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Leveraging mitochondria to understand health and disease

Guest Editors:
Na Cai, PhD, ETH Zürich, Switzerland
Min-Xin Guan, PhD, Zhejiang University, China
Caleb Lareau, PhD, Sloan Kettering Institute, USA
Leif S. Ludwig, PhD, Berlin Institute of Health at Charité & Max-Delbrück-Center for Molecular Medicine, Germany

Submission Status: Open until 29 June 2026

Biology of drug resistance and tolerance in bacteria, viruses, fungi

Guest Editors
Francesc Coll, PhD, Institute of Biomedicine of Valencia, Spanish National Research Council (IBV-CSIC), Spain
Margo Diricks, PhD, Research Center Borstel, Leibniz Lung Center, Germany
Koji Yahara, PhD, National Institute of Infectious Diseases, Japan Institute for Health Security, Japan

Submission Status: Open until 29 May 2026

Improving the gene editing toolbox

Guest Editors:
Benjamin Kleinstiver, PhD, Massachusetts General Hospital & Harvard Medical School, USA
Luca Pinello, PhD, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Broad Institute, USA
Lan-Qin Xia, PhD, Institute of Crop Sciences, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, China
Hao Yin, PhD, Wuhan University, China
Yong Zhang, PhD, Southwest University, China

Submission Status: Open until 23 March 2026

Alternative splicing in human variation and disease

Guest Editors
Polly Leilei Chen, PhD, MD, National University of Singapore, Singapore
Will Fairbrother, PhD, Brown University, USA
Yi Xing, PhD, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, USA

Submission Status: Open until 20 March 2026

Benchmarks v2.0

Guest Editors:
Serghei Mangul, PhD, University of Southern California, USA
Mark Robinson, PhD, University of Zurich, Switzerland
Fritz Joachim Sedlazeck, PhD, Baylor College of Medicine, USA
Hong-Bin Shen, PhD, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China
Jean Yee Hwa Yang, PhD, The University of Sydney, Australia
Xin Maizie Zhou, PhD, Vanderbilt University, USA

Submission Status: Open until 28 January 2026

Genomics and pangenomics for understanding crop domestication

Guest Editors:
Zhangjun Fei, PhD, Cornell University, USA
Martin Mascher, PhD, Leibniz Institute of Plant Genetics and Crop Plant Research (IPK), Germany
Zhixi Tian, PhD, Yazhouwan National Laboratory, China

Submission Status: Open until 28 December 2025

Advances and application of methods in RNome sequencing

Guest Editors:
Kin Fai Au, PhD, University of Michigan, USA
Chuan He, PhD, University of Chicago, USA
Mark Helm, PhD, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, Germany
Mingyao Li, PhD, University of Pennsylvania, USA

Submission Status: Open until 12 December 2025

Advances in proteomics and metabolomics

Guest Editors:
Leonard James Foster, PhD, University of British Columbia, Canada
Yasset Perez-Riverol, PhD, European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI), UK
Fengchao Yu, PhD, University of Michigan, USA

Submission Status: Open until 6 December 2025

Regulatory elements in plants

Guest Editors:
Pil Joon Seo, PhD, Seoul National University, South Korea
Klaas Vandepoele, PhD, Ghent University, Belgium

Submission Status: Open until 29 November 2025

Application of large language models in genome analysis

Guest Editors:
Ramana Davuluri, PhD, State University of New York at Stony Brook, USA
Casey S. Greene, PhD, University of Colorado School of Medicine, USA
Qin Ma, PhD, College of Medicine and The James Comprehensive Cancer Center, The Ohio State University, USA
Jiangning Song, PhD, Monash Biomedicine Discovery Institute, Monash University, Australia

Submission Status: Open until 28 November 2025

Genomic perspectives of aging

Guest Editors:
Xiao Dong, PhD, University of Minnesota, USA
Weiqi Zhang, PhD, China National Center for Bioinformation, China

Submission Status: Open until 26 November 2025

Microbiome and cancer

Guest Editors:
Filipa Godoy-Vitorino, PhD, University of Puerto Rico, USA
Christian Jobin, PhD, University of Florida, USA
Dan Spakowicz, PhD, Ohio State University, USA

Submission Status: Open until 23 October 2025

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2025

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Advances of single-cell and spatial-omics in plants
Guest Editors:
Matias Kirst, PhD, University of Florida, USA
Jixian Zhai, PhD, Southern University of Science and Technology, China

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Non-human primates population genetics
Guest Editor:
Jeffrey Rogers, PhD, Baylor College of Medicine, USA

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Biological relevance of non-canonical DNA structure
Guest Editors:
Marco Di Antonio, PhD, Imperial College London, UK
Ilias Georgakopoulos-Soares, BSc, MEeng, PhD, Pennsylvania State University, USA
Natalia Gromak, PhD, University of Oxford, UK
Karen M Vasquez, PhD, Dell Pediatric Research Institute, The University of Texas at Austin, USA

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Epistasis
Guest Editors:
Shefali Setia-Verma, PhD, University of Pennsylvania, USA
Jianbing Yan, PhD, Huazhong Agricultural University, China

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Genome editing and cancer
Guest Editors:
Emanuel Gonçalves, PhD, Instituto Superior Técnico (IST), Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal
Xueqiu Lin, PhD, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center, USA

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Centromere structure and evolution
Guest Editors:
Fangpu Han, PhD, Institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
Michael Lampson, PhD, Department of Biology, University of Pennsylvania, USA
Barbara Mellone, PhD, Department of Molecular and Cell Biology, University of Connecticut, USA

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Plant-microbe interactions
Guest Editors:
Davide Bulgarelli, PhD, School of Life Sciences, University of Dundee, UK
Sophie de Vries, PhD, Institute of Microbiology and Genetics, University of Göttingen, Germany

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Transposable elements in genome evolution
Guest Editors:
Robert Kofler, PhD, Institut für Populationsgenetik, Vetmeduni Vienna, Austria
Miriam K. Konkel, MD, Center for Human Genetics, Clemson University, USA
Leandro Quadrana, PhD, CNRS, University of Paris-Saclay, France
Jürgen Schmitz, PD PhD, Institute of Experimental Pathology, University of Münster, Germany

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Genomics for crop improvement
Guest Editors:
Eduard Akhunov, PhD, Department of Plant Pathology, Kansas State University, USA
David Edwards, PhD, University of Western Australia, Australia

2024

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Insights from trans-ancestral association study
Guest Editors:
Nora Franceschini, MD, MPH, University of North Carolina, USA
Paul de Vries, PhD, University of Texas, USA

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Subcellular compartmentalization
Guest Editors:
Christine D. Keating, PhD, Penn State University, United States
Gian Gaetano Tartaglia, PhD, Italian Institute of Technology, Italy

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Chromatin and epigenomic modifications in development and disease
Guest Editors:
Tatiana Kutateladze, PhD, University of Colorado, USA
Guohong Li, PhD, Wuhan University, China

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Ancient DNA
Guest Editors:
Laura S Weyrich, PhD, Pennsylvania State University, USA
Bastien Llamas, PhD, University of Adelaide, Australia

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Advances in spatial transcriptomics for understanding development and disease
Guest Editors:
Stefania Giacomello, PhD, SciLifeLab & KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden
Johanna Klughammer, PhD, Gene Center of the Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich, Germany
Xiang Zhou, PhD, University of Michigan, USA