Council
You can find information on the executive committee and other council members below.
Executive Committee
President: Frietson Galis
Netherlands
National Biodiversity Centre Naturalis, Leiden and VU University Medical Centre, Amsterdam
Innovations and mechanisms that either facilitate or constrain evolutionary changes. In particular, the role of pleiotropic constraints and selection in shaping the adaptive evolution of body plans.
Vice President: Richard Bateman
United Kingdom
The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
The integration of morphological (including palaeobotanical) and molecular data to study major transitions in land-plant evolution at all spatial scales. Favourite study groups are living orchids and fossil clubmosses and gymnosperms, and his pet evolutionary hypothesis is the potential for instant, radical shifts in phenotype (i.e. saltation.
Program Officer : Gerhard Schlosser
Ireland
National University of Ireland, Galway
Developmental neurobiology, evolutionary developmental biology and theoretical biology. Recent research focuses on development and evolution of the vertebrate peripheral nervous system and sense organs. Our developmental studies concentrate mostly on amphibians, in particular the clawed toad Xenopus laevis.
Treasurer: Michael Schubert
France
Institut de Génomique Fonctionnelle de Lyon, Ecole Normale Supérieure de Lyon
Evolution of vertebrates from an invertebrate chordate ancestor with special focus on the evolution of developmental signaling cascades (such as the retinoic acid signaling network and its roles in patterning and development).
Secretary: Ronald Jenner
United Kingdom
Natural History Museum, London
- Macroevolution of animal body plans
- High-level metazoan phylogeny
- Conceptual/methodological issues in invertebrate systematics and phylogenetics
- Use of phylogenies in evolutionary developmental biology (evo-devo)
Fund raising officer: Peter Olson
United Kingdom
Natural History Museum, London
Molecular phylogenetics, evolution and development and systematics of the parasitic flatworms (Platyhelminthes). Primary research focus on the evolution and development of the tapeworms and the acquisition of segmentation, molecular methods for identification, diagnostics and phylogenomics.
Other council members
Per Ahlberg – Sweden
Angélica Bello Gutierrez – Spain
Anne Burke – United States
Didier Casane – France
Ariel Chipman – Israel
Isaac Ciudad-Salazar – Spain
Michael Coates – United States
David Ferrier – United Kingdom
Scott Gilbert – United States
Beverley Glover – United Kingdom
Philipp Gunz – Germany
Thomas Hansen – Norway
Jukka Jernvall – Finland
Shigeru Kuratani – Japan
Hans Metz – Netherlands
Philipp Mitteroecker – Austria
Mariana Mondragón – Germany
Gerd Müller – Austria
Ram Reshef – Israel
Paula Rudall – United Kingdom
Dmitry Sokoloff – Russia
Michel Vervoort – France
Sabine Zachgo – Germany
