Frietson Galis Distinguished Fellow 2024

At our most recent meeting in Helsinki, Dr. Frietson Galis, senior researcher at Naturalis Biodiversity Centre, has received the distinction of distinguished Fellow. Distinguished Fellows are chosen for their research accomplishments and their service to evolutionary developmental biology.

From the nominations: “She is the main founding member of the society, in that she came with the idea and did most of the initial organisation. … In all her functions, from president to program officer she made sure that it stuck to its original ideals: maintaining a healthy balance between its blood groups: morphologically oriented developmental biologists, developmental geneticists, phylogeneticists and evolutionary population biologists, between plant, animal and theoretical biologists, as well as between nationalities and between genders, and this for all its activities, from committees to conference symposia. …She has made highly interesting connections between physical constraints on the machinery of early developmental processes to constraints on properties of the genotype to phenotype map, to consequent properties of indirect selection patterns in high dimensional trait spaces, and from there to the conservation of various aspects of early development over evolutionary time”.