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