Dr. Xuhua Xia is full professor at University of Ottawa since 2009. His research interests include molecular biology and evolution, molecular phylogenetics, microbial genomics and adaptation, bioinformatics, and biostatistics. He is the author of DAMBE (dambe.bio.uottawa.ca). He was affiliated with University of Western Ontario, University of Helsinki, University of Toronto, University of Washington, Louisiana State University, and University of Hong Kong.