JBEI’s Advisory Committee (AC) is comprised of strategic advisors from across the research spectrum including representatives from national labs, academia and industry. Reporting to JBEI’s Chief Executive Officer (CEO), the AC is responsible for strategic advice regarding research direction and vision. The AC meets as a whole annually to review the entire JBEI research program and provide a written evaluation report to JBEI’s Board of Directors and the CEO. Subgroups or individuals of the AC meet with individual JBEI researchers or teams of researchers as needed to advise on particular research. Industry representatives provide domain expertise to help direct research along paths that are the most promising to scale.
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Jennifer Aurandt-Pilgrim
Director of Innovation and Market Development - Marquis Energy
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Scott Betts
Research Program Leader, Gene-Edited Breeding - Corteva Agriscience
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Luis Cascão Pereira
IFF
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John Caupert
National Corn-to-Ethanol Research Center
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Daniel Cullen
USDA Forest Service
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Brian Davison
ORNL/CBI
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Paul Dupree
University of Cambridge
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Benjamin Harvey
Department of the Navy
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Roland Kalb
Proionic
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Charles L. Cooney
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
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Julia Levin
Bioenergy Association of California
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Tim Lust
National Sorghum Producers
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Jeremy Martin
Union of Concerned Scientists
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Vineet Rajgarhia
Erg Bio
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Chris Rao
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign/Center for Advanced Bioenergy & Bioproducts Innovation
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Lacey Samuels
University of British Columbia
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Sean Simpson
LanzaTech
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Aaron Socha
Illium
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Eric Steen
Lygos
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Sarah Teter
Novozymes
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Yiying Xiong
UW-Madison/GLBRC
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Sang Yup Lee
Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology