Antonis Rokas
Senior Editor
Antonis Rokas holds the Cornelius Vanderbilt Chair in Biological Sciences and is a Professor in the Departments of Biological Sciences and Biomedical Informatics at Vanderbilt University. He also serves as the Founding Director of the Vanderbilt Evolutionary Studies Initiative, an interdisciplinary center that unites scholars from diverse disciplines with broad interests and expertise in evolution-related fields. Research in the Rokas lab focuses on the study of the DNA record to gain insight into the patterns and processes of evolution. Using computational and experimental approaches, their current studies aim to understand the molecular foundations of the fungal lifestyle, the reconstruction of the tree of life, and the evolution of human pregnancy. Rokas is a Guggenheim Fellow (2018), a Fellow of the American Academy of Microbiology (2019), and an American Association for the Advancement of Science Fellow (2020).
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