PLoS Genetics Editorial Board

Editor-in-Chief

Gregory S. Barsh

Stanford University School of Medicine
Stanford, USA
E-mail: gbarsh [at] plos.org

Deputy Editor

Gregory P. Copenhaver

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

Section Editors

Emmanouil T. Dermitzakis

University of Geneva Medical School
Geneva, Switzerland
Gene Expression Profiling
Natural Variation

Anne C. Ferguson-Smith

University of Cambridge
Cambridge, UK
Epigenetics

Greg Gibson

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

Harmit S. Malik

Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
Seattle, USA
Evolution

Michael W. Nachman

University of Arizona
Arizona, USA
Evolution

Wolf Reik

The Babraham Institute
Cambridge, UK
Epigenetics

Interviews Editor

Jane Gitschier

University of California San Francisco
San Francisco, USA

Reviews Editors

Elizabeth M. C. Fisher

Institute of Neurology
London, UK

Susan M. Rosenberg

Baylor College of Medicine
Houston, 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

Kaveh Ashrafi

University of California San Francisco
San Francisco, USA
analysis of genetic and neuronal circuits of fat and feeding, C. elegans genetics

David J. Begun

University of California Davis
Davis, USA
population genetics, evolutionary genetics, evolutionary genomics

David R. Beier

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

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

Jürgen Brosius

University of Münster
Münster, Germany
RNomics, phylogenomics, functional genomics

William F. Burkholder

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

Josep Casadesús

Universidad de Sevilla
Sevilla, Spain
prokaryotic genetics, infectious diseases, gene regulation, plasmids

Vivian G. Cheung

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

Andrew D. Chisholm

University of California San Diego
La Jolla, USA
genetics of neuronal and epidermal morphogenesis, C. elegans genetics

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

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

James M. Ford

Stanford University School of Medicine
Stanford, USA
cancer genetics, mammalian DNA repair, tumor suppressor genes

Wayne N. Frankel, Founding Editor

The Jackson Laboratory
Bar Harbor, USA
genetics of epilepsy, neurogenetics, complex traits

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

Marshall S. Horwitz

University of Washington
Seattle, USA
human genetics, cancer genetics, mutagenesis

Tetsuji Kakutani

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

Nicholas Katsanis

Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
Baltimore, USA
ciliary structure and function, oligogenic inheritance, morphogenetic signaling

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
noncoding RNA, gene silencing, heterochromatin, sex chromosome biology, imprinting, transgenerational inheritance

Michael Lichten

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

Jason D. Lieb

The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Chapel Hill, USA
genomics, chromatin, transcription

Marcy E. MacDonald

Massachusetts General Hospital
Boston, USA
human genetics, genetic mouse models, genotype-phenotype correlations

Trudy F. C. Mackay

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

Hiten D. Madhani

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

Harvard University
Cambridge, 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

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

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

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

Christopher E. Pearson

The Hospital for Sick Children and University of Toronto
Toronto, Canada
disease-associated repeat instability, DNA replication, repair, recombination, mutagenesis, epigenetics

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, Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Chicago, USA
population genetics, human population structure, association mapping

Molly Przeworski

University of Chicago, Howard Hughes Medical Institute
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

Patrick S. Schnable

Iowa State University
Ames, USA
plant/crop genetics and genomics, cytoplasmic male sterility, meiotic recombination, heterosis

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

Dirk Schübeler

Friedrich Miescher Institute for Biomedical Research
Basel, Switzerland
DNA methylation, chromatin structure, genomics approaches to studying transcriptional regulation

Michael Snyder

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

David L. Stern

Princeton University, Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Princeton, 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

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

Joseph S. Takahashi

University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Dallas, USA
mouse genetics and genomics, molecular neuroscience, genetics of behavior, circadian biology

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

Peter M. Visscher

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

Jianzhi Zhang

University of Michigan
Ann Arbor, USA
molecular evolution, genome evolution, evolutionary systems biology