Editors for Evolutionary Biology
Senior editors
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George H Perry
Pennsylvania State University, United States
George Perry received his PhD in 2008 from Arizona State University, and did postdoctoral work at the University of Chicago. In 2011, he began a faculty position at Penn State University, where he is now Associate Professor of Anthropology and Biology, Chair of the Bioinformatics and Genomics Graduate Degree Program, and member of the Huck Institutes of the Life Sciences. His research interests focus on human evolution, evolutionary ecology, and evolutionary medicine, and how human behavior and biology have affected non-human evolutionary biology. Research methods and theory from anthropology, evolutionary biology, parasitology, and population, comparative, functional, and paleo (ancient DNA) genomics are integrated in this work. He has received the Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Award from the National Science Foundation, among others.
- Expertise
- Evolutionary Biology
- Ecology
- Genetics and Genomics
- Research focus
- evolutionary biology
- population genomics
- evolutionary ecology
- paleogenomics
- ancient DNA
- human evolution
- Experimental organism
- human
- non-human primates
- parasites
- Competing interests statement
- George Perry has received research support from the National Institutes of Health, National Science Foundation, Wenner-Gren Foundation, and L.S.B. Leakey Foundation. He is currently an Associate Editor of Evolutionary Anthropology.
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Molly Przeworski
Columbia University, United States
Molly Przeworski received a BA in Mathematics from Princeton University and a PhD from the Committee on Evolutionary Biology at the University of Chicago. Her postdoc was in the Statistics Department of the University of Oxford, and was followed by a two-year stint as a research scientist at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology. Before moving to Columbia University, she was a faculty member at the University of Chicago as well as, briefly, at Brown University. Her research interests are in understanding the genetic and evolutionary processes that give rise to variation within and between species, and focus on non-model vertebrate species, notably humans.
- Expertise
- Evolutionary Biology
- Genetics and Genomics
- Research focus
- population genetics
- human genetics
- evolutionary biology
- meiotic recombination
- mutation
- natural selection
- genome-wide association studies
- Experimental organism
- human
- non-model organisms
- Competing interests statement
- Molly Przeworski's research is currently funded by the NIH and the Agouron Foundation. Dr Przeworski is a member of the National Academy of Sciences and as such an editor for PNAS.
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Sara L Sawyer
University of Colorado Boulder, United States
Sara Sawyer is a recognized expert in the birth of new human viruses deriving from animal reservoirs. Dr Sawyer has received national and international awards including the Richard M. Elliott award in virology, the Alfred P. Sloan fellowship, and the Andy Kaplan Prize in Retrovirology. In 2011 she was awarded a PECASE award from President Obama at the White House. She holds a PhD from Cornell University, a BS in Chemical Engineering, and completed postdoctoral training at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center.
Dr Sawyer is an expert in virology, evolution, model organisms, viral reservoirs, infectious disease diagnostics, and testing and monitoring in COVID-19.
- Expertise
- Microbiology and Infectious Disease
- Evolutionary Biology
- Immunology and Inflammation
- Research focus
- virology
- viral host-switching and zoonosis
- host-virus arms races
- innate immunity
- genomics
- HIV
- SARS-CoV-2
- dengue viruses
- arenaviruses
- influenza viruses
- Experimental organism
- human
- viruses
- tissue culture
- Competing interests statement
- Sara Sawyer is a co-founder of Darwin Biosciences, which develops infectious disease diagnostics. She is a consultant for the U.S. government on biomedical issues relevant to national defense. She receives funding from the National Institutes of Health, the Burroughs Wellcome Fund, and the Department of Defense.
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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.
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Patricia Wittkopp
University of Michigan, United States
Patricia Wittkopp received a BS from the University of Michigan, a PhD from the University of Wisconsin, and did postdoctoral work at Cornell University. In 2005, she began a faculty position at the University of Michigan, where she is now an Arthur F Thurnau Professor in the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Department of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology, Center for Computational Medicine and Bioinformatics, and LSA Honors Program. Her research investigates the genetic basis of phenotypic evolution, with an emphasis on the evolution of gene expression. Molecular and developmental biology, population and quantitative genetics, genomics and bioinformatics are integrated in this work. She was a Damon Runyon Cancer Research Fellow, an Alfred P Sloan Research Fellow, Guggenheim Fellow, and a recipient of a March of Dimes Starter Scholar Award, the Margaret Dayhoff Mid-Career Award from the Society of Molecular Biology and Evolution, and the Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel Research Award from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation.
- Expertise
- Genetics and Genomics
- Evolutionary Biology
- Computational and Systems Biology
- Developmental Biology
- Chromosomes and Gene Expression
- Research focus
- genetics
- development
- evolution
- gene expression
- population genetics
- quantitative genetics
- Experimental organism
- D. melanogaster
- S. cerevisiae
- Competing interests statement
- Patricia Wittkopp has received research support from the National Institutes of Health, National Science Foundation, March of Dimes, Alfred P Sloan Foundation, John Simon Guggenheim Foundation, and Alexander von Humboldt Foundation. She is currently an Associate Editor of Molecular Biology and Evolution and GENETICS, and serves on the Advisory Editorial Board of Trends in Genetics.
Reviewing editors
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David B Allison
Indiana University, United States
- Expertise
- Medicine
- Genetics and Genomics
- Epidemiology and Global Health
- Computational and Systems Biology
- Evolutionary Biology
- Research focus
- experimental design
- statistics
- longevity
- biostatistics
- obesity
- nutrition
- senescence
- research rigour
- science integrity
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Regina S Baucom
University of Michigan, United States
- Expertise
- Plant Biology
- Evolutionary Biology
- Genetics and Genomics
- Research focus
- plant adaptation
- evolutionary ecology
- evolutionary genetics
- artificial evolution
- plant mating
- Experimental organism
- plants
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Nir Ben-Tal
Tel Aviv University, Israel
- Expertise
- Biochemistry and Chemical Biology
- Computational and Systems Biology
- Evolutionary Biology
- Structural Biology and Molecular Biophysics
- Research focus
- computational structural biology
- structural biology
- structural bioinformatics
- protein universe
- primordial peptides
- membrane proteins
- transporters
- drug discovery
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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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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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Vincent Castric
Université de Lille, France
- Expertise
- Evolutionary Biology
- Genetics and Genomics
- Plant Biology
- Research focus
- evolutionary genomics
- population genetics
- small regulatory RNAs
- mating systems
- transposable elements
- gene regulatory networks
- self-incompatibility
- receptor-ligand interaction
- Experimental organism
- Arabidopsis
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Sarah E Cobey
University of Chicago, United States
- Expertise
- Microbiology and Infectious Disease
- Ecology
- Evolutionary Biology
- Epidemiology and Global Health
- Medicine
- Research focus
- B cells
- coevolution
- infectious disease dynamics
- influenza
- mathematical modelling
- vaccination
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Graham Coop
University of California, Davis, United States
- Expertise
- Genetics and Genomics
- Evolutionary Biology
- Research focus
- population genetics
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Vaughn S Cooper
University of Pittsburgh, United States
- Expertise
- Evolutionary Biology
- Microbiology and Infectious Disease
- Genetics and Genomics
- Research focus
- experimental evolution
- antimicrobial resistance
- biofilms
- education
- adaptation
- cancer
- Experimental organism
- Pseudomonas
- E. coli
- Burkholderia
- Acinetobacter
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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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Claude Desplan
New York University, United States
- Expertise
- Developmental Biology
- Evolutionary Biology
- Neuroscience
- Research focus
- development
- Drosophila
- evo-devo
- vision
- neural development
- photoreceptors
- Experimental organism
- D. melanogaster
- ants
- butterflies
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Samuel L Díaz-Muñoz
University of California, Davis, United States
- Expertise
- Evolutionary Biology
- Genetics and Genomics
- Microbiology and Infectious Disease
- Research focus
- social evolution
- reassortment
- experimental evolution
- genomics
- sex
- environmental microbiology
- behavior
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Michael Doebeli
University of British Columbia, Canada
- Expertise
- Computational and Systems Biology
- Ecology
- Evolutionary Biology
- Research focus
- mathematical modelling
- evolution of diversity
- social insects
- ecology and evolution of microbial communities
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David Donoso
Escuela Politécnica Nacional, Ecuador
- Expertise
- Ecology
- Evolutionary Biology
- Research focus
- biodiversity
- ecosystem ecology
- community ecology
- global warming
- soil organisms
- tropical forests
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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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Nels C Elde
University of Utah, United States
- Expertise
- Evolutionary Biology
- Microbiology and Infectious Disease
- Immunology and Inflammation
- Research focus
- host-microbe interactions
- evolutionary genetics
- virus evolution
- experimental evolution
- innate immunity
- Experimental organism
- primates
- poxviruses
- zebrafish
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Tatiana Giraud
Université Paris-Sud, France
- Expertise
- Evolutionary Biology
- Research focus
- fungi
- domestication
- adaptation
- genomics
- plant pathogen
- sex chromosomes
- mating systems
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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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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
Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Germany
- Expertise
- Ecology
- Evolutionary Biology
- Research focus
- acoustic monitoring
- animal communication
- animal behaviour
- conservation
- primatology
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Merijn R Kant
University of Amsterdam, Netherlands
- Expertise
- Ecology
- Plant Biology
- Evolutionary Biology
- Research focus
- plant defense
- biological control
- adaptation
- co-evolution
- pest formation
- effectors
- susceptibility
- resistance
- defense suppression
- Experimental organism
- insects
- mites
- plants
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Laurent Keller
University of Lausanne, Switzerland
- Expertise
- Ecology
- Evolutionary Biology
- Research focus
- evolution
- social behaviour
- ants
- genetics
- social networks
- Experimental organism
- ants
- social insects
- D. melanogaster
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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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Shigehiro Kuraku
National Institute of Genetics, Japan
- Expertise
- Evolutionary Biology
- Genetics and Genomics
- Developmental Biology
- Research focus
- molecular evolution
- gene family evolution
- developmental roles of duplicated genes
- early vertebrate genome evolution
- Experimental organism
- reptiles
- cyclostomes
- chondrichthyans
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Christian R Landry
Universite Laval, Canada
- Expertise
- Computational and Systems Biology
- Evolutionary Biology
- Cell Biology
- Genetics and Genomics
- Research focus
- systems biology
- evolution
- genomics
- synthetic biology
- microbiology
- Experimental organism
- S. cerevisiae
- D. melanogaster
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Max C Langer
Universidade de Sao Paulo, Brazil
- Expertise
- Evolutionary Biology
- Research focus
- vertebrate palaeontology
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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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Mia T Levine
University of Pennsylvania, United States
- Expertise
- Chromosomes and Gene Expression
- Evolutionary Biology
- Genetics and Genomics
- Research focus
- evolution
- conflict
- heterochromatin
- telomere
- phylogenomics
- paternal chromatin
- epigenetics
- Experimental organism
- D. melanogaster
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Andrei Lupas
Max Planck Institute for Developmental Biology, Germany
- Expertise
- Biochemistry and Chemical Biology
- Computational and Systems Biology
- Structural Biology and Molecular Biophysics
- Evolutionary Biology
- Research focus
- bacterial surface proteins
- bioinformatics
- coiled coils
- protein design
- protein evolution
- protein structure
- transmembrane signal tranduction
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Daniel R Matute
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, United States
- Expertise
- Ecology
- Evolutionary Biology
- Genetics and Genomics
- Research focus
- genetic mechanisms
- evolutionary consequences
- reproductive isolation
- speciation
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Philipp W Messer
Cornell University, United States
- Expertise
- Evolutionary Biology
- Genetics and Genomics
- Research focus
- evolutionary biology
- population genetics
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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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Alan Moses
University of Toronto, Canada
- 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
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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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Magnus Nordborg
Gregor Mendel Institute of Molecular Plant Biology, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Austria
- Expertise
- Genetics and Genomics
- Plant Biology
- Evolutionary Biology
- Research focus
- adaptation
- population genetics
- evolutionary genetics
- genetics
- genomics
- genome-wide association studies
- epigenetics
- Experimental organism
- Arabidopsis
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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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Lauren O'Connell
Stanford University, United States
- Expertise
- Ecology
- Evolutionary Biology
- Genetics and Genomics
- Neuroscience
- Research focus
- behavior
- evolution
- predator-prey interactions
- toxins
- communication
- sensory systems
- Experimental organism
- amphibians
- lizards
- fish
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C. Brandon Ogbunugafor
Yale University, United States
- Expertise
- Computational and Systems Biology
- Evolutionary Biology
- Epidemiology and Global Health
- Physics of Living Systems
- Microbiology and Infectious Disease
- Research focus
- disease ecology
- microbial evolution
- population genetics
- epidemiology
- evolutionary medicine
- Experimental organism
- E. coli
- human
- P. falciparum
- S. cerevisiae
- viruses
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Daniel Ortiz-Barrientos
The University of Queensland, Australia
- Expertise
- Ecology
- Evolutionary Biology
- Genetics and Genomics
- Research focus
- genetics of speciation and adaptation
- replicated evolution of traits and reproductive isolation
- early stages of speciation and the origin of ecotypes
- molecular causes of reproductive isolation and adaptation
- quantitative genetics of ecologically important traits and fitness
- role of sexual selection on speciation
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Paul Rainey
Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Biology, Germany
- Expertise
- Ecology
- Evolutionary Biology
- Microbiology and Infectious Disease
- Plant Biology
- Research focus
- adaptive radiation
- evolution of individuality
- evolutionary genetics
- ecological genetics
- emergence of infectious diseases
- forecasting evolution
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Antonis Rokas
Vanderbilt University, United States
- Expertise
- Evolutionary Biology
- Microbiology and Infectious Disease
- Research focus
- phylogenomics
- genome evolution in fungi and animals
- evolution of fungal secondary/specialized metabolic pathways
- evolution of mammalian pregnancy
- eukaryotic genome evolution
- evolution of opportunistic pathogenicity
- Experimental organism
- S. cerevisiae
- mammals
- Aspergillus
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Jeffrey Ross-Ibarra
University of California, Davis, United States
- Expertise
- Plant Biology
- Evolutionary Biology
- Genetics and Genomics
- Research focus
- evolutionary genetics
- domestication
- local adaptation
- transposable elements
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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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Karen Sears
University of California, Los Angeles, United States
- Expertise
- Evolutionary Biology
- Research focus
- mammalian evolutionary developmental biology
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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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Alex Sigal
Africa Health Research Institute, University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa
- Expertise
- Computational and Systems Biology
- Evolutionary Biology
- Microbiology and Infectious Disease
- Research focus
- SARS-CoV-2
- COVID-19
- antibody neutralisation
- viral evolution
- experimental evolution
- cell-to-cell viral spread
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Mashaal Sohail
National Autonomous University of Mexico, Mexico
- Expertise
- Computational and Systems Biology
- Evolutionary Biology
- Genetics and Genomics
- Epidemiology and Global Health
- Research focus
- population genetics
- complex traits
- natural selection
- population structure
- demographic history
- genomics
- equity
- anthropological genetics
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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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Dario Riccardo Valenzano
Max Planck Institute for Biology of Ageing, Germany
- Expertise
- Evolutionary Biology
- Genetics and Genomics
- Immunology and Inflammation
- Microbiology and Infectious Disease
- Research focus
- biology of aging
- microbiome
- killifish
- neutral evolution
- mutation load
- comparative genomics
- immunosenescence
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Kevin Verstrepen
VIB-KU Leuven Center for Microbiology, Belgium
- Expertise
- Evolutionary Biology
- Genetics and Genomics
- Microbiology and Infectious Disease
- Research focus
- yeast
- aroma
- fermentation
- genomics
- molecular evolution
- Experimental organism
- S. cerevisiae
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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
