Meet the editors

Dr. Enkhsaikhan Purevjav earned her MD from the Leningrad Pediatric Medical Institute (LMPI), Russia in 1989, followed by an internship and residency in pediatrics at the Mongolian National Medical University, a fellowship in pediatric cardiology at LPMI, and a Ph.D. in Medical Genetics and Molecular Biology from Shimane Medical University, Japan. Dr. Purevjav joined Baylor College of Medicine and Texas Children's Hospital as a postdoctoral

trainee and instructor and then Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center as an assistant professor. She currently works as an associate professor at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center where she continues to study the genetics of heart diseases, specifically focusing on pediatric cardiomyopathies and arrhythmias.

Dr. Joseph F. Pierre is currently an Assistant Professor of Nutritional Sciences and Surgery, University of Wisconsin-Madison. The Pierre lab addresses a range of basic, translational, and clinical research questions focused on the gastrointestinal microbiome, nutrition, and gut physiology and disease. Dr. Pierre utilizes experimental models that include bariatric surgery, parenteral and enteral nutrition, gnotobiotics, and organoid approaches.

Where relevant, his research examines microbiome community composition and function to investigate host-microbial interactions. Dr. Pierre received his BS in Natural Science and Ph.D. in Nutritional Sciences from the University of Wisconsin-Madison before completing a postdoc fellowship in Gastroenterology, Hepatology, and Nutrition at the University of Chicago. He holds an adjunct faculty position at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center within the College of Medicine.

Dr. Lu Lu is a professor in the Department of Genetics, Genomics and Informatics, University of Tennessee Health Science Center (UTHSC). His research focuses on the examination of genetic effects on complex traits. He and his colleagues have developed large resources for the study of systems genetics that include the largest mouse genetic reference population, which includes BXD recombinant inbred lines, high-density genotypes, thousands

of phenotypes, hundreds of transcriptomic data sets, and whole-genome sequence for all 152 inbred BXD strains. All these resources provide great power for genetic analysis of complex traits and are being used by many researchers for their studies of polygenetic diseases. As Principal Investigator, he has been funded by seven NIH R01 grants and has published ~200 science papers within the last seventeen years.
