Advisory Board and Editors Cell Biology
Gianluca Tettamanti
- Degree in Biology (University of Milano), 1997
- PhD in Evolution and Development (University of Insubria), 2003
- Assistant Professor (Zoology), University of Insubria, 2005-2011
- Associate Professor (Zoology), University of Insubria, 2011-present
Research topics addressed:
- Cell death and regeneration in insect development
- Insect biotechnology
- Immune response in insects
- Author of 90 papers in peer-reviewed journals
- Author of 11 book chapters
Vladimir I. Titorenko
Professor and Concordia University Research Fellow, Biology Department, Concordia University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
Research interests include molecular and cellular mechanisms of aging and age-related disorders.
David Tollervey
Director of the Wellcome Trust Centre for Cell Biology, Professor of RNA Biology and Wellcome Trust Principal Research Fellow. Fellow of the Royal Society, Member of EMBO and Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. Former President of the RNA Society.
Rohit Upadhyay
Dr. Rohit Upadhyay is a Research Scientist in the School of Medicine at Tulane University.
He has skills and expertise in the following areas; Cancer Genetics, Cell and Molecular biology, Kidney Injury, Pharmacology, and Molecular mechanisms of complex diseases.
Laurence Vandel
University of Clermont-Auvergne
Director of research at CNRS
Research fields include, epigenetic enzymes, transcription regulation, cell differentiation and cancer.
Yegor S Vassetzky
Yegor Vassetzky graduated from the Moscow State University. After a PhD thesis in molecular biology at the Engelhardt Institute of Molecular Biology in Moscow, he worked as a postdoctoral fellow in laboratories of Klaus Scherrer (Paris), Susan Gasser (Lausanne) and Marcel Méchali (Montpellier). Since 2002 he heads the laboratory of Nuclear Organization and Pathologies at Gustave Roussy Institute (Villejuif, France). His main research interests concern epigenetic regulation in cancer and neuromuscular diseases. Yegor Vassetzky is Associate Editor for Biopolymers & Cell, and member of the Editorial Board of PeerJ and Oncotarget.
Natascia Ventura
Natascia Ventura received her MD and PhD degrees at the University of Rome and her post-doctoral training at the University of Colorado at Boulder. Since 2012 she leads the Mitochondrial-associated aging and diseases group and her research mainly uses C. elegans as a powerful genetic tractable organism to unravel mechanistic aspects of mitochondrial-stress control of longevity and to develop models for human mitochondrial-associated diseases.
Henning Walczak
Recipient of the Wellcome Trust Senior Investigator Award (2011) and an ERC Advanced Grant (2011). Director of the European Workshop on Cell Death (EWCD) Charity.
Shibiao Wan
Dr. Shibiao Wan is currently an Assistant Professor in the Department of Genetics, Cell Biology and Anatomy, and the Co-Director for the Bioinformatics and Systems Biology (BISB) PhD Program at University of Nebraska Medical Center (UNMC). He is also an Assistant Professor (courtesy) in the Department of Biostatistics at UNMC.
With more than 14 years of experience in machine learning, bioinformatics, and computational biology, Dr. Wan has published >50 articles in top-tiered journals such as Genome Research, Nature Communications, Science Advances, Circulation Research, Briefings in Bioinformatics, and Bioinformatics. Dr. Wan is the Editor-in-Chief for Current Proteomics, and an Editorial Board Member for a series of prestigious journals such as Briefings in Functional Genomics, Heliyon, BMC Bioinformatics, International Journal of Microbiology, PeerJ Computer Science, BioMed Research International, and Computational and Mathematical Methods, and a guest associate editor for multiple high-impact journals including Frontiers in Immunology, Frontiers in Cell and Developmental Biology, Frontiers in Pharmacology, Biology, Frontiers in Genetics, and Genes.
Dr Wan is a TPC member for >20 machine learning related international conferences including IEEE ICTAI. Dr. Wan is also a reviewer for >70 prestigious journals including Nature Biotechnology, Nature Methods, Nature Communications, Nature Computational Science, Science Advances, Nucleic Acids Research, Advanced Science, Cancer Research, Genome Biology, and Genome Medicine. Dr. Wan has received a number of accolades including the Springer Nature Editor of Distinction Award in 2025 by Springer Nature, the New Investigator Award in 2024 by UNMC, the FIRST Award in 2023 by Nebraska EPSCoR, the Outstanding Young Alumni Award in 2022 by HK PolyU as well as the Global Peer Review Awards (top 1%) in “Cross-Field” and “Biology and Biochemistry” in 2019 by Clarivate. Dr. Wan is a member of AACR, ISCB and ACM and an IEEE Senior Member.
Jincheng Wang
Dr. Jincheng Wang is a research fellow at global center for Biomedical Science and Engineering, Hokkaido University Faculty of Medicine. Dr. Jincheng Wang worked as a hepatologist in Nanjing Drum Tower Hospital for 3 years. He published 29 articles and obtained more than 10 patents (https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9345-2388). His research interests are natural products, cancer treatment, radiomics, medical informatics and computational methods in personalized medicine.
Katja Wassmann
Head of the Mammalian Oocyte Meiosis (MOM) research group, at the Institut de Biologie Paris Seine (IBPS), Paris, France. She is currently a Research Director with the CNRS.
After her PhD in G. Ammerer's lab in Vienna on signal transduction in budding yeast, and a Postdoc in R. Benezra's lab (MSKCC, New York, USA) where she worked on mitotic checkpoint control in human cells, she decided to continue on cell cycle and spindle checkpoint control in oocyte meiosis.
Christine J Watson
Professor of Cell and Cancer Biology in the Department of Pathology, University of Cambridge. Graduate of the University of Glasgow and Imperial College, London.