AIBS Past-President Appointed Editor-in-Chief of PNAS

The National Academy of Sciences (NAS) has announced the appointment of May R. Berenbaum as Editor-in-Chief of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), the official journal of the Academy. Berenbaum will begin the editorship on January 1, 2019. A Past-President of the American Institute of Biological Sciences (AIBS), Berenbaum is Professor and Swanlund Chair of Entomology at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1994 and has served on the PNAS Editorial Board since 1998. Berenbaum is also a Past-President of the Entomological Society of America, an AIBS member organization. Berenbaum is a leader in the field of chemical ecology, and her decades-long work has illuminated ecological, evolutionary, biochemical, and molecular aspects of an evolutionary arms race between insects and plants. She has unraveled the coevolution of chemical offense and defense in insects and plants in ecological interactions ranging from herbivory to pollination. She has also investigated how mechanisms that detoxify naturally occurring plant chemicals influence pesticide metabolism. Her work has explored the effects of agricultural practices and pesticides on honey bees in the wake of colony collapse disorder.      
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