Editor biographies
Andrew Biewener received his BS degree in Zoology from Duke University, NC, USA in 1974 and his PhD in Biology from Harvard University, MA,
USA in 1982. He then moved to the University of Chicago, where he started as an Assistant Professor. He eventually held the
post of Professor and Chair of the Department of Organismal Biology and Anatomy, before returning to Harvard University in
1998 as the Director of the Concord Field Station and the Charles P. Lyman Professor of Biology. He also served as Chair of
the Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology from 2001 to 2010 and was President of the American Society of Biomechanics
in 2001-2002. Biewener's laboratory currently focuses on the biomechanics and neuromechanical control of terrestrial and aerial
locomotion of vertebrate animals, with relevance to biorobotics. He began as an Editor with The Journal of Experimental Biology in 2001 and has been Deputy Editor-in-Chief since 2005. He also serves as an Editorial Board member of Biological Letters.
Michael Dickinson received his PhD in Zoology at the University of Washington in Seattle, USA in 1989. He worked briefly at the Roche Institute
of Molecular Biology and the Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics before starting as an Assistant Professor in
the Department of Anatomy and Organismal Biology at the University of Chicago in 1991. He moved to the University of California,
Berkeley in 1996 and was appointed the Williams Professor in the Department of Integrative Biology in 2000. Dickinson moved
to the California Institute of Technology in 2002, where he served as the Abe and Esther Zarem Professor of Bioengineering.
In January 2011, he moved to the University of Washington and is currently the Ben Hall Professor of Basic Life Sciences.
Dickinson's research focuses on the neurobiological and biomechanical basis of animal behaviour, with a specific emphasis
on insect flight. He has served as a JEB editor since 2008.
Julian Dow graduated with an MA and PhD in Zoology from the University of Cambridge, UK and took a Harkness Fellowship to Temple University,
Philadelphia, USA, before returning as a Research Fellow of St Catharine's College, Cambridge, UK. Since 1984, he has been
at the University of Glasgow, UK, where he was appointed Professor of Molecular and Integrative Physiology in 1999. His research
interest focuses on functional genomics of osmoregulation and homeostasis, particularly in
Drosophila, and he is especially interested in combining reverse genetics with classical physiology to investigate insights from the
post-genomic datasets derived from transcriptomics or metabolomics. He was awarded the ScD degree by the University of Cambridge
in 2007 and elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh in 2010. He is presently a visiting Research Professor of Molecular
and Medical Genetics at King Saud University, Riyadh. He has been an editor of JEB since 2007. He also serves as an editor
of
Physiological Genomics, Briefings in Functional Genomics and
Arthropod Structure and Function and sits on the Councils of the Physiological Society and the European Society for Comparative Endocrinology.
Craig Franklin obtained his PhD from the University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand in 1990. After carrying out postdoctoral research
at The University of St Andrews, UK (199-1995), he took up a lectureship in zoology at The University of Queensland, where
he currently resides. For the past 5 years, he has been an Australian Research Council Professorial Research Fellow and a
Professor in Zoology and was recently appointed as Deputy Head of School in Biological Sciences. Franklin's research focuses
on the flexibility and plasticity of physiological systems and how ectothermic vertebrates can survive and function in response
to changing environmental conditions. He is a strong proponent of conservation physiology, using physiological approaches
to assess the impact of anthropogenic-driven environmental change and disturbance on wildlife. Franklin serves as Chair of
the Animal Section for the Society of Experimental Biology (UK) and is the Director of Research for the Steve Irwin Wildlife
Reserve, Australia. He joined JEB as an Editor in 2011.
Hans Hoppeler received his MD in 1974 from the University of Bern, Switzerland. He trained for 3 years as an Intern at the Hospital of
Burgdorf, Switzerland. After postdoctoral training at the University of Birmingham, UK, with Dr Olga Hudlicka, he joined the
Department of Anatomy of the University of Bern, where he received tenure in 1988. Initially trained as a stereologically
oriented electron microscopist, Hoppeler developed an interest in comparative research of the structure-function relationships
in the respiratory system of mammals. The focus of his current research is skeletal muscle tissue, integrating structural,
functional and molecular aspects of muscle plasticity. Hoppeler joined
The Journal of Experimental Biology as an Editor in 1995 and has led the JEB as Editor-in-Chief since 2004.
Ken Lukowiak received his PhD in 1972 from SUNY Albany, NY, USA. He then went on to do a post-doctoral fellowship in the School of Medicine
at the University of Kentucky, USA in the laboratory of Bert Peretz. He accepted a position as an Assistant Professor in the
Department of Physiology at McGill University in Montreal, PQ, Canada in 1975 but was then seduced away to Calgary by the
Rocky Mountains and the new Medical School at the University of Calgary in 1978. He has been a member of the Neuroscience
Research Group, which later morphed into the Hotchkiss Brain Institute, ever since. Lukowiak's current research interests
focus on how environmentally relevant stressors alter long-term memory formation - primarily in the pond snail,
Lymnaea stagnalis. In addition to his current position as Professor in the Faculty of Medicine, Lukowiak is a visiting Professor at Tribhuvan
University and Patan Academy of Health Sciences in Kathmandu, Nepal, where he helped set up the first medical school in Nepal.
He has been an Editor of JEB since 2004 and is also on the Editorial Board of the open-access journals
Molecular Brain and
Communicative and Integrative Biology.
Steve Perry received his PhD in 1981 in the Department of Zoology at the University of British Columbia, Canada in the field of fish
physiology. Following postdoctoral training in the Department of Biology at McMaster University, Canada, Perry joined the
Faculty of Science at the University of Ottawa in 1983. Having served as Chair of the Biology Department (2005-2008), he currently
holds the position of Vice-Dean Research while maintaining a University Research Chair since 2003. Perry, a long-standing
member of the Editorial Board of
Physiological Biochemistry and Zoology, was elected as a Fellow to the Royal Society of Canada in 2008. His research focuses on the interactions among gas transfer,
acid-base balance and ionic regulation in fish. His basic approach is to integrate techniques from molecular biology, cell
physiology and classical whole-animal physiology to appreciate the intricate mechanisms that allow fish to inhabit diverse
and labile environments. He has been a JEB Editor since 2003.
Raul Suarez obtained his Bachelors degree from the Ateneo de Manila in the Philippines and his Masters degree from the University of
the Philippines. After PhD work at the University of British Columbia, Canada, his subsequent posts included a postdoctoral
position at Stanford University, CA, USA, followed by a research associateship at the University of British Columbia. He is
now a professor in the Department of Ecology, Evolution and Marine Biology at the University of California, Santa Barbara,
USA. Over the years, his research has included the control of metabolism in fish, the bioenergetics of flight in bees, hummingbirds
and nectar bats, the relationships between biochemical capacities and physiological requirements in muscles, the allometric
scaling of metabolism, the ecological and evolutionary implications of fuel use and energy expenditure in flying animals.
He has been a JEB editor since 2005.
Janis Weeks received her BS from Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), USA and PhD from the University of California, San Diego,
USA. Following postdoctoral training at the University of Washington and a stint on the University of California, Berkeley,
faculty, Weeks moved her laboratory to the University of Oregon in 1988 and is currently Professor of Biology in the Institute
of Neuroscience. Weeks' research focuses on steroid hormone mediated reorganization of the nervous system and behavior during
insect metamorphosis, using electrophysiological, neuroethological, molecular and other approaches; she is also involved in
developing anthelmintic drugs of medical importance. Weeks has a long association with the Marine Biological Laboratory in
Woods Hole, MA, USA and teaches regularly in neuroscience courses in Africa. She currently serves as the President of The
Grass Foundation and was previously Interim Director of the University of Oregon African Studies Program. She has been a JEB
Editor since 2005.
