Council

SMBE Council 2025

Ziheng Yang

President

Professor of Statistical Genetics at Department of Genetics, Evolution and Environment, University College London (UCL), UK

Juliette de Meaux

President-Elect

Institute for Plant Sciences, University of Cologne

Stephen Wright

Past-President

University of Toronto, Canada

Emmanuelle Lerat

Secretary

Lyon 1 University, France

Aline Muyle

Treasurer

CNRS Researcher, Centre d’Ecologie Fonctionnelle et Evolutive (CEFE), Montpellier, France

Rebecca Zufall

Councillor (2023-2025)

University of Houston, TX, USA

Christian Landry

Councillor (2023-2025)

Université Laval, Quebec, Canada

Elena Gómez-Diaz

Councillor (2024-2026)

Researcher, Spanish National Scientific Council (IPBLN-CSIC), Granada, Spain

Juliana A. Vianna

Councillor (2024-2026)

Associate Professor, Biological Science Department and Institute for Sustainable Development, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile (UC), Chile

Aya Takahashi

(2025-2027)

Tokyo Metropolitan University (TMU), Department of Biological Sciences and the Research Center for Genomics and Bioinformatics, Director of the International Student and Study Abroad Support Division and a Vice-Director of the International Center at Tokyo Metropolitan University (TMU)

Melissa Wilson

(2025-2027)

Professor of Genomics, Evolution and Bioinformatics in the School of Life Sciences and co-Director of the Computational Life Sciences program at Arizona State University

Maud Tenaillon

Editor-in-chief
Genome Biology and Evolution

Quantitative Genetics and Evolution, INRAE, CNRS, Gif-sur-Yvette, France

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