Editorial Office
Editor-in-Chief
Prof. Dr. med. Florian Lang
Physiologisches Institut I, Universität Tübingen Gmelinstrasse 5, D-72076 Tübingen, Germany
Tel. +49 (0)7071 29 72194; Fax: +49 (0)7071 29 5618
Website: http://www.physiologie.medizin.uni-tuebingen.de/DepI/#public
E-Mail: florian.lang@uni-tuebingen.de
Interests: Mechanisms and clinical significance of cell volume regulation; Erythrocyte death signaling; Serum-and Glucocorticoid inducible kinase isoforms; Physiology and pharmacology of human ion channels and carriers expressed in oocytes; Host cell physiology in hostpathogen interaction; Mechanisms of apoptotic cell death
Editor
Ms. Kathy Lai
MDPI Haidian Office, Yingu Mansion, Suite 815, North 4th Ring Road West, 9, Haidian District, Beijing 100190, China
Tel. +86 10 6280 0830
E-Mail: kathy.lai@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. Arturo Anadón
Department of Toxicology and Pharmacology, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, 28040-Madrid, Spain
Tel. +34 1 394 38 34; Fax: +34 1 394 38 40
Website: http://ec.europa.eu/food/fs/sc/scan/cv/cv_anadon_en.pdf
E-Mail: anadon@vet.ucm.es
Interests: neurotoxicity; toxicokinetics
Prof. Dr. Michael Aschner
Department of Pediatrics, 2215-B Garland Avenue, 11415 MRB IV, Vanderbilt University, Medical Center, Nashville, TN 37232-0414, USA
Tel. +1 615 322 8024; Fax: +1 615 936 4080
Website: http://kc.vanderbilt.edu/site/people/show.aspx?id=8993
E-Mail: michael.aschner@vanderbilt.edu
Interests: transport mechanisms from the periphery into the brain; developmental neurotoxicology; role of metals in neurodegeneration; gulf war syndrome
Dr. Charles W. Bacon
Toxicology and Mycotoxin Research, Russell Research Center, 950 College Station Road, Athens, GA 30604, USA
Tel. +1 706 546 3158; Fax: +1 706 546 3116
Website: http://www.ars.usda.gov/pandp/people/people.htm?personid=232
E-Mail: charles.bacon@ars.usda.gov
Interests: regulation and biosynthesis of mycotoxins; fungal endophyte-grass relationships; bacterial endophytes, and the coevolution of secondary products; primarily mycotoxins, with grasses and other plants, as an adaptive strategy for mutualistic associations
Contribution:
Special Issue: Evolutionary/Phylogenetic Studies of Mycotoxin Biosynthetic Pathways
Prof. Dr. John P. Berry
Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Florida International University, 354/332 Marine Science, Biscayne Bay Campus, FIU, 3000 NE 151st St., North Miami, FL 33181, USA
Tel. +1 305 919 4569; Fax: +1 305 919 4030
Website: http://www.fiu.edu/~berryj/
E-Mail: john.berry@fiu.edu
Interests: cyanobacteria; toxins; bioactive compounds; zebrafish embryo model; natural products
Contribution:
Special Issue: Algal Toxins
Special Issue: Cyanotoxins
In other journals:
Special Issue: Algal Toxins
Dr. Deepak Bhatnagar
Research Leader, Food and Feed Safety Research, USDA/ARS/, Southern Regional Research Institute, New Orleans, Louisiana 70124, USA
Tel. +1 504 286 4388; Fax: +1 504 286 4269
Website: http://www.ars.usda.gov/pandp/people/people.htm?personid=446
E-Mail: deepak.bhatnagar@ars.usda.gov
Interests: mycotoxins; secondary metabolism; genomics; toxin biosynthesis; Aspergillus species
Contribution:
Special Issue: Aflatoxins
Dr. Greta J. Binford
Department of Biology, Lewis & Clark College, 0615 SW Palatine Hill Rd. Portland, Oregon 97214, USA
Tel. +1 503-768-7653; Fax: +1 503-768-7658
Website: http://legacy.lclark.edu/~binford/
E-Mail: binford@lclark.edu
Interests: spider venom chemical diversity; mechanisms of venom evolution; phylogenetic patterns of venom diversity
Contribution:
Special Issue: Spider Venoms
Prof. Dr. Wayne Briner
Psychobiology Program, Department of Psychology, University of Nebraska-Kearney, Kearney, NE 68849, USA
Tel. +1 308 865 8196; Fax: +1 308 865 8980
Website: http://www.unk.edu/acad/psychology/index.php?id=29378
E-Mail: brinerw@unk.edu
Interests: neurotoxicology; heavy metals; teratology; behavioral teratology
Contribution:
In other journals:
Special Issue: Heavy Metals and Health
Dr. Jeffrey W. Cary
Molecular Biologist USDA, ARS, SRRC, 1100 Robert E. Lee Blvd., New Orleans, LA 70124-4305, USA
Tel. +1 504 286 4264; Fax: +1 504 286 4533
Website: http://www.ars.usda.gov/pandp/people/people.htm?personid=907
E-Mail: jeff.cary@ars.usda.gov
Interests: molecular biology of mycotoxin biosynthesis and regulation; fungal-host plant interactions; secondary metabolism; gene clusters; genomics; antifungal peptides; transgenic approaches to mycotoxin elimination in plants
Contribution:
Special Issue: Advances in Mycotoxin Research
Prof. Dr. Sang Ho Choi
NRL of Molecular Microbiology and Toxicology, Department of Food Biotechnology, Seoul National University, Seoul 151-921, Korea
Tel. +82 2 880 4857; Fax: +82 2 873 5095
Website: http://fst.snu.ac.kr/
E-Mail: choish@snu.ac.kr
Interests: molecular biology of food-borne pathogenic bacteria; expression and regulation of genes encoding microbial virulence factors; quorum sensing of microorganisms; functional genomics of survival and toxigenesis of food-borne pathogenic bacteria
Prof. Dr. Jean E. Crabtree
Molecular Gastroenterology Section, Leeds Institute of Molecular Medicine, Wellcome Trust Brenner Building, St. James's University Hospital, Leeds LS9 7TF, UK
Website: http://www.limm.leeds.ac.uk/research_sections/molecular_gastroenterology/groups/crabtree.htm
E-Mail: j.crabtree@leeds.ac.uk
Interests: Helicobacter pylori; host-pathogen interactions in gastrointestinal tract; infection and gastrointestinal cancer; mucosal immunology
Contribution:
In other journals:
Special Issue: Gastric Cancer
Special Issue: Gut Microbiome
Prof. Dr. Daniel R. Dietrich
Human and Environmental Toxicology, Jacob-Burckhardtstrasse 25, University of Konstanz, 78457 Konstanz, Germany
Tel. +49 7531 883518 (Direct); +49 7531 883171 (Secretary); Fax: +49 7531 883170
Website: http://www.umwelttoxikologie.uni-konstanz.de/en/members/prof-dr-daniel-dietrich/
E-Mail: daniel.dietrich@uni-konstanz.de
Interests: natural toxins; mycotoxins; cyanobacterial toxins; mechanisms of toxicity; renal toxicity and carcinogenesis; environemntal and human risk assessment
Prof. Dr. Jia-You Fang
Graduate Institute of Natural Products, Chang Gung University, Wen-Hwa 1st Road, Kweishan, Taoyuan 333, Taiwan
Tel. +886 3 2118800ext5521; Fax: +886 3 2118236
E-Mail: fajy@mail.cgu.edu.tw
Interests: pharmaceutics; natural products; dermatology; nanotechnology; drug delivery; pharmacokinetics
Contribution:
Special Issue: The Toxicity of Natural Products
Dr. Carmela Fimognari
Laboratory for Genetic and Molecular Toxicology, Department of Pharmacology, University of Bologna, Italy
Tel. +39 051 2095636; Fax: +39 051 2095624
Website: http://www.unibo.it/SitoWebDocente/default.htm?UPN=carmela.fimognari@unibo.it
E-Mail: carmela.fimognari@unibo.it
Interests: 1) antitumour pharmacology: identification of natural agents as potential antitumor drugs and definition of their cellular (analysis of apoptosis/necrosis; cell proliferation; cell-cycle progression; cytodifferentiation) and molecular (level of proteins involved in apoptosis and cell-cycle regulation) mechanism; 2) cellular and genetic toxicology: study of the cellular response after treatment with xenobiotics (cytotoxicity; analysis of DNA and RNA damage; fluorescence in situ hybridization)
Contribution:
Special Issue: Natural Products for Multi-Targeted Cancer Treatment: Where Are We Now?
Prof. Dr. Maria Cristina Fossi
Department of Environmental Sciences, University of Siena, Via Mattioli, 4, 53100 Siena, Italy
Tel. +39 0 577232913; Fax: +39 0 577232930
Website: http://www.scientificjournals.com/sj/all/AutorenAnzeigeESS/autorenId/90108
E-Mail: fossi@unisi.it
Interests: non invasive biomarkers; aquatic toxicology; aquatic environments; xenobiotics; marine mammals; genomics; environmental toxicology; endokrine Disruptoren; endocrine effects of chemicals; ecotoxicological effects; biomarkers
Dr. Yukako Fujinaga
Laboratory for Infection Cell Biology, International Research Center for Infectious Diseases, Research Institute for Microbial Diseases, Osaka University, Yamada-oka 3-1, Suita, Osaka 565-0871, Japan
Tel. +81 6 6879 4250; Fax: +81 6 6879 4252
Website: http://www.biken.osaka-u.ac.jp/act/act_fujinaga_e.php
E-Mail: yukafuji@biken.osaka-u.ac.jp
Interests: bacterial protein toxins; enterotoxins; mechanism of toxicity; interaction of toxins with epithelial cell barriers
Contribution:
Special Issue: Bacterial Protein Toxins
Prof. Dr. Helmut Greim
Institute of Toxicology and Environmental Hygiene, Technical University of Munich, Hohenbachernstrasse 15-17, D-85354 Freising-Weihenstephan, Germany
Tel. +49 8161 715600; Fax: +49 8161 715618
E-Mail: helmut.greim@lrz.tum.de
Interests: general toxicology; mechanisms of toxicity, especially in mutagenicity and carcinogenicity; mode of action; risk assessment
Prof. Dr. Arthur P. Grollman
Laboratory of Chemical Biology, Department of Pharmacological Sciences, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY 11794, USA
Tel. +1 631 444 3080; Fax: +1 631 444 7641
Website: http://www.lcb.stonybrook.edu/
E-Mail: apg@pharm.stonybrook.edu
Interests: nephrotoxins, enviromental mutagens
Dr. Xiaohua He
Research Molecular Biologist, USDA, ARS, WRRC, 800 Buchanan Street, Albany, CA94710, USA
Tel. +1 510 559 5823; Fax: +1 510 559 5768
Website: http://www.ars.usda.gov/pandp/people/people.htm?personid=39023
E-Mail: xiaohua.he@ars.usda.gov
Interests: molecular tools and technologies for rapid; accurate; and sensitive detection and quantification of zoonotic pathogens and toxins in food; mechanisms of interactions between bacterial toxins and host cells; binding between antigen and antibody or receptors
Contribution:
Special Issue: Advances in Toxin Detection
Dr. Yasuhiko Horiguchi
Research Institute for Microbial Diseases, Osaka University, Yamada-oka 3-1, Suita, Osaka 565-0871, Japan
Tel. +81 6 6879 8284; Fax: + 81 6 6879 8283
Website: http://www.biken.osaka-u.ac.jp/act/act_horiguchi_e.php
E-Mail: horiguti@biken.osaka-u.ac.jp
Interests: structure and domain organization of proteins; cell-to -cell or intracellular signaling; receptors for toxins; membrane-damaging toxins
Contribution:
Special Issue: Bacterial Protein Toxins
Prof. Dr. Glenn F. King
Division of Chemistry & Structural Biology, Institute for Molecular Bioscience, The University of Queensland, St. Lucia, QLD 4072, Australia
Tel. +61 7 3346-2025; Fax: +61 7 3346-2101
Website: http://imb.uq.edu.au
E-Mail: glenn.king@imb.uq.edu.au
Interests: venoms-based drug discovery; venoms-based insecticide discovery; venom evolution; ion channel blockers; acid-sensing ion channels; voltage-gated sodium channels; chronic pain; stroke; NMR structural biology
Contribution:
Special Issue: Animal Toxins Targeting Ion Channels Involved in Pain
Prof. Dr. R. Manjunatha Kini
Protein Science Laboratory, Department of Biological Sciences, National University of Singapore, Science Drive 4, 117543 Singapore
Tel. + 65 65165235; Fax: + 65 67792486
Website: http://www.dbs.nus.edu.sg/staff/kini.htm
E-Mail: dbskinim@nus.edu.sg
Interests: protein chemistry; structure-function relationships; protein-protein interaction and protein design and engineering
Prof. Dr. Brigitte König
Otto-von-Guericke-University, Institute of Medical Microbiology, Molecular Microbiology and Molecular Diagnostics, Leipzigerstr. 44, 39120 Magdeburg, Germany
Tel. +49 391 6713353; Fax: +49 391 6713938
Website: http://www.med.uni-magdeburg.de/Institute/Medizinische+Mikrobiologie.html
E-Mail: brigitte.koenig@med.ovgu.de
Interests: superantigens; microecology; microorganism-host-microorganism interactions; host-medical devices interactions; oxidative stress; staphylococci; enterococci; lactobacilli
Dr. Emmanuel Lemichez
INSERM U895, C3M, Université de Nice, Bâtiment Universitaire ARCHIMED, 151 route Saint Antoine de Ginestière, BP 2 3194, 06204 NICE CEDEX 3, France
Website: http://www.unice.fr/c3m/EN/Equipe6.html
E-Mail: lemichez@unice.fr
Interests: microbial toxins in host pathogen interactions; host epithelium and endothelium barriers; inflammation; cell cytoskeleton; toxin and bacterial entry; cell signaling : Rho GTPases; regulation by ubiquitination; MAP Kinases
Contribution:
Special Issue: Cellular Microbiology of Bacterial Toxins
Prof. Dr. Richard J. Lewis
Institute for Molecular Bioscience, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Queensland 4072, Australia
Tel. +61 7 3346 2984; Fax: +61 7 3346 2101
Website: http://www.imb.uq.edu.au/index.html?id=11701
E-Mail: r.lewis@imb.uq.edu.au
Interests: cone snail and spider venom peptides; sodium and calcium channels; nAChRs; monoamine transporters; adrenoceptors; ciguatera and ciguatoxins; pain; toxin SAR
Contribution:
Special Issue: Toxins as Therapeutics
Prof. Dr. Stephen P. Mackessy
School of Biological Sciences, 501 20th. St., CB 92, University of Northern Colorado, Greeley, CO 80639-0017 USA
Tel. +1 970-351-2429; Fax: +1 970-351-2335
Website: http://www.unco.edu/nhs/biology/faculty_staff/mackessy_stephen.htm
E-Mail: stephen.mackessy@unco.edu
Interests: reptile venom proteomics and evolution; toxin evolution and structure/function relationships; venom proteinases; biochemical ecology of venomous reptiles
Dr. Azzam A. Maghazachi
Department of Physiology, Faculty of Medicine, Institute of Basic Medical Sciences, University of Oslo, POB 1103, N-0317 Oslo, Norway
Tel. +47 22851203; Fax: +47 22851279
E-Mail: azzam.maghazachi@medisin.uio.no
Interests: drug toxicity; autoimmunity; innate immunity; lysophospholipids; chemokines
Contribution:
Special Issue: Toxicity and Therapeutic Interventions in the Immune System
Prof. Dr. Richard A. Manderville
Department of Chemistry and Toxicology, University of Guelph, Guelph, Ontario, N1G 2W1 Canada
Tel. +1 519 824 4120; Fax: +1 519 766 1499
Website: http://www.chembio.uoguelph.ca/manderville/
E-Mail: rmanderv@uoguelph.ca
Interests: DNA damage by phenolic toxins including ochratoxin A; Modified DNA bases as fluorescent probes
Contribution:
Special Issue: Ochratoxins
Special Issue: Ochratoxins 2011-2012
Special Issue: Recent Advances in Ochratoxins Research
Dr. Nicholas J. Mantis
Division of Infectious Disease, Wadsworth Center, New York State Department of Health, 120 New Scotland Avenue, Albany, NY 12208, USA
Tel. +1 518 473-7487; Fax: +1 518 402-4773
Website: http://www.wadsworth.org/resnres/bios/mantis_pubs.html
E-Mail: nmantis@wadsworth.org
Interests: plant and bacterial protein toxins; neutralizing antibodies; vaccines; mucosal tissues; animal models; small molecule inhibitors
Contribution:
Special Issue: Toxin-Antibody Interactions
Dr. Frank S. Markland
Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology and Comprehensive Cancer, Center, University of Southern California, Keck School of Medicine, Cancer Research Laboratory #106, 1303 N. Mission Road, Los Angeles, CA 90033, USA
Tel. +1 323 224 7981; Fax: +1 323 224 7679
Website: http://www.usc.edu/schools/medicine/util/directories/faculty/profile.php?PersonIs_ID=735
E-Mail: markland@usc.edu
Interests: protein chemistry and structure/ function interrelationships; snake venom components with procoagulant and anticoagulant activities; snake venom platelet aggregation inhibitors (disintegrins); disintegrins as anti-angiogenic agents; disintegrins and wound healing; novel fibrinolytic agents (structure and modeling); thrombolytic therapy
Contribution:
Special Issue: Disintegrins: Structure-Function and Translational Potential
Dr. Mark P. Mattson
Laboratory of Neurosciences, National Institute on Aging, Laboratory of Neurosciences, NIA Biomedical Research Center, Room 05C214, 251 Bayview Blvd. Baltimore, MD 21224, USA
Tel. +1 410 558 8463; Fax: +1 410 558 8465
Website: http://www.grc.nia.nih.gov/branches/lns/index.html
E-Mail: mattsonm@grc.nia.nih.gov
Interests: oxidative stress and calcium regulation; apoptosis (programmed cell death); neuroprotective signal transduction; synaptic signaling and plasticity; genetic aberrancies and neurodegeneration; diet and neuronal vulnerability; neuroendocrine and neuroimmune mechanisms
Contribution:
Special Issue: Can Botanical Toxins Enhance Human Health?
Prof. Dr. Shin-ichi Miyoshi
Graduate School of Medicine, Dentistry and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Okayama University 1-1-1, Tsushima-Naka, Kita-Ku, Okayama-City, Okayama 700-8530, Japan
Tel. +81 86 251 7966; Fax: +81 86 251 7926
Website: http://www.pharm.okayama-u.ac.jp/en/department/miyoshi.html
E-Mail: miyoshi@pharm.okayama-u.ac.jp
Interests: bacterial protein toxins; pore-forming toxins; cell membrane proteins/receptors; proteolytic enzymes
Contribution:
Special Issue: Protein Toxins as Proteases
Special Issue: Pore-Forming Toxins
Prof. Dr. Michio Murata
Department of Chemstry, Graduate School of Science, Osaka University, 1-1 Machikaneyama-cho, Toyonaka, Osaka 560-0043, Japan
Tel. +81 66850 5774; Fax: +81 66850 5774
Website: http://www.chem.sci.osaka-u.ac.jp/lab/murata/english/index.html
E-Mail: murata@chem.sci.osaka-u.ac.jp
Interests: marine biotoxins; seafood poisoning; membrane-active toxins; mechanism of toxicity and solid state NMR
Prof. Dr. Richard E. Peterson
School of Pharmacy, University of Wisconsin, 777 Highland Avenue, Madison, WI 53705-2222, USA
Tel. +1 608 263 5453; Fax: +1 608 265 3316
E-Mail: repeterson@pharmacy.wisc.edu
Interests: developmental toxicology of halogenated aromatic hydrocarbons and perfluorinated acids
Prof. Dr. Annie Pfohl-Leszkowicz
National Agronomical High School of Toulouse (ENSAT), Unit of Toxicology & Food safety, 1 avenue de l’Agrobiopôle, BP 32607, 31326, Auzeville-Tolosane, France
Tel. +33 534 323 947; Fax: +33 534 323 947
E-Mail: leszkowicz@ensat.fr
Interests: mycotoxin; ochratoxin; fumonisin; zearalenone; biomarker; risk evaluation; environmental toxicology; polycyclic aromatic compounds; genotoxicity; DNA adduct; balkan endemic nephropathy; kidney cancer; biotransformation
Contribution:
Special Issue: Ochratoxins
Special Issue: Ochratoxins 2011-2012
Special Issue: Recent Advances in Ochratoxins Research
Prof. Dr. Frances Pick
Department of Biology, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Tel. +1 613 562 5800; Fax: +1 613 562 5486
Website: http://www.careg.uottawa.ca/bio_frances_pick.htm
E-Mail: frances.pick@uottawa.ca
Interests: ecosystem ecology and state of environment reporting; aquatic microbial ecology
Dr. Adam J. Ratner
Columbia University, 650 West 168th Street (BB 4-443), office (212) 305-9807, lab (212) 342-2902, New York NY 10032, USA
Tel. +1 212 305 9807; Fax: +1 212 342 5218
Website: http://www.ratnerlab.org
E-Mail: ar127@columbia.edu
Interests: bacterial toxins; toxin evolution; host cell responses to pore-forming toxins
Prof. Dr. Des R. Richardson
Professor of Cancer Cell Biology, NHMRC Senior Principal, Research Fellow; and Iron Metabolism and Chelation Program, Department of Pathology, University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW 2006, Australia
Tel. +61 2 9036 6548; Fax: +61 2 9036 6549
Website: http://sydney.edu.au/medicine/people/academics/profiles/d.richardson.php
E-Mail: d.richardson@med.usyd.edu.au
Interests: metal ions; iron; copper; chelators; X-ray crystallography
Dr. Jean-Marc Sabatier
Laboratory INSERM U1097-ERT 62 'Ingenierie des Peptides a Visee Therapeutique', Universite de la Mediterranee, Faculte de Medecine Nord, Boulevard Pierre Dramard, 13916 Marseille, Cedex 20, France
Tel. +33 640 15 24 19; Fax: +33 442 29 16 12
E-Mail: sabatier.jm1@libertysurf.fr
Interests: toxinology; animal toxins; ion channel blockers; toxin-derived drug; drug design; peptide and protein engineering; therapy
Contribution:
Special Issue: Toxins - Organic and Analytical Chemistry
Special Issue: Animal Venoms
In other journals:
Special Issue: Toxins - Organic and Analytical Chemistry
Prof. Dr. Jun Sakurai
Department of Microbiology, Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Tokushima Bunri University, Yamashiro-cho, Tokushima, Japan
Tel. +81 (0)88 602 8483; Fax: +81 (0)88 655 3051
E-Mail: sakurai@ph.bunri-u.ac.jp
Interests: structure-function of bacterial toxins; molecular biology of bacterial toxins; membrane-damage induced by bacterial toxins; membrane translocation of bacterial toxins
Prof. Dr. Gudula Schmidt
Pharmakology and Toxikology, Albertstrasse 25, University of Freiburg, 79104 Freiburg, Germany
Tel. +49 761 203 5316; Fax: +49 761 203 5311
Website: http://www.pharmakologie.uni-freiburg.de/i/index.htm
E-Mail: gudula.schmidt@pharmakol.uni-freiburg.de
Interests: bacterial toxins; GTPases; signal transduction; toxins and carcinogenesis
Prof. Dr. David Sheehan
Proteomic Research Laboratory, Department of Biochemistry, University College Cork, Western Gateway Building, Western Rd, Cork, Ireland
Tel. +35 321 420 5424; Fax: +35 321 427 4034
Website: http://www.ucc.ie/ucc/depts/biochemistry/staff/dsheehan.html
E-Mail: d.sheehan@ucc.ie
Interests: enzymology and evolution of glutathione transferases; application of proteomics to study of oxidative stress; implications of reactive oxygen and nitrogen species for kidney function; environmental toxicology; nanomaterials as emerging toxicological threats
Contribution:
Special Issue: Toxins from Aquatic Organisms
In other journals:
Special Issue: Nanotoxicology
Special Issue: Advances in Proteomic Research
Prof. Dr. Andreimar M. Soares
Centro de Estudos de Biomoléculas Aplicadas à Saúde (CEBio), Fundação Oswaldo Cruz (FIOCRUZ Rondônia) e Nucleo de Saúde, Universidade Federal de Rondônia (UNIR), Porto Velho-RO, Brasil
Tel. +55 16 3602 4714; Fax: +55 16 3602 4725
Website: http://lattes.cnpq.br/1721501040953897
E-Mail: andreimar@fiocruz.br
Interests: bioactive compounds; natural venoms; structure-function relationships of toxins; snake venoms; toxins and enzymes; anti-venoms; pharmacological applications
Prof. Dr. J. Glenn Songer
Department of Veterinary Microbiology and Preventive Medicine, College of Veterinary Medicine, Iowa State University, Ames, IA 50010, USA
Tel. +1 520 621 2962; Fax: +1 520 621 6366
Website: http://vetmed.iastate.edu/users/jgsonger
E-Mail: jgsonger@iastate.edu
Interests: microbial pathogenesis; epidemiology of clostridial enteric infections
Prof. Dr. Peter S. Spencer
Global Health Center and Center for Research on Occupational and Environmental Toxicology, Oregon Health & Science University, 3181 S.W. Sam Jackson Park Road, L356, Portland, Oregon, USA
Tel. +1 503 4942517
Website: http://www.ohsu.edu/xd/research/centers-institutes/croet/faculty/profiles.cfm?facultyID=520
E-Mail: spencer@ohsu.edu
Interests: neurotoxinology (plant, fungal); neurotoxicology; systems biology; human disease
Contribution:
Special Issue: Neurotoxins: Health Threats and Biological Tools
Dr. Tammy E. Stoker
MD-72, Endocrine Toxicology Branch, Toxicity Assessment Division, ORD, NHEERL, U.S. EPA, Research Triangle Park, NC 27711, USA
Tel. +1 919 541 2783; Fax: +1 919 541 5138
E-Mail: Stoker.Tammy@epamail.epa.gov
Interests: neuroendocrine control of reproductive function/LH surge and ovulation; pubertal development following gestational or peripubertal exposure to EDCs; perinatal exposures and effects on prostate development/prostatitis in the rat; in vitro/ex-vivo approaches to evaluate the effects of EDCs on the HPG/HPT/HPA axis
Prof. Dr. David C. Straus
Department of Immunology and Molecular Microbiology, Texas Tech University, Health Sciences Center, 3601 4th Street, Lubbock, Texas 79430, USA
Tel. +1 806 743 2523; Fax: +1 806 743 2334
Website: http://www.ttuhsc.edu/som/immunology/faculty/FacultyStraus.aspx
E-Mail: david.straus@ttuhsc.edu
Interests: mycotoxins; the microbiology of indoor air
Contribution:
Special Issue: Mycotoxins and Human Diseases
Prof. Dr. Bruce E. Tabashnik
Department of Entomology, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ 85721, USA
Tel. +1 520 621 1141; Fax: +1 520 621 1150
Website: http://ag.arizona.edu/ento/faculty/tabashnik.htm
E-Mail: brucet@cals.arizona.edu
Interests: insect resistance to Bacillus thuringiensis toxins
Prof. Dr. Vernon L. Tesh
Department of Microbial and Molecular Pathogenesis, Medical Research and Education Building, Room 3002, College of Medicine, Texas A&M University System Health Science Center, 8447 State Highway 47, Bryan, TX 77807, USA
Tel. +1 979 436 0357; Fax: +1 979 845 3479
Website: http://medicine.tamhsc.edu/basic-sciences/mmp/faculty/vernon-tesh.html
E-Mail: tesh@medicine.tamhsc.edu
Interests: shiga toxins; verotoxins; ribosome-inactivating proteins; intracellular signaling pathways activated by microbial toxins; ER stress response; regulation of cytokine expression; innate immune response to microbial toxins; microbial pathogenesis
Contribution:
Special Issue: Novel Properties of Well-Characterized Toxins
Prof. Dr. Jean-Nicolas Tournier
Department of Microbiology, Unité Interactions Hôtes-agents Pathogènes, Institut de Recherche Biomédicale des Armées, BP 87, 24 avenue des maquis du Grésivaudan, 38702 La Tronche, France
E-Mail: jntournier@crssa.net
Interests: microbial toxins in host pathogen interactions; cell cytoskeleton; toxins and immune system; MAP kinases; adeylate cyclase; toxins and cell signaling; anthrax toxins
Contribution:
Special Issue: Anthrax Toxin
Special Issue: Scorpion Toxins
Prof. Dr. Jan Tytgat
Laboratory of Toxicology, University of Leuven (KULeuven), Campus Gasthuisberg, O&N2 PO Box 922, Herestraat 49, 3000 Leuven, Belgium
Tel. +32 16 32 34 03; Fax: +32 16 32 34 05
Website: http://www.kuleuven.be/cv/u0018354e.htm
E-Mail: jan.tytgat@pharm.kuleuven.be
Interests: natural and bioactive compounds; animal venoms & toxins; structure-function relationships; ion channels & receptors, electrophysiology, pharmacology
Dr. Jiujiang Yu
Research Geneticist, United States Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Research Service, Southern Regional Research Center, 1100 Robert E. Lee Blvd, New Orleans, LA 70124, USA
Tel. +1 504 286 4405; Fax: +1 504 286 4419
E-Mail: jiujiang.yu@ars.usda.gov
Interests: aflatoxins; mycotoxins; Aspergillus flavus; genomics; functional genomics; Next generation sequencing (NGS); plant-fungus interaction
Dr. C. Chris Yun
Emory University, School of Medicine, Division of Digestive Diseases, Whitehead Bldg., Suite 201, 615 Michael St. Atlanta, GA 30322, USA
Tel. +1 404 712 2865; Fax: +1 404 727 5767
Website: http://med.emory.edu/faculty/profile_highlights.cfm?id=4021
E-Mail: ccyun@emory.edu
Interests: effects of lysophosphoipids in colon cancer and colitis; sodium and fluid absorption in the intestine and kidney; protein-protein interaction; chemokine sin colon cancer; cancer therapeutics; GPCR signaling
Contribution:
Special Issue: Enterotoxins
Prof. Dr. Gerald W. Zamponi
Department of Physiology and Pharmacology, University of Calgary, 3330 Hospital Dr. N.W., Calgary, T2N 4N1, Canada
Tel. +1 403 220 6597; Fax: +1 403 919 2212
Website: http://www.cell.ucalgary.ca/G.Zamponi.html
E-Mail: zamponi@ucalgary.ca
Interests: calcium channels; sodium channels; T-type channels; N-type channels; pain; G protein; second messengers; epilepsy
Prof. Dr. Paul V. Zimba
Center for Coastal Studies, Unit 5866, Texas A&M University Corpus Christi, 6300 Ocean Drive, Corpus Christi, TX 78412, USA
Tel. +1-361-825-2768; Fax: +1-361-825-2770
Website: http://sci.tamucc.edu/member.php?who=pzimba&program=lsci
E-Mail: Paul.Zimba@tamucc.edu
Interests: Algal toxins, aquatic ecosystem ecology, harmful algae, wetlands, aquaculture, microalgal taxonomy and physiology, remote sensing, carbon fixation assessment, aquatic ecosystem stressors, cyanobacteria secondary metabolites
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