CMB Committees: 2024-2025

Coordinating Committee 

Faculty Committee Chairs

  • CMB Program Chair: David Wassarman
  • CQCI Chair: Kevin Eliceiri
  • Admissions Committee Chair: Daniela Drummond-Barbosa
  • Advising & Orientation Committee Chair: Bill Bement
  • Awards Chair: Caroline Alexander
  • Curriculum Chair: Beth Weaver
  • Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Committee: Colleen McDowell

Faculty Focus Group Chairs

  • Cancer Biology: Caroline Alexander
  • Cell Adhesion & Cytoskeleton: Jeremy Nance
  • Cellular & Molecular Metabolism: Dudley Lamming
  • Developmental Biology & Regenerative Medicine: Junsu Kang
  • Immunology: Lisa Arendt
  • Membrane Biology & Protein Trafficking: Sebastian Bednarek
  • Molecular and Genome Biology of Microbes: Robert Landick
  • Physiology: Raunak Sinha
  • Plant Biology: Hiroshi Maeda
  • RNA Biology: David Brow
  • Systems Biology: Megan McClean
  • Transcriptional Mechanisms: Melissa Harrison
  • Virology: Paul Ahlquist

Student Coordinating Committee Members

  • Rachel Kirchner (MD/PhD representative)
  • Sutichot (Dex) Nimkulrat
  • Cyrus R. Sethna
  • Nicole West