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D. Jay Grimes, Ph.D., is Provost of the University of Southern Mississippi. Specializing in microbial ecology and marine microbiology, Dr. Grimes has served in many advisory capacities to U.S. Government agencies and managed the Microbial Genome Program at the Department of Energy. He is vice chair of the Consortium for Oceanographic Research and Education.
Ray Kellman, Ph.D., is the Vice President of Research Corporation and oversees the organization's Science Advancement Programs. Dr. Kellman was instrumental in the initiation and design of the Cottrell Scholars Awards Program. Prior to his role at Research Corporation, Dr. Kellman served as Professor of Chemistry at the University of Texas at San Antonio and at San Jose State University. He was also a visiting Fulbright Professor in the Polymer Group, Department of Chemistry at the University of Queensland, Australia.
Anthony G. Hay, Ph.D., is Assistant Professor of Microbiology and Soil Ecotoxicology at Cornell University. He has been involved in interdisciplinary outreach activities involving bioreporters and ecotoxicological testing criteria and has established industrial collaborations aimed at developing inexpensive biofiltration technology to remediate air contaminated with industrial chemicals.
Stanley Maloy, Ph.D., is the past President of the American Society for Microbiology. He serves as Director of the Center for Microbial Sciences at San Diego State University and was Director of the Biotechnology Center at the University of Illinois Urbana. Dr. Maloy has received numerous awards for teaching excellence and has authored many peer-reviewed publications and books on microbial genetics.
Abigail Salyers, Ph.D., is Professor of Microbiology at the University of Illinois Urbana and a past president of the American Society for Microbiology. An internationally recognized expert on agricultural antibiotic use and antibiotic resistance, she has published over 150 scientific papers and two microbiology textbooks for undergraduates. She is a grant reviewer for the National Institutes of Health and the Department of Energy and has been codirector of the Microbial Diversity Summer Course at the Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole, Massachusetts.
Dan Drell, Ph.D., is the Program Manager of the Life Sciences Division, Office of Biological and Environmental Research for U.S. Department of Energy. His responsibilities include oversight of the Microbial Genome Sequencing Program and the Networks and Pathways element and the societal implications component of the Genomics:GTL Program. Drell is currently the liaison for the Microbe Project Interagency Working Group subcommittee of the Committee on Biotechnology and the DHHS National Science Advisory Board on Biosecurity.
David Stern, Ph.D., is the president of the Boyce Thompson Institute for Plant Research and an adjunct professor in the Plant Biology department at Cornell University. His research focuses on modes of post-transcriptional gene regulation in plant organelles, particularly chloroplasts. The author or co-author of more than 100 scientific publications, Stern has served as an editor at the journals Plant Cell and Plant Molecular Biology and in an advisory capacity to numerous government agencies.
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