Advisory Board and Editors Biodiversity
Linda W Kelly
I received my doctorate in 2013 from the SDSU/UCSD Joint Doctoral Program in Cell and Molecular Biology. I joined the Dept of Biology at San Diego State University as an Adjunct Research Professor in 2014. My research focuses on understanding changes in coastal marine microbial communities in response to environmental perturbations. Most of my research thus far has focused on coral associated microbes. Specifically, I use metagenomics to identify the taxonomic distribution and functional capacity of microbial communities in marine ecosystems that are subjected to varying nutrient availability, anthropogenic stressors, and comprising different benthic compositions.
Seung-Chul Kim
The Curator of the Ha Eun Herbarium (SKK) and Professor of Biological Sciences, Sungkyunkwan University, Korea. Program Director for the Korean Society of Plant Taxonomists.
Fabien Knoll
Fabien Knoll is a Senior Research Fellow at the National Museum of Natural Sciences in Madrid, Spain. His research interests focus on the palaeobiology and evolution of archosaurs.
Lian Pin Koh
Lian Pin is Assistant Professor of Applied Ecology and Conservation at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH Zurich). He is a tropical ecologist by training. He received his Ph.D. from Princeton University (2008), where he studied the environmental and policy implications of oil-palm development in Southeast Asia. Since then, his research has focused on key scientific and policy issues concerning tropical deforestation and its impacts on carbon emissions, biodiversity and people.
Daniel J. G. Lahr
I am interested in an array of questions regarding protistan evolution and diversity. I have worked in protistology since my 1st undergraduate year, then did a masters in taxonomy of testate amoebae and a PhD in evolutionary biology, focusing on amoebozoans. My research focuses on constructing phylogenetic trees to answer broad questions in the evolutionary biology of microbes.
Max R Lambert
I'm an ecologist and environmental scientist who studies a diversity of conservation and restoration issues for biodiversity and ecosystems.
Sapna Langyan
Sapna Langyan is a scientist at ICAR-National Bureau of Plant Genetic Resources, New Delhi, India. She holds an experience of more than 11 years in agricultural research. She aims to contribute towards food and nutritional security of the world and alleviating malnutrition through research support. She has more than 30 research papers, book chapters, conference proceedings and many others in reputed national and international journals and also holds editorship of many reputed journals including Frontiers. She has also edited one book on ‘Maize: Nutrition dynamics and novel uses’, published by Springer https://www.springer.com/gp/book/9788132216223. She has been awarded many prestigious awards, fellowship and grants throughout her research career by premier science academies and by the Govt. of India.
Hilmar Lapp
Aside from my role as Director of Informatics at Duke University's Center for Genomic and Computational Biology (GCB), I am a PI for the NSF-funded project on creating a model and standard for phyloreferencing (http://phyloref.org), and I am a co-PI of the (also NSF-funded) Phenoscape project (http://phenoscape.org) on ontological annotation of evolutionary phenotype observations. I am a co-founder and current Board of Directors member of Data Carpentry (http://datacarpentry.org), and I was part of the founding team for Dryad (http://datadryad.org), a digital repository for data supporting scientific publications. I have also served in the leadership of the Open Bioinformatics Foundation (OBF) since its inception in 2001.
Before joining Duke's GCB, I was at the US National Evolutionary Synthesis Center (NESCent), where I initiated many of NESCent's cyberinfrastructure initiatives aimed at grass-roots building of community capacity, including the NESCent's hackathon program and Google Summer of Code™ (GSoC) participation.
Xavier Le Roux
Senior scientist (DRex) INRAE ; Microbial and ecosystem ecologist . Deputy Director of the Microbial ecology centre of Lyon-Villeurbanne (France) www.ecologiemicrobiennelyon.fr/spip.php?rubrique31
Director of the Research Federation BioEEnViS http://bioenvis.universite-lyon.fr/
Research topics include : response of microbial communities involved in N dynamics (nitrification, denitrification...) to global change factors and disturbances ; and microbial biodiversity-ecosystem functioning/services relationships.
* over 140 articles in peer-reviewed journals; h=54 (WoS) or 64 (GoogleScholar)
* Member of the Academy of Europe www.ae-info.org/ae/User/Le_Roux_Xavier
* See my profile: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/X_Roux/info
* Former Chair & Coordinator of the European network BiodivERsA www.eurobiodiversa.org
Simon A. Levin
George M. Moffett Prof. of Biology at Princeton & the Director of the Center for BioComplexity. Past Chair of the Board of the Beijer Inst. of Ecological Economics, past President of the Ecological Society of America, past President of the Society for Mathematical Biology, past Chair of the Council of IIASA, and past Co-Chair of the Science Board of the Santa Fe Institute. Awards include the A.H. Heineken Prize for Environmental Sciences, the Kyoto Prize in Basic Sciences, and the Margalef Prize
Oren Levy
The aim of our research group is to understand the dependency between environmental cues (e.g. light and temperature) that underlie circadian rhythms in symbiotic marine organisms, reef-building corals, in regulating physiology and behavior. Symbiotic corals will serve as a model system to investigate the dependency between two circadian-system associations or non-associations in the simple multicellular organism, on the physiological and molecular levels.
Jingchun Li
Associate Professor in the Department of Ecology and Evolution, University of Colorado Boulder. Curator at the Museum of Natural History, University of Colorado Boulder. Packard Fellow, National Geographic Explorer.