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
Alfonso Jaramillo, PhD, University of Warwick
Advisory Board
David Baker, PhD, University of Washington
Rodolphe Barrangou, PhD, North Carolina State University
Jef D. Boeke, PhD, NYU Grossman School of Medicine
Ron Breaker, PhD, Yale University
George Church, PhD, Harvard University
James Collins, PhD, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Martin Fussenegger, PhD, ETH Zürich
Jay D. Keasling, PhD, University of California Berkeley
Richard Lenski, PhD, Michigan State University
David R. Liu, PhD, Harvard University
Sir Peter Ratcliffe, PhD, University of Oxford
Pamela Silver, PhD, Harvard University
Craig Venter, PhD, J. Craig Venter Institute
Associate Editors
Nathalie Q. Balaban, PhD, The Hebrew University
Gábor Balázsi, PhD, Stony Brook University
Rodolphe Barrangou, PhD, North Carolina State University
Anke Becker, PhD, LOEWE Center for Synthetic Microbiology
Lacra Bintu, PhD, Stanford University
Virginia Cornish, PhD, Columbia University
Victor de Lorenzo, PhD, Spanish National Centre for Biotechnology-CSIC
Douglas Densmore, PhD, Boston University
Diane DiEuliis, PhD, National Defense University
Carrie Eckert, PhD, National Renewable Energy Laboratory
Michael Elowitz, PhD, California Institute of Technology
Tobias Erb, PhD, Max Planck Institute for Terrestrial Microbiology
Charles Gersbach, PhD, Duke University
Luke Gilbert, PhD, University of California, San Francisco
Gigi Kwik Gronvall, PhD, Johns Hopkins University
Jim Haseloff, PhD, University of Cambridge
Jeff Hasty, PhD, University of California, San Diego
Ryozo Imai, PhD, National Agriculture and Food Research Organization
Mark Isalan, PhD, Imperial College London
Poul Erik Jensen, PhD, University of Copenhagen
Ahmad Khalil, PhD, Boston University
Mustafa Khammash, PhD, ETH Zürich
Tanja Kortemme, PhD, University of California, San Francisco
Stéphane Lemaire, PhD, CNRS-Sorbonne University
Jianfeng Li, PhD, Sun Yat-sen University
Alistair McCormick, PhD, University of Edinburgh
June Medford, PhD, Colorado State University
Jose Penades, PhD, University of Glasgow
Matthew Porteus, MD, PhD, Stanford University
Yiping Qi, PhD, University of Maryland
Yolanda Schaerli, PhD, University of Lausanne
Xiling Shen, PhD, Duke University
Velia Siciliano, PhD, Italian Institute of Technology
Pam Silver, PhD, Harvard University
Beatrix Suess, PhD, Technical University of Darmstadt
Ilias Tagkopoulos, PhD, University of California, Davis
Eriko Takano, PhD, University of Manchester
Cong Trinh, PhD, University of Tennessee
Ron Weiss, PhD, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Neil Wipat, PhD, Newcastle University
Shoshana Wodak, PhD, VIB-VUB Center for Structural Biology
Zhen Xie, PhD, Tsinghua University
Bing Yang, PhD, University of Missouri
Executive Editor
Zong-Ming Cheng, PhD, Nanjing Agricultural University/University of Tennessee
Managing Editor
Huan Yin, Nanjing Agricultural University