Editorial Team
Editor-in-Chief
Liang Wang
Hubei Key Laboratory of Genetic Regulation and Integrative Biology, School of Life Sciences, Central China Normal University, Wuhan, 430079, Hubei, China
Research interests: Biomolecular phase separation, Aberrant phase separation and disease, Phase separation regulation technology
Associate Editors
Xiao Zhu
The Second Affiliated Hospital, Guangdong Medical University, Zhanjiang, China.
Research interests: Biomolecular condensates in biomacromolecules, biomacromolecules and signaling transduction, and clinical and drug big data analysis, with emphasis on stress granule assembly and phase separation dynamics.
Gang Wan
School of Life Sciences, Sun Yat-sen University, No. 135, Xingang Xi Road, Guangzhou 510275, China
Research interests:
1. Non-coding RNAs and epigenetics; 2. Molecular mechanisms of formation and regulation of phase-separated and membrane-free organelles; 3. Physiopathological functions of phase-separated and membrane-free organelles; 4. Optimisation and development of biotechnology and synthetic biology tools.
Yidan Sun
Department of Genetics, Washington University School of Medicine, St Louis, MO 63110, USA.
Research interests: Integrative bioinformatics and AI-driven analysis of neurodegenerative diseases
Editorial Board Members
Xiaorong Yang
School of Biology and Biological Engineering, South China University of Technology, Guangzhou, Guangdong Province 510006, PR China.
Research interests: Biomolecular condensate, aberrant phase separation and desease,characterization of enzymatic structure and movement, modification of enzyme
Yan Yang
Department of Medical Oncology, The First Affiliated Hospital of Bengbu Medical University, Bengbu, 233004, Anhui, China
Research interests: Molecular mechanisms of inflammation-cancer transformation and clinical researches on hepatic and biliary tract malignancies.
Xinpeng Chen
Hubei Key Laboratory of Edible Wild plants Conservation & Utilization, School of Life Sciences, Hubei Normal University, Huangshi, 435002, Hubei China
Research interests: Molecular mechanism of Autophagy, DNA damage, Epigenetic regulation of chromatin structure
Na Zhang
School of Life Sciences, Jilin University, Changchun, 130012, China.
Research interests: Epigenetics of aging, molecular mechanisms of aging and aging-related diseases, and aging intervention research
Lingyao Wang
Department of Basic Medical Sciences, Chongqing Medical University, Yixueyuan Road, Yuzhong District, Chongqing, 400016, China.
Research interests: Epigenetic disruption in neurodegenerative diseases; Interplay between chromatin homeostasis and LLPS in neural pathology
Ru Li
DZNE and Max Planck Institute for Multidisciplinary Sciences, Göttingen, Germany.
Research interests: Biomolecular phase separation, Aberrant phase separation and Neurodegenerative disease, Phase separation–regulated cell membrane signal transduction
Weifan Xu
State Key Laboratory of Membrane Biology — Membrane Structure & Artificial-Intelligence Biology Branch; ByPhase Bio Inc., Beijing, China.
Research interests: Harnessing liquid–liquid phase separation and AI-guided receptor pairing to create next-generation molecular-glue therapeutics that re-wire membrane signalling and overcome hard-to-treat diseases.
Xin Li
Beijing Life Science Academy, Beijing, China.
Research interests: Natural products and neurodegeneration—aberrant phase separation of pathogenic proteins and therapeutic modulation.
