Council 2023


Kateryna D Makova, President
Department of Biology and Center for Medical Genomics
Penn State University, State College, PA, USA

James McInerney, Past President
Chair in Evolutionary Biology, Faculty of Medicine & Health Sciences
University of Nottingham, Nottingham, United Kingdom

Stephen Wright, President-Elect
University of Toronto, Canada

Emmanuelle Lerat, Secretary
Lyon 1 University, France


John McCutcheon, Treasurer
Associate Director, Biodesign Center for Mechanisms of Evolution
Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, USA

Josefa González, Councillor (2021-2023)
Institut de Biologia Evolutiva (CSIC-UPF)
Barcelona, Spain 

Katerina Guschanski, Councillor (2021-2023)
Evolutionary Biology Centre
Department of Ecology and Genetics/Animal Ecology
Uppsala University, Sweden


María C. Ávila Arcos, Councillor (2022-2024)
International Laboratory for Human Genome Research;
Laboratorio Internacional de Investigación sobre el Genoma Humano (LIIGH);
Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM)
Querétaro, Mexico


Jeffrey Ross-Ibarra, Councillor (2022-2024)
Dept. of Evolution and Ecology
University of California
Davis, CA, USA

Rebecca Zufall, Councillor (2023-2025)
University of Houston, TX, USA


Christian Landry, Councillor (2023-2025)
Université Laval, Quebec, Canada 

Adam Eyre-Walker, Editor-in-chief, Genome Biology and Evolution

School of Life Sciences
University of Sussex, Brighton, United Kingdom

Laura A. Katz, Editor-in-chief, Genome Biology and Evolution
Department of Biological Sciences
Smith College, Northampton, MA, USA

Brandon Stuart Gaut, Editor-in-chief, Molecular Biology and Evolution

School of Biological Sciences, University of California, Irvine, CA, USA

Claudia A. M. Russo, Editor-in-chief, Molecular Biology and Evolution

Genetics/Biology Department, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil