Editorial Board

Editor-in-Chief and Founder:

Jerzy Jurka, Ph.D.
President and Research Director, Genetic Information Research Institute
1925 Landings Dr.
Mountain View, CA 94043, USA
Tel: (650) 961-4480
Fax: (650) 961-4473
jurka@girinst.org

Associate Editors:

Casey Bergman, Ph.D.
Faculty of Life Sciences
University of Manchester
Michael Smith Building
Oxford Road, M13 9PT
Manchester, UK
phone: +44-(0)161-275-1713
fax: +44-(0)161-275-5082
casey.bergman@manchester.ac.uk

Vladimir Kapitonov, Ph.D.
Genetic Information Research Institute
1925 Landings Dr.
Mountain View, CA 94043, USA
Tel: (650) 961-4470
Fax: (650) 961-4473
vladimir@girinst.org

Arian F.A. Smit PhD
Institute for Systems Biology
1441 North 34th Street
Seattle, WA 98103-8904
Tel: (206) 732-1271
asmit@systemsbiology.org

Editorial Board:

Irina R. Arkhipova, Ph.D.
Department of Molecular and Cell Biology
Harvard University
Cambridge MA 02138-2019
Email: arkhipov@fas.harvard.edu

Mark A. Batzer, Ph.D.
Professor
Department of Biological Sciences
Biological Computation and Visualization Center
Louisiana State University
202 Life Sciences Building
Baton Rouge, LA 70803, USA
Tel: (225) 578-7102
Fax: (225) 578-7113
Email: mbatzer@lsu.edu

Juergen Brosius, Ph.D.
Institute of Experimental Pathology and
Molecular Neurobiology (ZMBE)
University of Muenster
Von-Esmarch-Str. 56
Muenster D-48149 - Germany
Tel: 0251-83-58511
Fax: 0251-83-58512
E-mail: RNA.world@uni-muenster.de

Pierre Capy, Ph.D.
Laboratoire Populations, Ginitique et Evolution
Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique
91198 Gif-sur-Yvette Cedex - France
Tel: (33) 01.69.82.37.09
Fax: (33) 01.69.07.04.21
Email capy@pge.cnrs-gif.fr

Prescott Deininger, Ph.D.
Zimmerman Chair for Cancer Research
Associate Director, Tulane Cancer Center, SL66
Professor, Environmental Health Sciences
1430 Tulane Ave.
New Orleans, LA 70112
Tel: (504) 988-6385
Fax: (504) 588-5516
Email pdeinin@tulane.edu

Andrew Flavell, Ph.D.
Senior Lecturer
School of Life Sciences Research Biocentre at the University of Dundee
Tel: +44 (0)1382 344244
Fax: +44 (0)1382 322558
Email: a.j.flavell@dundee.ac.uk

Zsuzsanna Izsvak, Ph.D.
Max Delbruck Center for Molecular Medicine
Robert Rossle Str. 10
Berlin D-13122 - Germany
Email: zizsvak@mdc-berlin.de

Damian Labuda, Ph.D.
Charles Bruneau Cancer Center
Sainte-Justine Hospital Research Center
Professor
Pediatrics Department, Montreal University
3175 Cote Sainte-Catherine
Montreal, PQ - Canada
H3T 1C5 Canada
Tel: (514) 345-4931 ex.3586 [secr. 3282]
Fax: (514) 345-4731
Email: damian.labuda@umontreal.ca

Patrik Medstrand, PhD
Associate Professor
Dept of Cell and Molecular Biology
Lund University
Bimedical Centre (BMC) B13
221 84 Lund
Sweden
Phone: +46-46-2221489
Fax: +46-46-2220899
patrik.medstrand@medkem.lu.se

Norihiro Okada, Ph.D.
Tokyo Institute of Technology
Faculty of Bioscience and Biotechnology
4259 Nagatsuta-cho, Midori-ku, Yokohama, Kanagawa 226, Japan
Tel: 81-045-923-1136
Fax:81-045-923-1136
Email: nokada@bio.titech.ac.jp

Carl W. Schmid, Ph.D.
Professor, University of California Davis
Tel: (530) 752-3003/9029
Fax: (530) 752-8995
Email: schmid@chem.ucdavis.edu

Alan Schulman, Ph.D.
Institute of Biotechnology
University of Helsinki
Plant Genomics Laboratory
P.O. Box 56 (Viikinkaari 6)
FIN-00014 Helsinki
Finland
Specialty: plant LTR-retrotransposons
Tel: +358-9-191 58867
Fax: +358-9-191 58952
Email: alan.schulman@helsinki.fi

Gabor Toth, Ph.D.
Agricultural Biotechnology Center
Szent-Gyorgyi A. ut 4.
Godollo
H-2100 Hungary
Tel: +36-28-430600 ext. 108
Email: tothg@abc.hu

Susan Wessler, Ph.D.
University of Georgia
Dept. of Botany
Miller Plant Sciences Building
Athens, GA 30602, USA
Tel: 706-542-1870
Fax: 706-542-1805
Email: sue@dogwood.botany.uga.edu

Thomas Wicker
Center for Applied Genetic Technologies
University of Georgia
111 Riverbend Road
Athens, GA 30602
Fax: 706 583 01 60
Email: wicker@uga.edu

Database Managers:

Oleksiy Kohany
1925 Landings Dr.
Mountain View, CA 94043, USA
kohany@girinst.org

Editorial Assistant:

Jolanta Walichiewicz
1925 Landings Dr.
Mountain View, CA 94043, USA
jola@girinst.org