Organization

FACULTY LEADERSHIP

Co-Directors

• Ajit Varki, Professor of Medicine and Cellular & Molecular Medicine, UCSD
• Fred H. Gage, Professor, The Salk Institute, and Adjunct Professor of Neurosciences, UCSD
  
• Margaret Schoeninger, Professor and past Chair of the Department of Anthropology, UCSD
  

Associate Director

• Pascal Gagneux, Associate Professor of Cellular & Molecular Medicine, UCSD

Internal Advisors

• David M. Perlmutter, Professor Emeritus of Linguistics, UCSD
• James J. Moore, Professor Emeritus of Anthropology, UCSD
• Kurt Benirschke, Professor Emeritus of Pathology and Reproductive Medicine, UCSD

External Advisors

• Francisco J. Ayala, University Professor and Donald Bren Professor of Biological Sciences, University of California, Irvine
• Kristen Hawkes, Distinguished Professor of Anthropology, University of Utah
• Bernard Wood, University Professor of Human Origins, Department of Anthropology at George Washington University
• Derek Denton, Founding Director Howard Florey Institute, University of Melbourne
• Jon Kaas, Centennial Professor of Psychology at Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee
• Svante Pääbo, Co-Director, Max-Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany
• Tetsuro Matsuzawa, Professor and Director, Primate Research Institute of Kyoto University, Japan
• Sarah B. Hrdy, Emeritus Professor of Anthropology University of California, Davis

ADMINISTRATION

Management Services Officer

• Linda Nelson, CARTA

Community Relations Director

• Ingrid Benirschke-Perkins, CARTA

Informatics Lead

• Chaitan Baru, San Diego Supercomputer Center

Computer Systems Programmer / Analyst

• John Moreland, San Diego Supercomputer Center
  

Program Representatives

• Jesse Robie, CARTA
• John Spotts, CARTA