Introducing our new editors and the Editorial Advisory Board

In this Editorial, the Editor‐in‐Chief Professor Miguel A. De la Rosa introduces the new members of the Editorial Board and the Editorial Advisory Board.


The Editorial Advisory Board
The most important service any journal provides is facilitating the peer-review process, and finding willing, expert, and independent reviewers across a wide range of research areas for an ever-increasing number of manuscripts is no trivial task. To help ensure that FEBS Open Bio can continue to meet this challenge, I have appointed a new Editorial Advisory Board (EAB). The members of the EAB are all committed to regularly reviewing manuscripts in their area of expertise, which will help ensure that manuscripts are reviewed to a high standard and within a timely interval.
The EAB has 12 inaugural members, and they will be joined by new members over time. It is my hope that membership of the EAB will be dynamic to best meet the journal's requirements. Please join me in welcoming the new members of the EAB: Avraham Ashkenazi Tel Aviv University, Israel

Cornelia de Moor
Dr. Cornelia de Moor received a PhD in developmental biology from the University of Utrecht in 1994 and then joined the laboratory of Dr. Joel Richter at the University of Massachusetts as a postdoctoral fellow. In 2000, she started her own laboratory at the University of Nottingham, joining the School of Pharmacy in 2005, where she is currently Associate Professor in RNA Biology. Her primary research interest is in post-transcriptional regulation of gene expression, especially the role of polyadenylation in the regulation of gene expression and in drug-like compounds that affect the poly(A) tail of mRNAs. Recent work includes studies of the polyadenylation inhibitor cordycepin, which is isolated from the insect-infecting fungus Cordyceps militaris and is showing promise as a lead compound for the treatment of osteoarthritis and cancer.

Irene Díaz-Moreno
Dr. Irene Díaz-Moreno is Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology at the Institute of Chemical Research-IIQ of the Scientific Research Centre Isla de la Cartuja-cicCartuja, in Seville (Spain).
She was awarded her Ph.D. with European mention from the University of Seville, Spain, in 2005. Dr. Irene Díaz-Moreno has worked in collaboration with groups at the Universities of Göteborg (Sweden) and Leiden (the Netherlands), on molecular recognition between metalloproteins involved in electron-transfer processes. She was an EMBO postdoctoral fellow (2006)(2007)(2008) at the NIMR-MRC in London (UK), working on the regulatory mechanisms of mRNA decay by RNA-binding proteins. In 2010, she got a permanent position at the University of Seville, where she is developing research projects on Biointeractomics field, as well as on the post-translational regulation of biological macromolecules (https://www.iiq. us-csic.es/en/biointeractomics). Dr. Irene Díaz-Moreno has held the FEBS Executive Committee position of Chair of the 'Working Group on the Careers of Young Scientists' since the start of 2018.  (PNAS, 2017(PNAS, , 2018. Using this approach, he has screened mouth microbiota of wild animals to isolate new bacterial clones producing antibiotics.

Sergio Grinstein
Dr. Sergio Grinstein completed his Ph.D. in 1976 at the Centro de Investigacion y Estudios Avanzados, in Mexico City. He then spent two years as a postdoctoral fellow at the Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto, followed by a year in the Department of Biochemistry at the Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich. He is currently working at the Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto and has been Professor of Biochemistry at the University of Toronto since 1988.
Dr. Grinstein is interested in two areas: the cell physiology and biophysics of innate immunity-particularly phagocytosis and host-pathogen interactions-and the regulation of the intracellular pH.

Gabor Juhasz
After obtaining his PhD at Eotvos University in Budapest in 2004, Professor Gabor Juhasz completed his postdoctoral training at the University of Minnesota, USA. Focusing on autophagy in Drosophila through all these years, he started his own group at Eotvos University in 2009 with support from the Wellcome Trust. He moved to the Institute of Genetics, Biological Research Centre, Szeged, Hungary in 2015 where he is currently a group leader, while he is still working (part-time) as full professor at his alma mater: Eotvos University, Budapest, Hungary. Research in the Juhasz laboratory is now centered on the molecular genetics, cell biology, and biochemistry of various lysosomal degradation pathways in Drosophila and human cells.

Alicia Kowaltowski
Dr. Alicia Kowaltowski completed her medical training (1997) and PhD (1999)  Her research is focused on autophagy, the process that degrades and removes cellular organelles and is important for cellular homeostasis. Her special interest is in mitophagy, a selective autophagy of mitochondria, and she is focused on deciphering the molecular mechanisms that control activity of mitophagy receptors.
She is also involved in the COST action TRANSAU-TOPHAGY, CA15138, where she participates in working group 1 activities (Basic research on autophagy molecular machinery) and is a member of the MC Committee.

Rafael Radi
Professor Rafael Radi obtained his MD (1988) andPhD (1991) (2000)(2001)(2002)(2003)(2004)(2005)(2006)(2007)(2008)(2009)(2010)(2011). He is past President of SfRBM and also of the Society for Free Radical Research International (SFRRI). In addition, he is a Foreign Associate of the US National Academy of Sciences (2015) and a Founding Member and current President of the Academia Nacional de Ciencias del Uruguay. His research interests include the chemical reactivity and detection of free radical and oxidant species, mitochondrial redox metabolism, oxidative post-translational protein modifications, and the role of redox processes in pathology and therapeutics.

Lena Ruiz-Azuara
Lena Ruiz-Azuara is a professor in the Chemistry Department at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM). She obtained her BSc in Chemistry for UNAM and PhD degree from Edinburgh University, UK. She pioneered since her arrival in 1975 at UNAM the development of the field of Inorganic Chemistry in Mexico. She is a member of the Mexican Academy of Sciences, the Royal Chemical Society, the New York Academy of Science, and the American Chemical Society. In 2016, she was distinguished as Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry for her leadership and scientific impact. In 2019, she was awarded the Distinguish Visiting Scholar of the Berkeley Global Science Institutes. She has won a number of awards, including the ZAZIL Award by Avon, the Award CANIFARMA (1994,2007), the Aida Weiss of the PUIS (Cancer), the National Chemical Award 'Andrés Manuel of the Rio' from the Chemical Society of Mexico, a Marie Curie Fellowship, the 'Juana Ramirez de Asbaje' Award granted by UNAM, the National University Prize in the area of Natural Sciences, the Heberto Castillo Award, and the Coatlicue Award in 2019. She belongs to the SNI (National Researcher System) in the Chemical-Biological Area and was recently granted Emeritus Researcher Level, an honor reserved for the most highly recognized scientists in Mexico.