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Editorial Board

Editors-in-Chief
Irina Arkhipova, PhD, Marine Biological Laboratory, United States of America
Kathleen Burns, MD, PhD, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute at Harvard Medical School, United States of America
Pascale Lesage, PhD, INSERM, France

Associate Editors
Orsolya Barabas, PhD, University of Geneva, Switzerland
Victoria P. Belancio, PhD, Tulane University, United States of America
Vincent Colot, PhD, Institut de Biologie de l'Ecole Normale Supérieure (IBENS), France
Gael Cristofari, PhD,  Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale, France
Adam Ewing, PhD, Mater Research Institute-University of Queensland, Australia
Clément Gilbert, PhD, CNRS, Université Paris Saclay, France
Molly G Hammell, PhD, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, United States of America
Damon R Lisch, PhD, Purdue University, United States of America
Joe Peters, PhD, Cornell University, United States of America
Phoebe A. Rice, PhD, University of Chicago, United States of America

Reviews Editors
Michael Chandler, PhD, Georgetown University Medical Center, United States of America

Social Media and Preprint Editor
Alexander Suh, PhD, Leibniz Institute for the Analysis of Biodiversity Change, Germany

Editorial Board
Wenfeng An, MPH, PhD, South Dakota State University, United States of America
Christine Beck, PhD, University of Connecticut Health Center and Jackson Laboratory, United States of America
Marlene Belfort, PhD, University at Albany, SUNY, United States of America
Casey Bergman, PhD, University of Georgia, United States of America
Mireille Betermier, PhD, Institute for Integrative Biology of the Cell (I2BC), France
Jef Boeke, PhD, New York University Langone Medical Center, United States of America
Miguel Branco, PhD, Queen Mary University of London, United Kingdom
Emilie Brasset, PhD, French National Centre for Scientific Research, France
Alex Bortvin, MD, Carnegie Institution for Science, United States of America
Déborah Bourc’his, PhD, Institut Curie, France
Alexandros Bousios , PhD, University of Sussex, United Kingdom
Claudia Marcia Aparecida Carareto, PhD, São Paulo State University (UNESP), Brazil
Josep M. Casacuberta Suñer, PhD, Center for Research in Agricultural Genomics (CRAG), Spain
Ronald Chalmers, PhD, University of Nottingham, United Kingdom
Kate Chiappinelli, PhD, The GW Cancer Center, The George Washington University, United States of America
Richard Cordaux, PhD, University of Paris-Saclay, France
Prescott Deininger, PhD, Tulane University, United States of America
Ozgen Deniz, PhD, Queen Mary University of London, United Kingdom   
Keith Derbyshire, PhD, New York State Department of Health, United States of America
Scott Devine, PhD, University of Maryland School of Medicine, United States of America
Alexandre de Mendoza, PhD, Queen Mary University of London, United Kingdom
Fred Dyda, PhD, National Institute of Health, United States of America
Kirsten C. Sadler (Edepli), PhD, New York University Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
Christopher Ellison, PhD, Rutgers University, United States of America
Astrid Engel, PhD, Tulane University, United States of America
Geoffrey Faulkner, PhD, Mater Research, Australia
Alex Hayward, PhD, University of Exeter, United Kingdom
Jose Luis Garcia-Perez, PhD, University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom
David Garfinkel, PhD, University of Georgia, United States of America
Alba Guarné, PhD, McGill University, Canada
Guan-Zhu Han, PhD, Nanjing Normal University, China
Jeffrey S. Han, MD, PhD, Tulane University School of Medicine, United States of America
Rasika M. Harshey, PhD, University of Texas at Austin, United States of America
Kenji Ichiyanagi, PhD, Nagoya University , Japan
Michael Imbeault, PhD, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom
Zoltan Ivics, PhD, DSc, Paul Ehrlich Institute, Germany
Zsuzsanna Izsvak, PhD, Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine, Germany
Alla Kalmykova, PhD, Koltzov Institute of Developmental Biology, Russian Academy of Sciences, Russia
Vladimir Kapitonov, PhD, The LOEWE Centre for Translational Biodiversity Genomics, Germany
Koichi Kawakami, PhD, National Institute of Genetics, Japan
Alex Kentsis, PhD, MD, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, United States of America
Kenji K Kojima, PhD, Genetic Information Research Institute (GIRI), United States of America
John LaCava, PhD, European Research Institute for the Biology of Ageing / University Medical Center Groningen, The Netherlands; The Rockefeller University, United States of America
Alan Lambowitz, PhD, The University of Texas at Austin, United States of America
David Largaespada, PhD, University of Minnesota, United States of America
Nelson C. Lau, PhD, Boston University, Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine, United States of America
E Alice Lee, Boston Children's Hospital and Harvard University, United States of America
Henry L. Levin, PhD,  NIH National Institutes of Health, United States of America
Wojciech Makalowski, PhD, University of Münster, Germany
Didier Mazel, PhD, Institut Pasteur, France
Marie Mirouze, PhD, French National Research Institute for Sustainable Development (IRD), France
John Moran, PhD, University of Michigan Medical School, United States of America
Anna Muszewska, PhD, Institute of Biochemistry and Biophysics, Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland
Mitchell O'Connell, PhD, University of Rochester, United States of America
Leandro Quadrana, PhD, University of Paris-Saclay, France
David Ray, PhD, Texas Tech University, United States of America
Helen Rowe, PhD, Queen Mary University of London, United Kingdom
Anne Roulin, PhD, University of Zurich, Switzerland
Suzanne Sandmeyer, PhD, University of California, Irvine, United States of America 
Sharon Schlesinger, PhD, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel
Dr. rer. nat. Juergen Schmitz, University of Münster, Germany
Gerald Schumann, PhD, Paul-Ehrlich-Institut, Germany
Haruhiko Siomi, PhD, Keio University School of Medicine, Japan
R Keith Slotkin, PhD, Donald Danforth Plant Science Center, United States of America
Clémentine Vitte, PhD, University of Paris-Saclay, French National Centre for Scientific Research, AgroParisTech, France
Jean-Nicolas Volff, École Normale Supérieure de Lyon, France
Travis Wheeler, PhD, University of Arizona, United States of America
Oliver Weichenrieder, PhD, Max Planck Institut for Developmental Biology, Germany
Jinchuan Xing, PhD, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, United States of America
Mikel Zaratiegui, PhD, Rutgers University, United States of America
Steven Zimmerly, PhD, University of Calgary, Canada

Founding  Editors

Nancy Craig, PhD, SalioGenTherapeutics, United States of America
Thomas Eickbush (retired 2015)
Daniel Voytas, PhD, University of Minnesota, United States of America   

Annual Journal Metrics

  • 2022 Citation Impact
    4.9 - 2-year Impact Factor
    4.5 - 5-year Impact Factor
    1.300 - SNIP (Source Normalized Impact per Paper)
    2.363 - SJR (SCImago Journal Rank)

    2023 Speed
    8 days submission to first editorial decision for all manuscripts (Median)
    95 days submission to accept (Median)

    2023 Usage 
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