The American Naturalist is the monthly peer-reviewed scientific journal of the American Society of Naturalists,whose purpose is "to advance and to diffuse knowledge of organic evolution and other broad biological principles so as to enhance the conceptual unification of the biological sciences." It was established in 1867 and is published by the University of Chicago Press. The journal covers research in ecology,evolutionary biology,population,and integrative biology. As of 2018,the editor-in-chief is Daniel I. Bolnick. According to the Journal Citation Reports,the journal had a 2020 impact factor of 3.926.
Simon Asher Levin is an American ecologist and the James S. McDonnell Distinguished University Professor in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology and the director of the Center for BioComplexity at Princeton University. He specializes in using mathematical modeling and empirical studies in the understanding of macroscopic patterns of ecosystems and biological diversities.
The American Society of Naturalists was founded in 1883 and is one of the oldest professional societies dedicated to the biological sciences in North America. The purpose of the Society is "to advance and diffuse knowledge of organic evolution and other broad biological principles so as to enhance the conceptual unification of the biological sciences."
The College of Natural Sciences at The University of Texas at Austin offers 10 Bachelor of Arts majors,42 Bachelor of Science majors,and 20 graduate programs to more than 11,000 undergraduates and 1,400 graduate students. The college employs over 370 faculty. Many of the programs are consistently ranked in the top ten nationally,according to U.S. News &World Report (2019),including:Analytical Chemistry (4th),Applied Math (9th),Artificial Intelligence (8th),Computer Science (10th),Computing Systems (8th),Computing Theory (7th),Cosmology/Relativity/Gravity (10th),Ecology,Evolution and Behavior (6th),Mathematics Analysis (7th),Plasma Physics (3rd),Programming Language (8th),and Topology (8th). It was established in 1883.
The College of Biological Sciences (CBS) is one of seven freshman-admitting colleges at the University of Minnesota. Established in 1869 as the College of Science,the College of Biological Science is now located across both the Minneapolis and the St. Paul campuses. As of June 29,2023,the dean of the College of Biological Sciences is Dr. Saara J DeWalt.
Christopher J. Chang is a professor of chemistry and of molecular and cell biology at the University of California,Berkeley,where he holds the Class of 1942 Chair. Chang is also a member of the Helen Wills Neuroscience Institute,a Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator,adjunct professor of pharmaceutical chemistry at the University of California,San Francisco,and faculty scientist at the chemical sciences division of Lawrence Berkeley Lab. He is the recipient of several awards for his research in bioinorganic chemistry,molecular and chemical biology.
John Peter Novembre is a computational biologist at the University of Chicago. He received a MacArthur Fellowship in 2015. Novembre has developed data visualization and analysis techniques to investigate correlations between genomic diversity,geography,and demographic structure.
Ruth Buskirk is a professor at the University of Texas at Austin. She has served on the university's faculty for over twenty five years and is a Distinguished Senior Lecturer in Biology. She holds the Worthington Endowed Professorship for Ecology and Evolutionary Biology in Plan II.
Michael Donoghue is an American evolutionary biologist,currently the Sterling Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at Yale University,and also a published author.
Zengjian Jeffrey Chen is a plant biologist and molecular geneticist,currently the D. J. Sibley Centennial Professor of Plant Molecular Genetics at University of Texas at Austin. Chen received his B.S. at Zhejiang Agricultural University,M.S. at Nanjing Agricultural University,and Ph.D. in Genetics at Texas A&M University. Following a postdoctoral position at University of Minnesota and as an NIH Postdoctoral Fellow at Washington University in St. Louis,he joined the faculty at Texas A&M in 1999,where he was promoted to the rank of associate professor with tenure. In 2005,he moved to The University of Texas at Austin and became a full professor in 2008 in the Departments of Molecular Biosciences and lntegrative Biology,Center for Computational Biology and Bioinformatics,and Institute for Cellular and Molecular Biology.
Douglas A. Mitchell is a Professor of Chemistry at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He holds an affiliate appointment in the Department of Microbiology and is a faculty member of the Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology. His research focuses on the chemical biology of natural products. He is known mainly for his work on the biosynthetic enzymology of ribosomally synthesized and post-translationally modified peptides (RiPPs) and genome-guided natural product discovery.
Ruth Geyer Shaw is a professor and principal investigator in the Department of Ecology,Evolution and Behavior at the University of Minnesota. She studies the processes involved in genetic variation,specializing in plant population biology and evolutionary quantitative genetics. Her work is particularly relevant in studying the effects of stressors such as climate instability and population fragmentation on evolutionary change in populations. She has developed and applied new statistical methods for her field and is considered a leading population geneticist.
Meghan Anne Duffy is an American biologist and the Susan S. Kilham Collegiate Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at the University of Michigan. She focuses on the causes and consequences of parasitism in natural populations of lake populations. In 2019,she created a task force to examine factors that influence the mental health and well-being of graduate students at the University of Michigan.
Shane C. Campbell-Staton is an American evolutionary biologist. Since July 2021,he has been an assistant professor in the ecology and evolutionary biology department at Princeton,where he leads a research group. His work is on how phenotypes respond to human activity that affects the environment. He also hosts the podcast 'Biology of Superheroes' together with Arien Darby.
Keith A. Crandall is an American computational biologist,bioinformaticist,and population geneticist at George Washington University,where he is the founding director of the Computational Biology Institute,and professor in the Department of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics.
Mark A. Kirkpatrick is a theoretical population geneticist and evolutionary biologist. He currently holds the T. S. Painter Centennial Professorship in Genetics in the Department of Integrative Biology at the University of Texas at Austin. His research touches on a wide variety of topics,including the evolution of sex chromosomes,sexual selection,and speciation. Kirkpatrick is the co-author,along with Douglas J. Futuyma,of a popular undergraduate evolution textbook. He is a member of the United States National Academy of Sciences.
Marc Johnson is a professor of biology at the University of Toronto Mississauga. He is the Canada Research Chair for Urban Environmental Science,and was the first Director of the Centre for Urban Environments from 2018-2023.
Jennifer Maynard is an American chemist who is the Henry Beckman Professor in Chemical Engineering at the University of Texas at Austin. Her research considers the development of therapeutic targets for infectious diseases. She was elected a Senior Member of the National Academy of Inventors in 2023.
Shu-ou Shan is a Chinese American biologist who is a professor at the California Institute of Technology. Her research combines mechanistic enzymology with biophysical characterization techniques to understand biogenesis pathways. She was awarded the 2024 National Academy of Sciences Award in Molecular Biology.
