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The Journal of Inter-Organelle Communication- New open access title in an emerging field
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Contact: The Journal of Inter-Organelle Communication is the only journal dedicated to membrane contact site research, which has taken center stage in cell biology. Contact: The Journal of Inter-Organelle Communication is an open access, peer reviewed international journal that acts as a focal point for all research into intracellular contacts, their lipidology, ion signaling and membrane traffic. The journal not only addresses fundamental scientific discovery, but also its applications, from human diseases such as dementia and cancer to managing economically and societally important species such as plants and microbes. Contact: The Journal of Inter-Organelle Communication seeks to connect researchers across disciplines and specialties. Please see the Aims and Scope tab for further information on article types and areas of particular interest to the journal.
Contact: The Journal of Inter-Organelle Communication is a member of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE).
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Open access article processing charge (APC) information
Publication in the journal is subject to payment of an article processing charge (APC). The APC serves to support the journal and ensures that articles are freely accessible online in perpetuity under a Creative Commons license.
The article processing charge (APC) is $2250 USD, currently discounted to a rate of $1688.
The APC for Reports and Short Reviews is $844. There is no fee for News and Views.
The article processing charge (APC) is payable when a manuscript is accepted after peer review, before it is published. The APC is subject to taxes where applicable. Please see further details here.
Contact
Please direct any queries to tim.levine@ucl.ac.uk.
Contact: The Journal of Inter-Organelle Communication is the only journal dedicated to membrane contact site research, which has taken center stage in cell biology. Contact: The Journal of Inter-Organelle Communication is an open access, peer reviewed journal that acts as a focal point for all research into intracellular contacts, their lipidology, ion signaling and membrane traffic. The journal not only addresses fundamental scientific discovery, but also its applications, from human diseases such as dementia and cancer to managing economically and societally important species such as plants and microbes. Contact: The Journal of Inter-Organelle Communication seeks to connect researchers across disciplines and specialties.
Contact: The Journal of Inter-Organelle Communication will publish high quality articles that relate to any aspect of interactions between different cellular compartments. To date this subject area has been dominated by defining if such interactions/contacts exist, together with descriptions of molecular and ion traffic that contacts may facilitate. And yet the subject is broader than this: some contacting organelles have no membrane, other contacts have quite unexpected functions, for example allowing an enzyme in one compartment to access a substrate in another. By concentrating on this one topic, the journal will create a space for new ideas to cross between researchers working on seemingly different topics that share the common substrate: intracellular contacts.
Primary research papers do not necessarily have to present complete stories, nor is there a requirement for mechanistic insight. Instead, descriptive accounts, of any length, that raise new questions will be viewed positively for their role in provoking debate. In addition, the journal welcomes research that questions paradigms that arise about contacts, including negative results.
Types of Papers
Original research; Reports; Reviews; Short Reviews; Opinions; News and Views; Addenda; and meeting reports.
Topics of Interest
- Non-vesicular traffic
- Lipid biochemistry
- Calcium signaling
- Membrane/vesicular traffic
- Subcellular compartmentation
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| Tim Levine, PhD | University College London, UK |
| Jen Liou, PhD | UT Southwestern Medical Center Dallas, USA |
| Sandip Patel, PhD | University College London, UK |
| Thomas Simmen, PhD | University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada |
| Mitsuo Tagaya, PhD | Tokyo University of Pharmacy and Life Sciences (TUPL), Japan |
| Maria Bohnert, PhD | University of Münster, Germany |
| Patrizia Agostinis, PhD | KU Leuven, Belgium |
| Bruno Antonny, PhD | IPMC, Nice, France |
| Tamas Balla, PhD, MD | National Institutes of Health (NICHD), USA |
| Emmanuelle. M. Bayer, PhD | University of Bordeaux, France |
| Christoph Benning, PhD | Michigan State University, East Lansing, USA |
| Darren F Boehning, PhD | Cooper Medical School of Rowan University, USA |
| Federica Brandizzi, PhD | Michigan State University, East Lansing, USA |
| Geert Bultynck, PhD | KU Leuven, Belgium |
| Tito Cali, PhD | University of Padova, Padua, Italy |
| Pedro Carvalho, PhD | University of Oxford, United Kingdom |
| Sarah Cohen, PhD | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA |
| Elizabeth Conibear, PhD | University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada |
| Isabelle Coppens, PhD | Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, USA |
| Pietro De Camilli, MD | Yale University, USA |
| Nicolas Demaurex, PhD | University of Geneva, Switzerland |
| Isabelle Derré, PhD | University of Virginia School of Medicine, USA |
| Guillaume Drin, PhD | IPMC, Nice, France |
| Emily Eden, PhD | University College London, UK |
| Pascal Egea, PhD | University of California, Los Angeles, USA |
| Ruben Fernandez-Busnadiego, PhD | University Medical Center Göttingen, Germany |
| Jonathan Friedman, PhD | UT Southwestern Medical Center, USA |
| Clare Futter, PhD | University College London, UK |
| Thierry Galli, PhD | Centre for Psychiatry and Neuroscience, Paris, France |
| Francesca Giordano, PhD | Institut Jacques Monod, France |
| Joel Goodman, PhD | UT Southwestern, USA |
| Wolfgang Graier, PhD | Gottfried Schatz Research Center, Austria |
| Sergio Grinstein, PhD | Sick Kids, Toronto, Canada |
| Gyorgy Hajnoczky, MD, PhD | Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, USA |
| Gerry Hammond, PhD | University of Pittsburgh, USA |
| Kentaro Hanada, PhD | National Institute of Infectious Diseases, Tokyo, Japan |
| Gaiti Hasan, PhD | National Centre for Biological Sciences (NCBS), Bengaluru, India |
| Mike Henne, PhD | UT Southwestern, USA |
| Joost Holthuis, PhD | University of Osnabrueck, Germany |
| Patrick Hussey, PhD | Durham University, UK |
| Elina Ikonen, PhD | University of Helsinki, Finland |
| Cathy Jackson, PhD | Institut Jacques Monod, Paris, France |
| Weike Ji, PhD | Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China |
| Peter Kim, PhD | Sick Kids, Toronto, Canada |
| Dan Klionsky, PhD | University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA |
| Verena Kohler, PhD | Umeå University, Sweden |
| Benoit Kornmann, PhD | ETH, Zurich, Switzerland |
| Wanda Kukulski, PhD | University of Bern, Switzerland |
| Laura Lackner, PhD | Northwestern University, Evanston, USA |
| Sima Lev, PhD | Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel |
| Richard Lewis, PhD | Stanford University, USA |
| Jennifer Lippincott-Schwartz, PhD | Janelia Research Campus, Virginia, USA |
| Jia Jia Liu, PhD | Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China |
| Chris Loewen, PhD | University of British Columbia, Canada |
| Khaled Machaca, PhD | WCM Qatar, Qatar |
| Antonella de Matteis, MD | Telethon Institute, Naples, Italy |
| Bruno Mesmin, PhD | IPMC, Nice, France |
| Shmuel Muallem, PhD | NIH, Bethesda, USA |
| Robert Nabi, PhD | University of British Columbia, Canada |
| Jacques Neefjes, PhD | Leiden University Medical Centre, The Netherlands |
| Aaron Neiman, PhD | Stony Brook University, USA |
| Vesa Olkkonen, PhD | Minerva Institute, Helsinki, Finland |
| James A. Olzmann, PhD | University of California, Berkeley, USA |
| Raghu Padinjat, PhD | NCBS, Bangalore, India |
| Luca Pellegrini, PhD | IUSMQ, Quebec, Canada |
| Will Prinz, PhD | UTSW Medical Centre Dallas, TX, USA |
| Karin Reinisch, PhD | Yale University, USA |
| Maya Schuldiner, PhD | Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel |
| Luca Scorrano, MD, PhD | Venetian Institute of Molecular Medicine, Padua, Italy |
| Chris Stefan, PhD | University College London, UK |
| Harald Stenmark, PhD | Norwegian Radium Hospital, Oslo, Norway |
| Alexey Tepikin, PhD | University of Liverpool, UK |
| Christian Ungermann, PhD | University of Osnabrueck, Germany |
| Jeremy G. Wideman, PhD | Arizona State University, USA |
| Yvette Wong, PhD | Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, USA |
| Hongyuan (Rob) Yang, PhD | University of New South Wales, Australia |
| Manuela Zaccolo, MD, PhD, FRSB | University of Oxford, UK |
Contact recommends that authors follow the Uniform Requirements for Manuscripts Submitted to Biomedical Journals formulated by the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (ICMJE).
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Contact publishes original research, reviews, brief reports, opinions, News and Views, addenda, and meeting reports.
Article Processing Charge
If, after peer review, your manuscript is accepted for publication, a one-time Article Processing Charge (APC) is payable. This APC covers the cost of publication and ensures that your article will be freely available online in perpetuity under a Creative Commons license.
An introductory article processing charge (APC) of $750 USD, discounted from the full rate of $1,500 USD, is available for a limited time. The APC is payable upon acceptance.
There is no fee for News and Views.
Copyright
Contact publishes manuscripts under the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial license, which allows others to re-use the work without permission as long as the work is properly referenced and the use is non-commercial.
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