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He is currently a Professor in the Department of Integrative Biology at the University of Guelph and Director of its Centre for Biodiversity Genomics. Over his career, he has trained more than 100 graduate students and postdoctoral [\/et_pb_text][et_pb_text admin_label=”Jonathan Coddington” module_id=”Michelle_vanderBank” _builder_version=”4.17.0″ text_font=”||||||||” header_2_font=”||||||||” background_size=”initial” background_position=”top_left” background_repeat=”repeat” custom_margin=”||” custom_padding=”50px||50px” hover_enabled=”0″ text_font_size_tablet=”” text_font_size_phone=”16px” text_font_size_last_edited=”on|desktop” header_2_font_size_tablet=”” header_2_font_size_phone=”20px” header_2_font_size_last_edited=”on|desktop” global_colors_info=”{}” sticky_enabled=”0″]<\/p>\n Vice-Chair Michelle van der Bank received her PhD in Botany from the Rand Afrikaans University (now University of Johannesburg, South Africa) in 1996. She is a Professor in Botany at the University of Johannesburg and Director of the African Centre for DNA Barcoding (ACDB). ACDB\u2019s mission is to fill the knowledge gap and strengthen research frameworks for international, regional and inter-institutional co-operation in Africa in the field of DNA technology for biodiversity science. Her research group uses molecular phylogenetics, comparative analyses and intensive fieldwork to address questions relevant to biodiversity conservation in Africa.<\/span><\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][et_pb_text admin_label=”Jonathan Coddington” module_id=”JonathanCoddington” _builder_version=”4.16″ text_font=”||||||||” header_2_font=”||||||||” background_size=”initial” background_position=”top_left” background_repeat=”repeat” custom_margin=”||” custom_padding=”50px||50px” text_font_size_tablet=”” text_font_size_phone=”16px” text_font_size_last_edited=”on|desktop” header_2_font_size_tablet=”” header_2_font_size_phone=”20px” header_2_font_size_last_edited=”on|desktop” global_colors_info=”{}”]<\/p>\n Senior Scientist, Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History<\/strong> Dr. Coddington is the Director of the Global Genome Initiative, and Senior Scientist in the Department of Entomology. The Global Genome Initiative (GGI) \u2014 organized by the Smithsonian Institution as part of its Institute for Biodiversity Genomics \u2014 seeks to \u201cpreserve and understand the genomic diversity of life.\u201d With partners and collaborators, it aims to sample key branches of the Tree of Life phylogenetically and synoptically via a global network of biorepositories and research organizations. Specifics goals are to preserve samples of all families and 50% of described genera; to make these collections available for research, with appropriate access and benefit sharing (ABS); to increase computational support and technological capacity to sequence genomes His research spans four broad topics: the systematics and evolution of spiders, especially [\/et_pb_text][et_pb_text admin_label=”Wolfgang W\u00e4gele” module_id=”adrian-forsyth” _builder_version=”4.16″ text_font=”||||||||” header_2_font=”||||||||” background_size=”initial” background_position=”top_left” background_repeat=”repeat” custom_padding=”50px||50px” text_font_size_tablet=”” text_font_size_phone=”16px” text_font_size_last_edited=”on|desktop” header_2_font_size_tablet=”” header_2_font_size_phone=”20px” header_2_font_size_last_edited=”on|desktop” global_colors_info=”{}”]<\/p>\n Executive Director and Founder of Andes Amazon Fund<\/strong><\/p>\n Adrian Forsyth is the Executive Director and Founder of Andes Amazon Fund.\u00a0 His fieldwork and conservation efforts have taken place in the most remote regions of the New World and Old World tropics for the past 45 years.\u00a0 Adrian co-founded the Andes-Amazon Initiative at the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation, the Amazon Conservation Association, and Osa Conservation.\u00a0 He has served as Vice President of blue moon fund, Director of Biodiversity at the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation, and Vice President of Conservation International.\u00a0 He has also worked as a Research Associate at the Smithsonian Institution and the Royal Ontario Museum and has been a faculty member at Arizona State University in the Department of Zoology.\u00a0 Adrian is the author of nine acclaimed natural history books and has developed five biological field stations in the Amazon and in Central America.\u00a0 Adrian currently serves as President of the Board of the Amazon Conservation Association and is Board Chairman of Osa Conservation.\u00a0 He received his Ph.D. in Tropical Ecology from Harvard University under E.O. Wilson, a renowned biologist.<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][et_pb_text admin_label=”Wolfgang W\u00e4gele” module_id=”sir-charles-godfray” _builder_version=”4.16″ text_font=”||||||||” header_2_font=”||||||||” background_size=”initial” background_position=”top_left” background_repeat=”repeat” custom_padding=”50px||50px” text_font_size_tablet=”” text_font_size_phone=”16px” text_font_size_last_edited=”on|desktop” header_2_font_size_tablet=”” header_2_font_size_phone=”20px” header_2_font_size_last_edited=”on|desktop” global_colors_info=”{}”]<\/p>\n Director,\u00a0Oxford Martin School<\/span><\/strong> Sir Charles Godfray is Director of the Oxford Martin School and Professor of Population Biology at Oxford University. He has broad interests in science and the interplay of science and [\/et_pb_text][et_pb_text admin_label=”Paul Hebert” module_id=”DanJanzen” _builder_version=”4.16″ text_font=”||||||||” header_2_font=”||||||||” background_size=”initial” background_position=”top_left” background_repeat=”repeat” custom_padding=”50px||50px” text_font_size_tablet=”” text_font_size_phone=”16px” text_font_size_last_edited=”on|desktop” header_2_font_size_tablet=”” header_2_font_size_phone=”20px” header_2_font_size_last_edited=”on|desktop” global_colors_info=”{}”]<\/p>\n Founders,\u00a0\u00c1rea de Conservaci\u00f3n Guanacaste and Instituto Nacional de Biodiversidad, Costa Rica<\/strong><\/p>\n Dr. Daniel Janzen, DiMaura Professor of Conservation Biology, University of Pennsylvania, is a tropical ecologist and biodiversity conservationist with 66 years of field experience and 545 scientific papers and books, all focused on the interactions of tropical animals and plants, and for the past 33 years, on their permanent <\/span>in-situ\u00a0<\/i>conservation as well.\u00a0 He is a world level authority on the taxonomy and biology of tropical caterpillars, a member of the US and the Costa Rican National Academy of Sciences, and recipient of the Crafoord Prize (1984), the Kyoto Prize (1997), BBVA Prize (2012) and Blue Planet Prize (2014, with Costa Rica\u2019s INBio). <\/span><\/p>\n Janzen and biologist, Dr. Winnie Hallwachs are co-architects and co-constructors, along with hundreds of others, of\u00a0<\/span>\u00c1rea de Conservaci\u00f3n Guanacaste\u00a0(ACG) and of Costa Rica\u2019s INBio (Instituto Nacional de Biodiversidad). \u00a0These efforts, along with the ACG, are morphing into BioAlfa, an effort to render the entire country of Costa Rica bioliterate by it coming to know all the biodiversity that is in it, largely through DNA barcoding and national participation.\u00a0 Janzen also serves as President of the Guanacaste Dry Forest Conservation Fund (GDFCF), the US-based NGO for ACG. Hallwachs serves as Vice President of the GDFCF and Technical Advisor for the ACG. <\/span><\/p>\n Janzen and Hallwachs are currently focused on facilitating iBOL efforts to DNA barcode all species of the world for their identification and species discovery by anyone anywhere at any time, and simultaneously, on facilitating Costa Rica\u2019s willingness to permanently conserve the 4% of the world\u2019s biodiversity that lives on 25% of its national property, and do it through BioAlfa as a global example of sustainable non-damaging use of tropical wildland biodiversity.<\/span><\/p>\n <\/span><\/p>\n <\/span><\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][et_pb_text admin_label=”Mara Lawniczak” module_id=”MaraLawniczak” _builder_version=”4.16″ text_font=”||||||||” header_2_font=”||||||||” background_size=”initial” background_position=”top_left” background_repeat=”repeat” custom_margin=”||” custom_padding=”50px||50px” text_font_size_tablet=”” text_font_size_phone=”16px” text_font_size_last_edited=”on|desktop” header_2_font_size_tablet=”” header_2_font_size_phone=”20px” header_2_font_size_last_edited=”on|desktop” global_colors_info=”{}”]<\/p>\n Senior Group Leader, Wellcome Sanger Institute<\/strong><\/p>\n Mara Lawniczak is an evolutionary geneticist with a long-standing interest in speciation and biodiversity. She is a faculty member at Sanger, and her research group is currently split between the newly established Tree of Life Programme and the Parasites and Microbes Programme. She received her PhD in Population Biology from the University of California at Davis. In 2004, she moved to London for a postdoc and has remained in the UK since then. Her research has always used genomic technologies to address topics ranging from sexual conflict in Drosophila<\/em> flies, to speciation genetics in Anopheles<\/em> mosquitoes, to transmission biology in Plasmodium<\/em> parasites. At Sanger, she co-leads the Vector Observatory to sequence the genomes of 50,000 wild mosquitoes. This is one of the largest population genomics projects on eukaryotes and it is focused on how natural populations vary over space and time in the context of major vector control efforts to eliminate malaria transmission.<\/p>\n Since the start of her PhD, every project she has worked on has been completely reliant on having a high-quality reference genome, and she is excited by the research opportunities that will be empowered by global efforts to dramatically increase the number and the quality of available reference genomes across the diversity of life. As such, more recently, she has been working together with other UK scientists to run the Darwin Tree of Life Project, which aims to generate reference genomes for the tens of thousands of described eukaryotic species found in the UK. Work like the Anopheles gambaie<\/em> 1000 genomes project is an exemplar of what will be possible for thousands of organisms in the future because of efforts like the Darwin Tree of Life Project. She believes that global biodiversity science initiatives like BIOSCAN and the Earth BioGenome Project will transform our understanding of our natural world, and she is thrilled to be a part of them.<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][et_pb_text admin_label=”Wolfgang W\u00e4gele” module_id=”EdwinVanHuis” _builder_version=”4.16″ text_font=”||||||||” header_2_font=”||||||||” background_size=”initial” background_position=”top_left” background_repeat=”repeat” custom_padding=”50px||50px” text_font_size_tablet=”” text_font_size_phone=”16px” text_font_size_last_edited=”on|desktop” header_2_font_size_tablet=”” header_2_font_size_phone=”20px” header_2_font_size_last_edited=”on|desktop” global_colors_info=”{}”]<\/p>\n General Director, Naturalis Biodiversity Center<\/strong><\/p>\n Edwin van Huis studied biology in Utrecht and Gainesville Florida, and business management in Rotterdam. He worked most of his professional career in the arts. He was the Managing Director of the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam, the Netherlands Dance Theater before setting up his own company in concept design. But when he was offered the chance to lead Naturalis Biodiversity Center in Leiden, he did not hesitate for a second. Naturalis is the Dutch national center for biodiversity research and the national museum for natural history. Naturalis is involved in biodiversity research in many parts of the globe, and invests largely in biodiversity informatics and information systems, working with GBIF and hosting the Catalogue of Life, as well as leading the new European ESFRI-infrastructure DiSSCo<\/span>.<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][et_pb_text admin_label=”Wolfgang W\u00e4gele” module_id=”WolfgangWagele” _builder_version=”4.16″ text_font=”||||||||” header_2_font=”||||||||” background_size=”initial” background_position=”top_left” background_repeat=”repeat” custom_padding=”50px||50px” text_font_size_tablet=”” text_font_size_phone=”16px” text_font_size_last_edited=”on|desktop” header_2_font_size_tablet=”” header_2_font_size_phone=”20px” header_2_font_size_last_edited=”on|desktop” global_colors_info=”{}”]<\/p>\n Director Emeritus, Zoological Research Museum Alexander Koenig<\/strong><\/p>\n Wolfgang W\u00e4gele spent much of his childhood in Colombia, but received his PhD from Kiel University and his Habilitation from the University of Oldenburg. He held a professorship in animal systematics at the University of Bielefeld from 1991-1996 before his appointment as as Chair of Systematic Zoology at the Ruhr-Universit\u00e4t Bochum. He relocated to Bonn in 2004 where he is Director Emeritus of the Zoological Research Museum Alexander Koenig and Chair of Systematic Zoology at the University of Bonn. His research has focused on morphological and molecular taxonomy, systematics theory, and techniques for biodiversity monitoring with an emphasis on marine crustaceans. Wolfgang has sustained a very active involvement in field expeditions, coupling studies of biodiversity in the Antarctic and South Atlantic Oceans with work in rain forests of Ecuador and Tanzania. He leads the German Barcode of Life Network, an alliance of museum and university researchers that have made a major contribution to the iBOL consortium.<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][et_pb_divider _builder_version=”4.17.0″ _module_preset=”default” custom_padding=”||0px||false|false” hover_enabled=”0″ sticky_enabled=”0″][\/et_pb_divider][et_pb_text admin_label=”Jonathan Coddington” module_id=”Donald_Hobern” _builder_version=”4.17.0″ text_font=”||||||||” header_2_font=”||||||||” background_size=”initial” background_position=”top_left” background_repeat=”repeat” custom_margin=”||” custom_padding=”50px||50px” hover_enabled=”0″ text_font_size_tablet=”” text_font_size_phone=”16px” text_font_size_last_edited=”on|desktop” header_2_font_size_tablet=”” header_2_font_size_phone=”20px” header_2_font_size_last_edited=”on|desktop” global_colors_info=”{}” sticky_enabled=”0″]<\/p>\n Executive Secretary<\/strong> Donald Hobern joined iBOL from the Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF) in Copenhagen, Denmark. Based in Canberra, Australia, Hobern is responsible for expanding iBOL\u2019s international partnerships and for ensuring both administrative and scientific support for its diverse research projects.<\/span><\/p>\n Hobern began his career as a software developer and web architect for IBM. From 2007 to 2011, he served as Director of the $13 million Atlas of Living Australia (ALA) Project, overseeing the creation of the national database and web portal for Australian biodiversity data. Serving at GBIF\u2019s Executive Secretary from 2012 to 2019, Hobern was instrumental in developing and implementing its strategy for biodiversity data sharing. His goal was to work with governments and organizations to form a global network for the mobilization and use of free and open data for studying biodiversity patterns. 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Throughout its first five years, iBOL\u2019s Board of Directors was composed of representatives from funding agencies involved in supporting the consortium. To strengthen its connection with the organizations best positioned to enable the research, iBOL\u2019s Board was subsequently restructured so it is now largely comprised of senior representatives from major natural history museums. iBOL\u2019s Board functions in a strategic capacity, reviewing research progress and providing suggestions on how to accelerate it. The Board meets on an annual basis.\nPaul Hebert<\/h2>\n
Director, Centre for Biodiversity Genomics<\/strong><\/p>\nMichelle van der Bank<\/h2>\n
\nDirector, African Centre for DNA Barcoding<\/strong>Jonathan Coddington<\/h2>\n
Director, Global Genome Initiative<\/strong><\/p>\nAdrian Forsyth<\/h2>\n
Sir Charles Godfray<\/span><\/h2>\n
Professor of Population Biology at Oxford University.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\nDr. DANIEL JANZEN & DR. Winnie Hallwachs<\/h2>\n
Mara Lawniczak<\/h2>\n
Edwin van Huis<\/h2>\n
Wolfgang W\u00e4gele<\/h2>\n
Donald Hobern<\/h2>\n
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[\/column]\n[column width=\"one\"] [\/column]\n[column width=\"eleven\" place=\"last\"]\nJonathan Coddington<\/h2>\nSenior Scientist, National Museum of Natural History\nDirector, Global Genome Initiative\n\nDr. Coddington is currently the Director of the Global Genome Initiative and Senior Scientist in the Department of Entomology. The Global Genome Initiative (GGI) \u2014 organized by the Smithsonian Institution as part of its Institute for Biodiversity Genomics \u2014 seeks to \u201cpreserve and understand the genomic diversity of life.\u201d With partners and collaborators, it aims to sample key branches of the Tree of Life phylogenetically and synoptically via a global network of biorepositories and research organizations. Specifics goals are to preserve sample of all families and 50% of described genera; to make these collections available for research, with appropriate access and benefit sharing (ABS); to increase computational support and technological capacity to sequence genomes; and to train the next generation of genomics researchers in biodiversity science.\n\nHis research spans four broad topics: the systematics and evolution of spiders, especially orbweavers; issues in systematic theory and method; the theory and design of biological inventories; and, most recently, biodiversity genomics. As a museum scientist, it also seems appropriate to focus on design and evaluation of rapid, efficient, quantitative sampling protocols to better understand the structure and distribution of biodiversity. Finally, the rapidly developing field of genomics will transform biodiversity science and museum science, from the field to the laboratory.\n[\/column]\n
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[\/column]\n[column width=\"one\"] [\/column]\n[column width=\"eleven\" place=\"last\"]\nPaul Hebert (Ex Officio)<\/h2>\nScientific Director, iBOL\n\nDr. Hebert carried out his undergraduate studies in biology at Queen's University, his doctoral work in genetics at the University of Cambridge, and then held a Rutherford Fellowship at the University of Sydney. He currently holds a Canada Research Chair in Molecular Biodiversity at the University of Guelph where he is both a professor in the Department of Integrative Biology and Director of the Centre for Biodiversity Genomics. He brings 30 years of experience in the oversight of major research and academic units. He was Director of the Great Lakes Institute at the University of Windsor from 1986 to 1990 and Chair of the Department of Zoology at Guelph for the subsequent decade. He was Vice-President of Research at the Huntsman Marine Science Centre from 1992 to 1998 and then served as the Chair of its Board until 2003.\n\nSince this time, he has focused his efforts on building a major research program in DNA barcoding, raising more than $100M to construct specialized research facilities, and to sustain a research team with outstanding capabilities in biodiversity science, informatics and genomics. He was Director for the Canadian Barcode of Life Network from 2005 to 2010. Since then, he has served as Scientific Director of the International Barcode of Life project, the largest research program ever undertaken in biodiversity science. He is an Officer in the Order of Canada, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada and holds honorary degrees from the Universities of Waterloo and Windsor.\n[\/column]\n
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