Editors for Evolutionary Biology
Senior editors
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Claude Desplan
New York University, United States
Claude Desplan, DSc, PhD is a Silver Professor of Biology and Neuroscience at NYU and an Affiliate Professor at the CGSB at NYU in Abu Dhabi. Dr. Desplan was born in Algeria and was trained at the Ecole Normale Supérieure in St. Cloud, France. He received his DSc at INSERM in Paris in 1983 working with M.S. Moukhtar and M. Thomasset on calcium regulation. He joined Pat O’Farrell at UCSF as a postdoc where he demonstrated that the homeodomain, a conserved signature of many developmental genes, is a DNA binding motif. In 1987, he joined the Faculty of Rockefeller University as an HHMI Assistant/Associate Investigator to pursue structural studies of the homeodomain and the evolution of axis formation.
In 1999, Dr. Desplan joined NYU where he investigates the generation of neural diversity using the Drosophila visual system. His team has described the molecular mechanisms that pattern the eye and showed how stochastic decisions contribute to the diversification of photoreceptors. It also investigates the development and function of the optic lobes where neuronal diversity is generated by spatio-temporal patterning of neuroblasts, a mechanism that also applies to cortical development in mammals. Recently, his lab has also provided a functional understanding of the neuronal and computational mechanisms underlying motion detection.
His laboratory also uses ‘evo-devo’ approaches to understand the mechanisms by which sensory systems adapt to different ecological conditions, from flies to ants to butterflies.
Dr. Desplan serves on multiple scientific advisory boards and committees for funding agencies. He is an elected member of the AAAS, of EMBO, the New York Academy of Sciences as well as the US National Academy of Sciences.
- Expertise
- Developmental Biology
- Evolutionary Biology
- Neuroscience
- Research focus
- development neurobiology
- evo-devo
- vision
- stochasticity in development
- rhodopsin
- aging and caste determination (ants)
- Experimental organism
- D. melanogaster
- ants
- insects
- butterflies
- wasps
- flies
- Competing interests statement
- Dr. Desplan has been a member of the Board of Reviewing Editor for Science for the last 10 years (non-renumerated). He is an academic editor for PLOS Biology and PLOS Genetics (non-renumerated). Dr. Desplan occasionally serves as academic editor for other scientific journals (e.g. PNAS). He is a consultant for the Khalifa Center for Genetic Engineering & Biotechnology Al Ain, UAE. Dr. Desplan receives funding from the NIH and the NYU Abu Dhabi Center for Genomics and Systems Biology.
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Alan Moses
University of Toronto, Canada
Alan M Moses is currently Professor and Canada Research Chair in Computational Biology in the Departments of Cell & Systems Biology and Computer Science at the University of Toronto. His research touches on many of the major areas in computational biology, including DNA and protein sequence analysis, phylogenetic models, population genetics, expression profiles, regulatory network simulations and image analysis. Recent areas of focus include machine learning applied to microscope images, protein and genome sequences, to better understand subcellular localization, intrinsically disordered regions and regulatory sequences in non-coding DNA.
- Expertise
- Computational and Systems Biology
- Evolutionary Biology
- Genetics and Genomics
- Research focus
- data analysis
- bioinformatics
- molecular evolution
- intrinsically disordered proteins
- signaling pathways
- regulatory networks
- Experimental organism
- S. cerevisiae
- Competing interests statement
- - Current research funding: Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR), National Science and Engineering Research Council (NSERC), Canada Research Chairs (CRC)- Other editorial roles: Associate Editor, Genetics
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Detlef Weigel
Max Planck Institute for Developmental Biology, Germany
Detlef Weigel received his PhD in 1988 from the Max Planck Institute for Developmental Biology. After postdoctoral work at the California Institute of Technology, he joined the faculty of the Salk Institute in 1993. Since 2002, he has been director of the Department of Molecular Biology at the Max Planck Institute for Developmental Biology. His current research interests focus on natural genetic variation and evolutionary genomics of plants. Examples of recent important projects are the 1001 Genomes project for Arabidopsis thaliana, and the systematic dissection of deleterious epistasis between Arabidopsis strains due to autoimmunity. Among the awards he has received are the Young Investigator Award of the National Science Foundation, the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Award of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, and the Otto Bayer Award. He is a member of the US National Academy of Sciences, the German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina and the Royal Society.
- Expertise
- Plant Biology
- Genetics and Genomics
- Evolutionary Biology
- Research focus
- plants
- genomics
- evolution
- genetic variation
- evolutionary genomics
- adaptation
- microbiome
- Experimental organism
- A. thaliana
- Competing interests statement
- Detlef Weigel has received funding from the Max Planck Society, the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, the Foundation of the State of Baden-Württemberg, the German Ministry for Education and Research, the European Commission, the Human Frontiers Science Program Organization, and several US Federal agencies. He serves on the Editorial Boards of Annual Review of Cell and Developmental Biology and Genome Biology. He is Chair of EMBO Council, and is serving or has recently served on the Advisory Boards of the Epigenomics of Plants International Consortium, Bayer Crop Science, The Arabidopsis Information Resource, Flanders Institute of Biotechnology, Temasek Life Sciences Laboratory, and the Sainsbury Laboratory. He is a co-founder of Computomics and CeMet.
Reviewing editors
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Benjamin K Blackman
University of California, Berkeley, United States
- Expertise
- Evolutionary Biology
- Genetics and Genomics
- Plant Biology
- Research focus
- evolutionary genetics
- evolution of development
- phenotypic variation
- domestication
- local adaptation
- plant reproduction
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Shai Carmi
The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel
- Expertise
- Genetics and Genomics
- Evolutionary Biology
- Epidemiology and Global Health
- Research focus
- ancient DNA
- polygenic scores
- human population genetics
- genetic genealogy
- coalescent theory
- demographic inference
- preimplantation genetic testing
- forensic DNA
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Catherine Carr
University of Maryland, United States
- Expertise
- Neuroscience
- Evolutionary Biology
- Research focus
- auditory
- evolution
- temporal coding
- comparative
- Experimental organism
- birds
- reptiles
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Frank Chan
Groningen Institute for Evolutionary Life Sciences, University of Groningen, Netherlands
- Expertise
- Developmental Biology
- Evolutionary Biology
- Genetics and Genomics
- Research focus
- evolution
- adaptation
- complex traits
- transcriptional regulation
- non-model organisms
- selective sweeps
- single-cell techniques
- haplotypes
- genomes
- genetic mapping
- Experimental organism
- mouse
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Ariel Chipman
The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel
- Expertise
- Developmental Biology
- Evolutionary Biology
- Research focus
- segmentation
- Cambrian explosion
- evo-devo
- body plan evolution
- head evolution
- molting
- Experimental organism
- arthropods
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Virginie Courtier-Orgogozo
Université Paris-Diderot CNRS, France
- Expertise
- Evolutionary Biology
- Genetics and Genomics
- Research focus
- genotype-phenotype
- evolutionary genetics
- morphological evolution
- physiological evolution
- gene drive
- Experimental organism
- D. melanogaster
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Noah J Cowan
The Johns Hopkins University, United States
- Expertise
- Neuroscience
- Evolutionary Biology
- Computational and Systems Biology
- Research focus
- sensorimotor control
- active sensing
- navigation
- biomechanics
- robotics
- control theory
- motor learning
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Dieter Ebert
University of Basel, Switzerland
- Expertise
- Evolutionary Biology
- Genetics and Genomics
- Research focus
- coevolution
- experimental evolution
- host-parasite interactions
- population genetics
- balancing selection
- evolution
- biogeography
- Experimental organism
- Daphnia
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Eran Elhaik
Lund University, Sweden
- Expertise
- Evolutionary Biology
- Genetics and Genomics
- Research focus
- bioinformatics
- biogeography
- population genomics
- population genetics
- molecular evolution
- paleogenetics
- forensics
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David Enard
University of Arizona, United States
- Expertise
- Evolutionary Biology
- Genetics and Genomics
- Research focus
- population genomics
- natural selection
- molecular evolution
- genomic adaptation
- host-virus interactions
- host adaptation to pathogens
- ecological genomics of adaptation
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Alexandre Fournier-Level
The University of Melbourne, Australia
- Expertise
- Genetics and Genomics
- Plant Biology
- Evolutionary Biology
- Research focus
- natural variation
- quantitative genetics
- population genetics
- invasion
- weeds
- genomic prediction
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Ziyue Gao
University of Pennsylvania, United States
- Expertise
- Evolutionary Biology
- Genetics and Genomics
- Chromosomes and Gene Expression
- Research focus
- population genetics
- human genetics
- mutation rate
- natural selection
- genetic variation
- ancient DNA
- Experimental organism
- human
- non-human primates
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Rosalyn Gloag
University of Sidney, Australia
- Expertise
- Evolutionary Biology
- Genetics and Genomics
- Ecology
- Research focus
- invasive species
- population genetics
- brood parasitism
- social parasitism
- eusociality
- Experimental organism
- birds
- bees
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Mariana Gómez-Schiavon
Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico
- Expertise
- Computational and Systems Biology
- Evolutionary Biology
- Research focus
- systems biology
- evolution dynamics
- gene regulatory circuits
- mathematical modeling
- nonlinear dynamics
- epigenetics
- bistability
- circadian rhythms
- oscillations
- homeostasis
- feedback control
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Martin Graña
Institut Pasteur de Montevideo, Uruguay
- Expertise
- Biochemistry and Chemical Biology
- Computational and Systems Biology
- Evolutionary Biology
- Physics of Living Systems
- Structural Biology and Molecular Biophysics
- Research focus
- protein 3D structure
- structural bioinformatics
- structure/function relationships
- evolution
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Emilia Huerta-Sanchez
Brown University, United States
- Expertise
- Ecology
- Evolutionary Biology
- Genetics and Genomics
- Research focus
- natural selection
- population demography
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Nizar Ibrahim
University of Portsmouth, United States
- Expertise
- Ecology
- Evolutionary Biology
- Research focus
- vertebrate palaeontology
- morphology anatomy
- dinosaur evolution
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Yaroslav Ispolatov
Universidad de Santiago de Chile, Chile
- Expertise
- Computational and Systems Biology
- Ecology
- Evolutionary Biology
- Physics of Living Systems
- Research focus
- evolution
- diversification
- adaptive dynamics
- ecology
- systems biology
- CRISPR
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Gaspar Jekely
University of Exeter, United Kingdom
- Expertise
- Genetics and Genomics
- Neuroscience
- Evolutionary Biology
- Research focus
- nervous system evolution
- marine larvae
- cilia
- sensory systems
- eukaryogenesis
- neuromodulation
- Experimental organism
- P. dumerilii
- C. hemisphaerica
- N. vectensis
- Trichoplax
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Ammie K Kalan
University of Victoria, Canada
- Expertise
- Ecology
- Evolutionary Biology
- Research focus
- acoustic monitoring
- animal communication
- animal behaviour
- conservation
- primatology
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Genevieve Konopka
The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, United States
- Expertise
- Neuroscience
- Genetics and Genomics
- Evolutionary Biology
- Research focus
- comparative genomics
- autism
- schizophrenia
- neurogenomics
- cognition
- language
- molecular neuroscience
- Experimental organism
- human
- mouse
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Dan Larhammar
Uppsala University, Sweden
- Expertise
- Medicine
- Evolutionary Biology
- Neuroscience
- Cell Biology
- Chromosomes and Gene Expression
- Genetics and Genomics
- Research focus
- evolution
- gene/genome duplications
- cellular and molecular neuroscience
- G protein-coupled receptors (GPCR)
- neuropeptides
- endocrine peptides
- phototransduction
- ligand-gated ion channels
- Experimental organism
- human
- zebrafish
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David Lentink
University of Groningen, Netherlands
- Expertise
- Ecology
- Evolutionary Biology
- Physics of Living Systems
- Research focus
- animal locomotion
- comparative biomechanics
- animal navigation
- movement ecology
- evolutionary biology
- biofluids
- biophysics
- bioinspired robotics
- bioinspiration & biomimetics
- Experimental organism
- birds
- insects
- bats
- plant seeds
- fish
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Vincent J Lynch
University at Buffalo, State University of New York, United States
- Expertise
- Chromosomes and Gene Expression
- Evolutionary Biology
- Genetics and Genomics
- Research focus
- evolutionary medicine
- evolutionary cell biology
- cancer
- gene regulation
- developmental evolution (DevoEvo)
- pregnancy
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David Marjanovic
Museum für Naturkunde, Germany
- Expertise
- Ecology
- Evolutionary Biology
- Research focus
- vertebrate palaeontology
- morphology
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Sara Mitri
University of Lausanne, Switzerland
- Expertise
- Ecology
- Evolutionary Biology
- Microbiology and Infectious Disease
- Research focus
- microbial ecology and evolution
- mathematical modelling
- synthetic ecology
- interspecies interactions
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Richard A Neher
University of Basel, Switzerland
- Expertise
- Computational and Systems Biology
- Physics of Living Systems
- Evolutionary Biology
- Research focus
- population genetics
- evolution of RNA viruses
- bioinformatics
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Armita Nourmohammad
University of Washington, United States
- Expertise
- Computational and Systems Biology
- Evolutionary Biology
- Physics of Living Systems
- Immunology and Inflammation
- Research focus
- population genetics
- computational immunology
- adaptive immunity
- statistical physics
- deep mutational scanning
- information theory
- statistical inference
- gene expression evolution
- Experimental organism
- D. melanogaster
- human
- viruses
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David A Paz-Garcia
Centro de Investigaciones Biológicas del Noroeste (CIBNOR), Mexico
- Expertise
- Chromosomes and Gene Expression
- Computational and Systems Biology
- Ecology
- Evolutionary Biology
- Genetics and Genomics
- Microbiology and Infectious Disease
- Plant Biology
- Research focus
- marine life
- coral reefs
- phylogenomics
- population genomics
- morphometrics
- gene expression
- statistics
- coding
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Marianoel Pereira-Gómez
Institut Pasteur de Montevideo, Uruguay
- Expertise
- Evolutionary Biology
- Genetics and Genomics
- Microbiology and Infectious Disease
- Research focus
- viruses
- evolution
- genetics
- mutation rate
- mutagenesis
- experimental evolution
- virology
- molecular biology
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Wenfeng Qian
Institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
- Expertise
- Evolutionary Biology
- Genetics and Genomics
- Research focus
- codon usage
- yeast genomics
- mutational spectrum
- fitness landscape
- gene duplication
- translational regulation
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Irene Salinas
University of New Mexico, United States
- Expertise
- Immunology and Inflammation
- Neuroscience
- Evolutionary Biology
- Microbiology and Infectious Disease
- Research focus
- mucosal immunology
- neuroimmunology
- host-microbe interactions
- evolutionary immunology
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Bernhard Schmid
University of Zurich, Switzerland
- Expertise
- Ecology
- Plant Biology
- Evolutionary Biology
- Research focus
- plant ecology
- evolutionary ecology
- biodiversity
- ecosystem functioning
- community ecology
- experimental ecology
- Experimental organism
- seed plants
- grassland
- forest
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Eve Seuntjens
KU Leuven, Belgium
- Expertise
- Developmental Biology
- Evolutionary Biology
- Neuroscience
- Stem Cells and Regenerative Medicine
- Research focus
- Development of the nervous system
- neural stem cells
- evolution of the nervous system
- nothobranchius furzeri (African turquoise killifish)
- Experimental organism
- cephalopod
- killifish
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Wenying Shou
University College London, United Kingdom
- Expertise
- Computational and Systems Biology
- Ecology
- Evolutionary Biology
- Genetics and Genomics
- Research focus
- quantitative biology
- mathematical biology
- evolutionary biology
- synthetic biology
- molecular genetics
- evolution of cooperation
- computer simulations
- Experimental organism
- S. cerevisiae
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Hiromu Tanimoto
Tohoku University, Japan
- Expertise
- Neuroscience
- Evolutionary Biology
- Research focus
- behavioral genetics
- neuronal circuits
- synapse
- elementary nervous systems
- translation
- neuromodulation by monoamines and peptides
- evolutionary neuroscience
- psychophysics
- psychochemistry
- Experimental organism
- invertebrates
- Drosophila melanogaster
- Cnidaria
- jellyfish
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Kristin Tessmar-Raible
University of Vienna, Austria
- Expertise
- Cell Biology
- Developmental Biology
- Ecology
- Evolutionary Biology
- Genetics and Genomics
- Neuroscience
- Research focus
- chronobiology
- marine
- photobiology
- rhythms
- clocks
- physiology
- Experimental organism
- platynereis
- clunio
- danio
- medakafish
- oryzias
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Jenny Tung
Duke University, United States
- Expertise
- Ecology
- Evolutionary Biology
- Genetics and Genomics
- Research focus
- social behaviour
- evolutionary ecology
- evolutionary functional genomics
- hybridization
- Experimental organism
- primates
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Justin Yeakel
University of California, Merced, United States
- Expertise
- Ecology
- Evolutionary Biology
- Research focus
- theoretical ecology
- population dynamics
- macroevolution
- paleobiology
- complex systems
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Min Zhu
Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
- Expertise
- Ecology
- Evolutionary Biology
- Research focus
- paleobiology
- vertebrate paleontology
- evolutionary biology
- systematics
- morphology
- paleobiogeography
- ichthyology
- Experimental organism
- E. primordialis
- G. oneiros
- Q. rostrata
