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Anna-Liisa Laine is Professor of Ecology in the Department of Evolutionary Biology and Environmental Studies at the University of Zurich (Switzerland), and Visiting Professor and Director of the Research Centre for Ecological Change within the Research Program in Organismal and Evolutionary Biology at the University of Helsinki (Finland). Her research focuses on the ecological and evolutionary dynamics of species interactions and the measurement and sustainability of biodiversity. Laine is about to publish Evolutionary Dynamics of Plant-Pathogen Interactions (Cambridge University Press), in which, together with Jeremy L. Burdon, she examines recent research findings on the role of pathogens in shaping plant populations. She is Vice-President of the European Society of Evolutionary Biology and a member of the Finnish National Academy of Sciences.