Scientific Advisory Board

Current members of the Scientific Advisory Board

Dr. J. Michael Cherry

2026-
Professor Emeritus, Department of Genetics, Stanford University, Stanford, California. Renowned as the longtime director and visionary behind the Saccharomyces Genome Database (SGD), over the span of three decades Mike shaped SGD into a globally indispensable resource for eukaryotic biology, co-founded the Gene Ontology (GO) consortium, and led major data curation for the ENCODE project.

Dr. Fred Dietrich

2003-
Associate Professor, Molecular Genetics & Microbiology, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina. Authority on S. cerevisiae genomic sequencing.

Dr. Maitreya Dunham

2018-
Professor and Chair of Genome Sciences, The William H. Gates III Endowed Chair in Biomedical Sciences, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington. Interested in the role of gene and chromosome copy number variation in adaptation and approaches to experimental evolution.

Dr. Ian Ehrenreich

2026-
Divisional Dean for Life Sciences and Professor of Biological Sciences, Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California. Investigates how the genome gives rise to all of the attributes of organisms, using complex trait genetics and synthetic genomics.

Dr. Lydia Heasley

2026-
Assistant Professor, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics, School of Medicine, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, Aurora, Colorado. Investigates the molecular causes and phenotypic consequences of structural variations.

Dr. Ann Kirchmaier

2018-
Associate Professor, Department of Biochemistry, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana. Expert on epigenetic silencing, replication-coupled assembly of chromatin.

Dr. Darren Platt

2013-
Chief Data Officer at Montage Bio and Venture Partner at Magnet Ventures. Expert in genomics, computational biology and synthetic biology for biotechnology product development.

Dr. Kerry Geiler-Samerotte

2026-
Associate Professor, Biodesign Center for Mechanisms of Evolution and School of Life Sciences, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona. Expert in high-throughput phenotyping methods to map genotype to phenotype, with focus on drug resistance evolution, protein misfolding costs, and gene regulatory networks in S. cerevisiae.

Previous members of the Scientific Advisory Board

Dr. Bernard Dujon | 1994–2005 | Professor, Institut Pasteur & University Pierre and Marie Curie, Paris, France
Dr. Richard Durbin | 1994–2001 | Head of Informatics, Sanger Institute, Hinxton, Cambridge, UK
Dr. Mark Johnston | 1994–2001 | Professor, Department of Genetics, Washington University, St. Louis, MO
Dr. Philip Hieter | 1994–2018 | Professor, Michael Smith Laboratories, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada
Dr. David Lipman | 1994–1999 | Director, NCBI, NLM, NIH, Bethesda, MD
Dr. Bob Mortimer | 1994–1997 | Professor Emeritus, Division of Genetics, UC Berkeley, CA
Dr. Maynard Olson | 1994–1997 | Professor of Genome Sciences and Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, WA
Dr. John Morris | 1994–1997 | Genentech, South San Francisco, CA
Dr. Lee Hartwell | 1997 | Director, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center, Seattle, WA
Dr. Thomas Fox | 1999–2005 | Professor, Department of Genetics, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY
Dr. Dan Gottschling | 1999–2003, 2016–2017 | Senior Staff Scientist, Calico Life Sciences, South San Francisco, CA
Dr. Donna Maglott | 2000–2001 | Staff Scientist, NCBI, NLM, NIH, Bethesda, MD
Dr. Pamela Meluh | 1999–2005 | Research Associate/Faculty, Department of Molecular Biology & Genetics, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD
Mr. Bobby Joe Breitkreutz | 2002 | Software Engineer, The Samuel Lunenfeld Research Institute, Mount Sinai Hospital, Toronto, Canada
Dr. David Brow | 2002 | Professor of Biomolecular Chemistry, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI
Dr. Elizabeth Craig | 2002 | Professor of Biomolecular Chemistry, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI
Dr. Mike Culbertson | 2002 | Professor of Genetics and Molecular Biology, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI
Dr. Catherine Fox | 2002–2005 | Associate Professor of Biomolecular Chemistry, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI
Dr. Warren Heideman | 2002 | Professor & Associate Dean of Research, School of Pharmacy, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI
Dr. Manolis Kellis | 2002 | Assistant Professor of Computer Science, MIT, Cambridge, MA
Dr. Danny Lew | 2002 | Associate Professor of Pharmacology, Cancer Biology, and Genetics, Duke University, Durham, NC
Dr. Nava Segev | 2002 | Professor of Biological Sciences, University of Illinois, Chicago, IL
Dr. David Botstein | 2003-2025 | Chief Scientific Officer, Calico, South San Francisco, California. The Founding Father of SGD.
Dr. Charlie Boone | 2003–2018 | Professor, Banting and Best Department of Medical Research, University of Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Mr. Francis Ouellette | 2003-2024 | Vice President, Scientific Affairs, Genome Quebec, Canada
Dr. David Sherman | 2004 | Laboratoire Bordelais de Recherche en Informatique, CNRS, Talence cedex, France
Dr. Manny Ares | 2003–2005 | Professor, Molecular, Cell & Developmental Biology, UC Santa Cruz, CA
Dr. Roger Brent | 2004–2005 | Director, The Molecular Sciences Institute, Berkeley, CA
Dr. Jonathan Eisen | 2003–2005 | Investigator, The Institute for Genomic Research (TIGR), Rockville, MD
Dr. Peter Philippsen | 2003–2005 | Professor, Division of Molecular Microbiology, Biozentrum, University of Basel, Switzerland
Dr. Seung Yon (Sue) Rhee | 2003–2005 | Staff Scientist, The Arabidopsis Information Resource (TAIR), Carnegie Institution, Stanford, CA
Dr. Mark Yandell | 2003–2005 | Assistant Professor, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT
Dr. Judy A. Blake | 2003–2009 | Associate Staff Scientist, Mouse Genome Informatics (MGI), The Jackson Laboratory, Bar Harbor, ME
Dr. Amy Gladfelter | 2007–2016 | Associate Professor of Biological Sciences, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH
Dr. Anders Blomberg | 2007–2017 | Professor, Department of Cell and Molecular Biology, Goteborg University, Gothenburg, Sweden
Dr. Audrey P. Gasch | 2007-2025 | Professor, Department of Genetics, University of Wisconsin - Madison, WI
Dr. Hiten Madhani | 2007-2025 | Professor, Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, University of California, San Francisco, CA
Dr. David Amberg | 2012 | Associate Professor, Department of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology, SUNY Upstate Medical University, Syracuse, NY
Dr. Mike Law | 2013–2018 | Assistant Professor of Biology and Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Stockton University, Galloway, NJ
Dr. Lars Steinmetz | 2013–2018 | Professor of Genetics, Stanford University & Joint Head of Genome Biology, EMBL Heidelberg
Dr. Elizabeth Worthey | 2013–2016 | Assistant Professor, Human and Molecular Genetics Center, Medical College of Wisconsin
Dr. Gavin Sherlock | 2016–2018 | Associate Professor of Genetics, Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA
Dr. Randy Strich | 2016–2018 | Professor, Department of Molecular Biology, Rowan University, Stratford, NJ
Dr. Alex Bateman | 2017-2025 | Senior Team Leader, Protein Sequence resources, EMBL-EBI, Hinxton, UK
Dr. Paul Sternberg | 2017-2025 | Professor, Division of Biology and Biological Engineering, CalTech, Pasadena, CA
Dr. Monte Westerfield | 2017-2025 | Professor, Department of Biology, University of Oregon, Eugene, OR
Dr. Anastasia Baryshnikova | 2018-2025 | Principal Investigator, Calico, South San Francisco, CA
Dr. Orna Cohen-Fix | 2018-2025 | Senior Investigator and Section Chief, NIDDK, NIH, Bethesda, MD

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