Meet the new members of the Editorial Board

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Abstract

The Editorial Board of Molecular BioSystems is made up of an international team of enthusiastic scientists whose expertise covers a broad subject range. Here we profile M. Madan Babu, Blagoy Blagoev and Sachdev Sidhu who have joined the Board this year.

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Plate1 M. Madan Babu

M. Madan Babu obtained his undergraduate degree in 2001 from the Centre for Biotechnology, Anna University, India with fellowships from the Indian Institutes of Science and the Indian Academy of Sciences. He then received an LMB-Cambridge International Fellowship and a Trinity College Research Scholarship to carry out his doctoral research at the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology (LMB) in Cambridge. During this time, he carried out studies on the structure, evolution and dynamics of transcriptional regulatory networks by employing a combination of computational approaches in Dr Teichmann's group and was awarded the Max Perutz Prize for outstanding PhD research in 2004. He subsequently received an NIH International Visiting Fellowship to work in the group of Dr L Aravind at the NCBI, USA where he identified fundamental principles of the organization of biological networks. He returned to the UK to become an independent group leader at the MRC LMB in 2006 and also holds a fellowship at Darwin College, Cambridge. His research focuses on the structural, functional and evolutionary constraints that shape biological systems.

Plate2 Blagoy Blagoev

Blagoy Blagoev is a scientist combining in his research the fields of mass spectrometry-based proteomics and cell signalling. Born in 1973 in Bulgaria, he studied cell and developmental biology at Sofia University, Bulgaria, where he obtained his MSc in 1996. In 2003 he received his PhD in biochemistry and molecular biology from the University of Southern Denmark in Odense where he worked in the group of Professor Matthias Mann. After a postdoctoral fellowship in the same group he became a group leader and since 2007 he has been an Associate Professor in the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology at the University of Southern Denmark.

Plate3 Sachdev Sidhu

Sachdev Sidhu studied chemistry at Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, and obtained his BSc with honors in 1991. He then continued his graduate work at Simon Fraser University where he investigated enzyme function, and obtained his PhD in 1996. Following a postdoctoral research fellowship with James Wells at Genentech, San Francisco, Dr Sidhu joined the Protein Engineering department at Genentech as a principal investigator in 1998. He has published more than 70 scientific papers and is a co-inventor on 12 patents filed with the US patent office. Dr Sidhu's research interests focus on the use of combinatorial biology methods to explore protein structure and function, and his group is currently developing synthetic antibody libraries as sources of potential therapeutics.

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