Editorial Board for section 'Cellular Biophysics'

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Department of Biology, University of Fribourg, Chemin du Musée 10, CH-1700 Fribourg, Switzerland
Interests: membrane homeostasis; lipid droplet biogenesis; lipid transport; sterol export; CAP proteins; fatty acid transport
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UCL Institute of Ophthalmology, University College London, London EC1V 9EL, UK
Interests: tissue contraction; fibrosis, fibroblasts; mechanoregulation; actin dynamics; electron microscopy of actin cytoskeleton; ocular scarring

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Univ-Lyon, CarMeN Laboratory, INSERM 1060, INRA 1397, Université Claude Bernard Lyon1, INSA Lyon, Oullins, France, IHU OPERA, Groupement Hospitalier EST, Bâtiment B13, 59 boulevard Pinel, F-69500 Bron, France
Interests: myocardial infarction; acute ischemic stroke; ischemia-reperfusion; therapeutic hypothermia; conditioning; cardio-protection; neuro-protection; prognosis biomarkers; systems biology; biophysics; molecular biology
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Department of Molecular and Cell Biology, University of Leicester, Leicester, UK
Interests: protein engineering; directed protein evolution; receptor tyrosine kinases; endothelium; receptor structure/function

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Department of Biomedical, Experimental and Clinical Sciences “Mario Serio", University of Florence, Viale Morgagni 50, 50134 Florence, Italy
Interests: amyloid; cytotoxicity; inflammation; polyphenols
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Department of Biosciences, Biotechnologies and Environment, University of Bari “Aldo Moro”, 70125 Bari, Italy
Interests: cell physiology and pathophysiology; cellular and molecular biology; biophysics of the molecular transport properties of aquaporin membrane channels; aquaporins in health and disease; aquaporins as biomarkers and drug targets
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Max Planck Institute for Medical Research, 69120 Heidelberg, Germany
Interests: mechanobiology; cell adhesion; cell migration; integrins; extracellular matrix

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Radiation/Oncology Department, Weill Cornell Medicine, 1300 York Avenue, New York City, NY, USA
Interests: cell biochemistry: signal transduction, molecular pharmacology; neuroimmunology and cellular mechanisms of cytokines, immunomodulatory activities; molecular and cellular proteomics; cell based assays for drug discovery; cell metabolism and aging

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Department of Life Sciences, Neuroscience Solutions to Cancer Research Group, Imperial College London, Sir Alexander Fleming Building, South Kensington Campus, London SW7 2AZ, UK
Interests: metastasis; epigenetics; ion channels; pH; diet; nutraceuticals; growth factors; bioelectricity
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1. Bioengineering Department, Biological Faculty, M.V. Lomonosov Moscow State University, 119991 Moscow, Russia
2. Laboratory of Optical Microscopy and Spectroscopy of Biomolecules, Shemyakin and Ovchinnikov Institute of Bioorganic Chemistry, 117997 Moscow, Russia
Interests: nucleosome structure; nucleosome-protein interactions; single molecule; spFRET microscopy
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Molecular Pharmacology Unit, Department of Applied Research and Technological Development, Fondazione IRCCS Istituto Nazionale dei Tumori di Milano, 20133 Milan, Italy
Interests: telomere maintenance mechanisms; G-quadruplex structures; autophagy; functional validation of microRNAs; therapeutic targets; intracellular delivery of therapeutic agents

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Department of Molecular Physiology and Neurobiology, University of Wroclaw, ul. Sienkiewicza 21, 50-335 Wroclaw, Poland
Interests: multifunctional proteins; subcellular organization of energy metabolism; cell-to-cell crosstalk
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1. Laboratory for Structural Biology Research, NIAMS, NIH, Bethesda, MD 20892, USA
2. National Cryo-EM Program, Cancer Research Technology Program, Frederick National Laboratory for Cancer Research, Leidos Biomedical Research, Inc., Frederick, MD 21701, USA
Interests: cryo-electron microscopy (or cryoeEM); cryo-electron tomography; structural biology; single-particle analysis; micrograph processing software; cellular segmentation; virology
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Department of Biomedical Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, National University of Singapore, 9 Engineering Drive 1, Singapore 117576, Singapore
Interests: biomedical optical spectroscopy (Raman, Fluorescence and Diffuse Reflectance) and imaging in biomedicine; advanced fiber-optic endoscopic imaging; coherent Raman scattering microscopy imaging; multimodal nonlinear optical microscopy imaging; nonlinear fluorescence lifetime imaging

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Department of Microbiology, Immunology and Genetics, Ben-GurionUniversity of the Negev, Beer-Sheva 84105, Israel
Interests: viruses; herpes viruses; retroviruses; molecular biology; spectroscopy (FTIR microscopy); spectroscopic study of biological samples (cells, viruses, bacteria)

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1. Experimental Physics, Saarland University, 66123 Saarbrücken, Germany
2. Theoretical Medicine and Biosciences, Saarland University, 66424 Homburg, Germany
Interests: calcium; calcium imaging; calcium signaling; physiology; cell physiology; patch-clamp; electrophysiology; microscopy; red cells
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Institute of Precision Medicine, Medical and Life Sciences Faculty, Furtwangen University, Jakob-Kienzle-Straße 17, 78054 Villingen-Schwenningen, Germany
Interests: data science for life science; bioinformatics; biostatistics; image analysis; statistical/machine learning; precision medicine
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Center for Biomedical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute ofTechnology, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA
Interests: tissue engineering; cell engineering; tissue regeneration; neurological diseases; drug delivery; protein engineering; biophysics; nanotechnology

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Department of Bioengineering, Department of Mechanical Engineering and Mechanics, Lehigh University, Bethlehem, PA 18015, USA
Interests: biotransport; biomechanics; fluid dynamics; addictive manfuacturing; microfabrication; lab-on-chip; microfluidics; MEMS/NEMS; cardiovascular device; fluid-structure interaction; compuational fluid dynamics; nanotechnology

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Centre dImmunologie de Marseille-Luminy, 13009 Marseille, France
Interests: fluorescence correlation spectroscopy; cell membrane; single molecule detection; fluorescence imaging; live cell imaging; membrane biophysics; fluorescence polarization; optical imaging; biophotonics; optical tweezers

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The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX, USA
Interests: corneal cell and tissue mechanics; corneal wound healing; corneal imaging; tissue engineering
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Biophysics Institute, National Research Council, Via De Marini 6, Genoa, Italy
Interests: ion channels and transporters; CLC proteins; channelopathies; patch-clamp; LRRC8; ion channels and cancer

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Department of Medical Biotechnology, Yeungnam University, Gyeongsan 38541, Korea
Interests: protein biochemistr; ligand-protein interaction; thermodynamics; enzymology; calorimetry; spectroscopy

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Department of Molecular Medicine and Medical Biotechnology, University of Naples “Federico II”, Naples, Italy
Interests: endoplasmic reticulum (ER) stress response; analysis of the dynamics of transport in the early secretory pathway; mechanisms regulating autophagosome biogenesis; role of autophagy in neurodegenerative and infectious diseases; role of autophagy in cell growth control and unconventional secretion; pharmacological modulation of autophagy
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Research Institute for Medicines (iMed.ULisboa), Faculty of Pharmacy, Universidade de Lisboa, 1649-003 Lisbon, Portugal
Interests: membrane biophysics; lipid domains; fluorescence spectroscopy; fluorescence microscopy; sphingolipids; ceramide; lipid-lipid interactions; drug-membrane interactions; lysosomal storage diseases

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Department of Physiology and Pharmacology, Schulich School of Medicine and Dentistry, The University of Western Ontario, London, ON, Canada
Interests: calcium signaling; protein structure-function; mechanisms of cell signaling transduction; store operated calcium entry; mitochondrial calcium uptake; structural basis for disease

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School of Biological Sciences, Nanyang Technological University, 60 Nanyang Drive, Singapore 637551, Singapore
Interests: RNA viruses; virus particle assembly; host-cell factors; lipid-raft microdomains
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Fonction et Architecture des Assemblages Macromoléculaires, Institute for Integrative Biology of the Cell (I2BC), CEA, CNRS, Univ Paris-Sud, Université Paris-Saclay, Gif-sur-Yvette CEDEX, France
Interests: structure-function relationship of macromolecular complexes using crystallography, biochemistry and biophysics; tRNA maturation; avirulence factors; antibiotic resistance; nucleotide modification

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Life Sciences Institute, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, The University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC V6T 1Z3, Canada
Interests: macroautophagy; histone acetylation; macromolecular assemblies; single-particle electron microscopy; X-ray crystallography; protein-protein interactions
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