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The EMBO Journal
EMBO Reports
Molecular Systems Biology
EMBO Molecular Medicine
Life Science Alliance
The EMBO Journal
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Facundo D. Batista (Chief Editor) Facundo is the Phillip T. and Susan M. Ragon Professor of Microbiology and Immunology at Harvard Medical School, and Associate Director of the Ragon Institute of MGH, MIT and Harvard. Facundo graduated from the University of Buenos Aires and received his PhD from SISSA/ICGEB, Trieste, followed by postdoctoral training with Michael Neuberger at the LMB in Cambridge. He started his independent career at the London Research Institute, becoming an EMBO Young Investigator in 2009, and continuing as Member of the Francis Crick Institute and Professor at Imperial College, London. Facundo’s lab studies B-cell biology and antibody responses, particularly B-cell receptor signaling dynamics, involvement of the cortical cytoskeleton, and more recently the role of B-cell metabolism. Since joining the Ragon Institute in 2016, his research interests have broadened to applied immunology, including the creation of new technologies to inform rational vaccine design. Facundo has served on the editorial boards of various journals. He is an EMBO Member, recipient of the Royal Society Wolfson Research Merit Award, and a Fellow of the UK Academy of Medical Sciences and the American Academy of Microbiology. [email protected] |
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Hartmut Vodermaier (Senior Scientific Editor) Responsible for: Cell Cycle; DNA Replication, Repair & Recombination; Post-translational Modifications, Proteolysis & Proteomics; Structural Biology Hartmut received his PhD from the University of Vienna for his work on ubiquitination and the cell cycle carried out in the group of Jan-Michael Peters. In his postdoctoral work in the laboratory of Andrea Musacchio at the IFOM-IEO campus in Milan, he focussed on the role of kinetochore proteins in chromosome segregation. Hartmut joined The EMBO Journal in 2006. [email protected] |
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Daniel Klimmeck (Senior Scientific Editor) Responsible for: Ageing & Senescence; Cancer; Metabolism; Molecular Biology of Disease; Stem Cells Daniel received his PhD in 2008 with work on ion channel signaling in sensory neurons in the laboratory of Stephan Frings at the University of Heidelberg. As a postdoc, he focused on the molecular characterization of cancer and hematopoietic stem cells with Andreas Trumpp at the DKFZ and Jeroen Krijgsveld at EMBL. Daniel joined The EMBO Journal in 2015. [email protected] |
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Ieva Gailite (Senior Scientific Editor) Responsible for: Cell Adhesion, Polarity & Cytoskeleton; Development; Microbiology, Virology & Host Pathogen Interaction; Signal Transduction; Vascular Biology Ieva received her PhD from the University of Göttingen where she worked on cell polarity and endocytosis in Drosophila in the lab of Andreas Wodarz. In 2011 she moved to do her postdoc with Nicolas Tapon at the Cancer Research UK London Research Institute (now The Francis Crick Institute), where she worked on the regulation of tissue growth via the Hippo pathway. Ieva joined The EMBO Journal in 2016. [email protected] |
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William Teale (Scientific Editor) Responsible for: Autophagy; Channels & Transporters; Membrane & Intracellular Transport; Plant Biology William received his PhD from Bristol University where he studied the biosynthesis of gibberellins at IACR-Long Ashton with Prof. Mike Beale. He then moved to the Biochemistry Department at Cambridge University to study transient protein-protein interactions in photosynthetic electron transport chains with Dr Derek Bendall and Prof. Chris Howe. William then moved to Freiburg University in Germany to characterise the structure and function of polar auxin transport protein complexes with Prof. Klaus Palme. William joined the EMBO Journal in 2021. [email protected] |
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Cornelius Schneider (Scientific Editor) Responsible for: Chromatin, Epigenetics & Genomics; RNA biology; transcription; Protein Biosynthesis & Quality Control Cornelius received his PhD from the University of Göttingen, where he studied structural rearrangements during the spliceosomal catalytic cycle in the lab of Reinhard Lührmann at the Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry. For his postdoctoral studies, he went to Würzburg, where he worked on small bacterial regulatory RNAs with Jörg Vogel and mRNA translation in eukaryotes with Utz Fischer. Cornelius joined The EMBO Journal in 2023. [email protected] |
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Ioannis Papaioannou (Scientific Editor) Responsible for: Immunology; Host-Pathogen Interactions; Neuroscience; Cell Death Ioannis received his MSc and PhD from the University of Athens (Greece), where he worked on non-self recognition systems of pathogenic fungi and on their interactions with their hosts in the laboratory of Milton Typas. During his postdoc in the same lab, he studied the diversity of lignocellulose-degrading microbial communities and their enzymatic arsenals. He then moved for a second postdoc to the laboratory of Michael Knop at the University of Heidelberg (Germany), where he focused on microbial mating and recombination strategies and their impact on genome evolution, as well as on mechanisms of microbial pathogenicity, regulation of cell death and development. Ioannis joined EMBO reports in 2022 before moving to The EMBO Journal in July 2023. [email protected] |
EMBO Reports
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Bernd Pulverer (Chief Editor) Following undergraduate studies in Cambridge, Bernd received his PhD in 1992 from the Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research, London, for uncovering posttranslational regulation of the transcription factors c-Jun and c-Myc by the JNK and MAP kinases. He carried out postdoctoral research at the Ontario Cancer Institute, Toronto, the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle and at the University of Innsbruck. Bernd was associate and then senior editor at Nature from 1999 until 2002 and subsequently chief editor of Nature Cell Biology. Prior to his editorship of EMBO Reports, Bernd had been the chief editor of The EMBO Journal for a decade. He is also Head of Scientific Publications at EMBO. Bernd Pulverer was a co-founder of the San Francisco Declaration on Research Assessment (DORA) and serves on its Steering Committee. He is a member of the advisory boards of bioRxiv, Review Commons, ASM publications and a member of the STM Image Integrity Working Group. He is a founding director of the journal Life Science Alliance, co-published by EMBO Press, Rockefeller University Press and Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press.
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Esther Schnapp (Senior Scientific Editor) Responsible for: Chromatin & Epigenetics; Developmental Biology; DNA Replication, Repair & Recombination; Genomics; Neuroscience; Plant Biology; Protein Biosynthesis & Quality Control; RNA Biology; Transcription Esther joined EMBO reports in October 2008. She was awarded her PhD in 2005 at the Max Planck Institute for Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics in Dresden, Germany, where she studied tail regeneration in the axolotl. As a post-doc she worked on muscle development in zebrafish and on the characterisation of mesoangioblasts at the Stem Cell Research Institute of the San Raffaele Hospital in Milan, Italy. [email protected] |
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Martina Rembold (Senior Scientific Editor) Responsible for: Ageing; Autophagy; Cell Death; Channels; Membrane & Intracellular Transport; Polarity & Cytoskeleton; Post-translational Modifications & Proteolysis; Systems and Computational Biology Martina joined EMBO Reports in September 2015. After her undergraduate studies in Vienna, Martina worked on histone modifications during mouse embryonic development in the lab of Christian Seiser. She received her PhD from EMBL Heidelberg where she studied optic vesicle morphogenesis in medaka fish with Jochen Wittbrodt. For her postdoctoral work she went to Maria Leptin's lab at University of Cologne and focussed on Drosophila gastrulation and on the role of Snail family genes in mesoderm and neuroblast development using genome-wide technologies. [email protected] |
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Achim Breiling (Senior Scientific Editor) Responsible for: Cancer; Immunology; Microbiology, Virology & Host-Pathogen Interaction; Molecular Biology of Disease; Signal Transduction; Stem Cells Achim joined EMBO reports in January 2016. Achim received his PhD at the Center for Molecular Biology (ZMBH) in Heidelberg 1998, working on the functional characterisation of epigenetic modifiers in Drosophila. He then moved as postdoctoral researcher to Milan and Naples (Italy), further studying the regulation and maintenance of epigenetic silencing. Since 2007 he worked at the Division of Epigenetics at the German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ) in Heidelberg, focussing on the role of dynamic DNA methylation during differentiation. [email protected] |
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Deniz Senyilmaz Tiebe (Senior Scientific Editor) Responsible for: Cell Cycle; Cell Adhesion, Polarity & Cytoskeleton; Metabolism & Cell Biology; Vascular Biology Deniz received her PhD from the University of Heidelberg. During her PhD work in the laboratory of Aurelio Teleman at the DKFZ, she uncovered a dedicated signaling pathway through which stearic acid regulates mitochondria. During her post-doc in Aurelio Teleman’s lab, one of her projects focused on the effects of dietary stearic acid on human physiology. Deniz joined EMBO reports in November 2018. [email protected] |
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Holger Breithaupt (Senior Features Editor) Responsible for: Science & Society Holger joined EMBO reports in 2000. He currently handles Science & Society content for the journal. Holger earned his PhD at the University of Düsseldorf’s Institute of Enzyme Technology and then studied science journalism at New York University's Science and Environmental Reporting Program. He worked as a freelance journalist before joining EMBO reports as Features Editor at the journal’s inception. [email protected] |
Molecular Systems Biology
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M. Madan Babu (Chief Editor) Madan completed a PhD in Computational Genomics at the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology (LMB) in Cambridge, UK in 2004. After a postdoctoral fellowship at the NCBI, National Health Institutes, USA, he returned to the LMB as group leader in 2006. He heads the regulatory genomics and systems biology group, which investigates how regulation is achieved in cellular systems and how this influences evolution of organisms and their genome. Since 2021 he is the director of the center of excellence for data-driven discovery at St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital. His group investigates how regulation is achieved in cellular systems and how this influences evolution of organisms and their genome. [email protected] |
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Poonam Bheda (Scientific Editor) Poonam received her PhD from Johns Hopkins Medical Institute, where she studied the role of transcriptional repressors and histone modifications through biochemical and structural approaches. As a postdoc at the IGBMC and Helmholtz Zentrum, her work focused on single-cell transcriptional memory using a combination of yeast genetics and microfluidics. In 2020, Poonam became a Senior Editor at Nature Communications, and then joined as Scientific Editor for Molecular Systems Biology and EMBO Molecular Medicine in 2023. [email protected] |
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Jingyi Hou (Senior Scientific Editor) Jingyi Hou received her PhD from the Free University Berlin / Max-Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine, where she dissected cis-regulatory mechanisms that control mRNA translation using various mouse models. As a post-doc, she joined the laboratory of Erin O’Shea at the HHMI - Janelia Research Campus in USA, where she focused on the role of RNA methylation in the nervous system development and in learning and memory formation. [email protected] |
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Yehu Moran (Academic Editor) - The EMBO Journal, EMBO Reports, Molecular Systems Biology Responsible for: Ecology; Evolutionary Biology Yehu is a Professor and the Head of the Department of Ecology, Evolution and Behavior at the Hebrew University. His group is studying the evolution of complex systems using innate immunity, venom and ion channels as focus models, utilizing both experimental and computational approaches at the molecular, organismal and environmental levels. Yehu’s doctoral research at Tel Aviv University focused on the molecular evolution of animal toxins and other venom components. In 2010 he moved to the Department of Molecular Evolution and Development in the University of Vienna to study as a postdoctoral researcher the evolution of post-transcriptional genetic regulation by microRNAs, and then moved to Hebrew University of Jerusalem to start his own research group as a Senior Lecturer in 2014. |
EMBO Molecular Medicine
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Philippe Sansonetti (Chief Editor) (Institut Pasteur, Paris) Philippe Sansonetti trained as a medical doctor at the Université Paris VI, France before moving into research. In 1989 he founded and became the director of the Insitut Pasteur’s Molecular Microbial Pathogenesis Unit. He is Professor of Microbiology and Infectious Diseases at the Collège de France. He has acted as Medical Director of the Institut Pasteur hospital, and held administrative positions at INSERM, the French Ministry of Research and Technology and the World Health Organisation. Sansonetti’s research focuses on the molecular pathogenesis of bacterial infections. He has contributed detailed understanding of the molecular mechanisms through which Shigella invades and kills cells, and is developing vaccine candidates against this dysentery-causing bacterium. His work has been recognized by numerous awards and he is an elected member of national and international organisations, including EMBO, the French Academy of Sciences, The Royal Society and the US National Academy of Sciences. [email protected] |
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Lise Roth (Senior Scientific Editor) Responsible for: cancer; cancer stem cells; immunotherapy; immune disorders; metabolism; obesity and diabetes; angiogenesis; cardiovascular diseases; respiratory diseases; asthma; skin disorders Lise Roth received her PhD in 2008 from the University of Strasbourg, France, where she studied the role of the transmembrane domain of NRP1 in Sema3A and VEGF signaling. She carried out post-doctoral research on tumor-targeting peptides in Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute, Santa Barbara, USA, and in 2011, joined the German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), where she focused on NRP1-mediated vascular permeability and on the role of Tie1 in tumor angiogenesis and metastasis. Lise joined EMBO Molecular Medicine as a Scientific Editor in January 2018. |
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Jingyi Hou (Senior Scientific Editor) Responsible for: aging; neuroscience; biomarkers and diagnostics; genomics; proteomics; metabolomics; systems medicine Jingyi Hou received her PhD from the Free University Berlin / Max-Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine, where she dissected cis-regulatory mechanisms that control mRNA translation using various mouse models. As a post-doc, she joined the laboratory of Erin O’Shea at the HHMI - Janelia Research Campus in USA, where she focused on the role of RNA methylation in the nervous system development and in learning and memory formation. Jingyi joined EMBO Molecular Medicine as a Scientific Editor in November 2018. |
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Zeljko Durdevic (Senior Scientific Editor) Responsible for: genetic diseases; mitochondrial diseases; myopathies; stem cells; regenerative medicine; gene therapy; host-pathogen interactions; innate immunity and vaccinology; genomics; proteomics; metabolomics Zeljko Durdevic received his PhD from the University of Heidelberg / German Cancer Research Center, where he investigated the function of DNA methyltransferase 2 uncovering that this enzyme plays important roles in innate immunity, stress responses and genome stability. He carried out his postdoctoral research in the laboratory of Anne Ephrussi at EMBL, where he focused on the role of the RNA helicase Vasa in germ cell lineage homeostasis and genome stability. Zeljko joined EMBO Molecular Medicine as a Scientific Editor in January 2020. |
Life Science Alliance
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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. [email protected] |
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| Annika Diederich | Administrative Officer |
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| Thomas Lemberger | Deputy Head of Scientific Publishing |
| Joel Maupin | Publishing Operations & Marketing Manager |
| Bojana Perkucin | Administrative Officer |
| Christopher Rickerby | Data Integrity Analyst |
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14-18 March 2025Esther Schnapp (EMBO Reports)
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12-16 March 2025Cornelius Schneider (EMBO Journal)
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3-6 March 2025Poonam Bheda (Molecular Systems Biology)
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23-26 February 2025Ioannis Papaioannou (EMBO Journal)
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18-21 February 2025Poonam Bheda (Molecular Systems Biology)
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16-19 February 2025Zeljko Durdevic (EMBO Mol Med)
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10-13 February 2025Deniz Senyilmaz (EMBO Reports)
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28-29 January 2025Jingyi Jou (EMBO Mol Med)
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27-30 January 2025Yehu Moran (Academic Editor, Ecology & Evolution)
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14-18 December 2024Thomas Lemberger (Review Commons); Bernd Pulverer (EMBO Reports); Lise Roth (EMBO Mol Med)
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3-5 December 2024Bernd Pulverer (EMBO Press)