Work Group 1 – Wildlife diseases with vectors
Team Leader: Dr. Margaret Wild, Lead Vet, Wildlife Management and Health Program Leader, Biological Resource Management Division, National Park Service, Fort Collins
Avian malaria (mosquitoes)
Dr. Luke Alphey, The Pirbright Institute
Dr. Robert Fleischer, Center Head, Center for Conservation and Evolutionary Genetics, Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute, National Zoological Park
Dr. Thierry Work, National Wildlife Health Center, USGS
Sylvatic plague (fleas)
Dr. Ken Gage, Chief, Entomology and Ecology Activity, CDC Fort Collins
Dr. Toni Rocke, National Wildlife Health Center, USGS
Technologists
Dr. Kevin Esvelt, Research Associate, Wyss Institute, Harvard University
Dr. Bruce Hay, Professor of Biology, California Institute of Technology
Dr. Jack Newman, Chief Scientific Officer, Amyris
Linus Upson, Vice President, Engineering, Google
Pathologist
Dr. Dee McAloose, Head of Pathology, Zoological Health and Chief Pathologist, Wildlife Conservation Society
Public Policy
Dr. Jennifer Kuzma, Co-director, Genetic Engineering and Society Center, North Carolina State University; Goodnight-NCGSK Distinguished Professor in the School of Public and International Affairs and Co-Director of the Genetic Engineering and Society Center
Additional Experts
Dr. Drew Endy, Assistant Professor, Bioengineering Stanford
Ben Novak, Lead Researcher, The Great Passenger Pigeon Comeback, Revive & Restore
Ed Penhoet, Ph.D., Director, Alta Partners
Ryan Phelan, Executive Director and Co-founder, Revive & Restore
Dr. Oliver Ryder, Director of Genetics, San Diego Frozen Zoo
Work Group 2 – Wildlife diseases (potential for genetic disease resistance)
Team Leader: Dr. Billy Karesh, Executive Vice President for Health and Policy at EcoHealth Alliance
Chytrid (amphibians)
Dr. Lee Skerratt, James Cook University, Australia
Dr. James Collins, Professor of Natural History and the Environment, Arizona State University
Dr. Vance Vredenburg, Associate Professor, Department of Biology, San Francisco State University
White-nose syndrome (bats)
Dr. Jeremy Coleman, National White-Nose Syndrome Coordinator; Northeast Regional Wildlife Disease Coordinator, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
Michele Verant, Veterinarian, Postdoctoral Research, School of Veterinary Medicine, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Herpes virus (Asian elephants)
Dr. Dennis Schmitt, Chair of Veterinary Services and Director of Research, Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Center for Elephant Conservation
Dr. Wendy Kiso, Research and Conservation Scientist, Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Center for Elephant Conservation
Dr. Paul Ling, Department of Molecular Virology and Microbiology, Baylor College of Medicine
Technologists
Dr. George Church, Platform Lead, Synthetic Biology, Wyss Institute, Harvard University
Dr. Tim Doran, Senior Research Scientist and Group Leader for Advanced RNA Technology, CSIRO Biosecurity Flagship
Dr. William Powell, American Chestnut Research & Restoration Project
Public Policy
Eleonore Pauwels, Public Policy Scholar, Science and Technology Innovation Program, Woodrow Wilson Center
Additional experts
Stewart Brand, Cofounder, Revive & Restore. President, The Long Now Foundation
Dr. Claudio Campagna, Wildlife Conservation Society Marine and Argentina Programs; Adjunct Professor, UC Santa Cruz; Steering Committee member, IUCN Species Survival Commission
Dr. Alicia Jackson, Deputy Director of the DARPA Biological Technologies Office (BTO)
Edward Schulak, Private Investor
Work Group 3 – Invasive Species
Team Leader: Dr. Josh Donlan, Advanced Conservation Strategies
Rodents and other mammals
Dr. Karl Campbell, Island Conservation, Galapagos
Gregg Howald, Island Conservation, Canada
Dr. Phil Seddon, Professor, Department of Zoology, Director, Postgraduate Wildlife Management Programme, University of Otago, New Zealand
Ants on islands
Dr. Ben Hoffman, Senior Research Scientist, Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO), Australia
Dr. Neil D. Tsutsui, Professor, Vice Chair for Instruction Policy & Management, Department of Environmental Science, UC Berkeley
Aquatic Invasives
Marcela Uliano da Silva, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro
Dr. Ronald Thresher, Research Scientist, CSIRO / Wealth from Oceans Research Flagship, Australia
Technologists
Dr. Rob Carlson, Principal, Biodesic
Dr. Robert Cook, Program Director of the Conservation Program and the Basic Medical Research Program, Helmsley Charitable Trust
Dr. Owain Edwards, Program Leader, Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO)
Dr. Neil Gemmel, Professor and Gemmel Lab Lead, Department of Anatomy, University of Otago
Dr. Fred Gould, Professor of Entomology, North Carolina State University
Dr. W. Ian Lipkin, Director, Center for Infection and Immunity, Columbia University
Dr. Toni Piaggio, Research Scientist, Wildlife Genetics, National Wildlife Research Center
Dr. David Threadgill, Texas A&M University
Pathologist
Dr. Tanja Zabka, Veterinary Pathologist and Lead in the Safety Assessment Group, Genentech
Additional Experts
David Lang, Co-founder of OpenROV
Kent H. Redford, Principal, Archipelago Consulting.
