EDITORIAL BOARD MEMBERS

Bernd Schierwater
Bernd Schierwater
Director ITZ
Professor of Zoology
TiHo University Hannover
Germany
BIOGRAPHY:

Dr. Bernd Schierwater is a Director ITZ and Professor of Zoology, TiHo University Hannover, Germany. He received his Ph.D. (special honors degree’summa cum laude’) from Technical University Braunschweig (TUB), Germany in 1989. He was a Distinguished Sabbatical Scholar at NESCent, Duke University. He was awarded with Senior Ecologist of the Ecological Society of America (2009). His training in evolutionary and ecological genetics has arisen from running laboratories at Frankfurt University (Assistant Professor), Freiberg University (Associate Professor) and Hannover TiHo University (Full Professor) and from working as a Research Associate in different departments at Yale University and also at the AMNH New York (Rob DeSalle lab). He has developed the most primitive metazoan animals, the placozoans, into an emerging model system for next generation biodiversity and cancer research.

RESEARCH INTERESTS:

Dr. Bernd Schierwater is interested in Trichoplax adhaerens genetic components for a systems-level understanding of regulatory pathways related to pre-programmed cell death (“apoptosis”) and cancer research. Studying the genetics of cancer in Trichoplax is an entirely novel angle towards unraveling the basic components of medically important processes in human tissues.



OTHER EDITORIAL BOARD MEMBER

Nikolai N. Modyanov
Professor
Department of Physiology and Pharmacology
The University of Toledo College of Medicine
United States
Sushing Chen
Emeritus Professor and Director
Systems Biology Lab, Computer Information
Science and Engineering Department
University of Florida-Gainesville
USA
Valquiria Bueno
Department of Microbiology Immunology, and Parasitology
UNIFESP Federal University of São Paulo
Brazil
Abdelazim Negm
Professor of Hydraulics and Water Resources
Faculty of Engineering
Zagazig University, Egypt
Umamaheswaran Gurusamy
Division of Oncology and Surgery
Department of Clinical and Experimental Medicine
Linköping University
Sweden
Ruben Fernandes
Professor
Chemical and Biomolecular Sciences
Porto Polytechnic Institute
Portugal
Francesca Diomede
Researcher
Department of Medical, Oral and Biotechnological Sciences
University G. d’Annunzio, ITALY
Brian G. Van Ness
Professor
Genetics, Cell Biology, and Development
University of Minnesota
United States
Krishna Kripal
Professor
Department of periodontology
Rajarajeswari dental college and hospital
India
Venkataramana Kandi
Associate Professor of Microbiology
Prathima Inst. of Medical Sciences
India
Vittorio Gentile
Aggregate Professor
Department of Biochemistry, Biophysics and General Pathology
Second University of Naples
Italy
Bulang Gao
Professor
Department of Medical Research
Shijiazhuang First Hospital
Hebei Medical University
Republic of China
Emmanuel Ifeanyi Obeagu
Diagnostic Laboratory Unit
Department of University Health Services
Michael Okpara University of Agriculture, Nigeria
Tianbo Jin
Professor
School of Medicine
Xizang Minzu University
China
Hsien-Yuan Lane
Director
Graduate Institute of Biomedical Sciences
China Medical University
Taiwan
Jun-Jie Chen
Adjunct professor
I-Shou University
college of medicine
Taiwan