Archaea: Evolution, Physiology, and Molecular Biology

Department of Applied Science, The College of William and Mary, 330 McGlothin-Street, Williamsburg, VA 23187, USA
Interests: origin and evolution of planetary atmospheres and life; atmospheric chemistry; biogenic gases; planetary aerial platforms; planning for the human exploration of Mars

1. Professor emeritus ETH Zurich, Switzerland
2. Dipartimento di Biologia, Università degli Studi di Roma Tre, Viale Marconi 446, 00146 Roma, Italy
Interests: never born proteins; minimal cell; synthetic biology; emergence of life
Special Issues and Collections: Special Issue: The Emergence of Life: From Chemical Origins to Synthetic Biology

Head, Institute for Molecular Evolution, University of Düsseldorf, 40225 Düsseldorf, Germany
Interests: early evolution, origin of life; microbial physiology; anaerobes; endosymbiosis; networks

Geosciences Institute, IGEO (CSIC-UCM) Facultad de Ciencias Geológicas C/ José Antonio Novais, 2 Ciudad Universitaria 28040 Madrid, SPAIN
Interests: planetary geology; astrobiology; natural resources of near earth space and sustainability; geo and biomarkers; extreme environments and planetary habitability; geodiversity and biodiversity; natural hazards and planetary ecosystems; mineralogy; geoethics in earth and space sciences; geoeducation; science and technology for development; emerging sciences, cultural implications; new paradigms
Special Issues and Collections: In other journals:
Special Issue: Astrobiology and Sustainability
Special Issue: Challenges in Astrobiology
Special Issue: Planetary Geosciences and Space Exploration
Special Issue: Challenges in Astrobiology II
Special Issue: Meteorites and Cosmic Mineralogy
Special Issue: Geosciences and Future Earth
Special Issue: Geoethics and Geosciences

Institute for Astronomy, University of Hawaii, 2680 Woodlawn Drive, Honolulu, HI 96822, USA
Interests: comets; delivery of volatiles in the early solar system to habitable worlds; space missions

Department of Earth, Environmental and Planetary Sciences, Brown University, 324 Brook Street, Box 1846, Providence, Rhode Island 02912, USA
Interests: planetary surface composition and evolution; remote sensing and visible to infrared spectroscopy; habitability on Mars; alteration mineralogy; weathering and alteration; terrestrial analog environments and their relationship to astrobiology

Theoretical Biology Unit, EA 4312, University of Rouen, Mont Saint Aignan, 76821 France
Interests: integrative approaches to the bacterial cell cycle, origins of life; biotechnology; systems biology

Department of Plant and Environmental Sciences, The Institute of Life Sciences, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 91904 Jerusalem, Israel
Interests: Microbial life in extreme environments; Halophiles; Prokaryote; taxonomy and nomenclature
Special Issues and Collections: Special Issue: Proceedings from the 11th Conference on Halophilic Microorganisms Halophiles 2016

Indian Institute of Science Education and Research (IISER), Pune, Maharashtra 411008, India
Interests: origins and early evolution of life; self-assembly; primitive informational polymers; RNA; nonenzymatic replication

Laboratoire Inter-universitaire des Systèmes Atmosphériques (LISA), UMR CNRS 7583, Université Paris Est Créteil et Paris Diderot, Institute Pierre Simon Laplace, 61 avenue du Général de Gaulle, 94010, Créteil, France
Interests: prebiotic chemistry; extraterrestrial organic chemistry; astrobiology; exobiology; astrobiologically oriented space missions; Titan; Mars; comets

Institute for Research in Biomedicine (IRB) and ICREA, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
Interests: proteome quality control in cell biology and disease; structure-function studies of protein-RNA interactions; biomedicine and biotechnology
Special Issues and Collections: Special Issue: Evolution of tRNA

Universidad Miguel Hernandez, Campus de San Juan, 03550, San Juan de Alicante, Spain
Interests: microbiology; microbial ecology; genomics; metagenomics; population genomics; evolution; bacteria; archaea; viruses

Department of Physiology, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI 48823 USA
Interests: prebiotic chemical ecology; origins of life; origins of genetic code; origins of homochirality; molecular complementarity; origins of cellular transporters and receptors; STEM education; scientific creativity
Special Issues and Collections: In other journals:
Special Issue: Origin of Life 2011

School of the Environment, Webster Hall 1148, Washington State University, Pullman, WA 99164, USA
Interests: planetary habitability; astrobiology; evolutionary biology; extreme environments; geobiology; space missions
Special Issues and Collections: Special Issue: Planetary Exploration: Habitats and Terrestrial Analogs

Mevo Hadas 20, P.O.Box 1132, Efrat 90435, Israel
Interests: enigmatic microorganisms; life in extreme environments and astrobiology; phycology-thermo-acidic algae; plant ferritin

Department of Statistics, Rice University, MS 138, P.O. Box 1892, Houston, TX 77251-1892, USA
Interests: origin of life; ecology; microbial ecology

1. Bioinformatics Group, Department of Computer Science + Interdisciplinary Center for Bioinformatics + German Center for Integrative Biodiversity Research, University Leipzig, D-04107, Leipzig, Germany
2. Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in the Sciences, Inselstraße 22, D-04103, Leipzig, Germany; RNomics Group, Fraunhofer Institut for Cell Therapy and Immunology, Perlickstraße 1, D-04103, Leipzig, Germany
3. Department of Theoretical Chemistry, University of Vienna, Währingerstraße 17, A-1090, Wien, Austria
4. Center for non-coding RNA in Technology and Health, University of Copenhagen, Grønnegårdsvej 3, DK-1870 Frederiksberg C, Denmark; 5. Santa Fe Institute, 1399 Hyde Park Rd., Santa Fe, NM, 87501, USA
Interests: bioinformatics; structural biology; evolution; phylogenetics; RNA; genomics; transcriptomics; systems chemistry; graph theory; discrete mathematics; algorithmics; origins of life

Space Biosciences Division, NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA 94035, USA
Interests: science and technology associated with health consequences of radiation exposure; present emphasis is on extended human missions into deep space (e.g., Mars); prior emphases include Hiroshima, Chernobyl, biodosimetry “chromosome painting”, biotechnology, and reproductive biology

President, CEO and Institute Director, National Space Biomedical Research Institute; Director, Center for Space Medicine, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX 77030, USA
Interests: space life sciences; space medicine; smart medical systems and technology; neuroscience

Program Director, Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science & Technology, 2-15 Natsushima-cho, Yokosuka 237-0061, Japan
Interests: geomicrobiology; biogeochemistry; astrobiology; extremophiles; limits of life and biosphere; habitability; exploration of boundary biosphere

1. Director, Genetics and Aging Research Unit; Vice-Chair, Neurology Research, MassGeneral Institute for Neurodegenerative Disease, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA 02129, USA
2. Harvard Medical School, Harvard University, Boston, MA 02115, USA
Interests: genetics and neurodegenerative disorders