Safety and Security Committee

The iGEM Safety and Security Committee is a group of experts in biosafety, biosecurity, and risk assessment. Its members come from diverse areas of industry, academia, and government. The committee helps create iGEM's safety and security program and gives expert advice on potential safety and security issues in the competition.

• Piers Millett, iGEM Director of Safety and Security
• Peter Carr, MIT Lincoln Laboratories
• Tom Knight, Ginkgo BioWorks
• Todd Kuiken, Synthetic Biology Project, Woodrow Wilson Center
• Kenneth Oye, MIT Program on Emerging Technologies
• Megan Palmer, Senior Research Scholar - Stanford University
• Cecile van der Vlugt, Rijksinstituut voor Volksgezondheid en Milieu
• Kathrina Yambao, Public Health Agency of Canada
• Samuel Yu, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
• Genya Dana, World Economic Forum
• Tim Trevan, Chrome Biological Risk Management Consulting
• David Gillum, Arizona State University
• Thomas Binz, Spiez Laboratory, Switzerland
• Kathleen Lehmann, German Federal Office of Consumer Protection and Food Safety
• Larisa Rudenko, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
• Nicolas Wibllemarck, Biosafety and Biotechnology Unit, Belgian Scientific Institute of Public Health
• David Brown, Microbiology & Biotechnology Unit, UK Health & Safety Executive
• Carolina Penalva-Arana, US EPA
• Nicholas Evans, University of Massachusetts Lowell
• Teck Mean Chua, Asia-Pacific Biosafety Association
• Kelly Hills, Bioethicist
• Vijayasmitha Moter, Division of Select Agents and Toxins, Centers for Disease Control
• Christian R. Boehm, Centre for the Study of Existential Risk
• Jennifer Robertson, Biosafety Officer, McMaster University, Canada
• Brigitte Cadieux, Senior Policy Analyst, Centre for Biosecurity, Public Health Agency of Canada
• Marnie Fiebig, Supervisor, Pathogen Border Initiatives Program, Public Health Agency of Canada
• Paul Rutten, Committee member, Synbio Oxford, University of Oxford, UK
• Mathew Watson, Senior Analyst, Center for Health Security, John Hopkins University, USA
• Alexander Kagansky, Global Young Academy, Russia
• Chris Isaac, After iGEM and University of Lethbridge, Canada
• Tiago Mendes, Biosafety advisor and instructor, Universidade Federal de Viçosa, Brazil
• Tessa Alexanian, After iGEM and Zymergen
• Janis Schleusner, After iGEM and Institute for Plant Genetics, Leibniz University of Hannover
• Anthony Holmes, Director of Science and Technology, UK National Centre for the Replacement, Refinement, and Reduction of Animals in Research
• Jacqueline van Engelen, Senior toxicologist and risk assessor, Centre For Safety of Substances and Products, Rijksinstituut voor Volksgezondheid en Milieu
• Tom Hobson, Biosecure Ltd (ex officio)