Editorial board

Editor-in-chief and Founding Editor

Professor Richard Kitney
Imperial College London
UK

Professor Kitney is Professor of Biomedical Systems Engineering; Chairman of the Institute of Systems and Synthetic Biology; Co-Director and Co-Founder of the Imperial College Centre for Synthetic Biology and Innovation, and Co-Director of SynbiCITE, the UK’s National Centre for the Commercialisation of Synthetic Biology. He has published over 300 papers in the fields of synthetic biology, mathematical modelling, biomedical information systems, and medical imaging and has worked extensively in and with industry.

Editor-in-chief

Dr Chueh Loo Poh
National University of Singapore
Singapore

Dr. Chueh Loo Poh is an Associate Professor with the Department of Biomedical Engineering at National University of Singapore (NUS), Singapore. His current research interests in Synthetic Biology include development of synthetic genetic circuits for biocomputing, development of model-driven BioCAD tools, and engineering of microbes for medical and industrial applications.

Editorial Board

	Jake Beal BBN Technologies USA Areas of expertise: foundational mathematics and principles for engineering biology, design tools and automation, biological information processing, precision modelling and design of biological organisms, standards for biological measurement and data exchange
	Matthew Chang National University of Singapore Singapore Areas of expertise: engineering biology, synthetic biology, metabolic engineering, microbiome engineering
	George Guo-Qiang Chen Tsinghua University PR China Areas of expertise: microbial physiology, microbial polyhydroxyalkanoates (PHA) production and applications
	King-Lau Chow The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology Hong Kong Areas of expertise: molecular genetics, neural development, synthetic and evolutionary biology
	Lionel Clarke BionerG UK Areas of expertise: cleaner transport fuels, biofuels
	John Collins Imperial College London UK Areas of expertise: manufacturing, commercialisation, marketing and communications, technology foresight and strategy
	Victor de Lorenzo Centro Nacional de Biotecnología Spain Areas of expertise: molecular biology and biotechnology of soil bacteria as agents for the decontamination of sites damaged by industrial waste
	Alistair Elfick The University of Edinburgh UK Areas of expertise: synthetic biological engineering, biomedical engineering, mechanical engineering
	Drew Endy Stanford University USA Areas of expertise: genetically encoded computers and the redesign of genomes
	Jean-Loup Faulon University of Evry France Areas of expertise: systems biology, synthetic biology metabolic engineering
	Paul Freemont Imperial College London UK Areas of expertise: understanding the molecular mechanisms of human diseases, development of synthetic biology platform technologies and biosensors
	Jennifer Hallinin Macquarie University Australia
	Mike Jewett Northwestern University USA Areas of expertise: cell-free biology as an enabling technology for biomanufacturing lifesaving therapeutics, sustainable chemicals, and novel materials
	Richard Johnson Global Helix LLC USA Areas of expertise:the intersection of policy, business, law, and international affairs with synthetic biology
	Gyoo Yeol Jung POSTECH Korea Areas of expertise: RNA-based synthetic biology, metabolic engineering of bio-based chemical production
	Sierin Lim Nanyang Technological University Singapore Areas of expertise: design and engineering of hybrid nano/microscale devices from biological parts by utilizing protein engineering as a tool for applications in medicine (therapeutics, diagnostics, and vaccine), energy, cosmetics, and food
	Chris Myers University of Utah USA Areas of expertise: computational side of synthetic biology and standards for synthetic biology. Asynchronous circuit design, formal verification of analog/mixed signal circuits and cyber-physical systems, and modeling, analysis, and design of genetic circuits
	May Win Naing A*Star SIMTech Singapore Areas of expertise: scale-up manufacturing of biological products such as tissue scaffolds and cell therapies for applications in regenerative medicine, toxicity testing and consumer products
	Sakkie Pretorius Macquarie University Australia Areas of expertise: molecular microbiology, synthetic biology and biotechnology, and the translation of research outcomes to industry. Main research focus: synthetic yeast genomics
	Yew Wen Shan National University of Singapore Singapore Areas of expertise: synthetic biology, synthetic enzymology, protein engineering, drug design and therapeutics development. The interface between enzymology, biological chemistry and synthetic biology, “synthetic enzymology”.
	Elizabeth Ratcliffe Loughborough University UK Areas of expertise: regenerative medicine, gene therapy, antimicrobial resistance and alternative diagnostic and therapeutic strategies
	John Hugh Snyder National Institute of Biological Sciences PR China Areas of expertise: a background in plant biochemistry, now a liaison for SynBioBeta in China and the director of the Scientific Writing Center at NIBS in Beijing
	Hao Song Tianjin University PR China Areas of expertise: synthetic biology and metabolic engineering, microbial electrosynthesis and microbial/enzymatic fuel cells, microbial ecosystems, and microbes-materials interfaces
	Guy-Bart Stan Imperial College London UK Areas of expertise: The study of core engineering design principles of biological systems and the development of new systems and control engineering methods for the analysis, design and robust optimal control of biological systems, and the experimental realisation of synthetic biology systems in living organisms such as E. coli and yeast cells with a view to their applications for biotechnology, biosynthesis, advanced cell-based medicine, and healthcare.
	Joyce Tait The University of Edinburgh UK Areas of expertise: an interdisciplinary background in natural and social sciences, covering agrochemical, pharmaceutical and life science industry sectors, focusing on: strategic planning for innovation; governance, risk management and regulation; and stakeholder attitudes and influences
	Anil Wipat Newcastle University UK Areas of expertise: synthetic biology and bioinformatics, with a current focus on the integration and analysis of large and complex datasets for informing the design of engineered biological systems
	Jie Zheng Nanyang Technological University Singapore Areas of expertise: computational systems biology, systems dynamic modeling of cell, cell fate engineering, cancer and stem cell biology, biological data mining, machine learning algorithms