Editorial Board
Loren Rieseberg
Chief Editor
University of British Columbia
Canada
email: lriesebe@interchange.ubc.ca
tel: 1 604 827 4540
Loren Rieseberg is a University Killam Professor and Canada Research Chair in Plant Evolutionary Genomics at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, where he serves as Director of UBC’s Biodiversity Research Centre. Loren’s lab employs evolutionary genomic approaches and field and greenhouse experiments to study the origin and evolution of new species, exploit the genetic diversity of wild extremophile species for crop improvement, and combat invasive weeds, focusing on members of the sunflower family.
Harry Smith
Founding Editor
University of Nottingham, UK
Ben Sibbett
Managing Editor
email: molecol@wiley.com
Pierre Taberlet
Reviews Editor
Joseph Fourier University, France
Armando Geraldes
News and Views Editor
Armando Geraldes is an empirical evolutionary biologist who uses molecular data to address questions in adaptation, speciation and conservation in a range of organisms.
Emily Warschefsky
News and Views Editor
University of British Columbia, Canada
Emily Warschefsky is an evolutionary biologist with broad interests in speciation, hybridization, introgression, and conservation genomics. Her research centers on exploring the history of domesticated species across evolutionary timescales, understanding how domestication shapes the genomes of diverse crop systems, and conserving rare species and crop wild relatives.
Richard Abbott
Senior Editor
University of St Andrews, UK
David Coltman
Senior Editor
University of Alberta, Canada
Dave Coltman is interested in the fitness consequences of inbreeding and outbreeding, the architecture of quantitative traits, and the genetic structure of wildlife populations. Dave collaborates on long-term studies of wild populations including mountain ungulates, red squirrels and pinnipeds.
Rosemary Gillespie
Senior Editor
University of California Berkeley, USA
Rosemary Gillespie is a Professor at the University of California, Berkeley, where she also holds the Schlinger Chair in Systematics. She moved from the University of Hawaii to the University of California in Berkeley in 1999, continuing her research focus on the insular Pacific, using islands of known age and isolation to assess the combined temporal and spatial dimension of biogeography and determine patterns of diversification, adaptive radiation, and associated community assembly and conservation challenges.
Tatiana Giraud
Senior Editor
Paris-Sud University, France
Tatiana Giraud is an evolutionary biologist working as a CNRS scientist at the Paris Sud University and Professor at the Ecole Polytechniqe. She works on speciation, pathogen virulence, host-pathogen coevolution, biological invasions, evolution of cooperation by kin selection, evolution of mating systems, the genomics of adaptation and domestication, using various approaches, such as population genetics, genomics and experimental studies.
Michael Hansen
Senior Editor
Aarhus University, Denmark
Michael M. Hansen is Professor at the Department of Bioscience, Aarhus University, Denmark. His research interests are in the broad field of population genomics. He is particularly interested in understanding if and how organisms can adapt to rapid environmental change, such as climate change, and in understanding interactions between adaptive processes and long-term demographic history of species and populations. He also has a strong interest in the application of population genomics for practical conservation problems. He focuses particularly on fishes, with eels, salmonid fishes and threespine sticklebacks being his favourite study organisms.
Nolan Kane
Senior Editor
University of Colorado, Boulder, USA
Victoria Sork
Senior Editor
University of California, Los Angeles, USA
Professor Victoria Sork research program studies evolutionary and ecological processes in tree populations (and sometimes lichens), using genomic and field-based approaches. Specific topics include local adaptation, contemporary pollen- and seed-mediated gene flow, hybridization and introgression, landscape genomics, epigenetics, impact of climate change, and phylogeography. Genomic tools used in her lab include reduced library and whole genome sequencing, gene expression using RNAseq, analysis of DNA methylation using RRBS and whole metholome sequencing. Other methods include quantitative genetic analysis of traits grown in common garden experiments and climate modeling for conservation genomic studies. Given that her focal taxa are oaks, she with collaborators have produced a high quality, annotated genome of a California endemic oak, Quercus lobata, as a foundational genomic resource for oak research. She is a Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology and a professor at the Institute of Environment and Sustainability, both at UCLA.
Robert Wayne
Senior Editor
University of California, Los Angeles, USA
Robert Wayne has broad interests in ecology, behavior, evolution and conservation of plants and animals. Recently, he has established a Conservation Genomics Consortium involving 6 University of California schools (https://ucconservationgenomics.eeb.ucla.edu/) and CaleDNA, (http://www.ucedna.com/) which aims to use environmental DNA approaches to establish a biodiversity baseline throughout the state.
Frédéric Austerlitz
Associate Editor
National Museum of Natural History, France
Frédéric Austerlitz is a CNRS research scientist working at the National Museum of Natural History in Paris on theoretical population genetics. He develops models for studying the impact of demographic, selective and cultural processes on genomic diversity. Conversely, he develops methods for inferring these processes from genomic diversity.
François Balloux
Associate Editor
University College London, UK
Francois Balloux is Professor of Computational Systems Biology and Director of the UCL Genetics Institute at University College London. His primary interest lies in the reconstruction of the past demography of natural populations using genomic data. Over recent years, his work has focused on outbreaks and epidemics of human and wildlife pathogens.
Nick Barton
Associate Editor
IST Austria, Austria
Nick Barton studied genetics in Cambridge, and then completed a Ph.D. in 1979, on a chromosomal hybrid zone in an Alpine grasshopper, supervised by Godfrey Hewitt at the University of East Anglia. Nick later worked at Cambridge, University College London, and Edinburgh, moving to his present post at IST Austria in 2008. Nick works on a variety of questions in evolutionary genetiocs, the common theme being selection on large numbers of genes, and spatially continuous populations.
Regina Baucom
Associate Editor
University of Michigan, USA
Regina (Gina) Baucom earned her BS from the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, and her PhD from the Genetics Department at the University of Georgia. She was a post-doctoral research associate in Jeff Bennetzen’s lab, also at UGA, before joining the faculty at University of Cincinnati in 2010. She moved to the University of Michigan in 2013. Gina is broadly interested in plant adaptation, genome structure and function, and plant-microbial interactions.
John Benzie
Associate Editor
University College Cork, Ireland
Holly Bik
Associate Editor
University of Birmingham, UK
Holly Bik is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Nematology at the University of California, Riverside. Her research uses high-throughput environmental sequencing approaches (rRNA surveys, metagenomics, open source software workflows, and data visualization tools) to explore ecological and evolutionary patterns in marine microbial assemblages, with an emphasis on microbial eukaryotes and deep-sea sediment habitats.
Pim Bongaerts
Associate Editor
California Academy of Sciences, UK
Pim Bongaerts holds the McCosker Chair of Aquatic Biology at the California Academy of Sciences. He obtained his PhD at The University of Queensland in Brisbane, after which he held several fellowships studying the Great Barrier Reef in Australia. He studies the biodiversity and evolution of tropical reef corals (order Scleractinia) from close to the surface down to mesophotic depths (~30-150 m). His lab combines genomic approaches with field ecology to understand how corals diversify, and adapt to different and changing environmental conditions.
Aurélie Bonin
Associate Editor
Joseph Fourier University, France
Camille Bonneud
Associate Editor
University of Exeter, UK
Alex Buerkle
Associate Editor
University of Wyoming, USA
Alex Buerkle is a professor in the Department of Botany at the University of Wyoming, where he specializes in evolutionary genetics and computational biology. He develops statistical models for genetics and community ecology, often for compositional data, and uses laboratory methods for large-scale sequencing.
Ana Caicedo
Associate Editor
University of Massachusetts, USA
Ana Caicedo is an Associate Professor in the Biology Department at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. She earned her BS from the Universidad de los Andes in Bogotá, Colombia, and her PhD from the Evolution and Population Biology Program at Washington University in St. Louis. Ana is broadly interested in plant adaptation, and uses population genomic approaches to understand how cultivated plants and agricultural weeds evolve.
Eric Coissac
Associate Editor
Joseph Fourier University, France
Simon Creer
Associate Editor
Bangor University, UK
Simon Creer is a Professor of Molecular Ecology at Bangor University, North Wales, UK. He is interested in using molecular tools to address questions focusing on the ecology and evolution of a broad array of taxa across the tree of life. He is investigating relationships between biodiversity and ecosystem processes, using genomic, community and environmental DNA (eDNA) sources. Focal habitats have included estuarine, coastal and deep sea environments with an increasing focus on freshwater, terrestrial and the aerial biosphere in order to understand the drivers of diversity in natural communities and also how diversity is linked with ecological function, trophic relationships, environmental and human health.
Mitch Cruzan
Associate Editor
Portland State University, USA
Mitch Cruzan is a Professor of Biology at Portland State University. He utilizes ecological and molecular genetic techniques to address questions in plant ecology and evolutionary biology. His research interests include the evolutionary consequences of somatic mutation accumulation in plants, and the ecological and evolutionary processes of hybridization, species invasion, phylogeography, and dispersal.
Angus Davison
Associate Editor
University of Nottingham, UK
Angus Davison uses snails to understand evolutionary and developmental genetics, focussing on colour polymorphism, speciation and left-right asymmetry.
Jeremy deWaard
Associate Editor
University of Guelph, Canada
Jeremy deWaard is an Adjunct Professor and Associate Director at the Centre for Biodiversity Genomics at the University of Guelph. His research focuses on molecular techniques, biosurveillance, ecosystem monitoring, and the integrative systematics of various terrestrial arthropod groups, particularly moths.
Andrew DeWoody
Associate Editor
Purdue University, USA
Andrew DeWoody’s lab group at Purdue University conducts research on vertebrate genomics, evolution, ecology, and conservation. Andrew has been lucky throughout his career; he’s had great academic advisors and even better advisees.
Alex Dumbrell
Associate Editor
University of Essex, UK
Alex Dumbrell is a community ecologist who uses molecular tools to examine the mechanisms regulating biodiversity and its associated relationships with ecosystems functions and processes; alongside the ecological impacts environmental change may have on these. He works across terrestrial, freshwater and marine environments and has a notable research fondness for microbes, particularly fungi.
Brent Emerson
Associate Editor
IPNA-CSIC, Tenerife, Spain
Much of Brent's research uses insular systems to understand the evolutionary and ecological processes that both generate biodiversity and structure it spatially. His research primarily uses invertebrate organisms, from the scale of single species through to communities.
Daniel Falush
Associate Editor
Max Plank Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Germany
Myriam Heuertz
Associate Editor
National Institute for Agricultural Research, Cestas, France
Myriam is a research scientist at the French National Research Institute, INRA, interested in evolutionary processes in tree species and species complexes.
Shotaro Hirase
Associate Editor
University of Tokyo, Japan
Shotaro Hirase is a population geneticist interested in conservation genetics and evolution. He obtained a PhD at Tohoku University, Japan in 2012 and worked as a postdoctoral research fellow at the University of Tokyo, Japan from 2012 to 2015. He is currently an assistant professor in Fisheries Laboratory at the University of Tokyo. His work has focused on genome-wide population genetics, hybridization, and conservation genetics of coastal marine species.
Paul Hohenlohe
Associate Editor
University of Idaho, USA
Paul A. Hohenlohe is an Associate Professor in the Biological Sciences Department and the Institute for Bioinformatics and Evolutionary Studies at the University of Idaho. Following his Ph.D. from the University of Washington, he worked as a conservation biologist for the U.S. Northwest Forest Plan and conducted postdoctoral research at the University of Oregon and Oregon State University. His research focuses on evolutionary genomics with applications to conservation.
Christian Lexer
Associate Editor
University of Vienna, Austria
Christian Lexer is Professor at University of Vienna and leads a research group in Plant Evolutionary Genomics there. His research interests include the population genetic forces at work in hybrid zones, the genomic architecture of functionally important traits that vary within and between diverging populations, the effects of naturally segregating variation on eco-evolutionary dynamics, and the drivers and limits of species radiations.
Valerie McKenzie
Associate Editor
University of Colorado, Boulder, USA
Corrie Moreau
Associate Editor
Field Museum of Natural History, USA
Corrie Moreau is the Moser Professor of Arthropod Biosystematics and Biodiversity at Cornell University. Dr. Moreau's research focuses on the evolution and diversification of ants and their symbiotic bacteria and leverages molecular and genomic tools to address the origin of species and how co-evolved systems benefit both partners.
Shawn Narum
Associate Editor
University of Idaho/Columbia River Inter-Tribal Fish Commission, USA
Shawn Narum is the leader of a research group involved in population and ecological genomics of multiple fish species in the Columbia River and Pacific Northwest USA. His research occurs at the interface of academic and applied research where genomic tools are utilized for long-term preservation of once abundant aquatic resources in this region such as Pacific salmon.
Laura Parfrey
Associate Editor
University of British Columbia, Canada
Laura Wegener Parfrey is an Assistant Professor at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, and interested in many facets of microbial diversity and evolution. Laura’s lab uses high-throughput sequencing to investigate the diversity and distribution of microbial eukaryotes (protists) and bacteria across environments, particularly those that are host-associated.
Tara Pelletier
Associate Editor
University of Radford, Virginia, USA
Josephine Pemberton
Associate Editor
University of Edinburgh, UK
Sébastien Renaut
Associate Editor
University of Montreal, Canada
As a researcher, Sébastien tries to further our understanding of the genomic basis of adaptation and the fundamental mechanisms underlying the evolution of genome and transcriptomes. He has addressed these questions in several organisms, including lake whitefish, sunflowers, freshwater mussels, and soil/freshwater microbes.
Cynthia Riginos
Associate Editor
University of Queensland, Australia
Cynthia is an evolutionary biologist with wide-ranging interests spanning population genomics, land and seascape genetics, molecular ecology, phylogeography, biogeography, speciation, hybridisation, invasive species, and conservation. She is especially fond of reef fishes, molluscs, and corals but easily distracted by other taxa as well.
Sean Rogers
Associate Editor
University of Calgary, Canada
Sean Rogers is an Associate Professor at the University of Calgary and Director of the Bamfield Marine Sciences Centre. As an ecologist and evolutionary biologist, his research program focuses on the ecological genetics of adaptation to environmental change. He has taught first year biology (DNA to Diversity), Evolution, Molecular Ecology, and a BMSC field course in Marine Fishes.
Jacob Russell
Associate Editor
Drexel University, USA
After earning a BS from the University of Rochester in Molecular Genetics, Jacob Russell earned his PhD studying bacterial symbionts of aphids with Nancy Moran at the University of Arizona. He then spent two years as a postdoc with Naomi Pierce at Harvard University, where he began his research on ants and their gut bacteria. His laboratory, at Drexel University, uses molecular tools to study the ecology and evolution of these insect-microbe symbioses.
Anna Santure
Associate Editor
University of Auckland, New Zealand
Anna Santure's research focuses on understanding the genetic basis of traits that are important for survival and reproduction, and hence the overall fitness of individuals in a population. To do so, Anna's group uses detailed study of populations in the wild, along with genetic and genomic tools, to predict the adaptive potential of these populations in a changing world.
Christian Schlötterer
Associate Editor
University of Veterinary Medicine, Vienna, Austria
Christian Schlötterer graduated at the Ludwig-Maximilians Universität in Munich. After postdocs in Munich and Chicago he started his own group at the Vetmeduni Vienna. Since 2008 he heads the Institute of Population Genetics and the Vienna Graduate School of Population Genetics.
Sean Schoville
Associate Editor
University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA
Sean Schoville's work has been inspired by the natural history of species and his fascination with how they overcome challenges in the natural world. Research in Sean's lab focuses on determining how species respond to environmental change, and developing management and conservation strategies that incorporate these processes.
Suhua Shi
Associate Editor
Sun Yat-sen University, China
Suhua Shi is a professor of School of Life Sciences at Sun Yat-Sen University, China. Her research focuses on adaptive evolution and speciation in plants. The aim of her research is to understand the molecular basis of adaptation and phenotypic variation by using genomic techniques. She is particularly interested in the evolutionary convergence among independently evolved species in the same biological community, as well as geographical mechanisms of speciation revealed by mangroves.
Stephen Spear
Associate Editor
University of Idaho, USA
Graham Stone
Associate Editor
University of Edinburgh, UK
Graham Stone is Professor of Ecology at the University of Edinburgh. His research aims to understand the assembly and evolution of biological communities, with particular focus on plant-pollinator and plant-herbivore-parasitoid interactions.
William Symondson
Associate Editor
Cardiff University, UK
Bill Symondson's main interest is in the food choices predators and herbivores make, and the use of molecular analysis of gut and faecal samples to do so. He uses High Throughput Sequencing to analyse predation by invertebrates, reptiles, birds and mammals in the contexts of biocontrol or conservation ecology. A similar approach has been applied to herbivory by birds and giant tortoises.
Lisette Waits
Associate Editor
University of Idaho, USA
Lisette Waits is a distinguished professor and department head in the Dept of Fish and Wildlife Sciences at the University of Idaho. Her research is focused on conservation genetics, landscape genetics and molecular ecology of wildlife species.
Jeremy Yoder
Associate Editor
California State University, USA
Lucie Zinger
Associate Editor
Institut de Biologie de l’ENS, Ecole Normale Supérieure, France
Lucie is a molecular and community ecologists who studies how complex, multitrophic assemblages of elusive organisms, such as microbes or invertebrates, do respond to – or interact with – their biotic and abiotic environment. She is also interested in a wide array of applications of environmental DNA as well as their improvements at molecular, bioinformatics and conceptual levels.
Daniel Ortiz-Barrientos
Social Media Editor
University of Queensland, Australia
Daniel is an Associate Professor in the School of Biological Sciences at The University of Queensland. Daniel’s lab uses a variety of genetic and ecological tools to investigate the origin of new species and adaptations, primarily in plants.
Luke Browne
Junior Editorial Board
University of California, Los Angeles, USA
Luke Browne's current position is a Postdoctoral Researcher for the La Kretz Center for California Conservation Science and the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at University of California, Los Angeles.
Samridhi Chaturvedi
Junior Editorial Board
Harvard University, USA
Samridhi's research focuses on the genomic basis of adaptation and speciation. She is interested in understanding how populations adapt to contemporary habitat changes and how patterns of genomic introgression and hybridization can inform our understanding of speciation and biodiversity. Under this broad research approach, she is interested in quantifying evolutionary predictability in the context of phenotypes, genotypes, space and time and she uses a combination of field-based, experimental and molecular approaches to generate genome level data to answer her research questions. She received her PhD from Utah State University in Logan in 2019, focusing on the quantification of predictable genomic changes underlying the evolution of Lycaeides butterflies. As a postdoc at the Arnold Arboretum at Harvard University, she is working with Phlox flowers and aims to dissect the gene regulatory basis of incomptability in pollen-pistil interactions and understand the genomic patterns of hybridization and introgression in Phlox species.
Nick Fountain-Jones
Junior Editorial Board
University of Minnesota, USA
Nick Fountain-Jones is an early career disease ecologist with broad interests in how organisms including pathogens disperse or transmit and interact with one another and their environment and ultimately how this could shape evolution. He utilizes observational and mechanistic approaches, incorporating phylogeographic, community phylogenetic, network and functional data and techniques. In particular, he is interested in how molecular data can be analysed using phylogeographic, network and community-level analyses leveraging advances in machine learning and Bayesian statistics.
Rebecca (Beki) Hooper
Junior Editorial Board
University of Exeter, UK
Beki is a PhD candidate at the University of Exeter, UK. Her research interests focus on the evolution of sociality, and she is currently investigating the causes and consequences of avian social bonds. She has previously worked on social behaviour in primates, spatial ecology in barnacles, and the microbiome of killer whales. She is interested in understanding social evolution by working at the interface of behavioural, evolutionary and molecular ecology.
Megan Smith
Junior Editorial Board
Ohio State University, USA
Megan is a PhD Candidate in Bryan C. Carstens lab at Ohio State University .
Janna Willoughby
Junior Editorial Board
Auburn University, USA
Janna is an Assistant Professor in the School of Forestry and Wildlife Sciences at Auburn University. Research in her group is focused on using genetics and genomics to inform conservation and management across a wide variety of vertebrate taxa, with an emphasis on how organisms respond to habitat changes.