CMB Committees: 2019-2020

Coordinating Committee 

Faculty Committee Chairs

  • CMB Program Chair: David Wassarman
  • LCMB Chair: Bill Bement
  • Admissions Committee Chair: Barak Blum
  • Advising & Orientation Committee Chair: Curtis Brandt
  • Curriculum Chair: Donna Peters
  • Awards Chair: Caroline Alexander

Faculty Focus Group Chairs

  • Cancer Biology: Caroline Alexander
  • Cell Adhesion & Cytoskeleton: Jill Wildonger
  • Cellular & Molecular Metabolism: David Pagliarini (fall); Dudley Lamming (spring)
  • Developmental Biology & Regenerative Medicine: Anne Griep
  • Immunology: Jyoti Watters
  • Membrane Biology & Protein Trafficking: Guy Groblewski
  • Molecular and Genome Biology of Microbes: Robert Landick
  • Physiology: Raunak Sinha
  • Plant Biology: Jean-Michel Ané
  • RNA Biology: David Brow
  • Systems Biology: Megan McClean
  • Transcriptional Mechanisms: Melissa Harrison
  • Virology: Paul Ahlquist

Student Coordinating Committee Members

  • Anna Heffron (MD/PhD representative)
  • Zach Morrow
  • Katie Mueller
  • Dan Tremmel

Admissions Committee

Committee Chair

  • Barak Blum

Faculty Committee Members

  • Tom Friedrich
  • Mehdi Kabbage
  • Melissa Kinney
  • Megan McClean
  • Andy Mehle
  • Zachary Morris
  • JD Sauer
  • Raunak Sinha
  • Yongna Xing
  • Xuehua Zhong
  • International Reviewers:
    • Nihal Ahmad
    • Junsu Kang
    • Vijay Setaluri

Student Committee Members

  • Jenn Borchardt
  • Patrick Cervantes
  • Morgan Giese
  • Justin Mabin
  • Sarah Rempel

Recruiting Committee 

Student Recruiting Weekend Managers

  • Luis Haddock Soto
  • Jessica Han
  • Keer Jiang
  • Steve John
  • Kourtney Kostecki
  • Zhouyuan Shen
  • Lainy Von Bank
  • Ryan Walter
  • Megan Young
  • Ziheng Zhang

Advising & Orientation Committee

Committee Chair

  • Curtis Brandt

Faculty A&O Advisors

  • Bill Bement
  • Grace Boekhoff-Falk
  • Laura Knoll
  • Peter Lewis
  • Phil Romero
  • Nate Sherer
  • Rupa Sridharan
  • Beth Weaver

A&O Student Planning Committee Members

  • Tyler Gibson
  • Steve John
  • Aicha Quamine
  • Zhouyuan Shen
  • Megan Young

Exceptional Thesis Award Review Committee

Chair

  • Caroline Alexander

Faculty Committee Members

  • John Svaren
  • Jyoti Watters

Professional Development Committee

Student Members

  • Janna Bashar
  • Ian Begeman
  • Christi Binkley
  • Morgan Giese
  • Lauren Hillers
  • Zena Jensvold
  • Keer Jiang
  • Ellen Wagner

Student Fall Retreat

Student Organizers

  • Debayan De Bakshi
  • Marissa Gaskill
  • Jon Schmitz

Student Seminar Series

Student Organizers

  • Sarah Rempel
  • Zac Swider

CMB Student Peer Resources

  • Janna Bashar
  • Christi Binkley
  • Maz Bradberry
  • Debayan De Bakshi
  • Drew Doering
  • Patrick Cervantes
  • Lauren Hillers
  • Marissa Gaskill
  • Tyler Gibson
  • Morgan Giese
  • Kartik Gupta
  • Lauren Hillers
  • Leland Hyman
  • Zena Jensvold
  • Jose Martinez
  • Ani Michaud
  • Zach Morrow
  • Becky Reese
  • Raakhee Shankar
  • Zhouyuan Shen
  • Zac Swider
  • Sydney Thomas
  • Dan Tremmel
  • Ellen Wagner
  • Megan Young