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Reviewing Editor
Reviewing Editor
Robert J. Schmitz
Areas of expertise Epigenetics and epigenomics, DNA methylation, chromatin modification states and chromatin structure Bob Schmitz is an Associate Professor of Genetics, Lars G. Ljungdahl Distinguished Investigator, and Faculty Director of the Georgia Genomics & Bioinformatics Core at the University of Georgia. He received a B.Sc. from the University of Arizona and his Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin, where he worked with Rick Amasino. He completed post-doctoral work under the guidance of Joe Ecker at the Salk Institute before joining the faculty at the University of Georgia in 2013. His work is in the area of plant epigenomics and epigenetic inheritance. His research focuses on investigating the molecular basis and function of spontaneous epialleles and identifying cis-regulatory sequences important for phenotypic variation, using a combination of epigenomics and molecular genetic approaches. Editorial experience Editorial Board Member, Epigenomes, (2018 – ); Associate Editor, Current Protocols in Plant Biology, (2018 – ); Editorial Board Member, Journal of Integrative Plant Biology (2016-2019); Editorial Board Member, Developmental Dynamics (2015-2019); Advisory Editorial Board Member, Trends in Genetics, (2014 – ); Guest Editor, Plant Cell (July 2019- ). Honors and awards include NIH Pathway to Independence Award (2012-2016); 7th Annual Young Investigator Award – Genome Technology (2012), “40 under 40”, named by Cell as one of 40 accomplished young scientists shaping current and future trends in science under the age of 40 (2014); Pew Biomedical Scholar, Class of 2015 (2015-2019); Georgia Research Alliance, Lars G. Ljungdahl Distinguished Investigator (2017); Hans Fischer Fellow, Technical University of Munich (2018). |