Editors & Staff

Editors

Andrea Leibfried, Executive Editor

Andrea worked with Jan Lohmann on stem cell maintenance in the plant Arabidopsis before moving to the field of trafficking. In 2009 she obtained her PhD from the Université Pierre et Marie Curie in Paris, for which she studied DE-Cadherin trafficking in Drosophila with Yohanns Bellaiche at the Curie Institute. She then went to Anne Ephrussi's lab at the EMBL in Heidelberg to work on oocyte polarity and mRNA trafficking in Drosophila. Andrea was an editor at The EMBO Journal before she joined Life Science Alliance.
a.leibfried@life-science-alliance.org
tel: +49 6221 8891 502

Julia Cooper, Academic Editor

Julia Promisel Cooper is Head of the Telomere Biology Section, Laboratory of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, at the National Cancer Institute. She earned her BS from Emory University and received her PhD from the University of Colorado. She completed her postdoctoral training at the NIH, the University of Colorado at Boulder; and the Imperial Cancer Research Fund, London (now Cancer Research UK). Julia’s lab studies chromosome organization and the maintenance of genome integrity, with mechanisms of telomere function as a springboard. Recent advances include the discovery of a mode by which nontelomeric heterochromatin can acquire chromosome end-protection capacity, as well as expansion of the known repertoire of telomeres and centromeres to include the control of nuclear envelope breakdown and spindle formation. 

Florent Ginhoux, Academic Editor

Florent Ginhoux is a Principal Investigator in the Singapore Immunology Network (SIgN), A*STAR and Adjunct Visiting Associate Professor in the Shanghai Immunology Institute, Jiao Tong University, China. He obtained a Masters degree in immunology from the Pasteur Institute and his PhD from the University Pierre et Marie CURIE, Paris VI.  In his postdoctoral work in the Laboratory of Miriam Merad in the Mount Sinai School of Medicine (MSSM), he studied the ontogeny and the homeostasis of cutaneous dendritic cell populations. Florent became Assistant Professor in the MSSM in 2008, joined SIgN in 2009, and was awarded as EMBO Young Investigator in 2013. His laboratories are focusing on the ontogeny and differentiation of macrophages and dendritic cells (DCs).

Sebastian Jessberger, Academic Editor

Sebastian Jessberger is Managing Director of the Brain Research Institute and Professor for Neurosciences at the University of Zurich. He studied medicine in Hamburg and started in 2002 a joint residency at the MDC and the Dept. of Neurology of the Charité in Berlin. As a postdoc (2004-2007) in the laboratory of Fred H. Gage at the Salk Institute, he continued to work on neural stem cell biology and neurogenesis in the adult brain. From 2007 to 2012 he was Assistant Professor at ETH Zurich and joined the Brain Research Institute in 2012. He received several prizes and was awarded to join the EMBO Young Investigator program in 2012. 

Michael Overholtzer, Academic Editor

Michael Overholtzer is an Associate Member in the Cell Biology Program at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center. He received his bachelor’s degree from Ithaca College and his PhD from Princeton University, where he performed research on the p53 tumor suppressor with Arnold J. Levine. In his postdoc with Joan S. Brugge at Harvard Medical School, he identified the Hippo pathway effector Yap as an oncoprotein in breast cancer, and discovered a cell death mechanism called entosis. In his independent laboratory, he continues to study mechanisms of cell death, autophagy, and lysosomes.

Judith Zaugg, Academic Editor

Judith Zaugg is a group leader at the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL) in Heidelberg since 2014, focusing on computational genomics. Since 2018 she also jointly heads the Molecular Medicine Partnership group focusing on Stem Cell-Niche Networks. She studied at ETH Zurich and obtained her PhD from University of Cambridge and EMBL-EBI. For her postdoctoral work she went to Stanford University to study the genetic basis of epigenetic variation across humans. Her current research focusses on understanding gene regulatory mechanisms and their implications in common diseases. Her group uses multi-omics approaches and develops computational tools for integrating large-scale data with the aim of gaining mechanistic insights into disease and basic biological principles.

Advisory Editorial Board

As of June 2019
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Staff

Reilly Lorenz, Editorial Assistant

Reilly Lorenz studied Political Science at Linfield College, Oregon, USA and the University of Mannheim, Germany. She worked as a research assistant before joining Life Science Alliance.
r.lorenz@life-science-alliance.org
tel: +49 6221 8891 414

Andrea Leibfried and Reilly Lorenz are employed for Life Science Alliance’s editorial office by EMBO Press Innovations, Meyerhofstr. 1, 69117 Heidelberg, Germany