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New editorial advisory board members

2016; The Company of Biologists; Volume: 129; Issue: 1 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1242/jcs.183301

1477-9137

Sharon Ahmad,

Protist diversity and phylogeny

Journal of Cell Science is committed to publishing the highest quality research at the forefront of cell biology. Our Editorial Advisory Board provides an invaluable service to the journal in the form of their expertise and advice, so it is important to us that the Board accurately reflects the diversity of the field. As the field itself evolves, we must refresh our Board accordingly and we are, therefore, pleased to welcome our newest appointees, all of whom are very well respected within their fields. We thank both new and existing Editorial Advisory Board members for their invaluable service to Journal of Cell Science and the cell biology community.Anna Akhmanova is professor of Cell Biology at Utrecht University, the Netherlands. Her work is mainly focused on the mechanisms that regulate microtubule dynamics and microtubule-based transport.Tamas. Balla is a tenured Senior Investigator at the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, NIH, Bethesda MD. The overall goal of his research is to understand how phosphoinositide signals regulate cellular functions by working both at the molecular, cellular and organismal level.Maria A. Blasco joined the Centro Nacional de Biotecnologia (CNIO) in Madrid, Spain in 2003 as Director of the Molecular Oncology Programme and Leader of the Telomeres and Telomerase Group. In 2005 she was also appointed Vice-Director of Basic Research; she has been Director of the CNIO since June 2011. Her research has focussed on demonstrating the importance of telomeres and telomerase in cancer as well as age-related diseases.Federica Brandizzi is Professor of Plant Biology at the Michigan State University - Department of Energy Plant Research Laboratory, USA. Research in her laboratory focuses on understanding basic mechanisms for organelle biogenesis and function in the plant secretory pathway, with emphasis on the endoplasmic reticulum and Golgi apparatus, by using advanced live cell imaging, genomics and genetics in model dicot and monocot species.Elizabeth Chen is an Associate Professor in the Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. Her lab studies the molecular and cellular mechanisms underlying cell–cell fusion by using a multifaceted approach including genetics, cell biology, biochemistry and biophysics.Pete Cullen is Professor of Biochemistry, Wellcome Trust Senior Investigator and Director of the Wellcome Trust 4-Year Ph.D. Programme in Dynamic Cell Biology at the University of Bristol. His research focuses on studying inositol-based cell signalling and, in particular, elucidating the role of phosphoinositides in the sorting of transmembrane proteins through the endosomal network.Crislyn D'Souza-Schorey is Pollard Professor and Chair of the Department of Biological Sciences at the University of Notre Dame. Her research program involves investigating the cellular changes involved in tumor progression.Michael Dustin is Professor of Immunology and a Wellcome Principal Research Fellow, as well as Director of Research of the Kennedy Institute of Rheumatology at the University of Oxford. His research focuses on the T-cell immunological synapse.Daniel Fletcher is the Purnendu Chatterjee Professor of Bioengineering and Biophysics at UC Berkeley, where he teaches courses on optics, microscopy and cell mechanics. His research explores organizational principles of the cell membrane and cytoskeleton, mechanotransduction in cancer and infectious diseases, and development of biomedical technologies for global health.Margaret Gardel is an Associate Professor of Physics and a member of the Institute for Biophysical Dynamics, and the James Franck Institute at University of Chicago in Chicago, IL. Her lab studies the regulation of cell adhesion, shape and motility by using biophysical, cell biology and imaging approaches. In particular, her research focuses on how mechanical force transmission is regulated by the dynamics and organization of the actin cytoskeleton.Daniel Gerlich is a research group leader at the Institute of Molecular Biotechnology (IMBA) of the Austrian Academy of Sciences. With his interdisciplinary team of biologists and computer scientists he aims to elucidate the molecular mechanisms underlying the assembly and function of the cell division machinery.Edgar Gomes has been a group leader at Instituto de Medicina Molecular (iMM), University of Lisbon, Portugal, since 2014. Previously, he was an INSERM group leader at University Pierre and Marie Curie in Paris, France. His main research interest is to understand how connections between the nucleus and the cytoskeleton are involved in cellular activities, such as nuclear positioning, cell migration and cell differentiation.Cara Gottardi is Associate Professor of Medicine, and Cellular and Molecular Biology, at the Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine. The Gottardi Lab investigates how cells adhere to each other, what constitutes dynamic versus static adhesion at the molecular level, and how constituents of the cell–cell adhesive complex control gene expression and cellular differentiation.Pierre Gönczy is interested in understanding fundamental cell division processes, notably in the context of a developing organism. His research focuses in particular on processes that are crucial for genome integrity, including asymmetric cell division and centriole formation.Professor Gillian Griffiths is Director of the Cambridge Institute for Medical Research (CIMR) in Cambridge, UK. Her research interests are focussed on understanding the cell biology of polarised secretion from lymphocytes by using insights gained from genetic disease to identify the molecular mechanisms that underlie this process.Cynthia He is an Associate Professor at the National University of Singapore, where she studies organelle biogenesis and homeostasis in single-celled parasites. Her lab also investigates autophagy and stress response in early-divergent eukaryotes.Martin W. Hetzer is the Jesse and Caryl Philips Professor of Molecular and Cell Biology, and Director of the Waitt Advanced Biophotonics Center at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies in La Jolla, CA. His research focuses on fundamental aspects of organismal aging, with a special focus on the heart and central nervous system.Kairbaan Hodivala-Dilke is Professor of Angiogenesis and Deputy Institute Director at the Barts Cancer Institute in London, UK. Winner of the British Society of Cell Biology Hooke Medal, 2015, her research focusses on the cellular and molecular basis of tumour angiogenesis.Miho Iijima is currently an Associate Professor in the Department of Cell Biology at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD. Dr Iijima's research is focused on understanding how cells sense extracellular chemical gradients and control directed migration. She also studies lipid signaling in cancer, with a particular interest in the tumor suppressor PTEN.Johanna Ivaska is a Professor of Molecular Cell Biology at University of Turku in Finland. Her research interests are related to investigating the biological role of integrins in cancer progression. The current main research focus areas are integrin-mediated cell adhesion, cell–matrix interactions and integrin endosomal traffic in cancer.Carsten Janke is a research director at the CNRS and a senior group leader at the Institut Curie, France. He is studying the impact of tubulin heterogeneity on microtubule functions, with a particular focus on the post-translational modifications of tubulin.Sophie Martin is Associate Professor at the Department of Fundamental Microbiology at the University of Lausanne, Switzerland. Her lab studies the spatial organisation of cells.Heidi McBride is a Professor at McGill University in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, holds a Canada Research Chair in Mitochondrial Cell Biology and is a Killam Research Scholar. Her work focuses on the molecular mechanisms and function of mitochondrial dynamics, with projects on mitochondrial fusion, fission and the formation of mitochondrion-derived vesicles.Iris Meier is a Professor in the Department of Molecular Genetics at The Ohio State University, Columbus, USA and a Visiting Professor at Oxford Brookes University, Oxford, UK. The long-term goal of her research is to discover how and why the protein composition of the plant nuclear envelope differs significantly from that of opisthokonts (animals and fungi).Eric Miska is the Herchel Smith Professor of Molecular Genetics and a Senior Group Leader at the Gurdon Institute at the University of Cambridge, UK, as well as a Senior Investigator of the Wellcome Trust. Eric has an appointment as associated faculty at the Cambridge Systems Biology Centre and the Cancer Research UK Cambridge Research Institute. Eric is an international leader in the field of RNA biology.Jacques Neefjes is Head of the Division of Cell Biology at the Netherlands Cancer Institute in Amsterdam. His work has focused mostly on the cell biology of antigen presentation by MHC class I and MHC class II molecules. He also pioneered the use of GFP in tracking vesicle transport within living cells.David Pellman is the Margaret M. Dyson Professor of Pediatric Oncology at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and the Children's Hospital, Boston. He is also Professor of Cell Biology at Harvard Medical School and an Investigator of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. Dr Pellman's laboratory has made contributions in two areas: the mechanism of cell division and how cell division errors alter genome structure.Franck Perez is Research Director at CNRS in France and group leader in the Cell Biology Unit (UMR 144) at the Institut Curie. His group is studying intracellular organization and trafficking and, in particular, the dynamics and function of the Golgi apparatus and its connection to microtubules.Jim Putney is Head of the Calcium Regulation Group at the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences – NIH in Research Triangle Park, NC, USA. His laboratory studies mechanisms of Ca2+ signaling in cells and animal models. His group currently focuses primarily on the function and regulation of plasma membrane Ca2+ channels in non-excitable cells.Douglas Robinson, Professor of Cell Biology at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, investigates how cells form the shapes that are required for the specialized functions necessary for human health.Jody Rosenblatt is Associate Professor of Oncological Sciences at the University of Utah and Investigator at the Huntsman Cancer Institute. She discovered epithelial cell extrusion, a process that eliminates dying cells without forming any gaps. The Rosenblatt lab studies how epithelia maintain constant cell numbers through cell death and cell division, and has found a critical role in both for mechanical crowding and stretch, respectively.David Sabatini is a Member of the Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research, The Broad Institute, and the Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research at MIT, as well as a Professor of Biology at the MIT and a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator. He is interested in the mechanisms that regulate cell growth, and the processes underlying how cells control their size and mass, focusing in particular on the TOR pathway. In addition, David's lab develops and applies technologies that facilitate the analysis of gene function in mammalian cells, including 'cell-based microarrays' or genome-wide RNAi libraries targeting human and mouse genes.Erik Sahai is a Group Leader at the Francis Crick Institute in London, UK. His research is focused on understanding cytoskeletal and cell signalling changes that enable the spread of cancer through the body.Melina Schuh is Director at the Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry in Göttingen, Germany, and is establishing a new department focusing on meiosis. Her laboratory studies meiosis in mammalian oocytes, the progenitor cells of eggs. The long-term goal of her laboratory is to identify and analyse mechanisms that lead to abnormal eggs and pregnancy loss in mammals.Giorgio Scita is currently a tenured group leader at the IFOM Foundation, the FIRC Institute of Molecular Oncology, Milan, and Professor of Pathology at the School of Medicine of the University of Milan, Department of Health Sciences (DISS). His long-standing research interest is on mechanisms of cell migration, and focuses on signaling leading to spatial and temporal regulation of actin dynamics – the powerhouse for cell motility.Yaron Shav-Tal is an Associate Professor at the Mina & Everard Goodman Faculty of Life Sciences and the Institute of Nanotechnology at Bar-Ilan University in Israel. His laboratory focuses on dissecting the kinetics of the gene expression pathway (mRNA transcription, RNA processing and nucleo-cytoplasmic transport) in single living cells by using fluorescence live-cell microscopy, and tagging of DNA and mRNA molecules, specifically at the level of single alleles and single molecules.Peter Sicinski is a Professor of Genetics at Harvard Medical School. His laboratory, located at the Department of Cancer Biology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute in Boston, MA, studies the role of the cell cycle machinery in mouse development and in cancer by using genetic, genomic and proteomic approaches. Dr Sicinski's group also researches the molecular functions of various cell cycle proteins in human cancer cells by using genome- and proteome-wide screens.Michael Sixt is a Professor at the Institute of Science and Technology, Austria. His laboratory is interested in morphodynamic processes – both at the cellular and at the tissue level. The main focus is on the immune system, for which the lab is trying to understand the molecular and mechanical principles that underlie leukocyte dynamics during processes such as migration and intercellular communication.Harald Stenmark is group leader at Oslo University Hospital and professor at the University of Oslo, Norway. He is interested in cellular membrane dynamics and, especially, endocytic membrane traffic, autophagy and membrane rearrangements during cell division. He studies how such dynamics are regulated by phosphoinositides, Rab GTPases and ESCRT proteins.Nic Tapon is currently a group leader at The Francis Crick Institute, London, UK. His group is studying tissue growth control during development and adult homeostasis, and is particularly interested in the role of the Hippo signalling pathway in this process, and how Hippo signalling intersects with tissue architecture and nutrient status. The Tapon lab uses a combination of fly and mouse genetics, as well as proteomics, functional genomics, cell biology and mathematical modelling.Sharon Tooze is currently the Head of the Molecular Cell Biology of Autophagy laboratory at The Francis Crick Institute in London, UK. Her recent interests are focused on understanding the process of autophagy in mammalian cells. By using molecular cell biology approaches, the Tooze lab studies where and how autophagosome formation is initiated under starvation conditions and in diseases, such as cancer.William Trimble is a Senior Scientist and Head of the Cell Biology Program at the Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto, Canada. He is also a Professor of Biochemistry at the University of Toronto. His research aims to understand the role of septins as so-far-unknown cytoskeletal components in a wide range of biological processes including cytokinesis, ciliogenesis, membrane dynamics and signal transduction.Kristen Verhey is Professor of Cell and Developmental Biology at the University of Michigan Medical School. Her lab studies microtubules and associated motor proteins, with an emphasis on kinesin motors and their roles in axonal and ciliary transport processes.Alpha Yap is a Professor and Head of the Division of Molecular Cell Biology at the Institute for Molecular Bioscience, The University of Queensland, Australia. His laboratory studies the cellular mechanisms responsible for cadherin-dependent morphogenesis; notably, the mechanisms and principles that coordinate cadherin adhesion with the cytoskeleton.