Topical Advisory Panel

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Department of Specialistic Clinical and Odontostomatological Sciences, Polytechnic University of Marche, 60126 Ancona, Italy
Interests: bioinformatics; database; mutations; alternative splicing; co-expression network analysis; pancreatic cancer; exosomes

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Molecular Plant Biology, Department of Biochemistry, University of Turku, 20014 Turku, Finland
Interests: plant molecular biology and photosynthesis

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Departamento de Biologia, Faculdade de Ciências, Universidade do Porto, 4169-007 Porto, Portugal
Interests: avian ecology; wildlife management and conservation; conservation biology
Department of Pediatrics (Genetics), Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, NY 10461, USA
Interests: to improve screening strategies for cervical cancer prevention; to use molecular/prognostic markers for better management of HPV-infected women; to identify novel sequences of diagnostic and therapeutic relevance for prevention of cervical cancer development; to study the mechanism of integration of viral sequences into the human host genome
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CBIOS–Research Center for Biosciences & Health Technologies, Universidade Lusófona, Campo Grande 376, 1749-024 Lisboa, Portugal
Interests: inflammation; innate immunity; chemotatic cues; microvasculature
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Institute of Cardiovascular Research and Sports Medicine, Molecular and Cellular Sports Medicine, German Sport University Cologne, 50933 Cologne, Germany
Interests: red blood cells; red blood cell deformability; nitric oxide; red blood cell nitric oxide synthase; exercise hemorheology; sickle cell disease; fontan circulation; shear stress; reactive oxygen and nitrogen species; blood storage
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Nephrology, Dialysis and Transplantation Unit, Fondazione IRCCS Policlinico San Matteo, 27100 Pavia, Italy
Interests: hemodialysis; kidney; clinical nephrology; renal biopsy; transplant immunology; transplant medicine; experimental nephrology; diabetic nephropathy; renal pathology
Hollings Cancer Center, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, SC 29425, USA
Interests: tumor biology; non-coding RNAs; splicing; metastasis; tumor neurogenesis

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Academic Department of Surgery, University College London, Gower St, Bloomsbury, London WC1E 6BT, UK
Interests: bone; fracture; tissue engineering; stem cells; biomaterials; cell culture; hip; biomechanics; stem cell differentiation; stem cell biology
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VIB-UGent Center for Plant Systems Biology, Ghent University, Technologiepark-Zwijnaarde 71, 9052 Ghent, Belgium
Interests: auxin; auxin signaling; auxin transport; pavement cells; cell wall; endocytosis


Laboratory of Virology, National Institute for Infectious Diseases, "L. Spallanzani" IRCCS, Via Portuense 292, 00149 Rome, Italy
Interests: emerging and re-emerging viruses; bacterial sequence typing; diagnostic molecular assays; metabarcoding; metagenomics
Department of Medical Biochemistry and Cell Biology, Sahlgrenska Academy, University of Gothenburg, SE-405 30 Göteborg, Sweden
Interests: neuroblastoma; anaplastic lymphoma kinase (ALK); ALK signaling; targeted therapy; ALK inhibitor

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Department of Molecular Biotechnology and Health Sciences, University of Turin, 10124 Turin, Italy
Interests: phosphoinositides; cell cycle; mitosis; PI3K; breast cancer

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Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, 246 Noble Research Center, Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, OK 74078, USA
Interests: antibiotic resistance; bacterial resistance mechanism; bacterial genomics; bacterial genetics; epidemiology; molecular diagnostics; vancomycin-intermediate Staphylococcus aureus
1. KFU-RIKEN Translational Genomics Unit, RIKEN, Yokohama 351-0198, Japan
2. Graduate School of Medicine, Juntendo University, Tokyo 113-8421, Japan
Interests: multi-omics; extremophiles; comparative genomics; high-throughput sequencing technologies
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Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, University of Göttingen, 37075 Göttingen, Germany
Interests: biological psychiatry; neuroscience
Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Mercer University, 3001 Mercer University Drive, Suite 114, Atlanta, GA 30084, USA
Interests: receptors; phosphorylation; trafficking; ion channels; vascular biology; calcium signaling; posttranslational modifications; sumoylation; Blood pressure regulation; Ubiquitylation; Calmodulin; pain signaling; nociceptive and neuropathic pain; arterial con

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Radcliffe Department of Medicine, Oxford Centre for Diabetes, Endocrinology and Metabolism (OCDEM), University of Oxford, Oxford OX3 7LE, UK
Interests: diabetes; Islets of Langerhans; T2D-risk alleles; beta cells; electrophysiology; microscopy; exocytosis
1. Key Laboratory of Biomedical Polymers of Ministry of Education, College of Chemistry and Molecular Sciences, Wuhan University, Wuhan 430072, China
2. The Institute for Advanced Studies, Wuhan University, Wuhan 430072, China
Interests: chemical biology of nucleic acid; modification of DNA; metabolic labeling of DNA/RNA; RNA sequencing; directed evolution
Aerospace Structures and Materials (ASM), Delft University of Technology, Postbus 5, 2600 AA Delft, The Netherland
Interests: mechanical properties; mechanical behavior of materials; mechanical testing; mechanics of materials; finite element analysis; materials testing; solid mechanics; finite element modeling; biomechanics; biomaterials
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Division of Glycoscience, Department of Chemistry, School of Engineering Sciences in Chemistry, Biotechnology and Health, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, 114 28 Stockholm, Sweden
Interests: carbohydrate engineering; glycobiology; bioorganic chemistry; polysaccharide sequencing
College of Aquaculture and Life Science, Shanghai Ocean University, Shanghai 200120, China
Interests: aquatic ecology; freshwater fisheries; restoration and conservation ecology in freshwaters

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Structure and Function of RNA, Biomolecular Function Discovery, Bioinformatics Institute, 30 Biopolis Street, Singapore 138671, Singapore
Interests: RNA structure; RNA function; viral genomic; subgenomic RNA; protein; host interactions
Science Center South, School of Public Health, Physiotherapy & Sports Science, University College Dublin Belfield, D04 N2E5 Dublin, Ireland
Interests: bioinformatics; food safety; molecular microbiology

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Faculty of Dentistry, University of Otago, P.O. Box 56, Dunedin 9054, New Zealand
Interests: oral histopathology; oral immunology; oral cancer; experimental pathology
School of Biological Sciences, Queen’s University Belfast, Belfast BT9 5DL, UK
Interests: chromatin; epigenetics; histone modification; transcription regulation; fungal disease; anti-fungal resistance; molecular evolution; candida glabrata

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Institute of Cancer Research, Chester Batty Laboratories, London SW3 6JB, UK
Interests: network biology; multi-omics data analysis; machine learning; computational biology; systems biology
Graduate School of Medicine, Kyoto University, Kyoto 606-8501, Japan
Interests: breast cancer; morphology; animal model
Department of Materials and Life Science, Faculty of Science and Technology, Seikei University, Tokyo 180-8633, Japan
Interests: cell death; apoptosis; necrosis; mitochondria; lipid peroxidation
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Dept. of Mech. Engineering and Materials Science, Duke University, Durham, NC 27701, USA
Interests: design and development of NIR dyes for biological applications; nano-biology with particular interest in understanding the role of ‘protein corona’ in the interface between nanomaterial properties and cellular interactions; study of bioelectric signalling pathways; synthesis of electropolymerized conductive polymer nanowires and electrical stimulation of cells with the nanowire; metal oxide nanoparticles and ROS generation in the absence of light: importance for oxidative stress and study of their epigenetic modifications by understanding biochemical pathways; elucidate the relationship between oxidative stress and epigenetic changes in chromatin structure and DNA methylation; designing and executing high-throughput corona experiments through automating the pipetting process
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