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Editor-in-Chief

Daniel J. Klionsky
Abram Sager Collegiate
Professor of Life Sciences
Professor of Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology
Professor of Biological Chemistry
University of Michigan
Life Sciences Institute, Rm. 6036
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Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109-2216 USA
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Associate Editors

Patrice Codogno
INSERM U756
Paris, France
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Ana Maria Cuervo
Albert Einstein College of Medicine
Department of Anatomy and Structural Biology
1300 Morris Park Ave.
Bronx, NY 10461 USA
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Vojo Deretic
University of New Mexico Health Science Center
Department of Molecular Genetics and Microbiology
915 Camino de Salud, NE
Albuquerque, New Mexico 87131-001 USA
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Zvulun Elazar
The Weizmann Institute of Science
Department of Biological Chemistry
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Rehovot 76100 Israel
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Guido Kroemer
CNRS-UMR 8125
Institut Gustave Roussy, Pavillon de Recherche 1
39, rue Camille Desmoulins
94805 Villejuif, France
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Beth Levine
Professor of Medicine and Microbiology
Chief, Division of Infectious Diseases
University of Texas Southwestern medical Center at Dallas
5323 Harry Hines Blvd.
Dallas, TX 75390 USA
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Noboru Mizushima
Tokyo Medical and Dental University
Department of Physiology and Cell Biology
1-5-45 Yushima, Bunkyo-ku
Tokyo 113-8519 Japan
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David C. Rubinsztein
University of Cambridge
Cambridge Institute for Medical Research
Wellcome Trust/MRC Building
Addenbrooke's Hospital
Hills Road, Cambridge, CB2 2XY, UK
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Ida J. Van der Klei
University of Groningen
Groningen Biomolecular Sciences and Biotechnology Institute
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Haren 9751 NN The Netherlands
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Eileen White
The Cancer Institute of New Jersey
Center for Advanced Biotechnology and Medicine
679 Hoes Lane
Piscataway, New Jersey 08854 USA
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Editorial Board

Hagai Abeliovich
Areas of Expertise: regulation of autophagy in S. cerevisiae
Senior Lecturer
Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Department of Biochemistry and Food Science, Faculty of Agricultural, Food, and Environmental Quality Sciences
P.O. Box 12
Rehovot 76100 Israel
ph./fax. 972.8.9476189
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Gjumrakch Aliev
Areas of Expertise: cardiovascular and neuropathology, oxidative stress, mitochondria, apoptosis, cell death, neurodegeneration
Research Associate Professor of Cardiovascular and Neuropathology
The University of Texas at San Antonio
Department of Biology, College of Sciences
One UTSA Circle, San Antonio, TX 78249-0661
ph. 210.458.4518
fax. 210.458.4506
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Eric H. Baehrecke
Areas of Expertise: autophagy, cell death, Drosophilia, development
Associate Professor
University of Massachusetts Medical School
Department of Cancer Biology
Worcester, Massachusetts 01605-2324 USA
ph. 508.856.6733
fax. 508.856.1310
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Diane C. Bassham
Areas of Expertise: autophagy and vesicle trafficking in plants
Assistant Professor
Iowa State University
Department of Genetics, Development and Cell Biology
253 Bessey Hall
Ames, IA 50011
ph. 515.294.7461
fax. 515.294.1337
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Mikhail V. Blagosklonny
Areas of Expertise: cancer therapy, anti-aging agents
Ordway Research Institute Cancer Center
Albany, NY
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John H. Brumell
Areas of Expertise: microbial pathogenesis
Scientist
Hospital for Sick Children
Cell Biology Program
555 University Avenue
Toronto Ontario M5G1X8 Canada
ph. 416.813.7654x3555
fax. 416.813.5028
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Charleen T. Chu
Areas of Expertise: neurodegeneration, mitophagy, oxidative stress
Associate Professor of Pathology
University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine
200 Lothrop St., Rm W958BST (courier) or Rm 5417BST (US mail)
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 1261 USA
ph. 412.383.5379
fax. 412.383.5379
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Maria Isabel Colombo
Areas of Expertise: autophagy, pathogenes, vesicular transport, RabGTPases
Group Leader–Investigador Principal CONICET
Universidad Nacional de Cuyo
Casilla de Correo 56
Mendoza, Argentina 5500
ph. 54.261.4494143
fax. 54.261.4494117
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Rodney J. Devenish
Areas of Expertise: organelle degredation, mitochondria
Professor
Monash University
Clayton Campus
Wellington Road
Clayton Victoria 3800 Australia
ph. 61.3.9905.3782
fax. 61.3.9905.3726
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S.P. Dinesh-Kumar
Areas of Expertise: Plant innate immunity, autophagy, host-pathogen interactions
Associate Professor
MCDB Department
Yale University
219 Prospect Street
New Haven, Connecticut 06520-8103 USA
ph. 203.432.9965
fax. 203.432.6161
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William A. Dunn, Jr.
Areas of Expertise: molecular cell biology, aging, autophagy and bacterial pathogens, protein aggregates and autophagy
Professor
University of Florida
Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology
Box 100235 JHMHC
Gainesville, Florida 32610-0235 USA
ph. 352.392.1872
fax. 352.392.3305
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Eeva-Liisa Eskelinen
Areas of Expertise: autophagy, lysomal membrane proteins, electron microscopy
University Lecturer
University of Helsinki
Division of Biochemistry
PO Box 56, Viikinkaari 50, 00014 Helsinki Finland
La Jolla, California USA 92093-0668
ph. 358.9191.59566
fax. 358.9191.59068
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Douglas R. Green
Areas of Expertise: cell death, immunology, mitochondria
Chair, Department of Immunology
St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital
332 N. Lauderdale St.
Memphis, TN 38105 USA
ph. 901.495.3488
fax. 901.495.5766
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Michael N. Hall
Areas of Expertise: TOR signaling, cell growth
Professor and Chair of Biochemistry
Biozentrum, University of Basel
Klingelbergstrasse 70
Basel 4056 Switzerland
ph. 41.61.267.2150
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Shengkan V. Jin
Areas of Expertise:
Assistant Professor
University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey
Robert Wood Johnson Medical School
675 Hoes Lane, R529
Piscataway, New Jersey 8854 USA
ph. 732.235.4329
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Motoni Kadowaki
Areas of Expertise: nutrition and autophagy, amino acid signaling
Department of Applied Biological Chemistry
Niigta University
2-8050 Ikarashi
Niigata, 950-2181 Japan
ph. 81.25.262.6613
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Ameeta Kelekar
Areas of Expertise:
University of Minnesota
Lab Medicine/Pathology
Minneapolis, MN USA
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Jan A.K.W. Kiel
Areas of Expertise:
Molecular Cell Biology, GBB
University of Groningen
Kerklaan 30,
Haren NL-9751 NN The Netherlands.
ph. +31.50.3632218
fax: +31.50.3632154
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Adi Kimchi
Areas of Expertise:
Weizmann Institute of Science
Department of Molecular Genetics and Virology
PO Box 26
Rehovot 76100 Israel
ph. 972.8.9342428
fax. 972.8.9315938
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Erwin Knecht
Areas of Expertise: macroautophagy, microautophagy, chaperone-mediated autophagy, proteasomes, regulation, diseases
Centro de Investigacion Principe Felipe
Avda. Autopista del Saler 16-3
46013-Valencia, Spain
ph. 34.96.328.96.80
fax. 34.96.328.97.01
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Eiki Kominami
Areas of Expertise: biochemistry
Professor
Department of Biochemistry
Juntendo University School of Medicine
2-1-1, Hongo, Bunkyo-ku
Tokyo, 113-8421 Japan
ph. 81.3.5802.1030
fax. 81.3.5802.5889
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Seiji Kondo
Areas of Expertise: apoptosis, autophagy, telomerase and translational research
Associate Professor
Department of Neurosurgery
University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center
1515 Holcombe Blvd., Unit 1004
Houston, TX 77030
ph. 713.834.6215
fax. 713.834.6257
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Attila Lajos Kovacs
Areas of Expertise: autophagy in Celegans and various mammalian cell types
Associate Professor
Cell Physiology Laboratory
Department of Anatomy, Cell and Developmental Biology
Eotvos Lorand University
H-1117 Pazmany Setany 1C,
6-605 Budapest, Hungary
ph. 36.1.209.0555
fax. 36.1.381.2184
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Fu-Cheng Lin
Areas of Expertise:
Zhejiang University
Biotechnology Institute
Kaixuan Road
Hangzhou, Zhejiang 310029 China
ph. 0086-571-86971185
fax. 0086-571-86971516
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Wim Martinet
Areas of Expertise: cell death in cardiovascular disease, pharmacology
Assistant Professor
University of Antwerp
Department of Pharmacology, Universiteitsplein 1
B-2610 Wilrijk, Belgium
ph. 32.3.820.27.10
fax. 32.3.820.25.67
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Ken Matsuoka
Areas of Expertise: plant cell biology, autophagy, vacuoles, exo- and endocytosis
Professor
Faculty of Agriculture, Kyushu University
CB# 7090, 236 Taylor Hall
6-10-1, Hazozaki, Higashi-ku
Fukuoka 812-8581 Japan
ph. 81.92.642.2846
fax. 81.92.642.2848
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Yuji Moriyasu
Areas of Expertise: autophagy in plant cells
Assistant Professor
Saitama University
Saitama, Japan
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Christian Münz
Areas of Expertise: autophagy in adaptive immunity
Assistant Professor
The Rockefeller University
Laboratory of Viral Immunobiology
1230 York Avenue
New York, New York 10021-6399 USA
ph. 212.327.7611
fax. 212.327.7887
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Naweed I. Naqvi
Areas of Expertise: organellar biogenesis, membrane flux, carbon homeostasis
Senior Principal Investigator
Temasek Life Sciences Laboratory
National University of Singapore
1 Research Link
Singapore 117604
ph. 65.68727493
fax. 65.68727007
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Leon O. Murphy
Areas of Expertise: TOR, PI3K, MAPK signal transduction, PI3K inhibitors
Research Investigator
Novartis Institutes for Biomedical Research Inc.
250 Massachusetts Avenue
Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139 USA
tel. 617.871.3612
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Thomas P. Neufeld
Areas of Expertise: Drosophila genetics, target of rapamycin (TOR) signalling
Associate Professor
Department of Genetics, Cell Biology and Development
6-160 Jackson Hall
321 Church St. SE
Minneapolis, Minnesota 55414 USA
ph. 612.625.5158
fax. 612.626.6140
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Ralph A. Nixon
Areas of Expertise: proteolytic systems in neurodegenerative diseases
Professor of Psychiatry and Cell Biology
Director of Research
New York University School of Medicine
Nathan Kline Institute
140 Old Orangeburg Road
Orangeburg, New York 10962 USA
ph. 845.398.5423
fax. 845.398.5422
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Laura J. Olsen
Areas of Expertise: plant cell biology, paraxisome biology
Arthur F. Thurnau Professor; Associate Professor
University of Michigan
Department of Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology
830 North University
Natural Science Building (Kraus)
Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109-1048 USA
ph. 734.763.0976
fax. 734.647.0884
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Ronit Pinkas-Kramarski
Areas of Expertise:
Tel-Aviv University
Neurobiochemistry
Ramat Aviv
Tel-Aviv, Israel 69978
ph. 972-3-6406801
fax. 972-3-6407643
lironit@post.tau.ac.il
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Yasuyoshi Sakai
Areas of Expertise: autophagy, phexophagy, protein degradation, yeast
Associate Professor
Graduate School of Agriculture
Kyoto University
Kitashirakawa-Oiwake, Sakyo
Kyoto, 606-8502 Japan
ph. 81.75.753.6455
fax. 81.75.753.6385
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Miklós Sass
Areas of Expertise: genetic regulation of autophagy
Professor
Department of Anatomy, Cell and Developmental Biology
Eötvös Loránd University
Kitashirakawa-Oiwake, Sakyo
Budapest, 1117 Hungary
ph. 36.1.209.0555
fax. 36.1.381.2184
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Per O. Seglen
Areas of Expertise: autophagy, cell signaling
Professor
Proteomics & Mammalian Cell Biology Section
Institute for Cancer Research
The Norwegian Radium Hospital Montebello
N-0310 Oslo, Norway
ph. 047.22.93.5947
fax. 047.22.93.4580
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John J. Shacka
Areas of Expertise: cell death
Instructor
University of Alabama at Birmingham
Department of Neuropathology Division
Birmingham, AL, USA
ph. 205.996.7252
fax. 205.934.6700
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Andriy Sibirny
Areas of Expertise: yeast phexophagy, general autophagy
Head of Department, Professor
Institute of Cell Biology
National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine
Drahomanov Street 1416
Lviv 79005, Ukraine
ph. 380.327.72.1648
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Harald Stenmark
Areas of Expertise: autophagy in degradation of protein aggregates|endocytic trafficking
Professor
The Norwegian Radium Hospital, Montebello
Department of Biochemistry
Montebello Oslo N-0310 Norway
ph. 47.22508692
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Suresh Subramani
Areas of Expertise: organelle turnover in yeast by autophagy
Professor
University of California, San Diego
Section of Molecular Biology
Division of Biological Sciences
3230 Bonner Hall, 9500 Gilman Drive
La Jolla, California 92093-0329
ph. 858.534.2327
fax. 858.534.0053
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David Sulzer
Areas of Expertise: neuroscience
Associate Professor
Departments of Psychiatry, Neurology and Pharmacology
Columbia University
Black 309; 650 W. 168th St.
New York, NY 10032
ph. 212.305.3967
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Michele S. Swanson
Areas of Expertise: micrbial pathogenesis, macropage cell biology
Associate Professor
University of Michigan Medical School
Department of Microbiology and Immunology
Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109-0620 USA
ph. 734.647.7295
fax. 734.764.3562
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Isei Tanida
Areas of Expertise:
National Institute of Infectious Diseases
Biochemistry and Cell Biology
1-23-1, Toyama
Shinjyuku, Tokyo 162-8640 Japan
ph. +81-3-5285-1111
fax. +81-3-5285-1157
tanida@nih.go.jp
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J. Paul Taylor
Areas of Expertise: autophagy in neurological disease
Associate Professor
University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine
Philadelphia, PA 19104 USA
ph. 215.573.1147
fax. 215.573.1153
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Michael Thumm
Areas of Expertise: autophagy in S cerevisiae
Professor of Molecular Cell Biology
Georg August University
Center of Biochemistry and Molecular Cell Biology
Heinrich Duker weg 12
D-37073 Goettingen, Germany
ph. 49.557.5958
fax. 49.551.5979
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Aviva M. Tolkovsky
Areas of Expertise: neuronal cell death, autophagic mechanisms
University Reader in Neuronal Survival Studies
University of Cambride
Department of Biochemistry
Tennis Court Road
Building O, Downing Site
Cambridge CB21QW, UK
ph. 44.1223.359319
fax. 44.1223.333345
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Sharon A. Tooze
Areas of Expertise: membrane traffic, protein sorting
Head of Laboratory
Cancer Research UK
London Research Institute
44 Lincoln's Inn Fields
London, UK
ph. 44.207.269.3122
fax. 44.207.269.3417
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Yasuo Uchiyama
Areas of Expertise: autophagy in disease (cell death)
Professor
Osaka University Graduate School of Medicine
2-2 Yamadoaka, Suita
Osaka 565-0871, Japan
ph. 81.6.6879.3120
fax. 81.6.6879.3129
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Herbert W. Virgin. IV
Areas of Expertise: virology and immunology
Professor of Pathology & Immunology and Molecular Microbiology
Washington University School of Medicine
660 S. Euclid Avenue
St. Louis, Missouri 53110 USA
ph. 314.362.7440
fax. 314.362.4096
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John W. Wiley
Areas of Expertise: neurodegenerative disorders
Director, General Clinical Research Center
University of Michigan
A7007 UH; 1500 E. Medical Center Dr.
Ann Arbor, MI 48109-0108
ph. 734.936.8080
fax. 734.936.4024
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Tamotsu Yoshimori
Areas of Expertise: mammalian autophagy
Professor
Department of Cellular Regulation
Research Institute for Microbial Diseases, Osaka University
3-1Yamadaoka, Suita
Osaka, 565-0871 Japan
ph. 81.6.6879.8293
fax. 81.6.6879.8294
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Long Yu
Areas of Expertise: medical genetics, cell signaling
Professor and Director
Fudan University
State Key Laboratory of Genetic Engineering
Institute of Genetics
Handan Rd. 220
Shanghai 200433 P.R. China
ph. 86.21.6564-3404
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Zhenyu Yue
Areas of Expertise: neuroscience, cell biology
Assistant Professor
Mount Saini School of Medicine
One Gustave L Levy Place
New York, NY 10029 USA
ph. 212.241.3155
fax. 212.348.1310
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