陶毅，男，博士，研究员，博士生导师；理论生态学研究组组长、动物生态与保护生物学院重点实验室副主任、中国生态学会理事、中国生态学会数学生态专业委员会主任、国际动态博弈学会（International Society on Dynamic Games）执委、英国皇家学会会刊Biology Letters编委、国际刊物PLoS ONE编委。1992年8月在兰州大学获理学博士学位,研究方向为进化博弈动力学；1992-1994年在中国科学院动物研究所从事博士后研究，研究方向为进化博弈动力学；1994-2005年分别在Center for Complex System, Florida Atlantic University (US)；Department of Mathematics, Wilfrid Laurier University (Canada)；Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Montreal (Canada); Keck Graduate Institute of Applied Life Sciences (US) 从事进化博弈动力学和计算生物学的研究。2005年10月全职回国工作。目前研究组的主要研究领域为：非线性及随机进化博弈动力学、合作行为的演化博弈动力学机制、人类行为生态学、基因表达及调控的随机动力学。

1. Wu J-J., Li C., Zhang B-Y., Xiao H-D., He Q-Q., Cressman R. and Tao Y. (2014) The role of exemplar in promoting cooperation, Scientific Reports (in press).
2. Xue Y., Zheng X-D., Huang L., Xu P-F., Ma Y-Q., Min Z-Y., Tao Q-H., Tao Y. and Meng A-M. (2014) Organizer-derived Bmp2 is required for forming an appropriate Bmp activity gradient during embryonic dorsoventral patterning,Nature Communications, DOI: 10.1038/ncomms4766 .
3. Cressman R. and Tao Y. (2014) The replicator equation and other game dynamics, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA, DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1400823111.
4. Huang S., Zhang Z., Zhang C., Lv X., Zheng X., Chen Z., Sun L., Wang H., Zhu Y., Zhang J., Yang S., Lu Y, Sun Q., Tao Y., Liu F., Zhao Y. and Chen D. (2013) Activation of sumurf E3 ligase promoted by smoothened regulates hedgehod signaling through targeting turnover, PLoS Biology, 11(11): e1001721.
5. Ji T. Wu J-J., He Q-Q., Xu J-J., Mace R. and Tao Y. (2013) Reproduction competition between females in the matrilineal Mosuo of southwest China, Philosophical Transactions of The Royal Society B, 368, 20130081.
6. Wu J-J., He Q-Q., Deng L-L., Wang S-C., Mace R., Ji T. and Tao Y. (2013) Communal breeding in a saturated habitat generates a matrilineal social system where husband and wife live apart, Proceedings of The Royal Society B, 280, 20130010.
7. Xia L-X., Zheng X-D., Zhang G-Q., Zhen W-J., Wang H-L., Tao Y. and Chen D-H. (2012) The niche-dependent feedback loop determines a gradient of BMP activity that controls the asymmetric division of germline stem cells in Drosophila, Current Biology, 22, 515-521.
8. Zheng X-D., Cressman R. and Tao Y. (2011) The diffusion approximation of stochastic evolutionary game dynamics: Mean effective fixation time and the significance of the one-third law, Dynamic Games and Applications, DOI 10.1007/s13235-011-0025-4.
9. Tao Y., Li C., Wu J-J. and Cressman R. (2009) The efficiency ratio of costly punishment, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 106, E136.
10. Wu J-J., Zhang B-U., Zhou Z-X., He Q-Q., Zheng X-D., Cressman R. and Tao Y. (2009) Costly punishment does not always increase cooperation, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA106, 17448-17451.