At the heart of the Bioedit editorial service is a dedicated group of editors with broad based experience in the life/medical sciences.
Biochemistry/Cell Biology: Dr. Angela Wild received her PhD from the University of Wisconsin, Madison, for work investigating the transcriptional regulation of genes encoding the rate-limiting enzyme in the synthesis of the prevalent thiol, glutathione. Prior to her doctoral work, she studied at the Rockefeller Institute, examining the mechanisms by which polytopic proteins are inserted into the cell membrane. Her postdoctoral studies shifted her focus to that of yeast cell biology. Specifically, her postdoctoral work at Washington University, in St Louis, examined the function of the yeast p-21 activated kinase Cla4 and the mechanisms underlying its localization.
Biochemistry/Molecular Biology: Dr Marty Crawford received her PhD in Biochemistry from Michigan State University for work investigating the subcellular localization of PGH synthases-1 and -2, key enzymes of prostanoid synthesis. Her postdoctoral studies focused on isolation and characterization of transcriptional activators involved in cold acclimation in Arabidopsis. Subsequent work has included contributions in clinical research studies of genetic hearing loss and preterm delivery, as well as work in industrial vaccine production.
Cell/cancer biology: Dr Claire Weston obtained her BSc degree at the University of Wales, Cardiff and later went on to do a doctoral degree at Cambridge University, where she acquired a broad range of experience in cell biology and signal transduction. She later became a post-doctoral fellow at UMass Medical School where she researched the role of mitogen-activated protein kinases in cancer and development. She has published widely in international journals and has served as a scientific reviewer for several cell biology journals.
Cell cycle/DNA metabolism/cancer: Dr Kathleen Smith, with an undergraduate degree from Stanford University and a PhD from MIT, has had extensive experience in international science having worked at the Institut Curie (Paris, France) and Columbia University, where she finished her post-doctoral studies. Currently, she is working in the biotech industry, and her specialties/interests include genetics (broadly), DNA metabolism (repair, recombination, mutagenesis), in addition to chromosome biology, plant molecular biology, molecular evolution, and biotechnology.
Cell/Molecular/Developmental Biology: Dr Cathy Thaler earned her BSc in Biology from Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles, and her PhD in Biology, with emphasis in cell biology, from the University of California, Riverside. Her training incorporates a broad background in cell, molecular, and developmental biology, and her research interests have focused on regulation of intracellular motility and signal transduction. She has used several model systems to investigate cell signaling. Her recent work has investigated signal transduction during fertilization and activation of development in mouse, mollusc and sea urchin.
Hematology/Bioengineering/Biophysics: Katie Edmondson. Katie has a BSc from Cornell University in Chemical Engineering and a PhD from the University of Pennsylvania in Bioengineering. Her thesis work involved researching P-selectin/PSGL-1 bond mechanics and force dynamics with isolated neutrophils. She is currently a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, where she is studying the structure of blood clots formed in environments similar to those found in venous or arterial flow in the body. She has also worked with the Journal of Clinical Investigation (JCI), and is active in the Postdoctoral Editorial Club (PEC) at the University of Pennsylvania . She will complete her postdoctoral work in May 2008 and will focus thereafter on scientific writing and editing.
Immunology/Biochemistry: Dr Yinka Zevering obtained a BSc (Hons) in biochemistry and zoology in the University of Queensland, Australia, and a PhD in immunology and tropical medicine in the Queensland Institute of Medical Research (QIMR). Much of her PhD research was conducted in Thailand. Her PhD project and subsequent post-doc aimed to delineate T-cell epitopes on a malaria protein for potential use in an anti-malaria vaccine. Subsequently, at the Max-Planck Institute (MPI) for Infection Biology in Berlin, Germany, she helped establish projects searching for potential autologous epitopes that could trigger rheumatoid arthritis and candidate antigens for a vaccine against the gastrointestinal pathogen Helicobacter pylori. At the National Cancer Institute in Amsterdam, The Netherlands, she examined T-cell tolerance to an autoantigen in multiple sclerosis model mice. She has also worked since 1999 as a biomedical editor.
Microbiology: Dr Mary Rose Burnham received her PhD in Microbiology from the University of Virginia, where she studied cellular transformation mediated by Rous Sarcoma Virus, and the v-src oncogene. While at UVA, she acquired extensive expertise in the molecular and cellular biology of cancer cells, and the intracellular signaling pathways activated by SRC-family tyrosine kinases, growth factor receptors, and integrins. She completed her post-doctoral studies at the Wadsworth Center of the New York State Department of Health, where she studied the regulation of inhibitory neurotransmission by GABA and the GABA ion channel. She also trained at Cornell University’s Nanofabrication Facility, and developed and tested nanoscale sensors based on reconstituted lipid membranes and ion channels for detecting membrane-active compounds.
Microbiology/Molecular Biology/ Biochemistry: Dr Alison Moran acquired an undergraduate degree from Edinburgh and a PhD from Glasgow. Her postdoctoral experience includes microbial pathogen research, vaccine development and design, and extremophile isolation and genetic manipulation.
Molecular biology/biochemistry: Dr Margaret Alic earned her PhD in molecular biology from the Oregon Graduate Institute and subsequently joined the faculty. She spent 15 years studying the biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology of wood-degrading fungi and has published more than 20 research papers. For the past 8 years, Dr. Alic has worked as a science and medical writer and editor. She is the author of Hypatia’s Heritage: A History of Women in Science from Antiquity through the Nineteenth Century, which is available in various editions including Japanese.
Neurosciences: Dr Naomi L Ruff earned a PhD in Neurosciences from the University of California, San Diego, as well as a BS in Biochemistry and a BA in Linguistics from the University of Maryland. In 2000, after 15 years of research in genetics, plant biochemistry, cancer biology, and neuroscience laboratories, she became a full-time science editor and writer. She has been certified as an editor by the Board of Editors in Life Sciences, and has edited hundreds of journal manuscripts, grant applications, and other documents for researchers and physicians, including many written by non-native speakers of English.