Landes Bioscience Journals: Autophagy

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Daniel J. Klionsky
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Patrice Codogno INSERM U756 Paris, France Email	Ana Maria Cuervo Albert Einstein College of Medicine Department of Anatomy and Structural Biology 1300 Morris Park Ave. Bronx, NY 10461 USA Email
Vojo Deretic University of New Mexico Health Science Center Department of Molecular Genetics and Microbiology 915 Camino de Salud, NE Albuquerque, New Mexico 87131-001 USA ph. 505.272.0291 fax. 505.272.5309 Email	Zvulun Elazar The Weizmann Institute of Science Department of Biological Chemistry P.O. Box 26 Rehovot 76100 Israel Email
Juan Fueyo Department of Neuro-Oncology University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center 1515 Holcombe Blvd. Houson TX 77030 USA Email	David A. Gewirtz Virginia Commonwealth University Massey Cancer Center 401 College St Richmond, VA 23298 USA ph. 804.828.8523 fax. 804.827.1134 Email
Guido Kroemer CNRS-UMR 8125 Institut Gustave Roussy, Pavillon de Recherche 1 39, rue Camille Desmoulins 94805 Villejuif, France Email	Beth Levine Professor of Medicine and Microbiology Chief, Division of Infectious Diseases University of Texas Southwestern medical Center at Dallas 5323 Harry Hines Blvd. Dallas, TX 75390 USA Email
Noboru Mizushima Tokyo Medical and Dental University Department of Physiology and Cell Biology 1-5-45 Yushima, Bunkyo-ku Tokyo 113-8519 Japan Email	David C. Rubinsztein University of Cambridge Cambridge Institute for Medical Research Wellcome Trust/MRC Building Addenbrooke's Hospital Hills Road, Cambridge, CB2 2XY, UK Email
Michael Thumm Professor of Molecular Cell Biology Georg August University Center of Biochemistry and Molecular Cell Biology Heinrich Duker weg 12 D-37073 Goettingen, Germany ph. 49.557.5958 fax. 49.551.5979 Email	Sharon A. Tooze Head of Laboratory Cancer Research UK London Research Institute 44 Lincoln's Inn Fields London, UK ph. 44.207.269.3122 fax. 44.207.269.3417 Email
Editorial Board
Hagai Abeliovich Areas of Expertise: regulation of autophagy in S. cerevisiae Senior Lecturer Hebrew University of Jerusalem Department of Biochemistry and Food Science, Faculty of Agricultural, Food, and Environmental Quality Sciences P.O. Box 12 Rehovot 76100 Israel ph./fax. 972.8.9476189 Email
Gjumrakch Aliev Areas of Expertise: cardiovascular and neuropathology, oxidative stress, mitochondria, apoptosis, cell death, neurodegeneration Research Associate Professor of Cardiovascular and Neuropathology The University of Texas at San Antonio Department of Biology, College of Sciences One UTSA Circle, San Antonio, TX 78249-0661 ph. 210.458.4518 fax. 210.458.4506 Email
Eric H. Baehrecke Areas of Expertise: autophagy, cell death, Drosophilia, development Associate Professor University of Massachusetts Medical School Department of Cancer Biology Worcester, Massachusetts 01605-2324 USA ph. 508.856.6733 fax. 508.856.1310 Email
Diane C. Bassham Areas of Expertise: autophagy and vesicle trafficking in plants Assistant Professor Iowa State University Department of Genetics, Development and Cell Biology 253 Bessey Hall Ames, IA 50011 ph. 515.294.7461 fax. 515.294.1337 Email
Mikhail V. Blagosklonny Areas of Expertise: cancer therapy, anti-aging agents Ordway Research Institute Cancer Center Albany, NY Email
John H. Brumell Areas of Expertise: microbial pathogenesis Scientist Hospital for Sick Children Cell Biology Program 555 University Avenue Toronto Ontario M5G1X8 Canada ph. 416.813.7654x3555 fax. 416.813.5028 Email
Quan Chen Areas of Expertise: mitochondrial and cell biology, cancer biology Professor Nankai University, Tianjin and Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing Bei Chen West Road 5#-1, Choa Yang District Beijing, China Email
Charleen T. Chu Areas of Expertise: neurodegeneration, mitophagy, oxidative stress Associate Professor of Pathology University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine 200 Lothrop St., Rm W958BST (courier) or Rm 5417BST (US mail) Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 1261 USA ph. 412.383.5379 fax. 412.383.5379 Email
Maria Isabel Colombo Areas of Expertise: autophagy, pathogenes, vesicular transport, RabGTPases Group Leader–Investigador Principal CONICET Universidad Nacional de Cuyo Casilla de Correo 56 Mendoza, Argentina 5500 ph. 54.261.4494143 fax. 54.261.4494117 Email
Jayanta Debnath Areas of Expertise: autophagy and cell death Assistant Professor, Department of Pathology University of California, San Francisco Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center San Francisco, California 94143-0981 USA ph. 415.476.1780 fax. 415.514.0878 Email
Paul Dent Areas of Expertise: signal transduction, experimental therapeutics Professor, Virginia Commonwealth University Massey Cancer Center Richmond, Virginia 23298-0037 USA ph. 804.628.0861 fax. 804.827.1309 Email
Rodney J. Devenish Areas of Expertise: organelle degredation, mitochondria Professor Monash University Clayton Campus Wellington Road Clayton Victoria 3800 Australia ph. 61.3.9905.3782 fax. 61.3.9905.3726 Email
William A. Dunn, Jr. Areas of Expertise: molecular cell biology, aging, autophagy and bacterial pathogens, protein aggregates and autophagy Professor University of Florida Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology Box 100235 JHMHC Gainesville, Florida 32610-0235 USA ph. 352.392.1872 fax. 352.392.3305 Email
Michael Duszenko Areas of Expertise: cell death in protozoan parasites Interfaculty Institute for Biochemistry (IFIB); University of Tübingen Tübingen, Germany 72076 ph. 49.7071.297.3343 fax. 49.7071.29.5009 Email
Eeva-Liisa Eskelinen Areas of Expertise: autophagy, lysomal membrane proteins, electron microscopy University Lecturer University of Helsinki Division of Biochemistry PO Box 56, Viikinkaari 50, 00014 Helsinki Finland ph. 358.9191.59566 fax. 358.9191.59068 Email
Roberta A. Gottlieb Areas of Expertise: cardiac disease, ischemia-reperfusion, mitophagy Director, San Diego State University Bioscience Center San Diego State University San Diego, California, USA ph. 619.594.8981 fax. 619.594.8984 Email
Devrim Gozuacik Areas of Expertise: mammalian autophagy regulation, signaling, stress, death, disease Assistant Professor–Research Team Leader, Sabanci University Istanbul, Turkey ph. 90-216-483-9617 fax. 90-216-483-9550 Email
Douglas R. Green Areas of Expertise: cell death, immunology, mitochondria Chair, Department of Immunology St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital 332 N. Lauderdale St. Memphis, TN 38105 USA ph. 901.495.3488 fax. 901.495.5766 Email
Michael N. Hall Areas of Expertise: TOR signaling, cell growth Professor and Chair of Biochemistry Biozentrum, University of Basel Klingelbergstrasse 70 Basel 4056 Switzerland ph. 41.61.267.2150 Email
Joseph A. Hill Areas of Expertise: cardiology Professor, Chief of Cardiology University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center Dallas, Texas, USA 75390-8573 ph. 214.648.1400 fax. 214.648.1450 Email
Marja Jäättelä Areas of Expertise: cell death, lysosome, cancer, HSP70, signaling Professor Danish Cancer Society Institute of Cancer Biology Copenhagen 2100 Denmark Te.: +45 35 25 73 18 Email
Shengkan V. Jin Areas of Expertise: Assistant Professor University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey Robert Wood Johnson Medical School 675 Hoes Lane, R529 Piscataway, New Jersey 8854 USA ph. 732.235.4329 Email
Terje Johansen Areas of Expertise: Biochemistry Department Institute of Medical Biology University of Troms¿ Tromso 9037 Norway Email
Ameeta Kelekar Areas of Expertise: University of Minnesota Lab Medicine/Pathology Minneapolis, MN USA Email
Jan A.K.W. Kiel Areas of Expertise: Molecular Cell Biology, GBB University of Groningen Kerklaan 30, Haren NL-9751 NN The Netherlands. ph. +31.50.3632218 fax: +31.50.3632154 Email
Adi Kimchi Areas of Expertise: Weizmann Institute of Science Department of Molecular Genetics and Virology PO Box 26 Rehovot 76100 Israel ph. 972.8.9342428 fax. 972.8.9315938 Email
Eiki Kominami Areas of Expertise: biochemistry Professor Department of Biochemistry Juntendo University School of Medicine 2-1-1, Hongo, Bunkyo-ku Tokyo, 113-8421 Japan ph. 81.3.5802.1030 fax. 81.3.5802.5889 Email
Attila Lajos Kovacs Areas of Expertise: autophagy in Celegans and various mammalian cell types Associate Professor Cell Physiology Laboratory Department of Anatomy, Cell and Developmental Biology Eotvos Lorand University H-1117 Pazmany Setany 1C, 6-605 Budapest, Hungary ph. 36.1.209.0555 fax. 36.1.381.2184 Email
Chia-Yi Kuan Areas of Expertise: neurodevelopment and stroke research Associate Professor Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center Cincinnati, Ohio, USA 45229 ph. 513.636.0245 fax. 513.636.4331 Email
Weidong Le Areas of Expertise: neurodegenerative disorders Professor and Director Institute of Neurology, Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine 1201 Science and Education Building, Ruijing Hospital, 197 Ruijing Hospital Shanghai 200025, China ph. 86.21.54669084 Email
Fu-Cheng Lin Areas of Expertise: Zhejiang University Biotechnology Institute Kaixuan Road Hangzhou, Zhejiang 310029 China ph. 0086-571-86971185 fax. 0086-571-86971516 Email
Gabriel Lopez-Berestein Areas of Expertise: cancer biology University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center Professor of Medicine and Experimental Therapeutics 1515 Holcombe Blvd., Box 422 Houston, TX 77030 USA Email
Zixu Mao Areas of Expertise: molecular mechanisms of neurodegeneration Departments of Pharmacology and Neurology Emory University School of Medicine Whitehead Bldg., Rm 505L 615 Michael St. Atlanta, GA 30322 USA ph. 404.712.8581; fax. 404.727.3728 Email
Wim Martinet Areas of Expertise: cell death in cardiovascular disease, pharmacology Assistant Professor University of Antwerp Department of Pharmacology, Universiteitsplein 1 B-2610 Wilrijk, Belgium ph. 32.3.820.27.10 fax. 32.3.820.25.67 Email
Ken Matsuoka Areas of Expertise: plant cell biology, autophagy, vacuoles, exo- and endocytosis Professor Faculty of Agriculture, Kyushu University CB# 7090, 236 Taylor Hall 6-10-1, Hazozaki, Higashi-ku Fukuoka 812-8581 Japan ph. 81.92.642.2846 fax. 81.92.642.2848 Email
Yuji Moriyasu Areas of Expertise: autophagy in plant cells Assistant Professor Saitama University Saitama, Japan Email
Christian Münz Areas of Expertise: autophagy in adaptive immunity Viral Immunobiology Institute of Experimental Immunology University Hospital of Zürich University of Zürich Zürich CH-8057 Switzerland Tel.: +41.44.635.3716 Fax: +41.44.635.6883 Email
Leon O. Murphy Areas of Expertise: TOR, PI3K, MAPK signal transduction, PI3K inhibitors Research Investigator Novartis Institutes for Biomedical Research Inc. 250 Massachusetts Avenue Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139 USA tel. 617.871.3612 Email
Naweed I. Naqvi Areas of Expertise: organellar biogenesis, membrane flux, carbon homeostasis Senior Principal Investigator Temasek Life Sciences Laboratory National University of Singapore 1 Research Link Singapore 117604 ph. 65.68727493 fax. 65.68727007 Email
Thomas P. Neufeld Areas of Expertise: Drosophila genetics, target of rapamycin (TOR) signalling Associate Professor Department of Genetics, Cell Biology and Development 6-160 Jackson Hall 321 Church St. SE Minneapolis, Minnesota 55414 USA ph. 612.625.5158 fax. 612.626.6140 Email
Ralph A. Nixon Areas of Expertise: proteolytic systems in neurodegenerative diseases Professor of Psychiatry and Cell Biology Director of Research New York University School of Medicine Nathan Kline Institute 140 Old Orangeburg Road Orangeburg, New York 10962 USA ph. 845.398.5423 fax. 845.398.5422 Email
Takeshi Noda Areas of Expertise: molecular mechanism of autophagy Department of Cellular Regulation Research Institute for Microbial Diseases Osaka University Suita, Osaka Japan ph. 81.6.6879.8294 fax. 81.6.6879.8295 Email
Laura J. Olsen Areas of Expertise: plant cell biology, paraxisome biology Arthur F. Thurnau Professor; Associate Professor University of Michigan Department of Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology 830 North University Natural Science Building (Kraus) Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109-1048 USA ph. 734.763.0976 fax. 734.647.0884 Email
Ronit Pinkas-Kramarski Areas of Expertise: Tel-Aviv University Neurobiochemistry Ramat Aviv Tel-Aviv, Israel 69978 ph. 972-3-6406801 fax. 972-3-6407643 Email
Tassula Proikas-Cezanne Areas of Expertise: autophagy, tumor suppression Department of Molecular Biology Interfaculty Institute for Cell Biology University of Tuebingen Auf der Morgenstelle 15 Tuebingen 72076 Germany tel. ++49.0.7071.2978895 fax: ++49.0.7071.295359 Email
Nina Raben Areas of Expertise: lysomal storage diseases, myopathies National Institutes of Health National Institute of Arthritis an Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases Arthritis and Rheumatism Branch 50 South Drive, Bld. 50/Room 1345, NIAMS, NIH Phone: 301-496-1474 FAX: 301-435-8017 Email
Fulvio Reggiori Areas of Expertise: molecular mechanism of autophagy, yeast, Cut pathway, autophagosome, PAS Department of Cell Biology, Cell Microscopy Centre and Institute of Biomembranes University Medical Centre Utrecht Utrecht, The Netherlands ph. +31.88.755.7652 fax. ++31.30.254.1797 Email
Junichi Sadoshima Areas of Expertise: cardiac signaling mechanisms Professor and Vice Chair UMDNJ, New Jersey Medical School 185 South Orange Avenue, MSB G609 Newark 07103 NJ USA ph. 973.972.8619 fax. 973.972.7489 Email
Yasuyoshi Sakai Areas of Expertise: autophagy, phexophagy, protein degradation, yeast Associate Professor Graduate School of Agriculture Kyoto University Kitashirakawa-Oiwake, Sakyo Kyoto, 606-8502 Japan ph. 81.75.753.6455 fax. 81.75.753.6385 Email
Miklós Sass Areas of Expertise: genetic regulation of autophagy Professor Department of Anatomy, Cell and Developmental Biology Eötvös Loránd University Kitashirakawa-Oiwake, Sakyo Budapest, 1117 Hungary ph. 36.1.209.0555 fax. 36.1.381.2184 Email
Per O. Seglen Areas of Expertise: autophagy, cell signaling Professor Proteomics & Mammalian Cell Biology Section Institute for Cancer Research The Norwegian Radium Hospital Montebello N-0310 Oslo, Norway ph. 047.22.93.5947 fax. 047.22.93.4580 Email
John J. Shacka Areas of Expertise: cell death Instructor University of Alabama at Birmingham Department of Neuropathology Division Birmingham, AL, USA ph. 205.996.7252 fax. 205.934.6700 Email
Han-Ming Shen Areas of Expertise: cancer cell biology Associate Professor National University of Singapore Department of Epidemiology and Public Health; Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine ph. 65.65164998 fax. 65.67791489 Email
Harald Stenmark Areas of Expertise: autophagy in degradation of protein aggregates\|endocytic trafficking Professor The Norwegian Radium Hospital, Montebello Department of Biochemistry Montebello Oslo N-0310 Norway ph. 47.22508692 Email
Suresh Subramani Areas of Expertise: organelle turnover in yeast by autophagy Professor University of California, San Diego Section of Molecular Biology Division of Biological Sciences 3230 Bonner Hall, 9500 Gilman Drive La Jolla, California 92093-0329 ph. 858.534.2327 fax. 858.534.0053 Email
Qiming Sun Areas of Expertise: autophagy regulation in mammalian cells, autophagy and human diseases, autophagy proteins, tumorigenesis, infectious disease, diabetes, PI3K Class III University of California, Berkeley Department of Molecular & Cell Biology Berkeley, California 94720-3200 ph. 510.643.6823 fax. 510.643.6334 Email
Isei Tanida Areas of Expertise: National Institute of Infectious Diseases Biochemistry and Cell Biology 1-23-1, Toyama Shinjyuku, Tokyo 162-8640 Japan ph. +81-3-5285-1111 fax. +81-3-5285-1157 tanida@nih.go.jp Email
J. Paul Taylor Areas of Expertise: autophagy in neurological disease Associate Member St. Jude Children's Research Hospital Memphis, TN 38105-3678 USA ph. 901.595.6047 fax. 901.595.5947 Email
Andrew Thorburn Areas of Expertise: cell death, cancer Professor and Vice Chair Department of Pharmacology Grohne Professor of Cancer Research Associate Director for Basic Research University of Colorado Cancer Center Aurora, CO USA Email
Aviva M. Tolkovsky Areas of Expertise: neuronal cell death, autophagic mechanisms University Reader in Neuronal Survival Studies University of Cambride Department of Biochemistry Tennis Court Road Building O, Downing Site Cambridge CB21QW, UK ph. 44.1223.359319 fax. 44.1223.333345 Email
Yasuo Uchiyama Areas of Expertise: autophagy in disease (cell death) Professor Osaka University Graduate School of Medicine 2-2 Yamadoaka, Suita Osaka 565-0871, Japan ph. 81.6.6879.3120 fax. 81.6.6879.3129 Email
Ida J. Van der Klei University of Groningen Groningen Biomolecular Sciences and Biotechnology Institute P.O. Box 14, Kerlaan 30 Haren 9751 NN The Netherlands Email
Tibor Vellai Areas of Expertise: genetics of autophagy Associate Professor, Head of Department Department of Genetics Eötvös Loránd University Pázmány Péter stny. 1/C Budapest H-1117 Hungary Tel.: +36-1-209-0555x8684 Fax: +36-1-209-0555x1841 Email
Herbert W. Virgin. IV Areas of Expertise: virology and immunology Professor of Pathology & Immunology and Molecular Microbiology Washington University School of Medicine 660 S. Euclid Avenue St. Louis, Missouri 53110 USA ph. 314.362.7440 fax. 314.362.4096 Email
Eileen White The Cancer Institute of New Jersey Department of Molecular Biology and Biochemistry Rutgers University 195 Little Albany Street New Brunswick, NJ 08903-2681 USA ph. 732.235.5329 fax. 732.235.5795 Email
John W. Wiley Areas of Expertise: neurodegenerative disorders Director, General Clinical Research Center University of Michigan A7007 UH; 1500 E. Medical Center Dr. Ann Arbor, MI 48109-0108 ph. 734.936.8080 fax. 734.936.4024 Email
Tamotsu Yoshimori Areas of Expertise: mammalian autophagy Professor Department of Cellular Regulation Research Institute for Microbial Diseases, Osaka University 3-1Yamadaoka, Suita Osaka, 565-0871 Japan ph. 81.6.6879.8293 fax. 81.6.6879.8294 Email
Long Yu Areas of Expertise: medical genetics, cell signaling Professor and Director Fudan University State Key Laboratory of Genetic Engineering Institute of Genetics Handan Rd. 220 Shanghai 200433 P.R. China ph. 86.21.6564-3404 Email
Zhenyu Yue Areas of Expertise: neuroscience, cell biology Assistant Professor Mount Saini School of Medicine One Gustave L Levy Place New York, NY 10029 USA ph. 212.241.3155 fax. 212.348.1310 Email
Hong Zhang Areas of Expertise: developmental biology Assisstant Investigator National Institute of Biological Sciences, Beijing No. 7 Science Park Road Zhongguan Life Science Park; Beijing 102206 China ph. 86.10.80728590 Email

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