Editorial Team
Editors-In-Chief
Claudia Russo, Genetics/Biology Department, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Research
Areas of Expertise: biogeography, phylogenetics, divergence time
Brandon Gaut, School of Biological Sciences, University of California, Irvine, CA, USA
Research
Areas of Expertise: plants, bacteria, domestication, genomics, transposable elements
Editorial Assistant
Amber Avila-Aimer
eassist.mbe@gmail.com
Managing Editor
Heather Rowe
Temple University, USA
eic.mbe@gmail.com
Social Media and Highlights Editor
Casey McGrath
molbiolevol.social@gmail.com
Founding Editors
Walter Fitch
Masatoshi Nei
Board of Editors
Agashe, Deepa, National Center for Biological Sciences, India
Research
Areas of Expertise: bacteria, Tribolium, translation, population dynamics
Arkhipova, Irina, Marine Biological Laboratory, USA
Research
Areas of Expertise: rotifers, ostracods, transposable elements
Ávila-Arcos, Maria, National Autonomous University of Mexico, Mexico
Research
Areas of Expertise: humans, paleogenomics, population genetics, disease
Barlow, Miriam, University of California, Merced, USA
Research
Areas of Expertise: bacteria, antimicrobial resistance, experimental evolution
Battistuzzi, Fabia Ursula, Oakland University, USA
Research
Areas of Expertise: prokaryotes, genome complexity, evolutionary rates, divergence times
Bonatto, Sandro, Pontifical Catholic University of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil
Research
Areas of Expertise: vertebrates population genetics, conservation genetics, phylogenomics
Chang, Belinda, University of Toronto, Canada
Research
Areas of Expertise: visual pigments, selection, adaptation, ancestral reconstruction
Charlesworth*, Deborah, University of Edinburgh, UK
Research
Areas of Expertise: plants, sex chromosomes, recombination, self-incompatibility
Corbett-Detig, Russ, University of California Santa Cruz, USA
Research
Areas of Expertise: phylogenomics, population genomics, admixture, structural variation
Crandall, Keith, George Washington University, USA
Research
Areas of Expertise: phylogenetics, invertebrates, viruses, population genetics
Echave*, Julian, Universidad Nacional de San Martín, Argentina
Research
Areas of Expertise: proteins, structural biology
Falush, Daniel, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Germany
Research
Areas of Expertise: bacteria, homologous recombination, admixture analyses, population genetics
Fu*, Qiaomei, Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
Research
Areas of Expertise: humans, vertebrates, paleogenomics, migration, population structure
Gibson, Gregory*, Georgia Tech, USA
Research
Areas of Expertise: human, Drosophila, gene expression, disease risk
Gojobori, Jun - Hayama Center for Advanced Studies, Japan
Research
Areas of Expertise: human, mitochondria, population dynamics
Hahn*, Matthew, Indiana University, USA
Research
Areas of Expertise: drosophila, anopheles, introgression, mutation rates, copy-number variation, phylogenomics
Harris, Kelley, University of Washington, USA
Research
Areas of Expertise: mutation rates and spectra, demographic inference
Hendrickson, Heather, University of Canterbury, New Zealand
Research
Areas of Expertise: Bacteriophage, microbes, endosymbiosis, horizontal gene transfer
Hepp, Crystal - Northern Arizona University, USA
Research
Areas of Expertise: viruses, bacteria, infectious disease, phylogeography
Heyer, Evelyne, Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle, France
Research
Areas of Expertise: human, physical anthropology, population dynamics
Hodgins, Kay, Monash University, Australia
Research
Areas of Expertise: ecological genomics, climate adaptation, biological invasions
Irwin*, David M., University of Toronto, Canada
Research
Areas of Expertise: vertebrates, gene duplication, novel gene functions, hormones
Josephs, Emily, Michigan State University, USA
Research
Areas of Expertise: plants, transcriptional regulation, local adaptation, plasticity
Junqueira, Ana Carolina, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Research
Areas of Expertise: metagenomics, microbiomes, phylogenomics, invertebrates, environmental genomics
Kelley, Joanna, Washington State University, USA
Research
Areas of Expertise: bears, insects, fish, conservation genomics, climate adaptation, extreme environments
Kim, Yuseob, Ewha Womans University, Korea
Research
Areas of Expertise: viruses, detection of selection, theoretical population genomics
Larracuente, Amanda, University of Rochester, USA
Research
Areas of Expertise: drosophila, repetitive DNA, sex chromosomes, genetic conflict
Lee, Grace, University of California, Irvine, USA
Research
Areas of Expertise: transposable elements, epigenomics, population genetics
Leitner, Thomas, Los Alamos National Laboratory, USA
Research
Areas of Expertise: viruses, epidemiology, computational biology, phylogenomics
Li, Haipeng, Shanghai Nutrition and Health, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
Research
Areas of Expertise: population genomics, hominins, AI, software development
Liu, Li, Arizona State University, USA
Research
Areas of Expertise: cancer, metabolomics, machine learning
Lu, Jian, Peking University, China
Research
Areas of Expertise: small RNA, translational regulation, RNA editing, transposable elements
Malik, Harmit, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, USA
Research
Areas of Expertise: drosophila, primates, yeast, centromeres, immunity, mobile genetic elements
Mascagni, Flavia, University of Pisa, Italy
Research
Areas of Expertise: plant genomics, transposable elements, and plant evolution
McLysaght*, Aoife, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland
Research
Areas of Expertise: vertebrates, gene/genome duplication, gene birth/death, phylogenomics
Meyer, Diogo, University of São Paulo, Brazil
Research
Areas of Expertise: population genetics, humans, immunogenetics, natural selection
Moratorio, Gonzalo, Institut Pasteur de Montevideo, Uruguay
Research
Areas of Expertise: experimental evolution, RNA viruses
Mulligan, Connie, University of Florida, Gainesville, USA
Research
Areas of Expertise: humans, epigenetics, disease, biocultural perspectives
Nielsen*, Rasmus, University of California, Berkeley, USA
Research
Areas of Expertise: viruses, humans, reptiles, amphibians, population genomic methods
Nowick, Katja, Freie University, Germany
Research
Areas of Expertise: primates, brains and cognition, transcriptional regulation, non-coding RNA
O'Connell, Mary, University of Nottingham, UK
Research
Areas of Expertise: mammals, phylogenomics, RNA regulation, ancestral sequence reconstruction
Ouangraoua, Aida, University of Sherbrooke, Canada
Research
Areas of Expertise: algorithms, computational genomics, phylogenetic methods
Ozkan, Banu, Arizona State University, USA
Research
Areas of Expertise: proteins, conformational dynamics, ancestral reconstruction
Parsch, John, University of Munich, Germany
Research
Areas of Expertise: drosophila, gene expression, sex chromosomes, population genetics
Pupko, Tal, Tel Aviv University, Israel
Research
Areas of Expertise: bacteria, algorithms, model selection, machine learning, phylogenomics
Purugganan, Michael, New York University, USA
Research
Areas of Expertise: plants, domestication, paleogenomics, local adaptation, species radiation
Pyhäjärvi, Tanja, University of Helsinki, Finland
Research
Areas of Expertise: population genetics, plant evolution, forest, adaptation, inbreeding
Rocha*, Eduardo, Institut Pasteur, France
Research
Areas of Expertise: prokaryotes, phage, horizontal transfer, microbial genome organization, population genetics
Rodrigue, Nicolas, Carleton University, Canada
Research
Areas of Expertise: Bayesian inference, Monte Carlo methods, Codon substitution models, Phylogenetics
Rogers, Rebekah, University of North Carolina, Charlotte, USA
Research
Areas of Expertise: drosophila, structural variation, conservation genetics, non-model genomics
Ruvinsky, Ilya, Northwestern University, USA
Research
Areas of Expertise: nematodes, developmental genetics, neurogenetics, pheromones, gene regulation
Rzhetsky, Andrey, University of Chicago, USA
Research
Areas of Expertise: human phenotypes, complex and Mendelian diseases, genetic and environmental contributions to human disease, phylogenetic trees
Saitou, Naruya, National Institute of Genetics, Japan
Research
Areas of Expertise: humans, mammals, population structure, migration
Samhita, Laasya, Ashoka University, India
Research
Areas of Expertise: protein synthesis, experimental evolution, mistranslation, antimicrobial resistance, non-genetic variation
Satta, Yoko, Graduate University of Advanced Studies, Japan
Research
Areas of Expertise: primates, hormones, immunogenetics
Schrago, Carlos Guerra, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Research
Areas of Expertise: phylogenetic theory and methods, molecular dating, statistical learning, primates, mammals
Stern, Adi, Tel Aviv University, Israel
Research
Areas of Expertise: viruses, bacteriophages, phylogenetic modeling, population genetics
Su, Bing, Kunming Institute of Zoology, China
Research
Areas of Expertise: humans, primates, neurobiology
Takahashi, Aya, Tokyo Metropolitan University, Japan
Research
Areas of Expertise: drosophila, speciation, ecological adaptation, reproductive isolation
Takezaki*, Naoko, Kagawa University, Japan
Research
Areas of Expertise: fish, vertebrates, phylogenetic reconstruction, divergence time
Tamura, Koichiro, Tokyo Metropolitan University, Japan
Research
Areas of Expertise: drosophila, phylogenetic methods, software development, sex chromosomes
Tellier, Aurelien, Technical University of Munich, Germany
Research
Areas of Expertise: theoretical and empirical population genomics, host-parasite coevolution, dormancy.
Townsend, Jeffrey, Yale University, USA
Research
Areas of Expertise: fungi, cancer, infectious disease, natural selection, phylogenetic information
True, John, Stony Brook University, USA
Research
Areas of Expertise: drosophila, development, epistasis, speciation
von der Heyden , Sophie - University of Stellenbosch, South Africa
Research
Areas of Expertise: aquatic ecosystems, conservation, environmental DNA
von Haeseler*, Arndt, Center for Integrative Bioinformatics Vienna, Austria
Research
Areas of Expertise: algorithms, phylogenetic inference tools, neural networks
Wei, Fuwen, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Key Laboratory of Animal Ecology and Conservation Biology, China
Research
Areas of Expertise: pandas, mammals, microbiomes, conservation, physiology
Whittington, Camilla - University of Sydney, Australia
Research
Areas of Expertise: fish, reptiles, reproductive biology, venoms
Wilson, Melissa, Arizona State University, USA
Research
Areas of Expertise: sex chromosomes, mutation and expression bias, cancer
Wittkopp, Patricia, University of Michigan, USA
Research
Areas of Expertise: drosophila, yeast, development, gene regulation, pigmentation
Wray*, Gregory, Duke University, USA
Research
Areas of Expertise: development, gene expression, regulatory networks
Wright*, Stephen, University of Toronto, Canada
Research
Areas of Expertise: plants, mating systems, transposable elements, recombination
Xia, Xuhua, University of Ottawa, Canada
Research
Areas of Expertise: microbes, virus-host interaction, translation, transcriptional regulation
Yang, Guang, Nanjing Normal University, College of Life Sciences, China
Research
Areas of Expertise: cetaceans, body size, conservation, ecological transition
Yeager, Meredith, National Cancer Institute, USA
Research
Areas of Expertise: cancer, gene expression, disease risk
Yi*, Soojin, University of California, Santa Barbara, USA
Research
Areas of expertise: genomics, epigenomics, DNA methylation, gene regulation, neuroscience
Yoder, Anne, Duke University, USA
Research
Areas of Expertise: lemurs, primates, microbiomes, conservation, mutation rates
Zhai, Weiwei, Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
Research
Areas of Expertise: Somatic cell evolution, tumor evolution, population genetic methods, viruses, domestication, viruses
Zhang*, George, University of Michigan, USA
Research
Areas of Expertise: Yeast, gene duplication, mutation, adaptation, fitness landscapes
Zhang, Yong E., Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
Research
Areas of Expertise: new gene origination, gene duplication, transposons
Zhou, Xuming, Key Laboratory of Animal Ecology and Conservation Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences,
Research
Areas of Expertise: mammals, birds, longevity, zoonosis, adaptation
* Senior Editor, ** Editor-in-Chief