FEBS Journal

Chairman of the Editorial Board and Editor-in-Chief

Richard Perham, Cambridge, UK
FEBS Journal, Editorial Office, 98 Regent Street, Cambridge, CB2 1DP, UK
E-mail: perham@camfebs.co.uk
Molecular enzymology and multifunctional enzyme complexes; Protein chemistry; Protein-protein and protein-nucleic acid interaction; Protein engineering; Biomolecular self-assembly and molecular scaffolds

Reviews Editor and Associate Editor

Nicholas K. Tonks, Cold Spring Harbor, NY
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, P.O. Box 100, 1 Bungtown Road, Cold Spring Harbor, NY 11724-2208, USA
E-mail: tonks@cshl.edu
Protein phosphatases; Tyrosine phosphorylation; Signal transduction

EDITORS

Alastair Aitken, Edinburgh, UK
University of Edinburgh, ISB, School of Biological Sciences, Edinburgh, EH9 3JR Scotland, UK
E-mail: alastair.aitken@ed.ac.uk
Post-translational modification; Protein biochemistry; Protein mass spectrometry and Proteomics; 14-3-3 proteins; Neurodegenerative disease protein complexes; Signal transduction

Philippe Bastiaens, Dortmund
Max Planck Institute of Molecular Physiology Dept. Systemic Cell Biology Otto-Hahn-Str. 11 D-44227 Dortmund Germany
E-mail: philippe.bastiaens@mpi-dortmund.mpg.de
Systems biology; Microscopic imaging; Signal transduction; Cell biology

Karl Forchhammer, Tübingen
Institut für Mikrobiologie, Eberhard-Karls-Universität Tübingen, Auf der Morgenstelle 28, D-72076 Tübingen, Germany
E-mail: karl.forchhammer@uni-tuebingen.de
Bacterial nitrogen metabolism and signal transduction; Molecular physiology of prokaryotic phototrophs; Regulatory mechanisms in bacteria; Protein phosphatase

Angela Gronenborn, Pittsburgh, PA
Department of Structural Biology, University of Pittsburgh, School of Medicine, 3501 Fifth Avenue, BST3/Rm1051, Pittsburgh, PA 15260, USA
E-mail: amg100@pitt.edu
Nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy; Biomolecular structure and dynamics; Protein-ligand interactions; Protein folding and design; Lectins

Michael Hall, Basel
Biozentrum, University of Basel, Klingelbergstrasse 70, CH-4056 Basel, Switzerland
E-mail: M.Hall@unibas.ch
Signal transduction; TOR; Growth control

John Hardy, London
Department of Molecular Neuroscience and Reta Lila Weston Laboratories, Institute of Neurology, University College, Queen Square House, London, WC1 3BG
E-mail: j.hardy@ucl.ac.uk
Genetics & Heredity; Neurosciences & Neurology

Ursula Kummer, Heidelberg
Department of Modeling of Biological Processes, BIOQUANT BQ18, University of Heidelberg, Im Neuenheimer Feld 267, 69120 Heidelberg, Germany
E-mail: ursula.kummer@bioquant.uni-heidelberg.de
Bioinformatics; Computational biochemistry; Nonlinear dynamics; Modelling and simulation; Enzyme kinetics

Gunter Meister, Regensburg
University of Regensburg, Universitätsstrasse 31, 93053 Regensburg, Germany
E-mail: Gunter.Meister@vkl.uni-regensburg.de
MicroRNAs; siRNAs; piRNAs; Small RNAs; RNA interference; Long non-coding RNAs; Gene silencing; Post-transcriptional regulation of gene expression; RNA binding proteins; RNA processing; Translation

Daniel Michele, Ann Arbor, MI
Department of Molecular and Integrative Physiology, University of Michigan, 7771 Medical Science II, Ann Arbor, MI 48109-0622, USA
E-mail: dmichele@umich.edu
Muscle; Neuromuscular diseases; Cardiomyopathy; Mouse genetics; Cell adhesion; Extracellular matrix; Membrane proteins; Glycoproteins; Glycosylation

Pura Munoz Canoves, Barcelona, Spain
Department of Experimental and Life Sciences, Pompeu Fabra University, Dr Aiguader 88, 08003 Barcelona, Spain
E-mail: pura.munoz@upf.edu
Tissue repair; Muscle; Inflammation; Fibrosis; Mouse genetics; Signal transduction; Transcription; Cell differentiation; Stem cells

Poul Nissen, Aarhus, Denmark
Department of Molecular Biology, Faculty of Science, Aarhus University, Gustav Wieds 10 C, DK-8000 Aarhus C, Denmark
E-mail: pn@mb.au.dk
Structural biology; X-ray scattering; Crystallography; Membrane proteins; Transport ATPases; Biochemistry; Biophysics; Drug discovery and design

Peter Parham, Stanford, CA
Department of Structural Biology, Stanford University, Fairchild D-159, 299 Campus Drive West, Stanford, CA 94305, USA
E-mail: peropa@stanford.edu
Immunobiology of natural killer cells and cytotoxic T cells; Antigen processing and presentation; Immunogenetics of NK cell receptors and the major histocompatibility complex (MHC); Evolution of the immune system; Role of NK cells and the MHC in placental reproduction

Arp Schnittger, Strasbourg
Institut de Biologie Moléculaire des Plantes du CNRS IBMP-CNRS - UPR2357, 67084 Strasbourg
E-mail: Arp.Schnittger@ibmp-cnrs.unistra.fr
Developmental mechanisms, cell cycle control, meiosis, polyploidy

Nigel S. Scrutton, Manchester, UK
Faculty of Life Sciences, Manchester Interdisciplinary Biocentre, University of Manchester, 131 Princess St, Manchester M1 7DN, UK
E-mail: nigel.scrutton@manchester.ac.uk
Enzyme mechanisms; cofactor chemistry; electron and hydrogen transfer mechanisms; protein dynamics and structure; enzyme kinetics

Daniel S. Tawfik, Rehovot, Israel
Department of Biological Chemistry, Weizmann Institute of Science, PO Box 26, Rehovot 76100, Israel
E-mail: dan.tawfik@weizmann.ac.il
Protein evolution; Enzyme structure and mechanisms; Molecular evolution; Directed evolution; Stability effects of mutations; Protein engineering; Protein promiscuity and evolvability; Evolution of protein folds

Sarah Teichmann, Cambridge
European Bioinformatics Institute and Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Hinxton, Cambridge, CB10 1SD
E-mail: saraht@ebi.ac.uk
Bioinformatics, genomics, proteomics, immunogenomics, systems biology, protein evolution, biophysics, network biology

Tony Tiganis, Melbourne, Australia
School of Biomedical Sciences, Monash University, VIC 3800, Australia
E-mail: tony.tiganis@med.monash.edu.au
Protein tyrosine phosphatases; Cellular signalling; Glucose homeostasis; Obesity; Diabetes; Adaptive immunity

Kostas Tokatlidis, Crete
University of Crete and Institute of Molecular Biology and Biotechnology, Foundation for Research and Technology (IMBB-FORTH),Heraklion GR-70013 Crete, Greece
E-mail: tokatlid@imbb.forth.gr
Mitochondria biogenesis; Protein transport across membranes; Oxidative protein folding

Alexander Wlodawer, Frederick, MD
Frederick, MD 21702, USA
E-mail: wlodawer@netscape.net
Protein crystallography; Crystallographic methods; Proteases; Ribonucleases; Cytokines and cytokine receptors

Mathias Ziegler, Bergen
University of Bergen, Department of Molecular Biology, Thormøhlensgt. 55 5020 Bergen, Norway
Email:  Mathias.Ziegler@mbi.uib.no
ADP-ribosylation, Metabolism, Bioenergetics, Enzymology

Sophie Zinn-Justin, Paris
Laboratory of Structural Biology and Radiobiology, UMR CNRS 8221 & CEA IBITECS Bât 144, CEA Saclay, 91191 Gif-sur-Yvette Cedex, France
Email:  Sophie.ZINN@cea.fr
NMR; Molecular modeling; Bioinformatics; Biomolecular structure and dynamics; Nuclear envelope structure; Genome Integrity; Phage virion assembly