Francisco JoséAyala Pereda was a Spanish-American evolutionary biologist and philosopher who was a longtime faculty member at the University of California,Irvine,and University of California,Davis.
David Arthur Eppstein is an American computer scientist and mathematician. He is a distinguished professor of computer science at the University of California,Irvine. He is known for his work in computational geometry,graph algorithms,and recreational mathematics. In 2011,he was named an ACM Fellow.
Fellowship of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (FAAAS) is an honor accorded by the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) to distinguished persons who are members of the Association. Fellows are elected annually by the AAAS Council for "efforts on behalf of the advancement of science or its applications [which] are scientifically or socially distinguished".
The School of Biological Sciences is one of the academic units of the University of California,Irvine (UCI). The school is divided into four departments:developmental and cell biology,ecology and evolutionary biology,molecular biology and biochemistry,and neurobiology and behavior. With over 3,700 students it is in the top four largest schools in the university. It is consistently ranked in the top one hundred in U.S. News &World Report’s yearly list of best graduate schools.
Himla (Himladevi) Soodyall is a South African geneticist involved in finding some of the oldest human genetic lines,mainly focusing on Sub-Saharan Africa. Her work on DNA has pointed to southern Africa as the most likely geographic region of origin of the human species.
John Charles Avise is an American evolutionary geneticist,conservationist,natural historian,and prolific science author. He is an Emeritus Distinguished Professor of Ecology &Evolution,University of California,Irvine,and was previously a Distinguished Professor of Genetics at the University of Georgia.
Inder Mohan Verma is an Indian American molecular biologist,the former Cancer Society Professor of Molecular Biology in the Laboratory of Genetics at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies and the University of California,San Diego. He is recognized for seminal discoveries in the fields of cancer,immunology,and gene therapy.
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.
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.
Michael Tran Clegg is an American plant geneticist. He is professor emeritus of ecology and evolutionary biology in the School of Biological Sciences at the University of California,Irvine.
Mya Breitbart is an American biologist and professor of biological oceanography at the University of South Florida's College of Marine Science. She is best known for her contributions to the field of viral metagenomics. Popular Science recognized her because of her approach of not trying to sequence individual viruses or organisms but to sequence everything in a given ecosystem.
Johannes Frederik Gerardus (Hans) Vliegenthart is a Dutch emeritus professor in bioorganic chemistry of Utrecht University,well known for his research on the synthesis and characterisation of carbohydrates,and biomolecules containing sugar moieties such as glycoproteins and their role in living cells.
Elvira Cuevas Viera is a Puerto Rican ecologist. She is a professor in the department of biology at University of Puerto Rico,Río Piedras Campus where she serves as director of the Center for Applied Tropical Ecology and Conservation.
Evelyn Valdez-Ward is a scientist,science communicator,adjunct professor,and immigration activist living in the US. She is known for her activism related to DACA as a formerly undocumented scientist. Valdez-Ward has published articles advocating for social justice and immigration rights in the sciences in journals including Science,Scientific American,and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
Jennifer B. H. Martiny is an American ecologist who is a professor at the University of California,Irvine. Her research considers microbial diversity in marine and terrestrial ecosystems. In 2020 she was elected a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
Joy Michele Bergelson is an American evolutionary biologist. She is currently the Dorothy Schiff Professor of Genomics at New York University. Bergelson was previously and James D. Watson Distinguished Service Professor of Ecology and Evolution at the University of Chicago,where she chaired the department for ecology and evolution. Her research focuses on the evolution and ecology of plants.
Katharine Nash Suding is an American plant ecologist. Suding is a Distinguished Professor of ecology and evolutionary biology at the University of Colorado Boulder and a 2020 Professor of Distinction in the College of Arts and Sciences.
Margaret Torn is an ecologist at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory known for her research on carbon cycling,especially with respect to the interactions between soils and the atmosphere.
Tatiana Rynearson is an American oceanographer who is a professor at the University of Rhode Island. Her research considers plankton diversity and abundance. Rynearson has been on several research cruises,including trips to the North Sea,Puget Sound,the Gulf of Mexico and the North Atlantic.
Mary Ann Raghanti is an American biological anthropologist. She is a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. She won an Ig Nobel Prize.
