PLoS Genetics Editorial Board

Editor-in-Chief

Wayne N. Frankel

The Jackson Laboratory
Bar Harbor, USA
E-mail: wfrankel [at] plos.org

Deputy Editors

Greg Barsh

Stanford University School of Medicine
Stanford, USA

Gregory P. Copenhaver

The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Chapel Hill, USA

Section Editors

Emmanouil T. Dermitzakis

Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute
Cambridge, UK
Gene Expression Profiling
Natural Variation

Greg Gibson

The University of Queensland
Brisbane, Australia
Gene Expression Profiling
Natural Variation

Harmit S. Malik

Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
Seattle, USA
Evolutionary Genetics

Gil McVean

University of Oxford
Oxford, UK
Evolutionary Genetics

Wolf Reik

The Babraham Institute
Cambridge, UK
Epigenetics

Reviews Editors

Elizabeth M. C. Fisher

Institute of Neurology
London, UK

Nicholas Katsanis

Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
Baltimore, USA

Marcy E. MacDonald

Massachusetts General Hospital
Boston, USA

Susan M. Rosenberg

Baylor College of Medicine
Houston, USA

Interviews Editor

Jane Gitschier

University of California, San Francisco
San Francisco, USA

Associate Editors

Gonçalo R. Abecasis

University of Michigan
Ann Arbor, USA
human complex disease: genetic mapping, computational and statistical tools

Asifa Akhtar

European Molecular Biology Laboratory
Heidelberg, Germany
dosage compensation, chromatin and transcription, epigenetics

David B. Allison

University of Alabama at Birmingham
Birmingham, USA
obesity, quantitative genetics, clinical trials, and statistical and research methodology

David R. Beier

Harvard Medical School
Boston, USA
mouse genetics, positional cloning, development, mutagenesis, kidney disease

Joy Bergelson

University of Chicago
Chicago, USA
the ecology and evolution of plant–enemy interactions

Wendy A. Bickmore

Medical Research Council Human Genetics Unit
Edinburgh, UK
nuclear organisation, genome organisation, chromatin

Sue Biggins

Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
Seattle, USA
mitosis, yeast genetics, checkpoints

William F. Burkholder

Stanford University
Stanford, USA
prokaryotic genetics, DNA replication, microbial stress responses,
cell cycle checkpoints, prokaryotic development

Vivian G. Cheung

University of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia, USA
human genetics, genomics, genetics of gene expression

Andrew G. Clark

Cornell University
Ithaca, USA
adaptive variation in natural populations, population genetics,
evolution, genetic basis of complex disease

Bruce E. Clurman

Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
Seattle, USA
cancer biology, cell cycle control, proteolysis

Orna Cohen-Fix

National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases
Bethesda, USA
cell cycle regulation, mitosis/cell division, nuclear structure/nuclear architecture,
yeast genetics

Gregory A. Cox

The Jackson Laboratory
Bar Harbor, USA
neuromuscular disease, mouse genetics, positional cloning

Susan K. Dutcher

Washington University School of Medicine
St. Louis, USA
Chlamydomonas genetics, ciliary and basal body biology,
cytoskeleton, positional cloning, chloroplast genetics

Joseph R. Ecker

The Salk Institute for Biological Studies
San Diego, USA
plant genetics, epigenetics, genomics, systems biology

Anne C. Ferguson-Smith

University of Cambridge
Cambridge, UK
mammalian developmental genetics and epigenetics, comparative genomics, gene regulation

Jonathan Flint

Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics, University of Oxford
Oxford, UK
complex trait genetics (mouse and human), QTL analysis,
behavioral genetics, psychiatric genetics

Claire M. Fraser-Liggett

University of Maryland School of Medicine
Baltimore, USA
prokaryotic genomics and sequencing, comparative genomics

Michel Georges

University of Liège
Liège, Belgium
complex traits, QTL mapping, epigenetics

Takashi Gojobori

National Institute of Genetics
Mishima, Japan
evolutionary genetics, population genetics, bioinformatics, genomics-oriented human genetics

Mathilde Grelon

Institut Jean-Pierre Bourgin, INRA de Versailles
Versailles, France
meiosis, recombination, plant biology

David S. Guttman

University of Toronto
Toronto, Canada
bacterial evolutionary genetics, evolution of virulence and host specificity, comparative genomics

James E. Haber

Brandeis University
Waltham, USA
yeast genetics, recombination, DNA repair, replication

R. Scott Hawley

Stowers Institute for Medical Research
Kansas City, USA
meiosis, chromosome pairing, chromosome segregation,
mutant screens and mutational analysis in Drosophila, mitosis, chromosome structure

Yoshihide Hayashizaki

RIKEN Genomic Sciences Center
Yokohama, Japan
molecular genetics, genomics, transcriptomics, post-genome technology

Tetsuji Kakutani

National Institute of Genetics
Mishima, Japan
plant epigenetics, DNA methylation, heterochromatin

Kathleen Kerr

University of Washington
Seattle, USA
expression arrays, experimental design, statistical methods

Stuart K. Kim

Stanford University
Stanford, USA
genomics, systems biology, C. elegans genetics, aging

Leonid Kruglyak

Princeton University
Princeton, USA
genetic variation and disease, genomics, gene expression (human, dogs, yeast)

Suzanne M. Leal

Baylor College of Medicine
Boston, USA
methods in statistical genetics and genetic epidemiology,
population and family-based association studies, linkage analysis

Jeannie T. Lee

Massachusetts General Hospital, Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Boston, USA
sex chromosomes, X and autosomal imprinting, noncoding RNA

Michael Lichten

National Cancer Institute
Bethesda, USA
meiosis, recombination, chromosome structure/function

Trudy F. C. Mackay

North Carolina State University
Raleigh, USA
complex trait genetics, QTL mapping, LD mapping, evolutionary genetics

Susan E. Mango

Huntsman Cancer Institute
Salt Lake City, USA
C. elegans genetics, promoter analysis, genomics,
organogenesis and development, epithelium formation

Jonathan Marchini

University of Oxford
Oxford, UK
association mapping, statistical methods, human complex disease, population structure

Ivan Matic

Université Paris V, INSERM U571
Paris, France
prokaryotic genetics, recombination, DNA repair, mutagenesis, evolution, infectious diseases

Mark I. McCarthy

Oxford Centre for Diabetes, Endocrinology, and Metabolism
and Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics, University of Oxford
Oxford, UK
diabetes, obesity, and metabolic disease, genetic mapping, genetics of complex diseases

Michael T. McManus

University of California, San Francisco
San Francisco, USA
RNA expression arrays, mouse transgenics, mechanisms of small RNA biology

Mary C. Mullins

University of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia, USA
zebrafish genetics, positional cloning, developmental genetics

Harry T. Orr

University of Minnesota
Minneapolis, USA
mammalian genetics, neurodegeneration, triplet repeat diseases

Norbert Perrimon

Harvard Medical School, Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Boston, USA
Drosophila developmental genetics, signal transduction

Dmitri A. Petrov

Stanford University
Stanford, USA
inference of evolutionary patterns from molecular data, genome evolution,
molecular population genetics, eukaryotic transposable elements

Jonathan K. Pritchard

University of Chicago
Chicago, USA
population genetics, human population structure, association mapping

Molly Przeworski

University of Chicago
Chicago, USA
population genetics, molecular evolution, human evolution, human linkage disequilibrium studies

Paul M. Richardson

Progentech
Emeryville, USA
microbial genomics, sequencing technology

Derry C. Roopenian

The Jackson Laboratory
Bar Harbor, USA
immunogenetics, mouse genetics

Susan M. Rosenberg

Baylor College of Medicine
Houston, USA
prokaryotic genetics, genome instability, mutagenesis, DNA repair, recombination, evolution

Eric Rulifson

University of California, San Francisco
San Francisco, USA
Drosophila developmental genetics, endocrine system organogenesis and biology

Mikkel H. Schierup

University of Aarhus
Aarhus, Denmark
molecular evolution, comparative genomics, population genetics

Nicholas J. Schork

University of California, San Diego and The Scripps Research Institute
La Jolla, USA
the genetic basis of complex traits and diseases, computational and statistical tools

Michael Snyder

Yale University
New Haven, USA
yeast and human genomics and proteomics, chromosome segregation, morphogenesis, cell cycle

David L. Stern

Princeton University
Princeton, USA
evolutionary developmental biology, genetics in non-model insects,
genetics, physiology, development and evolution of size, control of polyphenisms,
development and genetics of bacterial symbiosis

John D. Storey

Princeton University
Princeton, USA
gene expression, computational and statistical tools, integrative genomics

Lisa Stubbs

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Livermore, USA
mammalian genetics, comparative genomics, genome evolution, gene regulation

Joseph S. Takahashi

Northwestern University, Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Urbana, USA
mouse genetics and genomics, molecular neuroscience, genetics of behavior, circadian biology

Barbara J. Trask

Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
Seattle, USA
mammalian genome organization, cytogenetics, gene families, duplications, cancer genetics,
nuclear organization, molecular evolution, gross polymorphism

David Valle

Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
Baltimore, USA
human genetics, disease gene identification, analysis,
disease mechanisms and model systems, inborn errors of metabolism, genomics

Veronica van Heyningen

Medical Research Council Human Genetics Unit
Edinburgh, UK
developmental genetics, human disease and mutational mechanisms, regulation of gene expression,
genomic organisation, model organisms, gene-environment interactions

Bas van Steensel

Netherlands Cancer Institute
Amsterdam, the Netherlands
chromatin structure and composition, epigenetics, gene regulatory networks,
genome-wide mapping techniques

Peter M. Visscher

Queensland Institute of Medical Research
Brisbane, Australia
quantitative genetics, methods in statistical genetics and genetic epidemiology,
complex disease genetics