Editorial overview: Cellular neuroscience

Erika Holzbaur is the William Maul Measey Professor of Physiology at the University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine. She received her BS with High Honors in Chemistry and History from the College of William and Mary, her PhD in Biochemistry from Penn State, and performed her postdoctoral work at the Worcester Foundation for Experimental Biology. The Holzbaur lab studies molecular motors including cytoplasmic dynein and kinesin, cytoskeletal dynamics, axonal transport, autophagy, and neurodegeneration. Dr. Holzbaur has received a Porter Fellowship, the NINDS Javits Award, and the Stanley N. Cohen Biomedical Research Award and the Jane M. Glick Graduate Student Teaching Award from Penn. She is a Lifetime Fellow of the ASCB and serves on multiple editorial boards, including Cell, the Journal of Cell Biology, and the Molecular Biology of the Cell.

Juan Burrone is a Professor of Developmental Neurophysiology at the Centre for Developmental Neurobiology and the MRC Centre for Neurodevelopmental Disorders, King’s College London. After a PhD at the MRC-LMB in Cambridge, he carried out his postdoctoral work at the Molecular and Cellular Biology department at Harvard University and then started his own lab at King’s College London. His research has broadly focused on the development, maturation and plasticity of neurons in the brain. His lab uses a multidisciplinary approach to understand how neurons modulate their inputs and outputs to control their overall levels of excitability.