Open access journal Mobile DNA has announced the appointment of Dr Henry Levin and Dr Cedric Feschotte as co-Editors-in-Chief, working alongside Nancy Craig (Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, USA) and Thomas Eickbush (University of Rochester, USA).
Prof Daniel Voytas (University of Minnesota, USA) has stepped down as co-Editor-in-Chief of Mobile DNA. He will now serve as an Editorial Board member for the journal.
Dr Levin heads the Section on Eukaryotic Transposable Elements in the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, NIH, USA, which analyses LTR retrotransposons as a model for the replication of retroviruses. Over the past 18 years Levin's studies of LTR retrotransposons in fission yeast identified mechanistic details of particle formation, reverse transcription, and integration.
Dr Feschotte is an Associate Professor of Human Genetics at the University of Utah, USA. His lab focuses on mechanisms of transposition, the biological significance of endogenous viruses and host - virus evolution, and the contribution of mobile DNA to the advent of new biological functions and regulatory evolution.
Mobile DNA publishes articles providing novel insights into DNA rearrangements in all organisms, ranging from transposition and other types of recombination mechanisms to patterns and processes of mobile element and host genome evolution.
