Alan Robert Templeton

Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, Missouri ~Charles Rebstock Professor Emeritus of Biology. University of Haifa, Israel ~part-time Professor of Evolutionary and Environmental Biology. Contributor to biology in four areas: population genetics, conservation biology, genetic epidemiology, and the ethical and social implications of modern genetics. Developed analysis tools that help recognize new species and infer the processes important in their origin, an approach that has been important in understanding the evolutionary history of humans over two million years. Contributions to conservation biology helped in the designing of a successful breeding program for an endangered gazelle population, the use of translocation and prescribed burns for landscape restoration in the Ozarks, the role of the transcriptome in environmental plasticity in an endangered salamander in Israel, and the role of movement behavior in the population structure and recovery of the endangered Wild Ass in the Negev Desert in southern Israel. Developed analytical tools to study epistasis in complex diseases, which can be used in making the transition from population associations to individual treatments in diseases such as coronary artery disease and end-stage kidney disease. Helped develop analytical tools to study coadaptation and multi-gene associations in human populations.  Authored a textbook on population genetics that is educating the next generation of evolutionary biologists. Authored a second book on "Human Population Genetics and Genomics."  Advocate for the ethical and social consequences of studies of human evolution, race, and genetic epidemiology~