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Kathleen Donohue is an American biologist at Duke University. She researches the genetic and ecological context of adaptation. She received a Guggenheim Fellowship for her work and was elected as a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
Kathleen Donohue attended Stanford University, graduating in 1985 with bachelor's degrees in Biology and Medieval Studies. As a Stanford undergraduate, she conducted research with Ward Watt. [1] She then attended the University of Chicago for her master's degree (1988) and PhD (1993). [2] Her doctoral advisors were Ellen Simms and Stevan Arnold, and her dissertation was entitled "The evolution of seed dispersal in Cakile edentula var. lacustris". [3]
In her early career, she was a faculty member at the Morgan School of Biological Sciences at the University of Kentucky and subsequently at the Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology at Harvard University. [4] In 2008 she was hired at Duke University as an Associate Professor of Biology. She was appointed to Full Professor in 2012. She researches the genetic and ecological basis of adaptation, including phenotypic plasticity, maternal effects, epigenetics, niche construction, biological dispersal, natural selection at multiple scales. From 2017 to 2020 she was director of Duke's University Program in Ecology. [5]
Donohue, K., (Editor and commentator). 2011. Darwin’s Finches: Readings in the Evolution of a Scientific Paradigm. University of Chicago Press.
In 2013 she was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in the plant sciences division. She was elected fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in 2012. She was a fellow of the National Institute for Mathematical and Biological Synthesis in 2013, [4] a Scholar of the National Evolutionary Synthesis Center in 2013, and a Bullard Fellow at Harvard University in 2001. In 2017 she served as president of the American Society of Naturalists. [2]
Joan Roughgarden is an American ecologist and evolutionary biologist. She has engaged in theory and observation of coevolution and competition in Anolis lizards of the Caribbean, and recruitment limitation in the rocky intertidal zones of California and Oregon. She has more recently become known for her rejection of sexual selection, her theistic evolutionism, and her work on holobiont evolution.
Sarah Perin Otto is a theoretical biologist, Canada Research Chair in Theoretical and Experimental Evolution, and is currently a Killam Professor at the University of British Columbia. From 2008-2016, she was the director of the Biodiversity Research Centre at the University of British Columbia. Otto was named a 2011 MacArthur Fellow. In 2015 the American Society of Naturalists gave her the Sewall Wright Award for fundamental contributions to the unification of biology. In 2021, she was awarded the Darwin–Wallace Medal for contributing major advances to the mathematical theory of evolution.
Johanna Schmitt is an evolutionary ecologist and plant geneticist. Her research is notable for its focus on the genetic basis of traits in ecologically valuable plants and on predicting how such plants will respond and adapt to environmental change such as climate warming. She has authored over 100 articles and her works have been cited over 7900 citations. She is honored with being the first female scientist at Brown University to be elected to the National Academy of Sciences.
Susan C. Alberts is an American primatologist, anthropologist, and biologist who is the current Chair of the Department of Evolutionary Anthropology at Duke University; previously, she served as a Bass fellow and the Robert F. Durden Professor of Biology at Duke. She currently co-directs the Amboseli Baboon Research Project with Jeanne Altmann of Princeton University. Her research broadly studies how animal behavior evolved in mammals, with a specific focus on the social behavior, demography, and genetics of the yellow baboon, although some of her work has included the African elephant. She was elected a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2014, won the Cozzarelli Prize of the National Academy of Sciences in 2016, and was elected a fellow of the National Academy of Sciences in 2019.
Anne Daphne Yoder is an American biologist, researcher, and professor in the Department of Biology at Duke University in Durham, North Carolina, United States. Yoder's work includes the study, preservation, and conservation of the multifarious biodiversity found in Madagascar. One of her main research topics focuses on the diverse lemur population found on the island. Specifically, Yoder's research concentrates on assorted geographic factors that lead to varying levels of biological differences in the speciation process. Her investigations utilize genome research to further understand the complex and unique degree of speciation that occurs in lemur populations. In 2023, she was elected to the National Academy of Sciences.
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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.
Ehab Abouheif, is a Canadian biologist and Professor in the Department of Biology at McGill University. He is a specialist in integrating ecology, evolutionary, and developmental biology of ant societies in order to understand the origins and evolution of complex biological systems. He served as founding President of the Pan-American Society for Evolutionary Developmental Biology, as well as co-founder for the McGill Centre for Islam and Science.
Kathleen Kay Treseder is an American ecologist who specializes in the interplay between global climate change and fungal ecology. She also serves as a member of the Irvine City Council after being elected to the position in 2022. She is currently a professor in the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at the University of California, Irvine. She is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the American Academy of Microbiology, and the Ecological Society of America.
Christine M. Drea is a researcher and professor of biology and ecology with a specialty in animal social behavior and sexual differentiation at Duke University, both primarily on hyenas and primates. Drea's work is focused on female dominant species and the hormonal activity, reproductive development, and social interactions of these animals. She is currently the Earl D. McLean Professor of Evolutionary Anthropology within the Trinity College of Arts & Sciences and the director of graduate studies for the Duke University Ecology program.
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Victoria Louise Sork is an American scientist who is Professor and Dean of Life Sciences at University of California, Los Angeles. She studies tree populations in California and the Eastern United States using genomics, evolutionary biology and conservation biology. Sork is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
Stephanie M. Carlson is the A.S. Leopold Chair in Wildlife Biology at the University of California Berkeley. Her research considers fish ecology, freshwater ecology, and evolutionary ecology.
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Ward Belfield Watt was an American evolutionary biologist who was a professor of biology at Stanford University. He was known for studying evolution using biochemical, physiological, and ecological approaches. For over 50 years, Watt conducted field studies at the Rocky Mountain Biological Laboratory in Gothic, CO. There he worked primarily on Colias butterflies. He developed these butterflies into a model system for the study of natural selection in the wild. He was known for studying the impact of wing pigmentation polymorphism on thermoregulation and on fitness. He was also known for studying the impact of natural amino acid variation in enzymes of central metabolism on insect flight performance. He championed the idea that adaptation and constraint are distinct elements in evolution, prior to fitness differences.