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