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Editor-in-ChiefBarbara K. Mable, University of Glasgow, UK  Barbara Mable is a Professor of Evolutionary Genetics, with a specific interest in understanding the effects of gene and whole genome duplication on processes involved in adaptation to changing biotic and abiotic environments. She did her PhD at the University of Texas at Austin on the evolution of polyploidy in frogs; during this time she co-edited the 2 nd Edition of Molecular Systematics with David Hillis and Craig Moritz. She did her first postdoc at the University of British Columbia, where she worked with Sally Otto, studying ploidy evolution in yeast. She then went to the University of Edinburgh, where she worked with Deborah Charlesworth on the evolutionary dynamics of self-incompatibility genes in plants. After a four year Assistant Professorship at the University of Guelph in Canada, she moved to the University of Glasgow in 2004, initially on a NERC Advanced fellowship. Her current research interests continue to span organisms and research areas, with recent projects focused on: using genes under balancing selection (such as self-incompatibility genes, resistance genes and immune genes) to study adaptive processes in plants and animals; conservation genetics of Scottish frogs and lampreys; genetics of associations between vectors, pathogens and hosts; and evolution of resistance in nematodes. See Barbara Mable's website here Reviews EditorFrank Hailer, Cardiff University, Wales, UK 
Frank Hailer is an evolutionary geneticist with a research profile at the interface of molecular ecology, conservation biology and genomics. He obtained his PhD in Evolutionary Genetics at Uppsala University (Sweden), subsequently conducted postdoctoral research at the Smithsonian’s National Zoo (USA) and the Senckenberg Biodiversity and Climate Research Centre BiK-F (Germany). He now holds a permanent position at Cardiff University (UK).
He is particularly interested in the mechanisms of adaptation, speciation and introgression, and how different parts of the genome portray different aspects of evolutionary history. His research traces the origin and fate of genetic variation within individuals to their populations and species, and continues deeper into phylogenetic time scales. Hailer’s research also investigates various key processes in ecology, such as causes & consequences of movement and dispersal, and mechanisms of loss or maintenance of genetic diversity. In his research, he has studied a wide range of taxa, including bears, eagles, tropical seabirds, canids, turtles, fruit flies, lynxes, and elephants, spanning arctic to tropical habitats.
See Frank Hailer’s website here EditorsChristine Baes, University of Guelph, Canada  Christine Baes is an Associate Professor and Canada Research Chair in the Department of Animal Biosciences at the University of Guelph in Canada, and a scientist and lecturer in the Vetsuisse Faculty, University of Bern in Switzerland. She completed her doctoral studies at the Christian-Albrechts-University at Kiel and the Leibniz Institute for Farm Animal Biology in Germany. As a quantitative geneticist with a strong interest in animal behaviour, she is interested in unraveling genomic mechanisms that underlie health, welfare, productivity, and efficiency of domesticated animals, as well as developing sustainable breeding programs. Her research involves implementation of genetic, genomic, statistical, and computational tools to identify and further characterize different types of genetic variants and apply them to breeding programs, as well as understanding their effects on phenotypes. She is also interested in understanding the genomic architecture of relatedness and inbreeding in livestock.
Rowan Barrett, McGill University, Canada  Rowan Barrett is an Assistant Professor and Canada Research Chair in the Redpath Museum and Biology Department at McGill University, Montreal, Canada. He completed his Ph.D. at the University of British Columbia in 2010 and received postdoctoral training at Harvard University before taking up his current position. Dr. Barrett's work is focused on understanding the genetic basis of adaptation to changing environments. His research bridges theoretical and empirical approaches in population genetics, evolutionary ecology, and molecular biology to ask questions about the reciprocal interactions between ecological and evolutionary processes. He has pursued this research program with a variety of key study systems, including stickleback fish, deer mice, anolis lizards, and microbes.
See Rowan Barrett's website here
Alison Bentley, National Institute of Agricultural Botany, UK  Dr Alison Bentley is Director of Genetics and Breeding at NIAB and leads a 50-strong team of scientists working across a range of applied crop science project areas. Alison studied Agricultural Science at The University of Sydney, Australia where she also completed a PhD characterising the genetic structure of pathogen populations associated with Australian wheat production. Alison leads the exploitation of novel ancestral genetic diversity for wheat improvement via the BBSRC funded cross-institute Designing Future Wheat Institute Strategic Programme and is involved in a wide-range of crop pre-breeding projects in the UK and internationally with an emphasis on wheat-rice systems in India. She has a strong interest in the genetic control of complex traits and in the application of genomics towards the breeding of high yielding, climate resilient cereals. She is Chair of the UK MonoGram small grain and grasses community (www.monogram.ac.uk).
See Alison Bentley's website here
Giorgio Bertorelle, University of Ferrara, Italy  Giorgio Bertorelle is a population geneticist at the University of Ferrara, Italy. He obtained a PhD at the University of Padova in 1996. His main interest is the reconstruction of evolutionary processes using genetic variation data in different species, including the statistical aspects and the understanding of the impact on genomes of environmental changes related to human activities.
See Giorgio Bertorelle's website here
Armando Caballero Rua, University of Vigo, Spain  Armando Caballero is a population and quantitative geneticist interested in conservation genetics and evolution. He obtained a PhD at Universidad Complutense de Madrid in 1990 and worked as a postdoctoral research fellow at Edinburgh University from 1990 to 1996. He is currently Professor of Genetics at Universidad de Vigo. His work has focused on effective population size theory, genetic diversity and inbreeding, nature of quantitative genetic variation and genetic management of conserved populations.
See Armando Caballero Rua's website here
Lounès Chikhi, University of Toulouse, France  Lounès Chikhi is a population geneticist working at the CNRS (French National Centre for Scientific Research) in Toulouse, France. He is also the Principal Investigator of the Population and Conservation Genetics group, at the Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência, in Oeiras, Portugal. He defended his PhD in 1995 in Paris VII (Universitè Pierre et Marie Curie) for a work carried out between Montpellier, Abidjan and Sète. After a post-doc in Padua, Italy and several post-docs in the UK (Institute of Zoology, in London, Queen Mary and Westfield College, University College London, and University of Cardiff) he joined the EDB (Evolution & Diversité Biologique) lab in Toulouse, France in 2002. He is interested in understanding how genetic data can be used to reconstruct the recent history of populations.
See Lounès Chikhi's website here
Ben Evans, McMaster University, Canada  Ben Evans is a Professor in the Biology Department at McMaster University, Ontario, Canada. He completed a Ph.D. at Columbia University and was a postdoctoral research scientist at the University of Texas at Austin and Columbia University, USA. Dr. Evans is interested in how new sex chromosomes evolve, and how demography, molecular evolution, recombination, and natural selection differently affect sex chromosomes and autosomes. He is also interested in the evolution of polyploid genomes, how redundant genetic elements influence genome evolution, and the population genomics of speciation. Most of his work focuses on terrestrial vertebrates, especially frogs and monkeys.
See Ben Evans' website here
Rui Miguel Macieira de Faria, University of Porto, Portugal  Rui Faria is an evolutionary biologist primarily interested in the mechanisms of adaptation and speciation. His research is focused on the role of chromosomal rearrangements and natural selection in speciation and how they shape genome-wide patterns of divergence during the evolution of reproductive isolation. During his career he worked in a wide variety of taxa, including anadromous and marine fishes, primates, rodents, birds, molluscs. Currently his research is focused on marine gastropods of the genus Littorina. He did his PhD at the University of Porto (Portugal) and was a postdoc researcher at the Institute of Evolutionary Biology-Universitat Pompeu Fabra in Barcelona and at the Research Centre in Biodiversity and Genetic Resources (CIBIO) in Portugal. For the last two years he was a Marie Curie fellow at the Department of Animal and Plant Sciences, University of Sheffield (UK), and is now taking up a new position at CIBIO.
See Rui Faria's website here
Dario Grattapaglia, EMBRAPA, Brazil  Dario Grattapaglia is a plant geneticist at EMBRAPA (Brazilian Federal Corporation of Agricultural Research) and professor in the graduate program of Genomic Sciences at the Catholic University of Brasília. Forest engineer by training he obtained his Ph.D. in Genetics with a co-major in Forestry from North Carolina State University. His main interest involves the application of genomic data in forest trees to investigate the basis of complex trait variation, understand the structure and dynamics of natural populations and incorporate genomics in advanced tree breeding and conservation strategies.
See Dario Grattapaglia's website here
Olivier Hardy, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium  Olivier Hardy has specific interest in plant population genetics, phylogeography and community ecology. He did his PhD on the evolution of a polyploid complex at the Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium, and a postdoc on gene dispersal in an endangered plant at the University of Montpellier II, France. He also developed computer programs simulating processes or treating population genetics or community data. His current research focus on African rain forest plants, including species delimitation, comparative phylogeography, seed and pollen dispersal, and community phylogenetics.
See Olivier Hardy's website here
Gerald Heckel, University of Bern, Switzerland  Gerald Heckel is an evolutionary biologist with relatively diverse research interests in speciation, invasion processes, behavior genetics and host-pathogen co-evolution. He received his PhD from the University of Erlangen-Nürnberg in Germany for behavioral and genetic research on the mating system of neotropical bats. After moving to Switzerland and a short postdoc, he started his own research projects at the University of Bern on the population genetics and molecular ecology of several vertebrate and invertebrate systems - at present mostly wild rodents and their more or less faithful parasites. Research approaches draw on ecological and behavioral work together with genetic, genomic and transcriptomic analyses to understand the establishment and maintenance of evolutionary divergence and functional biodiversity.
See Gerald Heckel's website here
Jane Hughes, Griffith University, Australia  Jane Hughes runs the Molecular Ecology laboratory at Griffith University. Her interests are in using molecular markers to answer ecological and evolutionary questions. She heads the aquatic conservation and biodiversity theme within the Australian Rivers Institute.
See Jane Hughes' website here
Pär K. Ingvarsson, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Sweden  Pär Ingvarsson is professor of Plant Genomics and Plant Breeding and his main interests are understanding the genetic basis of adaptive traits, mainly in woody perennial plants such as aspens and spruces. He did his PhD at Umeå University and spent time as a postdoctoral researcher at University of British Columbia and University of Virginia before returning to a faculty position at Umeå University. He recently moved to Uppsala and the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences. His current research is focused on combining population, quantitative and comparative genomics to understand the evolution of adaptive traits.
See Pär Ingvarsson's website here
Louise J Johnson, University of Reading, UK  Louise Johnson is an evolutionary geneticist whose research combines bioinformatics, theory and experimental work. She did her PhD at Imperial College on yeast mating system evolution, followed by postdocs at Nottingham and the University of Virginia on transposable elements. She came to Reading on an RCUK Fellowship in 2006 and is now an Associate Professor of Evolutionary Genetics, working on many aspects of the evolution of genetic systems: the evolution of the genetic code, of gene regulatory networks, mating systems and intragenomic conflicts, and how these affect the structure and function of genomes. Much of her work involves experimental evolution, using both bacteria and cancer cell lines.
See Louise Johnson's website here
Sara Knott, University of Edinburgh, UK  Sara Knott is a quantitative geneticist. She obtained her PhD from The University of Edinburgh, based at the AFRC Institute of Animal Physiology and Genetics Research. Since then she has stayed at the University of Edinburgh and is now in the Institute of Evolutionary Biology. Her interests are in the development and application of statistical approaches to understand the genetic architecture of complex traits.
See Sara Knott's website here
Thomas R Meagher, University of St. Andrews, UK  Thomas Meagher is a plant evolutionary biologist with interests in population structure, phenotypic evolution, pedigree inference, conservation biology, and applied evolution. He did his PhD at Duke University on population demography of dioecious plants, and supplemented that work with adaptation of forensic methods of paternity analysis to investigate mating system dynamics in natural populations. His research career has included work at Duke University, Cambridge University (Fulbright Fellow), Rutgers University, and since 1999 he has held a personal chair at the University of St Andrews. His current interests include investigation of local and regional population structure with a particular emphasis on conservation and biodiversity management and integration of scientific results into government policy.
See Thomas Meagher's website here
Darren Obbard, The University of Edinburgh, UK  Darren Obbard is an evolutionary geneticist at the Institute of Evolutionary Biology, University of Edinburgh. He obtained his PhD in 2004 from the Department of Plant Sciences, University of Oxford for a study of population structure and phylogenetics in the androdioecious hexaploid plant Mercurlais annua. Since 2004 he has been in Edinburgh, initially as a post-doc working on the molecular evolution of Anopheles mosquitoes, then as a Wellcome Trust Research Career Development Fellow and University of Edinburgh Chancellor’s Fellow working on Drosophila. His current work focuses on the genetics of host-virus interaction and evolution, primarily using Drosophila and other invertebrate models.
See Darren Obbard's website here
Aurora Ruiz-Herrera, Autonomous University of Barcelona, Spain  Aurora Ruiz-Herrera is an evolutionary biologist. Her research activity has been focused on three main areas: (i) comparative genomics, (ii) reproductive biology and (iii) genomic instability, faces of a three-sided pyramid that has as a main objective to understand the mechanisms driving genome organization and evolution. She did her PhD at the Autonomous University of Barcelona on chromosome evolution and then spent five years of postdoctoral training at the University of Stellenbosch (South Africa) and the University of Pavia (Italy). Since 2009 she moved back to Barcelona, where she heads the Animal Genomics Group at the Autonomous University of Barcelona. Her current research is focussed on the study of genome organization by combining computational and experimental methods, and by studying the genomes of different mammalian species.
See Aurora Ruiz-Herrera's website here
Marc Stift, University of Konstanz, Germany  Marc Stift mainly works in the field of plant evolutionary genetics. He received his PhD from the University of Amsterdam, having studied hybridisation and (auto)polyploidisation in Rorippa (Brassicaceae). He then moved on to a postdoc at the University of Glasgow, to work on the breakdown of self-incompatibility in Arabidopsis lyrata (Brassicaceae). After another postdoc in Portugal (CIBIO, University of Porto) working on the invasive allopolyploid Aegilops cylindrica (Poaceae), he became assistant professor at the University of Konstanz. Ongoing research themes include mating system evolution (evolution of selfing) and evolution during and after invasion. Current study systems include a wide variety of plants, among which Solidago canadensis and S. gigantea (Asteraceae), Mimulus guttatus (Phrymaceae), Arabis alpina, Brassica nigra, Arabidopsis lyrata (Brassicaceae) and Gentiana asclepiadea (Gentianaceae)
See Marc Stift's website here
Bastiaan Star, University of Oslo, Norway  Bastiaan Star is an evolutionary biologist at the University of Oslo, Norway. He obtained his PhD in population genetic theory at the University of Otago, New Zealand in 2008. His research ranges from investigating the impacts of anthropogenic pressures and climatic changes on marine resources to the characterization of host-associated microbiomes. His current interests include the role of structural genomic variation (chromosomal inversions, insertions/deletions) underlying population divergence and adaptation. He has a strong focus on using whole genome sequencing techniques, including ancient DNA (aDNA) approaches.
See Bastiaan Star's website here
Paul Sunnucks, Monash University, Australia  Paul Sunnucks is a Professor in the School of Biological Sciences at Monash University, Melbourne, Australia. He runs the Persistence and Adaptation Research Team, which is mainly concerned with evolutionary adaptation and population processes in wildlife, and the incorporation of evolutionary processes into conservation biology. Two major current research themes are: (1) ecophysiological adaptation and lineage divergence driven by mitonuclear interactions (evolutionary interactions between mitochondrial DNA genes and their nuclear partners), and (2) experimental genetic augmentation of wildlife species of conservation concern. His research informs his strong interactions with wildlife management agencies, and teaching in ecology and conservation.
See Paul Sunnucks' website here Jinliang Wang, Institute of Zoology, London, UK  Jinliang Wang is a theoretical population geneticist. He did his PhD at Northwestern Agricultural University in 1991, on a stochastic simulation study of the mating and selection strategies for the conservation of a population with long and overlapping generations. After a few years of teaching and research in several universities in China, he moved to Edinburgh University as a postdoc on population genetics in 1997. In 2000, he joined the Zoological Society of London's Institute of Zoology, first as a research fellow and then as a senior research fellow, to continue working on conservation genetics. His current research interests are in developing population/quantitative genetics models and methods on analysis of empirical data to address issues in evolutionary and conservation biology and in the selective improvement of domesticated species.
See Jinliang Wang's website here
Chenwu Xu, Yangzhou University, P R China  Chenwu Xu is a professor in Yangzhou University, Jiangsu Province, P R China. He received his Ph.D. in Crop Genetics and Breeding from the Nanjing Agricultural University in 1998 and he was a Postdoctoral Research Associate in the Department of Botany and Plant Science at the University of California, Riverside in 2002-2003. His current research focuses on statistical genomics, crop molecular evolution and maize genetics.
See Chenwu Xu's website here
Xiangjiang Zhan, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China  Xiangjiang Zhan is a population genomicist who has worked with mammals but more recently with birds. He did his PhD in the Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences. He did his postdoc at Cardiff University, UK. Six years later, he got a professorship in Chinese Academy of Sciences and has established a lab in Beijing. His current research focuses on population genomics, evolutionary genetics and ecology of animals, especially those living in extreme environments.
See Xiangjiang Zhan's website here
Yuan-Ming Zhang, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, China  Yuan-Ming Zhang is a Professor who focuses on quantitative genetics research and specialized in methodologies for quantitative trait locus (QTL) mapping and genome-wide association studies (GWAS). He received his Ph.D. from Nanjing Agricultural University on mixed major genes plus polygenes inheritance. He did his postdoctoral research at the University of California, Riverside, where he developed his interest in GWAS and QTL mapping. He worked in Nanjing Agricultural University from 1999 and moved to Huazhong Agricultural University in 2014, where he established the Statistical Genomics Laboratories. His current research interests include QTL mapping for quantitative traits, GWAS, comparative genomics, genetic mating design, and linkage group construction of distorted markers.
See Yuan-Ming Zhang's website here
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