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Eric Sawey, Executive Editor
Eric received his PhD in Molecular and Cellular Pharmacology from Stony Brook University while studying pancreatic cancer under the supervision of Howard Crawford. He then performed postdoctoral research identifying novel oncogenes in liver and ovarian cancers with Scott Powers at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory. Eric has been an Editor for the Journal of Experimental Medicine and Genes & Development, as well as Research Operations Manager for the Lustgarten Foundation. He was appointed Executive Editor of Life Science Alliance in June 2021.
e.sawey@life-science-alliance.org
Novella Guidi, Scientific Editor
Novella received her PhD in Molecular Medicine form the University of Ulm, where she studied the role for the bone marrow niche as an extrinsic mediator of hematopoietic stem cell aging in the lab of Hartmut Geiger. She then moved to do her postdoc with Valter Longo at the University of Southern California (USC) to investigate the effect of a fasting mimicking diet to treat age-related diseases like immune senescence and cardiovascular disease with a specific focus on stem cell-based molecular mechanisms. She was appointed Scientific Editor of Life Science Alliance in June 2021.
n.guidi@life-science-alliance.org
Julia Cooper, Academic Editor
Julia Promisel Cooper is Chair of the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics at the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus. 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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Madan Babu
Erika Bach
Eric Baehrecke
Marek Basler
Tuncay Baubec
Pedro Beltrao
Kerry Bloom
Shiqing Cai
Rafael Carazo-Salas
Monica Carson
Andrew Carter
Wei Chen
Xuemei Chen
Jerry Chipuk
Orna Cohen-Fix
Lélia Delamarre
Vlad Denic
Scott Dixon
Anne Eichmann
Barbara Engelhardt
Nicolas Fazilleau
Sarah-Maria Fendt
Yasuyuki Fujita
Eileen Furlong
Ian Ganley
Ana J. García-Sáez
Sonia Garel
Mary Gehring
Saghi Ghaffari
Jesús Gil
Michael Glotzer
Miguel Godinho Ferreira
Todd Golde
Yukiko Gotoh
Melanie Greter
Howard Hang
Silke Hauf
Cole Haynes
Myriam Heiman
Simon Hippenmeyer
Tatsushi Igaki
Jacqueline Jacobs
Carsten Janke
Cigall Kadoch
Shingo Kajimura
Raghu Kalluri
Gary Karpen
René Ketting
Claudine Kraft
Ulrike Kutay
Tuuli Lappalainen
Eros Lazzerini-Denchi
François Leulier
Guanghui Liu
Mofang Liu
Emma Lundberg
Laura Machesky
Kay Macleod
Shyamala Maheswaran
Taija Makinen
Susan Mango
Jean-Christophe Marine
Sophie Martin
Kyle Miller
Maria M. Mota
Christian Münz
Andrew J. Murphy
Dimple Notani
Staffan Persson
Dana Philpott
Katherine Pollard
Jody Rosenblatt
Carla Rothlin
Aurélien Roux
Jared Rutter
Marco Sandri
Maya Schuldiner
Carmine Settembre
Agnel Sfeir
John Silke
David L. Silver
Lori Sussel
Stephen Tait
Shubha Tole
Iva Tolić
Athanasios Typas
Igor Ulitsky
Jan-Willem Veening
Thierry Walzer
Shizhen (Emily) Wang
Yibin Wang
Hedda Wardemann
Dolf Weijers
Kathryn Wellen
James Wells
Eske Willerslev
R. Luke Wiseman
Will Wood
Julia Zeitlinger
Yi Arial Zeng
Xiang (Shawn) Zhang
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
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