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 Free 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: Patricia Beldade
Netherlands
Institute of Biology, Leiden University
My research in the area of evolutionary developmental biology is focused on the genetic and developmental dissection of phenotypic variation. Understanding the mechanisms that generate phenotypic variation is a key challenge in contemporary biological research. What are the gene types, specific genes, and gene regions that contribute to evolutionarily relevant variation? How do these genes lead to change developmental programmes and translate into variant adult phenotypes?
Fund raising officer: Robert Cerny
Czech Republic
Charles University Prague
My research focuses on the development of several craniofacial structures including the jaw, pharyngeal cartilage system, cement organs or teeth. We compare the development of different species (e.g., axolotl, bichir, or lamprey) to investigate differences in developmental processes in order to discover key developmental changes responsible for production of morphological variation, novelties and evolutionary change.
Other council members
Per Ahlberg – Sweden
Claudio Alonso – United Kingdom
Wallace Arthur – Ireland
Didier Casane – France
Ariel Chipman – Israel
Isaac Ciudad-Salazar – Spain
Michael Coates – United States
Jordi Garcia-Fernandez – Spain
Alain Ghysen – France
Scott Gilbert – United States
Barbara Gravendeel – Netherlands
Thomas Hansen – Norway
Ann Huysseune – Belgium
Jukka Jernvall – Finland
Zbynek Kozmik – Czech Republic
Shigeru Kuratani – Japan
Hans Metz – Netherlands
Alessandro Minelli – Italy
Gerd Müller – Austria
Claus Nielsen – Denmark
Isabel Palmeirim – Portugal
Ram Reshef – Israel
Paula Rudall – United Kingdom
Rolf Rutishauser – Switzerland
Sebastian Shimeld – United Kingdom
Miltos Tsiantis – Greece
Günter Wagner – United States
Sabine Zachgo – Germany
