Network for Experimental Research on Evolution

A University of California Multicampus Research Project

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Mission Statement:

NERE, the Network for Experimental Research on Evolution, is a University of California Multicampus Research Program funded and administered through the UC Office of the President and its constituent UC campuses.  NERE (pronounced “near”) supports collaboration, communication, and graduate education concerned with research on biological evolution.  NERE serves as a conduit for interactions between evolutionists within the University of California system and between University of California scientists and the global scientific community. 

Current activities of NERE include:

1. Hosting an annual meeting of evolutionary biologists in California, drawing from the evolution research community throughout the western part of North America: the Western Evolutionary Biology (WEB) meeting. 
2. Providing an internet book construction environment for evolution (BCEE).  “Experimental Evolution,” an edited volume to be published by the University of California Press, is one of the books that will use the BCEE.  Any member of NERE can place books in the BCEE.
3. Awarding a WEB Evolutionist of the Year Prize annually, at the WEB meeting. 
4. Development of proposals for collaborations among UC campuses for the purposes of both research and graduate education.

NERE currently has eight formally affiliated UC campuses:  Berkeley, Irvine, Los Angeles, Merced, Riverside, San Diego, Santa Barbara, and Santa Cruz, with its system-wide headquarters at UC Irvine.  Membership is by invitation or after review of an application by the Director or one of the Associate Directors at one of the eight member UC campuses listed below. There is no fee for membership, but members are expected to be active research scientists working on biological evolution.  Employment or study at the University of California is not required for membership.

Director, Michael Rose, UC Irvine:  mrrose@uci.edu

Systemwide Webmaster and Associate Director, Ted Garland, UC Riverside

Associate Director, Ellen Simms, UC Berkeley
Associate Director, Jay Phelan, UC Los Angeles
Associate Director, Miriam Barlow, UC Merced
Associate Director, David Reznick, UC Riverside
Associate Director, Peter Andolfatto, UC San Diego
Associate Director, Todd Oakley, UC Santa Barbara
Associate Director, Barry Sinervo, UC Santa Cruz

List of Participating Faculty

2007 Organizational Chart for UC Multicampus Research Programs

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