J. Andrew DeWoody did his undergraduate studies in wildlife and fisheries sciences at Texas A&M University. After a brief stint as a field biologist with the now-defunct Soil Conservation Service, he returned to Texas A&M to earn an M.S. in genetics under the tutelage of Drs Rodney Honeycutt and Loren Skow. DeWoody's Ph.D. in zoology is from Texas Tech University, where he worked with Robert Baker. DeWoody then spent three years as a postdoctoral student with John Avise at the University of Georgia in the Department of Genetics. His recent research in genetics, evolution, and ecology has been