We are pleased to announce that Prof. Dr. Lluís Ribas de Pouplana has been appointed as the Editor-in-Chief of the Section “Genetics and Genomics Research” of Life (ISSN 2075-1729).

Prof. Dr. Lluís Ribas de Pouplana
Affiliation: Institute for Research in Biomedicine (IRB Barcelona), The Barcelona Institute of Science and Technology, Parc Científic de Barcelona, C/Baldiri Reixac 10, 08028 Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
Website: https://www.irbbarcelona.org/en/profile/lluis-ribas
E-mail: [email protected]

Prof. Dr. Lluís Ribas de Pouplana received his B.Sc. in Biology from the University of Barcelona (1988), and his Ph.D. in Biochemistry from the University of Edinburgh. After the completion of his doctoral studies he was hired as a postdoctoral scientist at the Department of Biology of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (1993–97). From Cambridge, he moved to San Diego, where he accepted a Senior Research Scientist position and, in 2001, an Assistant Professorship of Molecular Biology at the Scripps Research Institute. In June 2003 he accepted an ICREA Research Professorship, and became a principal investigator at the Institute for Research in Biomedicine (IRB Barcelona).

His research is focused on the mechanisms of control of protein synthesis, or gene translation. The transformation of genetic information into protein sequence is the central process of biology; its control is essential for the well-being of the cell, and a large number of human diseases are caused by defects in this control.

He also worked as Guest Editor for the Special Issues

Evolution of tRNA
International Journal of Molecular Sciences: Functions of Transfer RNAs 2.0

The editorial team looks forward to his contribution to the continued success of Life and warmly welcomes Prof. Dr. Lluís Ribas de Pouplana as the Editor-in-Chief of the Section "Genetics and Genomics Research". For further information on the journal sections, please click here.