Chemistry and Physics of Lipids publishes research papers and review articles on chemical and physical aspects of lipids with primary emphasis on the relationship of these properties to biological functions and to biomedical applications.

Accordingly, the journal covers: advances in synthetic and analytical lipid methodology; mass-spectrometry of lipids; chemical and physical characterisation of isolated structures; thermodynamics, phase behaviour, topology and dynamics of lipid assemblies; physicochemical studies into lipid-lipid and lipid-protein interactions in lipoproteins and in natural and model membranes; movement of lipids within, across and between membranes; intracellular lipid transfer; structure-function relationships and the nature of lipid-derived second messengers; chemical, physical and functional alterations of lipids induced by free radicals; enzymatic and non-enzymatic mechanisms of lipid peroxidation in cells, tissues, biofluids; oxidative lipidomics; and the role of lipids in the regulation of membrane-dependent biological processes.

Reviews, full articles and short communications will be considered for publication in each issue. Special Issues will consist of invited contributions organized and edited to cover specific themes.

Full-length research articles, Review articles

Editor-in-Chief
Richard M. Epand
McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada Email Richard M. Epand Membrane domains, membranes in signal transduction, lipoprotein mimetic peptides, antimicrobial agents, mitochondrial proteins.
Associate Editors
Gemma Fabriàs
Institute for Advanced Chemistry of Catalonia (IQAC-CSIC), Barcelona, Spain Email Gemma Fabriàs Lipid metabolism and functions, Development of high throughput screening methods, Biomedical relevance of lipids, Drug discovery.
Alan Grossfield
University of Rochester Medical Center, Rochester, New York, USA Email Alan Grossfield
Valerian E. Kagan
University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA Email Valerian E. Kagan Free Radical Toxicology, Antioxidants and their Mechanisms, Oxidative Stress and Apoptosis
John Katsaras
Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee, USA Email John KatsarasBiomembranes; MD simulations; X-ray and neutron scattering
Edgar E. Kooijman
Kent State University, Kent, Ohio, USA Email Edgar E. Kooijman Lipid signaling; NMR of lipids in membranes
Jesus Perez-Gil
Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Madrid, Spain Email Jesus Perez-Gil Pulmonary surfactant, lipid-protein interactions, monolayer and bilayer membrane models, membrane domains and structure, membrane protein structure
Editorial Advisory Board
Jeffrey Atkinson
St. Catharines, Ontario, Canada Vitamin E (tocopherol & tocotrienol), antioxidants, lipid oxidation, lipid transfer proteins, protein-membrane interactions, organic synthesis, fluorescent probes.
Luis A. Bagatolli
Odense, Denmark Lipid domains, microscopy imaging.
Vytas Bankaitis
Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA Lipid phosphatases, cell biology.
Yechezkel Barenholz
Jerusalem, Israel
Hülya Bayir
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA Clinical lipidomics.
Nicholas Bazan
New Orleans, Louisiana, USA
Michael D. Best
Knoxville, Tennessee, USA Synthetic lipid probes, protein-lipid binding interactions, phosphoinositides, microarray analysis, click chemistry.
Joan Boggs
Toronto, Ontario, Canada Protein-lipid interactions, glycolipid-glycolipid interactions, membrane domains, membrane-cytoskeleton interactions, membrane signaling.
Joke Bouwstra
Leiden, Netherlands Skin lipids, lipid organization, X-ray diffraction, Neutron diffraction, FTIR, stratum corneum.
Néstor Carballeira
San Juan, Puerto Rico Lipid chemistry and marine natural products: Isolation and synthesis of new fatty acids of marine origin; New antiplasmodial and antifungal lipids.
Robert S. Chapkin
College Station, Texas, USA Lipid second messengers, lipid rafts, dietary lipids, chronic inflammation and cancer.
Amitabha Chattopadhyay
Hyderabad, India Lipid-protein interaction, Membrane receptors, Cholesterol, Fluorescence spectroscopy, Tryptophan fluorescence.
Steven Claypool
Baltimore, Maryland, USA Mitochondrial Phospholipid Metabolism and Trafficking, Membrane proteins
Anibal Disalvo
Buenos Aires, Argentina Lipid bilayers and monolayers, membrane interface, hydration, water in membranes.
Scott Feller
Crawfordsville, Indiana, USA MD simulation, lipid-protein interactions, polyunsaturated lipids, computational methods.
Ana J. García-Sáez
Heidelberg, Germany Imaging, microscopy of membrane surfaces, apoptosis,FCS, AFM, membrane permeabilization and lipid domains.
Klaus Gawrisch
Bethesda, Maryland, USA Biomembranes, NMR, polyunsaturated lipids, DHA, GPCR, rhodopsin, cannabinoid receptors.
Arne Gericke
Worcester, Massachusetts, USA Membrane Signaling
Juan Carmelo Gómez Fernández
Murcia, Spain Lipids and signal transduction, NMR of membranes, protein-lipid interactions, molecular interactions in lipid membranes/ DSC, FT-IR and SAXS studies of lipid model membranes.
Félix M. Goñi
Leioa, Spain
Miriam Greenberg
Detroit, Michigan, USA
Xianlin Han
San Antonio, Texas, USA Lipidomics, mass spectrometry, lipid metabolism, neurodegeneration, metabolic syndrome.
Yusuf Hannun
Stony Brook, New York, USA Lipid signalling, sphingolipids.
Grant Hatch
Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada Phospholipid, lipid and lipoprotein metabolism
Heiko Heerklotz
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Daniel Huster
Leipzig, Germany (Bio-)membranes, NMR, membrane structure, membrane proteins.
Ken Jacobson
Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA Membrane domains, lipid rafts, lateral mobility, super-resolution microscopy.
John Katsaras
Oak Ridge, Tennessee, USA Biomembranes; MD simulations; X-ray and neutron scattering
Paavo Kinnunen
Espoo, Finland Lipid biophysics, oxidized phospholipids, lipid-protein interactions, fluorescence spectroscopy, lipid monolayers.
Michael M. Kozlov
Tel Aviv, Israel Lipid membranes, membrane fusion, membrane fission, membrane curvature, membrane elastcicity.
Maria Teresa Lamy
São Paulo, Brazil
Ilya Levental
Houston, Texas, USA Membrane; lipid; raft; lipomics; fluidity; cholesterol; plasma membrane; cell membrane; domain; liquid-ordered; phase separation
Dov Lichtenberg
Tel Aviv, Israel Oxidative stress and antioxidants, Phospholipid peroxidation, Self-assembly of mixtures of amphiphiles in aqueous solutions
Karl Lohner
Graz, Austria Antimicrobial and antitumor peptides, membrane-active peptides, lipid-peptide interaction, lipid domains, membrane structure, lipidomics.
Sylvio May
Fargo, North Dakota, USA Modeling, thermodynamics, Poisson-Boltzmann, electrostatics, membrane elasticity, membrane-biopolymer interactions.
Joel Morrisett
Houston, Texas, USA Lipids and atherosclerotic plaques, lipid regulation of vascular calcification, lipid imaging.
Ole Mouritsen
Odense, Denmark Lipid bilayers, physical properties, phase equilibria, membrane modeling and simulation,lipid domains, cholesterol, lipid-protein interactions, liposomes and drug delivery.
John Nagle
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA Fundamental properties of lipid bilayers, especially mechanical moduli, structure, simulations and theory
Tommy Nylander
Lund, Sweden Interfacial behaviour of surface-active molecule, Molecules of biological origin, Lipid non-lamellar liquid crystalline phases, Biomimetic membranes, Interfacial techniques and Scattering and diffraction techniques using x-rays and neutrons
Ned Porter
Nashville, Tennessee, USA Lipid oxidation, free radical mechanisms, mass spectrometry.
Ruth Prassl
Graz, Austria Liposomes, lipoproteins, nanomedicine, biophysical techniques
Manuel Prieto
Lisbon, Portugal Lipid phase diagrams and lipid domains (rafts), Fluorescence (FRET) and fluorescence microscopy (FCS and FLIM), Lipid-protein interaction, Ceramides, Ion channels, Amyloid fiber formation.
Ayyalusamy Ramamoorthy
Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA Membrane protein, structure, amyloids, antimicrobial peptides, NMR
Michael Schlame
New York, New York, USA Biomembranes, cardiolipin, mitochondria, phospholipid analysis, phospholipid metabolism.
J. Peter Slotte
Turku, Finland Membrane domains, sphingolipids, sterol/lipid interaction, physical chemistry of lipids, fluorescence spectroscopy.
Robert V. Stahelin
South Bend, Indiana, USA Protein crystallography, protein-lipid interactions, lipid signaling, lipid trafficking, lipids in disease.
Ilpo Vattulainen
Helsinki, Finland Lipid-protein interactions, Membrane dynamics, Membrane receptors, Lipoproteins, Sterols, Glycans, Lipidomics, Scientific computing, Computational techniques
Sarah Veatch
Michigan, Michigan, USA Lipid domains, microscopy.
Michael Wakelam
Cambridge, UK Lipidomics, PI signalling.
Stephen Wassall
Indianapolis, Indiana, USA Molecular organization in lipid bilayers, Polyunsaturated fatty acids (PUFA), Solid state NMR