Bioelectricity
All living things, animals and plants, even single-cell organisms, depend on their intrinsic electrical properties to function and to survive. The field of bioelectricity was borne from work on so-called ‘excitable cells’ (nerves and muscles) and it is now accepted that every biological cell has electrical properties which are essential for their normal functioning and homeostatic balance. Consequently, abnormalities in cellular bioelectricity are disruptive and can lead to serious disease. Furthermore, living things respond to external electric fields and a huge range of applications can exploit the body’s electricity in medicine, biomedicine and in industry including those related to food and environment. Large magnitude external electric fields can be applied to manipulate proteins and/or membrane structures in living cells (e.g. membrane electroporation/electropermeabilization, electrotransfer or pulse electric fields). These fields may profoundly modify the cell physiology and can be utilized for multiple applications affecting microbial, animal and plant cells.
Bioelectricity is an exciting and dynamic focal point for the growing bioelectricity community and serves as the go-to resource driving the field forward. The journal publishes the highest quality research papers across the multiplicity of subject areas encompassed by bioelectricity through original research articles, reviews, perspectives, technical notes and several extra features. The latter include the Bioelectricity Buzz, which reports on recent activities in the field, and My Experiments in Bioelectricity. The latter are written by senior scientists by invitation and highlight some of their key conceptual experiments mixed with anecdotes (the kinds of stories, experiences and those 'eureka' moments that would not be known in the field generally).
We welcome original research papers on any aspect of bioelectricity in life sciences, biomedicine, biotechnology, and bioengineering, including original research in any organism - translational, clinical, and applied. Areas of interest include (but are not limited to) the following:
Bioelectric Mechanisms:
Cellular signaling, electrophysiology
Ion channels, exchangers, pumps, and macromolecular complexes
Channelopathies (including cancer)
Bioelectric fields
Development
Immunity
Microbiology
Plants
Regeneration
Senescence
Practical Applications:
Bioengineering
Bioelectronics
Biosensors
Medical, biomedical devices
Electropharmaceuticals, electroceuticals
Nanotechnology
Regenerative medicine
Synthetic biology
Tissue engineering
Transplantation
Optogenetics
Imaging
Microbial fuel cells
Simulation software and mathematical models
Electroporation/electropermeabilization/electrotransfer in biology and medicine
Electroporation/electropermeabilization/Pulsed Electric Fields in plants, food industry and environment-related industries
We appreciate that authors wish their papers to be evaluated as soon as possible. Bioelectricity has maintained an average time to first decision of three weeks, thanks to our reviewers and editors.
The journal is published quarterly, and every other issue is ‘special’ dedicated to a single theme. Please contact the editors with your ideas if you wish to guest-edit a special issue.
Bioelectricity is led by Co-Editors-in-Chief Mustafa B A Djamgoz, PhD and Michael Levin, PhD.
| Dany Spencer Adams, PhD | Lucell Diagnostics Inc, Cambridge, MA, USA |
| Hidenori Akiyama, PhD | Fusion Techs Corporation, Suya, Japan |
| Annarosa Arcangeli, MD, PhD | University Of Florence, Firenze Fi, Italy |
| Munehiro Asally, PhD | University Of Warwick, Coventry, United Kingdom |
| Ambika Goel Bajpayee, BS, MS, PhD | Northeastern University, Boston, MA, USA |
| Emily Bates, PhD | University of Colorado Denver, Denver, CO, USA |
| Stephen J Beebe, PhD | Old Dominion University, Norfolk, VA, USA |
| Laura N Borodinsky, PhD | Shriners Hosp For Childrn Northern Cali, Sacramento, CA, USA |
| Frank Bosmans, PhD | Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium |
| Nadia Boussetta | Univ De Technologie De Compiegne, New Rochelle, NY, USA |
| William J Brackenbury, PhD | University Of York, Heslington, United Kingdom |
| Paul J Buchanan, PhD | Dublin City University, D9 Dublin, Iceland |
| Juan Carlos Gomora | Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico, Mexico City, Mexico |
| Silvia Chifflet, PhD, MD | Universidad de la Republica, Montevideo, Uruguay |
| Rafael V Davalos, PhD | Virginia Tech /Lake Forest University, Blacksburg, VA, USA |
| Utkan Demirci, PhD | Stanford University School of Medicine, Palo Alto, CA, USA |
| Mustafa B A Djamgoz, PhD | London, United Kingdom |
| Stuart E Dryer, PhD, FASN | Univ Of Houston, Houston, TX, USA |
| Jose F Ek-Vitorin, PhD | University Of Arizona, New Rochelle, NY, USA |
| Jennifer S Fang, PhD | University Of California Irvine, New Rochelle, NY, USA |
| Jose Feijo | University Of Maryland, New Rochelle, NY, USA |
| Junfeng Feng, PhD, MD | Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai Shi, China |
| Richard H Funk | Technische Universitat Dresden, Dresden, Germany |
| Muriel Golzio | Universite De Toulouse, New Rochelle, NY, USA |
| Richard Heller, PhD | University of South Florida, Tampa, FL, USA |
| Yuri Korchev, PhD | Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom |
| Richard Kramer, PhD | University Of California At Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, USA |
| Matej Kranjc, PhD | University of Ljubljana, Ljubljana, Slovenia |
| Michael Levin, PhD | Tufts University, Medford, MA, USA |
| Francis Lin, PhD | University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, MB, Canada |
| Polina V Lishko, PhD | University Of California Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, USA |
| James G Lyng, BAGRSC, PhD | University College Dublin, New Rochelle, NY, USA |
| Felipe H Maglietti, MD, PhD | Ins Univ Del Hosp Italiano Conicet, Buenos Aires, Argentina |
| Molly Maleckar, PhD | New Orleans, LA, USA |
| Yamila Garcia Martinez, PhD | Centro De Inmunologia Molecular, La Habana, Cuba |
| Alessio Masi, PhD | University Of Camerino, Camerino, Italy |
| Luis M Mir, DSC | Centre National De La Recherche, Villejuif, France |
| Ali Mobasheri, DPHIL | Nottinghamshire, United Kingdom |
| Rosalia Moreddu, PhD | University Of Southampton, Southampton, United Kingdom |
| Claudia Muratori, PhD | Old Dominion University, Norfolk, VA, USA |
| Richard Nuccitelli, PhD | Pulse Biosciences Inc., Hayward, CA, USA |
| Nestor Oviedo, PhD, DVM | University Of California Merced, Merced, CA, USA |
| Olga Pakhomova | Old Dominion University, Norfolk, VA, USA |
| Luis A Pardo, MD, PhD | Max Planck Institute Of Experimental Med, Gottingen, Germany |
| Giampiero Pataro, PhD | University Of Salerno, Fisciano, Italy |
| Arthur Prindle, PhD | Northwestern University, New Rochelle, NY, USA |
| Quan Qing, PhD | Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, USA |
| Ann Rajnicek, BS, PhD | University Of Aberdeen, Aberdeen, United Kingdom |
| Giovanni Sena, PhD | Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom |
| Emanuela Signori, MSC, PhD | National Research Council, Rome, Italy |
| Oona Snoeyenbos-West | Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, USA |
| Bing Song, PhD, MD | Cardiff University, Cardiff, United Kingdom |
| Christophe Vandier, PhD | University of Tours, Tours, France |
| Shu Xiao, PhD | Old Dominion University, Norfolk, VA, USA |
| Min Zhao, MD, PhD | Institute For Regenerative Cures, Sacramento, CA, USA |