Executive Committee
(Committee elects a chair: 5 tenured members, including chairs of the Curriculum and the Promotion and Tenure committees)
- Jeff Essner (Chair)
- Don Sakaguchi (Chair, Promotion and Tenure Committee)
- Phil Becraft (Chair, Curriculum Committee)
- Diane Bassham
- Drena Dobbs
Promotion and Tenure Committee
(5 tenured members, including at least 3 full professors and the peer teaching coordinator)
- Don Sakaguchi (Chair)
- Drena Dobbs
- Steve Rodermel
- Erik Vollbrecht
- Clark Coffman (Peer Teaching Coordinator)
Curriculum Committee
(Chair plus members of undergraduate program committees and peer teaching coordinator)
- Phil Becraft (Chair)
- Biology Program Committee: GDCB representatives
Jeff Essner (Chair), Erik Vollbrecht (Associate Program Director), Sayali Kukday and Jim Holtz (EEOB/GDCB advising staff) - Genetics Major Committee: GDCB representatives
Clark Coffman (Chair), Maura McGrail and Lois Girton (GDCB advising staff) - BCBio Supervisory Committee: GDCB representatives
Karin Dorman, Drena Dobbs and Lois Girton (GDCB staff) - Peer Teaching Coordinator: Clark Coffman
Graduate Affairs Committee
- Maura McGrail, Chair
- Xun Gu
- Eve Wurtele
- Danise Jones (staff)
Honors and Awards Committee
(4 faculty, 1 staff and 1 graduate student)
- Tom Peterson (Chair)
- Drena Dobbs
- Eric Henderson
- Carolyn Lawrence Dill (coordinator, fall research celebration)
- Danise Jones (staff)
- Graduate student representative (TBD)
Seminar Committee
(6 faculty, 1 staff and 1 graduate student)
- Steve Howell (Chair)
- Geetu Tuteja
- Hua Bai
- Mohan Gupta
- Marna Yandeau-Nelson
- Kyaw (Joe) Aung
- Danise Jones (staff)
- Graduate Student Representative (TBD)
Diversity Committee
(3 faculty, 1 staff and 1 graduate student)
- Clark Coffman (Chair; LAS representative)
- Dior Kelley (CALS representative)
- Xun Gu
- Diane Jepsen (staff)
- Rebekah Starks (Graduate student representative)
Communications Team
- Eric Henderson
- Danise Jones (Staff)
- Graduate student representative (TBD)
Faculty Search Committees
Systems Biology
- Drena Dobbs (Chair)
- Jeff Essner
- Carolyn Lawrence-Dill
- Geetu Tuteja
- Justin Walley (external member)
- Ian Braun (graduate student)
Genome Engineering in Plants
- Erik Vollbrecht (Chair)
- Hua Bai
- Diane Bassham
- Maura McGrail
- Steve Whitham (external member)
- Jordan Welker (graduate student)
Faculty Senate: Steve Howell
LAS Representative: Don Sakaguchi
Library Liaison: Mike McCloskey
Organizer of brown bag seminars: Diane Bassham
2018-2019 ISU Graduate Council member: Drena Dobbs
Representatives to the college diversity committees: GDCB Diversity Committee members: Clark Coffman (LAS), Dior Kelley (CALS)