Topical Advisory Panel

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Biology Department, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, New York, NY 11973-5000, USA
Interests: plant cell wall; plant genetics; bioengineering; metabolic engineering; transcription; plant mediator complex
Department of Biomolecular Sciences, Kingston University, Kingston upon Thames KT1 2EE, UK
Interests: Hippo signalling; mechanotransduction; YAP; cancer; polarity; Rho GTPases; signalling; organ growth; extracellular matrix; integrins
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Department of Oral, Maxillofacial and Plastic Surgery, University Medical Center Rostock, Schillingallee 69, 18057 Rostock, Germany
Interests: cancer; metabolomics; sphingolipids; amino acid metabolism; tissue engineering; stem cells
CSIRO Synthetic Biology Future Science Platform, University of Technology Sydney, P.O. Box 123, Broadway, NSW 2007, Australia
Interests: algal and plant metabolism, algal and plant terpenoid metabolism; algae and plant molecular biology and genetics; algal strain engineering; algal biotechnology; synthetic biology; metabolic engineering
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Department of Orthpaedics, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY 10029-5674, USA
Interests: regenerative medicine for musculoskeletal tissues; mechanobiology; developmental biology; skeletal stem cells
College of Agriculture, Henan University, Zhengzhou 450046, China
Interests: bacterial chemotaxis; chemoreceptor; plant growth-promoting rhizobacteria (PGPR); rhizosphere microbiology; plant-soil microbial interactions; root exudates

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Biosensors for Bioengineering Group, Institute for Bioengineering of Catalonia, Barcelona Institute of Science and Technology C/Baldiri Reixac, 10-12, E-08028 Barcelona, Spain
Interests: muscular dystrophies; skeletal muscle tissue engineering; organs-on-chip; drug development; antisense oligonucleotides; gene therapy; microRNAs; splicing
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1. Instituto Universitario Fernández-Vega, University of Oviedo, Av. Drs Fernández Vega 34, 33012 Oviedo, Spain
2. Department of Pathology, Hospital Universitario Central de Asturias, 33011 Oviedo, Spain
3. Instituto de Investigación Sanitaria del Principado de Asturias, Av. del Hospital Universitario, s/n, 33011 Oviedo, Spain
Interests: histopathology; cancer; molecular biology

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Instituto de Hortofruticultura Subtropical y Mediterránea “La Mayora” (IHSM-UMA-CSIC), Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, Avenida Dr. Wienberg s/n, 29750 Algarrobo-Costa, Málaga, Spain
Interests: plant virology; emergent plant diseases; virus taxonomy; plant–pathogen interactions; insect vectors
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Department of Biotechnology, Chemistry and Pharmacy, University of Siena, 53100 Siena, SI, Italy
Interests: antioxidant; anti-inflammatory; antitumoral and antiangiogenic potential of natural compounds; their semisynthetic derivatives and/or analogs produced by metabolic engineering and evaluation of their potential biomedical and nutraceutical applications; molecular mechanisms underlying cerebral cavernous malformation (CCM) with particular focus on the study of physiopathological functions of KRIT1 protein and its functional interactions
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Electrophysiology Facility for Cell Phenotyping and Drug Discovery, Illawarra Health and Medical Research Institute, University of Wollongong, Wollongong, NSW 2522, Australia
Interests: cell physiology; voltage gated cation channels; bacterial ion channels; ligand gated ion channels; electrophysiology

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1. Department of Biomedical and Dental Sciences, Morphological and Functional Images, School of Dentistry University of Messina, 98100 Messina, Italy
2. Multidisciplinary Department of Medical-Surgical and Odontostomatological Specialties, University of Campania “Luigi Vanvitelli”, 80121 Naples, Italy
Interests: oral health; public health; systemic disease; biomaterials; microbiomes; infection risk; oral surgery; rehabilitative medicine; environment disinfection
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Institute of Biology Leiden, Leiden University, Einsteinweg 55, 2333 CC Leiden, The Netherlands
Interests: zebrafish models; innate immunity; inflammation; autophagy; infection biology; host-pathogen interaction; transcriptomics; comparative genomics
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Department of Biosciences, Biotechnology and Biopharmaceutics, University of Bari Aldo Moro, 70125 Bari, Italy
Interests: extracellular vesicles; endothelial dysfunction; mitochondrial homeostasis
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School of Kinesiology, Shanghai University of Sport, Shanghai 200438, China
Interests: biomechanics; sport; exercise; footwear; foot; ankle; running; gait; motion analysis
Department of Chemical, Biological, Pharmaceutical and Environmental Sciences, University of Messina, 98166 Messina, Italy
Interests: biochemistry; oxidative stress; inflammation; ischemic injury; neurodegenerative diseases
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Department of Cell and Developmental Biology, Institute of Biomedical Sciences, University of Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo 05508-000, Brazil
Interests: thyroid cancer; lung cancer; metastasis; gene editing; CRISPR/Cas9; transcriptional control; microRNA; lncRNA; epigenetic control

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Head of the Chemical Proteomics Core Facility, Karolinska Institutet, Department of Medical Biochemistry and Biophysics (MBB), Biomedicum Building, SE 17177 Stockholm, Sweden
Interests: mass spectrometry-based quantitative proteomics; chemical proteomics; target deconvolution; mechanis of action; protein solubility/stability alteration; PISA; drug development; repurposing strategies; proteomics driven personalized therapies
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Cellular Dynamics Laboratory, Institute of cell biology, University of Bern, Baltzerstrasse 4, CH-3012 Bern, Switzerland
Interests: cancer; cytoskeleton; angiogenesis; kinases; migration; cell biology; signalling; fluorescent biosensors; cell morphogenesis; biochemistry; molecular biology; signaling dynamics
Medical Research Council–Lab of Molecular Biology (MRCLMB), Cell Biology Division, Francis Crick Avenue, Cambridge Biomedical Campus, Cambridge CB2 0QH, UK
Interests: membrane trafficking; Golgi GEFs; ESCRT complexes; cryogenic electron microscopy (cryo-EM)

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Institute of Plant Sciences, University of Cologne, 50923 Cologne, Germany
Interests: developmental plasticity; gene regulatory networks; hormone biology; auxin and BR interaction; light perception and shade avoidance; fruit development and seed dispersal
1. Beijing National Research Center for Information Science and Technology, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China
2. Center for Synthetic and Systems Biology, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China
Interests: spatial multi-omics; 3D genomics; super-resolution imaging
State Key Laboratory for Biology of Plant Disease and Insect Pests, Institute of Plant Protection, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Beijing 100193, China
Interests: fungal genetics; the interation of plant pathogen with host; microorganism community; smut fungi; bunt pathogens; pathogennicity; resistenceand

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Molecular Epidemiology and Public Health Laboratory, Hopkirk Research Institute, School of Veterinary Science, Massey University, Private Bag, 11 222, Palmerston North 4442, New Zealand
Interests: working at or across any level of ecological organization ranging from molecules to ecosystems in broad areas of interest including, but not limited to, phylogenetics, population genetics, phylogeography, community ecology, macroecology, and bioinformatics

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Department of Biology, Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II, 80138 Napoli, Campania, Italy
Interests: DNA methylation, epigenetics; gene expression; molecular biology; sequencing; DNA; cloning; PCR; RNA; DNA sequencing; gel electrophoresis; electrophoresis
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Department of Oncology, University of Turin, 10124 Turin, Italy
Interests: identification of cancer vulnerabilities studying in which way the DNA repair pathways might spark anticancer immunity; DNA repair; neoantigens; immune system; cancer immunology; immune genomics
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1. Aachen‐Maastricht Institute for Biobased Materials, Faculty of Science and Engineering, Maastricht University, 6211 Geleen, The Netherlands
2. Department of Biohybrid & Medical Textiles, RWTH Aachen University, 52062 Aachen, Germany
Interests: tissue engineering; medical textiles; mechanobiology; cell-material interaction; biomaterials
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Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City, KS 66160, USA
Interests: biomarker discovery; extracellular Vesicles; genetically modified mouse model; drug resistance; cancer biology; protein chemistry; clinical trials
Department of Ophthalmology, School of Medicine, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA 15260, USA
Interests: immune cells; age-related macular degeneration; diabetic retinopathy; inflammation; microglia; T cells; macrophages; neutrophils; tumor niche; oxidative stress

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UO Cardiologia Riabilitativa, ASST RHODENSE-Ospedale di Passirana, Commissione Medica AIA-FIGC, Via Luigi Settembrini, 1, 20017 Rho, MI, Italy
Interests: cardiovascular risk; preventive medicine; sports cardiology; hypertension; echocardiography; heart failure; atrial fibrillation; cardiovascular disease; atherosclerosis; treatments in CVD
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