Journal of Cell Biology is pleased to introduce the newest members of our editorial board. We are grateful to these and all of our board members for their contributions to JCB and service to the cell biology community.

Anna Akhmanova
Cytoskeletal dynamics and intracellular trafficking

Anna Akhmanova is a professor of cell biology at Utrecht University, Utrecht, Netherlands. Anna studied biochemistry and molecular biology at Moscow State University. She did her PhD on histone genes in Drosophila and her first postdoc on anaerobic protozoa, both at the University of Nijmegen, Nijmegen, Netherlands. For her second postdoc, Anna moved to the Erasmus Medical Center, Rotterdam, Netherlands, where she became interested in microscopy-based studies of the cytoskeleton and set up her independent group to study cytoskeletal organization and trafficking processes, which contribute to cell polarization, differentiation, vertebrate development, and human disease. Her lab combines cell biological experiments and in vitro reconstitution approaches to study microtubule dynamics and microtubule-based membrane transport. Photo courtesy of Anna Akhmanova.

Federica Brandizzi
Plant cell biology: Organelle function, stress responses, and the secretory pathway

Federica Brandizzi is a distinguished professor and Department of Energy (DOE) science director of the Great Lakes Bioenergy Research Center. She earned her PhD in Cell and Molecular Biology from the University of Rome Tor Vergata, Rome, Italy, studying plant reproduction. She conducted postdoctoral research on synthetic transcription factors at the University of Oxford, Oxford, UK, and plant endomembrane dynamics at Oxford Brookes University, Oxford, UK. Federica established her first lab as a Canada Research Chair at the University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Canada, before joining the MSU-DOE Plant Research Laboratory in East Lansing, MI, USA. Her groundbreaking work focuses on the cell biology of the plant secretory pathway, integrating genomics, genetics, and systems biology to investigate organelle function, stress responses, and pathogen resilience, with applications to crop improvement and human health. She is also a senior editor for The Plant Journal and a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Photo courtesy of Michigan State University.

Erin Goley
Bacterial cell biology, growth, and adaptation

Erin Goley is a professor of biological chemistry at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA. She received her PhD in Molecular and Cell Biology at the University of California, Berkeley, CA, USA, where she worked with Matt Welch on the regulation of actin nucleation in healthy cells and during viral and bacterial infection. For her postdoctoral research, Erin transitioned to the field of bacterial cell biology, training with Lucy Shapiro at Stanford University. There she established the timing of assembly of the bacterial cell division machinery and identified novel regulators of the bacterial tubulin homolog, FtsZ. Erin established her lab at Hopkins in 2011, where she focuses on mechanisms that underlie bacterial growth and adaptation. Her laboratory leverages genetics, imaging, and biochemistry to discover how bacteria organize themselves in space, interact with each other and with their environment, and replicate efficiently. Photo courtesy of Erin Goley.

Christophe Leterrier
Axonal transport: Actin structures and organization

First trained as a physics and chemistry engineer in Paris, Christophe did his PhD at the Neurobiology lab at ESPCI, working with Zsolt Lenkei on the trafficking of cannabinoid receptors in neurons. He then joined the lab of Bénédicte Dargent in Marseille as a postdoc, working on the organization of the axon initial segment. He started the NeuroCyto lab in 2017 at the Institute for NeuroPhysiopathology in Marseille, developing super-resolution microscopy approaches to resolve the nanoscale architecture of axons. The NeuroCyto lab interrogates the molecular organization of actin structures along the axon shaft and within presynapses to understand their functions for key neuronal processes: axonal transport and endo/exocytosis. To do so, they combine versatile labeling approaches, correlative live-cell/super-resolution/electron microscopy, and quantitative analysis that allow for high-content, nanoscale interrogation of the neuronal architecture. Photo courtesy of Christophe Leterrier.

James Olzmann
Cellular lipid homeostasis: Mechanisms of lipid storage and lipotoxicity

Dr. James Olzmann is the Doris H. Calloway Chair and a professor at the University of California (UC), Berkeley. He holds a joint appointment in the Departments of Molecular and Cell Biology and Nutritional Sciences and Toxicology. He completed his undergraduate studies at the University of Michigan and earned his PhD at Emory University before performing his postdoctoral research in the laboratory of Dr. Ron Kopito at Stanford University, focusing on the mechanisms of ER protein quality control. In 2013, he joined UC Berkeley to establish his independent research group. His team employs systems-level discovery strategies and cell biology techniques to unravel the principles underlying cellular lipid homeostasis. A major focus of his lab is exploring the biogenesis and functions of lipid droplets, the storage organelles for neutral lipids, as well as the pathways regulating oxidative lipid damage during ferroptosis. Beyond advancing fundamental knowledge, his group is dedicated to developing small-molecule tools and therapeutic strategies to modulate these pathways in the context of human disease. Photo courtesy of the University of California, Berkeley.

Marisa Otegui
Membrane biology and endosomal trafficking in plant cells

Marisa Otegui is a professor and director of the 3D Cell EM facility in the Center for Quantitative Cell Imaging at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. She received her PhD in Plant Biology from the University of La Plata, La Plata, Argentina. She completed her postdoctoral training with Andrew Staehelin at the University of Colorado Boulder, applying electron tomography to the analysis of membrane dynamics during plant cytokinesis. Her lab focuses on the mechanisms that regulate membrane remodeling, autophagy of organelles, and endosomal trafficking in the context of plant signaling and development. Her group develops approaches and tools to visualize cellular membrane remodeling events for integration in cellular readouts and computational simulations. Photo courtesy of Marisa Otegui.

Christian Ungermann
Molecular mechanisms of endosome, lysosome, and autophagosome biogenesis

Christian Ungermann is a full professor in the Department of Biology/Chemistry at Osnabrück University (Osnabrück, Germany). He is interested in the biogenesis of lysosome (in particular the yeast vacuole). One main focus of his group is membrane fusion of endosomes and autophagosomes with the lysosome. Christian was educated in biochemistry and biophysics in Tübingen, Germany, and at Oregon State University in Corvallis. He worked in the lab of Walter Neupert on mitochondrial import, where he received his PhD. He then moved for his postdoctoral training to Bill Wickner at Dartmouth Medical School, where he worked on the mechanism of vacuole fusion. He started his own laboratory in 1999 at the Biochemistry Center Heidelberg and was appointed in 2005 at Osnabrück University. Photo courtesy of Simone Reukauf.

Chonglin Yang
Mechanisms of organelle homeostatic regulation

Chonglin Yang received his PhD degree from Peking University in 1998 and finished his postdoctoral training with Dr. Ding Xue in the University of Colorado Boulder in 2005. From 2005 to 2016, he was an investigator in the Institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences. Since October 2016, he has been a professor and dean of the School of Life Sciences, Yunnan University, Kunming, China. The Yang lab combines Caenorhabditis elegans, cultured cells, and mice as models to explore the mechanisms that govern the homeostatic maintenance of mitochondria and lysosomes. Photo courtesy of Chonglin Yang.

Yan Zhao
Regulation and function of autophagy in the central nervous system

Yan Zhao is an associate professor in the Department of Neuroscience at Southern University of Science and Technology. She received her BS and PhD from the School of Public Heath in Peking University Health Science Center. She then conducted postdoctoral research with Hong Zhang at the Institute of Biophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, and UMass Medical School, focusing on the molecular mechanism and physiological function of metazoan-specific autophagy genes using a combination of cell biology, biochemistry, and mouse genetics approaches. She established her own lab in 2020, and her group is dedicated to studying the specific construction of neural autophagy and the regulation and function of autophagy in the central nervous system. Photo Courtesy of Southern University of Science and Technology.

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