People
Leadership
The executive committee is comprised of four founding members and one ad hoc position that rotates annually. The institute operates in a fully collaborative way. Its responsibilities include research collaboration, communication evaluation, budget oversight and reporting.
Our executive committee members include:
Our team
Our scientists are interested in researching evolutionary cellular biology. We are collaborative, so our projects involve a minimum of two complementary areas of expertise.
Our team members include:
Advisory groups
External advisory committee members
Shelly Copley
Professor, University of Colorado-Boulder
Nels Elde
Associate Professor, University of Utah
Lillian Fritz-Laylin
Assistant Professor, University of Massachusetts
Purificación López-García
Professor, Paris-Sud University
Patricia Wittkopp
Professor, University of Michigan
Internal advisory committee members
Our internal advisory committeehelps the institute to engage as many Arizona State University researchers as possible, where many of the educational activities take place. Members also play a key role in evaluating ongoing research, outreach and educational activities and in prioritizing new research projects.
Banu Ozkan
Faculty Associate, Biodesign Center for Mechanisms of Evolution
Professor, Department of Physics
Susanne Pfeifer
Faculty Associate, Biodesign Center for Mechanisms of Evolution
Assistant Professor, School of Life Sciences
Stephanie Forrest
Director, Biodesign Center for Biocomputing, Security and Society
Professor, School of Computingand Augmented Intelligence
Gillian Gile
Associate Faculty, Biodesign Center for Fundamental and Applied Microbiomics
Associate Professor, School of Life Sciences
Rizal Hariadi
Faculty Member, Biodesign Center for Molecular Design and Biomimetics
Assistant Professor, Department of Physics