Community Leadership

The people who steer, edit, and advise the SBOL standard. Editors and the chair are elected by the community; see Governance for how.

How we are governed

Current chair

Prashant Vaidyanathan Oxford Biomedica SBOL Chair (2023–present)

Current editors

Erik Kubaczka Technical University of Darmstadt
Carolus Vitalis University of Colorado
Felipe Buson University of Bristol
Georgie Hau Sørensen University of Bristol
Metehan Unal Keele University

Steering committee

Jacob Beal Raytheon BBN Technologies
Goksel Misirli Keele University
Lukas Buecherl Utah State University
Thomas Gorochowski University of Bristol
David Ross NIST
Gonzalo Vidal Peña Newcastle University
Yan-Kay Ho University of Cambridge
Chris Myers University of Colorado, Boulder

Past advisory board members

Jean Peccoud Colorado State University
Traci Haddock iGEM Foundation
Chris Voigt Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Claudia Vickers University of Queensland
Elizabeth Strychalski National Institute of Standards and Technology
Hennig Hermjakob EMBL-EBI
Manuel Porcar Miralles I2SysBio

Past chairs

Chris Myers University of Colorado, Boulder SBOL Chair (2019–2023)
Anil Wipat Newcastle University SBOL Chair (2015–2019)
Herbert Sauro University of Washington SBOL Chair (2010–2015)

Past editors

Angel Goñi Moreno Newcastle University
Bryan Bartley University of Washington
Cesar Rodriguez Autodesk
Curtis Madsen Sandia National Labs
Ernst Oberortner Boston University
Goksel Misirli Keele University
Gonzalo Vidal Peña Newcastle University
Hasan Baig University of Connecticut
Jacob Beal Raytheon BBN Technologies
Jacqueline Quinn Google
James McLaughlin Newcastle University
James Scott-Brown University of Oxford
Kevin Clancy ThermoFisher
Lukas Buecherl Utah State University
Mandy Wilson Virginia Bioinformatics Institute
Matthew Pocock Newcastle University
Michal Galdzicki University of Washington
Nicholas Roehner BBN Technologies
Pedro Fontanarrosa University of Utah
Prashant Vaidyanathan Oxford Biomedica
Raik Grünberg University of Montreal
Robert Sidney Cox Kobe University
Tom Mitchell Raytheon BBN Technologies
Tramy Nguyen University of Utah
Umesh P Kerala Technological University
Vishwesh Kulkarni University of Warwick
Zach Palchik Zymergen