Organization

FACULTY LEADERSHIP

Co-Directors

• Ajit Varki, Distinguished Professor of Medicine and Cellular & Molecular Medicine, UCSD, and Adjunct Professor, The Salk Institute
• Fred H. Gage, President, The Salk Institute, and Adjunct Professor of Neurosciences, UCSD
• Margaret Schoeninger, Distinguished Professor Emerita of Anthropology, UCSD

Associate Director

• Pascal Gagneux, Professor of Pathology and Anthropology, UCSD

Internal Advisors

• David M. Perlmutter, Professor Emeritus of Linguistics, UCSD
• James J. Moore, Professor Emeritus of Anthropology, UCSD
• Patricia Churchland, Professor Emerita of Philosophy, UCSD
• Katerina Semendeferi, Professor of Anthropology, UCSD

External Advisors

• Alyssa Crittenden, Associate Professor of Anthropology, University of Nevada, Las Vegas
• Derek Denton, Founding Director Howard Florey Institute, University of Melbourne
• Evan Eichler, HHMI Principal Investigator; Professor of Genome Sciences, University of Washington
• Daniel Geschwind, Gordon and Virginia MacDonald Distinguished Chair in Human Genetics; Professor of Neurology and Psychiatry, UCLA School of Medicine
• Kristen Hawkes, Distinguished Professor of Anthropology, University of Utah
• Joseph Henrich, Professor of Human Evolutionary Biology and Chair, Department of Human Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University
• Sarah B. Hrdy, Emeritus Professor of Anthropology University of California, Davis
• Jon Kaas, Centennial Professor of Psychology at Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee
• William Kimbel, Director and Virginia M. Ullman Professor of Natural History and the Environment, Arizona State University Institute of Human Origins
• Tetsuro Matsuzawa, Distinguished Professor, Institute of Advanced Study, Kyoto University
• Svante Pääbo, Co-Director, Max-Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany
• Terry Sejnowski, Professor and Laboratory Head, Computational Neurobiology Laboratory; Francis Crick Chair; Salk Institute
• Anne Stone, Regents' Professor, Arizona State University School of Human Evolution and Social Change; Associate Director, ASU Center for Evolution & Medicine
• Sarah Tishkoff, David and Lyn Silfen University Professor in Genetics and Biology, University of Pennsylvania
• Bernard Wood, University Professor of Human Origins, Department of Anthropology at George Washington University

ADMINISTRATION

Management Services Officer

• Linda Nelson, CARTA

Community Engagement & Advancement Director

• K. Lindsay Hunter, CARTA

CyberInfrastructure Lead

• Kate Kaya, San Diego Supercomputer Center

CyberInfrastructure Specialist

• Vishu Nandigam, Associate Director of Advanced CyberInfrastructure Development, San Diego Supercomputer Center

Program Coordinator

• Jesse Robie, CARTA