Shawn Narum
Editor in Chief
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.
email: shawnn@uidaho.edu
tel: 1 208 837 9096 x1120
Harry Smith
Founding Editor
University of Nottingham, UK
Ben Sibbett
Managing Editor
email: molecol@wiley.com
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.
Joanna Kelley
News and Views and Associate Editor
Washington State University, USA
Joanna Kelley is a Associate Professor at Washington State University in Biological Sciences. Researches genome evolution in organisms adapted to extreme environments, including hydrogen sulfide-adapted fish and brown bears.
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.
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.
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.
Aurélie Bonin
Associate Editor
Joseph Fourier University, France
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.
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.
Daniel Falush
Associate Editor
Max Plank Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Germany
Kimberly Gilbert
Associate Editor
University of Berne, Switzerland
Kim Gilbert is a population geneticist and postdoctoral fellow at the University of Berne. Her research focuses on evolutionary inference and impacts of demographic history on adaptation and other evolutionary processes.
Tatiana Giraud
Associate 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
Associate 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.
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.
Nolan Kane
Associate Editor
University of Colorado, Boulder, USA
Andrew Kinziger
Associate Editor
Humboldt State University, USA
Dr. Andrew Kinziger has been a professor at Humboldt State University in California since 2003 where he teaches Conservation Genetics of Fish and Wildlife. He has served as chair of the Department of Fisheries Biology since 2014. His research interests involve using genetic techniques to make inference into the conservation and management of fishes.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Stephen Spear
Associate Editor
University of Idaho, USA
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.
Pierre Taberlet
Associate Editor
Joseph Fourier University, France
Bridgett vonHoldt
Associate Editor
Princeton University, USA
Using genetic and epigenetic tools, Bridgett's research program investigates the molecular variation that contributes towards evolving traits. Her group examines these genome-wide patterns across a diverse set of taxa and demographic histories
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.
Robert Wayne
Associate 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.
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.