Editorial Board

BioDesign Research' editorial board is comprised of active researchers and experts selected from a pool of scholars who have made significant and well recognized contributions to the field. The overall duties of our editors include, but are not limited to, overseeing the review process and soliciting submissions of high-quality manuscripts.

Editors-in-Chief

Xiaohan Yang, PhD, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA 
Alfonso Jaramillo, PhD, University of Warwick, UK

Advisory Board

David Baker, PhD, University of Washington, USA 
Edward A. Bayer, PhD, Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel 
Rodolphe Barrangou, PhD, North Carolina State University, USA 
Jef D. Boeke, PhD, NYU Grossman School of Medicine, USA 
Ron Breaker, PhD, Yale University, USA 
Patrick Yizhi Cai, PhD, University of Manchester, UK  
Guoqiang Chen, PhD, Tsinghua University, China 
George Church, PhD, Harvard University, USA 
James Collins, PhD, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA 
Junbiao Dai, PhD, Shenzhen Institutes of Advanced Technology of the Chinese Academy of Science, China 
Zixin Deng, PhD, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China 
Guocheng Du, PhD, Jiangnan University, China
Martin Fussenegger, PhD, ETH Zürich, Switzerland 
Jay D. Keasling, PhD, University of California Berkeley, USA 
Richard Lenski, PhD, Michigan State University, USA 
Chun Li, PhD, Tsinghua University, China 
Chenli Liu, PhD, Shenzhen Institutes of Advanced Technology of the Chinese Academy of Science, China
David R. Liu, PhD, Harvard University, USA 
Yanhe Ma, PhD, Tianjin Institute of Industrial Biotechnology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China 
Sir Peter Ratcliffe, PhD, University of Oxford, UK 
Pamela Silver, PhD, Harvard University, USA 
Craig Venter, PhD, J. Craig Venter Institute, USA  
Ping Xu, PhD, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China 
Qipeng Yuan, PhD, Beijing University of Chemical Technology, China 
Yingjin Yuan, PhD, Tianjin University, China 
Xianen Zhang, PhD, Institute of Biophysics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, China 
Ning-Yi Zhou, PhD, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China

Associate Editors

Nathalie Q. Balaban, PhD, The Hebrew University, Israel 
Gábor Balázsi, PhD, Stony Brook University, USA 
Rodolphe Barrangou, PhD, North Carolina State University, USA 
Anke Becker, PhD, LOEWE Center for Synthetic Microbiology, Germany 
Lacra Bintu, PhD, Stanford University, USA 
Mingfeng Cao, PhD, Xiamen University, China 
Yao Chen, PhD, Nankai University, China 
Virginia Cornish, PhD, Columbia University, USA 
Victor de Lorenzo, PhD, Spanish National Centre for Biotechnology-CSIC, Spain 
Yu Deng, PhD, Jiangnan University, China 
Douglas Densmore, PhD, Boston University, USA 
Diane DiEuliis, PhD, National Defense University, USA 
Carrie Eckert, PhD, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA 
Michael Elowitz, PhD, California Institute of Technology, USA
Tobias Erb, PhD, Max Planck Institute for Terrestrial Microbiology, Germany 
Charles Gersbach, PhD, Duke University, USA 
Luke Gilbert, PhD, University of California, San Francisco, USA 
Gigi Kwik Gronvall, PhD, Johns Hopkins University, USA 
Raik Grünberg, PhD, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Saudi 
Arabia Yang Gu, PhD, CAS Center for Excellence in Molecular Plant Science / Institute of Plant Physiology and Ecology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China 
Jim Haseloff, PhD, University of Cambridge, UK  
Jeff Hasty, PhD, University of California, San Diego, USA 
Philipp Holliger, PhD, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, UK 
Qiannan Hu, PhD, Shanghai Institute of Nutrition and Health of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
 Ryozo Imai, PhD, National Agriculture and Food Research Organization, Japan 
Mark Isalan, PhD, Imperial College London, UK 
Poul Erik Jensen, PhD, University of Copenhagen, Denmark 
Ahmad Khalil, PhD, Boston University, USA
Mustafa Khammash, PhD, ETH Zürich, Switzerland 
Tanja Kortemme, PhD, University of California, San Francisco, USA 
Yongchan Kwon, PhD, Louisiana State University, USA 
Stéphane Lemaire, PhD, CNRS-Sorbonne University, France 
Bingzhi Li, PhD, Tianjin University, China 
Feng Li, PhD, Wuhan Institute of Virology, Chinese Academy of Science, China 
Jianfeng Li, PhD, Sun Yat-sen University, China 
Jiazhang Lian, PhD, Zhejiang University, China 
Jianzhong Liu, PhD, Sun Yat-sen University, China 
Tiangang Liu, PhD, Wuhan University, China 
Yuan Lu, PhD, Tsinghua University, China 
Xuefeng Lyu, PhD, Qingdao Institute of Bioenergy and Bioprocess Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China 
Alistair McCormick, PhD, University of Edinburgh, UK 
June Medford, PhD, Colorado State University, USA
Tae Seok Moon, PhD, Washington University in St. Louis, USA 
Jose Penades, PhD, University of Glasgow, UK 
Nan Peng, PhD, Huazhong Agricultural University, China 
Matthew Porteus, MD, PhD, Stanford University, USA 
Qingsheng Qi, PhD, Shandong University, China 
Yiping Qi, PhD, University of Maryland, USA 
Guillermo Rodrigo, PhD, Institute for Integrative Systems Biology, Spain 
Rafael Sanjuan, PhD, Institute for Integrative Systems Biology, Spain 
Yolanda Schaerli, PhD, University of Lausanne, Switzerland 
Xiling Shen, PhD, Duke University, USA 
Yue Shen, PhD, BGI, China Qiong Shi, PhD, BGI, China 
Shuobo Shi, PhD, Beijing University of Chemical Technology, China 
Velia Siciliano, PhD, Italian Institute of Technology, Italy 
Pam Silver, PhD, Harvard University, USA Hao Song, PhD, Tianjin University, China 
Beatrix Suess, PhD, Technical University of Darmstadt, Germany 
Ilias Tagkopoulos, PhD, University of California, Davis, USA 
Eriko Takano, PhD, University of Manchester, UK 
Hongzhi Tang, PhD, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China  
Cong Trinh, PhD, University of Tennessee, USA 
Hailong Wang, PhD, Shandong University, China 
Yajie Wang, PhD, Westlake University, China 
Yong Wang, PhD, CAS Center for Excellence in Molecular Plant Science / Institute of Plant Physiology and Ecology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China 
Ron Weiss, PhD, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA  
Neil Wipat, PhD, Newcastle University, UK 
Shoshana Wodak, PhD, VIB-VUB Center for Structural Biology, Belgium 
Bian Wu, PhD, Institute of Microbiology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, China 
Shangxian Xie, PhD, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China 
Zhen Xie, PhD, Tsinghua University, China 
Fengxue Xin, PhD, Nanjing Tech University, China 
Jian Xu, PhD, Qingdao Institute of Bioenergy and Bioprocess Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China 
Peng Xu, PhD, Guangdong Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, China 
Chuang Xue, PhD, Dalian University of Technology, China 
Bing Yang, PhD, University of Missouri, USA
Shihui Yang, PhD, Hubei University, China 
Haifeng Ye, PhD, East China Normal University, China 
Chun You, PhD, Tianjin Institute of Industrial Biotechnology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China 
Chong Zhang, PhD, Tsinghua University, China 
Dawei Zhang, PhD, Tianjin Institute of Industrial Biotechnology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
Jingwen Zhou, PhD, Jiangnan University, China 
Yongjin Zhou, PhD, Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China

Executive Editor

Zong-Ming Cheng, PhD, Nanjing Agricultural University, China / University of Tennessee, USA

Managing Editor

Huan Yin, Nanjing Agricultural University