New Editorial Advisory Board Members

CORRECTION

New editorial advisory board members

There was an error published in J. Cell Sci. 129, 1-4.

The list of new Editorial Advisory Board members should have also included:

Celeste Nelson Celeste M. Nelson is currently an Associate Professor of Chemical & Biological Engineering at Princeton University. She is also affiliated with the research and teaching missions of Molecular Biology and Quantitative and Computational Biology at Princeton and the Cancer Institute of New Jersey. Her research group is broadly focused on uncovering the mechanical mechanisms that influence cell phenotype in the context of epithelial morphogenesis, fibrosis and cancer.

We apologise to Dr Nelson and the readers for this error. Journal of Cell Science

EDITORIAL

New editorial advisory board members

Journal of Cell Science is committed to publishing the highest Elizabeth Chen quality research at the forefront of cell biology. Our Editorial Elizabeth Chen is an Associate Professor in Advisory Board provides an invaluable service to the journal in the the Department of Molecular Biology and form of their expertise and advice, so it is important to us that Genetics at Johns Hopkins University the Board accurately reflects the diversity of the field. As the School of Medicine. Her lab studies the field itself evolves, we must refresh our Board accordingly and we molecular and cellular mechanisms are, therefore, pleased to welcome our newest appointees, all of underlying cell–cellfusionbyusinga whom are very well respected within their fields. We thank both new multifaceted approach including genetics, cell biology, and existing Editorial Advisory Board members for their invaluable biochemistry and biophysics. service to Journal of Cell Science and the cell biology community.

Anna Akhmanova Pete Cullen Anna Akhmanova is professor of Cell Biology Pete Cullen is Professor of Biochemistry, at Utrecht University, the Netherlands. Her Wellcome Trust Senior Investigator and work is mainly focused on the mechanisms Director of the Wellcome Trust 4-Year that regulate microtubule dynamics and Ph.D. Programme in Dynamic Cell Biology microtubule-based transport. at the University of Bristol. His research focuses on studying inositol-based cell signalling and, in particular, elucidating the role of Tamas Balla phosphoinositides in the sorting of transmembrane proteins through the endosomal network. Tamas. Balla is a tenured Senior Investigator at the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, NIH, Bethesda MD. The overall goal of his research is Crislyn D’Souza-Schorey to understand how phosphoinositide signals Crislyn D’Souza-Schorey is Pollard Professor regulate cellular functions by working both at and Chair of the Department of Biological the molecular, cellular and organismal level. Sciences at the University of Notre Dame. Her research program involves investigating the cellular changes involved in tumor Maria Blasco progression. Maria A. Blasco joined the Centro Nacional de Biotecnologia (CNIO) in Madrid, Spain in 2003 as Director of the Molecular Michael Dustin Oncology Programme and Leader of the Michael Dustin is Professor of Immunology Telomeres and Telomerase Group. In 2005 and a Wellcome Principal Research Fellow, she was also appointed Vice-Director of as well as Director of Research of the Basic Research; she has been Director of Kennedy Institute of Rheumatology at the the CNIO since June 2011. Her research has focussed on University of Oxford. His research focuses on demonstrating the importance of telomeres and telomerase in the T-cell immunological synapse. cancer as well as age-related diseases.

Federica Brandizzi Daniel Fletcher Federica Brandizzi is Professor of Plant Daniel Fletcher is the Purnendu Chatterjee Biology at the Michigan State University - Professor of Bioengineering and Biophysics Department of Energy Plant Research at UC Berkeley, where he teaches courses Laboratory, USA. Research in her laboratory on optics, microscopy and cell mechanics. focuses on understanding basic mechanisms His research explores organizational for organelle biogenesis and function in the principles of the cell membrane and plant secretory pathway, with emphasis on the endoplasmic cytoskeleton, mechanotransduction in cancer and infectious reticulum and Golgi apparatus, by using advanced live cell diseases, and development of biomedical technologies for global imaging, genomics and genetics in model dicot and monocot species. health. Journal of Cell Science

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Margaret Gardel Cynthia He Margaret Gardel is an Associate Professor of Cynthia He is an Associate Professor at the Physics and a member of the Institute for National University of Singapore, where she Biophysical Dynamics, and the James Franck studies organelle biogenesis and homeostasis Institute at University of Chicago in Chicago, in single-celled parasites. Her lab also IL. Her lab studies the regulation of cell investigates autophagy and stress response in adhesion, shape and motility by using early-divergent eukaryotes. biophysical, cell biology and imaging approaches. In particular, her research focuses on how mechanical force transmission is regulated by the dynamics and organization of the actin cytoskeleton. Martin Hetzer Martin W. Hetzer is the Jesse and Caryl Daniel Gerlich Philips Professor of Molecular and Cell Daniel Gerlich is a research group leader at the Biology, and Director of the Waitt Institute of Molecular Biotechnology (IMBA) Advanced Biophotonics Center at the Salk of the Austrian Academy of Sciences. With his Institute for Biological Studies in La Jolla, interdisciplinary team of biologists and CA. His research focuses on fundamental computer scientists he aims to elucidate the aspects of organismal aging, with a special focus on the heart and molecular mechanisms underlying the assembly central nervous system. and function of the cell division machinery.

Edgar Gomes Kairbaan (Kebs) Hodivala-Dilke Edgar Gomes has been a group leader at Kairbaan Hodivala-Dilke is Professor of Instituto de Medicina Molecular (iMM), Angiogenesis and Deputy Institute Director University of Lisbon, Portugal, since 2014. at the Barts Cancer Institute in London, UK. Previously, he was an INSERM group leader at Winner of the British Society of Cell University Pierre and Marie Curie in Paris, Biology Hooke Medal, 2015, her research France. His main research interest is to focusses on the cellular and molecular basis understand how connections between the nucleus and the of tumour angiogenesis. cytoskeleton are involved in cellular activities, such as nuclear positioning, cell migration and cell differentiation.

Cara Gottardi Miho Iijima Cara Gottardi is Associate Professor of Miho Iijima is currently an Associate Medicine, and Cellular and Molecular Professor in the Department of Cell Biology, at the Northwestern University Biology at the Johns Hopkins University Feinberg School of Medicine. The Gottardi School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD. Dr Lab investigates how cells adhere to each other, Iijima’sresearchisfocusedon what constitutes dynamic versus static understanding how cells sense extracellular adhesion at the molecular level, and how constituents of the cell– chemical gradients and control directed migration. She also cell adhesive complex control gene expression and cellular studies lipid signaling in cancer, with a particular interest in the differentiation. tumor suppressor PTEN.

Pierre Gönczy Johanna Ivaska Pierre Gönczy is interested in understanding Johanna Ivaska is a Professor of Molecular fundamental cell division processes, notably in Cell Biology at University of Turku in the context of a developing organism. His Finland. Her research interests are related to research focuses in particular on processes that investigating the biological role of integrins in are crucial for genome integrity, including cancer progression. The current main research asymmetric cell division and centriole formation. focus areas are integrin-mediated cell adhesion, cell–matrix interactions and integrin endosomal traffic in cancer. Gillian Griffiths Professor Gillian Griffiths is Director of the Cambridge Institute for Medical Research Carsten Janke (CIMR) in Cambridge, UK. Her research Carsten Janke is a research director at interests are focussed on understanding the theCNRSandaseniorgroupleaderat cell biology of polarised secretion from the Institut Curie, France. He is studying the lymphocytes by using insights gained from impact of tubulin heterogeneity on microtubule genetic disease to identify the molecular mechanisms that underlie functions, with a particular focus on the post- this process. translational modifications of tubulin. Journal of Cell Science

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Sophie Martin Franck Perez Sophie Martin is Associate Professor at the Franck Perez is Research Director at CNRS in Department of Fundamental Microbiology at France and group leader in the Cell Biology Unit the University of Lausanne, Switzerland. Her (UMR 144) at the Institut Curie. His group lab studies the spatial organisation of cells. is studying intracellular organization and trafficking and, in particular, the dynamics and function of the Golgi apparatus and its connection to microtubules. Heidi McBride Heidi McBride is a Professor at McGill University in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, James Putney holds a Canada Research Chair in Jim Putney is Head of the Calcium Regulation Mitochondrial Cell Biology and is a Killam Group at the National Institute of Research Scholar. Her work focuses on the Environmental Health Sciences – NIH in molecular mechanisms and function of Research Triangle Park, NC, USA. His 2+ mitochondrial dynamics, with projects on mitochondrial fusion, laboratory studies mechanisms of Ca fission and the formation of mitochondrion-derived vesicles. signaling in cells and animal models. His group currently focuses primarily on the function and regulation of plasma membrane Ca2+ channels in non-excitable cells. Iris Meier Iris Meier is a Professor in the Department of Douglas Robinson Molecular Genetics at The Ohio State Douglas Robinson, Professor of Cell Biology University, Columbus, USA and a Visiting at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Professor at Oxford Brookes University, investigates how cells form the shapes that Oxford, UK. The long-term goal of her are required for the specialized functions research is to discover how and why the necessary for human health. protein composition of the plant nuclear envelope differs significantly from that of opisthokonts (animals and fungi). Jody Rosenblatt Jody Rosenblatt is Associate Professor of Eric Miska Oncological Sciences at the University of Eric Miska is the Herchel Smith Professor of Utah and Investigator at the Huntsman Cancer Molecular Genetics and a Senior Group Institute. She discovered epithelial cell Leader at the Gurdon Institute at the extrusion, a process that eliminates dying cells University of Cambridge, UK, as well as a without forming any gaps. The Rosenblatt lab Senior Investigator of the Wellcome Trust. studies how epithelia maintain constant cell numbers through cell Eric has an appointment as associated faculty death and cell division, and has found a critical role in both for at the Cambridge Systems Biology Centre and the Cancer Research mechanical crowding and stretch, respectively. UK Cambridge Research Institute. Eric is an international leader in the field of RNA biology. David Sabatini David Sabatini is a Member of the Whitehead Jacques Neefjes Institute for Biomedical Research, The Broad Jacques Neefjes is Head of the Division of Cell Institute, and the Koch Institute for Integrative Biology at the Netherlands Cancer Institute in Cancer Research at MIT, as well as a Professor Amsterdam. His work has focused mostly on of Biology at the MIT and a Howard Hughes the cell biology of antigen presentation by Medical Institute Investigator. He is interested MHC class I and MHC class II molecules. He in the mechanisms that regulate cell growth, and the processes also pioneered the use of GFP in tracking underlying how cells control their size and mass, focusing in vesicle transport within living cells. particular on the TOR pathway. In addition, David’s lab develops and applies technologies that facilitate the analysis of gene function in mammalian cells, including ‘cell-based microarrays’ or genome- David Pellman wide RNAi libraries targeting human and mouse genes. David Pellman is the Margaret M. Dyson Professor of Pediatric Oncology at the Dana- Farber Cancer Institute and the Children’s Erik Sahai Hospital, Boston. He is also Professor of Cell Erik Sahai is a Group Leaderat the Francis Crick Biology at Harvard Medical School and an Institute in London, UK. His research is focused Investigator of the Howard Hughes Medical on understanding cytoskeletal and cell Institute. Dr Pellman’s laboratory has made contributions in two signalling changes that enable the spread of areas: the mechanism of cell division and how cell division errors cancer through the body. alter genome structure. Journal of Cell Science

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Melina Schuh Harald Stenmark Melina Schuh is Director at the Max Planck Harald Stenmark is group leader at Oslo Institute for Biophysical Chemistry in University Hospital and professor at the Göttingen, Germany, and is establishing a new University of Oslo, Norway. He is interested department focusing on meiosis. Her laboratory in cellular membrane dynamics and, especially, studies meiosis in mammalian oocytes, the endocytic membrane traffic, autophagy and progenitor cells of eggs. The long-term goal of membrane rearrangements during cell division. her laboratory is to identify and analyse mechanisms that lead to He studies how such dynamics are regulated by phosphoinositides, abnormal eggs and pregnancy loss in mammals. Rab GTPases and ESCRT proteins.

Nic Tapon

Giorgio Scita Nic Tapon is currently a group leader at The Francis Crick Institute, London, UK. His Giorgio Scita is currently a tenured group group is studying tissue growth control leader at the IFOM Foundation, the FIRC during development and adult homeostasis, Institute of Molecular Oncology, Milan, and and is particularly interested in the role of the Professor of Pathology at the School of Hippo signalling pathway in this process, and Medicine of the University of Milan, how Hippo signalling intersects with tissue architecture and Department of Health Sciences (DISS). His nutrient status. The Tapon lab uses a combination of fly and long-standing research interest is on mechanisms of cell migration, mouse genetics, as well as proteomics, functional genomics, cell and focuses on signaling leading to spatial and temporal regulation biology and mathematical modelling. of actin dynamics – the powerhouse for cell motility. Sharon Tooze Sharon Tooze is currently the Head of the Yaron Shav-Tal Molecular Cell Biology of Autophagy Yaron Shav-Tal is an Associate Professor at laboratory at The Francis Crick Institute in the Mina & Everard Goodman Faculty of Life London, UK. Her recent interests are focused Sciences and the Institute of Nanotechnology on understanding the process of autophagy in at Bar-Ilan University in Israel. His laboratory mammalian cells. By using molecular cell focuses on dissecting the kinetics of the gene biology approaches, the Tooze lab studies where and how expression pathway (mRNA transcription, autophagosome formation is initiated under starvation conditions RNA processing and nucleo-cytoplasmic transport) in single and in diseases, such as cancer. living cells by using fluorescence live-cell microscopy, and tagging of DNA and mRNA molecules, specifically at the level of William Trimble single alleles and single molecules. William Trimble is a Senior Scientist and Head of the Cell Biology Program at the Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto, Canada. He is also a Professor of Biochemistry at the University of Peter Sicinski Toronto. His research aims to understand the role Peter Sicinski is a Professor of Genetics at of septins as so-far-unknown cytoskeletal Harvard Medical School. His laboratory, components in a wide range of biological processes including located at the Department of Cancer cytokinesis, ciliogenesis, membrane dynamics and signal transduction. Biology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute in Boston, MA, studies the role of the cell cycle machinery in mouse development Kristen Verhey and in cancer by using genetic, genomic and proteomic Kristen Verhey is Professor of Cell and approaches. Dr Sicinski’s group also researches the molecular Developmental Biology at the University of functions of various cell cycle proteins in human cancer cells by Michigan Medical School. Her lab studies using genome- and proteome-wide screens. microtubules and associated motor proteins, with an emphasis on kinesin motors and their roles in axonal and ciliary transport processes. Michael Sixt Michael Sixt is a Professor at the Institute Alpha Yap of Science and Technology, Austria. His Alpha Yap is a Professor and Head of laboratory is interested in morphodynamic the Division of Molecular Cell Biology at processes – both at the cellular and at the the Institute for Molecular Bioscience, The tissue level. The main focus is on the University of Queensland, Australia. His immune system, for which the lab is trying laboratory studies the cellular mechanisms to understand the molecular and mechanical principles that responsible for cadherin-dependent underlie leukocyte dynamics during processes such as migration morphogenesis; notably, the mechanisms and principles that and intercellular communication. coordinate cadherin adhesion with the cytoskeleton. Journal of Cell Science