We sincerely welcome Prof. Dr. Chee Kong Yap from Universiti Putra Malaysia, Malaysia, to join the Editorial Board of OBM Genetics. Prof. Yap has been working as a full professor at Universiti Putra Malaysia (UPM) since 2021. Prof. Yap has been an academician for more than 23 years at UPM and 28 years as a researcher. We appreciate Prof. Dr. Chee Kong Yap for his participation and support.

We sincerely welcome Prof. Dr. Uchechukwu U. Nwodo from University of Fort Hare, South Africa, to join the Editorial Board of OBM Genetics. He has more than 15 years of research experience in microbiology and biotechnology and leads the Patho-Biocatalysis Research Group (PBG) with a focus on the valorization of waste to high-value products, bacterial pathogenic gene ecology, and novel lead compounds from natural sources. Prof.Dr. Nwodo is also the leader of the Infectious Disease and Medicinal Plants Research Niche Area (IDM-NA) recently established by the University of Fort Hare. Prof. Dr. Nwodo has published over 100 journal articles, developed 6 prototypes, and trained over 30 postgraduate students at master’s and doctorate levels. He participated in several internationally financed projects, including NRF and MRC. We appreciate Prof. Dr. Uchechukwu U. Nwodo for his participation and support.

We sincerely welcome Dr. Chenggen Chu from Edward T. Schafer Agricultural Research Center, United States, to join the Editorial Board of OBM Genetics. We appreciate Dr. Chenggen Chu for his participation and support.

We sincerely welcome Dr. Mohammad Reza Naghavi from University of Tehran, Iran, to join the Editorial Board of OBM Genetics. He has more than 260 publications. We appreciate Dr. Mohammad Reza Naghavi for his participation and support.

We sincerely welcome Dr. Mohammadreza Mohammadabadi from Shahid Bahonar University of Kerman, Iran, to join the Editorial Board of OBM Genetics. He has more than 110 publications. We appreciate Dr. Mohammadreza Mohammadabadi for his participation and support.

We sincerely welcome Dr. Darina Cejkova from Brno University of Technology, Czech Republic, to join the Editorial Board of OBM Genetics. We appreciate Dr. Darina Cejkova for his participation and support.

We sincerely welcome Dr. Ezharul Hoque Chowdhury from Monash University Malaysia, Malaysia, to join the Editorial Board of OBM Genetics. He has more than 120 publications. We appreciate Dr. Ezharul Hoque Chowdhury for his participation and support.

We sincerely welcome Prof. Dr. Constantine A. Stratakis from National Institutes of Health (NIH), USA, to join the Editorial Board of OBM Genetics. He has more than 850 publications. His H-index in Scopus is 100. We appreciate Prof. Dr. Constantine A. Stratakis for his participation and support.

We sincerely welcome Dr. Ivan Landires from Instituto de Ciencias Médicas, Panama, to join the Editorial Board of OBM Genetics. He has more than 90 publications. We appreciate Dr. Ivan Landires for his participation and support.

We sincerely welcome Dr. Anna Di Sessa from University of Campania "Luigi Vanvitelli", Naples, Italy, to join the Editorial Board of OBM Genetics. She has more than 130 publications. We appreciate Dr. Anna Di Sessa for her participation and support.

We sincerely welcome Dr. Panagiotis Madesis from University of Thessaly, Greece, to join the Editorial Board of OBM Genetics. He has more than 190 publications. We appreciate Dr. Panagiotis Madesis for his participation and support.

We sincerely welcome Prof. Dr. Andre Megarbane from Lebanese American University, Lebanon, to join the Editorial Board of OBM Genetics. He has more than 400 publications. We appreciate Prof. Dr. Andre Megarbane for his participation and support.

We sincerely welcome Dr. Takeshige Otoi from Tokushima University, Japan, to join the Editorial Board of OBM Genetics. He has more than 250 publications. We appreciate Dr. Takeshige Otoi for his participation and support.

We sincerely welcome Prof. Dr. Apostolos Zaravinos from European University Cyprus, Cyprus, to join the Editorial Board of OBM Genetics. He has more than 130 publications. We appreciate Prof. Dr. Apostolos Zaravinos for his participation and support.

We sincerely welcome Dr. Vishnu D Rajput from Southern Federal University, Russia, to join the Editorial Board of OBM Genetics. He has more than 400 publications. We appreciate Dr. Vishnu D Rajput for his participation and support.

We sincerely welcome Dr. Giuseppe Murdaca from the University of Genoa, Italy, to join the Editorial Board of OBM Genetics. Dr. Giuseppe Murdaca has received his PhD in Science and Space Engineering at the University of Genova (Italy) during the period of 2000-2003. Currently, he is working as an Assistant professor in the Internal Medicine University of Genova (Italy). His research has included Immunodeficiency, Autoimmunity, Neuro-endocrino-immunology, and Pharmacogenomics. Based on this research and fellowship training he has received several awards and honors, such as: Prize for young researchers of the study, assigned by the GILS, with the following motivation: "Standardization of a method to assess impairment by skinfold thickness skin", delivered on the occasion of the "Day VII Italian to fight Scleroderma" (Milan, 17/3 / 2001). Award for one of the three best oral presentations at the Ninth Congress of the Inter-SIMI Piemonte and Valle D'Aosta, Liguria (Genoa, 06.17.2004): Murdaca G., Fenoglio D., M. Setti, Brenci S., Villa R., Pontali E., A. Kunkl, Indiveri F., Puppo F. "Generation of CD4 + lines specific for Pneumocystis carinii and Candida albicans obtained from HIV + patients. Meaning of the coexpression of IFN-? and IL-4 ". He is serving as an editorial member of several reputed journals. We appreciate Dr. Giuseppe Murdaca for his participation and support.

We sincerely welcome Dr. Alexandr Sember from the Czech Academy of Sciences, Czech Republic, to join the Editorial Board of OBM Genetics. His main research interests are: sex chromosomes, phylogenetic context; use of laser microdissection, and comparative genomic hybridization (CGH) methods in (not only) fish cytotaxonomy. We appreciate Dr. Alexandr Sember for his participation and support.

We sincerely welcome Prof. Dr. Rouben Aroutiounian from Yerevan State University, Armenia, to join the Editorial Board of OBM Genetics. Prof. Dr. Rouben Aroutiounian is an expert in molecular genetics. He is responsible for research in molecular cytogenetics and genetic toxicology. He has more than 60 publications. We appreciate Prof. Dr. Rouben Aroutiounian for his participation and support.

We sincerely welcome Dr. Corrado Angelini from the Padova University School of Medicine, Italy, to join the Editorial Board of OBM Genetics. Dr. Corrado Angelini is an expert in molecular genetics. He is a member of the InterERN Neurometabolic Disease work group. He has served as an EB Member in several journals. He has more than 590 publications. We appreciate Dr. Corrado Angelini for his participation and support.

It is our pleasure to announce that LIDSEN has joined the ORCID community. ORCID (Open Researcher and Contributor ID), a global, not-for-profit organization, provides a free, unique, and persistent digital identifier (an ORCID iD), which can automatically link researchers to their own contributions, so as to disambiguate researchers from one another. Authors who publish with OBM Genetics are greatly encouraged to register for a unique iD to ensure proper attribution.

We sincerely welcome Prof. Dr. Pedro Martínez-Gómez, from CEBAS-CSIC, Spain, to join the Editorial Board of OBM Genetics. He is an international reference in Prunus Breeding and Biotechnology including Genetics, Genomics, Transcriptomics and epigenetics with more than 150 papers published in international journals included in the Web of Science. He also has 5 new apricot varieties, 4 new almond varieties and 1 new Japanese plum variety widely cultivated in Spain and Southern Europe where more than 5 M trees from these varieties are grown at this moment. In addition, he has been coordinator of 22 projects at the regional, national and international levels, as well as participating in 30 other projects and agreements with companies as a member of the research team. Throughout his research career he has participated in the scientific training of more than 70 students and researchers from 20 different nationalities. He has supervised 18 PhD Theses. Most of their former graduate doctors are, at this moment, junior and senior researchers around the world. In August 2006 received in Seoul (Korea) the "Miklos Faust International Award", an International Award of the American Society for Horticultural Science (ASHS) and the International Society for Horticultural Science (ISHS) for its contribution to the international fruit science research. In January 2012 he received in Teheran (Iran) the “Khwarizmi International Award” organized by the Iranian Research Organization for Science and Technology (IROST) and the “FAO Medal Award” from the Food and Agriculture Organization for his contribution to the application of biotechnology tolls in the development of the fruit research in developing countries. In January of 2019, received in La Havana (Cuba), the “CITMA Award 2018” for their collaboration in the conservation of plant genetic resources in Cuba. We appreciate Prof. Martínez-Gómez for his participation and support.

We sincerely welcome Prof. Bruce O'Hara, from the University of Kentucky, USA, to join the Editorial Board of OBM Genetics. He obtained his PhD in Human and Mammalian Genetics from The Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, and later spent twelve years at the Stanford University Center for Sleep and Circadian Neurobiology where he established a research program directed towards an understanding of sleep using higher throughput behavioral and genomic methodologies. He currently has over 35 years of experience in mammalian genetics and especially mouse models of human disease, and has over 95 publications in areas ranging from the effects of drugs to large-scale genetic screens and models of neurodegenerative disorders. We appreciate Dr. O'Hara for his participation and support.

We sincerely welcome Prof. Yuri Shavrukov, from Flinders University, Australia, to join the Editorial Board of OBM Genetics. Originally, Prof. Shavrukov worked at the Institute of Cytology and Genetics, Russian Academy of Sciences, Novosibirsk (Russia), where he received his PhD degree (1991). In 2001, he was selected and employed by CSIRO (Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation), Adelaide, Australia. After CSIRO, he received a position at the University of Adelaide, Plant Genomics Centre (2005-2016), and since that he moved to Flinders University, Adelaide. Currently, Prof. Yuri Shavrukov is working at Flinders University with some collaborative international research projects. His research interests include plant genetics and genomics, gene structure and expression analysis in plants, development and application of molecular markers in plant biology. We appreciate Prof. Shavrukov for his participation and support.

We sincerely welcome Dr. Mohan Shri Jain from University of Helsinki, Finland, to join the Editorial Board of OBM Genetics. He received his M. Phil, 1973 and Ph.D., 1978, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India. He was a postdoctoral fellow in Israel, USA, and visiting Professor in Japan, Malaysia, Germany, and Italy. He was a Technical Officer at, International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), Vienna, Austria, from 1999-to 2005. He is on the Editorial Board and a reviewer in several well-reputed journals. His publications are over 170 in peer-reviewed journals, book chapters, and conference proceedings, and edited 68 books; invited speakers, and acted as a chairperson in several international conferences worldwide. In commemoration of the awarding IAEA of the Nobel Peace Prize in 2005, as a team member, he received this certificate; consultant to IAEA, the European Union, The Government of Grenada, and the Egyptian Government. His current research interests are on in vitro techniques, mutagenesis, transgenics, genetic diversity and conservation, climate change, and food security. We appreciate Dr. Jain for his participation and support.

We sincerely welcome Dr. Paola Ungaro, from National Research Council, Italy, to join the Editorial Board of OBM Genetics. Dr. Ungaro is a Researcher at the National Research Council (CNR) in Institute for Experimental Endocrinology and Oncology “Gaetano Salvatore” of Naples, Italy. Dr Ungaro’s research interest includes epigenetic and transcriptional regulation of obesity and diabetes related genes and epigenetic regulation by natural compounds. The research activity includes three main research lines: 1. Evaluation of the effects of High-Fat Diet (HFD) on the expression of genes codifying for enzymes known to induce histone post-translational modifications (PTMs). 2. Study of the effects of Polyphenols on the epigenetic regulation of obesity-related genes and on the expression of key enzyme involved in chromatin remodelling. 3. Study of the effects of Polyphenols on the expression of genes involved in the browning of white adipose tissue.  We appreciate Dr. Ungaro for her participation and support.

We sincerely welcome Prof. Dr. Yan Sanders, from University of Alabama at Birmingham, United States, to join the Editorial Board of OBM Genetics. Dr. Sanders is currently Associate Professor of Medicine. Her main research interests are epigenetic mechanisms in tissue injury, repair and aging. Her ongoing projects include exploring epigenetic alterations in pulmonary fibrosis, examining the effects of histone modifier on fibrotic lung fibroblasts, determining the epigenetic mechanisms of cellular senescence, aging, and age-related chronic diseases, specifically histone modifications and DNA methylation. We appreciate Prof. Sanders for her participation and support.

We sincerely welcome Professor Shin Murakami from Touro University California, USA, to join the Editorial Board of OBM Genetics. Professor Murakami received his Ph.D. from Kyoto University, Japan. He then worked at the University of Colorado-Boulder, University of Michigan-Ann Arbor, University of Louisville, among others. Current research interest is to understand the transition of aging processes from normal aging to disease (including Alzheimer’s disease, AD), using semi-automated imaging systems (Machino et al., 2014) and big data analysis of dementia genes in humans and C. elegans (Vahdati et al., 2017). He has formulated the multiplex stress resistance theory of aging, which has now been extended to the middle-life crisis theory of aging.  Importantly, the middle-life crisis theory predicted the outcome of one or more clinical trials in the Alzheimer's disease. Recently he accepted new national leadership roles, including Public Policy Representative of BS Section Executive Committee (Gerontology Society of America); and Committee and Task Force/New Comprehensive Foundational Sciences Examination (NBOME). We appreciate Professor Murakami for his participation and support.

We sincerely welcome Professor Penna Suprasanna, former-Head of Nuclear Agriculture & Biotechnology Division, BARC, Mumbai & Homi Bhabha National Institute, India, to join the Editorial Board of OBM Genetics. Prof. Suprasanna obtained his MSc (Genetics) and Doctorate in Genetics from Osmania University, Hyderabad (India) and did his post-doc research in the Laboratory of Tropical Crop Improvement, Cathloic University of Leuven, Leuven, Belgium. His research interests include plant stress biology, biotechnology, plant mutagenesis and plant genomics. He has made concerted efforts to apply radiation mutagenesis techniques in plants in collaboration with International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), Vienna. He is the recipient of the “Award of Scientific and Technical Excellence” by the Department of Atomic Energy, Government of India, and is the Fellow of International Society of Environmental Botany. Dr. Suprasanna has a patent; published more than 300 research papers/articles in national and international journals, has edited special issues for journals & books. We appreciate Professor Suprasanna for his participation and support.

We sincerely welcome Professor John Marshall from Institute of Ophthalmology (UCL), United Kingdom to join the Editorial Board of OBM Genetics. Professor Marshall has extensive experience in ophthalmology, inherited retinal disease, diabetes, glaucoma, neurodegenerative diseases, etc. We are very grateful to Prof. Marshall for his participation and support.

We sincerely welcome Jaroslav Alois Hubáček, PhD, DSc., from Institute for Clinical and Experimental Medicine, Czech Republic, to join the Editorial Board of OBM Genetics. Dr. Hubáček has extensive experience in population population genetics, gene, diabetes, cardiovascular genetics, genetic predisposition of noncommunicable diseases, etc. We are very grateful to Prof. Hubáček for his participation and support.