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List of Editorial Board Members
List is alphabetized, with contact information and research interests.
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Anderson, Frank E.
Interests: Metazoan phylogeny (particularly relationships among cephalopod mollusks and spiralian metazoans); divergence time estimation using molecular sequence data; phylogenetic theory and methodology; marine biogeography; invertebrate biology.
Frank E. (Andy) Anderson Department of Zoology and Center for Systematic Biology Mailcode 6501 Southern Illinois University Carbondale, IL 62901
Phone: (618) 453-4136 Fax: (618) 453-2806 Email: feander@siu.edu *******************************************************************
Barker, Keith. Interests: Phylogenetic relationships of birds, especially of the order Passeriformes, using molecular genetic techniques; evaluation of congruence of phylogenetic hypotheses, maximum likelihood and other statistical approaches to analysis of molecular data, comparative methods (behavioral and ecological variation within avian groups), and historical biogeographic methods. F. Keith Barker Department of Ornithology American Museum of Natural History Central Park West at 79th Street New York, NY 10024-5192 Phone: 212-313-7927 Fax: 212-769-5759 Email: fbarker@amnh.org ******************************************************************* Barrowclough, George F. Interests: Avian systematics and population genetics; in particular molecular phylogenetics of avian family and ordinal level taxa; avian phylogeography and coalescence. George F. Barrowclough Dept. Ornithology American Museum of Natural History Central Park West at 79th St. New York, NY 10024 Phone: 212-769-5785 Fax: 212-769-5759 Email: gfb@amnh.org ******************************************************************* Bielawski, Joseph P. Interests: (i) statistical analyses and (ii) systematics of fishes. Joseph P. Bielawski Department of Biology University College London 4 Stephenson Way London NW1 2HE UK Phone: +44 (20) 7679 7425 Fax: +44 (20) 7383 2048 Email: j.bielawski@ucl.ac.uk ******************************************************************* Bininda-Emonds, Olaf Interests: supertree construction; evolution of developmental sequences and heterochrony; evolution and systematics of mammals, particularly Carnivora; phylogenetic theory; bioinformatic solutions to candidate gene analysis. Olaf Bininda-Emonds Lehrstuhl fÙr Tierzucht, Technical University of Munich, Alte Akademie 12, 85354 Freising-Weihenstephan, Germany Phone: +49 (0)8161 713741 Fax: +49 (0)8161 713107 Email: Olaf.Bininda@tierzucht.tum.de Web: http://www.tierzucht.tum.de/Bininda-Emonds/ ******************************************************************* Bromham, Lindell Interests: tempo and mode of molecular evolution; using DNA to investigate evolutionary past, patterns and processes. Lindell Bromham Biological Sciences, University of Sussex, Falmer, Brighton, BN1 9QG, UK Phone: Fax: +44-1273-678 433 Email: L.D.Bromham@sussex.ac.uk ******************************************************************* Buckley, Thomas Interests: Methods of phylogenetic analysis with an emphasis on the role of substitution model assumptions on phylogenetic accuracy and hypothesis testing. The study of molecular evolutionary processes and the incorporation of this information into phylogenetic analysis. Other interests include ribosomal RNA secondary structure, the origin, evolution, and biogeography of the New Zealand biota, and the systematics and phylogeography of the New Zealand cicadas. Thomas Buckley Landcare Research Private Bag 92170 Auckland New Zealand Phone: +64-9-8154200 x 7084 Fax: +64-9-8497093 Email: BuckleyT@LandcareResearch.co.nz ******************************************************************* Cao, Ying Interests: (i) systematics of vertebrates and (ii) phylogeny reconstruction Ying Cao The Institute of Statistical Mathematics 4-6-7 Minami-Azabu Minato-ku Tokyo 106 JAPAN Phone: +81-3-5421-8748 Fax: +81-3-5421-8796 Email: cao@ism.ac.jp ******************************************************************* Charleston, Michael A. Co-phylogeny mapping, heuristic search methods and phylogenetic landscapes, super-trees and phylogenetic consensus methods. Michael Charleston Oxford UK Email: mcharleston@onetel.net.uk ******************************************************************* Cocroft, Rex Interests: The comparative method and the evolution of behavior. Rex Cocroft Division of Biological Sciences University of Missouri Columbia, MO 65211 USA Phone: 573-884-3144 Fax: 573- 882-0123 Email: cocroftr@pop.email.missouri.edu ******************************************************************* Crisp, Mike Interests: Systematics of legumes, flora of Australia, species concepts, biogeography. Mike Crisp Division of Botany and Zoology Daley Rd. Australian National University Acton, ACT 0200 Austrailia Phone: 0961 2 6249 2866 Fax: 0961 2 62495573 Email: Mike.Crisp@anu.edu.au ******************************************************************* Crowe, Tim Interests: Species concepts, avian systematics, African biogeography Tim M. Crowe Percy Institute for African Ornithology University of Cape Town Rondebosch 7700 South Africa Phone: 21 650 3292 Fax: 21 650 3295 Email: tmcrowe@botzoo.uct.ac.za ******************************************************************* Cummings, Michael Interests: Molecular evolution and genetics; patterns and processes of sequence evolution. Methods from molecular biology, population genetics, systematics, statistics, and computer science. Comparative studies including several levels of biological organization, both computer-based and empirical studies. Michael P. Cummings The Josephine Bay Paul Center For Comparative Molecular Biology and Evolution Marine Biological Laboratory 7 MBL Street Woods Hole, MA 02543-1015 Phone: 508-289-7260 Fax: Email: mike@bluefish.mbl.edu ******************************************************************* Eriksson, Torsten Interests: Phylogeny and evolution in the Rosoideae and the Adoxaceae; phylogenetic nomenclature. Torsten Eriksson Bergianska Stiftelsen Kungliga Vetenskapsakademien Box 50017 104 05 Stockholm Phone: 08 - 16 3858 Fax: 08 - 612 9005 ******************************************************************* Frati, Francesco Interests: Molecular phylogeny of Collembola and other basal insect orders. Molecular evolution. Mitochondrial DNA evolution and gene order. Francesco Frati Dept. of Evolutionary Biology University of Siena via A. Moro 2, 53100 Siena, ITALY Phone: +39-0577-234417 Fax: +39-0577-234476 Email: frati@unisi.it ******************************************************************* Gascuel, Olivier Interests: methods and algorithms for phylogeny reconstruction, distance-based approaches, maximum-likelihood, bootstrap analysis, duplication history of tandemly repeated genes, bioinformatics. Olivier Gascuel Equipe "Méthodes et algorithmes pour la bioinformatique" LIRMM-CNRS, 161 rue Ada 34392 - Montpellier FRANCE Phone: 33 (0) 4 67 41 85 47 Fax: 33 (0) 4 67 41 85 00 Email: gascuel@lirmm.fr Web: http://www.lirmm.fr/w3ifa/MAAS/ ******************************************************************* von Haesler, Arndt Interests: modelling sequence evolution and inferring modes of evolution, methods to reconstruct phylogenetic trees, applications to data; inference of population history in the coalescent framework; statistics of sequence alignments; development of databases for population genetic data. Arndt von Haeseler Max-Planck-Institut fuer evolutionaere Anthropologie Inselstrasse 22, D-04103 Leipzig Germany Phone: +49-341-9952-504 Fax: +49-341-9952-555 Email: haeseler@eva.mpg.de ******************************************************************* Hedin, Marshall Interests: intraspecific analyses, spiders, molecular evolution, molecular systematics Marshal Hedin Department of Biology San Diego State University San Diego, CA 92182-4614 Phone (office): 619-594-6230 Phone (lab): 619-594-0835 Fax: 619-594-5676 Email: mhedin@sciences.sdsu.edu Web: http://www.bio.sdsu.edu/pub/spiders/hedin.html ******************************************************************* Holder, Mark Interests: Development and evaluation of phylogenetic methods, in particular models of character evolution, tree-searching algorithms, and assessing uncertainty in phylogenetic estimates. Mark Holder School of Computational Science and Information Technology (CSIT) 150-F Dirac Science Library Florida State University Tallahassee, Florida 32306-4120 USA Phone: (850) 645-0305 Email: mholder@csit.fsu.edu ******************************************************************* Huelsenbeck, John Interests: statistical aspects of phylogenetic inference, stratigraphic phylogenetic methods, comparative method, insect phylogeny, experimental evolution of bacteriophages John P. Huelsenbeck Section of Ecology, Behavior and Evolution Division of Biological Sciences 9500 Gilman Drive University of California, San Diego La Jolla, CA 92093-0116, U.S.A. Phone: (858)822-1832 Fax: (858)534-7108 Email: johnh@biomail.ucsd.edu ******************************************************************* Huson, Daniel H . Interests: design and implementation of discrete methods for genome analysis and phylogenetics, in mathematical modeling of biological problems and in experimental evaluation of algorithms. Daniel H. Huson Universität Tübingen Fakultät für Informations und Kognitionswissenschaften Zentrum für Bioinformatik Tübingen Sand 14 72076 Tübingen, Germany Phone: +49-7071-29-70450 Fax: +49-7071-29-5148 Email: huson@informatik.uni-tuebingen.de Web: http://wwwab.informatik.unituebingen.de/people/huson/old_homepage/Welcome.html ******************************************************************* Jockusch, Elizabeth Interests: phenotypic evolution, evolution of development, phenotypic plasticity and reaction norm evolution, salamander systematics, insects Elizabeth Jockusch Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology 75 N. Eagleville Road The University of Connecticut Storrs, CT 06269-3043 Phone: 860-486-4452 Fax: 860-486-6364 Email: jockusch@sp.uconn.edu ******************************************************************* Kishino, Hirohisa Interests: Hirohisa Kishino describes his research interests as: molecular phylogenetics, sampling survey methodology, statistical modeling, and population genetics Hirohisa Kishino Laboratory of Biometrics Graduate School of Agriculture and Life Sciences University of Tokyo Yayoi 1-1-1, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113-8657 Japan Phone: +81-3-5841-5066 Fax: +81-3-5841-5070 Email: kishino@wheat.ab.a.u-tokyo.ac.jp Web: http://wheat.ab.a.u-tokyo.ac.jp/~kishino/ ******************************************************************* Knowles, L. Lacey Interests:Processes that initiate or contribute to population divergence and speciation. The relative contributions of selection and drift to speciation, the evolution of reproductive isolation, and the processes generating macroevolutionary patterns of diversity. I primarily study insects, and in particular, acridid grasshoppers in the genus Melanoplus. L. Lacey Knowles Dept. Ecology and Evolutionary Biology 1109 Geddes Ave. University of Michigan Museum of Zoology Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1079 Phone: (734)763-5603 Fax: (734)763-4080 Email: knowlesl@umich.edu ******************************************************************* Kuzoff, Robert Interests: molecular-genetic basis of plant gynoecial diversification. Specifically, a combination of phylogenetic, morphological and molecular-genetic tools to explore factors contributing to the evolution of carpel and ovule form across angiosperm phylogeny. Robert K. Kuzoff Section of Molecular and Cellular Biology University of California One Shields Avenue Davis, CA, 95616 Phone: 530-752-3111 Fax: 530-752-3085 Email: rkkuzoff@ucdavis.edu ******************************************************************* Lewis, Paul O. Interests:Phylogenetic theory and methodology; phylogeny of green plants; statistical genetics Paul O. Lewis Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology 75 N. Eagleville Road The University of Connecticut Storrs, CT 06269-3043 Phone: 860-486-2069 Fax: 860-486-6364 Email: plewis@uconnvm.uconn.edu ******************************************************************* Magwene, Paul Interests: Statistical and computational methods in systematics, genomics and population/quantitative genetics; evolution of development; vertebrate functional morphology and biomechanics. Paul Magwene Postdoctoral Fellow Department of Biology 415 S. University Ave. University of Pennsylvania Philadelphia, PA 19104 USA Phone: (215) 898-8395 Fax: (215) 898-8780 Email: pmagwene@sas.upenn.edu ******************************************************************* Mathews, Sarah Interests:Plant diversity and the molecular bases for developmental differences among taxa. I sample low copy nuclear genes (phytochromes) to resolve relationships within families (e.g., Poaceae, Scrophulariaceae) and among major lineages in angiosperms and in seed plants. Sarah Mathews Division of Biological Sciences University of Missouri-Columbia 226 Tucker Hall Columbia MO 56211 Phone: 573-882-3440 Fax: 573-882-0123 Email: mathewss@missouri.edu ******************************************************************* Morrison, David Interests: morphological variation within species; molecular phylogeny, particularly of the Sporozoa (Apicomplexa); methods for analysis of molecular data, particularly sequence alignment and patterns of codon usage & bias. David A. Morrison Department of Environmental Sciences University of Technology, Sydney Westbourne Street Gore Hill NSW 2065 Australia Phone: +61 2 9514 4159 Fax: +61 2 9514 4003 Email: David.Morrison@uts.edu.au Web: http://www.science.uts.edu.au/depts/des/damindex.html ******************************************************************* Mountain, Joanna Interests: hominoid and primate phylogeny, human evolution, population genetics Joanna L. Mountain Department of Anthropological Sciences Stanford University Building 360 Stanford, California 94305-2117 Phone: 650-725-5009 Fax: 650-725-9996 Email: mountain@leland.stanford.edu ******************************************************************* Muse, Spencer Interests: molecular evolution, models of evolution, phylogenetic methods, statistical genetics. Spencer Muse Program in Statistical Genetics Department of Statistics Campus Box 8203 North Carolina State University Raleigh, NC 27695-8203 USA Phone: 919-515-1948 Fax: 919- 515-7315 Email: muse@stat.ncsu.edu ******************************************************************* Oakley, Todd H. Interests: Empirical investigations of (1) eye evolution and molecular evolution of genes involved in vision and eye development; (2) phylogeny, ancestral state reconstruction and comparative methods; and (3) gene duplication and consequences. Organismal expertise: (1) Salmonid fishes especially the salmoninae. (2) Ostracod crustaceans, especially myodocopids. Todd H. Oakley University of California, Santa Barbara Dept. of Ecology, Evolution and Marine Biology (EEMB) Santa Barbara, CA 93106 USA Phone: (805) 893-4715 Fax: (805) 893-4724 Email: oakley@lifesci.ucsb.edu ******************************************************************* Ortí, Guillermo Interests: Systematics and phylogeography, adaptive radiations, biogeographic distributions, coevolution, geographic population structure, gene flow, and the evolution of mating patterns. RNA stucture. Study organisms: basal actinopterigians. Guillermo Ortí School of Biological Sciences 314 Manter Hall University of Nebraska Lincoln, NE, 68588-0118, USA Phone: 402-472-3433 Fax: 402-472-2083 Email: gorti@biocomp.unl.edu Web: http://bs-biosci.unl.edu/orti.htm ******************************************************************* Philippe, Hervé Interests: The universal tree of life, the evolution of eukaryotes and the origin of multicellularity, the covarion model and mutational bias. Hervé Philippe Equipe Phylogenie, Bio-Informatique et Genome UMR 7622 Batiment B, 6eme etage, Universite Paris 6 9 quai Saint Bernard, 75252 Paris Cedex 05 France Phone: 33 1 44 27 59 76 Fax: 33 1 44 27 34 45 Email: herve.philippe@snv.jussieu.fr ******************************************************************* Pollock, David Interests: Protein structure, function, evolution, and coevolution; evolutionary genomics and bioinformatics; phylogeny reconstruction. David D. Pollock 505 Choppin Hall Department of Biological Sciences Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA 70803 Phone: 225-578-4597 Fax: 225-578-2597 Email: daviddpollock@yahoo.com or dpollock@lanl.gov Web: http://www.biology.lsu.edu/faculty_listings/fac_pages/dpollock.html ******************************************************************* Posada, David Interests: phylogenetic inference; models of evolution: recombination; phylogeography. David Posada Facultad de Ciencias Universidad de Vigo Vigo 36200 Spain Phone: +34 986 812038 Fax: +34 986 812556 Email: dposada@uvigo.es
******************************************************************* Purvis, Andy Interests: development, implementation and use of phylogenetic comparative methods; analysis of phylogenetic tree shape to make inferences about macroevolutionary process; construction of 'supertrees'; and phylogenetic approaches to conservation biology. Andy Purvis Department of Biology Imperial College Silwood Park Ascot Berkshire SL5 7PY UK Phone: 0207 594 2327 Fax: 0207 594 2339 Email: a.purvis@ic.ac.uk ******************************************************************* Rambaut, Andrew Interests: "inference of evolutionary processes from molecular sequences, molecular evolution of viral infectious diseases, molecular clocks and the estimation of divergence times." Andrew Rambaut Zoology Department University of Oxford South Parks Road Oxford OX1 3PS UK Phone: +44-1865-271261 Fax: +44-1865-271249 Email: andrew.rambaut@zoo.ox.ac.uk ******************************************************************* Reiger, Jerry Interests: Higher level molecular phylogenetics of Arthropoda, Higher level molecular phylogenetics of Lepidoptera, Molecular evolution of gene families, Molecular evolution and development, Molecular phylogenetics and protein evolution. Jerome C. Regier Center for Agricultural Biotechnology University of Maryland Biotechnology Institute Plant Sciences Building, Room 5140 College Park, Maryland 20742-4450 Phone: 301-405-7679 Fax: 301-314-9075 Email: regier@glue.umd.edu ******************************************************************* Rogers, James Interests: Systematics of fishes and herps; phylogenetic methods James S. Rogers Department of Biological Sciences University of New Orleans New Orleans, LA 70148 Phone: 504-280-6741 Fax: 504-280-6121 Email: jsrogers@uno.edu ******************************************************************* Sperling, Felix Interests: Insect systematics and phylogeny, especially Lepidoptera; speciation and species boundaries. Felix Sperling Department of Biological Sciences cw405 Biological Sciences Centre University of Alberta Edmonton, Alberta T6G 2E9 Canada Phone: 780-492-3991 Fax: 780-492-9234 Email: Felix.Sperling@ualberta.ca ******************************************************************* Trueman, John Interests: Phylogenetic methods, including techniques for estimating or testing hypotheses of relationship in any sense at any level, biodiversity and conservation of aquatic species and systems, entomology specializing in Odonata. John Trueman Bioinformatics Unit Research School of Biological Sciences Australian National University Canberra, ACT 0200 AUSTRALIA Phone: (+61) (0)2-6249-3059 Fax: (+61) (0)2-6249-5573 Email: John.trueman@anu.edu.au ******************************************************************* Tucker, Priscilla Interests: 1) Mammalian systematics with an emphasis on Old World mice and rats, subfamily Murinae, 2) molecular systematics with an emphasis on comparative nuclear gene data, 3) comparative gene evolution especially as regards sex chromosome-linked genes, 4) hybrid zone studies and 5) the genetic basis of species differences at the microevolutionary and macroevolutionary levels. Priscilla K. Tucker University of Michigan Museum of Zoology, Rm. 3036 1109 Geddes Ave. Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1079 Phone: 734-741-7038 Fax: 734-763-4080 Email: ptuck@umich.edu ******************************************************************* Wen, Jun Interests: Systematics and biogeography of Araliaceae; evolution and biogeography of north temperate disjunct plant taxa. Jun Wen Associate Curator Department of Botany Field Museum of Natural History Chicago, IL 60605-2496 Phone: 312-665-7853 Fax: 312-665-7158 Email: jwen@fmnh.org ******************************************************************* Whitfield, James B. Interests:morphological and molecular systematics of parasitoid wasps, with a primary focus on the coevolutionary interactions between hosts and wasps, and between wasps and symbiotic viruses. Organismal expertise: Insecta, especially Hymenoptera: Braconidae but including other Hymenoptera and Lepidoptera. James B. Whitfield Associate Professor Entomology, 320 Morrill Hall 505 S. Goodwin Ave. University of Illinois Urbana, IL 61801 Phone: 217-333-2567 Fax: 217-244-3499 Email: jwhitfie@life.uiuc.edu ******************************************************************* Wiegmann, Brian Interests: Molecular systematics and evolution of flies and other insects; phylogenetics and evolution of insect life history traits; molecular evolution of ribosomal DNA; divergence time estimation from nucleotide sequence data. In addition to areas of expertise indicated above, Brian is willing to review papers in the area of "multiple data set phylogenetics" and "macroevolutionary comparative methods." Brian M. Wiegmann Department of Entomology Box 7613 North Carolina State University Raleigh, NC 27695-7613 Phone: 919- 515-1653 Fax: 919-515-7746 Email: bwiegman@unity.ncsu.edu ******************************************************************* Wilke, Claus Interests: I am interested in theoretical population genetics. In particular, I am working on a synthesis between classical methods of population genetics and more recent concepts such as the quasispecies concept or the evolution over networks of neutral genotypes in a background of deleterious mutations. Claus Wilke Computation and Neural Systems Gordon Moore Laboratory 136-93 California Institute of Technology Pasadena, CA 91125 Phone: 626-395-2338 Fax: 626-395-2944 Email: wilke@caltech.edu ******************************************************************* Wilkinson, Mark Interests: Systematics and Evolution, particularly of Caecilians (Amphibia: Gymnophiona). Phylogenetic inference including, homology, character construction and weighting; consensus methods and supertree construction; methods for evaluating data and hypothesis quality, particularly through randomisation tests. Mark Wilkinson Department of Zoology The Natural History Museum, Cromwell Road London, SW7 5BD UK Phone: +44 (0)20 7942 5164 Fax: +44 (0)20 7942 5433 Email: M.Wilkinson@nhm.ac.uk or marw@nhm.ac.uk ******************************************************************* Wilson, George Interests: Crustacean and Arthropod phylogenetics, Isopod Crustacean systematics, deep-sea biodiversity and evolution. George D. F. Wilson Austrailian Museum Centre for Evolutionary Research 6 College Street Sydney, N. S. W. 2010 Austrailia Phone: 61 2 9320 6287 Fax: 61 2 9320 6042 Email: buz@mail.usyd.edu.au or buzw@austmus.gov.au Web: http://www-personal.usyd.edu.au/~buz/index.html ******************************************************************* Zamudio, Kelly Interests: The use of molecular sequence data to recover "shallow history" phylogeny (i.e., at the species interface), phylogeography, animal behavior and comparative methods, and molecular assessments of population structure and metapopulation dynamics. The use of phylogenetic hypotheses and comparative methods to test ideas about adaptation in an historical context. Kelly R. Zamudio Dept. of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology E209 Corson Hall Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853-2701 Phone: 607-254-4212 Fax: 607-255-8088 Email: krz2@cornell.edu ******************************************************************* Zardoya, Rafael Interests: Molecular systematics of Metazoa with particular emphasis in fish systematics, and in the phylogenetic relationships among the main lineages of vertebrates. Phylogeography and adaptive radiations. Population genetics applied to conservation. Phylogenetic performance of molecular markers. New molecular markers. Rafael Zardoya Departamento de Biodiversidad y Biologia Evolutiva Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales Jose Gutierrez Abascal, 2 28006 Madrid, Spain Phone: +34-91-4111328 Fax: +34-91-5645078 Email: rafaz@mncn.csic.es ******************************************************************* Zink, Robert M. Interests: Speciation, phylogeny, phylogeography, biogeography, and evolution of birds. Robert M. Zink Bell Museum, 1987 Upper Buford Circle 100 Ecology Building University of Minnesota St Paul, MN 55108 Phone: 612-624-7207 Fax: 612-624-6777 Email: rzink@biosci.umn.edu ******************************************************************* This page maintained by Deborah Ciszek. Last updated September 2003. |
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