Editors of Systematic Biology

This page provides contact information about the editors and associate editors of Systematic Biology; however, please submit manuscripts to the journal via Manuscript Central.
Thomas J. Near
Editor-in-Chief

E-mail: thomas.near@yale.edu
Thomas J. Near, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Yale University, New Haven, CT 06520

David Morrison
Book Review Editor

E-mail: David.Morrison@slu.se
David Morrison, Department of Parasitology (SWEPAR), Department of Biomedical Sciences and Veterinary Public Health, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, SE-750 07 Uppsala, Uppsala, Sweden

Interests: Molecular phylogenetics, experimental design, data analysis, molecular sequence alignment, phylogenetic networks, plant systematics, apicomplexa, Nematoda, plant fire ecology, and legume seed biology.
Michael Afaro
Associate Editor

Email: michaelalfaro@ucla.edu
Michael Alfaro, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Calforinia Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA

​Interests: Diversification, macroevolution, primates, coral reef fishes.

Robb Brumfield
Associate Editor

E-mail: robb@lsu.edu
Robb Brumfield, Department of Biology, Louisiana State University, Museum of Natural Science, Baton Rouge, Louisiana 70803, U.S.A.

Interests: Evolutionary and ecological forces that impact patterns of genetic and morphological differentiation, both within species and at higher taxonomic levels; population genetic and phylogenetic analytical methods, and the use of simulations to explore them; morphological and behavioral evolution, as well as historical biogeography in antbirds (Thamnophilidae) and ovenbirds (Furnariidae); dynamics of hybrid zones as conduits for adaptive evolution in Manacus manakins in Panama and in the Variable Antshrike (Thamnophilus caerulescens) in Bolivia.

Thomas Buckley
Associate Editor

E-mail: BuckleyT@LandcareResearch.co.nz
Thomas Buckley, Invertebrate Systematics, Landcare Research, PO Box 69040, Lincoln, New Zealand

Interests: Methods of phylogenetic analysis with an emphasis on the role of substitution model assumptions on phylogenetic accuracy and hypothesis testing. The study of molecular evolutionary processes and the incorporation of this information into phylogenetic analysis. Other interests include ribosomal RNA secondary structure, the origin, evolution, and biogeography of the New Zealand biota, and the systematics and phylogeography of the New Zealand cicadas.

Michael Charleston
Associate Editor

E-mail: Michael.Charleston@utas.edu.au
Michael Charleston, Department of Mathematics and Physics, University of Tasmania, Private Bag 50, Hobart, Tasmania 7001

Interests: co-phylogeny: the study of the phylogenetic relationships between ecologically linked taxa, such as hosts and parasites or pathogens, the gene tree/species tree problem, and problems in historical biogeography; origin and diversification of the major animal phyla; evolution of parasites and parasitism; analysis of microarray data; evolution of protein structures; sequence alignment; combinatorial optimization; ecological modelling.

Benoît Dayrat
Associate Editor

E-mail: bdayrat@ucmerced.edu
Benoît Dayrat, School of Natural Sciences, University of California, PO box 2039, Merced, Califormia 95344, U.S.A.

Interests: Mollusk species diversity, especially gastropods, based on both morphological and molecular data; macroevolutionary transitions between aquatic and terrestrial habitats; history and philosophy of science, especially in systematics, evolution, and biodiversity exploration.

Erika Edwards
Associate Editor

E-mail: erika_edwards@brown.edu
Erika Edwards, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Brown University, Box G-W, Providence, Rhode Island 02912, U.S.A.

Interests: We are interested in all aspects of plant diversity and evolution. Building phylogenetic trees is at the heart of what we do, but we borrow tools from many fields to address our primary research question: What are the drivers of plant evolutionary innovation?

Dan Faith
Associate Editor

E-mail: xxxx
Dan Faith, xxxx

Interests: phylogenetic inference methods, quantitative biodiversity assessment, philosophy of science, multivariate pattern analysis, experimental design, ecology.

Mark Fishbein
Associate Editor

E-mail: mark.fishbein@okstate.edu
Mark Fishbein, Department of Botany, Oklahoma State University, 301 Physical Science, Stillwater, Oklahoma 74078,  U.S.A.

Interests: Plant systematics, evolution of floral morphology, pollination biology, biogeography, and applications of phylogenetic methods to evolution to ecology

Peter Foster
Associate Editor

E-mail: p.foster@nhm.ac.uk
Peter Foster, Genomics and Microbial Biodiversity Division, Natural History Museum, Cromwell Road, London SW7 5BD

Interests: phylogenetics, particularly non-stationary models allowing nucleotide composition to vary across the tree; phylogenetic software development; genomics; next-gen sequencing; bioinformatics; computational biology.
Matt Friedman
Associate Editor

E-mail: matt.friedman@earth.ox.ac.uk
Matt Friedman, Department of Earth Sciences, St. Hugh's College, Oxford, UK

Interests: Evolutionary assembly of modern vertebrate biodiversity

Olivier Gascuel
Associate Editor

E-mail: gascuel@lirmm.fr
Olivier Gascuel, Méthodes et Algorithmes pour la Bioinformatique (MAB), Institut de Biologie Computationnelle (IBC), LIRMM-CNRS, 95 rue de la Galera, 34095, Montpellier cédex, France

Interests: Mathematical and computational aspects of phylogenetics; distance-based methods; maximum likelihood approaches; duplication processes and histories.

Richard Glor
Associate Editor

E-mail: glor@ku.edu
Richard Glor, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Kansas, 1200 Sunnyside Avenue, Lawrence, Kansas 66045, U.S.A.

Interests: evolution of biological diversity, focusing on adaptive radiation in Anolislizards and other reptiles.
Emma Goldberg
Associate Editor

E-mail: eeg@umn.edu
Emma Goldberg, Department of Ecology, Evolution, and Behavior, University of Minnesota, 408 Ecology, 1954 Buford Avenue, St. Paul, MN 55108, U.S.A.

Interests: ​Macroevolution, Biogeography, Character displacement, Plant mating system evolution, Theory
Matthew Hahn
Associate Editor

E-mail: mwh@indiana.edu
Matthew Hahn, Department of Biology and School of Informatics and Computing, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana 47405

Interests: Organismal function, evolution, use of genomic data, relative role of natural selection and genetic drift in shaping nucleotide, gene family, and gene expression variation both within and between species.
Ken Halanych
Associate Editor

E-mail: ken@auburn.edu
Ken Halanych, Departmente of Biological Sciences, Auburn University, Auburn, Alabama 36849

Interests: Systematics and phylogeography of marine invertebrates

Luke Harmon
Associate Editor

E-mail: lukeh@uidaho.edu
Luke Harmon, Department of Biological Sciences, University of Idaho, 875 Perimeter MS 3051, Moscow, Idaho 83844-3051, U.S.A.

Interests: phylogenetic comparative methods; trait evolution; macroevolutionary models.

Mark Holder
Associate Editor

E-mail: mtholder@ku.edu
Mark Holder, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Kansas, 1200 Sunnyside Avenue, Lawrence, Kansas 66045, U.S.A.

Interests: statistical and computational approaches for estimating genealogical relationships.

Lars Jermiin
Associate Editor

E-mail: lars.jermiin@csiro.au
Lars Jermiin, CSIRO Entomology, GPO Box 1700, Canberra, ACT 2601, Australia

Interests: Estimation of evolutionary patterns and processes, molecular phylogenetics, likelihood-weighted model averaging, tree-space exploration, model misspecification, and detection of factors that can bias phylogenetic estimates; evolution of animals and, to a lesser extent, other taxonomic groups (e.g., Bacteria and Archaea).

Laura Kubatko
Associate Editor

E-mail: lkubatko@stat.ohio-state.edu
Laura Kubatko, Departments of Statistics and Evolution, Ecology, and Organismal Biology, The Ohio State University, 154 W 12th Avenue, Columbus, Ohio 43210, U.S.A.

Interests: phylogenetic methodology, including modeling and algorithm development; coalescent theory, particularly the role of the coalescent in gene tree-species tree incongruence; analysis of microarray and QTL data.
Adam Leaché
Associate Editor

E-mail: leache@uw.edu
Adam Leaché, Department of Biology & Burke Museum, University of Washington, Seattle, WA

Interests: Phylogenetics, phylogeography, species delimitation, herpetology, systematics

Norman MacLeod
Associate Editor

E-mail: N.MacLeod@nhm.ac.uk
Norman MacLeod, The Natural History Museum Cromwell Road, London SW7 5BD, U.K.

Interests: Morphological systematics, morphometrics, extinctions, biostratigraphy, role of fossils in phylogenetics, biogeography, palaeoecology, application of quantitative methods to natural history.

Roberta J. Mason-Gamer
Associate Editor

E-mail: robie@uic.edu
Roberta J. Mason-Gamer, University of Illinois at Chicago, Department of Biological Sciences, MC 066, 845 W. Taylor St., Chicago, IL 60607, U.S.A.

Interests: Molecular phylogenetics of grasses, with a focus on hybridization and polyploidy. I use gene trees from unlinked loci to identify reticulate evolutionary patterns, and attempt to sort out the roles of ancestral polymorphism, hybridization, and/or polyploidy in explaining these patterns.

Austin Mast
Associate Editor

E-mail: amast@bio.fsu.edu
Austin Mast, Department of Biological Science, Florida State University, 319 Stadium Drive, Tallahassee, Florida 32306-4295, U.S.A.

Interests: angiosperm systematics; biodiversity; the interplay of ecology and evolution that determines the form and function of plant life on Earth; the use of biodiversity research specimens and digital information about them to bring that interplay into sharper focus.

John McCormack
Associate Editor

E-mail: mccormack@oxy.edu
John McCormack, Biology Department, Occidental College, 1600 Campus Road, Los Angeles, California 90041, U.S.A.

Interests: speciation-in-action and hybrid zones; phylogeography; deep-level systematics;evolution and conservation of Mexican biota; avian systematics.
Brian Moore
Associate Editor

E-mail: brianmoore@ucdavis.edu
Brian Moore, Evolution and Ecology, University of California, Davis, Davis, CA.

Interests: Bayesian phylogenetic methods, inferring phylogeny and divergence times from multi-gene datasets, rates of lineage diversification, character evolution, and biogeographic history.

Adrian Paterson
Associate Editor

E-mail: Adrian.Paterson@lincoln.ac.nz
Adrian Paterson, Faculty of Agriculture and Life Sciences, Lincoln University, Canterbury, New Zealand

Interests: Cophylogenetics (particularly of lice and birds), origin of parasitism, biogeography of New Zealand and Gondwanaland, evolution of behaviour, phylogenetics and conservation of seabirds (particularly penguins and albatrosses).

David Posada
Associate Editor

E-mail: dposada@uvigo.es
David Posada, Department of Biochemistry, Genetics and Immunology, School of Biology, University of Vigo, Vigo 36310, Spain

Interests: phylogenetic model selection; heterogenous substitution models; approximate Bayesian computation; NGS technologies and their application in the phylogeography and population genomics of marine invertebrates, in particular mollusks.
Richard Ree
Associate Editor

E-mail: rree@fieldmuseum.org
Richard Ree, Associate Curator of Flowering Plants, Field Museum, Chicago, Illinois, US.

Interests: Systematics, evolution, biogeography, macroevolution, flowering plants

Susanne S. Renner
Associate Editor

E-mail: renner@lmu.de
Susanne S. Renner, Botanische Staatsanstalten, Menzinger Str. 67, 80638 Munich, Germany

Interests: systematics, biogeography, and evolution of plants; evolution of dioecy, heterodichogamy, and sex change; evolution of plant sex chromosomes; genome size evolution using molecular cytogenetics and next generation sequencing; biogeography of angiosperms; molecular clocks and their calibration with fossils.

Vincent Savolainen
Associate Editor

E-mail: v.savolainen@imperial.ac.uk
Vincent Savolainen, Faculty of Natural Sciences, Department of Life Sciences (Silwood Park), Imperial College London, South Kensington Campus, London SW7 2AZ, England

Interests: molecular phylogenetics, tree-of-life, macroevolution, speciation, conservation.
Jeanne M. Serb
Associate Editor

E-mail: serb@iastate.edu
Jeanne M. Serb, Dept. of Ecology, Evolution, and Organismal Biology, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa, USA.

Interests: Origin and evolution of complex traits.
W. Leo Smith
Associate Editor

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Tanja Stadler
Associate Editor

E-mail: tanja.stadler@bsse.ethz.ch
Tanja Stadler, Computational Evolution, Mattenstrasse 26, 4058 Basel, Switzerland

Interests: birth-death models in statistical phylogenetics; divergence time estimation using fossil calibration; phylogenetic tools for addressing epidemiological and medical questions, as well as questions in the fields of ecology, species evolution, cell differentiation and language evolution.

Edward Susko
Associate Editor

E-mail: susko@mathstat.dal.ca
Edward Susko, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Dalhousie University, 6316 Coburg Road, PO BOX 15000, Halifax, Nova Scotia B3H 4R2, Canada

Interests: statistical issues in molecular evolution; analysis of EST and micro-array data, mixture models 
and data mining/machine learning.

Brian Wiegmann
Associate Editor

E-mail: brian_wiegmann@ncsu.edu
Brian Wiegmann, Department of Entomology, North Carolina State University, 3110 Gardner Hall, Box 7613, Raleigh, North Carolina 27695-7613, U.S.A.

Interests: inferring phylogenetic relationships in the order Diptera primarily from DNA sequence data; identification of the origins and possible causes of major insect radiations with special emphasis on the effects of trophic specializations, such as phytopahgy and parasitism; origin of the higher flies (Cyclorrhapha); the systematics and evolution of leafminer flies (Agromyzidae; and the phylogenetic placement of Diptera within the Panorpoid orders.

Tiffani Williams
Associate Editor

E-mail: tlw@cse.tamu.edu
Tiffani Williams, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, 3112 Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas 77843-3112, U.S.A.

Interests: bionformatics; computational biology; phylogeny; high-performance computing; optimization
performance analysis.