Mathematical and theoretical biology is an interdisciplinary scientific research field with a range of applications.
 The field is sometimes called mathematical biology or biomathematics to stress the mathematical side, or theoretical biology to stress the biological side.
 Theoretical biology focuses more on the development of theoretical principles for biology while mathematical biology focuses on the use of mathematical tools to study biological systems, even though the two terms are sometimes interchanged.
 Mathematical biology aims at the mathematical representation, treatment and modeling of biological processes, using techniques and tools of applied mathematics.
 It has both theoretical and practical applications in biological, biomedical and biotechnology research.
 Describing systems in a quantitative manner means their behavior can be better simulated, and hence properties can be predicted that might not be evident to the experimenter.
 This requires precise mathematical models.
Marylyn D. Ritchie is a professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology and the director of the Center for Systems Genomics at Penn State University.
 She has published many papers in peer-reviewed journals such as the American Journal of Human Genetics, the Journal of Biological Chemistry, Human Molecular Genetics, Bioinformatics, and PLOS Genetics.
 Previously, she was an associate professor at Vanderbilt University in the Department of Molecular Physiology and Biophysics and the Department of Biomedical Informatics.
 She has also served as a consultant for Boehringer-Ingelheim, one of the world's leading pharmaceutical companies.
Eshel Ben-Jacob (full name Eshel Refael Ben-Jacob Breslav; Hebrew: אשל רפאל בן-יעקב‎ ‎ 13 April 1952 – 5 June 2015), was a theoretical and experimental physicist at Tel Aviv University, holder of the Maguy-Glass Chair in Physics of Complex Systems, and Fellow of the Center for Theoretical Biological Physics (CTBP) at Rice University.
 During the 1980s he became an international leader in the theory of self-organization and pattern formation in open systems, and later extended this work to adaptive complex systems and biocomplexity.
 His specialization in self-organization of complex systems yielded the breakthrough of solving the long-standing (since Kepler) snowflake problem.
 In the late 1980s, he turned to study of bacterial self-organization, believing that bacteria hold the key to understanding the larger biological systems.
 He developed new pattern forming bacteria species, became a pioneer in the study of bacterial intelligence and social behaviors of bacteria, and was an influential figure in establishing the now rapidly evolving physics of living systems (biological physics and physical biology) disciplines.
 He was an adviser to the Microbes Mind Forum.
G3: Genes, Genomes, Genetics (also styled as "G3: Genes | Genomes | Genetics") is a peer-reviewed open-access scientific mega journal that focuses on rapid publication of research in the fields of genetics and genomics and from a broad range of biological disciplines.
 It is published by the Genetics Society of America in association with HighWire Press.
 "G3" was established in 2011 as an outlet for research and experimental resources that is largely unrestricted by criteria such as impact and perceived significance.
 The journal is abstracted and indexed in MEDLINE, PubMed Central, PubMed, and Science Citation Index Expanded.
 The founding editor-in-chief is Brenda Andrews (University of Toronto).
Adoption studies are one of the classic tools of behavioral genetics.
 These studies are used to estimate the degree to which a trait varies in response to environmental and genetic variation.
 Adoption studies are typically used together with twin studies when estimating heritability.
 There are two adoption study designs.
 The adoptee's method investigates similarities between the adoptee and their biological and adoptive parents.
 Similarity with the biological parent is expected to be heritable genetic effect, while similarity with the adoptive parent is associated with home-environment, called the shared environmental effect.
 The familial method compares non-biological siblings who are reared in the same household.
 Similarity to non-biological siblings raised in the same household is attributed to shared environment effect, as the siblings are biologically unrelated but share the home environment.
 Variation that cannot be accounted by either genetics or home-environment is typically described as non-shared environment.
 Adoption studies are one of the key tools in behavioral genetics and are typically used in combination with twin studies when making habitability estimates.
Theoretical Biology Forum (known as Rivista di Biologia-Biology Forum before 2012) is a triannual scientific journal covering theoretical biology.
 According to the "Journal Citation Reports", the journal has a 2014 impact factor of 0.250.
 In its previous incarnation, it was edited by noted creationist Giuseppe Sermonti, but now the journal broadly covers theoretical biology.
 In particular, the problems of evolutionary theory are discussed and the possibility of relative mathematical modeling is examined.
 Other chemical and physical subjects linked to biology are also accepted.
Human Biology is a peer reviewed scientific journal, currently published by Wayne State University Press.
 The journal was established in 1929 by Raymond Pearl and is the official publication of the American Association of Anthropological Genetics.
 The focus of the journal is human genetics, covering topics from human population genetics, evolutionary and genetic demography and quantitative genetics.
 It also covers ancient DNA studies, evolutionary biological anthropology, and research exploring biological diversity expressed in terms of adaptation.
 The journal also publishes interdisciplinary research linking biological and cultural diversity from evidence such sources as archaeology, ethnography and cultural anthropology studies, and more.
 As of July 1, 2016, the journal is on Volume 87, Issue 3.
 The journal's current editors are Brian M. Kemp (Washington State University) and Ripan S. Malhi (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign).
Arthur Robert Grossman (born 1950) is an American biologist whose research ranges across the fields of plant biology, microbiology, marine biology, Phytochemistry, and photosynthesis.
 He has been a Staff Scientist at Carnegie Institution for Science’s Department of Plant Biology since 1982, and holds a courtesy appointment as Professor in the Department of Biology at Stanford.
 He has mentored more than fifteen PhD students and more than thirty post-doctoral fellows.
 Grossman was the recipient of the Gilbert Morgan Smith Medal (National Academy of Sciences) in 2009 and the Darbaker Prize for work on microalgae (Botanical Society of America) in 2002.
 He is Co-Editor in Chief of Journal of Phycology, and has served on the editorial boards of major biological journals including the Annual Review of Genetics, Eukaryotic Cell, Journal of Biological Chemistry, and Molecular Plant among others.
 He has also served on many committees and panels that evaluate scientific directions for the various granting agencies, universities and government departments.
 He was elected the co-Chair of the Gordon Research Conference on Photosynthesis in 2015, and will be Chair again in 2017.
 He also currently serves as Chief of Genetics at Solazyme Inc. which applies plant biology to create oils.
Giuseppe Sermonti (born 1925) is a retired Italian professor of genetics.
 Sermonti is well known for his criticism of natural selection as the deciding factor of human biology.
Journal of Biological Rhythms is a peer-reviewed academic journal that publishes papers focused on chronobiology, or any aspect of biological rhythms with a special emphasis on seasonal and circadian rhythms.
 However, papers on various other rhythms are also published in the "Journal of Biological Rhythms".
 These publications can be primary reports of new discoveries, reviews, commentaries, or letters.
 As such, the authors of the publications have a diverse set of backgrounds and base their findings in areas like ecology, neurobiology and behavior, psychology and psychiatry, endocrinology, developmental biology, pharmacology, cell biology, biochemistry, genetics, molecular biology, and mathematical modeling.
 The "Journal of Biological Rhythms" has been in publication since 1986 and is currently published by SAGE Publications.
 The "Journal of Biological Rhythms" is the official publication of the Society for Research on Biological Rhythms.
 The journal's Chief Editor is William J Schwartz.

Question: Who was the Italian professor of genetics who edited the Theoretical Biological Forum?
Answer: Giuseppe Sermonti