Scientific Advisory Board

Current members of the Scientific Advisory Board

Dr. Anastasia Baryshnikova

  • 2018-
  • Principal Investigator, Calico, South San Francisco, California. Analyzing the molecular mechanisms of pleiotropic age-associated phenotypes.

Dr. Alex Bateman

  • 2017-
  • Senior Team Leader, Protein Sequence resources, EMBL-EBI, Hinxton, UK. Leads the the Protein sequence resources at EMBL-EBI that includes UniProt, Pfam, Rfam, TreeFam and MEROPS.

Dr. David Botstein

  • 2003-
  • Chief Scientific Officer, Calico, South San Francisco, California. The Founding Father of SGD.

Dr. Orna Cohen-Fix

  • 2018-
  • Senior Investigator and Section Chief, NIDDK, NIH, Bethesda, Maryland. Studies processes that contribute to nuclear morphology and their relationship to nuclear function.

Dr. Fred Dietrich

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

Dr. Maitreya Dunham

  • 2018-
  • Associate Professor, Department of Genome 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. Ann Kirchmaier

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

Mr. Francis Ouellette

  • 2003-
  • Vice President, Scientific Affairs, Genome Quebec, Canada. Longstanding expert on bioinformatics and disseminating information to the research community.

Dr. Audrey P. Gasch

  • 2007-
  • Professor, Department of Genetics, University of Wisconsin - Madison, Wisconsin. Expert on the yeast environmental stress response.

Dr. Hiten Madhani

  • 2007-
  • Professor, Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, University of California, San Francisco, California. Using both small-scale and large-scale approaches to study yeast chromatin biology and signal transduction.

Dr. Darren Platt

  • 2013-
  • Chief Information Officer, Demetrix. Working in the synthetic biology space on natural products in yeast.

Dr. Paul Sternberg

  • 2017-
  • Professor, Division of Biology and Biological Engineering, CalTech, Pasadena, California. PI of WormBase and conducts research into how the nematode genome controls development, behavior and physiology.

Dr. Monte Westerfield

  • 2017-
  • Professor, Department of Biology, University of Oregon, Eugene, Oregon. PI of ZFIN and studies the molecular genetic basis of human diseases, particularly Usher syndrome, using zebrafish as a model for human disease.

Previous members of the Scientific Advisory Board

Dr. Bernard Dujon

  • 1994-2005
  • Professor, Institut Pasteur, Paris, France and the University Pierre and Marie Curie, Paris, France

Dr. Richard Durbin

  • 1994-2001
  • Head of Informatics, Sanger Institute, Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Hinxton, Cambridge, UK

Dr. Mark Johnston

  • 1994-2001
  • Professor, Department of Genetics, Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri

Dr. Philip Hieter

  • 1994-2018
  • Professor, Michael Smith Laboratories, Departments of Medical Genetics and Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, B.C., Canada

Dr. David Lipman

  • 1994-1999
  • Director, NCBI, NLM, NIH, Building 38A, Room 8N807, 8600 Rockville Pike, Bethesda, Maryland

Dr. Bob Mortimer

  • 1994-1997
  • Professor Emeritus, Division of Genetics, University of California, Berkeley, California

Dr. Maynard Olson

  • 1994-1997
  • Professor of Genome Sciences and of Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington

Dr. John Morris

  • 1994-1997
  • Genentech, South San Francisco, California

Dr. Lee Hartwell

  • 1997
  • Director, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center, Seattle, Washington

Dr. Thomas Fox

  • 1999-2005
  • Professor, Department of Genetics, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York

Dr. Dan Gottschling

  • 1999-2003, 2016-2017
  • Senior Staff Scientist at Calico Life Sciences, South San Francisco, California

Dr. Donna Maglott

  • 2000-2001
  • Staff Scientist, National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI), National Library of Medicine, NIH, Bethesda, Maryland

Dr. Pamela Meluh

  • 1999-2005
  • Research Associate/Faculty, Department of Molecular Biology & Genetics, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland

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, Wisconsin

Dr. Elizabeth Craig

  • 2002
  • Professor of Biomolecular Chemistry, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin

Dr. Mike Culbertson

  • 2002
  • Professor of Genetics and Molecular Biology, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin

Dr. Catherine Fox

  • 2002-2005
  • Associate Professor of Biomolecular Chemistry, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin

Dr. Warren Heideman

  • 2002
  • Professor, Associate Dean of Research, School of Pharmacy, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin

Dr. Manolis Kellis

  • 2002
  • Assistant Professor of Computer Science, MIT, Cambridge, Massachusetts

Dr. Danny Lew

  • 2002
  • Associate Professor of Pharmacology and Cancer Biology, and Genetics, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina

Dr. Nava Segev

  • 2002
  • Professor of Biological Sciences, University of Illinois, Chicago, Illinois

Dr. Charlie Boone

  • 2003-2018
  • Professor, Banting and Best Department of Medical Research, and Department of Medical Genetics and Microbiology, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, 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, University of California, Santa Cruz, California

Dr. Roger Brent

  • 2004-2005
  • Director, The Molecular Sciences Institute, Berkeley, California

Dr. Jonathan Eisen

  • 2003-2005
  • Investigator, The Institute for Genomic Research (TIGR), Rockville, Maryland

Dr. Peter Philippsen

  • 2003-2005
  • Professor, Division of Molecular Microbiology and Chair of Applied Microbiology, Biozentrum, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland

Dr. Seung Yon (Sue) Rhee

  • 2003-2005
  • Staff Scientist, The Arabidopsis Information Resource (TAIR), Department of Plant Biology, Carnegie Institution, Stanford, California

Dr. Mark Yandell

  • 2003-2005
  • Assistant Professor, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah

Dr. Judy A. Blake

  • 2003-2009
  • Associate Staff Scientist, Mouse Genome Informatics (MGI) and the Mouse Genome Database (MGD), The Jackson Laboratory, Bar Harbor, Maine

Dr. Amy Gladfelter

  • 2007-2016
  • Associate Professor of Biological Sciences, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire

Dr. Anders Blomberg

  • 2007-2017
  • Professor, Department of Cell and Molecular Biology, Lundberg Laboratory, Goteborg University, Gothenburg, Sweden.

Dr. David Amberg

  • 2012
  • Associate Professor, Department of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology, SUNY Upstate Medical University, Syracuse, New York

Dr. Mike Law

  • 2013-2018
  • Assistant Professor of Biology and of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Stockton University, Galloway, New Jersey

Dr. Lars Steinmetz

  • 2013-2018
  • Professor of Genetics, Stanford University and Joint Head of Genome Biology and Senior Scientist, 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, Palo Alto, California

Dr. Randy Strich

  • 2016-2018
  • Professor, Department of Molecular Biology, Rowan University, Stratford, New Jersey