Dr Petra Gross is Senior Editor at Journal of Cell Science, published by The Company of Biologists, and has been with the journal since 2010. Her responsibilities include commissioning and handling of Reviews and the popular ‘Cell Science at glance’ poster articles, as well as contributing to the Research Highlights section. Prior to joining JCS, she was the Editor of Trends in Biotechnology. Dr Gross received a PhD from the University of Heidelberg, Germany, and subsequently carried out postdoctoral work at the University of Toronto, Canada, and the Marie Curie Research Institute in the UK, were she investigated the molecular mechanisms underlying the regulation of transcription initiation.
