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Molecular Biology and Evolution Editorial Office
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ASSOCIATE EDITORS
PATRICIA BELDADE
Institute of Biology,
University of Leiden,
Kaiserstraat 63
2311 GP Leiden
THE NETHERLANDS
Telephone:
+31-71-5274853
Fax:
+31-71-5274900
Online:
Evolutionary developmental biology; evolutionary genomics; evolutionary genetics of coloration; genetic basis of morphological variation
ADRIANA BRISCOE
University of California, Irvine
Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
321 Steinhaus Hall
Irvine, CA 92697
USA
Telephone:
+1-949-824-1118
Fax:
+1-949-824-2181
Online:
Evolution of gene expression patterns; Evolution of visual systems; Anthropod evolution; Gene family evolution (protein structure/function)
ROBIN BUSH
Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
359 Steinhaus
University of California at Irvine
Irvine, CA 92697
USA
Telephone:
+1-949-824-2243
Fax:
+1-949-824-2181
Online:
Evolution of infectious disease; Protein evolution; Positive selection
CARLOS D. BUSTAMANTE
Department of Biological Statistics and Computational Biology
101 Biotechnology Building
Ithaca, NY 14853
USA
Telephone:
(607) 255-1640
Fax:
(607) 255-4698
theoretical and experimental population genetics; natural selection and adaptation; statistical genetics / statistical methods; human / primate genetics & genomics; domestication genetics & genomics; demographic inference / reconstruction
DOUGLAS L. CRAWFORD
Rosenstiel School of Marine Sciences
University of Miami
4600 Rickenbacker Causeway
Miami, FL 33149
USA
Telephone:
+1-305-421-4121
Online:
Evolution of gene expression (transcription factors, DNA binding sites, and patterns of gene expressions); Functional genomics; Microarrays; Evolution of enzymes, enzyme functions, and pathways
CHARLES F. DELWICHE
Department of Cell Biology and Molecular Genetics
2106 HJ Patterson Hall
University of Maryland at College Park
College Park, MD 20742
USA
Telephone:
+1-301-405-8286
Online:
Algal systematics and evolution; Early evolution of land plants; Origin and relationships of major clades; Genomic approaches to evolution and ecology
SCOTT EDWARDS
Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology
Harvard University
MCZ Laboratories - 3rd Floor
26 Oxford Street
Cambridge, MA 02138
USA
Fax:
+1-617-495-5667
Online:
Population genetics; Ornithology; Major histocompatibility complex; Phylogeography; Multigene families
T. MARTIN EMBLEY
School of Biology
University of Newcastle
King George VI Building
Newcastle upon Tyne NE1 7RU
UK
Telephone:
+44-191 222 6919
Fax:
+44-191 222 5228
Online:
Molecular phylogenetics; Deep eukaryotic evolution; Evolution of eukaryotic organelles; Horizontal gene transfer
TAKASHI GOJOBORI
Center for Information Biology and DNA
Data Bank of Japan (DDBJ)
National Institute of Genetics
Mishima 411
JAPAN
Telephone:
+81-55 981-6847
Fax:
+81-55 981-6848
Online:
Comparative genetics; Evolution of gene expression pattern; Evolution of nervous system; Viral evolution; Genome diversity
MANOLO GOUY
Universite Lyon I
Laboratoire de Biométrie et Biologie Evolutive
UMR CNRS 5558
69622 Villeurbanne
FRANCE
Telephone:
+33-4-72-43-12-87
Fax:
+33-4-72-43-13-88
Online:
Molecular phylogenetics; Codon usage
DAN GRAUR
Department of Biology and Biochemistry
University of Houston
Houston, TX 77204
USA
Telephone:
+1-713-743-7236
Fax:
+1-713-743-2636
Online:
Almost everything, and then some...
JODY HEY
Department of Genetics
Rutgers University
Nelson Biological Labs, Room B326
604 Allison Road
Piscataway, NY 08854
USA
Telephone:
+1-732-445-5272
Fax:
+1-732-445-5870
Online:
Population genetics; Speciation; Population divergence; The species problem
ASGER HOBOLTH
BiRC - Bioinformatics Research Center
University of Aarhus
Hoegh-Guldbergs Gade 10, Building 1090
DK-8000 Aarhus C
DENMARK
Telephone:
(+45) 8942 3239
Fax:
(+45) 8942 3077
Online:
statistical methods for sequence evolution, genealogy-based population genetics, phylogenetics, evolutionary genomics
BARBARA HOLLAND
Allan Wilson Centre for Molecular Ecology and Evolution
Institute of Fundamental Sciences
Massey University
Palmerston North
NEW ZEALAND
Telephone:
+64-6 3569 099 Ext 7939
Fax:
+64-6 3505 682
Online:
Phylogenetic methods; Network methods in phylogeny; effect of lineage-specific processes on phylogeny estimation
HOPE HOLLOCHER
Department of Biological Sciences
Galvin Life Sciences
University of Notre Dame
Notre Dame, IN 46556
USA
Telephone:
+1-574-631-4569
Fax:
+1-574-631-7413
Online:
Empirical population and evolutionary genetics; Evolution of developmental mechanisms; Speciation
EDDIE HOLMES
Department of Biology
The Pennsylvania State University
Mueller Laboratory
University Park, PA 16802
USA
Telephone:
+1-814-863-4689
Fax:
+1-814-865-9131
Online:
Microbial evolution; Processes of molecular evolution; Molecular systematics; Molecular population genetics; Methods of sequence analysis
HIDEKI INNAN
Graduate University for Advanced Studies
School of Advanced Sciences
Kamiyamaguchi 1560-39
Hayama, Kanagawa 240-0193
Japan
Telephone:
+81-46-858-1600
Fax:
+81-46-858-1544
Online:
population genetics, theory, gene duplication, gene conversion, concerted evolution
DAVID M. IRWIN
Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathobiology
Banting and Best Diabetes Centre
100 College Street
University of Toronto
Toronto, Ontario M5G 1L5
CANADA
Telephone:
+1-416-978-0519
Online:
http://icarus.med.utoronto.ca/patho/faculty.asp?FacultyID=159
Gene regulation; Gene families; Origin of new genes; Vertebrates
WILLIAM R. JEFFERY
Department of Biology
University of Maryland at College Park
College Park, MD 20742
USA
Telephone:
+1-301-405-6884
Fax:
+1-310-314-9358
Online:
Evolution of molecular and developmental mechanisms; Molecular phylogeny in the context of life history and developmental modes; Evolution of developmental regulatory genes; Marine invertebrates, lower chordates (especially ascidians), teleosts and amphibians
CLAUDIA KAPPEN
Pennington Biomedical Research Center/Louisiana State University
6400 Perkins Road
Baton Rouge, LA 70808
USA
Telephone:
+1-225-763-2781
Development; Genetics; Neurobiology; Cell surface/extracellular matrix; Transcription factors
LAURA A. KATZ
Department of Biological Sciences
Smith College
Northampton, MA 01063
USA
Telephone:
+1-413-585-3825
Fax:
+1-413-585-3786
Online:
Eukaryotic microbes (protists); Molecular systematics, especially protein evolution; Genome evolution
SUDHIR KUMAR
Center for Evolutionary Functional Genomics
The Biodesign Institute
Biodesign Building A240
Arizona State University
Tempe, AZ 85287
USA
Telephone:
+1-480-727-6949
Online:
Comparative genomics; Evolutionary timescales; Molecular phylogenetics; Software for evolutionary analysis
B. FRANZ LANG
Organelle Genome Megasequencing Program
Département de Biochimie, room F-314
Université de Montréal
2900 Boul. Edouard Montpetit
C.p. 6128, Succursale 'centre ville'
Montréal, Québec H3C 3J7
(H3T 1J4 for Fedex)
CANADA
Telephone:
+1-514-343-5842
Fax:
+1-514-343-2210
Online:
Organellar evolution; Mitochondrial gene expression; Origin of eukaryotes; Genomics and genome evolution; Molecular phylogenetics
YI-JU LI
Center for Human Genetics
Department of Medicine
Department of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics
Duke University Medical Center
Box 3445
Durham, NC 27710
USA
Telephone:
919-684-0604
Fax:
919-684-0921
Online:
Statistical Genetics; Human Genetics; Linkage and association studies for human complex diseases; Genetics of Alzheimer disease, Parkinson disease, Myopia, and Fuchs; Dystrophy; Gene expression data analysis
PETER LOCKHART
Allan Wilson Centre for Molecular Ecology and Evolution
IMBS
Massey University
Palmerston North
NEW ZEALAND
Telephone:
+64-6 3569 099 Ext 7053
Fax:
+64-6 3505 626
Online:
Plant species radiation; Eubacterial and organelle evolution; Phylogeny and processes of molecular evolution
WILLIAM MARTIN
Institut fuer Botanik III
Heinrich-Heine Universitaet Duesseldorf
Universitaetsstr. 1
40225 Duesseldorf
GERMANY
Telephone:
++49-211-811-3011
Fax:
++49-211-811-3554
Online:
Endosymbiosis, chloroplasts, mitochondria, endosymbiotic gene transfer, lateral gene transfer, eukaryotic anaerobes
ELIZABETH (LISA) MATISOO-SMITH
Department of Anthropology and
Allan Wilson Centre for Molecular Ecology and Evolution
University of Auckland
Private Bag 92019
Auckland
NEW ZEALAND
Telephone:
+64-9 373-7599 Ext. 88584
Fax:
+64-9 373-7441
Online:
Molecular anthropology; Human evolution; Ancient DNA
JOHN H. McDONALD
Department of Biological Sciences
University of Delaware
Newark, DE 19716
USA
Telephone:
+1-302-831-2007
Online:
Geographic variation; Sequence polymorphism and divergence; Marine invertebrates
GEOFFREY I. McFADDEN
Plant Cell Biology Research Centre
School of Botany
University of Melbourne
Parkville
VIC 3052
AUSTRALIA
Telephone:
+61-(0)3 8344-5054 or 5053
Fax:
+61-(0)3 9347-1071
Online:
Organellar evolution; Molecular phylogenetics (esp. in algae, protists, bacteria, plants); Horizontal gene transfer; Genome evolution; Gene origins; Intron evolution
LAUREN McINTYRE
1376 Mowry Road
CGRC
University of Florida
Gainesville, FL 32610-3610
USA
Telephone:
+1-352-273-8024
Fax:
+1-352-273-8284
Online:
Statistical genetics; Statistical genomics; Population genetics
AOIFE McLYSAGHT
Smurfit Institute of Genetics
Trinity College
Dublin 2
IRELAND
Telephone:
+353-1-896316
Fax:
+353-1-6798558
Online:
Vertebrate genome evolution; Gene and genome duplication; Gene gain and loss; Virus genome evolution (particularly poxviruses); Phylogenomics; Comparative genomics
CONNIE J. MULLIGAN
Department of Anthropology
1112 Turlington Hall, Room B119
PO Box 117305
University of Florida
Gainesville, FL 32611
USA
Telephone:
+1-352-392-2253 Ext 248
Fax:
+1-352-392-6929
Online:
Ancient DNA; Genetics of disease; Human evolution; Human genetics
SPENCER V. MUSE
Bioinformatics Research Center
Campus Box 7566
1515 Partners II Building
North Carolina State University
Raleigh, NC 27695
USA
Online:
Statistical methods for molecular evolution; Evolution of protein coding genes; RNA secondary structure; Plant molecular evolution
MICHAEL NACHMAN
Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
BioSciences West Bldg
University of Arizona
Tucson, AZ 85721
USA
Telephone:
+1-520-626-4595 (office); +1-520-626-4747 (lab)
Fax:
+1-520-621-9190
Online:
Empirical population genetics; Ecologcal genetics; Speciation
RASMUS NIELSEN
Departments of Biology and Statistics
University of California, Berkeley
3060 VLSB #3140
Berkeley, CA 94720-3140
USA
Telephone:
(510) 642 -8752
Fax:
(510) 643-6264
Statistical Genetics; Theoretical Population Genetics; Statistical methods in Molecular Evolution, Phylogenetics, and Population Genetics
NORIHIRO OKADA
Graduate School of Bioscience and Biotechnology
Tokyo Institute of Technology
B-21, 4259 Nagatsuta-cho, Midori-ku,
Yokohama Kanagawa, 226-8501
Japan
Telephone:
+81-45-924-5742
Fax:
+81-45-924-5835
Online:
Transposable element (SINEs, LINEs); genome evolution; speciation; phylogeny
HERVE PHILIPPE
Département de Biochimie, room F-315
Université de Montréal
2900 Boul. Edouard Montpetit
C.p. 6128, Succursale 'centre ville'
Montréal, Québec H3C 3J7
(H3T 1J4 for Fedex)
CANADA
Telephone:
+1-514 343-6720
Fax:
+1-514 343-2210
Ancient phylogenies; Covarion model; Molecular phylogenetics; Large data set analysis; Lateral gene transfer
JONATHAN PRITCHARD
Department of Human Genetics
The University of Chicago
920 E 58th St, CLSC-507
Chicago, IL 60637
USA
Fax:
773 834 0505
Online:
mapping of complex traits; population structure; history and structure of human populations; genome variation and evolution
ANDREW J. ROGER
Dept. of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology,
Dalhousie University
Rm 8B1, 5850 College St.,
Halifax, N.S.
B3H 1X5
CANADA
Telephone:
+1-902-494-2620 (office)
Fax:
+1-902-494-1355
Online:
Phylogenomics; modeling protein and genome evolution; deep eukaryote evolution/phylogeny; evolution of mitochondrion-related organelles; lateral gene transfer; evolutionary bioinformatics
NARUYA SAITOU
Division of Population Genetics
National Institute of Genetics
Mishima, 411-8540
JAPAN
Telephone:
+81-559 81-6790
Fax:
+81-559 81-6789
Online:
Human/primate evolution; Phylogenetic and sequence alignment methods; Selection vs neutrality; Evidence of positive selection; Evolutionary genome analysis
STEPHANIE A. SANTORICO
University of Colorado
Department of Math and Statistical Sciences
P.O. Box 173364
1250 14th Street, Suite 600, Campus Box 170
Denver, CO 80202
USA
Telephone:
303-556-2547
Fax:
303-556-8550
Online:
Genetic Epidemiology; Microarrays; Population genetics; Qualitative genetics and genomics; Statistical genetics and genomics
YOKO SATTA
Graduate Universit for Advanced Studies (SOKENDAI)
Hayama Center for Advanced Studies (HCAS)
Department of Biosystems Science
JAPAN
Telephone:
+81-46-858-1574
Fax:
+84-46-858-1544
Immunogenetics; Molecular population genetics; Primate/human evolution
CLAUDIA SCHMIDT-DANNERT
Department of Biochemistry, Molecular Biology and Biophysics
University of Minnesota
1479 Gortner Avenue
St. Paul, MN 55108
USA
Telephone:
+1-612-625-5782
Fax:
+1-612-625-5780
Online:
Biochemistry; In vitro evolution; Protein evolution; Metabolic pathways and evolution
BETH SHAPIRO
Department of Biology
The Pennsylvania State University
326 Mueller Laboratory
University Park, PA 16802
USA
Telephone:
+1-814-863-9178
Molecular evolution and phylogenetics; ancient DNA; demographic reconstruction; virus evolution; genealogy-based population genetics
NEELIMA SINHA
Plant Biology
Life Sciences Addition
1 Shields Avenue
University of California at Davis
Davis, California 95616
USA
Telephone:
+1-530-754-8441/ 8692
Fax:
+1-530-752-5410
Online:
Evolution of gene expression; Evolution of KNOX genes; Evolution of developmental mechanisms
ANNE C. STONE
School of Human Evolution and Social Change
Box 872402
Arizona State University
Tempe, AZ 85287
USA
Telephone:
+1-480-727-6310
Fax:
+1-480-965-7671
Online:
http://www.public.asu.edu/~acstone/lab/molecular_anthropology_lab.htm
Ancient DNA; Human/primate evolution; Primate population genetics
BILLIE J. SWALLA
Biology Department
University of Washington
Seattle, WA 98195
USA
Telephone:
+1-206-616-9367
Fax:
+1-206-616-2011
Online:
Deuterostome phylogeny; Hemichordate phylogeny; Evolution and Development; Tunicate phylogeny; Marine invertebrates
NAOKO TAKEZAKI
Life Science Research Center
Kagawa University
1750-1 Ikenobe, Mikicho, Kitagun
Kagawa 761-0793
JAPAN
Telephone:
+1-81-87-891-2419
Fax:
+1-81-87-891-2419
Online:
Genome evolution; Human evolution; Molecular clock; Phylogeny construction; Vertebrate phylogeny
KOICHIRO TAMURA
Department of Biological Sciences
Tokyo Metropolitan University
1-1 Minami-ohsaw, Hachioji-shi
Tokyo 192-0397
JAPAN
Telephone:
+81-426-77-1111 x3725
Fax:
+81-426-77-2559
Online:
Bioinformatics for molecular evolution and phylogenetics; Drosophila phylogeny and evolution; Evolution of DNA sequences; Methods in molecular evolutionary analyses
DIETHARD TAUTZ
Lehrstuhl für Evolutionsgenetik
Institut für Genetik
Universität zu Koeln
Weyertal 121
50931 Köln
GERMANY
Telephone:
++49 221 470 2465
Fax:
++49 221 470 5975
Online:
Concerted evolution; Arthropod phylogeny; Drosophila population genetics; Evolution of development; Microsatellite evolution
Metazoans and especially arthropods; Animal mitochondrial DNA
JEFFREY THORNE
North Carolina State University
Campus Box 7566
Raleigh, NC 27695-7566
USA
Telephone:
+1-919-515-1946
Fax:
+1-919-515-7315
Online:
Evolutionary inference from interspecific DNA and protein sequence data; divergence time estimation; sequence alignment
SARAH TISHKOFF
Department of Biology
Biology/Psychology Building #144
University of Maryland
College Park, MC 20742
USA
Telephone:
+1-301-405-6038
Fax:
+1-304-314-9358
Online:
Evolution of Infectious Disease; Human evolution; Human genetics; Molecular population genetics; Natural selection and adaptation
MARCY K. UYENOYAMA
Department of Biology
Box 90338
Duke University
Durham, NC 27708
USA
Telephone:
+1-919-660-7350
Fax:
+1-919-660-7293
Online:
Demographic history; Mating system evolution; Methods for inferring molecular evolution; Molecular population genetics
MICHELE VENDRUSCOLO
Department of Chemistry
University of Cambridge
Lensfield Road
Cambridge CB2 1EW
UK
Telephone:
+44 1223 763848
Fax:
+44 1223 763418
Online:
Structural biology; Protein evolution; Computational biology; Statistical methods
ARNDT VON HAESELER
Center for Integrative Bioinformatics, Vienna
Max F Perutz Laboratories
Dr. Bohr-Gasse 9
Vienna A-1030
AUSTRIA
Telephone:
+43-1-4277-24007
Fax:
+43-1-4277-9240
Online:
Molecular evolution; Models of sequence evolution (DNA or AA); Phylogenetics (inference, models, algorithm); Molecular population genetics; Genome evolution; Non tree-like evolution
MARTA L. WAYNE
Department of Zoology
University of Florida
P.O. Box 118525 Gainsville, FL 32611
USA
Telephone:
+1-352-392-9925
Fax:
+1-352-392-3704
Online:
Quantitative genetics and genomics; Evolution of gene expression; Microarrays; Drosophila population genetics
JENNIFER WERNEGREEN
Josephoine Bay Paul Center for
Comparative Molecular Biology and Evolution
Marine Biological Lab
7 MBL Street
Woods Hole, MA 02543
USA
Telephone:
+1-508-548-3705 Ext 6650
Fax:
+1-508-457-4727
Online:
Molecular evolution and phylogenetics; Comparative genome analysis; Microbial endosymbionts; Reductive genome evolution; Coevolution; Empirical population genetics (e.g., neutrality tests)
KENNETH H. WOLFE
Department of Genetics
Smurfit Institute
University of Dublin, Trinity College
Dublin 2
IRELAND
Telephone:
+353-1-608 1253
Fax:
+353-1-679 8558
Online:
Genomics in eukaryotes (yeast, mammals, plants); Plant chloroplasts and mitochondria
ZIHENG YANG
Department of Biology
University College London
Darwin Building
Gower Street
London WC1E 6BT
UK
Telephone:
+44-(0)20-7679-4379
Fax:
+44-(0)20-7679-7096
Online:
Molecular evolution and phylogenetics; Statistical models and methods
JIANZHI GEORGE ZHANG
Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
University of Michigan
3003 Natural Science Building
830 North University Avenue
Ann Arbor, MI 48109
USA
Telephone:
+1-734-763-0527/ 0514
Fax:
+1-734-763-0544
Online:
Natural selection and adaptation; Duplicate gene evolution; Evolutionary genomics; Primate evolution and human origins; Evolution of genes of sensory, reproductive, or immune functions
