2022
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Dr. Layton is a Lecturer in Marine Biology in the School of Biological Sciences at the University of Aberdeen stuyding diversity in aquatic ecosystems with a focus on hyperdiverse marine invertebrates. Learn more in her profile.
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Dr. Expósito-Alonso is a staff associate & assistant professor (by courtesy) of Biology at the Carnegie Institution for Science and Stanford University stuyding whether and how plants will evolve to keep pace with climate change. Learn more in his profile.
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December 2021
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Dr. DeMarche is an assistant professor in the Department of Plant Biology at the University of Georgia stuyding the ecology and evolution of wild plant populations, with an emphasis on responses to global change. Learn more in her profile.
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Dr. Grogan is an assistant professor in the Departments of Anthropology & Biological Sciences at the University of Cincinnati stuyding the impact of genetic and epigenetic variation on differences in fitness across environmental conditions. Learn more in her profile.
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September 2021
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Dr. Smukowski Heil is an assistant professor in the Department Biological Sciences at North Carolina State University stuyding processes that create and maintain variation in populations using genetics, genomics, and experimental evolution in Saccharomyces yeast. Learn more in her profile.
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August 2021
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Dr. Laskowski is an assistant professor in the Department of Evolution & Ecology at the University of California Davis stuyding how evolution has shaped the developmental mechanisms that determine how individuals use and integrate all the different sources of information they're exposed to over their lifetimes to determine their behavioral phenotypes. Learn more in her profile.
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July 2021
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Dr. Willoughby is an assistant professor in the School of Forestry and Wildlife Sciences at Auburn University stuyding how environmental change influences genetic diversity and complex traits like fitness, using banner-tailed kangaroo rat populations and freshwater mussels. Learn more in her profile.
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June 2021
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Dr. Moyers is an assistant professor in the Biology Department at the University of Massachusetts Boston stuyding how and why traits vary within plant species to address real world problems, including food production and environmental contamination. Learn more in her profile.
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April 2021
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Dr. Mitchell is an assistant professor in the Biology Department at the University of Wisconsin - Eau Claire stuyding plant evolution and hybridization at multiple phylogenetic and temporal scales. Learn more in her profile.
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Dr. Lamichhaney is an assistant professor in the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at the University of Toronto stuyding why traits stop evolving, using Drosophila as a model organism. Learn more in her profile.
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March 2021
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Dr. Lamichhaney is an assistant professor in the Department of Biological Sciences at Kent State University stuyding the relative roles of evolutionary processes, such as genetic adaptation and phenotypic plasticity that underly trait evolution. Learn more in his profile.
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Dr. Wood is an assistant professor in the Department of Biology at the University of Pennsylvania stuyding the evolution and ecology of host-symbiont interactions, especially interactions involving multiple symbionts. Learn more in her profile.
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December 2020
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Dr. Lim is an assistant professor in the Department of Biology at George Mason University stuyding avian phylogenetics, population genetics, speciation and biogeography. Learn more in his profile.
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October 2020
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Dr. Pischedda is an assistant professor in the Department of Biology at Barnard College stuyding the evolutionary and genetic causes and consequences of sexual selection and sexual conflict using Drosophila melanogaster. Learn more in her profile.
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August 2020
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Dr. Tarvin is an assistant professor in the Department of Integrative Biology and Assistant Curator in the Museum of Vertebrate Zoology at the University of California, Berkeley stuyding causal genetic mechanisms underlying novel traits, phenotypic diversification at macro and micro-evolutionary scales, and factors that promote and constrain biodiversity. Learn more in her profile.
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Dr. Weber is an assistant professor in the Department of Integrative Biology University of Wisconsin-Madison using genetic approaches to better understand how and why vertebrates coevolve with their macroparasitess. Learn more in his profile.
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May 2020
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Dr. Landis is an assistant professor in the Department of Biology at Washington University in St. Louis studying how evolutionary processes shape biodiversity over deep timescales. Learn more in his profile.
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Dr. Scott Chialvo is an assistant professor in the Biology Department at Appalachian State University studying the evolution of novel biochemical adaptations and their impact on the biodiversity of organisms. Learn more in her profile.
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April 2020
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Dr. Hendry is an assistant professor in the Department of Microbiology at Cornell University studying how interactions with eukaryotic hosts influence bacterial evolution. Learn more in her profile.
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Dr. Lagomarsino is an assistant professor in the Assistant Professor in the Department of Biological Sciences and the Herbarium Director at Louisiana State University studying the origin and maintenance of Neotropical plant biodiversity. Learn more in her profile.
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March 2020
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Dr. Kooyers is an assistant professor in the Department of Biology at the University of Louisiana, Lafayette studying how often local adaptation occurs in nature and the genetic and physiological mechanisms that either constrain or facilitate local adaptation. Learn more in his profile.
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Dr. Wadgymar is an assistant professor in the Biology Department at Davidson College studying the processes that promote or hinder adaptations in plants, with particular interests in the influences of genetics vs. the environment, climate change, and conservation. Learn more in her profile.
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February 2020
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Dr. Bradburd is an assistant professor in the Department of Integrative Biology at Michigan State University studying the role of geography in structuring patterns of population genetic variation and learning about the processes that shaped those patterns. Learn more in his profile.
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Dr. Lopez-Uribe is an assistant professor in the Department of Entomology at Penn State University studying how evolutionary history, ecological interactions and human management influence bee population responses to the unique biotic and abiotic conditions of agricultural ecosystems. Learn more in her profile.
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January 2020
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Dr. Koelling is an assistant professor in the Department of Biology and Environmental Science at Auburn University at Montgomery studying the evolutionary mechanisms important in plant mating system evolution and speciation, and the causal genetic changes underlying plant adaptations. Learn more in her profile.
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Dr. Zapata is an assistant professor in the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at the University of California, Los Angeles studying how evolution has generated biological diversity, in particular plant diversity. Learn more in his profile.
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December 2019
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Dr. Sharp is an assistant professor in the Genetics Department at the University of Wisconsin-Madison studying mutations, their spectrum of effects on genome sequences, and their consequences for individual fitness and population growth. Read his full profile here.
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Dr. Weber is an assistant professor in the Department of Plant Biology at Michigan State University studying cooperative and antagonistic interactions between plants and insects. Read her full profile here.
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November 2019
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Dr. Kozak is an assistant professor in the Department of Biology at the University of Massachusetts-Dartmouth studying how assortative mating evolves during speciation. Read her full profile here.
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Dr. Borges Provete is an assistant professor in the Institute of Biosciences at the Federal University of Mato Grosso do Sul studying how the interaction between microevolutionary processes at the population scale change trait distribution and scale up to influence patterns at the metacommunity scale. Read his full profile here.
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October 2019
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Dr. Josephs is an assistant professor in the Plant Biology department at Michigan State University studying how various evolutionary forces shape patterns of genetic variation and trait variation in natural and domesticated plant species. Read her full profile here.
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Dr. Puritz is an assistant professor in the Biological Sciences Department at University of Rhode Island studying how natural and anthropogenic processes affect the evolution of marine populations through the lens of larval dispersal. Read his full profile here.
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September 2019
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Dr. Chen is an assistant professor in the Department of Biology at the University of Rochester studying the evolution of natural populations on short timescales. Read her full profile here.
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Dr. Steinel is an assistant professor in the Department of Biological Sciences at the University of Massachusetts Lowell studying the evolutionary origins of the vertebrate adaptive immune system and the co-evolution of hosts and pathogens. Read her full profile here.
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August 2019
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Dr. Arbuckle is a lecturer in the Department of Biosciences at Swansea University studying the origin and evolution of biodiversity in venomous and poisonous animals. Read his full profile here.
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Dr. O'Connell is assistant professor in the Department of Biology at Stanford University studying how genetic and environmental factors contribute to biological diversity and adaptation. Read her full profile here.
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July 2019
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Dr. Sheth is assistant professor in the Department of Plant and Microbial Biology at North Carolina State University studying how quantitative genetic variation and demographic processes influence the dynamics of adaptation to novel conditions. Read her full profile here.
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Dr. Ram is a senior lecturer in the School of Computer Science at IDC Herzliya studying the evolution of processes that generate and transmit variation, both genetic and phenotypic. Read his full profile here.
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June 2019
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Dr. Ferris is an assistant professor in the department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at Tulane University studying the genetic, phenotypic, and environmental basis of adaptation and speciation in Mimulus. Read her full profile here.
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Dr. Ogbunu is an assistant professor in the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at Brown University studying the complex interactions underlying disease phenomena across many scales. Read his full profile here.
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May 2019
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Dr. Germain is an assistant professor in the Department of Zoology & the Biodiversity Research Centre at the University of British Columbia studying the ecology and evolution of species coexistence in spatially-structured landscapes. Read her full profile here.
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Dr. Uyeda is an assistant professor of evolutionary biology in the Department of Biological Sciences at Virginia Polytechnic and State University studying the drivers of phenotypic evolution at the macroevolutionary scale. Read his full profile here.
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March-April 2019
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Dr. Field is an assistant professor in evolutionary paleobiology in the Department of Earth Sciences at the University of Cambridge studying the macroevolutionary history of birds. Read his full profile here.
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Dr. Li is an assistant professor at the Boyce Thompson Institute on the Cornell University campus studying the evolutionary processes at the gene, genome, and microbiome levels that shaped the plant diversity. Read his full profile here.
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February 2019
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Dr. McGhee is an assistant professor in the Department of Biology at Sewanee: The University of the South studying the role parental effects have in shaping offspring behavior in a variety of fish species. Read her full profile here.
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Dr. Taylor is an assistant professor in the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at the University of Colorado Boulder studying the genetic architecture of reproductive isolation and the genetic bases of traits relevant to speciation. Read his full profile here.
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January 2019
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Dr. Sessa is an assistant professor at the University of Florida studying the evolutionary and ecological processes that shape plant diversity. Read her full profile here.
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Dr. Mallarino is an assistant professor at Princeton University studying the genetic and developmental mechanisms driving the evolution of body form and structure in vertebrates. Read his full profile here.
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November-December 2018
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Dr. Kemp is an assistant professor at the University of Texas at Austin in the Department of Integrative Biology studying how environmental perturbations shape vertebrate communities through time and space. Read her full profile here.
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Dr. Espíndola is an assistant professor in the Department of Entomology at the University of Maryland, College Park studying how the abiotic and biotic environment affects the way species interact and diversify. Read her full profile here.
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October 2018
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Dr. Sheehan is an assistant professor in the Department of Neurobiology and Behavior at Cornell University studying the causes and consequences of social evolution. Read his full profile here.
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Dr. Gerstein is an assistant professor in the Departments of Microbiology & Statistics at the University of Manitoba studying how different ecological and genomic factors influence the rate and predictability of evolution. Read her full profile here.
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September 2018
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Dr. Branco is an assistant professor in the Department of Microbiology and Immunology at Montana State University studying the ecology and evolution of fungi to further understand the ecological factors that generate and maintain fungal diversity. Read her full profile here.
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Dr. Campbell-Staton is an assistant professor jointly appointed to the Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Department and the Institute for Society and Genetics at the University of California Los Angeles studying how climate shapes demographic history and adaptation over prehistoric and contemporary time periods. Read his full profile here.
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Dr. Kane is an Assistant Professor of Biology at Georgia Southern University. She studies ecological and evolutionary biomechanics; specifically, locomotion, feeding, and the links between those systems. Read her full profile here.
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Dr. Des Marais is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He studies how the physical environment impacts the evolution and ecology of natural plant populations. Read his full profile here.
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July 2018
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Dr. Bank is the Principal Investigator of the Evolutionary Dynamics Group at the Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciencia in Oeiras, Portugal. She studies how populations adapt and diversify, with a specific interest in the role of epistasis during these processes. Read her full profile here.
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Dr. Krueger-Hadfield is an Assistant Professor at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. She studies the evolution of sex, using algal and invertebrate models to investigate the mechanisms that underlie the maintenance of life cycle and mating system variation. Read her full profile here.
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June 2018
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Dr. Muñoz is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Biological Sciences at Virginia Tech studying ecological processes and evolutionary patterns related to physiology. Read her full profile here.
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Dr. White is an Assistant Professor in the Genetics Department at the University of Georgia studying the evolution of sex chromosomes in threespine stickleback fish. Read his full profile here.
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May 2018
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Dr. Wright is a NERC Independent Research Fellow at the University of Sheffield studying evolutionary conflicts of interest between males and females and the genomic mechanisms that lead to their resolution. Read her full profile here.
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Dr. Stoddard is an assistant professor of biology at Princeton University studying avian vision and coloration and the development and structure of avian eggs. Read her full profile here.
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April 2018
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Dr. Yoder is an assistant professor of biology at California State University Northridge studying coevolution and the population genomics of local adaptation. Read his full profile here.
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Dr. Phifer-Rixey is an assistant professor of biology at Monmouth University studying the genetics of adaptation. Read her full profile here.
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March 2018
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Dr. Bell is a vertebrate research zoologist at the National Museum of Natural History studying the mechanisms that generate ecological and evolutionary diversity in amphibians and reptiles. Read her full profile here.
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Dr. Fitzpatrick is an assistant professor at the W.K. Kellogg Biological Station at Michigan State University studying how genetic drift, gene flow, and selection interact in small and recently isolated populations in a changing environment. Read her full profile here.
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