Carolyn (Lindy) McBride is an associate professor who holds a joint position with the Princeton Neuroscience Institute and the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at Princeton University. [1] She works on understanding the genetic and neural basis for behavioral evolution through the study of mosquitoes. [2] [3] [4] She has received several early investor awards for her work on genetics, most notably the Rosalind Franklin Young Investor Award in 2016, [5] the Pew Scholars Award in 2015, [6] and the Searle Scholars award in 2016. [1] [7]
McBride received her B.A. in Biology from Williams College in 1998 and her Ph.D. in Population Biology from the University of California, Davis in 2008. [8]
Christoph Carl Herbert "Chris" Adami is a professor of microbiology and molecular genetics, as well as professor of physics and astronomy, at Michigan State University. He is a core faculty member of the Ecology, Evolution, and Behavior (EEB) Program there.
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.
Mohamed Noor is the Executive Vice Provost and a Professor in the Biology Department at Duke University. His specialties include evolution, genetics and genomics.
Theodore Garland Jr. is a biologist specializing in evolutionary physiology at the University of California, Riverside.
Jorge Enrique Galán is an Argentinian-American microbiologist who specializes in infectious disease, bacterial pathogenesis including Salmonella.
Amitabh Joshi is an Indian evolutionary biologist, population ecologist, geneticist and a professor at Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research (JNCASR). He heads the Evolutionary Biology Laboratory at JNCASR and is known for his studies on Evolutionary genetics and Population ecology. An elected fellow of the Indian Academy of Sciences, National Academy of Sciences, India, and Indian National Science Academy, he was also a J. C. Bose National Fellow (2011-2021) of the Department of Science and Technology. He served as the Chief Editor of the Journal of Genetics (2008-2014) and Editor of Publications of the Indian Academy of Sciences (2017-2021). The Council of Scientific and Industrial Research, the apex agency of the Government of India for scientific research, awarded him the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize for Science and Technology, one of the highest Indian science awards, in 2009, for his contributions to biological sciences.
Spencer Charles Hilton Barrett is a Canadian evolutionary biologist, formerly a Canada Research Chair at University of Toronto and, in 2010, was named Extraordinary Professor at University of Stellenbosch.
Stephen R. Palumbi is the Jane and Marshall Steel Jr. Professor in Marine Sciences at Stanford University at Hopkins Marine Station. He also holds a Senior Fellowship at the Stanford Woods Institute for the Environment.
Jennifer R. Mandel is an American biologist. Mandel is an associate professor of biological sciences at the University of Memphis.
Silvie Huijben is an evolutionary biologist and assistant professor at Arizona State University. The Huijben Lab uses fieldwork, lab experiments, and mathematical modeling to study antimalarial and insecticide resistance in parasites, such as disease-transmitting mosquitoes. Her work is focused on applying evolutionary theory to produce resistance management strategies to best combat malaria.
Kelly Zamudio is the Doherty Chair in Molecular Biology in the Department of Integrative Biology at the University of Texas Austin. She was formerly the Goldwin Smith Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at Cornell University and Curator of Herpetology at the Cornell Museum of Vertebrates.
Andrea L. Graham is a professor of ecology and evolutionary biology and a former co-director of the Global Health Program at Princeton University. She is also an external faculty member of the Santa Fe Institute. She works in immunoparasitology to understand the evolutionary ecology of host defenses and parasite transmission strategies. In 2018, she was named a National Academy of Sciences Kavli Fellow, and in 2020 she was elected as a Fellow of AAAS. From 2006 to 2010, she was awarded a BBSRC David Phillps Fellowship to investigate immune responses to co-infection while at the University of Edinburgh.
Molly Fox Przeworski is an American population geneticist and professor in the Department of Biological Sciences at Columbia University, where she is also affiliated with the Department of Systems Biology, Center for Computational Biology and Bioinformatics, and Program for Mathematical Genomics. Her research focuses on identifying the effects of natural selection on genetic variation in human and non-human organisms.
Paul E. Turner is an American evolutionary biologist and virologist, the Rachel Carson Professor of ecology and evolutionary biology at Yale University, and a faculty member in microbiology at the Yale School of Medicine. His research focuses on the evolutionary genetics of viruses, particularly bacteriophages and RNA viruses transmitted by mosquitoes.
Matthew DeGennaro is an American scientist who seeks to identify mosquito olfactory receptors used in human detection and formulate new volatiles that can effectively disrupt mosquito behavior. DeGennaro is credited with generating the first mutant mosquito utilizing zinc finger nucleases, and he is now working on formulating a “life saving perfume” that can deter these vectors for disease. He has been published in Nature, Developmental Cell, Current Biology, PLOS Genetics, and the Journal of Biological Chemistry.
Molly Schumer is an American scientist who studies evolution, hybridization, and population genetics. She is an assistant professor of biology at Stanford University. She is a member of Stanford Bio-X and a Hannah H. Grey Fellow at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute.
Michael Joseph Mina is an American epidemiologist, immunologist and physician. He was formerly an assistant professor of Epidemiology & Immunology and Infectious Diseases at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, assistant Professor of Pathology at Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, and currently Chief Medical Officer at eMed. and Chief Medical and Science Officer at Oncodea.
Sohini Ramachandran is professor at Brown University known for her work in evolutionary biology and population genetics.
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.
Lauren O'Connell is an American neurobiologist and associate professor in the Department of Biology at Stanford University, specializing in the intersections of behavioral neuroscience, ecology, and evolution. Her research considers how animals handle challenges in their environment. She received a L'Oréal-USA For Women in Science fellowship in 2015.