Please feel free to contact members of the organizing committee if you have any questions.
- Elizabeth Crockett (Co-Chair), Professor Emerita Ohio University, crockett@ohio.edu 
- Kristin O'Brien, (Co-Chair) Professor University of Alaska Fairbanks, kmobrien@alaska.edu 
- Katharine Barker, Program Manager Global Genome Initiative, Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History, BarkerK@si.edu 
- Jonathan Coddington, Lead Global Genome Initiative, Senior Research Entomologist and Curator of Arachnida and Myriapoda Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History, coddington@si.edu 
- Sarah Eppley, Associate Professor Portland State University, eppley@pdx.edu 
- Nico Franz, Professor and Biocollections Director Arizona State University, nmfranz@asu.edu 
- Bill Fraser, Polar Oceans Research Group, bfraser@3rivers.net 
- Kyndall Hildebrandt, Collection Manager Genomics Resources, University of Alaska Museum of the North, kbhildebrandt@alaska.edu 
- Jill Mikucki, Associate Professor University of Tennessee , jmikucki@utk.edu 
- Bill Moser, Collection Manager Invertebrate Zoology, Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History, moserw@si.edu 
- Thomas Near, Curator of Icthyology Peabody Museum, Yale University, thomas.near@yale.edu 
- Diane Pitassy, Collection Manager Vertebrate Zoology & Fishes, Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History, pitassyd@si.edu 
- Craig Smith, Professor University of Hawaii at Manoa, craigsmi@hawaii.edu