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PATRICIA BELDADE

Institute of Biology,
University of Leiden,
Sylviusweg 72
2333 BE Leiden
THE NETHERLANDS

Telephone:

+31-71-5274853

Fax:

+31-71-5274900

Online:

http://www.beldade.nl

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:

http://visiongene.bio.uci.edu/

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
5207 McGaugh
University of California at Irvine
Irvine, CA 92697
USA

Telephone:

+1-949-824-2243

Fax:

+1-949-824-2181

Online:

http://rmbush.bio.uci.edu/

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:

http://crawford.rsmas.miami.edu/

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

Cell Biology and Molecular Genetics
2108 Biosciences Research Building
University of Maryland - College Park Bldg. #413
College Park, MD 20742-4407
USA

Telephone:

+1-301-405-8286

Online:

http://www.life.umd.edu/labs/delwiche

Algal systematics and evolution; Early evolution of land plants; Origin and relationships of major clades; Genomic approaches to evolution and ecology

ALEXEI J. DRUMMOND

Department of Computer Science
University of Auckland
Auckland
New Zealand

Telephone:

+64 93737599 x88298

Online:

http://compevol.auckland.ac.nz/dr-alexei-drummond/

coalescent-based population genetics; statistical genetics; phylogenetic reconstruction; species tree estimation; divergence time estimation; virus evolution and dynamics; Bayesian evolutionary analysis

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:

http://www.oeb.harvard.edu/faculty/edwards/

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:

http://www.ncl.ac.uk/biol/staff/profile/martin.embley

Molecular phylogenetics; Deep eukaryotic evolution; Evolution of eukaryotic organelles; Horizontal gene transfer

DANIEL FALUSH

Department of Microbiology,
University College Cork,
Environmental Research Institute,
Lee Road,
Cork,
Ireland

Telephone:

+353 21 490 1981

Fax:

+353 21 490 1932

Online:

http://mlst.ucc.ie/mlst/mlst/AGroup/team/daniel_html

bacterial population genetics, statistical genetics

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:

http://www.cib.nig.ac.jp

http://www.ddbj.nig.ac.jp

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:

http://pbil.univ-lyon1.fr/

Molecular phylogenetics; Codon usage

MATTHEW HAHN

Department of Biology and
School of Informatics and Computing
Indiana University
1001 E. 3rd St.
Bloomington, IN 47405
USA

Telephone:

+1-812-856-7001

Fax:

+1-812-855-6705

Online:

http://www.bio.indiana.edu/~hahnlab/

Empirical and statistical population genetics; Cis-regulatory evolution; Gene families; Gene duplication; Copy number variation

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:

http://nsm.uh.edu/~dgraur/

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:

http://lifesci.rutgers.edu/~heylab/

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:

www.daimi.au.dk/~asger

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:

http://ifs.massey.ac.nz/staff/holland.shtml

Phylogenetic methods; Network methods in phylogeny; effect of lineage-specific processes on phylogeny estimation

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:

http://www.sendou.soken.ac.jp/esb/innan/InnanLab/

population genetics, theory, gene duplication, gene conversion, concerted evolution

DAVID M. IRWIN

Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathobiology
Banting and Best Diabetes Centre
6207 Medical Sciences Building
1 King's College Circle
University of Toronto
Toronto, Ontario M5S 1A8
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:

http://www.life.umd.edu/labs/jeffery/

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

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:

http://www.kumarlab.net

Comparative genomics; Evolutionary timescales; Molecular phylogenetics; Software for evolutionary analysis

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:

http://wwwchg.duhs.duke.edu/faculty/y-jli.html

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:

http://imbs.massey.ac.nz/HTML/lockhart.html

Plant species radiation; Eubacterial and organelle evolution; Phylogeny and processes of molecular evolution

ELIZABETH (LISA) MATISOO-SMITH

Dept of Anatomy and Structural Biology University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand

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:

http://udel.edu/~mcdonald

Geographic variation; Sequence polymorphism and divergence; Marine invertebrates

JAMES McINERNEY

Department of Biology,
National University of Ireland Maynooth,
Co. Kildare,
Ireland

Telephone:

+353 1 7083860

Fax:

+353 1 7083845

Online:

http://bioinf.nuim.ie/

Prokaryotic genome evolution; Horizontal Gene Transfer; models of sequence 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:

http://www.mgm.ufl.edu/faculty/lmcintyre.htm

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:

http://www.gen.tcd.ie/molevol/

Vertebrate genome evolution; Gene and genome duplication; Gene gain and loss; Virus genome evolution (particularly poxviruses); Phylogenomics; Comparative genomics

CONNIE J. MULLIGAN

1376 Mowry Rd
PO Box 103610
University of Florida
Gainesville, FL 32610-3610
USA

Telephone:

352-273-8092

Fax:

352-273-8284

Online:

http://www.clas.ufl.edu/users/mulligan/Webpage/index.html

Ancient DNA; Genetics of disease; Human evolution; Human genetics

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:

http://eebweb.arizona.edu/nachman/

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

Online:

http://fisher.berkeley.edu/cteg/nielsen.html

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:

http://www.evolution.bio.titech.ac.jp/index_e.html

Transposable element (SINEs, LINEs); genome evolution; speciation; phylogeny

HERVÉ 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

HELEN PIONTKIVSKA

Department of Biological Sciences
Kent State University
241 Cunningham Hall
Kent, OH 44242
USA

Telephone:

1-330-672-3620

Fax:

1-330-672-3713

Online:

http://biology.kent.edu/FacultyandStaff/Piontkivska.html

Multigene families; virus evolution; host-pathogen interactions; evolution of regulatory sequences; molecular evolution and phylogenetics; evolutionary genomics

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:

http://pritch.bsd.uchicago.edu

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:

http://rogerlab.biochem.dal.ca

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:

http://sayer.lab.nig.ac.jp/~saitou/

Human/primate evolution; Phylogenetic and sequence alignment methods; Selection vs neutrality; Evidence of positive selection; Evolutionary genome analysis

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

Online:

http://www.sendou.soken.ac.jp/esb/satta/index_e.html

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:

http://cbs.umn.edu/BMBB/faculty/csd/

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

Online:

http://www.bio.psu.edu/people/faculty/bshapiro/

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:

http://www-plb.ucdavis.edu/sinha

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:

http://faculty.washington.edu/bjswalla/

Deuterostome phylogeny; Hemichordate phylogeny; Evolution and Development; Tunicate phylogeny; Marine invertebrates

WILLIE J. SWANSON

University of Washington
Genome Sciences, Box 355065
Foege Building, room S143B
1705 NE Pacific Street
Seattle, WA 98195-5065

Telephone:

(206) 616-9702

Online:

http://depts.washington.edu/swansonw/

Reproductive Protein Function and Evolution, Adaptive Evolution, Speciation, Proteomics, Genomics, Population Genetics

NAOKI TAKEBAYASHI

Institute of Arctic Biology & Department of Biology and Wildlife
311 Irving I Bldg, University of Alaska Fairbanks, Fairbanks, AK 99775, USA

Telephone:

(907) 474-1178

Fax:

(907) 474-6967

Online:

http://www.faculty.uaf.edu/ffnt/

Molecular evolution, plant reproductive biology, self-incompatibility, theoretical population genetics, polyploidy

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:

http://www.kms.ac.jp/~genomelb/genomelab.eng.html

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:

http://dept.biol.metro-u.ac.jp/solo_tamura_e.html

Bioinformatics for molecular evolution and phylogenetics; Drosophila phylogeny and evolution; Evolution of DNA sequences; Methods in molecular evolutionary analyses

RICHARD H. THOMAS

Department of Zoology
Southern Illinois University
Carbondale, IL 62901
USA

Online:

http://www.science.siu.edu/zoology/thomas/index.html

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:

http://statgen.ncsu.edu/thorne/thorne.html

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:

http://www.life.umd.edu/biology/tishkofflab/

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:

http://fds.duke.edu/db/aas/Biology/faculty/marcy

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:

http://www.ch.cam.ac.uk/CUCL/staff/mv.html

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:

http://www.cibiv.at

Molecular evolution; Models of sequence evolution (DNA or AA); Phylogenetics (inference, models, algorithm); Molecular population genetics; Genome evolution; Non tree-like evolution

JENNIFER WERNEGREEN

Josephine 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:

http://jbpc.mbl.edu/labs-wernegreen.html

Molecular evolution and phylogenetics; Comparative genome analysis; Microbial endosymbionts; Reductive genome evolution; Coevolution; Empirical population genetics (e.g., neutrality tests)