Announcements

7 September 2022
Meet Us at the ASHG Annual Meeting 2022 (ASHG 2022), 25–29 October 2022, Los Angeles, USA


MDPI will be attending ASHG 2022, held in Los Angeles, USA, from 25 to 29 October 2022.

The following MDPI journals will be represented:

If you plan on attending this conference, feel free to stop by our booth: #1844. Our delegates look forward to meeting you in person to answer any questions you may have.

For more information about the conference, please see the following link:

https://www.ashg.org/meetings/2022-annual-meeting/.

28 July 2022
Obituary—Prof. Dr. Chris G. Dealwis

It is with great sadness that we inform you of the passing of Biology Editorial Board Member Prof. Dr. Chris G. Dealwis in July 2022. Prof. Dr. Dealwis was an associate professor at the Department of Pharmacology and a member of the Case Comprehensive Cancer Center at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, OH, USA.

After earning his Ph.D. under Prof. Tom Blundell at Birkbeck College and subsequent training in industry and at Yale University, Prof. Dr. Dealwis started his career in the late 1990s. Over the following two decades, he led a remarkable research career in the fields of protein structure, function, and protein-based drug design. His research findings were used for the development of treatments for diseases such as cancer, Alzheimer’s disease, and microbial infections.

Over the years, Prof. Dr. Dealwis published more than 50 scientific papers in internationally peer-reviewed journals. He also led a Special Issue during his term serving as an Editorial Board Member in Biology: “Protein Drug Targets and Drug Design”.

His death is a significant loss to the academic community as well as anyone close to him. We offer our deepest condolences to his family, friends, and colleagues.

Biology Editorial Office

28 July 2022
Meet Us at EuroBioFilms 2022, 31 August–3 September 2022, Palma de Mallorca, Spain


MDPI will be attending EuroBioFilms 2022 (EBF), hosted by the ESCMID Study Group for Biofilms (ESGB), which will be held from 31 August to 3 September 2022 in Palma de Mallorca, Spain. The conference will be held at the Meliá Palma Marina Hotel, Av. de Gabriel Roca, 29, 07014 Palma, Balearic Islands.

The multidisciplinary program will cover many subjects and will be a mix of basic and clinical biofilm-related topics. Leading scientists in the field will be present as keynote speakers and/or chairpersons. Oral presentations will be presented during various parallel sessions. On 31st of August, several educational preconference workshops will be organized.

The following MDPI journals will be represented:

If you are attending this conference, please feel free to start a conversation with us. Our delegates look forward to meeting you in person and answering any questions that you may have. For more information about the conference and our booth, please visit the following link: https://eurobiofilms2022.com/, or contact the Antibiotics Editorial Office at antibiotics@mdpi.com.

28 June 2022
2021 Impact Factors - Released

The 2021 citation metrics have been released in the Journal Citation Reports (JCR), and we’re pleased to announce the following results for MDPI journals:

Journal Impact Factor Rank Category
Antioxidants 7.675 Q1 Food Science & Technology
Biochemistry & Molecular Biology
Chemistry, Medicinal
Cells 7.666 Q2 Cell Biology
Nutrients 6.706 Q1 Nutrition & Dietetics
Cancers 6.575 Q1 Oncology
Pharmaceutics 6.525 Q1 Pharmacology & Pharmacy
International Journal of Molecular Sciences 6.208 Q1 Biochemistry & Molecular Biology
Q2 Chemistry, Multidisciplinary
Marine Drugs 6.085 Q1 Chemistry, Medicinal
Pharmacology & Pharmacy
Biomolecules 6.064 Q2 Biochemistry & Molecular Biology
Batteries * 5.938 Q2 Electrochemistry
Energy & Fuels
Materials Science, Multidisciplinary
Viruses 5.818 Q2 Virology
Biosensors 5.743 Q1 Chemistry, Analytical
Instruments & Instrumentation
Q2 Nanoscience & Nanotechnology
Journal of Fungi 5.724 Q1 Mycology
Q2 Microbiology
Nanomaterials 5.719 Q1 Physics, Applied
Q2 Chemistry, Multidisciplinary
Materials Science, Multidisciplinary
Nanoscience & Nanotechnology
Metabolites 5.581 Q2 Biochemistry & Molecular Biology
Foods 5.561 Q1 Food Science & Technology
Drones * 5.532 Q2 Remote Sensing
Remote Sensing 5.349 Q1 Geosciences, Multidisciplinary
Imaging Science & Photographic Technology
Q2 Remote Sensing
Environmental Sciences
Journal of Theoretical and Applied Electronic Commerce Research 5.318 Q2 Business
Antibiotics 5.222 Q1 Pharmacology & Pharmacy
Q2 Infectious Diseases
Pharmaceuticals 5.215 Q1 Pharmacology & Pharmacy
Q2 Chemistry, Medicinal
Biology 5.168 Q1 Biology
Fermentation 5.123 Q2 Biotechnology & Applied Microbiology
Toxins 5.075 Q1 Toxicology
Q2 Food Science & Technology
Bioengineering * 5.046 Q2 Engineering, Biomedical
Polymers 4.967 Q1 Polymer Science
Journal of Clinical Medicine 4.964 Q2 Medicine, General & Internal
Vaccines 4.961 Q2 Immunology
Medicine, Research & Experimental
Molecules 4.927 Q2 Chemistry, Multidisciplinary
Biochemistry & Molecular Biology
Microorganisms 4.926 Q2 Microbiology
Journal of Functional Biomaterials * 4.901 Q2 Engineering, Biomedical
Materials Science, Biomaterials
Biomedicines 4.757 Q2 Medicine, Research & Experimental
Pharmacology & Pharmacy
Biochemistry & Molecular Biology
Plants 4.658 Q1 Plant Sciences
International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 4.614 Q1 Public, Environmental & Occupational Health (SSCI)
Q2 Public, Environmental & Occupational Health (SCIE)
Environmental Sciences (SCIE)
Membranes 4.562 Q1 Polymer Science
Q2 Engineering, Chemical
Materials Science, Multidisciplinary
Chemistry, Physical
Pathogens 4.531 Q2 Microbiology
Catalysts 4.501 Q2 Chemistry, Physical
Toxics 4.472 Q2 Toxicology
Environmental Sciences
Gels 4.432 Q1 Polymer Science
Journal of Cardiovascular Development and Disease 4.415 Q2 Cardiac & Cardiovascular Systems
Chemosensors 4.229 Q1 Instruments & Instrumentation
Q2 Chemistry, Analytical
Q3 Electrochemistry
Genes 4.141 Q2 Genetics & Heredity
Diagnostics 3.992 Q2 Medicine, General & Internal
Agronomy 3.949 Q1 Agronomy
Plant Sciences
Land 3.905 Q2 Environmental Studies
Sustainability 3.889 Q2 Environmental Sciences (SCIE)
Environmental Studies (SSCI)
Q3 Green & Sustainable Science & Technology (SCIE)
Q4 Green & Sustainable Science & Technology (SSCI)
Sensors 3.847 Q2 Instruments & Instrumentation
Chemistry, Analytical
Engineering, Electrical & Electronic
Materials 3.748 Q1 Metallurgy & Metallurgical Engineering
Q2 Physics, Applied
Physics, Condensed Matter
Q3 Materials Science, Multidisciplinary
Chemistry, Physical
Biomimetics * 3.743 Q2 Engineering, Multidisciplinary
Q3 Materials Science, Biomaterials
Tropical Medicine and Infectious Disease * 3.711 Q1 Tropical Medicine
Q2 Parasitology
Q3 Infectious Diseases
Lubricants * 3.584 Q2 Engineering, Mechanical
Fractal and Fractional 3.577 Q1 Mathematics, Interdisciplinary Applications
Water 3.530 Q2 Water Resources
Q3 Environmental Sciences
Micromachines 3.523 Q2 Instruments & Instrumentation
Physics, Applied
Chemistry, Analytical
Q3 Nanoscience & Nanotechnology
Journal of Personalized Medicine 3.508 Q2 Medicine, General & Internal
Health Care Sciences & Services
Agriculture 3.408 Q1 Agronomy
Processes 3.352 Q2 Engineering, Chemical
Separations 3.344 Q2 Chemistry, Analytical
Magnetochemistry 3.336 Q2 Chemistry, Inorganic & Nuclear
Q3 Chemistry, Physical
Materials Science, Multidisciplinary
Brain Sciences 3.333 Q3 Neurosciences
Buildings 3.324 Q2 Construction & Building Technology
Engineering, Civil
Forests 3.282 Q1 Forestry
Energies 3.252 Q3 Energy & Fuels
Life 3.251 Q2 Biology
Coatings 3.236 Q2 Materials Science, Coatings & Films
Physics, Applied
Q3 Materials Science, Multidisciplinary
Animals 3.231 Q1 Agriculture, Dairy & Animal Science
Veterinary Sciences
Journal of Intelligence * 3.176 Q2 Psychology, Multidisciplinary
Fishes 3.170 Q1 Marine & Freshwater Biology
Q2 Fisheries
Healthcare 3.160 Q2 Health Policy & Services (SSCI)
Health Care Sciences & Services (SCIE)
Inorganics * 3.149 Q2 Chemistry, Inorganic & Nuclear
Insects 3.139 Q1 Entomology
Atmosphere 3.110 Q3 Meteorology & Atmospheric Sciences
Environmental Sciences
Current Oncology 3.109 Q3 Oncology
ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information 3.099 Q2 Geography, Physical
Q3 Computer Science, Information Systems
Remote Sensing
Diversity 3.029 Q2 Biodiversity Conservation
Ecology
Tomography 3.000 Q3 Radiology, Nuclear Medicine & Medical Imaging
Current Issues in Molecular Biology 2.976 Q3 Biochemistry & Molecular Biology
Medicina 2.948 Q3 Medicine, General & Internal
Symmetry 2.940 Q2 Multidisciplinary Sciences
Horticulturae 2.923 Q1 Horticulture
Machines 2.899 Q2 Engineering, Mechanical
Engineering, Electrical & Electronic
Systems * 2.895 Q2 Social Sciences, Interdisciplinary
Applied Sciences 2.838 Q2 Engineering, Multidisciplinary
Physics, Applied
Q3 Chemistry, Multidisciplinary
Materials Science, Multidisciplinary
Children 2.835 Q2 Pediatrics
Minerals 2.818 Q2 Mining & Mineral Processing
Mineralogy
Geochemistry & Geophysics
Universe 2.813 Q2 Astronomy & Astrophysics
Q3 Physics, Particles & Fields
Journal of Marine Science and Engineering 2.744 Q1 Engineering, Marine
Q2 Oceanography
Engineering, Ocean
Entropy 2.738 Q2 Physics, Multidisciplinary
Fire * 2.726 Q2 Forestry
Q3 Ecology
Metals 2.695 Q2 Metallurgy & Metallurgical Engineering
Q3 Materials Science, Multidisciplinary
Electronics 2.690 Q3 Engineering, Electrical & Electronic
Computer Science, Information Systems
Physics, Applied
Crystals 2.670 Q2 Crystallography
Q3 Materials Science, Multidisciplinary
Aerospace 2.660 Q1 Engineering, Aerospace
Mathematics 2.592 Q1 Mathematics
Photonics 2.536 Q3 Optics
Actuators 2.523 Q2 Instruments & Instrumentation
Q3 Engineering, Mechanical
Veterinary Sciences 2.518 Q2 Veterinary Sciences
Behavioral Sciences * 2.286 Q3 Psychology, Multidisciplinary
Axioms * 1.824 Q2 Mathematics, Applied

For more information on Impact Factors and what it means to index academic journals, please visit our related blog posts.

 

* Journals given their first Impact Factor in 2022

Source: 2021 Journal Impact Factors, Journal Citation Reports TM (Clarivate, 2022)

 

21 June 2022
Dr. Hang Fai Kwok Appointed Section Editor-in-Chief of the Section “Pharmacology” in Biology

We are pleased to announce that Dr. Hang Fai Kwok, University of Macau, has been appointed the new Section Editor-in-Chief of the Section “Pharmacology” in Biology (ISSN: 2079-7737).

Dr. Kwok’s research mainly focuses on the development of novel monoclonal antibodies and natural biomolecules (including venom-based peptides, plant-derived molecules, etc.) as prototype drugs for anticancer and anti-inflammatory therapies. In addition, his research group’s research efforts and scientific knowledge have also expanded into the areas of existing and novel cancer biomarkers, such as matricellular protein (OPN), metalloproteinase (ADAM17, ADAMTS5 and ADAMTS8), DNA replication licensing factor (MCM) proteins, small GTP-binding protein (RAN and RCC1) and immunotherapy markers (e.g. PD-1/PD-L1), to identify and validate their prognostic and therapeutic values according to their roles as hallmarks of cancer and chronic diseases.

During his past tenure as a member of the Editorial Board, Dr. Kwok was actively involved in all aspects of the journal, including manuscript pre-checks, peer review and decision making, and he has edited several successful Special Issues. We look forward to further successful collaboration with Dr. Kwok in his new editorial role.

The following is a short Q&A with Dr. Hang Fai Kwok, who shared his vision for the journal with us, as well as his views of the research area and open access publishing: 

1. What appealed to you about the journal that made you want to take the role as its Section Editor-in-Chief?
I was so excited about the journal's biological- and pharmaceutical- specific focus on providing a perfect venue for research across the areas, from basic biomedical science and pharmacology research to clinical studies.

2. What is your vision for the Section?
To provide an excellent platform for biologists, pharmacists and clinicians to present their latest and advanced pharmacology-focused work while expanding the field.

3. What does the future of this field of research look like?
Pharmacology research is incredibly dynamic, from understanding the insight of how prototype drugs act on biological systems to how the body responds to the drug. It encompasses the sources, biological effects, chemical properties, and diagnostic/therapeutic uses of drugs. It is a fascinating time to be involved in this field, and the journal provides a portal of communication for researchers across the world.

4. What do you think of the development of Open Access in the publishing field?
It is an important trend in the field of publication. We can continue working together through the Open Access platform to get our peer-reviewed research to serve the scientific community.

We warmly welcome Dr. Hang Fai Kwok as he starts his new role as Section Editor-in-Chief, and we look forward to him leading Biology to achieve many more milestones. 

21 June 2022
Welcoming New Editorial Board Members of Biology

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

Name: Dr. Arnaud Chatonnet
Affiliation: DMEM, University of Montpellier, INRAE, 34060 Montpellier, France
Interests: biology; animal model; cholinesterase inhibitors; protein interaction and function; neuroscience and behaviour; Alzheimer's Disease

Name: Prof. Dr. Edward Taub
Affiliation: Department of Psychology, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL 35294-1170, USA
Interests: behavioural neuroscience; behavioural medicine; neurorehabilitation; neural plasticity

Name: Dr. Fabrice Leclerc
Affiliation: RNA Sequence Structure & Function, Department of Genome Biology, Institute of for Integrative Biology of the Cell (I2BC), CNRS, CEA, University Paris Saclay, F-91198 Gif-sur-Yvette, France
Interests: computational biology and chemistry approaches; RNA–structure relationships; RNomics; small and non-coding RNAs identification and characterization; RNA 3D modelling; computational enzymology of catalytic RNAs and ribozymes; RNA/protein modelling; fragment-based RNA design

Name: Dr. Guy Warman
Affiliation: Department of Anaesthesiology, School of Medicine, The University of Auckland, Park Road, Grafton, Auckland 1023, New Zealand
Interests: chronobiology; circadian clocks; circadian biology; animal behaviour and navigation; time-compensated orientation; biological rhythms; honey bees; the effect of general anaesthesia on the circadian clock

Name: Prof. Dr. Hui Chen
Affiliation: Faculty of Science, University of Technology Sydney,2006 Sydney, Australia
Interests: oxidative stress; inflammation; PM; foetal programming; metabolic disorders

Name: Dr. Jianlong Xu
Affiliation: Institute of Crop Sciences, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Beijing 100081, China
Interests: QTL mapping; favourable allele mining; designed QTL pyramiding (DQP); molecular rice breeding; disease resistance; salt tolerance; drought tolerance

Name: Prof. Dr. Jingfeng Tang
Affiliation: National "111" Center for Cellular Regulation and Molecular Pharmaceutics, Hubei University of Technology, Wuhan 430068, China
Interests: cell autophagy; cell signal transduction and signal pathway; cell proliferation and cell cycle; cell metabolism; stress and homeostasis regulation

Name: Dr. Margarida Matos
Affiliation: cE3c—Centre for Ecology, Evolution and Environmental Change & CHANGE—Global Change and Sustainability Institute, Faculdade de Ciências, Universidade de Lisboa , Campo Grande, 1749-016 Lisbon, Portugal
Interests: experimental evolution; historical contingencies; predictability of evolution; thermal adaptation; local adaptation; evolving and resequencing

Name: Prof. Dr. Nuria De Pedro
Affiliation: Fish Neuroendocrinology Group, Department of Genetics, Physiology and Microbiology, Faculty of Biology, Complutense University of Madrid, 28040 Madrid, Spain
Interests: fish; feeding regulation; food intake; endocrinology; chronobiology; circadian rhythms; stress; welfare

Name: Prof. Dr. Osamu Hisatomi
Affiliation: Department of Earth and Space Science, Graduate School of Science, Osaka University, Toyonaka, Osaka 560-0043, Japan
Interests: photoreceptor proteins; LOV domain; bZIP domain; DNA binding; biophysics

Name: Dr. Ranieri Bizzarri
Affiliation: Department of Surgical, Medical and Molecular Pathology and Critical Care Medicine, University of Pisa, Via Roma 65, 56126 Pisa, Italy
Interests: fluorescence microscopy; super-resolution microscopy; fluorescent proteins; epigenetics; polycomb proteins; nucleocytoplasmic shuttling

Name: Prof. Dr. Robert E. Dempski
Affiliation: Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Worcester, MA 01609, USA
Interests: ion channels; transporters; optogenetics; molecular neuroscience; transition-metal homeostasis; mixed reality programs

Name: Prof. Dr. Robert T. Gerlai
Affiliation: Department of Psychology, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON M5G 1L7, Canada
Interests: behaviour genetics; behavioural neuroscience; zebrafish; mouse, animal learning and memory; animal models of alcoholism; animal models of fear and anxiety; social behaviour; behavioural phenotyping

Name: Dr. Scott Horowitz
Affiliation: Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry and the Knoebel Institute for Healthy Aging, University of Denver, Denver, CO 80208, USA
Interests: chaperone RNA; RNA–protein interactions; chaperone mechanism; protein folding and aggregation; structural biology methods; biochemistry education

Name: Dr. Tesifón Parrón Carreño
Affiliation: Department of Nursing, Physiotherapy and Medicine, University of Almeria, 04120 Almeria, Spain
Interests: microbiology; biophysics and health promotion            

Name: Prof. Dr. W. Scott McGraw
Affiliation: Department of Anthropology, Ohio State University, Columbus, OH 43210, USA
Interests: biological anthropology; evolutionary anthropology; primatology; behavioural ecology; functional morphology; social–ecological systems

We wish them every success in developing the journal.

9 June 2022
2021 CiteScores - Released


The 2021 citation metrics have been officially released in Scopus!

We are pleased to announce that 182 MDPI journals are included, of which:

● 21 journals received their first CiteScore.
● 85% of journals increased their CiteScore from 2020.
● 155 journals (85%) ranked above average, in at least one category.

The following 65 MDPI journals (36%) ranked among the top 25% of journals, in at least one category:

Journal

CiteScore

Quartile

Category

Non-coding RNA

10.1

Q1

Genetics

Journal of Functional Biomaterials

10.0

Q1

Biomedical Engineering

Marine Drugs

8.1

Q1

Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics (miscellaneous)

Batteries

7.9

Q1

Electrical and Electronic Engineering

Nutrients

7.9

Q1

Nutrition and Dietetics

Remote Sensing

7.4

Q1

General Earth and Planetary Sciences

Drones

7.2

Q1

Computer Science Applications

International Journal of Molecular Sciences

6.9

Q1

Inorganic Chemistry

Journal of Sensor and Actuator Networks

6.9

Q1

Computer Networks and Communications

Cells

6.7

Q1

General Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology

Nanomaterials

6.6

Q1

General Chemical Engineering

Toxins

6.6

Q1

Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis

Viruses

6.6

Q1

Infectious Diseases

Antioxidants

6.5

Q1

Food Science

Fibers

6.5

Q1

Civil and Structural Engineering

Resources

6.4

Q1

Nature and Landscape Conservation

Sensors

6.4

Q1

Instrumentation

Big Data and Cognitive Computing

6.1

Q1

Management Information Systems

Molecules

5.9

Q1

Chemistry (miscellaneous)

Polymers

5.7

Q1

Polymers and Plastics

Biosensors

5.6

Q1

Engineering (miscellaneous)

Catalysts

5.5

Q1

General Environmental Science

Smart Cities

5.5

Q1

Urban Studies

Future Internet

5.4

Q2

Computer Networks and Communications

Beverages

5.3

Q1

Food Science

Fermentation

5.3

Q1

Plant Science

Environments

5.2

Q1

Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics

Inventions

5.2

Q1

General Engineering

Journal of Open Innovation: Technology, Market, and Complexity

5.1

Q1

Development

Colloids and Interfaces

5.0

Q1

Chemistry (miscellaneous)

Energies

5.0

Q1

Control and Optimization

ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information

5.0

Q1

Geography, Planning and Development

Sustainability

5.0

Q1

Geography, Planning and Development

Fire

4.9

Q1

Forestry

Robotics

4.9

Q1

Control and Optimization

Soil Systems

4.9

Q1

Soil Science

Geosciences

4.8

Q1

General Earth and Planetary Sciences

Journal of Manufacturing and Materials Processing

4.8

Q1

Mechanical Engineering

Tropical Medicine and Infectious Disease

4.8

Q1

Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health

Water

4.8

Q1

Geography, Planning and Development

International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health

4.5

Q1

Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health

Sports

4.5

Q1

Physical Therapy, Sports Therapy and Rehabilitation

Entropy

4.4

Q1

Mathematical Physics

Journal of Clinical Medicine

4.4

Q1

General Medicine

Symmetry

4.3

Q1

General Mathematics

Cosmetics

4.2

Q1

Surgery

Foods

4.1

Q1

Health Professions (miscellaneous)

Journal of Fungi

4.1

Q1

Plant Science

ChemEngineering

4.0

Q1

General Engineering

Forests

4.0

Q1

Forestry

Journal of Intelligence

4.0

Q1

Education

Antibiotics

3.9

Q1

General Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics

Cryptography

3.9

Q1

Applied Mathematics

Behavioral Sciences

3.8

Q1

Development

Buildings

3.8

Q1

Architecture

Metals

3.8

Q1

Metals and Alloys

Publications

3.5

Q1

Communication

Social Sciences

3.4

Q1

General Social Sciences

Mathematics

2.9

Q1

General Mathematics

Fractal and Fractional

2.8

Q1

Analysis

Animals

2.7

Q1

General Veterinary

Axioms

2.6

Q1

Algebra and Number Theory

Heritage

1.8

Q1

Conservation

Religions

1.0

Q1

Religious Studies

Philosophies

0.9

Q1

Philosophy

Source: 2021 CiteScores™ (Elsevier)

7 June 2022
Biology | Special Issue Mentor Program

We are pleased to announce the launch of a new initiative—the Special Issue Mentor Program. 

This program aims to provide an opportunity for early career scientists to enhance their editing, networking, and organizational skills and to work closely with our journal to gain more editorial experience. Early career scientists who have novel ideas for new Biology (ISSN: 2079-7737) Special Issues will act as Guest Editors under the mentorship of an experienced scientist; this mentor could be a member of the Editorial Board of Biology, or from other well-established research institutes or laboratories, etc. 

If you are interested in this opportunity, please send your Special Issue proposal to the Biology Editorial Office (biology@mdpi.com), and we will discuss the process (i.e., mentor collaboration, Special Issue topic feasibility analysis, etc.) in further detail. 

In addition to the new Special Issue Mentor Program, Biology continues to welcome all Special Issue proposals based on hot research topics as usual.

6 June 2022
Welcoming New Editorial Board Members of Biology

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.

2 June 2022
MDPI’s 2021 Outstanding Reviewer Awards in “Biology & Life Sciences”—Winners Announced

In order to acknowledge our reviewers, who so generously dedicate their time to reviewing papers and demonstrate diligence, professionalism, and timeliness when reviewing manuscripts, MDPI journals regularly offer outstanding reviewer awards to scholars who participate in the peer-review process.

We are proud to recognize winners for the year 2021 in the “Biology & Life Sciences” category for their outstanding contributions among extensive competition by presenting them with an Outstanding Reviewer Award.

We would like to take this opportunity to congratulate all the winners on their achievement.

MDPI will continue to provide support and recognition to the academic community.

Biology:

  • Enrico Vito Perrino, CIHEAM, Mediterranean Agronomic Institute of Bari, Italy
  • Dhirendra Kumar, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, Research Triangle Park, USA
  • Carlos A. Viegas, Univesity of Trás-os-Montes e Alto Douro, Portugal
  • Yuri Shavrukov, Flinders University, Australia
  • Bipin Gaihre, Mayo Clinic, USA

Brain Sciences:

  • Craig D. Workman, University of Iowa, USA
  • Vivian Ciaramitaro, University of Massachusetts Boston, USA
  • Yang Zhang, University of Minnesota, USA

Cells:

  • Bonam Srinivasa Reddy, Université de Paris, France
  • Homma Takujiro, Yamagata University, Japan
  • Hwang, In Koo, Seoul National University, South Korea
  • Kobeissy Firas, University of Florida, USA
  • Rebelo, Sandra, University of Aveiro, Portugal

Diversity:

  • Günter Gollmann, University of Vienna, Austria
  • Stephan Koblmüller, University of Graz, Austria
  • Emiliano Mori, Istituto di Ricerca sugli Ecosistemi Terrestri, Italy

Horticulturae:

  • Joshua D. Klein, Agricultural Research Organization—The Volcani Center, Israel
  • Ana Cristina S Figueiredo, Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal

Insects:

  • Carmelo Peter Bonsignore, Università Mediterranea di Reggio Calabria, Italy
  • Klaus H. Hoffmann, University of Bayreuth, Germany
  • Ivan Milosavljević, University of California, USA

Metabolites:

  • Remigiusz Bachor, University of Wrocław, Poland
  • Nguyen Phuoc Long, Inje University College of Medicine, South Korea
  • Chi Chen, University of Minnesota, USA

Nutrients:

  • Jadwiga Hamułka, Warsaw University of Life Sciences, Poland
  • Grace Campbell, University of Sydney, Australia
  • Nicholas Norwitz, Harvard Medical School, USA
  • Stefan Kabisch, Charité University Hospital Berlin, Germany
  • Luis Rodrigo, University of Oviedo, Spain

Veterinary Sciences:

  • Carlos Viegas, Univesity of Trás-os-Montes e Alto Douro, Portugal
  • Arvind Sharma, The University of Queensland, Australia

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