Francisco JoséAyala Pereda is a Spanish-American evolutionary biologist,philosopher,and former Catholic priest 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.
John Charles Avise is an American evolutionary geneticist,conservationist,ecologist and natural historian. He is a 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.
Anurag Agrawal is an American professor of ecology,evolutionary biology,and entomology who has written over a 150 peer-reviewed articles,which earned him an h-index of 92. He is the author of a popular science book,Monarchs and Milkweeds from Princeton University Press,and is currently the James Alfred Perkins Professor of Environmental Studies at Cornell University.
Margaret Gale Kidwell is a British American evolutionary biologist and Regents’Professor Emerita at the University of Arizona,Tucson. She grew up on a farm in the English Midlands during World War II. After graduating from the University of Nottingham in 1953,she worked in the British Civil Service as an Agricultural Advisory Officer from 1955-1960. She moved to the US in 1960 under the auspices of a Kellogg Foundation Fellowship to study Genetics and Statistics at Iowa State University. She married quantitative geneticist James F. Kidwell in 1961,obtained her MS degree in 1962 and moved with her husband to Brown University in 1963. She received her PhD from Brown University in 1973 under the guidance of Masatoshi Nei. From 1973 to 1984 she pursued independent research into a number of anomalous genetic phenomena in Drosophila which later lead to collaborative studies resulting in the discovery of hybrid dysgenesis and the isolation of transposable P elements. After appointment as Professor of Biology at Brown University in 1984 she moved to the University of Arizona in 1985 as Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology. Additional positions included Chair of the Interdisciplinary Genetics Program from 1988-1991 and Head of the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology from 1992-1997. Research at the University of Arizona has increasingly focused on the evolutionary significance of transposable genetic elements. In 1996,she was the first woman from Arizona to be elected to the United States National Academy of Sciences
Meghan Anne Duffy is an American biologist and associate 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.
Erika S. Zavaleta is an American professor of ecology and evolutionary biology at the University of California,Santa Cruz. Zavaleta is recognized for her research focusing on topics including plant community ecology,conservation practices for terrestrial ecosystems,and impacts of community dynamics on ecosystem functions.
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.
BethAnn McLaughlin is an American neuroscientist,activist,and hoaxer. She is a former assistant professor of neurology at Vanderbilt University. Her research at Vanderbilt focused on neural stress responses and brain injury. After being denied tenure in 2017,she sought to have the decision overturned. The decision to deny tenure was upheld,and her employment at Vanderbilt ended in July 2019.
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.
Beverly M. Emerson is an Emeritus Professor of Biological Sciences at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies who uncovered details about how cancer becomes drug resistant. She is currently at the Oregon Health &Science University’s Knight Cancer Institute. She is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
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.
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 M. 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 Chatham Crofoot is an American anthropologist who is a professor at the University of Konstanz and the Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior. Her research considers the behavior and decision making of primates. She was appointed an Alexander von Humboldt Professor in 2019.
