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30 March 2023
Meet Us at the European Human Genetics Conference 2023 (ESHG 2023), 10–13 June 2023, Glasgow, UK

MDPI will be attending the European Human Genetics Conference 2023 (ESHG 2023), held in Glasgow, UK, from 10 to 13 June 2023.
The following MDPI journals will be represented:
If you plan on attending this conference, feel free to stop by our booth #824. Our delegates look forward to meeting you in person to answer any questions you may have.
For more information about the conference, please visit the following link: https://2023.eshg.org/.
17 March 2023
Cells | Issue Cover Articles in 2022
The articles below have been selected as 2022 Issue Cover Articles by the Editorial Office of Cells (ISSN: 2073-4409). These articles are from multiple fields within the scope of Cells, and we hope they can provide insights and references for scholars in related fields.
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1. “Epithelial and Neural Cadherin in Mammalian Fertilization: Studies in the Mouse Model” |
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2. “Transient Exposure of Endothelial Cells to Doxorubicin Leads to Long-Lasting Vascular Endothelial Growth Factor Receptor 2 Downregulation” |
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3. “LEAP-2 Counteracts Ghrelin-Induced Food Intake in a Nutrient, Growth Hormone and Age Independent Manner” |
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4. “Radon Improves Clinical Response in an Animal Model of Rheumatoid Arthritis Accompanied by Increased Numbers of Peripheral Blood B Cells and Interleukin-5 Concentration” |
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5. “CRISPR/Cas9-Mediated Models of Retinitis Pigmentosa Reveal Differential Proliferative Response of Müller Cells between Xenopus laevis and Xenopus tropicalis” |
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6. “Biallelic Variants in ENDOG Associated with Mitochondrial Myopathy and Multiple mtDNA Deletions” |
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7. “Functional and Phenotypic Characterization of Siglec-6 on Human Mast Cells” |
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8. “N-VEGF, the Autoregulatory Arm of VEGF-A” |
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9. “SARS-CoV-2 Infection of Human Ovarian Cells: A Potential Negative Impact on Female Fertility” |
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10. “SMER28 Attenuates PI3K/mTOR Signaling by Direct Inhibition of PI3K p110 Delta” |
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11. “Cigarette Smoke Extract Disturbs Mitochondria-Regulated Airway Epithelial Cell Responses to Pneumococci” |
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12. “Nuclear Transporter IPO13 Is Central to Efficient Neuronal Differentiation” |
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13. “PKC-Mediated Orai1 Channel Phosphorylation Modulates Ca2+ Signaling in HeLa Cells” |
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14. “CLL-Derived Extracellular Vesicles Impair T-Cell Activation and Foster T-Cell Exhaustion via Multiple Immunological Checkpoints” |
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15. “Hyperoxaluria Induces Endothelial Dysfunction in Preglomerular Arteries: Involvement of Oxidative Stress” |
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16. “USP29 Deubiquitinates SETD8 and Regulates DNA Damage-Induced H4K20 Monomethylation and 53BP1 Focus Formation” |
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17. “The CaMKII/MLC1 Axis Confers Ca2+-Dependence to Volume-Regulated Anion Channels (VRAC) in Astrocytes” |
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18. “The ABA-LANCL1/2 Hormone-Receptors System Protects H9c2 Cardiomyocytes from Hypoxia-Induced Mitochondrial Injury via an AMPK- and NO-Mediated Mechanism” |
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19. “Brain Endothelial Cells in Contrary to the Aortic Do Not Transport but Degrade Low-Density Lipoproteins via Both LDLR and ALK1” |
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20. “Decreased Oligodendrocyte Number in Hippocampal Subfield CA4 in Schizophrenia: A Replication Study” |
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21. “Chromatin Accessibility and Transcriptional Differences in Human Stem Cell-Derived Early-Stage Retinal Organoids” |
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22. “Microglia–Neutrophil Interactions Drive Dry AMD-like Pathology in a Mouse Model” |
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23. “Extracellular Vesicles from Human Umbilical Cord-Derived MSCs Affect Vessel Formation In Vitro and Promote VEGFR2-Mediated Cell Survival” |
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24. “Polymerized Laminin-521: A Feasible Substrate for Expanding Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells at a Low Protein Concentration” |
16 March 2023
Meet Us at the Chinese Academic Conference on Tumor Biomarker, 7–9 April 2023, Shanghai, China

MDPI will be attending the Chinese Academic Conference on Tumor Biomarker, held in Shanghai, China, from 7 to 9 April 2023. This conference aims to achieve an in-depth exchange of the latest research results in the field of basic research, clinical application, cutting-edge technology, and industrial development in the field of tumor markers over the year. During this conference, MDPI will welcome researchers from different backgrounds to visit and share their latest inspirations with us.
The following MDPI journals will be represented:
- Biomedicines;
- Cancers;
- Cells;
- Diagnostics;
- Current Oncology;
- JPM;
- JCM;
- Onco;
- CIMB;
- BioMedInformatics.
If you plan on attending this conference, feel free to stop by our booth, #B155. Our delegates look forward to meeting you in person to answer any questions you may have.
For more information about the conference, please follow the link below: https://biomarker2022.sciconf.cn/cn/web/index/13496.
13 March 2023
MDPI’s Newly Launched Journals in December 2022
As a leading open access publisher, MDPI provides scholars with a high-quality and rich academic exchange platform by continuously expanding into new and exciting research areas.
In December 2022, MDPI launched five new journals, covering multiple subjects such as life sciences, biology, medicine and pharmacology, social sciences and humanities. These new journals are being edited by established scholars across the world.
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Founding Editor-in-Chief |
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Prof. Dr. Fabio Gresta, University of Messina, Italy| Editorial | view inaugural issue |
grass/forage/turf production; grassland management; pasture monitoring; grazing and livestock; grass agro-ecosystems| view journal scope | submit an article |
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Prof. Dr. Christos G. Athanassiou, University of Thessaly, Greece| Editorial | view inaugural issue |
pesticides; fungicides; herbicides; fertilizers; soil conditioners| view journal scope | submit an article |
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Prof. Dr. Stephen H. Safe, Texas A&M University, USA| Editorial | view inaugural issue |
receptor structure; receptor function; receptor signaling; receptor expression and regulation; receptor interactions with drugs| view journal scope | submit an article |
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Dr. Jean Jacques Vanden Eynde, University of Mons-UMONS, Belgium| Editorial | view inaugural issue |
drug discovery; medicinal chemistry; preclinical and clinical research; marketed drugs; intellectual property and regulatory affairs| view journal scope | submit an article |
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Prof. Dr. Heather Kanuka, University of Alberta, Canada| Editorial | view inaugural issue |
higher education; tertiary education; policy and practice in higher education; educational leadership in higher education; educational administration and management in higher education| view journal scope | submit an article |
If you are interested in creating more open access journals with us to publish cutting-edge research, please send your journal proposal application to newjournal-committee@mdpi.com.
7 March 2023
Displaying Co-Authors’ Email Addresses on the Webpage of Published Papers
MDPI is pleased to announce that we now display the co-authors’ email addresses in addition to the corresponding author’s email address on the webpage of published papers, protected by Captcha. For more information about this change, please visit the journal’s instructions for authors page.
We believe this change will facilitate academic discussions and advance our cause of open science and research. The corresponding authors are responsible for communicating with their co-authors and indicating in our system (https://susy.mdpi.com/) if co-authors would prefer for their email addresses not to be displayed.
16 February 2023
Increasing Visibility for Preprints.org – Clarivate adds the Preprint Citation Index to the Web of Science

On 9 February 2023, Clarivate, a global leader in providing trusted insights and analytics, added the Preprint Citation Index to the Web of Science platform, streamlining the research process by allowing researchers to locate and link to preprints alongside other trusted content in the database.
The Preprint Citation Index will act as a bridge to connect cutting-edge preprints with peer-reviewed journal articles published within the Web of Science Core Collection. Alerts can be easily set to monitor new research across several repositories and authors will also be able to include preprints on their Web of Science Research Profile to more accurately display their various research outputs.
As of its launch, the Preprint Citation Index will provide nearly two million preprints from various repositories, including MDPI’s own Preprints.org.
MDPI's Preprints Platform – Preprints.org
To advance Open Science and the fast dissemination of research, MDPI offers researchers a free multidisciplinary preprint platform. Preprints.org accepts submissions from all research areas and offers authors high visibility, permanent archiving, article-level Metrics and immediately citable content by assigning a Digital Object Identifier (DOI) to all preprints.
During submission to any MDPI journal, authors have the option to share their research as a preprint. After an initial screening, the manuscript is available online in 48 hours or less. Once online, preprints can be downloaded, shared, commented on, and cited, providing authors maximum visibility.
We invite you to join the ranks of the over 100k researchers using Preprints.org and share your research.
For more information, please visit Preprints.org.
14 February 2023
Meet Us at the 11th National Conference on Bioinformatics and Systems Biology, 25–27 February 2023, Guangzhou, China

Conference: 11th National Conference on Bioinformatics and Systems Biology
Date: 25–27 February 2023
Place: Guangzhou, China
MDPI will be attending the 11th National Conference on Bioinformatics and Systems Biology (CCBSB2023) as the exhibitor. The National Academic Conference on Bioinformatics and Systems Biology has been successfully held for ten sessions since its first session in 1998. It is a national event with the highest academic level and the greatest influence in the field of bioinformatics research in China. The theme of the conference is "The Latest Frontier Research of Bioinformatics and Systems Biology and Their Applications", and the topics cover translational informatics and data sharing security, biomedical data mining and computing, genome informatics, artificial intelligence and life sciences, group bioinformatics and integrated biology, non-coding RNA and RNA informatics, network biology, major disease omics informatics, biological macromolecular structure prediction and simulation, bioinformatics algorithm research, biological data resources, bioinformatics and drugs discovery, computational synthetic biology, agricultural and forestry informatics and other bioinformatics, and other frontier directions.
The following MDPI journals will be represented:
- Genes;
- JPM;
- Cardiogenetics;
- Bioengineering;
- Biomolecules;
- Metabolites;
- Cells;
- Symmetry;
- Biomedicines;
- Computers;
- COVID;
- Epigenomes.
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, please visit https://ccbsb2022.casconf.cn/.
22 December 2022
Special Issue Mentor Program
We are pleased to announce the launch of a new initiative—the MDPI Special Issue Mentor Program.
This program will enable early career researchers (who must hold a Ph.D. in a related field) to experience editing a Special Issue in MDPI journals, under the mentorship of our experienced Editorial Board Members or other experienced scientists. The mentor program will provide an excellent opportunity for early career scientists to gain editorial experience, and to cultivate their ability to edit scientific research.
The mentee’s responsibilities include:
- Proposing a Special Issue title and assisting the mentor in preparing a summary (around 200–400 words) and 3–10 keywords describing the background, importance, and goal of the Issue;
- Writing a brief promotion plan for the Special Issue;
- Preparing a list of scholars who may be interested in the Issue and personally e-mailing invitations on behalf of Guest Editors;
- Writing an editorial for the online Special Issue together with the mentor.
The mentor’s responsibilities include:
- Conducting a final check before the Special Issue is published online;
- Performing editorial control of the Special Issue and quality control of the publications, both of which must be carried out in a timely manner;
- Providing suggestions to younger scholars if they have any doubts or concerns regarding submissions;
- Organizing video calls with young scholars and the Editorial Office regularly to discuss problems and improvement suggestions for the Special Issue;
- Making and submitting decisions regarding submissions with the assistance of mentees.
Certificates and awards:
After the Special Issue closes, the Editorial Office will provide official certificates for all the mentors and early career researchers.
If you are interested in this opportunity, please send your Special Issue proposal to the Editorial Office of a journal you choose, and we will discuss the process (i.e., mentor collaboration, Special Issue topic feasibility analysis, etc.) in further detail. The full list of MDPI journals is as follows: https://www.mdpi.com/about/journals.
In addition to the new Special Issue Mentor Program, we will continue to welcome all Special Issue proposals focusing on hot research topics.
21 December 2022
Editorial Board Members from Cells Featured in the 2022 Highly Cited Researchers List Published by Clarivate
Recently, ClarivateTM revealed its 2022 list of Highly Cited ResearchersTM composed of individuals at universities, research institutes and commercial organizations.
The scientists who were selected into this year’s list of Highly Cited Researchers have published papers in the 10-year period from January 2011 to December 2021 with a citation frequency in the top 1% of academic subjects based on Web of Science Citation data from the same time period. This year, 6938 researchers from across the globe have been awarded Highly Cited Researcher 2022 designations. These researchers have demonstrated a disproportionate level of significance and broad influence in their chosen field(s) over the last decade. The list is truly global, spanning 69 countries or regions and spread across a diverse range of research, from applied sciences to social sciences.
Nine members of the Editorial Board of Cells (ISSN: 2073-4409) have been listed as Highly Cited Researchers by Clarivate in 2022. They are being recognized for their high-quality scientific research achievements and outstanding contributions to their professional fields. The Cells journal office sincerely congratulates all elected Editorial Board Members and hopes that they continue to have an academically productive relationship with the journal.
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Affiliation |
Prof. Dr. Caroline Robert |
Universite Paris Saclay, France |
Prof. Dr. Balazs Gyorffy |
Semmelweis University, Hungary |
Prof. Dr. Luca Scorrano |
University of Padua, Italy |
Prof. Dr. Lorenzo Galluzzi |
Cornell Medical Center, USA |
Prof. Dr. David C. Rubinsztein |
University of Cambridge, UK |
Prof. Dr. Rudolph E. Tanzi |
Massachusetts General Hospital, USA |
Prof. Dr. Giuseppe Remuzzi |
IRCCS Mario Negri, Italy |
Prof. Dr. Guido Kroemer |
Universite de Paris Cite, France |
Prof. Dr. Suleyman Allakhverdiev |
К.А. Timiryazev Institute of Plant Physiology RAS, Russia |
21 December 2022
Meet Us at the 100th Anniversary Annual Meeting of The Physiological Society of Japan, 14–16 March 2023, Kyoto, Japan

Conference: The 100th Anniversary Annual Meeting of The Physiological Society of Japan
Date: 14–16 March 2023
Venue: Kyoto International Conference Center *Hybrid Format, Kyoto, Japan
MDPI will be attending the 100th Anniversary Annual Meeting of The Physiological Society of Japan as the exhibitor. This meeting will take place from 14 to 16 March 2023 in Kyoto, Japan.
This meeting has been organized by the Physiological Society of Japan (PSJ), and will thus mark the 100th meeting of the society—the 100th Memorial meeting. This meeting has been given the theme of “Homeostasis for Sustainability—Toward the Next Century of Physiological Sciences”.
The following MDPI journals will be represented:
If you are planning to attend this conference, please feel free to stop by our booth. Our delegates look forward to meeting you in person and answering any questions you may have.
For more information about the conference, please visit the following website: https://www2.aeplan.co.jp/psj2023/en_index/.