The members of the EDEN Steering Committee first came together in the spring of 2007 in the context of a Radcliffe Institute Exploratory Seminar entitled “Genetics and Genomics of Emerging Model Species”. The goal of this meeting was to explore how common tools and resources could be applied in order to further our similar goals of developing model systems for the study of evolution, development and ecology. We represent a breadth of model systems, research questions and career stages.Following the Radcliffe Seminar, we co-authored a paper on emerging model organisms. We subsequently received a NESCent workshop award, and met several times in 2008 and 2009, one of our goals being to develop the RCN proposal for the National Science Foundation that resulted in EDEN.

PI

• Cassandra Extavour, Associate Professor, Harvard University

Co-PIs

• Scott Hodges, Professor, University of California, Santa Barbara
• Elena Kramer, Professor, Harvard University
• Antónia Monteiro, Associate Professor, National University of Singapore and Yale-NUS-College
• Mike Shapiro, Associate Professor, University of Utah

Steering Committee Members

• Greg Davis, Assistant Professor, Bryn Mawr College
• Bob Freeman, Senior Research Scientist, Harvard Medical School
• Andrew Groover, Director & Geneticist, USDA Forest Service
• Hopi Hoekstra, Professor, Harvard University
• Chris Lowe, Assistant Professor, Stanford University
• Noland Martin, Assistant Professor, Texas State University
• Adam Reitzel, Assistant Professor Department of Biology, University of North Carolina
• Suzy Renn, Associate Professor, Reed College
• Yuichiro Suzuki, Assistant Professor, Wellesley College
• John Willis, Professor, Duke University