Editorial Board for section 'Genetics and Genomics'

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Please note that the order in which the Editors appear on this page is alphabetical, and follows the structure of the editorial board presented on the MDPI website under information for editors: editorial board responsibilities.

Members (38)

Institute for Research in Biomedicine (IRB Barcelona), The Barcelona Institute of Science and Technology, 08028 Barcelona, Spain
Interests: genetic code; genetic translation; codon usage; proteome control; tRNAs; ribosomes; proteome quality control in cell biology and disease; structure-function studies of protein-RNA interactions; biomedicine and biotechnology
* Section 'Genetics and Genomics'
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Department of Biological, Geological, and Environmental Sciences (BiGeA), University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy
Interests: mitochondral genetics and genomics; mitochondrial inheritance; doubly uniparental inheritance; genomic conflicts; sex determination; RNA Interference; phylogenetics; Bivalvia; molecular phylogenetics
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Department of Microbiology, College of Medicine, Inje University, Busan 47392, Korea
Interests: epigenetics; cancer; DNA methylation; histone modification; epigenomics; molecular genetics
Dr. Eva Bartova
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Institute of Biophysics of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Královopolská 135, 61265 Brno, Czech Republic
Interests: epigenetic of DNA repair; nuclear architecture and gene expression
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Graduate Institute of Biomedical Sciences, School of Medicine, China Medical University, Taichung, Taiwan
Interests: cancer genomics; translational medical sciences; personalized genomic and pharmaceutical sciences; DNA damage and repair; cell physiology
Department of Science, Roma Tre University, Via Ostiense, 159, 00154 Roma, Italy
Interests: genome structure; genome evolution; chromosome structure

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European Research Institute for the Biology of Ageing, University Medical Center Groningen, PO Box 196, 9700 AD Groningen, The Netherlands
Interests: differential gene expression; hematopoiesis; clonal analysis of cell populations; aging studies
Prof. Dr. Runsheng Chen
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Institute of Biophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
Interests: theoretical biology; bioinformatics; Noncoding RNA


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Department of Urology, Medical University of Vienna, Waehringer Guertel 18-20, A-1090 Vienna, Austria
Interests: genetics; genetic variations and mutations in cancer; next generation sequencing; gene expression; cancer genetics; biomarkers

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1. Institute of Biosciences and Bioresources, National Research Council, Via P. Castellino, 111, 80131 Naples, Italy
2. The Ionian School, Genetic Code and tRNA Origin Laboratory, Via Roma 19, 67030 Alfedena (L’Aquila), Italy
Interests: early evolution of life; genetic code origin; tRNA origin; primordial setting; root of life; prokaryote term meaning; progenote; LUCA; domains of life
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Observatoire Océanologique de Banyuls sur Mer, CNRS Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Sorbonne Université, Paris, France
Interests: EvoDevo; chordate evolution; amphioxus; development; evolution; genomics; patterning
Diabetes - Islet Cell Exocytosis, Lund University, SE-221 00 Lund, Sweden
Interests: functional genomics; cell and molecular biology; bioinformatics and systems biology; endocrinology and diabetes; non-coding RNA; biomarker discovery; RNA therapeutics
Dr. Anja Forche
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Department of Biology, Bowdoin College, Brunswick, ME 04011, USA
Interests: genome plasticity; host-fungus interaction; stress adaptation; aneuploidy
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Dr. Seth E Frietze
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Department of Biomedical and Health Sciences, University of Vermont, Burlington, VT 05405, USA
Interests: epigenetics; cancer; bioinformatics; gene regulation; chromatin; transcription factors; transcriptomics

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Institut for Integrative Systems Biology (I2SysBio), University of Valencia, 46010 Valencia, Spain
Interests: evolutionary genomics of endosymbiotic bacteria; evolutionary analysis of metabolic networks in symbiotic bacteria; minimal genome concept
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Department of Life Science, Graduate School of Arts and Science, Komaba Institute of Science, the University of Tokyo, 3-8-1 Komaba, Meguro, Tokyo 153-8902, Japan
Interests: in vitro synthetic biology; evolution; artificial cell; RNA replication; DNA replication; translation; ribosome
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Prof. Dr. Mogens Høgh Jensen
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Niels Bohr Institute, The University of Copenhagen, Blegdamsvej 17, DK-2100 Copenhagen, Denmark
Interests: genetic networks; transcription factors p53, NF-kB and Wnt; DNA-repair; apoptosis; inflammation; Complex systems; fractals; chaos; biophysics; oscillations
Prof. Dr. Zvi Kelman
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Biomolecular Labeling Laboratory, National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), Gaithersburg, MD 20899, USA
Interests: molecular biosciences; monoclonal antibodies; DNA replication and repair; archaeal primase
Prof. Dr. Hans-Peter Klenk
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School of Biology, Ridley Building, Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE1 7RU, UK
Interests: origins of life; archaea; actinomycetes; phages; life in extreme environments; microbial genomics; phylogenomics; taxonomy; microbial diversity; systems biology
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Laboratory of Genomics and Proteomics of Disease Vectors, Biology Centre, Czech Academy of Sciences, Institute of Parasitology, 37005 Budweis, Czech Republic
Interests: proteomics; next generation sequencing; arthropod parasites; protease inhibitors; disease vectors; cystatin; serpin; kunitz; tick; insect; vector-host interaction
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Dr. Nikos C. Kyrpides
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Prokaryote Super Program Head, DOE Joint Genome Institute, 2800 Mitchell Drive, Walnut Creek, CA 94598, USA
Interests: metagenomics; microbial genomics; microbial diversity; microbiology; bioinformatics
Prof. Dr. Sanghyuk Lee
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Department of Life Science, Ewha Womans University, Seoul 120-750, Korea
Interests: bioinformatics; cancer genomics; cancer immunotherapy; transcriptome analysis; lung cancer
Plants and Pathogens Group, Research Institute Land Nature and Environment, Geneva School of Engineering, Architecture and Landscape (HEPIA), HES-SO University of Applied Sciences and Arts Western Switzerland, Jussy, 1200 Geneva, Switzerland
Interests: pathogens; plant genetic resources; plant pathogenic microorganisms; bioprospection; biostimulants; genomics; metagenomics
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Institut Cochin, INSERM, CNRS, Paris, France
Interests: DNA double strand breaks repair; replication stress; homologous recombination; non-homologous end-joining; genetic rearrangement
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Institute of Human Biology and Evolution, Faculty of Biology, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznan, Poland
Interests: functional genomics; genomes evolution; comparative genomics; retrogenes; non-coding RNA

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Biological Systems and Engineering Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA
Interests: cancer biology; cancer genetics; environmental toxicology; thirdhand smoke; biomarker development; translational medicine
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Dr. Somaira Nowsheen
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Department of Dermatology, University of California San Diego, 8899 University Center Ln Suite 350, San Diego, CA 92122, USA
Interests: DNA damage; DNA repair; cancer; radiation; therapy; dermatology; oncology; skin; acne; rosacea; dermatitis; cell signaling; signal transduction; chemotherapy; phosphorylation; ubiquitylation; protein modification
1. Department of Life Sciences and Systems Biology, University of Torino, Torino, Italy
2. Italian Institute for Genomic Medicine, IIGM Sp142 Km3.95, 10060 Candiolo (To), Italy
Interests: gene transcription; epigenomics; cell fate; stem cell differentiation

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Genome and Plant Development Laboratory, Universite de Perpignan, 52 Av. Paul Alduy, 66100 Perpignan, France
Interests: genomics; genome sequencing; evolution; next generation sequencing
1. DGAOT, Faculty of Sciences, University of Porto, Rua Campo Alegre 687, 4169-007 Porto, Portugal
2. CIBIO‐InBIO, Universidade do Porto, Campus Agrário de Vairão, Rua Padre Armando Quintas 7, 4485‐661 Vairão, Portugal
Interests: genome and population structure of the domesticated species (animal and plants); their parasites and wild ancestors (population genomics, domestication, conservation genetics, evolution of livestock species, zoonotic diseases evolutionary history)
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