Academic Editors
The following people constitute the Editorial Board of Academic Editors for PeerJ. These active academics are the Editors who seek peer reviewers, evaluate their responses, and make editorial decisions on each submission to the journal. Learn more about becoming an Editor.
Gökhan Karakülah
Dr. Gökhan Karakülah currently works at Dokuz Eylül University, Izmir International Biomedicine and Genome Institute in Turkey as an associate professor. He obtained BSc (2005) from Ege University, and MSc (2009) and PhD (2014) degrees from Dokuz Eylül University, Health Sciences Institute in Turkey. Between October 2014 and April 2016, he joined Dr. Anand Swaroop’s research group as a postdoctoral researcher at National Eye Institute, NIH, US. The main focus of his current research has been to develop tools and algorithms for the better analysis and integration of diverse “omics” data sets generated with next generation sequencing technologies.
Xavier A Harrison
Senior Lecturer in Ecology, University of Exeter, UK
Co-Secretary, Microbial Ecology Special Interest Group, British Ecological Society.
How important are microbes for determining animal health? My work seeks to understand how host-associated microbial communities can affect traits like digestion, nutrition, and disease susceptibility. I use amphibians as a model system for studying the vertebrate skin microbiome and how it protects against infection by the lethal pathogens Ranavirus and chytrid fungus.
I also study the structure and function of the gut microbiome in migratory birds.
Alastair Culham
Associate Professor of Botany and Curator of the University of Reading Herbarium (RNG).
Leonardo L Gollo
Leonardo is a Senior Research Fellow with training in Neuroscience and Physics. He works on Neuroscience, Computational Biology, Connectomics, and Complex Systems. His research focuses on computational and mathematical models of brain function.
Philip H Kass
Philip Kass received his DVM in 1983; Master of Preventive Veterinary Medicine in 1984, MS in Statistics in 1988, and PhD in Epidemiology in 1990. His post-doc was at UCLA under Dr. Sander Greenland. Currently Professor of Analytic Epidemiology at the School of Veterinary Medicine and School of Medicine at the University of California, Davis. Vice Provost of Academic Affairs since July 2017. Diplomate of the American College of Veterinary Preventive Medicine, and is the former Chair of the Department of Population Health and Reproduction.
Monika Mortimer
Senior Researcher at the National Institute of Chemical Physics and Biophysics, Tallinn, Estonia. Research interests and experience include ecotoxicology, environmental effects of engineered nanomaterials, fate and transport of contaminants of emerging concern, and microbiology.
Brandon P Hedrick
Assistant Professor of Biomedical Sciences, Cornell University
An evolutionary biologist, paleobiologist, and ecologist primarily interested in comparative morphology. I work across the vertebrate tree including reptiles, amphibians, and birds, but specialize on bats and dinosaurs.
Angelo Piato
Professor of Pharmacology at Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS), Brazil. PhD in Pharmaceutical Sciences, UFRGS. Research experience in Neuroscience and Psychopharmacology. Experience in research in the Neuroscience and Psychopharmacology areas investigating translational psychopharmacology, stress neuromodulation and xenobiotic effects on behavioral, biochemical and molecular parameters in zebrafish.
Korakot Nganvongpanit
Korakot Nganvongpanit, B.Sc., D.V.M., Ph.D., D.T.B.V.S. is Professor of Veterinary Medicine at the Chiang Mai University, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Thailand. He is the head of Animal Bone and Joint Research Laboratory, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Chiang Mai University over 15 years, and head of Excellence Center in Veterinary Bioscience, Chiang Mai University.
His research experience focusing on osteology and related areas includes molecular biology/genetic, chondrocyte culture, small animals orthopedic, and rehabilitation. Past projects involved multi-disciplinary research in the areas of animal osteology including; osteoarthritis (in vivo and in vitro), molecular biology/genetic, forensic anthropology, and population genetics.
Hossein Khiabanian
Hossein is an Associate Professor of Pathology in the Division of Medical Informatics at Rutgers Cancer Institute of New Jersey. His group develops novel analytical methods to understand the underlying genetics of human diseases and the molecular epidemiology of disease-causing organisms using high-throughput genomic data. The group is especially interested in studying tumor clonal evolution, and identifying prognostic markers in cancer, particularly in hematological malignancies. Hossein received his Ph.D. in Physics from Brown University, where he studied galaxy clusters and dark matter structures, using weak gravitational lensing. Prior to joining Rutgers, he was a member of the faculty in the Department Biomedical Informatics at Columbia University.
Brenda Oppert
EDUCATION
University of Texas at El Paso (9/75-8/78), B.S. in Biology, 1978
University of Texas at El Paso (1/83-12/86), M.S. in Biology, 1986
Kansas State University (8/86-5/91), Ph.D. in Biochemistry, 1991
PROFESSIONAL
• Research Molecular Biologist (GS-15), CGAHR, Manhattan, KS (4/91-present)
• Adjunct Professor, Department of Entomology, Kansas State University (1/99-present)
G Lorimer Moseley
Professor of Clinical Neurosciences & Foundation Chair in Physiotherapy, Director of Innovation in Implementation and Clinical Translation (IIMPACT) Research Collaboration at the University of South Australia; Fellow of the Australian Academy of Health & Medical Science; Hon Fellow, Faculty of Pain Medicine, Australia New Zealand College of Anaesthetists; Fellow, Australian College of Physiotherapists & Honoured Member, Australian Physiotherapy Association; Principal Research Fellow, National Health & Medical Research Council of Australia.