Dear Colleagues,

On behalf of the Editors-in-Chief, Prof. Dr. Jukka Finne and Prof. Dr. Andrés Moya, we wish to acknowledge our reviewers who so generously give their time to review the papers submitted to Biology by presenting an award to the reviewers who have demonstrated their dedication, professionalism, and timeliness in reviewing manuscripts for Biology.

What are the pre-requisites to be eligible for this award?
All of the reviewers for Biology in 2022 will be automatically included.

Select Criteria:
– Number of review reports (only first review reports are considered);
– Review quality based on the rating given in SuSy;
– Review speed.

What will the winners receive?
There will be five winners this year, and each will receive the following:
– 500 Swiss francs;
– An opportunity to publish a paper in Biology free of charge in 2023;
– A certificate.

When will the winners be announced?
The winners will be announced in February 2023 on the journal website.

How can I make myself eligible?
If you have not yet reviewed papers for Biology but would like to do so, you can register as a reviewer at the following link: https://susy.mdpi.com/volunteer/profile/edit.

Kind regards,
Biology Editorial Office

Dear Colleagues,

It is our pleasure to announce the winners of the Biology 2022 Best Paper Award. All papers published in Biology from 1 January 2020 to 31 December 2020 were considered for this award. After thorough evaluation of the originality and significance of the papers, citations, and downloads, the three winning papers, which were nominated by the Editor-in-Chief Prof. Dr. Jukka Finne and Associate Editor-in-Chief Prof. Dr. Andrés Moya, have been selected.

The following review was selected:
Apoptotic Bodies: Particular Extracellular Vesicles Involved in Intercellular Communication
By Michela Battistelli and Elisabetta Falcieri
Biology 2020, 9(1), 21; https://doi.org/10.3390/biology9010021

The following two research articles were selected:
Vegetation and Environmental Changes on Non-Reclaimed Spoil Heaps in Southern Poland
By Oimahmad Rahmonov, Robert Krzysztofik, Dorota Środek and Justyna Smolarek-Lach
Biology 2020, 9(7), 164; https://doi.org/10.3390/biology9070164

Formyl Peptide Receptor 1 Signaling in Acute Inflammation and Neural Differentiation Induced by Traumatic Brain Injury
By Roberta Fusco, Enrico Gugliandolo, Rosalba Siracusa, Maria Scuto, Marika Cordaro, Ramona D’Amico, Maurizio Evangelista, Angelo Peli, Alessio Filippo Peritore, Daniela Impellizzeri, Rosalia Crupi, Salvatore Cuzzocrea and Rosanna Di Paola
Biology 2020, 9(9), 238; https://doi.org/10.3390/biology9090238

Each winner (corresponding author) will receive CHF 500, as well as the chance to publish a paper in Biology in 2022.

On behalf of the assessment committee, I would like to congratulate the winners on their accomplishments. We would also like to take this opportunity to thank all the nominated research groups of the abovementioned exceptional papers for their contributions to Biology, and thank the award committee for voting and providing assistance for this award.

Dear Colleagues,

We are pleased to announce the winners of the Biology 2021 Outstanding Reviewer Award. The Biology Editorial Board and Editorial Team would like to offer their thanks and gratitude to the reviewers for their time and energy dedicated to checking the manuscripts submitted to Biology. It is due to their efforts that the high quality of the journal and quick turnaround is maintained. The winners of the award are as follows:

Dr. Enrico Vito Perrino
CIHEAM, Mediterranean Agronomic Institute of Bari, 70010 Valenzano, Italy
Research Interests: botany; ethnobotany; systematics (taxonomy)

Dr. Dhirendra Kumar
National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, Research Triangle Park, NC 27709, USA
Research Interests: computational biology; bioinformatics; proteomics; proteogenomics; integrative omics; epigenomics; embryonic development; histone modifications; polycomb

Dr. Carlos A. Viegas
Department of Veterinary Sciences, Univesity of Trás-os-Montes e Alto Douro, Portugal
Research Interests: tissue engineering; scaffolds; periodontal regeneration; scaffold; bone; biomaterials; osteogenic differentiation

Dr. Yuri Shavrukov
College of Science and Engineering (Biological Sciences), Flinders University, Adelaide, SA 5042, Australia
Research Interests: plant biology; genetics; molecular markers; gene study and genetic analysis; genetic transformation and gene editing; tolerance to abiotic stresses; application of molecular markers; molecular plant breeding

Dr. Bipin Gaihre
Mayo Clinic, 200 First Street, Rochester, MN 55906, USA
Research Interests: biomaterials; bone tissue engineering; BMP delivery; printing; bioprinting

Kind regards,

Prof. Dr. Jukka Finne
Prof. Dr. Andrés Moya
Editors-in-Chief, Biology

Dear Colleagues,

As the associate editor of Biology, I am pleased to announce the winners of the Biology 2021 Best Paper Awards.

The awards have been granted to the following:

One review:

The Mammalian Circadian Timing System and the Suprachiasmatic Nucleus as Its Pacemaker
By Michael H. Hastings, Elizabeth S. Maywood and Marco Brancaccio
Biology 2019, 8(1), 13

One research article:

Combined Effects of Acute Temperature Change and Elevated pCO₂ on the Metabolic Rates and Hypoxia Tolerances of Clearnose Skate (Rostaraja eglanteria), Summer Flounder (Paralichthys dentatus), and Thorny Skate (Amblyraja radiata)
By Gail D. Schwieterman, Daniel P. Crear, Brooke N. Anderson, Danielle R. Lavoie, James A. Sulikowski, Peter G. Bushnell and Richard W. Brill
Biology 2019, 8(3), 56

Each winner (corresponding author) will receive CHF 500 and a chance to publish a paper free of charge in Biology in 2021.

On behalf of the assessment committee, I congratulate the winners on their accomplishments. We would like to take this opportunity to thank all the nominated research groups of the above exceptional papers for their contributions to Biology and to thank the Award Committee for voting and helping with these awards.

Associate Editor
Prof. Dr. Andrés Moya, Biology

Dear Colleagues,

We are pleased to announce that the winner of the 2019 Biology Early Career Investigator Award is Dr. Elvira Fiallo Olivé.

Dr. Elvira Fiallo-Olivé is a postdoctoral researcher at the Institute for Mediterranean and Subtropical Horticulture “La Mayora”, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas - University of Málaga, Spain. Dr. Elvira Fiallo-Olivé obtained her PhD in 2012 from the University of Havana (Cuba). The results obtained in her PhD thesis on the discovery of novel Begomovirus species were awarded the 2013 Research Award from the Cuban Academy of Sciences. In 2013 she started a postdoctoral position at IHSM-CSIC-UMA. She has done research stays at Federal University of Viçosa (Brazil) and Zhejiang University (China). Dr. Fiallo-Olivé’s research interests lie in the molecular and biological diversity of plant viruses, with emphasis on those transmitted by whiteflies. Currently, her research is aimed at investigating the molecular interactions between the emergent Crinivirus tomato chlorosis virus and the insect vector, the whitefly Bemisia tabaci, and the characterization of a novel class of small non-coding DNA satellites associated with begomoviruses, the deltasatellites. Please join us in congratulating Dr. Elvira Fiallo-Olivé for her outstanding achievements.

As the awardee, Dr. Elvira Fiallo-Olivé will receive an honorarium of 2000 CHF, an offer to publish a paper free-of-charge without a fixed deadline in Biology after peer-review, and an engraved plaque.

We would like to thank all the nominators from various fields of study for their participation and all the Award Committee Members for their evaluation of the abundant excellent nominations.

Prof. Dr. Chris O'Callaghan
Editor-in-Chief, Biology Editorial Office

Dear Colleagues,

As Editor-in-Chief of Biology, I am pleased to announce the winners of the 2018 Biology Travel Awards.

The Evaluation Committee were very impressed with the high level of the work presented and, after careful consideration, the two Travel Awards have been granted to Dr. David Olagnier, a postdoctoral fellow at Aarhus University, Demark, to participate in “TOLL 2018, Editing Innate Immunity”, and present his work “NRF2 is a negative regulator of sting during metabolic reprogramming”, and to Maria Szaruga-Bracke, a Ph.D. student at VIB/KU Leuven, Belgium, to participate in the Gordon Research Conference “Neurobiology of Brain Disorders” and present her work “Alzheimer’s-causing mutations shift Aβ length by destabilizing γ– secretase–Aβn interactions”. Each award consist of 800 Swiss Francs.

It is also our pleasure to announce that, as part of the reward, Biology will waive the publication fees for the Top 35 candidates who wish to publish a paper in this journal. We would like to thank all applicants for their participation and interest in our journal.

We would also like to deliver our great thanks to the Evaluation Committee members Drs. Jukka Finne, Arthur J.L. Cooper, Douglas S. Glazier, Gerton Lunter, and Ger Rijkers, for their comprehensive evaluation of the candidates.

Prof. Dr. Chris O’Callaghan
Editor-in-Chief