Editorial Team

Chief Editor: Veronique van den Berghe

Veronique received her PhD in Biomedical Sciences at KU Leuven in Belgium where she investigated the development and migration of cortical interneurons in the mouse embryo. She went on to do a postdoc at the Instituto de Neurociencias in Spain and at King’s College London looking at the integration of these neurons in the postnatal brain. She first joined Genome Biology as a locum editor in 2018. Since then, she has worked at Nature Biotechnology, Scientific Data, and Communications Biology, before returning to take up the Chief Editor role in 2022. She is based in the London office.

Senior Editor: Tim Sands

Tim joined Genome Biology in 2016 after several years working as the editor for several titles in the BMC series journals. He received his PhD in evolutionary biology from the University of Edinburgh, studying hybrid zones. Tim handles manuscripts on evolutionary genomics and systems biology. He is based in the London office.

Senior Editor: Wenjing She

Wenjing joined Genome Biology in 2020 as an Associate Editor. She completed her PhD at the Department of Plant and Microbial Biology at the University of Zurich, where she studied chromatin reprogramming during the reproductive cell fate transition in plants. She continued postdoctoral research in the fields of temperature sensing, apomixis and epigenetic regulation during sexual reproduction at the University of Cambridge, the University of Zurich, and the John Innes Centre. She is based in the Shanghai office.

Associate Editor: Claudia Feng

Claudia received her PhD in biological sciences from the Wellcome Sanger Institute in Cambridge, UK, where she worked on the generation and analysis of large-scale CRISPR-based screens with single-cell transcriptional read-out. She joined Genome Biology in 2024 and is based in the New York office.

Associate Editor: Alison Monroe

Alison completed her PhD at King Abdullah University of Science and Technology in Saudi Arabia, studying transcriptomic and proteomic responses to future climate change scenarios in fish. She then moved to Texas A&M University – Corpus Christi as a postdoc researching various genomic methods to incorporate into fisheries and aquaculture monitoring. Alison joined Genome Biology in 2025 in the Philadelphia office and is also an editor at BMC Marine Biology. 

Associate Editor: Zhenrun (Jerry) Zhang

Jerry received his PhD at the Rockefeller University in New York, where he studied host-pathogen interactions using chemical proteomics and chemical biology tools. He continued his postdoctoral research at the University of Chicago on human gut microbiome, metagenomics, antimicrobial resistance, and microbial functional genomics. He joined Genome Biology as an Associate Editor in 2025 and is based in the Philadelphia office.