Officers & Council Members for 2026

Officers

President

Michael Nachman
University of California Berkeley

President Elect
Jeff Good
University of Montana

 

Executive Vice-President
Anne Bronikowski
Michigan State

Treasurer
Kenneth Olsen
Washington University in St. Louis

Secretary
Bridgett vonHoldt
Princeton University

Council Members

Al Roca
University of Illinois, Champaign 

Olliver Ryder
San Diego Zoo

Chris Funk
Colorado State

Melanie Culver
Conservation Geneticist

Nevé Baker
University of Minnesota 

Katie Lotterhos
Northeastern University

Klaus-Peter Koepfli
Smithsonian-Mason School of Conservation

Michael Russello
University of British Columbia

Christine Edwards
Missouri Botanical Garden


 


 

Special Appointment to Council

Journal of Heredity Editor
Bill Murphy
Texas A&M University

 

Assistance to Council

AGA Manager and Journal of Heredity Managing Editor
Carlos Driscoll

 

Past Presidents

2025-2026 Michael Nachman

2023-2024 Beth Shapiro

2022 Lila Fishman
2021  Kelly Zamudio
2020  Kim Hughes
2019  Maria Orive
2018  Rosemary Gillespie
2017  Anne Bronikowski
2016  Lynda Delph
2015  Katie Peichel
2014  Robin Waples
2013  Kerry Shaw
2012  Mohamed Noor
2011  Scott Edwards
2010  Brad Shaffer
2009  David Rand
2008  Trudy Mackay
2007  Michael Lynch
2006  Lorne Reiseberg
2005  John Doebley
2004  Shozo Yokoyama
2003  Kent Holsinger
2002  Phil Hedrick
2001  Oliver Ryder
2000  John Avise

 

 

 

   

 

About the Journal

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Issue 117_2 now Online!

Check out our Editor's Choice article by Behrens et al., examining the independent segregation of behavioral modules in three-spine sticklebacks, while our cover this issue is courtesy of Foley et al., who lay out the best assembly yet of the beautiful Texas ocelot

 

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