Announcements

We are pleased to announce that the following Editorial Board Members have joined Biology (ISSN: 2079-7737) in the first quarter of 2022:

Name: Prof. Dr. Anat Barnea
Affiliation: Department of Natural and Life Sciences, The Open University of Israel, Ra'anana 43710, Israel
Interests: artificial light at night; behavioral neurobiology; birds; brain plasticity; ecology; neuroethology; urban ecology

Name: Prof. Dr. Zhifei Zhang
Affiliation: State Key Laboratory of Continental Dynamics, Shaanxi Key Laboratory of Early Life & Environments, Department of Geology, Northwest University, Xi’an 710069, China
Interests: systematics; phylogenetic analysis; taxonomy; stratigraphy; geology; environment; mapping; ecology and evolution

Name: Dr. Christian Kranjec
Affiliation: Faculty of Chemistry, Biotechnology and Food Science, The Norwegian University of Life Sciences, 1432 Ås, Norway
Interests: antibiotic resistance; biofilm; bacterial infection; bacteriology; MRSA; cell biology

Name: Dr. Andreas Flouris
Affiliation: Department of Physical Education and Sport Science, University of Thessaly, 42100 Trikala, Greece
Interests: behavioural thermoregulation; heat stress; cold stress; brown adipose tissue; homeostasis; temperature regulation; thermoeffectors; thermoregulatory thresholds

Name: Prof. Dr. Christian Cambillau
Affiliations:
1. Laboratoire d'Ingénierie des Systèmes Macromoléculaires, UMR7255, Institut de Microbiologie de la Méditerranée, CNRS-Aix-Marseille Université, 31 Chemin Joseph Aiguier, CS 70071, 13402 Marseille CEDEX 09, France
2. School of Microbiology, University College Cork, Cork T12, Ireland
Interests: structural biology; bacteriophage–host interactions; bacteriophage structure

Name: Prof. Dr. Cunrui Huang
Affiliation: Vanke School of Public Health, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China
Interests: climate change; environmental epidemiology; global health

Name: Prof. Dr. Vincent L. Bels
Affiliation: Institute of Systematic Evolution Biodiversity, Sorbonne University, 75006 Paris, France
Interests: evolution; behavior; functional morphology; feeding; locomotion; lizards; turtles

Name: Prof. Dr. Mingxing Chu
Affiliation: Key Laboratory of Animal Genetics and Breeding and Reproduction of Ministry of Agriculture, Institute of Animal Science, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Beijing 100193, China
Interests: animal genetics; animal molecular genetics; sheep and goat genetics and breeding

Name: Dr. Juan Arroyo
Affiliation: Department of Plant Biology and Ecology, University of Seville, 41004 Seville, Spain
Interests: plant reproductive ecology; flower polymorphisms; plant evolution and biogeography; plant–animal interactions; pollination

Name: Dr. José Armando L. da Silva
Affiliation: Centro de Química Estrutural, Instituto Superior Técnico (IST), Universidade de Lisboa, Av. Rovisco Pais 1, 1049-001 Lisboa, Portugal
Interests: bioinorganic chemistry; prebiotic chemistry

Name: Prof. Dr. Shucun Sun
Affiliation: School of Life Sciences, Nanjing University, Nanjing 210093, China
Interests: biodiversity and ecosystem function; plant–animal relationships; global change biology

Name: Dr. Angelo Fortunato
Affiliation: Biodesign Institute, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ 85281, USA
Interests: cancer evolution; cancer biology; evolutionary biology; molecular genetics

Name: Prof. Dr. Zhe Zhao
Affiliation: Department of Marine Biology, College of Oceanography, Hohai University, Nanjing 210098, China
Interests: marine microbiology; fish immunology, especially in molecular immunology

Name: Dr. Wei Ma
Affiliation: School of Biological Sciences, Nanyang Technological University, 60 Nanyang Drive, SBS-02s-88e, Singapore 637551, Singapore
Interests: plant lipid biosynthesis; regulation of gene expression; intrinsically disordered proteins in plants; post-translational modifications; plant signal transduction

Name: Prof. Dr. Lin Wang
Affiliation: College of Animal Science and Veterinary Medicine, Shandong Agricultural University, Tai'an 271018, China
Interests: autophagy deficiency; nephrotoxicity; animal poisoning diseases; metabolism diseases

Name: Prof. Dr. Weizhen Zhang
Affiliations:
1. Department of Physiology and Pathophysiology, School of Basic Medical Sciences, Peking University Health Science Center, 100191 Beijing, China
2. Department of Surgery, University of Michigan Medical Center, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA
Interests: gut microbiota; gut hormones; obesity; diabetes; NAFLD

Name: Dr. Colin Adrain
Affiliation: Patrick G Johnston Centre for Cancer Research Queen’s University Belfast, Belfast BT7 1NN, Ireland
Interests: inflammation; metabolism; cell signalling; mouse models; membrane trafficking; endoplasmic reticulum; lipid droplets; ERAD (ER-associated degradation)

Name: Prof. Dr. Janis Eells
Affiliation: Department of Biomedical Sciences, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Milwaukee, WI 53211, USA
Interests: retinal degenerative diseases; neurodegenerative diseases; pharmacology; molecular toxicology

Name: Prof. Dr. Eugénia Cunha
Affiliations:
1. National Institute of Legal Medicine and Forensic Sciences, 3004-531 Coimbra, Portugal
2. Laboratory of Forensic Anthropology, Centre for Functional Ecology, Department of Life Sciences, University of Coimbra, 3004-531 Coimbra, Portugal
Interests: forensic anthropology; forensic identification; skeletal biology; human evolution

Name: Prof. Dr. Donatella Paoli
Affiliation: Laboratory of Seminology—Sperm Bank “Loredana Gandini”, Department of Experimental Medicine, University of Rome “Sapienza”, 00161 Rome, Italy
Interests: human reproduction biotechnology; sperm motility evaluation; seminal fluid

Name: Dr. Praveen P. Nekkar Rao
Affiliation: School of Pharmacy, Health Sciences Campus, University of Waterloo, 200 University Avenue West, Waterloo, ON N2L 3G1, Canada
Interests: neurodegenerative diseases; chemical biology; protein misfolding; amyloid aggregation; bioassays; therapeutics

We wish them every success in developing the journal.