Alfonso Jaramillo

Madrid, Spain

Zong-Ming Cheng

Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing, Jiangsu, China

David Baker
University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

Rodolphe Barrangou
North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina, United States of America

Edward A. Bayer
Weizmann Institute of Science, Department of Biomolecular Sciences, Rehovot, Israel
Avidin-biotin technology, Cellulosome research, Microbial biotechnology, Synthetic biology

Jef Boeke
NYU Langone Health, New York, New York, United States of America

Ronald Breaker
Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America

Yizhi (Patrick) Cai
The University of Manchester, Manchester, United Kingdom
Computer assisted design for synthetic biology,   NeoChromosome design and synthesis in yeast,   DNA assembly automation

George Guo-Qiang Chen
Tsinghua University, Beijing, China
Microbial physiology, microbial PHA production and applications, synthetic biology

George Church
Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America

James Collins
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America
synthetic biology, antibiotics

Junbiao Dai
Chinese Academy of Sciences Shenzhen Institute of Advanced Technology, Shenzhen, Guangdong, China
Saccharomyces cerevisiae,  Synthetic biology,  Synthetic genomics,  Genome engineering,  DNA synthesis technology

Zixin Deng
Shanghai Jiao Tong University - Fahua Campus, Shanghai, China

Guocheng Du
Jiangnan University Key Laboratory of Industrial Biotechnology Ministry of Education, Wuxi, China

Jay Keasling
University of California Berkeley, Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, Berkeley, California, United States of America
Metabolic engineering, Synthetic biology, Microbial metabolism, Polyketides, Isoprenoids

Chun Li
Tsinghua University, Beijing, China

Chenli Liu
Chinese Academy of Sciences Shenzhen Institute of Advanced Technology, Shenzhen, China
Bacterial cell cycle and bacterial cancer therapy

David Liu
Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America

Yanhe Ma
Tianjin Institute of Industrial Biotechnology Chinese Academy of Sciences, Tianjin, China

Fussenegger Martin
ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland

Sir Ratcliffe
University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom

Pamela Silver
Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Synthetic biology, Hepatology, Oncology

J. C. Venter
J Craig Venter Institute, Rockville, Maryland, United States of America

Ping Xu
Shanghai Jiao Tong University - Fahua Campus, Shanghai, China

Qipeng Yuan
Beijing University of Chemical Technology, Beijing, China

Yingjin Yuan
Tianjin University, Tianjin, China

Xian-En Zhang
Shenzhen Institute of Advanced Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Multiscale Crystal Materials Research Center, Shenzhen, China

Ning-Yi Zhou
Shanghai Jiao Tong University - Fahua Campus, Shanghai, China

Nathalie Balabban
Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem, Israel

Gábor Balázsi
Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, New York, United States of America

Anke Becker
University of Marburg Centre of Synthetic Microbiology, Marburg, Germany
Editorial: Synthetic Biology, changing the face of Biotechnology

Lacra Bintu
Stanford University, Stanford, California, United States of America

Mingfeng Cao
Xiamen University, Xiamen, Fujian, China

Yao Chen
Institute of Process Engineering Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
material science, Biocatalysis, Biochemical Engineering

Virginia Cornish
Columbia University, New York, New York, United States of America

José-Antonio Daròs
Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology of Plants, Valencia, Spain

Yu Deng
Jiangnan University, Wuxi, Jiangsu, China

Doug Densmore
Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Diane DiEuliis
National Defense University, Bade, Taiwan

Pilar Domingo-Calap
University of Valencia, Valencia, Spain

Christopher Dundas
University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, United States of America

Carrie Eckert
Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee, United States of America

Michael Elowitz
Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Chevy Chase, Maryland, United States of America
Synthetic biology, systems biology

Tobias Erb
Max Planck Digital Library, München, Germany

Charles Gersbach
Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America
Genome editing, gene therapy, epigenetics, stem cells, reprogramming

Luke Gilbert
University of California San Francisco, Department of Urology, San Francisco, California, United States of America

Gigi Gronvall
Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Raik Grünberg
King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Thuwal, Saudi Arabia

Yan Gu
University of Shanghai for Science and Technology, Shanghai, China

Jim Haseloff
University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom

Jeff Hasty
University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America

Philipp Holliger
Cambridge Biomedical Campus Ltd, Cambridge, United Kingdom

Qian-Nan Hu

Ryozo Imai
National Agriculture and Food Research Organization Advanced Analysis Center, Tsukuba, Japan

Mark Isalan
Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom

Poul Erik Jensen
University of Copenhagen, København, Denmark

Ahmad Khalil
Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Synthetic Biology, Molecular Circuits, Molecular Evolution

Mustafa Khammash
ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland

Tanja Kortemme
University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America

Yongchan Kwon
Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, United States of America

Stéphane Lemaire
Sorbonne University, Paris, France

Aitao Li
Hubei University, Wuhan, Hubei, China

Bingzhi Li
Tianjin University, Tianjin, China

Feng Li
Chinese Academy of Sciences Wuhan Institute of Virology, Wuhan, China

Jianfeng Li
Sun Yat-Sen University, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China
Genome editing

Jiazhang Lian
Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, Zhejiang, China
Synthetic biology, Genome engineering, Metabolic engineering, Natural product biosynthesis

Chang C. Liu
University of California Irvine, Irvine, California, United States of America

Jianzhong Liu
Sun Yat-Sen University, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China

Tiangang Liu
Wuhan University Key Laboratory of Combinatorial Biosynthesis and New Drug Discovery Ministry of Education, Wuhan, China
Synthetic biology, Metabolic engineering

Victor de Lorenzo
Spanish Scientific Research Council, Madrid, Spain

Yuan Lu
Tsinghua University, Beijing, China

Yongqin Lv
Beijing University of Chemical Technology, Beijing, China
Biocatalysis, Enzyme immobilization, Molecular imprinting, Bioseparation, Carbon capture and utilization

Hongwu Ma
Tianjin Institute of Industrial Biotechnology Chinese Academy of Sciences, Tianjin, China

Alistair McCormick
The University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom

June Medford
Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado, United States of America
synthetic biology, plants, climate change

Tae Seok Moon
J Craig Venter Institute La Jolla, La Jolla, California, United States of America
Biocontainment, Probiotic, Dynamic metabolic control, Gene regulation, Evolution, RNA regulators, Biosensors and genetic circuits

José R. Penadés
University of Glasgow Institute of Infection Immunity and Inflammation, Glasgow, United Kingdom
Mobile genetic elements, bacteriophage, pathogenicity island, horizontal gene transfer, host adaptation, SOS response, Staphylococcus aureus

Nan Peng
Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, Hubei, China
CRISPR-Cas; Genome editing; Probiotics

Matthew Porteus
Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California, United States of America

Qingsheng Qi
Shandong University, Jinan, Shandong, China

Yiping Qi
University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland, United States of America
Genome editing

Yolanda Schaerli
University of Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland

Xiling Shen
Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America

Yue Shen
BGI Group, Shenzhen, China

Qiong Shi

Shuobo Shi
Beijing University of Chemical Technology, Beijing, China

Velia Siciliano

Pamela Silver
Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Synthetic biology, Hepatology, Oncology

Hao Song
Tianjin University, Tianjin, China

Beatrix Suess
Technical University of Darmstadt, Darmstadt, Germany

Ilias Tagkopoulos
University of California Davis, Davis, California, United States of America

Eriko Takano

Paula Tamagnini
University of Porto, Porto, Portugal

Hongzhi Tang
Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China

Cong Trinh
The University of Tennessee Knoxville, Knoxville, Tennessee, United States of America
Systems Biology, Synthetic Biology, Metabolic Engineering, Bioenergy and Biofuels, Antimicrobials

Baojun Wang
Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, Zhejiang, China

Hailong Wang
Shandong University, Jinan, Shandong, China

Yajie Wang
Westlake University, Hangzhou, Zhejiang, China

Yong Wang
CAS Center for Excellence in Molecular Plant Sciences, Shanghai, China

Ron Weiss
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America

Hui Wu
East China University of Science and Technology, Shanghai, China

Shangxian Xie
Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, Hubei, China

Zhen Xie
Tsinghua University, Beijing, China

Fengxue Xin
Nanjing Tech University, Nanjing, China

Wei Xiong
South China University of Technology, Guangzhou, China

Jian Xu
Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
algal biology; algal econonmics; algal evolution; bioinformatics; algal ecology; algal systems biololgy; algal synthetic biology

Peng Xu
Guangdong Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, Shantou, China
Metabolic Engineering, Synthetic Biology, Biochemical Engineering, Intelligent Control, Biomanufacturing, Computational modeling, Biotechnology, Bioprocess engineering, Biofuels

Chuang Xue
Dalian University of Technology, Dalian, China

Jifeng Yuan
Xiamen University, Xiamen, Fujian, China

Xinqing Zhao
Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China
Yeast, Trichoderma and other filamentous fungi, Synthetic biology, Biomanufacturing, Biofuels, Biochemicals, Active compounds, Cellulosic biomass, Microbial cell factory, Cosmetics, Stress response and Tolerance, Cell flocculation