Plant Molecular Biology - Meet the Editors of Plant Molecular Biology
EDITOR-IN-CHIEF
Motoaki Seki
RIKEN
1-7-22 Suehiro-cho, Tsurumi-ku, Yokohama 230-0045, Japan
Expertise: abiotic stress adaptation, epigenome, RNA, peptide, chemical regulation, cassava
http://www.csrs.riken.jp/en/labs/pgnrt/index.html
REVIEWS EDITOR
Alessandra Devoto
Department of Biological Sciences, Royal Holloway University of London, United Kingdom
Expertise: plant hormone biology, cell wall signalling, molecular plant-microbe interaction and responses to the environment, synthetic biology, high-throughput genomics (genome-wide chromatin remodelling)
https://pure.royalholloway.ac.uk/en/persons/alessandra-devoto
EDITORS
Eva Benkova
Institute of Science and Technology Austria
Am Campus 1 A-3400 Klosterneuburg
Expertise: hormonal cross-talk, auxin, cytokinin, root system architecture
https://ist.ac.at/research/life-sciences/benkova-group/
Mary Byrne
The University of Sydney
F22 Life Earth and Environmental Sciences Building, The University of Sydney, NSW 2006
Expertise: developmental biology, genetics, organ patterning, meristem function
https://sydney.edu.au/science/our-research/research-areas/life-and-environmental-sciences/plant-molecular-genetics-and-developmental-biology-lab.html
Jorge Casal
IFEVA, Universidad de Buenos Aires and CONICET
Facultad de Agronomía, 1417 Buenos Aires, Argentina
Expertise: molecular network and cellular mechanisms involved in plant growth and developmental responses to their light and temperature environment; phytochrome, cryptochrome, photomorphogenesis, thermomorphogenesis, shade avoidance.
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6525-8414
Harsh Chauhan
Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee
Roorkee, Uttarakhand India, 247 667
Expertise: abiotic and biotic stress response in cereals, high-temperature stress, transgenic crops, transcriptomics, functional genomics
https://www.iitr.ac.in/departments/BT/pages/People+Harsh_Chauhan.html
Mee-Len Chye
University of Hong Kong
School of Biological Sciences, University of Hong Kong, Pokfulam Road, Hong Kong
Expertise: plant lipid metabolism, lipid transfer proteins, isoprenoids, plant stress tolerance
http://www.biosch.hku.hk/staff/mlc/mlc.html
Ive De Smet
VIB-UGent Center for Plant Systems Biology
Technologiepark-Zwijnaarde 71 - 9052 Ghent - Belgium
Expertise: Signalling, (phospho)proteomics, abiotic stresshttps://www.psb.ugent.be/groups/functional_phosphoproteomics
Vasileios Fotopoulos
Cyprus University of Technology
Department of Agricultural Sciences, Biotechnology & Food Science, PO BOX 50329, 3603 Limassol, Cyprus
Expetise: abiotic stress, cellular signaling, plant priming, reactive oxygen species, reactive nitrogen species, antioxidants
http://plant-stress.weebly.com, https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1205-2070
Walter Gassmann
University of Missouri
105 LSC Columbia, MO 65211-7310 USA
Expertise: plant-microbe interactions, plant immunity, signaling, protein-protein interactions, transcriptional regulation, electrophysiology
https://ipg.missouri.edu/faculty/gassmann.cfm
Hongwei Guo
Southern University of Science and Technology (SUSTech)
R408, Huiyuan Building #1, 1088 Xueyuan Avenue, Nanshan District,Shenzhen, Guangdong, 518055 China
Expertise: ethylene signaling, plant senescence and fruit ripening, RNA decay and gene silencing
https://bio.sustc.edu.cn/en/?p=247
Linda Hanley-Bowdoin
North Carolina State
UniversityCampus Box 7651, Raleigh, NC 27695-7651
Expertise: plant virus/host interactions, plant DNA replication, chromatin
https://cals.ncsu.edu/plant-and-microbial-biology/people/lkhanley/
Tetsuya Higashiyama
Nagoya University/ University of Tokyo
Furo-cho, Chikusa-ku, Nagoya 464-8601, Japan
Expertise: reproduction, cell-to-cell communication, cell biology, live-cell imaging
http://www.itbm.nagoya-u.ac.jp/en/members/t-higashiyama/
Jinbu Jia
South China Agricultural University
Guangzhou, Guangdong, China
Expertise: RNA biology, transcriptome, plant development, stress adaptation
https://nxy.scau.edu.cn/2021/1228/c14544a337413/page.htm
Lars Kamphuis
Curtin University, Centre for Crop and Disease Management
Kent Street, WA 6102, Australia
Expertise: Oilseed and pulse pathology, legume genomics, Ascochyta blight, Sclerotinia stem rot, Botrytis grey mould
https://staffportal.curtin.edu.au/staff/profile/view/lars-kamphuis-e9f90417/or
https://www.ccdm.com.au/research/canola-and-pulses/
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9042-0513
Abraham J. Koo
University of Missouri
127 Schweitzer Hall, Columbia, MO 65211, USA
Expertise: biotic stress, jasmonate signaling, wound response, insect defense, stress metabolism, lipids
https://cafnr.missouri.edu/person/abe-koo/
Eric Lam
Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey
59 Dudley Road, New Brunswick, NJ 08901, USA
Expertise: programmed cell death, stress tolerance, transcription response and chromatin, genomics, duckweed
http://rutgerslamlab.weebly.com/
Sibongile Mafu
University of Massachusetts – Amherst
240 Thatcher Way Life Science Laboratories N431, Amherst MA 01003
Expertise: Specialized metabolites, terpenes, chemical diversity, plant metabolism, plant biotic interactions
https://www.umass.edu/biochemistry-molecular-biology/faculty/sibongile-mafu
James Murray
Cardiff University
School of Biosciences, Sir Martin Evans Building, Museum Avenue, Cardiff CF10 3AX, UK
Expertise: cell division, Arabidopsis, chromatin, systems biology, bioluminescence
https://www.cardiff.ac.uk/people/view/81238-murray-jim
Misato Ohtani
The University of Tokyo
5-1-5 Kashiwanoha, Kashiwa 277-8561, Japan
Expertise: totipotency, RNA metabolism, cell differentiation, woody biomass, omics analysis
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5429-3310
Oren Ostersetzer
The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Jerusalem 91904. Israel
Expertise: plant organellar gene expression, group II introns splicing, biogenesis of the OXPHOS system
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2197-7729
Sayantan Panda
Leibniz Institute of Plant Biochemistry (IPB)
Weinberg 3, 06120 Halle (Saale), Germany
Expertise: Chemical Defense, Plant Specialized Metabolism, Growth vs. Defense tradeoff, Hormone Metabolism, Reproductive development
http://orcid.org/0000-0002-5758-4700
Youn-Il Park
Chungnam National University
99 Daehagro, Youseong, Daejon, Korea, 34134
Expertise: photobiology in cyanobacteria, algae, and higher plants, specifically photosynthesis and phytochrome dependent light signaling
https://cbb.cnu.ac.kr/sbb-professor-youn-il-park/%20or%20http://www.cnuppl.or.kr
Feng QIN
China Agricultural University
No.2 Yuanmingyuan West Road, Haidian District, Beijing 100193, China
Expertise: abiotic stress response, drought tolerance, transcriptional regulation, natural variation, maize
http://sklppb.cau.edu.cn/SteamseView.asp?ID=35&SortID=6
Rosangela Sozzani
North Carolina State University
112 Derieux Pl, 2552 Tomas Hall, Raleigh, NC, 27695
Expertise: systems biology, computational biology, stem cell biology, mathematical modeling, developmental biology, plant physiology, plant molecular biology
https://harvest.cals.ncsu.edu/sozzani-lab/
Jedrzej Szymanski
Leibniz Institute of Plant Genetics and Crop Plant Research
Department of Molecular Genetics, OT Gatersleben, Corrensstraße 3, D-06466 Seeland, Germany
Expertise: plant genetics, systems biology, plant lipid metabolism, plant specialized metabolism, transcriptomic and metabolomic data analysis, machine learning
https://www.ipk-gatersleben.de/en/molecular-genetics/network-analysis-and-modelling/
Hirokazu Tanaka
Meiji UniversityHigashimita 1-1-1, Tama-ku, Kawasaki 214-8571, Japan
Expertise: plant development, plant cell biology, Arabidopsis
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4414-0649
Takayuki Tohge
Nara Institute of Science and Technology
8916-5 Takayama-cho, Ikoma, Nara 630-0192, Japan
Expertise: secondary metabolism, functional genomics, omics, polymorphism, metabolites
http://bsw3.naist.jp/tohge/?cate=470
Andrzej Wierzbicki
University of Michigan
1105 N. University Ave., Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1085, USA
Expertise: chromatin, epigenetics, small RNA, long non-coding RNA, transcription, chloroplast genome and its regulation
https://sites.lsa.umich.edu/wierzbicki-lab/
Ting-Ying Wu
Institute of Plant and Microbial Biology, Academia Sinica
128 Sec. 2, Academia Rd. Nankang, Taipei 115201 Taiwan
Expertise: Abiotic stress, plant evolution, systems biology, predictive biology
https://ipmb.sinica.edu.tw/en/people/ipmb_researchers/wu-ting-ying
https://sites.google.com/view/tywlabipmb
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6488-5133
Liming Xiong
Hong Kong Baptist University
Cha Chi-ming Science Tower, Ho Sin Hang Campus, Kowloon Tong, Hong Kong, China
Expertise: plant abiotic stress tolerance, gene regulation, mineral nutrition
http://biol.hkbu.edu.hk/?page_id=7539
Jian Xu
National University of Singapore
14 Science Drive 4, Singapore 117557, Singapore
Expertise: plant regenerative biology, plant stress biology
https://www.rootsprout.com
Kentaro Yano
WellGreen-I Co. Ltd., Japan
Expertise: bioinformatics, systems biology, plant breeding, databases