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Editors-in-Chief
Bauke W. Dijkstra, PhD
University of Groningen, Groningen, Netherlands
Alasdair C. Steven, PhD
Silver Spring, Maryland, USA
Andreas Engel, PhD
Basel University Biozentrum Department, Basel, Switzerland Structural biology, membrane proteins, 2D crystallization, STEM (annular dark field, mass measurements), electron crystallography, image processing, 3D-EM, atomic force microscopy, single molecule force spectroscopy
Associate Editors
David Alsteens, PhD
Catholic University of Louvain, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium Atomic force microscopy, protein structure, lipid membrane, single-molecule interaction, binding free-energy landscape, kinetics, thermodynamics, folding
Andrey Kajava, PhD
National Centre for Scientific Research, Montpellier, France Structural bioinformatics and Molecular modelling
Steven Ludtke, PhD
Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, United States CryoEM and CryoET structure and dynamics, quantitative image processing, scientific software development
Tatyana Polenova, PhD
University of Delaware, Newark, Delaware, United States Solid-state NMR spectroscopy, methods development and applications, dynamic nuclear polarization, protein structure, protein assemblies, quantum chemical calculations of NMR parameters
Rajan Sankaranarayanan, PhD
Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology CSIR, Hyderabad, India X-ray crystallography, translation, lipid biosynthesis
Kenneth A. Taylor, PhD
Florida State University, Tallahassee, Florida, United States 3D electron microscopy, electron crystallography, electron tomography, helical and "single particle" 3D image reconstruction
Stephen Weiner, PhD
Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel Biomineralization, calcification, biological materials, mineralized tissues, structure-function relations of hard biological materials/tissues, transient mineral phases, 3D large volume structural data, FIB SEM, microarchaeology
Consulting Editor
Wolfgang Baumeister, PhD
Max-Planck-Institute of Biochemistry, Martinsried, Germany Structural Biology, Biophysics, Protein folding and degradation
Founding Editors
Fritiof S. Sjöstrand, PhD
Journal of Ultrastructural Research in 1957
Ueli Aebi, PhD
Journal of Structural Biology in 1989
Editorial Board
Linda Amos, PhD
Medical Research Council, United Kingdom Electron microscopy
Adriaan Bax, PhD
National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases, Bethesda, Maryland, United States Nuclear magnetic resonance and its application in chemistry, biochemistry and biology
Elia Beniash, PhD
University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States Biomineralization, structure-function relationships in supramolecular assemblies, bioinspired materials, tissue engineering
Alain Brisson, PhD
European Institute of Chemistry and Biology, Pessac, France Structural biology, Membranes and membrane-protein interactions, Electron microscopy, AFM, TEM, Macromolecules and assemblies, Electron crystallography
Susan Buchanan, PhD
National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases, Bethesda, Maryland, United States Membrane protein structural biology, X-ray crystallography, bacterial outer membrane proteins, outer membrane transport, protein biogenesis, secretion
Sarah Butcher, PhD
University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland Electron microscopy, image processing, X-ray crystallography, nanotechnology, cryo-electron microscopy, bacteriology, archaea, virus-host interactions, picornavirus, immunity
José María Carazo, PhD
National Centre for Biotechnology, Madrid, Spain Cryo electron microscopy, image processing
Henry Chanzy, PhD
National Centre for Scientific Research, Paris, France
Yifan Cheng, PhD
University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States Cryo-electron microscopy, proteasome
James Conway, PhD
University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United StatesCryo-electron microscopy, structure and function of macromolecular complexes, virus capsids
Sarel Fleishman, PhD
Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel Rosetta design; antibodies; enzymes; membrane proteins; high-throughput screening
Robert M. Glaeser, PhD
University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, California, United States High-resolution electron microscopy, single-molecule, development of electron microscopy methodology
Nick Grishin, PhD
UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER, Dallas, Texas, United States Computational biology
Dorit Hanein, PhD
Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute, La Jolla, California, United StatesCryo-electron microscopy, bioinformatics
Albert J.R. Heck, PhD
Utrecht University, Utrecht, Netherlands Mass spectrometry
Harald Herrmann, PhD
German Cancer Research Centre, Heidelberg, Germany
Birte Höcker, PhD
University of Bayreuth, Bayreuth, Germany Protein engineering & computational design, protein evolution, enzymes, protein folding, structure-function relationships, synthetic biology
John E. Johnson, PhD
Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, California, United States Virus structure and assembly, cryo-EM
Masahide Kikkawa, PhD
The University of Tokyo, Bunkyo-Ku, Tokyo, Japan Microtubule-based motors, kinesin and dynein, cryo-electron microscopy and image analysis
Abraham Koster, PhD
Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, Netherlands Electron miscroscopy
Carolyn Larabell, PhD
University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United StatesDevelopment, microscopy, imaging, x-ray tomography
François Major, PhD
University of Montreal, Montreal, Quebec, Canada Structural biology of RNA
Tom Misteli, PhD
National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, Maryland, United States Genome organization, nuclear architecture, chromosomes, high-throughput imaging, aging
Andrea Musacchio, PhD
Max-Planck-Institute of Molecular Physiology, Dortmund, Germany Cell division, mitosis, X-ray crystallography, biochemistry, biophysics, electron microscopy
Raúl Padrón, PhD
Venezuelan Institute for Scientific Research, Caracas, Venezuela, Bolivarian Republic ofMuscle thick filaments, myosin interacting-heads motif (IHM)
David A.D. Parry, PhD
Massey University, Palmerston North, New Zealand Fibrous Proteins; muscle: collagen; intermediate filaments; structure; sequence analyses.
Anastassis Perrakis, PhD
Antoni van Leeuwenhoek Netherlands Cancer Institute, Amsterdam, Netherlands X-ray crystallography, X-ray scattering, biophysical methods
Jürgen M. Plitzko, PhD
Max Planck Institut (MPI) für Biochemie, Dept. Molecular Structural Biology, Martinsried, Germany Electron microscopy, cryo-electron tomography, single particle
Zihe Rao, PhD
Institute of Biophysics Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China Cryo-electron microscopy, x-ray crytallography
Ivan Raška, PhD
Charles University Faculty of Medicine General University Hospital in Prague Institute of Biology and Medical Genetics, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Prague, Czech Republic
Felix Rey, PhD
Institut Pasteur, Dept. de Virologie, France Structural virology
Michael Sattler, PhD
Technical University of Munich, Munchen, Germany NMR spectroscopy in solution
Markus Sauer, PhD
University of Würzburg, Germany Single-molecule fluorescence spectroscopy and imaging, super-resolution microscopy
Ilme Schlichting, PhD
Max-Planck-Institute for Medical Research, Heidelberg, Germany X-ray crystallography, biochemical and quantum chemical approaches, light spectroscopy
Petra Schwille, PhD
Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry, Martinsried, Germany Single molecule spectroscopy, membrane biophysics, synthetic biology, microsystems technology, protein self-organization
Nico A.J.M. Sommerdijk, PhD
University of Technology Eindhoven, Eindhoven, Netherlands Electron microscopy, biomineralization
John Squire, PhD
University of Bristol, Bristol, United Kingdom X-ray crystallography, electron microscopy, single particle image analysis, 3D electron microscopy, electron tomography
Murray Stewart, PhD
MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology Division of Structural Studies, Cambridge, United Kingdom Nuclear trafficking, nuclear export of mRNA
Phoebe L. Stewart, PhD
Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio, United States Cryo-electron microscopy
Leann Tilley, PhD
The University of Melbourne Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Parkville, Australia Malaria, erythrocyte, super-resolution light microscopy, electron microscopy, drug development
Paul Wingfield, PhD
National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases, Bethesda, Maryland, United States Structure and function of HIV proteins, protein expression
Sharon Grayer Wolf, PhD
Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel Cryo-EM, cellular ultrastructure, structural biology, electron tomography, 3DEM
Nieng Yan, PhD
Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey, United States Membrane transporters, mechanisms of substrate recognition and transport
Ulrich Zachariae, PhD
University of Dundee, Dundee, United Kingdom Computational biology, membrane proteins, tandem repeat proteins
Yang Zhang, PhD
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States Protein structure prediction, protein design, structure-based function annotation, SNP mutation and genetic diseases, protein-protein interactions, G protein-coupled receptor and ligand-receptor interactions, ligand screening and structure-based drug design