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 (Chair)
- Diane Bassham (Promotion and Tenure Committee Chair)
- Karri Haen Whitmer (Curriculum Committee Chair)
- Mohan Gupta
- Don Sakaguchi
Promotion and Tenure Committee
(5-6 tenured members, including at least 3 full professors and the peer teaching coordinator)
- Diane Bassham (Chair)
- Jeff Essner
- Xun Gu
- Geetu Tuteja
- Erik Vollbrecht
- Marna Yandeau-Nelson
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)
- Karri Haen Whitmer
- Hala Bastawros
- Don Sakaguchi
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); Alison Esser (genetics advising staff); Lauren Ramos (biology advising staff)
- BCBio Supervisory Committee: GDCB representatives Karin Dorman, Geetu Tuteja and Alison Esser (BCBio advising staff)
- Peer Teaching Coordinators: Hua Bai and Renu Srivastava
Graduate Affairs Committee
- Hua Bai (Chair)
- Xun Gu
- Danise Jones (staff)
Honors and Awards Committee
(5 faculty, 1 staff and 1 graduate student)
- Mohan Gupta (Chair)
- Hala Bastawros
- Xun Gu
- Eric Henderson
- Danise Jones (staff)
- Xiaoyi [Chelsea] Cheng (graduate student representative)
Seminar Committee
(8 faculty, 1 staff and 1 graduate student)
- Jeff Essner (Chair)
- Sarah Anderson
- Kyaw (Joe) Aung
- Clyde Campbell
- Raquel Espin Palazon
- Hongqing (Michelle) Guo
- Dior Kelley
- Ankur Kumar (graduate student representative)
- Danise Jones (staff)
- Zhongpeng Li (postdoc)
Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Committee
(2-3 faculty, 1 staff and 1-2 graduate students)
- Marna Yandeau-Nelson (Chair; CALS representative)
- Sayali Kukday (Co-chair; LAS representative)
- Shobhana Ghimire (staff)
- Abesh Bera (graduate student representative)
- Zakayo Kazibwe (graduate student representative)
- Vaishali Todi (graduate student representative)
Communications Team
- Eric Henderson (Chair)
- Danise Jones (Staff)
- Abbigail McCune (graduate student representative)
College and University Committee Representatives
Faculty Senate: Maura McGrail
LAS Representative: Don Sakaguchi
LAS Faculty Awards Committee: Diane Bassham (Chair)
LAS Honors Committee: Geetu Tuteja
GDCB Representative on LAS Diversity and Inclusion Committee: Sayali Kukday
GDCB Representative on CALS Diversity and Inclusion Committee: Marna Yandeau-Nelson
GDCB Representative on CALS Curriculum Committee: Karri Haen Whitmer
GDCB Representative on CALS Academic Affairs Committee: Erik Vollbrecht
Data Science Curriculum Committee: Carolyn Lawrence-Dill
GDCB Lab Safety Contact: Erica Unger-Wallace
GDCB Representative on the Bessey Core Research Facility Committee: Mohan Gupta
Library Liaison: Erica Unger-Wallace
LAS Representative of Office of Biotechnology Council: Yanhai Yin