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Governance (October 2008 - February 2021)

NIMBioS Board of Advisors

October 2017 Board Meeting at NIMBioS. (L to R): Chris Welsh, Zhilan Feng, Pete Richerson, Pryanga Amaraskekare, John Glasser, Louis Gross, Lydia Bourouiba, Jacob LaRiviere, Mark Lewis, Jorge Velasco Hernandez, Suzanne Lenhart

The NIMBioS Board of Advisors consists of a select group of researchers and educators external to the University of Tennessee with expertise spanning a broad range of topics connected to mathematical and computational biology and STEM education. Board members serve three-year terms. In addition to reviewing all requests for support, they provide advice and guidance to the Leadership Team on programmatic focus areas and strategic planning.

Chair: Jorge Velasco Hernández – Mathematics, Universidad Nacional Autonoma de México
Linda J. S. Allen – Mathematics and Statistics, Texas Tech Univ.
Priyanga Amarasekare – Life Sciences, UCLA
Lydia Bourouiba – Civil & Environmental Engineering, MIT
Zhilan Feng – Mathematics, Purdue Univ.
John Glasser – Mathematical Epidemiology, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention; Purdue Univ.; Emory Univ.
Mary Guttieri – Executive VP, Metabiota
Alexander Hoffmann – Microbiology, Immunology, and Molecular Genetics, UCLA; Director, QCBio
Jacob LaRiviere – Economics, Univ. of Tennessee, and Microsoft
Mark Lewis – Biological Sciences, Univ. of Alberta, Canada
Sandy Liebhold – Entomology, USDA Forest Service
Mark McPeek – Biological Sciences, Dartmouth
Claudia Munoz-Zanzi – Epidemiology & Community Health, Univ. of Minnesota
Gustavo Palacios – US Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases
Joshua B. Plotkin – Biology, Univ. of Pennsylvania
Pete Richerson – Environmental Science and Policy, Univ. of California, Davis
Joshua Weitz – Biology, Georgia Inst. of Technology

Committee to Promote Diversity

Claudia Munoz-Zanzi – Univ. of Minnesota
Jorge Velasco Hernández – Universidad Nacional Autonoma de México

Former Advisory Board Members

Cherie Briggs – Univ. of California, Santa Barbara
Sarah Brosnan – Georgia State Univ.
Erika Camacho – Arizona State Univ.
Carlos Castillo-Chavez – Arizona State Univ.
Iain Couzin – Director, Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior; Chair, Biodiversity and Collective Behaviour, University of Konstanz, Germany
Troy Day – Queens Univ., Canada
Scott Edwards – Harvard Univ.
Sarah Elgin – Washington Univ. in St. Louis
Bard Ermentrout – Univ. of Pittsburgh
Lisa Fauci – Tulane Univ.
Eli Fenichel – Yale Univ.
James Glazier – Indiana Univ.
Gregory Goins – North Carolina A&T State Univ.
Alan Hastings – Univ. of California, Davis
Christine Heitsch – Georgia Institute of Technology
Susan Holmes – Stanford Univ.
Peter Hudson – Pennsylvania State Univ.
Fern Hunt – National Inst. of Standards and Technology
Julius Jackson – Michigan State Univ.
Trachette Jackson – Univ. of Michigan
Overtoun Jenda – Auburn Univ.
Kristin Jenkins – BioQUEST
Colleen Jonsson – Univ. Louisville
John Jungck – Univ. of Delaware
Simon Kahan – Univ. of Washington
Matthew Keeling – Univ. of Warwick
Nancy Kopell – Boston Univ.
Donna Koslowsky – Michigan State Univ.

David Krakauer – Santa Fe Institute
Laura Kubatko – Ohio State Univ.
Jonathan Mattingly – Duke Univ.
Ellis McKenzie – National Institute of Health
Raymond Mejia – National Institute of Health
George Middendorf – Howard Univ.
Melanie Mitchell – Portland State Univ.
Kiona Ogle – Arizona State Univ.
Carl Panetta – St. Jude Children's Research Hospital
Lea Popovic – Concordia Univ., Canada
Anne Pusey – Duke Univ.
Raina Robeva – Mathematics, Randolph-Macon College
Gary Smith – Univ. of Pennsylvania
Lisa Sattenspiel – Univ. of Missouri
Tamar Schlick – New York Univ.
Ynte Hein Schukken – Cornell Univ.
DeWitt Sumners – Florida State Univ.
John Tyson – Virginia Polytechnic Inst. and State Univ.
Marcy Uyenoyama – Duke Univ.
Mariel Vazquez – San Francisco State Univ.
Talitha Washington – Howard Univ.
Colleen Webb – Colorado State Univ.
Leor Weinberger – Univ. of California, San Diego
Jianhong Wu – York Univ.
Aziz Yakubu – Howard Univ.
Nancy Zhang – Univ. of Pennsylvania

October 2014 Board Meeting at NIMBioS. (Back row, L to R) Troy Day, Joshua Weitz, Julius Jackson, Pete Richerson, Sandy Liebhold, Kristin Jenkins, Raina Robeva, Raymond Mejia. (Front row, L to R) Nancy Zhang, Laura Kubatko, Erika Camacho, Colleen Webb, Sarah Brosnan, Jorge Velasco Hernandez, Claudia Munoz-Zanzi, Lydia Bourouiba, Eli Fenichel, Talitha Washington. Not Pictured: Pryanga Amaraskekare, Lea Popovic, Tamar Schlick, Marcy Uyenoyama, Jianhong Wu.

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From 2008 until early 2021, NIMBioS was supported by the National Science Foundation through NSF Award #DBI-1300426, with additional support from The University of Tennessee, Knoxville. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation.