PLoS Genetics Editorial Board
Editor-in-Chief
- Gregory S. Barsh
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Stanford University School of Medicine
Stanford, USA
E-mail: gbarsh [at] plos.org
Deputy Editor-in-Chief
- Gregory P. Copenhaver
- The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Chapel Hill, USA
Section Editors
- Josep Casadesús
- Universidad de Sevilla
Sevilla, Spain
Prokaryotic Genetics - Emmanouil T. Dermitzakis
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University of Geneva Medical School
Geneva, Switzerland
Gene Expression Profiling
Natural Variation - Anne C. Ferguson-Smith
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University of Cambridge
Cambridge, UK
Epigenetics - Greg Gibson
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Georgia Institute of Technology
Atlanta, USA
Gene Expression Profiling
Natural Variation - Marshall S. Horwitz
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University of Washington
Seattle, USA
Cancer Genetics - Harmit S. Malik
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Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
Seattle, USA
Evolution - Wolf Reik
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The Babraham Institute
Cambridge, UK
Epigenetics - Scott M. Williams
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Vanderbilt University
Nashville, USA
Natural Variation
Interviews Editor
- Jane Gitschier
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University of California San Francisco
San Francisco, USA
Reviews Editors
- Elizabeth M. Fisher
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Institute of Neurology
London, UK - Susan M. Rosenberg
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Baylor College of Medicine
Houston, USA
Associate Editors
- Gonçalo R. Abecasis
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University of Michigan
Ann Arbor, USA
human complex disease: genetic mapping, computational and statistical tools - Mark Achtman
- Environmental Research Institute, University College Cork
Cork, Ireland
genetically monomorphic bacterial pathogens, microbial phylogeography, comparisons of microbial genomes - Joshua M. Akey
- University of Washington
Seattle, USA
population genetics, genome evolution, genomics - Asifa Akhtar
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Max-Planck-Institute of Immunobiology
Freiburg, Germany
dosage compensation, chromatin and transcription, epigenetics - David B. Allison
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University of Alabama at Birmingham
Birmingham, USA
obesity, quantitative genetics, clinical trials, and statistical and research methodology - Kaveh Ashrafi
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University of California San Francisco
San Francisco, USA
analysis of genetic and neuronal circuits of fat and feeding, C. elegans genetics - Marisa S. Bartolomei
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University of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia, USA
mouse genetics, genomic imprinting, mammalian epigenetics - David J. Begun
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University of California Davis
Davis, USA
population genetics, evolutionary genetics, evolutionary genomics - David R. Beier
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Harvard Medical School
Boston, USA
mouse genetics, positional cloning, development, mutagenesis, kidney disease - Wendy A. Bickmore
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Medical Research Council Human Genetics Unit
Edinburgh, UK
nuclear organisation, genome organisation, chromatin - Sue Biggins
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Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
Seattle, USA
mitosis, yeast genetics, checkpoints - Jürgen Brosius
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University of Münster
Münster, Germany
RNomics, phylogenomics, functional genomics - William F. Burkholder
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Agency for Science, Technology and Research
Singapore, Singapore
prokaryotic genetics, DNA replication, microbial stress responses, cell cycle checkpoints, prokaryotic development - Giacomo Cavalli
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Institut de Génétique Humaine, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique
Montpellier, France
polycomb, trithorax, 3D chromosome organization - Vivian G. Cheung
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University of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia, USA
human genetics, genomics, genetics of gene expression - Andrew D. Chisholm
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University of California San Diego
La Jolla, USA
genetics of neuronal and epidermal morphogenesis, C. elegans genetics - Bruce E. Clurman
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Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
Seattle, USA
cancer biology, cell cycle control, proteolysis - Orna Cohen-Fix
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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 - Claude Desplan
- New York University
New York, USA
pattern formation in insect development - Susan K. Dutcher
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Washington University School of Medicine
St. Louis, USA
Chlamydomonas genetics, ciliary and basal body biology, cytoskeleton, positional cloning, chloroplast genetics - Justin C. Fay
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Washington University School of Medicine
St. Louis, USA
yeast genetics, genome evolution, population genetics - Jonathan Flint
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Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics, University of Oxford
Oxford, UK
complex trait genetics (mouse and human), QTL analysis, behavioral genetics, psychiatric genetics - Wayne N. Frankel, Founding Editor
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The Jackson Laboratory
Bar Harbor, USA
genetics of epilepsy, neurogenetics, complex traits - Takashi Gojobori
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National Institute of Genetics
Mishima, Japan
evolutionary genetics, population genetics, bioinformatics, genomics-oriented human genetics - Miriam B. Goodman
- Stanford University School of Medicine
Stanford, USA
sensory biology, neural basis of behavior, C. elegans genetics - John M. Greally
- Albert Einstein College of Medicine
New York, USA
epigenomics, cancer, type II diabetes mellitus, ageing and environmental influences on the epigenome - Henry T. Greely
- Stanford Law School
Stanford, USA
legal, ethical, and social issues surrounding health law and the biosciences - Mathilde Grelon
- Institut Jean-Pierre Bourgin, INRA de Versailles
Versailles, France
meiosis, recombination, plant biology - H. Leighton Grimes
- Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center
Cincinnati, USA
hematologic malignancies, microRNA, transcription factors - David S. Guttman
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University of Toronto
Toronto, Canada
bacterial evolutionary genetics, evolution of virulence and host specificity, comparative genomics - R. Scott Hawley
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Stowers Institute for Medical Research
Kansas City, USA
meiosis, chromosome pairing, chromosome segregation, mutant screens and mutational analysis in Drosophila, mitosis, chromosome structure - Joseph Heitman
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Duke University Medical Center
Durham, USA
fungal genetics, microbial pathogenesis, sexual reproduction and sex determination - Diarmaid Hughes
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Uppsala University
Uppsala, Sweden
prokaryotic genetics, infectious disease, antibiotic resistance, evolution - Sue Jinks-Robertson
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Duke University
Durham, USA
homologous recombination, mutagenesis, yeast genetics - Tetsuji Kakutani
- National Institute of Genetics
Mishima, Japan
plant epigenetics, DNA methylation, heterochromatin - Kathleen Kerr
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University of Washington
Seattle, USA
expression arrays, experimental design, statistical methods - Stuart K. Kim
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Stanford University
Stanford, USA
genomics, systems biology, C. elegans genetics, aging - Artyom Kopp
- University of California Davis
Davis, California
evolution of development, evolutionary genetics, developmental genetics - Leonid Kruglyak
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Princeton University
Princeton, USA
genetic variation and disease, genomics, gene expression (human, dogs, yeast) - Nils-Göran Larsson
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Max Planck Institute for Biology of Aging
Cologne, Germany
mitochondria, mitochondrial DNA/mtDNA, aging - Suzanne M. Leal
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Baylor College of Medicine
Boston, USA
methods in statistical genetics and genetic epidemiology, population and family-based association studies, linkage analysis - Jeannie T. Lee
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Massachusetts General Hospital, Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Boston, USA
noncoding RNA, gene silencing, heterochromatin, sex chromosome biology, imprinting, transgenerational inheritance - Michael Lichten
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National Cancer Institute
Bethesda, USA
meiosis, recombination, chromosome structure/function - Jason D. Lieb
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The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Chapel Hill, USA
genomics, chromatin, transcription - Bingwei Lu
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Stanford University School of Medicine
Stanford, USA
neurodegenerative disease modeling in Drosophila, developmental neurobiology, neural stem cells - Hiten D. Madhani
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University of California San Francisco
San Francisco, USA
control of gene expression, signaling, yeast - Nancy Maizels
- University of Washington
Seattle, USA
immunoglobulin genes, genomic instability, repair and mutagenesis mechanisms - Susan E. Mango
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Harvard University
Cambridge, USA
C. elegans genetics, promoter analysis, genomics, organogenesis and development, epithelium formation - Jonathan Marchini
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University of Oxford
Oxford, UK
association mapping, statistical methods, human complex disease, population structure - Ivan Matic
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Université Paris Descartes, INSERM U1001
Paris, France
prokaryotic genetics, recombination, DNA repair, mutagenesis, evolution, infectious diseases - Rodney Mauricio
- University of Georgia
Athens, USA
plant population genetics, plant ecological genetics, genetic basis of complex traits - 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
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University of California San Francisco
San Francisco, USA
RNA expression arrays, mouse transgenics, mechanisms of small RNA biology - Gil McVean
- University of Oxford
Oxford, UK
evolutionary biology, population genetics - Nancy A. Moran
- Yale University
New Haven, USA
evolution of biological complexity, symbiosis - Mary C. Mullins
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University of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia, USA
zebrafish genetics, positional cloning, developmental genetics - Stefan Mundlos
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Max Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics
Berlin, Germany
human genetics of developmental disorders, gene regulation, disease mechanisms - Amanda J. Myers
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University of Miami
Miami, USA
human complex disease, gene mapping, genomics, expression analysis, proteomics - Michael W. Nachman
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University of Arizona
Tucson, USA
population genetics, evolutionary genetics, speciation, adaptation - Harry T. Orr
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University of Minnesota
Minneapolis, USA
mammalian genetics, neurodegeneration, triplet repeat diseases - Bret A. Payseur
- University of Wisconsin
Madison, USA
complex trait genetics, evolutionary genetics, evolutionary genomics, population genetics - Christopher E. Pearson
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The Hospital for Sick Children and University of Toronto
Toronto, Canada
disease-associated repeat instability, DNA replication, repair, recombination, mutagenesis, epigenetics - Norbert Perrimon
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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
- Sharon E. Plon
- Baylor College of Medicine
Houston, USA
genetic susceptibility to cancer, genomic instability, medical genetics, neurocutaneous disorders - Jonathan K. Pritchard
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University of Chicago, Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Chicago, USA
population genetics, human population structure, association mapping - Molly Przeworski
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University of Chicago, Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Chicago, USA
population genetics, molecular evolution, human evolution, human linkage disequilibrium studies - Li-Jia Qu
- Peking University
Beijing, China
plant gametogenesis, leaf development, transcription factors - Bing Ren
- Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research, University of California San Diego
La Jolla, USA
epigenomics, eukaryotic transcription, embryonic stem cells - Paul M. Richardson
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Progentech
Emeryville, USA
microbial genomics, sequencing technology - Derry C. Roopenian
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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
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University of California San Francisco
San Francisco, USA
Drosophila developmental genetics, endocrine system organogenesis and biology - Mikkel H. Schierup
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University of Aarhus
Aarhus, Denmark
molecular evolution, comparative genomics, population genetics - Patrick S. Schnable
- Iowa State University
Ames, USA
plant/crop genetics and genomics, cytoplasmic male sterility, meiotic recombination, heterosis - Nicholas J. Schork
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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 - Dirk Schübeler
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Friedrich Miescher Institute for Biomedical Research
Basel, Switzerland
DNA methylation, chromatin structure, genomics approaches to studying transcriptional regulation - Hamish S. Scott
- Institute of Medical and Veterinary Science
Adelaide, Australia
genomics, cancer genetics, epigenetics - Tricia R. Serio
- Brown University
Providence, USA
prions, protein misfolding, chaperones - Michael Snyder
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Stanford University School of Medicine
Stanford, USA
yeast and human genomics and proteomics, chromosome segregation, morphogenesis, cell cycle - Nancy B. Spinner
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University of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia, USA
medical genetics, copy number variation, notch signaling in disease - Nathan M. Springer
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University of Minnesota
St. Paul, USA
plant genetics, epigenetics, imprinting, structural genomic variation - David L. Stern
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Janelia Farm Research Campus, Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Ashburn, USA
evolutionary developmental biology, genetics in non-model insects, evolutionary genetics - John D. Storey
- Princeton University
Princeton, USA
gene expression, computational and statistical tools, integrative genomics - Lisa Stubbs
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University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Urbana, USA
mammalian genetics, comparative genomics, genome evolution, gene regulation - Beth A. Sullivan
- Duke University
Durham, USA
chromosome biology, mitosis, chromatin organization, epigenetics - Joseph S. Takahashi
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University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Dallas, USA
mouse genetics and genomics, molecular neuroscience, genetics of behavior, circadian biology - David P. Toczyski
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University of California San Francisco
San Francisco, USA
yeast, the DNA damage checkpoint, cell cycle regulation - Patrick H. Viollier
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University of Geneva Medical School
Geneva, Switzerland
prokaryotic genetics, cell division, polarity, motility, developmental transcription - Peter M. Visscher
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Queensland Institute of Medical Research
Brisbane, Australia
quantitative genetics, methods in statistical genetics and genetic epidemiology, complex disease genetics - Bruce Walsh
- University of Arizona
Tucson, USA
quantitative genetics, complex traits, evolution - Emma Whitelaw
- Queensland Institute of Medical Research
Brisbane, Australia
epigenetics, mouse genetics, transcription - Andrew O.M. Wilkie
- University of Oxford
Oxford, United Kingdom
genetics of craniofacial and limb development, mechanisms of mutation, molecular pathophysiology - Michael Worobey
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University of Arizona
Tucson, USA
virus, phylogenetics, molecular evolution - Eleftheria Zeggini
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Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute
Hinxton, United Kingdom
complex disease, statistical genetics, association studies - Jianzhi Zhang
- University of Michigan
Ann Arbor, USA
molecular evolution, genome evolution, evolutionary systems biology - Jin-Qiu Zhou
- Chinese Academy of Sciences
Shanghai, China
telomeres/telomerase, cellular ageing, yeast epigenetics
Consulting Editors
- Andrew G. Clark
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Cornell University
Ithaca, USA
adaptive variation in natural populations, population genetics, evolution, genetic basis of complex disease - James M. Ford
- Stanford University School of Medicine
Stanford, USA
cancer genetics, mammalian DNA repair, tumor suppressor genes - Michel Georges
- University of Liège
Liège, Belgium
complex traits, QTL mapping, epigenetics - James E. Haber
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Brandeis University
Waltham, USA
yeast genetics, recombination, DNA repair, replication - Nicholas Katsanis
- Duke University
Durham, USA
ciliary structure and function, oligogenic inheritance, morphogenetic signaling - Trudy F. C. Mackay
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North Carolina State University
Raleigh, USA
complex trait genetics, QTL mapping, LD mapping, evolutionary genetics - Veronica van Heyningen
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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