Section Editorial Boards
Animal Venoms
Bacterial Toxins
Marine and Freshwater Toxins
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Editorial Office
Editor-in-Chief
Prof. Dr. med. Florian Lang
Physiologisches Institut I, Universität Tübingen, Gmelinstrasse 5, D-72076 Tübingen, Germany
Tel. +49 (0)7071 29 72194; Fax: +49 (0)7071 29 5618
Website: http://www.physiologie.medizin.uni-tuebingen.de/DepI/#public
E-Mail: florian.lang@uni-tuebingen.de
Interests: mechanisms and clinical significance of cell volume regulation; erythrocyte death signaling; serum-and glucocorticoid inducible kinase isoforms; physiology and pharmacology of human ion channels and carriers expressed in oocytes; host cell physiology in hostpathogen interaction; mechanisms of apoptotic cell death
Section Editor-in-Chief
Prof. Dr. Bryan Fry *
Venom Evolution Laboratory, School of Biological Sciences, University of Queensland, St. Lucia, QLD, 4072, Australia
Website: http://www.venomdoc.com
E-Mail: bgfry@uq.edu.au
Interests: venom molecular evolution; phylogenetics and structure-function relationships; toxins
* Section 'Animal Venoms'
Section Editor-in-Chief
Prof. Dr. Vernon L. Tesh *
Department of Microbial and Molecular Pathogenesis, Medical Research and Education Building, Room 3002, College of Medicine, Texas A&M University System Health Science Center, 8447 State Highway 47, Bryan, TX 77807, USA
Tel. +1 979 436 0357; Fax: +1 979 845 3479
Website: http://medicine.tamhsc.edu/basic-sciences/mmp/faculty/vernon-tesh.html
E-Mail: tesh@medicine.tamhsc.edu
Interests: shiga toxins; verotoxins; ribosome-inactivating proteins; intracellular signaling pathways activated by microbial toxins; ER stress response; regulation of cytokine expression; innate immune response to microbial toxins; microbial pathogenesis
* Section 'Bacterial Toxins'
Section Editor-in-Chief
Prof. Dr. John P. Berry *
Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Florida International University (FIU), 354/332 Marine Science, Biscayne Bay Campus, 3000 NE 151st St., North Miami, FL 33181, USA
Tel. +1 305 919 4569; Fax: +1 305 919 4030
Website: http://www.fiu.edu/~berryj/
E-Mail: john.berry@fiu.edu
Interests: cyanobacteria; toxins; bioactive compounds; zebrafish embryo model; natural products
* Section 'Marine and Freshwater Toxins'
Managing Editor
Ms. Kathy Lai
MDPI Haidian Office, Yingu Mansion, Suite 815, North 4th Ring Road West, 9, Haidian District, Beijing 100190, China
Tel. +86 10 6280 0830
E-Mail: kathy.lai@mdpi.com
Production Editor
Dr. Martyn Rittman
MDPI AG, Klybeckstrasse 64, CH-4057 Basel, Switzerland
E-Mail: rittman@mdpi.com
Editorial Board
Prof. Dr. Arturo Anadón
Department of Toxicology and Pharmacology, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, 28040-Madrid, Spain
Tel. +34 1 394 38 34; Fax: +34 1 394 38 40
Website: http://ec.europa.eu/food/fs/sc/scan/cv/cv_anadon_en.pdf
Interests: neurotoxicity; toxicokinetics
Prof. Dr. Michael Aschner
Department of Pediatrics, 2215-B Garland Avenue, 11415 MRB IV, Vanderbilt University, Medical Center, Nashville, TN 37232-0414, USA
Tel. +1 615 322 8024; Fax: +1 615 936 4080
Website: http://kc.vanderbilt.edu/site/people/show.aspx?id=8993
Interests: transport mechanisms from the periphery into the brain; developmental neurotoxicology; role of metals in neurodegeneration; gulf war syndrome
Dr. Charles W. Bacon
Toxicology and Mycotoxin Research, Russell Research Center, 950 College Station Road, Athens, GA 30604, USA
Tel. +1 706 546 3158; Fax: +1 706 546 3116
Website: http://www.ars.usda.gov/pandp/people/people.htm?personid=232
Interests: regulation and biosynthesis of mycotoxins; fungal endophyte-grass relationships; bacterial endophytes, and the coevolution of secondary products; primarily mycotoxins, with grasses and other plants, as an adaptive strategy for mutualistic associations
Contribution:
Special Issue: Evolutionary/Phylogenetic Studies of Mycotoxin Biosynthetic Pathways
Dr. Deepak Bhatnagar
Research Leader, Food and Feed Safety Research, USDA/ARS/, Southern Regional Research Institute, New Orleans, Louisiana 70124, USA
Tel. +1 504 286 4388; Fax: +1 504 286 4269
Website: http://www.ars.usda.gov/pandp/people/people.htm?personid=446
Interests: mycotoxins; secondary metabolism; genomics; toxin biosynthesis; Aspergillus species
Contribution:
Special Issue: Aflatoxins
Prof. Dr. Wayne Briner
Department of Psychology, Ashford University, 8620 Spectrum Center Blvd, San Diego, CA 92123 USA
Tel. +858 705 2294
Interests: neurotoxicology; heavy metals; teratology; behavioral teratology
Contribution:
In other journals:
Special Issue: Heavy Metals and Health
Special Issue: Heavy Metals Toxicology
Dr. Jeffrey W. Cary
Molecular Biologist USDA, ARS, SRRC, 1100 Robert E. Lee Blvd., New Orleans, LA 70124-4305, USA
Tel. +1 504 286 4264; Fax: +1 504 286 4533
Website: http://www.ars.usda.gov/pandp/people/people.htm?personid=907
Interests: molecular biology of mycotoxin biosynthesis and regulation; fungal-host plant interactions; secondary metabolism; gene clusters; genomics; antifungal peptides; transgenic approaches to mycotoxin elimination in plants
Contribution:
Special Issue: Advances in Mycotoxin Research
Prof. Dr. Daniel R. Dietrich
Human and Environmental Toxicology, Jacob-Burckhardtstrasse 25, University of Konstanz, 78457 Konstanz, Germany
Tel. +49 7531 883518 (Direct); +49 7531 883171 (Secretary); Fax: +49 7531 883170
Website: http://www.umwelttoxikologie.uni-konstanz.de/en/members/prof-dr-daniel-dietrich/
Interests: natural toxins; mycotoxins; cyanobacterial toxins; mechanisms of toxicity; renal toxicity and carcinogenesis; environemntal and human risk assessment
Prof. Dr. Jia-You Fang
Graduate Institute of Natural Products, Chang Gung University, Wen-Hwa 1st Road, Kweishan, Taoyuan 333, Taiwan
Tel. +886 3 2118800ext5521; Fax: +886 3 2118236
Interests: pharmaceutics; natural products; dermatology; nanotechnology; drug delivery; pharmacokinetics
Contribution:
Special Issue: The Toxicity of Natural Products
Dr. Carmela Fimognari
Laboratory of Genetic and Molecular Toxicology, Department for Life Quality Studies, University of Bologna, Italy
Tel. +39 051 2095636; Fax: +39 051 2095624
Website: http://www.unibo.it/SitoWebDocente/default.htm?UPN=carmela.fimognari@unibo.it
Interests: 1) antitumour pharmacology: identification of natural agents as potential antitumor drugs and definition of their cellular (analysis of apoptosis/necrosis; cell proliferation; cell-cycle progression; cytodifferentiation) and molecular (level of proteins involved in apoptosis and cell-cycle regulation) mechanism; 2) cellular and genetic toxicology: study of the cellular response after treatment with xenobiotics (cytotoxicity; analysis of DNA and RNA damage; fluorescence in situ hybridization)
Contribution:
Special Issue: Natural Products for Multi-Targeted Cancer Treatment: Where Are We Now?
Prof. Dr. Maria Cristina Fossi
Department of Environmental Sciences, University of Siena, Via Mattioli, 4, 53100 Siena, Italy
Tel. +39 0 577232913; Fax: +39 0 577232930
Website: http://www.scientificjournals.com/sj/all/AutorenAnzeigeESS/autorenId/90108
Interests: non invasive biomarkers; aquatic toxicology; aquatic environments; xenobiotics; marine mammals; genomics; environmental toxicology; endokrine Disruptoren; endocrine effects of chemicals; ecotoxicological effects; biomarkers
Prof. Dr. Helmut Greim
Institute of Toxicology and Environmental Hygiene, Technical University of Munich, Hohenbachernstrasse 15-17, D-85354 Freising-Weihenstephan, Germany
Tel. +49 8161 715600; Fax: +49 8161 715618
Interests: general toxicology; mechanisms of toxicity, especially in mutagenicity and carcinogenicity; mode of action; risk assessment
Dr. Xiaohua He
Research Molecular Biologist, USDA, ARS, WRRC, 800 Buchanan Street, Albany, CA94710, USA
Tel. +1 510 559 5823; Fax: +1 510 559 5768
Website: http://www.ars.usda.gov/pandp/people/people.htm?personid=39023
Interests: molecular tools and technologies for rapid; accurate; and sensitive detection and quantification of zoonotic pathogens and toxins in food; mechanisms of interactions between bacterial toxins and host cells; binding between antigen and antibody or receptors
Contribution:
Special Issue: Advances in Toxin Detection
Dr. Yasuhiko Horiguchi
Research Institute for Microbial Diseases, Osaka University, Yamada-oka 3-1, Suita, Osaka 565-0871, Japan
Tel. +81 6 6879 8284; Fax: + 81 6 6879 8283
Website: http://www.biken.osaka-u.ac.jp/act/act_horiguchi_e.php
Interests: structure and domain organization of proteins; cell-to -cell or intracellular signaling; receptors for toxins; membrane-damaging toxins
Contribution:
Special Issue: Bacterial Protein Toxins
Prof. Dr. R. Manjunatha Kini
Protein Science Laboratory, Department of Biological Sciences, National University of Singapore, Science Drive 4, 117543 Singapore
Tel. + 65 65165235; Fax: + 65 67792486
Website: http://www.dbs.nus.edu.sg/staff/kini.htm
Interests: protein chemistry; structure-function relationships; protein-protein interaction and protein design and engineering
Prof. Dr. Brigitte König
Otto-von-Guericke-University, Institute of Medical Microbiology, Molecular Microbiology and Molecular Diagnostics, Leipzigerstr. 44, 39120 Magdeburg, Germany
Tel. +49 391 6713353; Fax: +49 391 6713938
Website: http://www.med.uni-magdeburg.de/Institute/Medizinische+Mikrobiologie.html
Interests: superantigens; microecology; microorganism-host-microorganism interactions; host-medical devices interactions; oxidative stress; staphylococci; enterococci; lactobacilli
Prof. Dr. Stephen P. Mackessy
School of Biological Sciences, 501 20th. St., CB 92, University of Northern Colorado, Greeley, CO 80639-0017 USA
Tel. +1 970-351-2429; Fax: +1 970-351-2335
Website: http://www.unco.edu/biology/faculty_staff/mackessy/mackessy_stephen.htm
Interests: reptile venom proteomics and evolution; toxin evolution and structure/function relationships; venom proteinases; biochemical ecology of venomous reptiles
Dr. Azzam A. Maghazachi
Department of Physiology, Faculty of Medicine, Institute of Basic Medical Sciences, University of Oslo, POB 1103, N-0317 Oslo, Norway
Tel. +47 22851203; Fax: +47 22851279
Interests: drug toxicity; autoimmunity; innate immunity; lysophospholipids; chemokines
Contribution:
Special Issue: Toxicity and Therapeutic Interventions in the Immune System
Prof. Dr. Richard A. Manderville
Department of Chemistry and Toxicology, University of Guelph, Guelph, Ontario, N1G 2W1 Canada
Tel. +1 519 824 4120; Fax: +1 519 766 1499
Website: http://www.chembio.uoguelph.ca/manderville/
Interests: DNA damage by phenolic toxins including ochratoxin A; Modified DNA bases as fluorescent probes
Contribution:
Special Issue: Ochratoxins
Special Issue: Ochratoxins 2011-2012
Special Issue: Recent Advances in Ochratoxins Research
Dr. Marc Maresca
Aix Marseille Université, CNRS, iSm2 UMR 7313, Marseille 13397, France
Tel. +33-491-288-445; Fax: +33-491-284-440
Website: http://www.ism2.univ-cezanne.fr/permanents/MARESCA.php
Interests: gut physiology; intestinal epithelial cells; intestinal toxicology ; enterotoxins; bacterial toxins; virotoxins; mycotoxins; trichothecenes; deoxynivalenol; nutrient absorption
Contribution:
Special Issue: Recent Advances and Perspectives in Deoxynivalenol Research
Dr. Rex Munday
AgResearch, Ruakura Research Centre, Private Bag 3123, Hamilton, New Zealand
Tel. +64 7838 5138; Fax: +64 7838 5012
Interests: toxicology of natural products; free radical toxicology; cancer chemoprevention
Prof. Dr. Michio Murata
Department of Chemstry, Graduate School of Science, Osaka University, 1-1 Machikaneyama-cho, Toyonaka, Osaka 560-0043, Japan
Tel. +81 66850 5774; Fax: +81 66850 5774
Website: http://www.chem.sci.osaka-u.ac.jp/lab/murata/english/index.html
Interests: marine biotoxins; seafood poisoning; membrane-active toxins; mechanism of toxicity and solid state NMR
Prof. Dr. Richard E. Peterson
School of Pharmacy, University of Wisconsin, 777 Highland Avenue, Madison, WI 53705-2222, USA
Tel. +1 608 263 5453; Fax: +1 608 265 3316
Interests: developmental toxicology of halogenated aromatic hydrocarbons and perfluorinated acids
Prof. Dr. Annie Pfohl-Leszkowicz
National Agronomical High School of Toulouse (ENSAT), Unit of Toxicology & Food safety, 1 avenue de l’Agrobiopôle, BP 32607, 31326, Auzeville-Tolosane, France
Tel. +33 534 323 947; Fax: +33 534 323 947
Interests: mycotoxin; ochratoxin; fumonisin; zearalenone; biomarker; risk evaluation; environmental toxicology; polycyclic aromatic compounds; genotoxicity; DNA adduct; balkan endemic nephropathy; kidney cancer; biotransformation
Contribution:
Special Issue: Ochratoxins
Special Issue: Ochratoxins 2011-2012
Special Issue: Recent Advances in Ochratoxins Research
Prof. Dr. Frances Pick
Department of Biology, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Tel. +1 613 562 5800; Fax: +1 613 562 5486
Website: http://www.careg.uottawa.ca/bio_frances_pick.htm
Interests: ecosystem ecology and state of environment reporting; aquatic microbial ecology
Prof. Dr. Des R. Richardson
Professor of Cancer Cell Biology, NHMRC Senior Principal, Research Fellow; and Iron Metabolism and Chelation Program, Department of Pathology, University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW 2006, Australia
Tel. +61 2 9036 6548; Fax: +61 2 9036 6549
Website: http://sydney.edu.au/medicine/people/academics/profiles/d.richardson.php
Interests: metal ions; iron; copper; chelators; X-ray crystallography
Dr. Jean-Marc Sabatier
Laboratory INSERM U1097-ERT 62 'Ingenierie des Peptides a Visee Therapeutique', Universite de la Mediterranee, Faculte de Medecine Nord, Boulevard Pierre Dramard, 13916 Marseille, Cedex 20, France
Tel. +33 640 15 24 19; Fax: +33 442 29 16 12
Interests: toxinology; animal toxins; ion channel blockers; toxin-derived drug; drug design; peptide and protein engineering; therapy
Contribution:
Special Issue: Toxins - Organic and Analytical Chemistry
Special Issue: Animal Venoms
Special Issue: Ion Channel Neurotoxins
In other journals:
Special Issue: Toxins - Organic and Analytical Chemistry
Prof. Dr. David Sheehan
Proteomic Research Laboratory, Head of School of Biochemistry and Cell Biology, University College Cork, Western Gateway Building, Western Rd, Cork, Ireland
Tel. +35 321 420 5424; Fax: +35 321 427 4034
Website: http://www.ucc.ie/ucc/depts/biochemistry/staff/dsheehan.html
Interests: enzymology and evolution of glutathione transferases; application of proteomics to study of oxidative stress; implications of reactive oxygen and nitrogen species for kidney function; environmental toxicology; nanomaterials as emerging toxicological threats
Contribution:
Special Issue: Toxins from Aquatic Organisms
In other journals:
Special Issue: Nanotoxicology
Special Issue: Advances in Proteomic Research
Special Issue: Advances in Proteomic Research 2014
Prof. Dr. Peter S. Spencer
Department of Neurology, School of Medicine, Global Health Center, and Center for Research on Occupational and Environmental Toxicology, Oregon Health & Science University, 3181 S.W. Sam Jackson Park Road, L356, Portland, OR 97239, USA
Tel. +1 503 494 2517
Website: http://www.ohsu.edu/xd/research/centers-institutes/croet/faculty/profiles.cfm?facultyID=520
Interests: neurotoxinology (plant, fungal); neurotoxicology; systems biology; human disease
Contribution:
Special Issue: Neurotoxins: Health Threats and Biological Tools
Dr. Tammy E. Stoker
MD-72, Endocrine Toxicology Branch, Toxicity Assessment Division, ORD, NHEERL, U.S. EPA, Research Triangle Park, NC 27711, USA
Tel. +1 919 541 2783; Fax: +1 919 541 5138
Interests: neuroendocrine control of reproductive function/LH surge and ovulation; pubertal development following gestational or peripubertal exposure to EDCs; perinatal exposures and effects on prostate development/prostatitis in the rat; in vitro/ex-vivo approaches to evaluate the effects of EDCs on the HPG/HPT/HPA axis
Prof. Dr. Vítor Vasconcelos
Department of Biology, Faculty of Sciences, Porto University, Rua do Campo Alegre 4069-007 Porto and Interdisciplinary Centre of Marine and Environmental Research (CIIMAR), Rua dos Bragas, 289, 4050.123 Porto, Portugal
Tel. +35 122 340 1817; Fax: +35 122 338 0609
Website: http://www.ciimar.up.pt/member.php?id=103
Interests: blue-biotechnology; emerging marine toxins; bioassay-guided approach; cyanobacteria bioactive compounds
Contribution:
Special Issue: Genomics and Proteomics of Cyanotoxins
In other journals:
Special Issue: Emerging Marine Toxins
Dr. Jiujiang Yu
Research Geneticist, USDA-ARS, Beltsville Agricultural Research Center, Food Quality Laboratory, Building # 002, 10300 Baltimore Avenue, Beltsville, MD 20705, USA
Tel. +1 301 504 5721; Fax: +1 504 286 4419
Website: http://www.ars.usda.gov/pandp/people/people.htm?personid=6283
Interests: aflatoxins; mycotoxins; Aspergillus flavus; genomics; functional genomics; Next generation sequencing (NGS); plant-fungus interaction; genomics of Penicillium spp and their secondary metabolites
Dr. C. Chris Yun
Emory University, School of Medicine, Division of Digestive Diseases, Whitehead Bldg., Suite 201, 615 Michael St. Atlanta, GA 30322, USA
Tel. +1 404 712 2865; Fax: +1 404 727 5767
Website: http://med.emory.edu/faculty/profile_highlights.cfm?id=4021
Interests: effects of lysophosphoipids in colon cancer and colitis; sodium and fluid absorption in the intestine and kidney; protein-protein interaction; chemokine sin colon cancer; cancer therapeutics; GPCR signaling
Contribution:
Special Issue: Enterotoxins
Prof. Dr. Gerald W. Zamponi
Department of Physiology and Pharmacology, University of Calgary, 3330 Hospital Dr. N.W., Calgary, T2N 4N1, Canada
Tel. +1 403 220 6597; Fax: +1 403 919 2212
Website: http://www.cell.ucalgary.ca/G.Zamponi.html
Interests: calcium channels; sodium channels; T-type channels; N-type channels; pain; G protein; second messengers; epilepsy
Prof. Dr. Paul V. Zimba
Center for Coastal Studies, Unit 5866, Texas A&M University Corpus Christi, 6300 Ocean Drive, Corpus Christi, TX 78412, USA
Tel. +1-361-825-2768; Fax: +1-361-825-2770
Website: http://sci.tamucc.edu/member.php?who=pzimba&program=lsci
Interests: Algal toxins, aquatic ecosystem ecology, harmful algae, wetlands, aquaculture, microalgal taxonomy and physiology, remote sensing, carbon fixation assessment, aquatic ecosystem stressors, cyanobacteria secondary metabolites
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