Caroline Shamu, Editor-in-chief

Caroline Shamu is the Editor-in-chief of Bio-protocol. She oversees the journal's editorial policies and direction, ensuring that the content aligns with the journal's aims and scope.

Dr. Shamu currently holds a position as an assistant professor of radiology at Harvard Medical School (HMS), with appointments at both Massachusetts General Hospital and the Department of Biological Chemistry and Molecular Pharmacology. In addition, she is the associate dean for research cores and technology at HMS and serves as the faculty director at the ICCB-Longwood Screening Facility.

As a cell biologist with extensive training, Dr. Shamu has earned an international reputation in the fields of assay development and high-throughput screening technology. Her work at the ICCB-Longwood Screening Facility, which she helped establish and manage, spans both small molecule and RNAi screening. This facility has been a core participant in multiple NIH program/center grants, receiving funding from bodies such as NIAID, NCI, and the NIH Director's Office.

Dr. Shamu's research interests extend to the development of data standards and repositories for large-scale datasets derived from high-throughput assays. As a co-investigator on the NIH-funded LINCS program, she has been instrumental in developing metadata standards and public repositories in the emerging field of systems pharmacology. Her research efforts are primarily focused on data standards, advocating for the use of public data repositories to document experimental reagents and protocols as well as sharing datasets. Additionally, she contributes as an editorial board member for Scientific Data.

Marisa Rosa, Managing Editor

Marisa Rosa is the Managing Editor of Bio-protocol, managing both editorial and peer-review board teams.

Dr. Rosa has been a part of the Bio-protocol community since 2013, initially as an author, then as a reviewer, associate editor, and editorial and social media consultant. She assumed the role of Managing Editor in June 2021.

Dr. Rosa studied Agronomy at the University of Lisbon and then pursued a Ph.D. in Molecular Biology from the University of Vienna. During her Ph.D., she worked with Ortrun Mittlesten Schied at the Gregor Mendel Institute, investigating DNA repair and chromatin remodeling pathways in Arabidopsis. Following her Ph.D., she relocated to the Bay Area to work as a postdoc in the lab of Sarah Hake at the Plant Gene Expression Center/UC Berkeley, studying maize developmental genes.

Rae Tian, Executive Editor

Rae Tian is the Executive Editor of Bio-protocol. She supervises and executes the journal's submission, review, and publishing processes.

Before joining Bio-protocol, she served as an Assistant Editor at the International Journal of Smart and Nano Materials (Taylor & Francis) within the Editorial Department of the Journal of Harbin Institute of Technology. Prior to this, Rae was a Section Managing Editor for the journal Cancers and a Managing Editor for the journal Hearts, both at MDPI AG. Rae holds a Master's degree in Biomedical Engineering and a Bachelor's degree in Biotechnology, both from the Harbin Institute of Technology.

Vivian Siegel, Advisory Board Chair

Vivian Siegel serves as the advisory board chair at Bio-protocol. In this role, she provides valuable guidance to the editorial team on best practices and strategies for outreach and collaboration with other organizations.

Dr. Siegel joined the Bio-protocol team as an editorial advisor in 2016. She holds academic positions as a lecturer at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and as a research professor at Vanderbilt University Medical Center. She has accumulated decades of experience in scientific publishing. She joined the staff of Cell as senior editor in 1994 and succeeded Benjamin Lewin as editor-in-chief in 1999. While at Cell Press, she helped launch Molecular Cell, Developmental Cell, and Cancer Cell and served as the Editor-in-chief of Cell, Molecular Cell, and Developmental Cell (all at the same time). She left Cell Press in 2003 to lead the Public Library of Science (PLoS) as its founding Executive Director and one of the launch editors of PLoS Biology. In addition, she was involved in the launch of many other leading scientific journals including PLoS Medicine, the PLoS community journals, and Disease Models & Mechanisms. She has also taught in the Editors' Course held prior to the Council of Science Editors annual meeting.

Fanglian He, Publisher

Fanglian He is the publisher of Bio-protocol, overseeing its business, production, and strategic direction.

She initiated Bio-protocol with postdoc fellows at Stanford University in 2011. As a postdoctoral researcher at Stanford in 2010, she encountered difficulties in replicating methods from published articles. This challenge, shared by her colleagues, inspired her to create a platform for scientists to share detailed step-by-step protocols, whether basic or advanced, and to help each other make reproducing experiments an easy task. The concept received substantial support from the Stanford research community. After completing her postdoc in Wolf Frommer's laboratory at the Carnegie Institute for Science at Stanford, Dr. He dedicated herself full time to Bio-protocol in 2013, taking on the roles of publisher and Executive Editor. Her transition to Bio-protocol marked a significant shift from academic research to scientific publishing, driven by her commitment to improve the accessibility and reliability of experimental methods in the scientific community. Dr. He earned her doctorate in Biology in 2009 from the University of Pennsylvania, where she worked under Andrew Binns, focusing on Agrobacterium tumefaciens.