Courtesy Faculty in Plant Biology (home department: Genetics) Distinguished Research Professor Email: mlarnold@uga.edu Lab Website: http://www.genetics.uga.edu/people_bio_arnold_m.html Office: Life Sciences, Rm C-230 Office Phone: 706-542-1407 Research Research Areas: Molecular Genetics Evolutionary Biology Grants: “Thousand Talents” Project – Chinese Academy of Sciences (7/2010 - 12/2016; $117,000) “Global Initiative on Academic Network” – Ministry of Human Resource Development, Government of India (8/2016 - 10/2016; $12,500) Selected Publications Selected Publications: Books: Arnold, M.L. 2016. Divergence With Genetic Exchange. Oxford University Press. Arnold, M.L. 2009. Reticulate Evolution and Humans – Origins and Ecology. Oxford University Press. Arnold, M.L. 2006. Evolution Through Genetic Exchange. Oxford University Press. Arnold, M.L. 1997. Natural Hybridization and Evolution. Oxford Series in Ecology and Evolution, Oxford University Press. Edited Volume: Arnold, M.L. (ed). 2010. Reticulate Evolution. Gene (ISSN 2073-4425). .Journal Articles: Ackermann, R.R., A. Mackay and M.L. Arnold. 2016. The hybrid origin of modern humans. Evolutionary Biology 43:1-11. Arnold, M.L. 2016. Anderson’s and Stebbins’ prophecy comes true: Genetic exchange in fluctuating environments. Systematic Botany 41:4-16. (Invited Review) Arnold, M.L. 2016. Autobiographical Essay. In Plant Biotechnology, 2nd edition C.N. Stewart ed. Pg. 40. John Wiley & Sons, Inc. (Invited Essay) Arnold, M.L. 2016. Genetic exchange and evolution in the Neotropics – The tip of the canopy. Boletín Colombiano de Biología Evolutiva 4:8-9. (Invited Editorial) Arnold, M.L. 2016. In memoriam: Richard (Rick) G. Harrison – Benefactor for evolutionary biologists. Journal of Genetics 95:479-480. (Invited Essay) Arnold, M.L., A.N. Brothers, J.A.P. Hamlin, S.J. Taylor and N.H. Martin. 2015. Divergence-with-gene-flow – What humans and other mammals got up to. In Reticulate Evolution: Symbiosis, Lateral Gene Transfer and Hybridization, N. Gontier ed. Pp. 255-295. Springer, Inc. (Invited Review) Hamlin, J.A.P. and M.L. Arnold. 2015. Neutral and selective processes drive population differentiation for Iris. Journal of Heredity 106:628-636. Arnold, M.L. 2014. Hybrid Speciation. In Oxford Bibliographies Online: Evolutionary Biology, http://www.oxfordbibliographies.com/view/document/obo-9780199941728/obo-9780199941728-0005.xml. J.B. Losos ed. Oxford University Press, New York. (Invited Review) Hamlin, J.A.P. and M.L. Arnold. 2014. Determining population structure and hybridization for two Louisiana Iris species. Ecology and Evolution 4:743-755. Ballerini, E.S., K. Mockaitis and M.L. Arnold. 2013. Transcriptome sequencing and phylogenetic analysis of Type II MIKCC MADS-box and R2R3 MYB transcription factors in reproductive tissue from the non-grass monocot Iris fulva. Gene 531:337-346. Brothers, A.N., J.G. Barb, E.S. Ballerini, D.W. Drury, S.J. Knapp and M.L. Arnold. 2013. The genetic architecture of floral traits in Iris hexagona and Iris fulva. Journal of Heredity 104:853-861. Education Education: Ph. D. Population Biology, Australian National University 1986 Other Information Of note: Visiting Professorship – Beijing Forestry University – (Beijing, China) – 2016 Visiting Professorship – Chinese Academy of Sciences, Laboratory of Molecular Ecology, South China Botanical Garden – (Guangzhou, China) – 2016 Visiting Professorship – Chinese Academy of Sciences, Kunming Institute of Zoology – (Kunming, China) – 2016 Visiting Professorship – Biodiversity, Genetics and Evolution Division, Universidade do Porto and Research Centre in Biodiversity and Genetic Resources – (Oporto, Portugal) – 2016 Visiting Professorship – National Center for Biological Sciences, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research – Bengaluru, India “Thousand Talents” Awardee (Chinese Academy of Sciences) – Kunming Institute of Zoology, 2010-2013 Visiting Professorship: Chinese Academy of Sciences – Kunming Institute of Zoology – 2010-2013 Appointed a Distinguished Research Professor, University of Georgia – 2012 Visiting Professorship: Elected to a Visiting Research Fellowship, Merton College, University of Oxford – 2007 Appointed a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science – 2005 Visiting Professorship: Visiting Professorship: Universität Konstanz (Konstanz, Germany) – 2004 Distinguished Merit Award, Society for Louisiana Irises Creative Research Medal, University of Georgia, 1997 Other Affiliations: Society for Louisiana Irises American Association for the Advancement of Science
