Contact Society Officers and Committees

Please contact our Society officers and committee members with any questions, concerns or suggestions that you might have.  Get involved by volunteering to serve on our various committees!

President  (2025-26)
Fatima Gebauer, Centre for Genomic Regulation, Spain, [email protected]

Past President
Sandra L. Wolin, National Cancer Institute, USA [email protected]

Chief Executive Officer
Kristian Baker, Case Western University, USA, [email protected]

Chief Financial Officer
Kelly Campbell, Tucson, Arizona, USA, [email protected]

Secretary (2024-26)
Hua Lou, Case Western Reserve Univ, [email protected]

 

Directors (2024-2025)|
Tsutomu Suzuki
, University of Tokyo, Japan  [email protected]
Neva Caliskan, University of Regensburg, Germany  [email protected]
Aaron Hoskins, University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA  [email protected]

Directors (2025-2026)
Marina Chekulaeva
, Berlin Institute for Medical Systems Biology, Germany [email protected]
Andrzej Dziembowski, International Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology, Poland[email protected]
Olivia Rissland, University of Colorado, USA [email protected]

Chair of Business Development Committee
Gianpiero Di Leva, University of Salford, Manchester, UK [email protected] 

Chair of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Committee 
Kehinde Ross, [email protected]

Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Committee
Suja Jagannathan
Natoya Peart 
Doreen Lugano
Mai Baker 
Yunsun Nam
Jessica Silva-Fisher 
Je-Hyun Yoon
Shijian Fan
Mrityunjay Gupta
Ivan Martinez, PhD
Neena Grover
Mingyi Xie
Shovamayee Maharana
Yoldas Yildiz, MS
Kira Holton
Megan Holmes
Jae Bucknor

Chair of Education Committee
Manny Ares, 
[email protected]

Education Committee
Fareed Aboul-ela
Scott Aoki
Oguzhan Begik
Katie Berry
Peter Boag
Maiwen Caudron-Herger
Amy Cooke
Paul Copeland 
Robert Farrell
Ivetitza Garcia
Patricia Baldrich González
Angie Hilliker
Suzanne Lee
Peren Coskun
Corina Maeder
Peren Coskun
Belén Moro
Zion Perry
Lucas Serdar
Nham Tran
Juan Valcárcel
Quentin Vicens

Chair of Meetings Committee
Adrian R. Ferré-D'Amaré, National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute, NIH, USA, [email protected]

Meetings Committee
Juan Alfonzo
Frederic Allain
Yoseph Barash
Malik Chaker-Margot
Ming Hammond
Toshie Kai
Gracjan Michlewski
Danny Nedialkova
Woan-Yuh Tarn

Chair of Fundraising and Development
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Chair of Membership Committee
Kristin Koutmou, University of Michigan, USA [email protected]

Membership Committee
Nancy Greenbaum
Neva Caliskan
Daniel Kiss
Gabriele Fuchs
Minni Anko

Chair of Awards Committee
Ambro van Hoof, University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, USA [email protected]

Awards Committee
Xuebing Wu
Chien-Ling Lin
Christine Dunham
Bonita Powell
Ben Montpetit
Tatjana Trcek
Yaqiang Wang
Markus Bohnsack
Michaela Dohnalkova 

Chair of Media and Communications Committee
Daniel Kim, University of California Santa Cruz, USA, [email protected]

Media and Communications
Katarina Jurikova
Gabriele Fuchs
Julie Aspden
Thalia Katsademas

Jr.  Scientists : Graduate Student and Postdoc Representatives
2024-2025 reps:
Belén Moro 
Laura Hertz 
2025-2026 reps:
Morgan Lucas
Cameron Berry

Jr.  Scientist Faculty Advisors
Carol Lutz, PhD, 
Associate Professor, Dept. of Microbiology, Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics, Rutgers University 
Patricia Baldrich, PhD, Director for Strategic Initiatives and Research Funding, Genome Center at the University of California - Davis