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
- human evolution
- evolutionary ecology
- evolutionary biology
- population genomics
- comparative genomics
- functional genomics
- paleogenomics
- Experimental organism
- 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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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
- natural variation
- epigenetics
- evolutionary genomics
- plant biology
- genomics
- evolutionary biology
- immunity
- 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
- Computational and Systems Biology
- Genetics and Genomics
- Evolutionary Biology
- Research focus
- evolutionary genetics
- evolution and development
- gene expression
- regulatory networks
- allele-specific expression
- 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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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
- Research focus
- population and evolutionary genomics
- plant mating systems
- small regulatory RNAs
- systems biology
- Experimental organism
- Arabidopsis
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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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Barnabas Daru
Texas A&M University - Corpus Christi, United States
- Expertise
- Ecology
- Evolutionary Biology
- Plant Biology
- Research focus
- evolutionary biogeography
- herbarium records
- phylogeny
- phyloregions
- vascular plants
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Claude Desplan
New York University, United States
- Expertise
- Developmental Biology
- Evolutionary Biology
- Genetics and Genomics
- Neuroscience
- Research focus
- evo-devo
- neural development
- retina
- vision
- color vision
- stochasticity
- Experimental organism
- D. melanogaster
- ants
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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
- Genetics and Genomics
- Ecology
- Research focus
- evolution
- pathogenesis
- fungi
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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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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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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
RIKEN Center for Biosystems Dynamics Research, 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
- Research focus
- systems biology
- evolution
- molecular evolution
- synthetic biology
- hybridization
- Experimental organism
- S. cerevisiae
- S. paradoxus
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Dan Larhammar
Uppsala University, Sweden
- Expertise
- Medicine
- Evolutionary Biology
- Neuroscience
- Research focus
- evolution
- gene/genome duplications
- cellular and molecular neuroscience
- G protein-coupled receptors (GPCR)
- neuropeptides
- endocrine peptides
- hypothalamus
- phototransduction
- ligand-gated ion channels
- Experimental organism
- human
- zebrafish
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David Lentink
Stanford University, United States
- Expertise
- Ecology
- Evolutionary Biology
- Research focus
- comparative biomechanics of flight
- evolutionary biology
- bio-fluid dynamics
- bio-inspired design
- Experimental organism
- birds
- insects
- bats
- plant seeds
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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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John A Long
Flinders University, Australia
- Expertise
- Evolutionary Biology
- Research focus
- paleontology
- fossil
- Pisces
- Devonian
- Placodermi
- Tetrapodomorpha
- Chondrichthyes
- Actinopterygii
- Sarcopterygii
- palaeozoic
- phylogeny
- Australia
- Gondwana
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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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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
- Research focus
- behaviour and toxicity in poison frogs
- behavior
- physiology
- evolution
- Experimental organism
- amphibians
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Molly Przeworski
Columbia University, United States
- Expertise
- Evolutionary Biology
- Genetics and Genomics
- Research focus
- meiotic recombination
- mutation
- natural selection
- human genetics
- polygenic scores
- hybridization
- Experimental organism
- mammals
- human
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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
- Experimental organism
- S. cerevisiae
- mammals
- Aspergillus
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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
Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, United States
- 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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Kristin Tessmar-Raible
University of Vienna, Austria
- Expertise
- Genetics and Genomics
- Neuroscience
- Evolutionary Biology
- Ecology
- Research focus
- chronobiology
- marine biology
- photobiology
- behavior
- reproductive timing
- seasons
- lunar rhythms
- tool establishment for "non-conventional animal models”
- Experimental organism
- P. dumerilii
- C. marinus
- zebrafish
- medakafish
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Jessica Thompson
Yale University, United States
- Expertise
- Ecology
- Evolutionary Biology
- Research focus
- zooarchaeology
- human evolution
- human origins
- taphonomy
- paleontology
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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
