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Dr. Vicki Chandler is the chief program officer for the Foundation's Science Program, which includes the Marine Microbiology Initiative, the California Institute of Technology Commitment, and the Thirty-Meter Telescope Commitment. Prior to coming to the Foundation, Vicki served as Director of the BIO5 Institute at the University of Arizona, a prominent interdisciplinary research center that addresses leading edge research and translates that research to applications in medicine and agriculture. At UA, she was a Regents’ Professor in the departments of Plant Sciences and Molecular and Cellular Biology and held the Carl E. and Patricia Weiler Endowed Chair for Excellence in Agriculture and Life Sciences. Her pioneering research investigated the regulation of gene expression in plants and animals. Vicki has been honored with the Presidential Young Investigator Award, the National Science Foundation Faculty Award for Women Scientists and Engineers, the National Institutes of Health Director’s Pioneer Award, and was named a Searle Scholar. Vicki is a member of the National Academy of Sciences and a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and has served on national advisory boards and panels for the National Science Foundation, Department of Energy, National Institutes of Health, and Howard Hughes Medical Institute. She served on the National Science Foundation Biological Directorate Advisory Committee from 2001-2004, the National Research Council Committee on Defining and Advancing the Conceptual Basis of Biological Science and was elected to the governing council of the National Academy of Sciences in 2007. Chandler has chaired or co-chaired several national conferences, and has served in an editorial capacity for journals including Plant Physiology, Genetics, Science, and the Annual Review of Plant Biology. She is a member of the American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, the American Society of Plant Biologists, the Genetics Society of America, the International Society of Plant Molecular Biology, and the Rosalind Franklin Society. She has served on the Board of Directors of the Genetics Society and the International Society Plant Molecular Biology, and was President of the American Society of Plant Biologists. Vicki has a Ph.D. in Biochemistry from the University of California, San Francisco and a B. A . in Biochemistry from the University of California, Berkeley. Cynthia Atherton is a program officer for the Science Program. Prior to joining the Foundation, Cynthia worked with the CMELS Directorate (Chemistry, Materials, Earth, Life Sciences) at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, most recently as a deputy group leader. From 1986-2008, she served as principal investigator for numerous investigations, and also developed, ran and analyzed global atmospheric computer simulations for national and international studies including the IPCC Assessment Report 4 (2007). Previously, she served as an engineer in the Air Pollution Division at the U.S. EPA New England Regional Laboratory. Cynthia has written more than 20 journal articles and invited book chapters, and she developed and co-chaired a biweekly seminar series on atmospheric science from 2004-2006. The National Academy of Sciences invited Cynthia to serve on the National Research Council Committee on Atmospheric Chemistry from 1999-2001. Cynthia also has extensive community service and volunteer experience, leading wilderness adventures and serving as a counselor for Girl Scouts and Boy Scouts in Northern California, and teaching hands-on-science to elementary school children in Pleasanton. Cynthia earned her Ph.D. in Atmospheric Science from the University of California, Davis, her M.S. in Chemical Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and her B.S. from the California Institute of Technology. David Kingsbury is a senior science fellow at the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation.
From 2004 to 2009, David served as the chief program officer for the Science Program. Before joining the Foundation, David was the chief executive of a biotechnology-consulting firm. He held executive posts at both Chiron Corporation and ValiGene, a French functional genomics company located in Paris. From 1992 to 1997, David was on the faculty of the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. He has also served as a professor of Microbiology at George Washington University and professor of Virology at the University of California, Berkeley. David was assistant director of the National Science Foundation from 1984 to 1988 and chaired two White House committees on biotechnology policy and regulation. David has published nearly 100 research papers and reviews focused on the genetics and biochemistry of viruses and, more recently, computational biology. He is the founding editor-in-chief of the Journal of Computational Biology and is the author of a review text in Medical Microbiology. David sits on several scientific advisory boards and is a board member of the Community of Science, a company he helped establish while at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine.
David earned his B.S. and M.S. from the University of Washington, and his Ph.D. from the University of California, San Diego.
Chris Mentzel is a program officer for the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation.
Previous to his present position, Chris worked as the manager of Grants Administration and senior Network Engineer for the Foundation. He also held positions as a systems engineer and a systems integrator at the University of California, Berkeley and various internet consulting firms in the San Francisco Bay Area. Chris earned a B.A. in Mathematics with honors from the University of California, Santa Cruz. Camellia Pham is a program associate for the Science Program. Before joining the Foundation, Camellia worked as a program representative and a grants assistant at the David and Lucile Packard Foundation, where she provided support to the Local Grantmaking Program and the Grantmaking Operations Department. Previously, she worked for Prevention International: No Cervical Cancer (PINCC), a non-profit organization dedicated to developing treatments and aid for women with cervical cancer in developing countries. Camellia received a B.A. in social work with an emphasis is pyschology and a minor in education from the University of California at Berkeley. She is also a graduate of U. C. Berkeley’s Biology Scholar’s Program. California Institute of Technology Cynthia Atherton is a program officer for the Science Program. Prior to joining the Foundation, Cynthia worked with the CMELS Directorate (Chemistry, Materials, Earth, Life Sciences) at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, most recently as a deputy group leader. From 1986-2008, she served as principal investigator for numerous investigations, and also developed, ran and analyzed global atmospheric computer simulations for national and international studies including the IPCC Assessment Report 4 (2007). Previously, she served as an engineer in the Air Pollution Division at the U.S. EPA New England Regional Laboratory. Cynthia has written more than 20 journal articles and invited book chapters, and she developed and co-chaired a biweekly seminar series on atmospheric science from 2004-2006. The National Academy of Sciences invited Cynthia to serve on the National Research Council Committee on Atmospheric Chemistry from 1999-2001. Cynthia also has extensive community service and volunteer experience, leading wilderness adventures and serving as a counselor for Girl Scouts and Boy Scouts in Northern California, and teaching hands-on-science to elementary school children in Pleasanton. Cynthia earned her Ph.D. in Atmospheric Science from the University of California, Davis, her M.S. in Chemical Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and her B.S. from the California Institute of Technology. Marine Microbiology Initiative Mary Maxon, Ph.D., is the program director for the Marine Microbiology Initiative. Mary comes to the Foundation with many years of experience in basic and applied microbiological scientific research, and experience in the areas of science policy and the funding of scientific research. Before joining the Foundation, she was deputy vice chair at the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine (CIRM), California’s stem cell research granting agency where she developed the intellectual property policies for CIRM grantees, and helped architect the administrative infrastructure for stem cell research grants in California. Prior to that, Mary led the anti-infective drug discovery efforts at Cytokinetics, a biotech company in South San Francisco, and developed genetic engineering technology for unsequenced microorganisms at Microbia, a biotech company in Cambridge, MA. At the Roche Institute for Molecular Biology, Mary discovered novel genes and regulatory pathways involved in amino acid metabolism in bacteria.
Mary received a B.S. in Biology and Chemistry from the State University of New York at Albany, a Ph.D. in Molecular Cell Biology from the University of California, Berkeley and did postdoctoral training in Genetics at the University of California, San Francisco.
Jon Kaye is a program officer with the Marine Microbiology Initiative. Prior to joining the Foundation, Jon was a science policy fellow selected by the American Association for the Advancement of Science and hosted at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency in Washington, D.C. There he developed research and policy strategies aimed at mitigating the risks and consequences of naturally occurring or intentionally introduced human, animal, and plant diseases. By training Jon is a marine microbial ecologist. He spent seven months at sea investigating deep-sea hydrothermal vent communities in the North and South Pacific oceans. He has also helped the American Museum of Natural History and the PBS television program NOVA with projects related to hydrothermal vents. Jon earned a B.S. in Geology–Biology at Brown University and a Ph.D. in Oceanography at the University of Washington. After graduate school, he was a post-doctoral researcher in the Microbiology Department at the University of Massachusetts–Amherst. Kelly Kryc is a program officer with the Marine Microbiology Initiative. Before joining the Foundation, Kelly worked in Washington, D.C. for the Integrated Ocean Drilling Program where she was responsible for implementing their long-range strategic plan. Kelly is a paleoceanographer who studied the geochemical record of climate change in Antarctica. Kelly received a B.A. in Geology from Middlebury College, an M.S. in Oceanography from the University of Rhode Island, a Ph.D. in Earth Science from Boston University, and did post-doctoral research at Stanford University. Thirty Meter Telescope Jim Omura is the program officer for the Thirty-Meter Telescope Commitment.
A UCLA professor of Electrical Engineering for 15 years, with stints in Australia and Brazil as a visiting professor, and founder of two Silicon Valley companies, Jim has extensive experience as an educator and also in the business world bringing technical products and services to market. He was the founder of Cylink, a marketer of network security and wireless products, and served as its chairman, CTO, and acting CEO. He has co-authored several textbooks, including Spread Spectrum Communications Handbook and Principles of Digital Communications and Coding, and published over 100 technical papers. Jim is a fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), a member of the National Academy of Engineering, and the recipient of the 2005 IEEE Alexander Graham Bell Medal. In 2009 he was inducted into the Silicon Valley Engineering Hall of Fame.
Jim received his B.S. and M.S. from MIT and a Ph.D. from Stanford University. David Kingsbury is a senior science fellow at the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation.
From 2004 to 2009, David served as the chief program officer for the Science Program. Before joining the Foundation, David was the chief executive of a biotechnology-consulting firm. He held executive posts at both Chiron Corporation and ValiGene, a French functional genomics company located in Paris. From 1992 to 1997, David was on the faculty of the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. He has also served as a professor of Microbiology at George Washington University and professor of Virology at the University of California, Berkeley. David was assistant director of the National Science Foundation from 1984 to 1988 and chaired two White House committees on biotechnology policy and regulation. David has published nearly 100 research papers and reviews focused on the genetics and biochemistry of viruses and, more recently, computational biology. He is the founding editor-in-chief of the Journal of Computational Biology and is the author of a review text in Medical Microbiology. David sits on several scientific advisory boards and is a board member of the Community of Science, a company he helped establish while at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine.
David earned his B.S. and M.S. from the University of Washington, and his Ph.D. from the University of California, San Diego.
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