Department Chair
Associate Chairs
Maura McGrail: Research and Faculty Development
Karri Haen Whitmer, Curriculum and Integrated Health Sciences Leadership Team
Carly Manz: Course Scheduling, Student Recruitment, Learning Outcome, TA Assignment
Executive Committee
(Committee elects a chair: 5 faculty members at the rank of associate professor or above, including chairs of the Curriculum and the Promotion and Tenure committees)
- Jeff Essner (PTC Chair)
- Karri Haen Whitmer (Curriculum Committee Chair)
- Mohan Gupta
- Don Sakaguchi
- Geetu Tuteja
Promotion and Tenure Committee
(5-6 tenured members, including at least 3 full professors and the peer teaching coordinator)
Term Faculty Advancement Committee (AC)
(3-5 faculty members include associate chair/Curriculum Committee chair, 1 PTC member and 1 term faculty at associate professor or above)
Curriculum Committee
(Chair plus members of undergraduate program committees and peer teaching coordinators)
- Karri Haen Whitmer (Chair)
- Biology Program Committee: GDCB representatives
Don Sakaguchi (Biology/Genetics Director), Karri Haen Whitmer, Carly Manz and Lauren Ramos (Biology advising staff) - Genetics Major Committee: GDCB representatives
Don Sakaguchi (Biology/Genetics Director), Karri Haen Whitmer, and Alison Esser (Genetics advising staff) - Biology and Genetics Undergraduate Scholarship Committee: GDCB representatives
Carly Manz (co-chair); Jelena Kraft (member); and Lauren Ramos (biology advising staff) - BCBio Supervisory Committee: GDCB representatives
Karin Dorman, Geetu Tuteja and Alllyn Kolar (BCBio advising staff) - Peer Teaching Coordinators: Hua Bai and Renu Srivastava
- Integrated Health Sciences leadership: Yanhai Yin and Karri Haen Whitmer
- New Course-Only Master (4+1) Program Coordinator: Dior Kelley and Jeff Essner
Graduate Affairs Committee
- Hua Bai (Chair)
- Xun Gu
- Danise Jones (staff)
Honors and Awards Committee
(5-7 faculty, 1 staff)
- Mohan Gupta (Chair)
- Kyaw (Joe) Aung
- Diane Bassham
- Hala Bastawros
- Clark Coffman
- Xun Gu
- Erica Unger-Wallace
- Danise Jones (staff)
Culture and Climate Committee
- Clark Coffman (Chair)
- Marna Yandeau-Nelson
- Shobhana Ghimire (Staff)
- Jacinta Correia (Graduate Student)
Seminar Committee
(8 faculty, 1 staff and 1 graduate student)
- Jeff Essner (Chair)
- Clyde Campbell
- Raquel Espin Palazon
- Hongqing (Michelle) Guo
- Ping Kang
- Josh Strable
- Anurag Das (graduate student representative)
- Danise Jones (staff)
- Zhongpeng Li (postdoc)
Communications Team
- Danise Jones (Staff)
- Anh Pham (graduate student representative)
Digital Accessibility liaison
- Danise Jones (Staff)
- Kyaw (Joe) Aung
College and University Committee Representatives
GDCB Faculty Senate Representative, Chair of Faculty Senate Faculty Development and Administrative Relations (FDAR) Council, Faculty Senate Executive Board Member, Faculty Senate Term Faculty Advancement Policy Review Working Group: Carly Manz
CALS Advisory Panel for Engaged Research (CAPER): Marna Yandeau-Nelson
CALS Faculty Professional Development Assignment committee: Marna Yandeau-Nelson
CALS Promotion and Tenure Committee: Erik Vollbrecht
CALS Technology Fee Committee: Renu Srivastava
CALS Term Faculty Peer Mentor: Karri Haen Whitmer
Crop Bioengineering Center (CBC) advisory council member: Dior Kelley
GDCB Representative on CALS Curriculum Committee: Karri Haen Whitmer
GDCB Representative on CALS Academic Affairs Committee: Erik Vollbrecht
GDCB Lab Safety Contact: Erica Unger-Wallace
GDCB Representative on the Bessey Core Research Facility Committee: Mohan Gupta
Genetics Club Faculty Advisor: Michelle Guo
ISU Open & Affordable Education Committee: Carly Manz
LAS Faculty Awards Committee: Diane Bassham
LAS Honors Committee: Geetu Tuteja
LAS Outcome Assessment Committee: Carly Manz
LAS Representative: Mohan Gupta
Library Liaison: Erica Unger-Wallace
MCDB Graduate Program Chair: Dior Kelley
Scientific Illustration & Visualization Program Advisor: Dior Kelley
VPR Office Biotechnology Council representative for CALS: Dior Kelley