Acknowledgements 2006

We wish to thank to all referees listed below, who have reviewed the manuscripts submited. Their time and effort is particularly appreciated.

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Simona Abba'
Dipartimento di Biologia Vegetale dell’Università degli Studi di Torino and IPPCNR-Sezione di Torino, Torino, Italy

Fumiyoshi Abe
Extremobiosphere Research Center, Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology, Yokosuka, Japan

Masaaki Adachi
First Department of Internal Medicine, Sapporo Medical University, Sapporo, Japan

Manish Aghi
Department of Neurosurgery, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, USA

Alastair Aitken
University of Edinburgh, School of Biomedical and Clinical Laboratory Sciences, Edinburgh, United Kingdom

Elias Walter Alves
Centro de Biociências e Biotecnologia, Universidade Estadual do Norte Fluminense, Brasil

Suresh V. Ambudkar
National Cancer Institute, NIH, Bethesda, USA

Nicolas André
Department of Paediatric Oncology, Children's Hospital of La Timone, Marseille, France

Karine Andrieux
Equipe Physicochimie des Systèmes Polyphasés, UMR CNRS, Châtenay-Malabry, France

Ottavio Arancio
Department of Pathology and the Taub Institute for Research on Alzheimer's Disease and the Aging Brain, Columbia University, New York, USA

Adriana Arena
Department of Surgical Science, Unit of Microbiology, Medicine Faculty, Messina, Italy

Philippe Arnaud
Institute of Molecular Genetics, CNRS UMR, University of Montpellier-II, Montpellier, France

Stephane Arques
Department of Cardiology, Aubagne Hospital, Aubagne, France

Okezie I. Aruoma
Faculty of Health and Social Care, London South Bank University, London, United Kingdom

Richard H. Ashley
Biomedical Sciences, College of Medicine, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom

Dominique Aunis
Directeur de l’Unité Inserm U.575, Physiopathologie du Système Nerveux, Strasbourg, France

Carmen M. Avila
Departamento de Mejora y Agronomía, CIFA-Alameda del Obispo, Córdoba, Spain

Scott R. Baerson
U.S. Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Research Service, Natural Products Utilization Research Unit, University, USA

Georges Baffet
INSERM U522, Hôpital Pontchaillou, Rennes Cedex, France

Clifton A. Baile
Department of Foods and Nutrition, University of Georgia, Athens, USA

Mark M. Banaszak Holl
Chemistry Department, University of Michigan, USA

Grzegorz Bartosz
Department of Biochemistry and Cell Biology, University of Rzeszów, Rzeszów, Poland

Susan J. Baserga
Department of Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, USA

Alakananda Basu
Department of Molecular Biology and Immunology, University of North Texas Health Science Center, USA

Philip M. Beart
Howard Florey Institute, University of Melbourne, Australia

Piotr Bednarek
Plant Breeding & Acclimatization Institute, Błonie, Radzików, Poland

Aaron Bell
University of Pittsburgh, School of Medicine, Department of Pathology, Pittsburgh, USA

Jerzy Bełtowski
Department of Pathophysiology, Medical University, Lublin, Poland

Nunzia Bernardini
Department of Human Morphology and Applied Biology, University of Pisa, Pisa, Italy

Paul J. Berti
Departments of Chemistry and Biochemistry and the Antimicrobial Research Centre, McMaster University, Ontario, Canada

Norbert Billotte
Centre de Cooperation Internationale en Recherche Agronomique pour le Developpement (CIRAD), Montpellier, France

Giorgio Binelli
Dipartimento di Biotecnologie e Scienze Molecolari, Università degli Studi dell'Insubria, Varese, Italy

Fritz Boege
Institute of Clinical Chemistry and Laboratory Diagnostics, Heinrich-Heine-University, Medical School, Düsseldorf, Germany

Jeffrey G. Boersma
Department of Agriculture, Western Australia, South Perth, Australia

Timothy L. Born
Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, George Mason University, Manassas, USA

Christoph Borner
Institute for Molecular Medicine and Cell Research, Albert-Ludwigs-University Freiburg, Fribourg, Germany

Barbara D. Boyan
Georgia Institute of Technology, Institute of Bioengineering and Bioscience, Atlanta, Georgia, USA

L. Jeannine Brady
Department of Oral Biology, University of Florida, Gainesville, USA

Michael Breitenbach
Department of Genetics, Salzburg University, Salzburg, Austria

Joseph W. Brewer
Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Stritch School of Medicine, Loyola University Chicago, Maywood, USA

John F.Y. Brookfield
Institute of Genetics, University of Nottingham, Queens Medical Centre, Nottingham, United Kingdom

Marco A. P. Brotto
Department of Physiology and Biophysics, UMDNJ-Robert Wood Johnson School of Medicine, Piscataway, USA

Philippe Bulet
Atheris Laboratories, Bernex, Geneva, Switzerland

Franciszek Burdan
Experimental Teratology Unit, Human Anatomy Department, Medical University of Lublin, Poland

Jutta C. Burger
Department of Botany and Plant Sciences, University of California, Riverside, USA

Axelle Cadoret
INSERM U402, Faculté de Médecine Saint-Antoine, Paris cedex, France

Anna Calcagno
Laboratory of Cell Biology, National Cancer Institute, NIH, Bethesda, USA

B. Todd Campbell
Coastal Plains Soil, Water and Plant Research Center, USDA-ARS, Florence, Italy

Jordi Camps
Centre de Recerca Biomèdica, Hospital Universitari de Sant Joan, Institut de Recerca en Ciències de la Salut, Catalunya, Spain

Teodoro Cardi
CNR-IGV, Institute of Plant Genetics, Research Division Portici, Portici, Italy

Oliana Carnevali
Dipartimento di Scienze del Mare, Università Politecnica delle Marche, Ancona, Italy

Kathleen M. Caron
Department of Cell & Molecular Physiology, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, USA

Domenico Carputo
Department of Soil, Plant and Environmental Sciences, University of Naples Federico II, Portici, Italy

Ismail Celik
Department of Preventive Oncology, Hacettepe University Institute of Oncology, Ankara, Turkey

Miroslav Červinka
Department of Medical Biology and Genetics, Charles University in Prague, Faculty of Medicine in Hradec Králové, Hradec Králové, Czech Republic

Rui Chen
Human Genome Sequencing Center, Department of Molecular and Human Genetics, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, USA

Russsel W. Chesney
Department of Pediatrics, University of Tennessee Health Science Center, Le Bonheur Children's Medical Center, Memphis, USA

Kazuaki Chikamatsu
Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, Gunma University Graduate School of Medicine, Showa-machi, Maebashi, Japan

Mirjam Christ-Crain
Department of Endocrinology, University Hospital Basel, Switzerland

Mary Christopher
Chemical and Biological Defence Section, Defence Research & Development Canada, Suffield, Alberta, USA

Aldo Clerico
Laboratory of Cardiovascular Endocrinology and Cellular Biology, CNR Institute of Clinical Physiology, Pisa, Italy

Elaina Collie-Duguid
Department of Medicine and Therapeutics, Institute of Medical Sciences, University of Aberdeen, Foresterhill, United Kingdom

Douglas R Cook
Department of Plant Pathology, University of California, Davis, California, USA

Kenneth Cornetta
Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, USA

Juan Cosín Aguilar
Centro de Investigación, Hospital La Fe, Valencia, Spain

Eliecer Coto
Genetica Molecular, Hospital Central Asturias, Oviedo, Spain

Roberto Cremonini
Dipartimento Scienze Botaniche, Pisa, Italy

Deanna Cross
Center for Personalized Medicine, Marshfield Clinic Research Foundation, Marshfield, USA

Laszlo N. Csonka
Department of Biological Sciences, Purdue University, West Lafayette, USA

Salvatore Cuzzocrea
Institute of Phamacology, School of Medicine, University of Messina, Italy

Tobias B. Dansen
Department of Physiological Chemistry, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands

Ian A. Darby
Microvascular Biology Laboratory, School of Medical Sciences, RMIT University, Bundoora, Victoria, Australia

James W. Darnowski
Department of Medicine, Rhode Island Hospital and Brown University, Providence, USA

Alberto Darszon
Department of Developmental Genetics and Molecular Physiology, Institute of Biotechnology, UNAM, Cuernavaca, Mexico

Sumantra Das
Neurobiology Division, Indian Institute of Chemical Biology, Jadavpur, Kolkata, India

Dipak K. Das
Cardiovascular Research Center, University of Connecticut, School of Medicine, Farmington, USA

Walter Däubener
Institut für Medizinische Mikrobiologie und Virologie, Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf, Germany

Rajnish S. Dave
The Dorrance H. Hamilton Laboratories, Division of Infectious Diseases, Center for Human Virology, Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, USA

William Davies
The Babraham Institute, Babraham Research Campus, Babraham, Cambridge, United Kingdom

Bert A.H de Boer
Vrije Universiteit, Faculty of Earth and Life Sciences, Department of Structural Biology, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Rafael Rubio de Casas
Departamento de Biología Vegetal 1, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Madrid, Spain

Leopoldo de Meis
Instituto de Bioquimica Medica, Predio CCS, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Caroline N. Dealy
Center for Limb and Skeletal Development, Department of BioStructure and Function, University of Connecticut Health Center, Farmington, USA

Jones Denecke
Department of Pediatrics, University Hospital of Münster, Münster, Germany

Isabel Diaz
Laboratorio de Bioquímica y Biología Molecular, Dpto. de Biotecnología-UPM, E.T.S. Ingenieros Agrónomos, Madrid, Spain

Mensur Dlakić
Department of Microbiology, Montana State University, Bozeman, Montana, USA

Albert Dobi
Center for Prostate Disease Research, Department of Surgery, Uniformed Services University, Rockville, USA

Patrick Doumas
Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique/Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Université Montpellier, France

Sami Dridi
Laboratory of Physiology, Immunology and Genetics of Domestic Animals, Catholic University of Leuven, Heverlee, Belgium

Stefan Duensing
University of Pittsburgh Cancer Institute, Pittsburgh, USA

Hans Eklund
Department of Molecular Biology, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Uppsala Biomedical Center, Uppsala, Sweden

Zhila Ellis
Children's Memorial Research Center, Chicago, USA

Anna Erdei
Department of Immunology, University L. Eotvos, Budapest, Hungary

Urs Eriksson
Medical ICU, University Hospital, Basel, Switzerland

Ronald M. Evans
Gene Expression Laboratory, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, The Salk Institute, La Jolla, USA

Ben J. Evans
Department of Ecology, Evolution and Environmental Biology and Center for Environmental Research and Conservation, Columbia University, New York, USA

Krystyna Fabianowska-Majewska
Department of Biomedicinal Chemistry, Medical University of Łódź, Łódź, Poland

Tamer E. Fandy
School of Pharmacy, Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Maryland, Baltimore, USA

Henrique Faneca
Department of Biochemistry, University of Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal

Patrizia Ferroni
Department of Experimental Medicine and Pathology, University La Sapienza, Rome, Italy

Susan M. Fischer
The University of Texas, M. D. Anderson Cancer Center, Science Park - Research Division, Smithville, USA

Andrew Flavell
Department of Life Sciences, University of Dundee, Dundee, Scotland, United Kingdom

Scott P. Fraser
Department of Biological Sciences, Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine, London, United Kingdom

Wilma M. Frederiks
Department of Cell Biology and Histology, Academic Medical Center, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Brad A. Freking
USDA, ARS, US Meat Animal Research Center, Clay Center, USA

Baruch Frenkel
Departments of Orthopaedic Surgery and Biochemistry & Molecular Biology, Institute for Genetic Medicine, University of Southern California, Keck School of Medicine, Los Angeles, USA

Eitan Friedman
The Susanne Levy Gertner Oncogenetics Unit, The Danek Gertner Institute of Human Genetics, Chaim Sheba Medical Center, Tel-Hashomer, Israel

Matthias Frisch
Genomatix Software, München, Germany

Micheline Fromont-Racine
Genetique des Interactions Macromoleculaires, Institut Pasteur (CNRS-URA2171), Paris, France

Takeshi Fujii
Department of Pharmacology, Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Doshisha Women's College of Liberal Arts, Kodo, Kyotanabe, Kyoto, Japan

Michiko N. Fukuda
Department of Glycobiology, The Burnham Institute, La Jolla, USA

Marcia Cristina Furlaneto
Laboratory of Molecular Genetics of Fungi, Universidade de Londrina - PR - Brazil

Pio M. Furneri
Department of Microbiological Sciences, University of Catania, Catania, Italy

Koichi Fuse
Division of Cardiology, Niigata University Graduate School of Medical and Dental Sciences, Niigata City, Japan

Francisco Javier Gallego Rodríguez
Departamento de Genética, Facultad de Biología, Universidad Complutense, Madrid, Spain

Andres J García
Petit Institute for Bioengineering and Bioscience, Atlanta, USA

William T. Garrard
Department of Molecular Biology, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, USA

Diego Gerold
Department of Internal Medicine and Medical Therapeutics, IRCCS San Matteo Hospital, Malattie Vascolari e Metaboliche, University of Pavia, Pavia, Italy

Juliet A. Gerrard
Department of Plant and Microbial Sciences, University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand

Anu Ghosh
Low Level Radiation Studies Section, Biosciences Group, Bhabha Atomic Research Centre, Trombay, Mumbai, India

Spencer B. Gibson
Manitoba Institute of Cell Biology, University of Manitoba, Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada

Alfons Gierl
Lehrstuhl für Genetik, Technische Universität München, Freising, Germany

Fuat R. Gimalov
Institute of Biochemistry and Genetics, Ufa Scientific Center, Russian Academy of Sciences, Ufa, Russia

Nicola Giuliani
Hematology and BMT Center, Department of Internal Medicine and Biomedical Science, University of Parma, Parma, Italy

Galina V. Glazko
Stowers Institute for Medical Research, Kansas City, USA

Clare Gordon-Thomson
Skin Technologies Research Centre, College of Science, Environment and Technology, University of Western Sydney, Penrith South, Australia

Marie Francoise Gorwa-Grauslund
Department of Applied Microbiology, Lund University, Lund, Sweden

Elena Govorkova
Division of Virology, Department of Infectious Diseases, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, Memphis, USA

Walter Gratzer
King's College, The Randall Division, London, United Kingdom

Susan Greenwood
Maternal and Fetal Health Research Centre, Division of Human Development, The University of Manchester, St. Mary's Hospital, Manchester, United Kingdom

M. Michael Gromiha
Computational Biology Research Center, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, Tokyo, Japan

Jerzy Gubernator
Faculty of Biotechnology, University of Wrocław, Wrocław, Poland

Jan Gutowicz
Department of Physical-Chemistry of Micro-Organisms, Institute of Genetics and Microbiology, University of Wrocław, Wrocław, Poland

Steven P. Gygi
Department of Cell Biology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, USA

Tomonori Habuchi
Department of Urology, Akita University School of Medicine, Akita, Japan

Henry Hägerstrand
Department of Biology, Abo Akademi University, Biocity, Abo/Turku, Finland

Stavros J Hamodrakas
Department of Cell Biology and Biophysics, Faculty of Biology, University of Athens, Panepistimiopolis, Athens, Greece

Tatsuji Haneji
Department of Histology and Oral Histology, Institute of Health Biosciences, The University of Tokushima Graduate School, Kuramoto, Tokushima, Japan

Miki Hara-Yokoyama
Department of Hard Tissue Engineering, Biochemistry, Division of Bio-Matrix, Graduate School, Tokyo Medical and Dental University, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo, Japan

Albert Harris
Zoology Department, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA

Robert Hasterok
Department of Plant Anatomy and Cytology, University of Silesia, Katowice, Poland

Marion Haubitz
Division of Nephrology, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany

Christof R. Hauc
ZINF, Universität Würzburg, Würzburg, Germany

Michael Havey
USDA-ARS, Department of Horticulture, University of Wisconsin, Madison, USA

Holger Hesse
Department of Molecular Physiology, Max-Planck-Institut für Molekulare Pflanzenphysiologie, Golm, Germany

Timothy Hla
Center for Vascular Biology, Department of Physiology, University of Connecticut Health Center, Farmington, USA

Dick Hoekstra
Department of Membrane Cell Biology, University of Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands

Stephen B. Hooser
Department of Veterinary Pathobiology, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana, USA

Jaroslav Horak
Institute of Physiology, Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague, Czech Republic

Gonzalo Hortelano
Department of Pathology and Molecular Medicine, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada

Walter E. Horton, Jr.
Department of Anatomy, Northeastern Ohio University College of Medicine, Rootstown, USA

Masaki Hosoya
Frontier Research Laboratories, Pharmaceutical Researech Division, Takeda Pharmeceutical Company Limited, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan

Andreas Houben
Institute for Plant Genetics and Crop Plant Research (IPK), Gatersleben, Germany 

Carolyn J. Hovde
Department of Microbiology, Molecular Biology and Biochemistry, University of Idaho, Moscow, USA

Walter L. Hurley
Department of Animal Science University of Illinois, Urbana, USA

Zoya Ignatova
Max Planck Institute for Biochemistry, Martinsried, Germany

Susumu Imaoka
Nanobiotechnology Research center and Department of Bioscience, School of Science and Technology, Kwansei Gakuin University, Sanda, Japan

Masami Ishido
Endocrine Disruptors and Dioxin Research Projects, National Institute for Environmental Studies, Tsukuba, Japan

Shri Mohan Jain
Department of Applied Biology, Helsinki University, Helsinki, Finland

Željko Jakšić
Laboratory for Marine Molecular Toxicology, Center for Marine Research-Rovinj, Ruđer Bošković Institute, Rovinj, Croatia

Athanasios Z. Jamurtas
Department of Physical Education and Sport Science, University of Thessaly, Trikala, Greece

Teresa Janas
Department of Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology, University of Colorado, Boulder, USA

Carlos A. Jerez
Laboratory of Molecular Microbiology and Biotechnology, Department of Biology, Faculty of Sciences, University of Chile, Santiago, Chile

D Joseph Jerry
Molecular and Cellular Biology Program, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, USA

Andrzej Jerzmanowski
Institute of Biochemistry and Biophysics, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, Poland

Dan Jia
Division of Endocrinology and Metabolism, Center for Osteoporosis and Metabolic Bone Diseases, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, Little Rock, USA

Ning Jiang
Plant and Soil Sciences, Michigan State University, East Lansing, USA

Weijun Jin
University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Philadelphia, USA

Joaquin Jordán
Departamento de Ciencias Médicas, Facultad de Medicina, Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha, Albacete, Spain

Boris Dominik  Jülg
Medizinische Poliklinik, Ludwig, Maximilian University, Munich, Germany

Bernd Kaina
Institute of Toxicology, University of Mainz, Mainz, Germany

Tetsuji Kakutani
Department of Integrated Genetics, National Institute of Genetics, Mishima, Shizuoka, Japan

Hiroya Kamei
Department of Bioscience, Faculty of Applied Biological Science, Tokyo University of Agriculture, Tokyo, Japan

Junko Kanoh
Department of Gene Mechanisms, Graduate School of Biostudies, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan

Yusuke Kato
Department of Developmental Biology, National Institute of Agrobiological Sciences, Tsukuba, Japan

Manjinder Kaur
Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, School of Pharmacy, University of Colorado Health Sciences Center, Denver, USA

Masaya Kawase
Graduate School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Osaka University, Osaka, Japan

Ziya Kaya
Department of Internal Medicine III – Cardiology, University of Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany

Stephen E. Kendall
City of Hope/Beckman Research Institute, Duarte, USA

Anna Kicińska
Laboratory of Bioenergetics, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań, Poland

Yoshiyuki Kimura
2nd Department of Medical Biochemistry, School of Medicine, Ehime University, Ehime, Japan

Akinori Kimura
Department of Molecular Pathogenesis, Medical Research Institute, Tokyo Medical and Dental University, Tokyo, Japan

Yuji Kishima
Laboratories of Genetic Engineering, Graduate School of Agriculture, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan

Taeko Kobayashi
Institute for Virus Research, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan

Shosuke Kojo
Department of Food Science and Nutrition, Nara Women's University, Nara, Japan

Roland Kölliker
Molecular Ecology, Federal Department of Economic Affairs DEA, Agroscope Reckenholz-Tänikon Research Station ART, Zürich, Switzerland

Setsuko Komatsu
Department of Molecular Genetics, National Institute of Agrobiological Sciences, Tsukuba, Japan

Jerzy Konarski
Theoretical Chemistry Department, A. Mickiewicz University, Poznań, Poland

Krystyna Konopka
Department of Microbiology, University of the Pacific, Arthur A. Dugoni School of Dentistry, San Francisco, USA

Vladimir Korinek
Institute of Molecular Genetics AS CR, Prague, Czech Republic

Włodzimierz Korohoda
Department of Cell Biology, Jan Zurzycki Institute of Molecular Biology, Jagiellonian University, Kraków, Poland

Robert J. Korst
Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Weill Medical College of Cornell University, New York, USA

Victor Korzun
Lochow-Petkus GmbH, c/o PLANTA GmbH, Einbeck, Germany

Leszek Kotula
Laboratory of Molecular Neurobiology, New York State Institute for Basic Research in Developmental Disabilities, Staten Island, USA

Juergen Kratzsch
Department of Laboratory Medicine, Clinical Chemistry and Molecular Diagnostics, University Hospital, Leipzig, Germany

Ruhul H. Kuddus
Thomas E Starzl Transplantation Institute, Department of Surgery, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, USA

Ashok Kumar
Molecular Genetics Division, Musculoskeletal Disease Center, Jerry L. Pettis Veterans Administration Medical Center, Loma Linda, USA

Atsushi Kurabayashi
Institute for Amphibian Biology, Graduate School of Science, Hiroshima University, Kagamiyama, Higashi-Hiroshima, Hiroshima, Japan

Katarzyna Kwiatkowska
Department of Cell Biology, Nencki Institute of Experimental Biology, Warsaw, Poland

Julia Kzhyshkowska
Department of Dermatology, University Medical Centre Mannheim, Ruprecht-Karls University of Heidelberg, Mannheim, Germany

Mikko J Lammi
Department of Anatomy, University of Kuopio, Kuopio, Finland

Christine Lang
TU Berlin, Department of Microbioloogy and Genetics, Berlin, Germany

Kenneth Langlands
Clore Laboratory, University of Buckingham, Buckingham, United Kingdom

Marek Langner
Wrocław University of Technology, Institute of Physics, Wybrzeże Wyspiańskiego 27, 50-370 Wrocław, Poland

Paul Larsen
Department of Biochemistry, University of California-Riverside, Riverside, USA

Howard M Laten
Biology Department, Loyola University Chicago, Chicago, USA

Michael A. Lea
Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, UMDNJ-New Jersey Medical School, Newark, USA

Marc Lecomte
Diabetic Microangiopathy Unit, MERCK Santé-INSERM U352, INSA-Lyon, Villeurbanne Cedex, France

Michael Lee
Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, College of Medicine, University of Florida, Gainesville, USA

Jung Weon Lee
Cancer Research Institute, Department of Tumor Biology, College of Medicine, Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea

Tamas Lelley
Institute of Agrobiotechnology, Tulln, Austria

Biao Li
College of Bioinformation, Chongqing University of Posts sand Telecommunications, Chongqing, P.R. China

Xiao-Kang Li
Laboratory of Transplantation Immunology, National Research Institute for Child Health and Development, Tokyo, Japan

P. Charles Lin
Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, USA

Weir-Sen Lin
Chia-Nan University of Technology, Taiwan

Christopher D. Link
Institute for Behavioral Genetics, University of Colorado, Boulder, USA

Hsin-Lung Lo
Divisions of Virology and Pediatrics, Beckman Research Institute, City of Hope National Medical Center, Duarte, USA

Philip T LoVerde
Southwest Foundation for Biomedical Research, San Antonio, USA

Marcin Łukaszewicz
Faculty of Biotechnology, University of Wrocław, Wrocław, Poland

Cecilia Lundberg
Department of Experimental Medical Research, Section for Neuroscience, Wallenberg Neuroscience Centre, Lund University, Lund, Sweden

Jian Feng Ma
Faculty of Agriculture, Kagawa University, Ikenobe, Kagawa, Japan

Jiri Macas
Institute of Plant Molecular Biology, Ceske Budejovice, Czech Republic

Zbigniew Madeja
Department of Cell Biology, Faculty of Biochemistry, Biophysics and Biotechnology, Jagiellonian University, Kraków, Poland

Isamu Maeda
Faculty of Agriculture, Utsunomiya University, Minemachi, Utsunomiya, Japan

Giovanni Maga
Istituto di Genetica Molecolare IGM-CNR, Pavia, Italy

Rohit Mago
CSIRO Plant Industry, Canberra, Australia

Pamela Maher
The Salk Institute for Biological Studies, La Jolla, USA

Etienne Marbaix
Department of Pathology, Saint-Luc University Clinics, Bruxelles, Belgium

Laurent Marrot
Phototoxicology Unit, Safety Research Department, L'OREAL Advanced Research, Aulnay sous Bois cedex, France

Cristina Martinez Munoz
VU University Medical Center, Department Clinical Chemistry, Metabolic Unit, Polikliniek rec. K (1 PK X009), Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Yoshihiro Maruo
Department of Pediatrics, Shiga University of Medical Science, Seta, Otsu, Japan

Fabrizio G. Mastronardi
Department of Structural Biology and Biochemistry, The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Lina Matera
Department of Internal Medicine, University of Turin, Italy

Christopher K. Mathews
Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, Oregon State University, Corvallis, USA

Osamu Matsuo
Department of Physiology, Kinki University School of Medicine, Osakasayama-City, Osaka, Japan

Sumio Matzno
First Department of Biochemistry, School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Mukogawa Women's University, Koshien, Nishinomiya, Hyogo, Japan

Juan C. Mayo
Departamento de Morfología y Biología Celular, Universidad de Oviedo, Asturias, España

Andrzej Mazur
Department of General Microbiology, University of M. Curie-Sklodowska, Lublin, Poland

Rafael P. Mellado
Centro Nacional de Biotecnología, Campus de la Universidad Autónoma, Cantoblanco, Madrid, Spain

Mariarosa A.B Melone
Department of Neurological Sciences, Second University of Naples, Naples, Italy

Bruno P. Meloni
Australian Neuromuscular Research Institute, QEII Medical Centre, Nedlands, Australia

Thomas M. Menees
Department of Cell Biology and Biophysics, School of Biological Sciences, University of Missouri, Kansas City, Kansas City, Missouri, USA

Daniel Metzger
Institut de Génétique et de Biologie Moléculaire et Cellulaire de Strasbourg, Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Université Louis Pasteur, Illkirch cedex, France

Anna Michalska
Centre for Reproduction and Development, Monash Institute of Medical Research, Monash University & the Australian Stem Cell Centre, Australia

Francesco Michelangeli
School of Biosciences, University of Birmingham, Edgbaston, Birmingham, United Kingdom

Anna Mikuła
Botanical Garden - Center for Biological Diversity Conservation, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, Poland

Kunitoshi Mitsumori
Laboratory of Veterinary Pathology, Faculty of Agriculture, Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology, Tokyo, Japan

Junichiro Mizuguchi
Department of Immunology and Intractable Disease Research Center, Tokyo Medical University, Tokyo, Japan

Palmiero Monteleone
Department of Psychiatry, University of Naples SUN, Largo Madonna delle Grazie, Naples, Italy

Philip G. Morgan
Department of Anesthesiology, Genetics and Pharmacology, Case Western Reseive University, University Hospitals of Cleveland and Case School of Medicine, Cleveland, USA

Ryuichi Morishita
Division of Clinical Gene Therapy, Graduate School of Medicine, Osaka University, Suita, Osaka, Japan

Reza Mozafari
Riddet Centre, Massey University, Palmerston North, New Zealand

Bernd Mueller-Roeber
Max-Planck Institute of Molecular Plant Physiology, Cooperative Research Group, Potsdam, Germany

Egbert Mundt
Institute of Molecular Biology, Federal Research Centre for Viral Diseases of Animals, Greifswald-Insel Riems, Germany

Yoshinori Murakami
Tumor Suppression & Functional Genomics Project, National Cancer Center Research Institute, Tokyo, Japan

Grazyna Muszynska
Plant Biochemistry Department, Institute of Biochemistry and Biophysics, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warszawa, Poland

Angel Nadal
Institute of Bioengineering, Miguel Hernández University, Sant Joan d’Alacant, Alicante, Spain

Noboru Nakaigawa
Department of Urology, Yokohama City University Graduate School of Medicine, Yokohama, Japan

Werner M. Nau
Contribution from the Departement Chemie, Universität Basel, Basel, Switzerland

Wilfred Ndifon
Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Princeton University, Princeton, USA

Peter Neth
Department of Surgery, Division of Clinical Chemistry and Clinical Biochemistry, Ludwig-Maximilians-University, Munich, Germany

Luis E. S. Netto
Departamento de Biologia, Instituto de Biociências, Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil

Pavel Neumann
University of Wisconsin, Department of Horticulture, Madison, USA

Paul Ney
Department of Biochemistry, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, Memphis, Tennessee, USA

Verena Niggli
Department of Pathology, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland

Andreas Nitsche
Robert Koch-Institut, Zentrum für Biologische Sicherheit 1, Berlin, Germany

Cristián O'Flaherty
Urology Research Laboratory, Royal Victoria Hospital, and Faculty of Medicine, McGill University, Montréal, Canada

Niels Oksbjerg
Danish Institute of Agricultural Sciences, Research Centre Foulum, Tjele, Denmark

Enzo Ottaviani
Department of Animal Biology, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Modena, Italy 

Betty S. Pace
Department of Molecular and Cell Biology The University of Texas at Dallas, USA

E. Tapio Palva
Genetics, Department of Biological and Environmental Sciences, University of Helsinki, Viikki Biocenter, Finland

Alan Parker
BHF Glasgow Cardiovascular Research Centre, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, United Kingdom

Bryce M. Paschal
Center for Cell Signaling, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, USA

Stephen Pearce
Department of Life-Sciences, University of Sussex, United Kingdom

Luc J. Peelman
Department of Animal Nutrition, Genetics, Breeding and Ethology, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Ghent University, Merelbeke, Belgium

Frédérique Pelsy
Laboratoire de Génétique et d'Amélioration de la Vigne, Colmar, France

Michel J. Penninckx
Laboratoire de Physiologie et Ecologie Microbienne, Université Libre de Bruxelles, c/o Institut Pasteur, Brussels, Belgium

Andy Pereira
Plant Research International, Wageningen UR, Wageningen, The Netherlands

Alan S. Perelson
MS-K710, Theoretical Biology and Biophysics Group, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, USA

Jesús Pérez-Gil
Dept. Bioquímica y Biología Molecular I, Facultad de Biología, Universidad Complutense, Madrid, Spain

Klaus Pillen
Department of Crop Science & Plant Breeding, University of Bonn, Bonn, Germany

Stuart M Pitson
Hanson Institute, Division of Human Immunology, Institute of Medical and Veterinary Science, Adelaide, Australia

Andreas Plaitakis
Department of Neurology, University of Crete, School of Health Sciences, Section of Medicine, Heraklion, Crete, Greece

Paola Poli
Istituto di Genetica, Università di Parma, Parma, Italy

Patricia Pranke
Faculdade de Farmácia, 2 Departamento de Genética, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, Brasil

Stanislaw Przestalski
Department of Physics and Biophysics, Wrocław University of Environmental and Life Sciences, Wrocław, Poland

Stephen J. Publicover
School of Biosciences, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom

Aleksandar Radonić
Charité – CCM, Medizinische Klinik II m.S. Hämatologie/Onkologie, Berlin, Germany

Monika Rakoczy-Trojanowska
Department of Plant Genetics, Breeding & Biotechnology, Warsaw Agricultural University, Warszawa, Poland

P. V. Lakshmana Rao
Division of Pharmacology and Toxicology, Defence Research and Development Establishment, Gwalior, India

Madelaine Ravaoarinoro
Department of Microbiology and Infectiology, Montreal, Quebec, Canada

Anneliese D. Recklies
Shriners Hospital for Children, Montreal, Quebec, Canada

Gérard Redeuilh
Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale, Saint-Antoine, Paris cedex, France

Meir Redlich
Department of Orthodontics, Hadassah Faculty of Dental Medicine, Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel

Russel J. Reiter
Department of Cellular and Structure Bioology, University of Texas Health Science Center, San Antonio, USA

Colin Robinson
Division of Oral Biology, Leeds Dental Institute, Clarendon Way, Leeds, United Kingdom

Tadeusz Rorat
Institute of Plant Genetics, PAS, Poznań, Poland

Andrew F. Russo
Department of Physiology and Biophysics, University of Iowa, Iowa City, USA

Jean-Marie Ruysschaert
Center of Structural Biology and Bioinformatics, Laboratory of Structure and Function of Biological Membranes Universite Libre de Bruxelles, Brussels, Belgium

Ryszard Rzepecki
Faculty of Biotechnology, University of Wrocław, Wrocław, Poland

Francois Sabot
MTT/BI Plant Genomics Laboratory, Institute of Biotechnology, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland

Daniel R. Salomon
Department of Molecular and Experimental Medicine, The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, California, USA

Gajja S. Salomons
VU University Medical Center, Department Clinical Chemistry, Metabolic Unit, Polikliniek rec. K (1 PK X009), Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Diego San Mauro
Departamento de Biodiversidad y Biología Evolutiva, Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales, CSIC, Madrid, Spain

Carmen Sánchez-Torres
Department of Molecular Biomedicine, Centro de Investigación y de Estudios Avanzados-IPN, Mexico City, Mexico

Silvia Sartoris
Dipartimento di Patologia, Sezione di Immunologia, Università di Verona, c/o Policlinico G.B. Rossi, Verona, Italy

Harald Schempp
Institute of Phytopathology, Laboratory of Applied Biochemistry, Life and Food Science Center, Technical University of Munich, Germany

Oliver Schnorr
Institute for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology I, Heinrich-Heine-University Duesseldorf, Duesseldorf, Germany

Nina Felice Schor
Division of Child Neurology, The Pediatric Center for Neuroscience, Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, USA

Brian Dall Schyth
Danish Institute for Food and Veterinary Research, Århus N, Denmark

Edda Sciutto
Instituto de Investigaciones Biomédicas, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, México, Mexico

Evan Secor
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Division of Parasitic Diseases, Atlanta, USA

Rony Seger
Department of Biological Regulation, The Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel

Takeshi Sekiguchi
Department of Molecular Biology, Graduate School of Medical Science, Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan

Viktor Seledtsov
Center for Immunotherapy and Cell Technologies, Kaliningrad, Russia

Mariano Senti
Unitat de Lípids i Epidemiologia Cardiovascular, Institut Municipal d'Investigació Mèdica, IMIM, Barcelona, Spain

Piero Sestili
Istituto di Farmacologia e Farmacognosia e Centro di Ricerca sull'Attività Motoria, Univ. degli Studi di Urbino "Carlo Bo", Urbino, Italy

Patrick M. Sexton
Department of Pharmacology, Monash University, Clayton, Victoria, Australia

Lowell G. Sheflin
Medical Research Service, VA WNYHS, Buffalo, USA

Yiqun Shellman
Department of Dermatology, UCDHSC at Fitzsimons, Aurora, USA

Shyh-Jen Shih
Department of Radiation Oncology, UC Davis Cancer Center, Sacramento, USA

Goshi Shiota
Division of Molecular and Genetic Medicine, Department of Genetic Medicine and Regenerative Therapeutics, Graduate School of Medicine, Tottori University, Japan

Suneet Shukla
Laboratory of Cell Biology, National Cancer Institute, NIH, Bethesda, USA

Michael R. Shurin
Department of Pathology, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Pittsburgh, USA

Afzal Siddiqui
Department of Internal Medicine, Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center, USA

Paola Silingardi
Excellence Environmental Carcinogenesis, Environmental Protection and Health Prevention Agency, Emilia Romagna Region - Bologna , Italy

Deborah J. Simpson
Cardiff School of Biosciences, Main Building, Cardiff University, Cardiff, United Kingdom

Kirsten Skarstad
Department of Cell Biology, Institute for Cancer Research, Montebello, Oslo, Norway

Jeske Smink
Max Delbrueck Center for Molecular Medicine, Berlin, Germany

Petr Smykal
AGRITEC Plant Research Ltd., Plant Biotechnology Department, Sumperk, Czech Republic

Koji Sode
Department of Biotechnology, Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology, Koganei, Tokyo, Japan

Jae-Won Soh
Herbert Irving Comprehensive Cancer Center, College of Physicians & Surgeons, Columbia University, New York, USA

Liang-Nian Song
Department of Oncology, Lombardi Cancer Center, Georgetown University School of Medicine, Washington, USA

Angelo Spena
Dipartimento Scientifico Tecnologico, University of Verona, Verona, Italy

Sarah Spiegel
Department of Biochemistry, Medical College of Virginia Campus, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, USA

Earl R. Stadtman
Laboratory of Biochemistry, National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute, Bethesda, Maryland USA

Norma Staiano
Dipartimento di Strutture, Funzioni e Tecnologie Biologiche, Università di Napoli Federico II, Naples, Italy

Johannes Stöckl,
Institute of Immunology, University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria

Miroslav Strnad
Laboratory of Growth Regulators Palacky University & Institute of Experimental Botany ASCR, Olomouc, Czech Republic

Takahisa Sugita
Discovery Research Laboratory, Tanabe Seiyaku Co., Osaka, Japan

Miklós Szekeres
Institute of Plant Biology, Biological Research Center of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Szeged, Hungary

Adam Szewczyk
Laboratory of Intracellular Ion Channels, Nencki Institute of Experimental Biology, Warsaw, Poland

Paul Tacken
Department of Tumor Immunology, Nijmegen Center for Molecular Life Sciences, University Medical Center Nijmegen, Nijmegen, The Netherlands

Franck Talmont
Institut de Pharmacologie et de Biologie Structurale, Toulouse Cedex, France

Zahra Tanfin
Equipe Endotoxines, Institut de Biochimie et Biophysique Moléculaire et Cellulaire, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Université Paris-Sud, Orsay, France

Eric Taylor
Joslin Diabetes Center, Metabolism Section, Boston, USA

Andrzej Teisseyre
Department of Biophysics, Wrocław Medical University, Wrocław, Poland

Adam Telerman
Molecular Engines Laboratories, Paris and Institut Curie, INSERM U365, CNRS UMR144, Paris, France

Josef Thalhamer
Immunology Group, Institute of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Salzburg, Salzburg, Austria

Emma Tham
Department of Molecular Medicine, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden

Edwin C. Thrower
Veterans Administration Medical Center, West Haven, USA

Sorin Tiplica
I Clinic of Dermatology, University of Medicine 'Carol Davila', Bucharest, Romania

Raquel Tobes
Bioinformatics Unit, Era7 Information Technologies SL, BIC Granada CEEI, Parque Tecnológico de Ciencias de la Salud – Armilla Granada, Spain

Marek Treiman
Department of Medical Physiology, Panum Inst., Copenhagen N, Denmark

Irina Tsaneva
Institute of Molecular Biology, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Sofia, Bulgaria

Kazuhisa Tsukamoto
Department of Metabolic Diseases, Graduate School of Medicine, University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan

Tsuyoshi Tsuzuki
Department of Food Management, School of Food, Agricultural and Environment Sciences, Miyagi University, Taihaku, Sendai, Japan

David L. Turner
University of Michigan, C560 MSRB II, Ann Arbor, USA

Maciej Ugorski
Department of Immunochemistry, Ludwik Hirszfeld Institute of Immunology and Experimental Therapy, Polish Academy of Sciences, Wrocław, Poland

Nancy Uhrhammer
Département d’Oncogénétique, Centre Jean Perrin, INSERM UMR 484-UdA, Centre Biomédical de Recherche et Valorisation, Clermont-Ferrand, France

Cord C Uphoff
Department of Human and Animal Cell Cultures, DSMZ-German Collection of Microorganisms & Cell Cultures, Braunschweig, Germany

Ewa Urbańczyk-Wochniak
The Samuel Roberts Noble Foundation, Ardmore, USA

Janet van Adelsberg
Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, Department of Medicine, New York, USA

Theo van den Bos
Department of Periodontology, Academic Center for Dentistry Amsterdam, Universiteit van Amsterdam and Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

André B.P. van Kuilenburg
Academic Medical Center, Laboratory Genetic Metabolic Diseases, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Sören Vang
Research Unit for Molecular Medicine, Aarhus University Hospital, Skejby Sygehus, Brendstrupgaardsvej, Ĺrhus N, Denmark

Susana Vázquez
‘Pedro Kourí’ Institute (IPK), PAHO/WHO Collaborating Center for Viral Diseases, Havana, Cuba

Encarna Velázquez
Departamento de Microbiología y Genética, Edificio Departamental, Universidad de Salamanca, Salamanca, Spain

Frederik Vilhardt
Structural Cell Biology Unit, Department of Medical Anatomy, Copenhagen University, The Panum, Denmark

Isabella Villa
Bone Metabolic Unit, Scientific Institute H San Raffaele, Milano, Italy

Libor Vitek
4th Department of Internal Medicine and Institute of Clinical Biochemistry and Laboratory Diagnostics, 1st Medical Faculty, Charles University of Prague, Prague, Czech Republic

Michael Volkert
Department of Molecular Genetics and Microbiology, University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, USA

Mariateresa Volpicella
Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Bari, Bari, Italy

Mogens Vyberg
Institute of Pathology, Aalborg University Hospital, Aalborg, Denmark

Takehiko Wada
Department of Nephrology and Endocrinology, University of Tokyo Hospital, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo, Japan

Yoayu E. Wang
Departments of Bioinformatics, Boston University, Boston, USA

Marylin Warburton
International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT), Mexico, Mexico

Peter Wardman
Gray Cancer Institute, Mount Vernon Hospital, Northwood, United Kingdom

Claudia Wiegand
Leibniz-Institute of Freshwater Ecology and Inland Fisheries, Berlin, Germany

Ivo Wiesner
The Institute of Plant Molecular Biology, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Ceské Budjovice, Czech Republic

Elaine Willmore
Northern Institute for Cancer Research, Medical School, University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, United Kingdom

Carolyn A. Wilson
Division of Cellular, Tissue and Gene Therapies, Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research, Food and Drug Administration, Rockville Pike, Bethesda, USA

Patricia D. Wilson
Department of Medicine/Division of Nephrology, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, USA

Michael E. Wisniewski
Appalachian Fruit Research Station, USDA-ARS, Kearneysville, USA

Tak Ming Wong
Department of Physiology, Faculty of Medicine, The Univ. of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, P.R. China

Melody L. Woods
R&D Systems, Inc., Minneapolis, USA

Anna Wróbel
Wrocław University of Technology, Institute of Physics, Wybrzeże Wyspiańskiego 27, 50-370 Wrocław, Poland

Tohru Yamada
Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Illinois, Chicago, USA

Michiyuki Yamada
Yokohama City University, Kanazawa-ku, Yokohama, Japan

Seiji Yamasaki
Faculty of Education, Fukuoka University of Education, Akamabunkyomachi, Munakata, Fukuoka, Japan

Toshihide Yamashita
Department of Neurobiology, Graduate School of Medicine, Chiba University, Chuo-ku, Chiba, Japan

Hong-Wei Yao
Zhejiang Respiratory Drugs Research Laboratory of State Food Drugs Administration of China, School of Medicine, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, P.R. China

Keqiang Ye
Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, School of Medicine, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia, USA

William S.B. Yeung
Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, The University of Hong Kong, Queen Mary Hospital, Hong Kong, P.R. China

Kazuya Yoshida
Graduate School of Biological Sciences, Nara Institute of Science and Technology, Ikoma-shi, Nara, Japan

Gul Zaman
Department of Veterinary Basic Sciences, The Royal Veterinary College, London, United Kingdom

Robert Żarnowski
Department of Medical Microbiology & Immunology, UW School of Medicine and Public Health, University of Wisconsin – Madison, 416 Service Memorial Institutes, Madison, USA

Ulrich Zechner
Institute of Human Genetics, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, Germany

Guang-Xian Zhang
Department of Neurology, Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, USA

Jun-Wu Zhang
National Laboratory of Medical Molecular Biology, Institute of Basic Medical Sciences, The Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences, Beijing, P.R. China

Ming Zhang
Baylor College of Medicine, Department of Molecular & Cellular Biology, Houston, USA

Yuan-Shan Zhu
Department of Medicine/Endocrinology, Weill Medical College of Cornell University, New York, USA

Thomas R. Ziegler
Department of Medicine, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, USA