Editors for Plant Biology
Senior editors
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Jürgen Kleine-Vehn
University of Freiburg, Germany
Jürgen is a Professor at the University of Freiburg. He obtained his PhD for his work on plant cell polarity at the Flemish Institute of Biotechnology (VIB) at the Ghent University. He has been an Associate Professor at the University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences Vienna and is now full Professor and chair of Molecular Plant Physiology (MoPP) at the University of Freiburg. He works at the interface of quantitative plant cell biology and developmental plant genetics, addressing plant growth control at a subcellular to organ scale.
- Expertise
- Plant Biology
- Cell Biology
- Developmental Biology
- Research focus
- plant hormones
- growth control
- plant architecture
- Competing interests statement
- Jürgen Kleine-Vehn has received and profited from funding by the Friedrich Ebert Stiftung, Vienna Science and Technology Fund (WWTF), the Austrian Science Fund (FWF), the Austrian Academy of Sciences (OeAW), the European Research Council (ERC), the European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO), and the German Research Foundation (DFG). He is on the editorial board of the International Journal of Molecular Science and on the advisory board of Review Commons (operated by EMBO). He has been an elected member of the Austrian Academy of Sciences (Young Curia).
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Sergio Rasmann
University of Neuchâtel, Switzerland
Sergio Rasmann is a plant chemical ecologist who obtained his PhD in 2006 from the University of Neuchâtel (Switzerland), during which he discovered that herbivore-damaged maize roots emit volatile signals in the soil that attract predatory nematodes near the site of wounding. After a post‐doc at Cornell University, a research fellowship at the University of Lausanne, and an assistant professorship at the University of California, Irvine, he is now Full Professor at the University of Neuchâtel, head of the Laboratory of Functional Ecology. His current research interests focus on addressing the mechanistic, ecological and evolutionary causes and consequences of chemically mediated interactions between plants and their biotic and abiotic environment. This broad theme is split into studying the effects of climate change on plant-herbivore interaction, improving biological control methods using beneficial microbes, and conservation biology practices. He has been awarded the early career award by the International Society of Chemical Ecology in 2014.
- Expertise
- Ecology
- Plant Biology
- Research focus
- chemical ecology
- functional ecology
- community ecology
- soil science
- Competing interests statement
- Sergio has been receiving continuous funding mainly from the Swiss National Science Foundation, and occasionally from the European Union (Horizon 2020). He is an active member of several scientific commissions at the Swiss National Science Foundation, and at CITES. He is associate editor for Functional ecology, and Frontiers in Plant Science, and has served as Reviewing Editor for eLife.
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Meredith C Schuman
University of Zurich, Switzerland
Meredith Schuman (Merry) is an Assistant Professor in Spatial Genetics, Departments of Geography and Chemistry, University of Zurich and a member of the Remote Sensing Laboratories and the University Research Priority Program on Global Change and Biodiversity at the University of Zurich. Her background is in the chemical ecology and functional genetics of plant interactions, and plant ecophysiology. She works on projects combining direct analyses of plant tissue, and remote sensing techniques with the aim of developing approaches to assess genetic and chemotypic variation, plasticity, and adaptive potential within plant species, and their interactions in the context of global change. She was previously a Group Leader in the Department of Molecular Ecology at the Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology (MPICE) in Jena and a Junior Group Leader in the German Center for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv) on the ecological functions of plant genes.
- Expertise
- Ecology
- Plant Biology
- Research focus
- chemical ecology
- spatial ecology
- plant interactions
- functional genetics
- intraspecific diversity
- Competing interests statement
- Merry's position and her research is currently supported by the NOMIS foundation (grant to Michael Schaepman, University of Zurich, project: Remotely Sensing Ecological Genomics) and the University of Zurich, including the Departments of Geography and Chemistry and the University Research Priority Program on Global Change and Biodiversity in which she is a PI. From November 2020 her work will also be funded by the European Commission Horizon 2020 program (UPSCALE consortium, grant number 861998, co-PI and work package lead).
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Detlef Weigel
Max Planck Institute for Developmental Biology, Germany
Detlef Weigel received his PhD in 1988 from the Max Planck Institute for Developmental Biology. After postdoctoral work at the California Institute of Technology, he joined the faculty of the Salk Institute in 1993. Since 2002, he has been director of the Department of Molecular Biology at the Max Planck Institute for Developmental Biology. His current research interests focus on natural genetic variation and evolutionary genomics of plants. Examples of recent important projects are the 1001 Genomes project for Arabidopsis thaliana, and the systematic dissection of deleterious epistasis between Arabidopsis strains due to autoimmunity. Among the awards he has received are the Young Investigator Award of the National Science Foundation, the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Award of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, and the Otto Bayer Award. He is a member of the US National Academy of Sciences, the German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina and the Royal Society.
- Expertise
- Plant Biology
- Genetics and Genomics
- Evolutionary Biology
- Research focus
- plants
- genomics
- evolution
- genetic variation
- evolutionary genomics
- adaptation
- microbiome
- Experimental organism
- A. thaliana
- Competing interests statement
- Detlef Weigel has received funding from the Max Planck Society, the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, the Foundation of the State of Baden-Württemberg, the German Ministry for Education and Research, the European Commission, the Human Frontiers Science Program Organization, and several US Federal agencies. He serves on the Editorial Boards of Annual Review of Cell and Developmental Biology and Genome Biology. He is Chair of EMBO Council, and is serving or has recently served on the Advisory Boards of the Epigenomics of Plants International Consortium, Bayer Crop Science, The Arabidopsis Information Resource, Flanders Institute of Biotechnology, Temasek Life Sciences Laboratory, and the Sainsbury Laboratory. He is a co-founder of Computomics and CeMet.
Reviewing editors
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Richard Amasino
University of Wisconsin-Madison, United States
- Expertise
- Plant Biology
- Genetics and Genomics
- Chromosomes and Gene Expression
- Research focus
- plant development and epigenetics
- Experimental organism
- A. thaliana
- B. distachyon
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Rebecca Bart
The Donald Danforth Plant Science Center, United States
- Expertise
- Plant Biology
- Genetics and Genomics
- Microbiology and Infectious Disease
- Research focus
- host-pathogen-environment interactions
- non-model organisms
- cassava
- Xanthomonas
- genetics
- genomics
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Yoselin Benitez-Alfonso
University of Leeds, United Kingdom
- Expertise
- Plant Biology
- Research focus
- cell-cell communication
- developmental signalling
- plasmodesmata
- cell wall structure
- biophysical properties
- medicago-rhizobia interaction
- Arabidopsis
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Dominique Bergmann
Stanford University, United States
- Expertise
- Developmental Biology
- Plant Biology
- Research focus
- asymmetric division
- cell fate
- stomata
- cell polarity
- Experimental organism
- A. thaliana
- Brachypodium
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Benjamin K Blackman
University of California, Berkeley, United States
- Expertise
- Evolutionary Biology
- Genetics and Genomics
- Plant Biology
- Research focus
- evolutionary genetics
- evolution of development
- phenotypic variation
- domestication
- local adaptation
- plant reproduction
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Gertraud Burger
University of Montreal, Canada
- Expertise
- Chromosomes and Gene Expression
- Genetics and Genomics
- Microbiology and Infectious Disease
- Plant Biology
- Research focus
- genomics
- transcriptomics
- proteomics
- bioinformatics
- microeukaryotes
- microbe-plant interactions
- eukaryotic evolution
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Paula Casati
Center of Photosynthetic And Biochemical Studies (CEFOBI), Argentina
- Expertise
- Biochemistry and Chemical Biology
- Chromosomes and Gene Expression
- Plant Biology
- Research focus
- genome stability
- abiotic stress in plants
- chromatin remodelling
- cell cycle regulation
- flavonoid metabolism
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Vincent Castric
Université de Lille, France
- Expertise
- Evolutionary Biology
- Genetics and Genomics
- Plant Biology
- Research focus
- evolutionary genomics
- population genetics
- small regulatory RNAs
- mating systems
- transposable elements
- gene regulatory networks
- self-incompatibility
- receptor-ligand interaction
- Experimental organism
- Arabidopsis
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Paula Fernandez
INTA, Argentina
- Expertise
- Genetics and Genomics
- Plant Biology
- Research focus
- genomics
- system biology
- ecophysiology
- leaf senescence
- transcriptomics
- metabolomics
- phenomics
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Alexandre Fournier-Level
The University of Melbourne, Australia
- Expertise
- Genetics and Genomics
- Plant Biology
- Evolutionary Biology
- Research focus
- natural variation
- quantitative genetics
- population genetics
- invasion
- weeds
- genomic prediction
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Merijn R Kant
University of Amsterdam, Netherlands
- Expertise
- Ecology
- Plant Biology
- Evolutionary Biology
- Research focus
- plant defense
- biological control
- adaptation
- co-evolution
- pest formation
- effectors
- susceptibility
- resistance
- defense suppression
- Experimental organism
- insects
- mites
- plants
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Sang-Gyu Kim
Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, South Korea
- Expertise
- Plant Biology
- Research focus
- chemical ecology
- genome editing
- molecular ecology
- plant defense
- Experimental organism
- Arabidopsis
- Nicotiana
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David M Kramer
Michigan State University, United States
- Expertise
- Biochemistry and Chemical Biology
- Plant Biology
- Physics of Living Systems
- Computational and Systems Biology
- Research focus
- photosynthesis
- bioenergetics
- electron and proton transfer
- computation
- phenotyping
- phenomics
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Pablo A Manavella
Instituto de Agrobiotecnología del Litoral , Argentina
- Expertise
- Plant Biology
- Chromosomes and Gene Expression
- Genetics and Genomics
- Developmental Biology
- Research focus
- small RNA
- microRNAs
- RNA biology
- chromatin
- epigenetics
- transposable elements
- gene silencing
- miRNA biogenesis
- Experimental organism
- A. thaliana
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Heather E McFarlane
University of Toronto, Canada
- Expertise
- Plant Biology
- Cell Biology
- Research focus
- plant cell biology
- plant cell walls
- cell wall signalling
- protein trafficking
- secretion
- Golgi
- signal transduction
- Experimental organism
- A. thaliana
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Jacqueline Monaghan
Queen's University, Canada
- Expertise
- Plant Biology
- Research focus
- plant cell biology
- protein kinases
- signal transduction
- homeostasis
- E3 ubiquitin ligases
- Experimental organism
- A. thaliana
- N. benthamiana
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Mariela I Monteoliva
Instituto Nacional de Tecnologia Agropecuaria, Argentina
- Expertise
- Plant Biology
- Research focus
- plant-microbe interactions
- abiotic stress tolerance
- plant physiology
- drought tolerance
- proline metabolism
- redox status regulation
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Thabiso Motaung
University of Pretoria, South Africa
- Expertise
- Cell Biology
- Microbiology and Infectious Disease
- Plant Biology
- Research focus
- biofilm formation
- extracelular vesicles
- antimicrobial resistance
- extracellular matrix
- plant pathology
- fungal biology
- host-pathogen interaction
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David A Paz-Garcia
Centro de Investigaciones Biológicas del Noroeste (CIBNOR), Mexico
- Expertise
- Chromosomes and Gene Expression
- Computational and Systems Biology
- Ecology
- Evolutionary Biology
- Genetics and Genomics
- Microbiology and Infectious Disease
- Plant Biology
- Research focus
- marine life
- coral reefs
- phylogenomics
- population genomics
- morphometrics
- gene expression
- statistics
- coding
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Bernhard Schmid
University of Zurich, Switzerland
- Expertise
- Ecology
- Plant Biology
- Evolutionary Biology
- Research focus
- plant ecology
- evolutionary ecology
- biodiversity
- ecosystem functioning
- community ecology
- experimental ecology
- Experimental organism
- seed plants
- grassland
- forest
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Pil Joon Seo
Sungkyunkwan University, South Korea
- Expertise
- Plant Biology
- Research focus
- epigenetics
- circadian clocks
- plant regeneration
- stress response
- temperature response
- Experimental organism
- Arabidopsis
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Kenichi Tsuda
Huazhong Agricultural University, China
- Expertise
- Plant Biology
- Chromosomes and Gene Expression
- Genetics and Genomics
- Microbiology and Infectious Disease
- Research focus
- plant immunity
- phytohormones
- pathogen
- microbiome
- transcriptome
- Experimental organism
- maize
- Arabidopsis
- Pseudomonas
- xanthomonas
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Hao Yu
National University of Singapore & Temasek Life Sciences Laboratory, Singapore
- Expertise
- Genetics and Genomics
- Plant Biology
- Research focus
- functional genomics
- plant reproductive development
- phytohormone signalling
- Experimental organism
- rice
- orchid
- A. thaliana
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Daniel Zilberman
John Innes Centre, United Kingdom
- Expertise
- Chromosomes and Gene Expression
- Genetics and Genomics
- Plant Biology
- Research focus
- DNA methylation
- chromatin
- epigenetics
- epigenomics
- evolution
- Experimental organism
- rice
- A. thaliana
