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Ehab Abouheif is Professor and E.W.R Steacie Memorial Fellow at McGill University in Montreal, Canada. He served as President of the Pan-American Society for Evolutionary Developmental Biology from 2013-2015, and is currently Past-President until 2017. He obtained his Ph.D. from Duke University in 2002 under the direction of Gregory A. Wray, and from 2002-2004, was HHMI Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Chicago and the University of California, Berkeley with Nipam H. Patel. In 2004, he returned home to join the Department of Biology at McGill University as Canada Research Chair in Evolutionary Developmental Biology.

Professor Abouheif works at the intersection of ecology, evolutionary and developmental biology (also known as eco-evo-devo), which tries to uncover the rules by which genes and environment interact during development and evolution. Using the complex societies of ants as a model, Professor Abouheif has made significant advances in understanding the genetic basis of growth, size, shape, and allometry, how they are regulated during development, and how they have evolved during several major transitions in ant evolution.