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Editorial Board Member, Differentiation, International Society of Differentiation, Elsevier
Editorial Board Member, Frontiers in Cell and Developmental Biology, Frontiers
2019–Ongoing Journal peer reviewer
- eLife, eLife Sciences Publications Ltd., UK
- Nature Communications, Nature Publishing group
- Journal of Cachexia, Sarcopenia and Muscle, John Wiley & Sons
- FASEB Journal, Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology, John Wiley & Sons
- Open Biology, The Royal Society Publishing
- Journal of Biological Chemistry (JBC), American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
- Protein & Cell, Springer, and Higher Education Press
- Life Science Alliance, EMBO Press
- Developmental Biology, Society for Developmental Biology, Elsevier, Netherlands
- iScience, CellPress, Elsevier
- Journal of Molecular and Cellular Cardiology (JMCC)
- Current Opinion in Pharmacology, Elsevier
- British Journal of Pharmacology, British Pharmacological Society
- Journal of Cell Communication and Signaling, Springer Nature, Switzerland
- Cellular Signalling, Elsevier
- Frontiers in Cell and Developmental Biology, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland
- Frontiers in Physiology, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland
- STAR Protocols, CellPress, Elsevier
- Scientific Reports, Nature Portfolio
- Journal of Visualized Experiments (JoVE)
- Frontiers in Cardiovascular Medicine, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland
- Clinical Science, Portland Press, Biochemical Society, London, UK
- Experimental Gerontology, Elsevier, Netherlands
- Cells, Member of the Reviewer Board, MDPI, Basel, Switzerland
- Ageing Research Reviews, Elsevier
- International Journal of Molecular Sciences, MDPI, Basel, Switzerland
- Genes, MDPI, Basel, Switzerland
- Biomedicines, MDPI, Basel, Switzerland
- Biochimie, Société Française de Biochimie et Biologie Moléculaire, Elsevier
- Biology, MDPI, Basel, Switzerland
- Biomolecules, MDPI, Basel, Switzerland
June 2022 Peer reviewer – contributor to Reactome (Version 81 Released on 14 June 2022; Signal Transduction (Transcriptional activity of SMAD2/SMAD3:SMAD4 heterotrimer)
Being a PreLighter
I’m part of the carefully selected group of early-career researchers called PreLights community from The Company of Biologists, UK. Visit my profile: https://prelights.biologists.com/profiles/osvaldo-contreras/.
My Highlights:
Here, we discussed why mammalian cardiac regeneration and repair do not occur in adults and account for new potential ways of improving heart failure and fibrosis. By Osvaldo Contreras & Alex Ward.
Here, we highlighted the unknown role of skeletal muscle FAP cells in degenerative settings, including disease, obesity and type 2 diabetes. By Osvaldo Contreras & Nicolás Collao.
Here, we summarized the last finding of the damaging effects of SARS-CoV2 in the heart and explain the last wonderful article published in BiorXiv from James Hudson Lab at the QIMR Berghofer Medical Research Institute. By Alex Ward & Osvaldo Contreras
In this Prelight, we summarized why and how D'Amato and Krysty Red-Horse Labs used scRNA-seq combined with endothelial cell lineage-tracing to explore for the first time the dual origins of coronary blood vessels during mouse and human development. By Yen Tran & Osvaldo Contreras
5. Multiscale light-sheet organoid imaging framework
In this exciting new preprint, Liberali and colleagues leverage their extensive organoid-imaging knowledge [3] to present LSTree (an acronym for Light-Sheet Tree), a light-sheet imaging framework to analyze and digitally visualize organoids. LST goes from image pre-processing, cell lineage tracking, and segmentation to analytical tools to extract morphological and microscopy features. The authors used this light-sheet microscopy-based imaging framework to analyze and reconstruct, at an unprecedented spatiotemporal resolution, the cell growing dynamics and cell lineage relationships during intestinal organoid development.