Board of Directors

Roles and Responsibilities

Major decisions for the allocation of iPlant Collaborative resources to specific Grand Challenges will be made in close consultation with a community-representative Board of Directors (BoD). A "bootstrapping" process, in which a community-representative Nominating Committee (assembled by the PIs with NSF oversight), has been used to select the Board of Directors. One third of the Board will be 'refreshed' every year (beginning summer, 2009) and replaced by the Nominating Committee.

The role of the BoD is to provide oversight of, and advice to, iPlant Executive Management and to evaluate, prioritize, and make recommendations on the selection of community proposals for Grand Challenge Workshops and Grand Challenge Collaboration Projects. The BoD also makes major decisions for the allocation of iPlant resources to specific Grand Challenges. The BoD meets regularly and communicates mainly through email correspondence.

Current Board of Directors

Computational and Mathematical Biology; Bioinformatics

Reka Albert, Pennsylvania State University
Rodrigo Gutierrez, Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile
David Rand, Warwick Systems Biology & Mathematics Institute

Computing Infrastructure

Amy Apon, University of Arkansas
Tom Finholt, University of Michigan
Al Hevner, University of South Florida
Gwen Jacobs, Montana State University - Chair
Kenneth Klingenstein, Internet2
Ralph Roskies, University of Pittsburgh

Ecology, Evolutionary, and Organismal Biology

Vivian Irish, Yale University
Russell K. Monson, University of Colorado, Boulder
Muriel E. Poston, Skidmore College
Loren Rieseberg, University of British Columbia
Daniel Zamir, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology

Jim Birchler, University of Missouri, Columbia
Stacey Harmer, University of California, Davis
Marta Laskowski, Oberlin College
Rob Last, Michigan State University
Hei Leung, International Rice Research Institue (IRRI)
Jean-Philippe Vielle-Calzada, National Laboratory of Genomics for Biodiversity (Langebio)

Education, Outreach and Training

Susan Singer, Carleton College - Chair of iPlant Education, Outreach and Training Advisory Committee

Past Board of Directors Members

Nominating Committee