Editorial Board
BioDesign Research’s editorial board is comprised of active researchers and experts selected from a pool of scholars who have made significant and well recognized contributions to the field. The overall duties of our editors include, but are not limited to, overseeing the review process and soliciting submissions of high-quality manuscripts.
Editors-in-Chief
Xiaohan Yang, PhD, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA
Alfonso Jaramillo, PhD, University of Warwick, UK
Advisory Board
David Baker, PhD, University of Washington, USA
Rodolphe Barrangou, PhD, North Carolina State University, USA
Edward A. Bayer, PhD, Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel
Jef D. Boeke, PhD, NYU Grossman School of Medicine, USA
Ron Breaker, PhD, Yale University, USA
Patrick Yizhi Cai, PhD, University of Manchester, UK
Guoqiang Chen, PhD, Tsinghua University, China
George Church, PhD, Harvard University, USA
James Collins, PhD, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA
Junbiao Dai, PhD, Shenzhen Institutes of Advanced Technology of the Chinese Academy of Science, China
Zixin Deng, PhD, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China
Guocheng Du, PhD, Jiangnan University, China
Martin Fussenegger, PhD, ETH Zürich, Switzerland
Jay D. Keasling, PhD, University of California Berkeley, USA
Richard Lenski, PhD, Michigan State University, USA
Chun Li, PhD, Tsinghua University, China
Chenli Liu, PhD, Shenzhen Institutes of Advanced Technology of the Chinese Academy of Science, China
David R. Liu, PhD, Harvard University, USA
Yanhe Ma, PhD, Tianjin Institute of Industrial Biotechnology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
Sir Peter Ratcliffe, PhD, University of Oxford, UK
Pamela Silver, PhD, Harvard University, USA
Craig Venter, PhD, J. Craig Venter Institute, USA
Ping Xu, PhD, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China
Qipeng Yuan, PhD, Beijing University of Chemical Technology, China
Yingjin Yuan, PhD, Tianjin University, China
Xian-En Zhang, PhD, Institute of Biophysics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
Ning-Yi Zhou, PhD, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China
Associate Editors
Nathalie Q. Balaban, PhD, The Hebrew University, Israel
Gábor Balázsi, PhD, Stony Brook University, USA
Rodolphe Barrangou, PhD, North Carolina State University, USA
Anke Becker, PhD, LOEWE Center for Synthetic Microbiology, Germany
Lacra Bintu, PhD, Stanford University, USA
Mingfeng Cao, PhD, Xiamen University, China
Yao Chen, PhD, Nankai University, China
Virginia Cornish, PhD, Columbia University, USA
Victor de Lorenzo, PhD, Spanish National Centre for Biotechnology-CSIC, Spain
Yu Deng, PhD, Jiangnan University, China
Douglas Densmore, PhD, Boston University, USA
Diane DiEuliis, PhD, National Defense University, USA
Carrie Eckert, PhD, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA
Michael Elowitz, PhD, California Institute of Technology, USA
Tobias Erb, PhD, Max Planck Institute for Terrestrial Microbiology, Germany
Charles Gersbach, PhD, Duke University, USA
Luke Gilbert, PhD, University of California, San Francisco, USA
Gigi Kwik Gronvall, PhD, Johns Hopkins University, USA
Raik Grünberg, PhD, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Saudi Arabia
Yang Gu, PhD, CAS Center for Excellence in Molecular Plant Science / Institute of Plant Physiology and Ecology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
Jim Haseloff, PhD, University of Cambridge, UK
Jeff Hasty, PhD, University of California, San Diego, USA
Philipp Holliger, PhD, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, UK
Qiannan Hu, PhD, Shanghai Institute of Nutrition and Health of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
Ryozo Imai, PhD, National Agriculture and Food Research Organization, Japan
Mark Isalan, PhD, Imperial College London, UK
Poul Erik Jensen, PhD, University of Copenhagen, Denmark
Ahmad Khalil, PhD, Boston University, USA
Mustafa Khammash, PhD, ETH Zürich, Switzerland
Tanja Kortemme, PhD, University of California, San Francisco, USA
Yongchan Kwon, PhD, Louisiana State University, USA
Stéphane Lemaire, PhD, CNRS-Sorbonne University, France
Bingzhi Li, PhD, Tianjin University, China
Feng Li, PhD, Wuhan Institute of Virology, Chinese Academy of Science, China
Jianfeng Li, PhD, Sun Yat-sen University, China
Jiazhang Lian, PhD, Zhejiang University, China
Jianzhong Liu, PhD, Sun Yat-sen University, China
Tiangang Liu, PhD, Wuhan University, China
Yuan Lu, PhD, Tsinghua University, China
Xuefeng Lyu, PhD, Qingdao Institute of Bioenergy and Bioprocess Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
Alistair McCormick, PhD, University of Edinburgh, UK
June Medford, PhD, Colorado State University, USA
Tae Seok Moon, PhD, Washington University in St. Louis, USA
José R. Penadés, PhD, Imperial College London, UK
Nan Peng, PhD, Huazhong Agricultural University, China
Matthew Porteus, MD, PhD, Stanford University, USA
Qingsheng Qi, PhD, Shandong University, China
Yiping Qi, PhD, University of Maryland, USA
Guillermo Rodrigo, PhD, Institute for Integrative Systems Biology, Spain
Rafael Sanjuan, PhD, Institute for Integrative Systems Biology, Spain
Yolanda Schaerli, PhD, University of Lausanne, Switzerland
Xiling Shen, PhD, Duke University, USA
Yue Shen, PhD, BGI, China
Qiong Shi, PhD, BGI, China
Shuobo Shi, PhD, Beijing University of Chemical Technology, China
Velia Siciliano, PhD, Italian Institute of Technology, Italy
Pam Silver, PhD, Harvard University, USA
Hao Song, PhD, Tianjin University, China
Beatrix Suess, PhD, Technical University of Darmstadt, Germany
Ilias Tagkopoulos, PhD, University of California, Davis, USA
Eriko Takano, PhD, University of Manchester, UK
Hongzhi Tang, PhD, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China
Cong Trinh, PhD, University of Tennessee, USA
Hailong Wang, PhD, Shandong University, China
Yajie Wang, PhD, Westlake University, China
Yong Wang, PhD, CAS Center for Excellence in Molecular Plant Science / Institute of Plant Physiology and Ecology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
Ron Weiss, PhD, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA
Anil Wipat, PhD, Newcastle University, UK
Shoshana Wodak, PhD, VIB-VUB Center for Structural Biology, Belgium
Bian Wu, PhD, Institute of Microbiology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
Shangxian Xie, PhD, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China
Zhen Xie, PhD, Tsinghua University, China
Fengxue Xin, PhD, Nanjing Tech University, China
Jian Xu, PhD, Qingdao Institute of Bioenergy and Bioprocess Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
Peng Xu, PhD, Guangdong Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, China
Chuang Xue, PhD, Dalian University of Technology, China
Bing Yang, PhD, University of Missouri, USA
Shihui Yang, PhD, Hubei University, China
Haifeng Ye, PhD, East China Normal University, China
Chun You, PhD, Tianjin Institute of Industrial Biotechnology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
Chong Zhang, PhD, Tsinghua University, China
Dawei Zhang, PhD, Tianjin Institute of Industrial Biotechnology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
Jingwen Zhou, PhD, Jiangnan University, China
Yongjin Zhou, PhD, Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
Executive Editor
Zong-Ming Cheng, PhD, Nanjing Agricultural University, China / University of Tennessee, USA
Managing Editor
Huan Yin, Nanjing Agricultural University, China
