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.

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