The American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology has announced that Ileana Cristea, professor of molecular biology and director of graduate studies at Princeton University, will be the next editor-in-chief of Molecular & Cellular Proteomics, one of the society’s three open-access, peer-reviewed journals. Cristea’s five-year term will begin Aug. 12.
Cristea has a long relationship with the journal. She has been a member of the editorial board since 2011, and she served as the editor for the MCP special issue, “Proteomics in Infectious Disease” in 2017.
Her research lies at the intersection of virology and proteomics. Cristea’s lab uses molecular virology, microscopy, mass spectrometry–based proteomics and bioinformatics to study the battle between virus and host cell during infection. She has developed proteomics-based approaches for characterizing, with spatial and temporal resolution, cellular processes that occur during viral infection.
Cristea has published many manuscripts, more than 20 of which appeared in MCP, including work on how DNA sensors distinguish between host and viral DNA to induce immune signaling during viral infection.
Cristea succeeds Alma Burlingame, MCP’s founding deputy editor and its second editor-in-chief. Burlingame is a professor of chemistry and pharmaceutical chemistry at the University of California, San Francisco, and was named an ASBMB fellow in 2022. He will end his term after more than two decades of service to MCP.
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