Course Director
- Stephen J. O’Brien: ConGen Chief and Founder, Professor and Research Director, NOVA Southeastern University, FLORIDA, USA, Member of the National Academy of Sciences (USA),
Co-Directors
- Taras K. Oleksyk: Associate Professor, Department of Biological Sciences, Oakland University, MICHIGAN, USA; Department of Biology, University of Puerto Rico at Mayaguez, PUERTO RICO; and Department of Biology, Uzhhorod National University, UKRAINE,
- Laurie Goodman: Editor-in-Chief, GigaScience, Oxford University Press and the Beijing Genomics Institute; Publishing Director for GigaScience Press, PRC
- Klaus P. Koepfli: Conservation Biologist and Research Scientist, Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute, USA
- Eduardo Eizirik: Associate Professor, Laboratory of Genomics and Molecular Biology, Escola de Ciências, PUCRS, BRAZIL
International Faculty
- Laurie Marker, Founder and Executive Director of the Cheetah Conservation Fund, Ochivarango, NAMIBIA
- Cindy Harper, Veterinary Genetics Laboratory at the Faculty of Veterinary Science, Onderstepoort Veterinary Academic Hospital University of Pretoria, SOUTH AFRICA
- C. Scott Baker, Professor and Associate Director, Marine Mammal Institute, Oregon State University, OREGON, USA
- Beth Shapiro, Professor in the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of California, Santa Cruz, CALIFORNIA, USA
- Agostinho Antunes: Head of the Evolutionary Genomics and Bioinformatics Research Team from the CIIMAR, University of Porto; and Scientific-Technical Director of the Matosinhos Environmental Center (CMIA) from the Câmara Municipal de Matosinhos, PORTUGAL
- Alfred L. Roca, Associate Professor, Department of Animal Sciences, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, ILLINOIS, USA
- Audrey Majeske, Department of Biological Sciences, Oakland University, Rochester, MICHIGAN, USA
- Fred Allendorf, Regents Professor Emeritus, University of Montana, MONTANA, USA
- Henrique V. Figueiró, Fellow, Center for Species Survival, Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute, National Zoological Park, Front Royal, VIRGINIA, USA
- Mahmood Shivji, Research Professor, Department of Biology, University of Washington, Seattle, WASHINGTON, USA
- William Murphy, Professor, Veterinary Integrative Biosciences, School of Veterinary Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, Texas A&M University, College Station, TEXAS, USA
- Jose Lopez, Professor, Guy Harvey Oceanographic Center, Halmos College of Arts and Sciences, NSU, FLORIDA, USA
SFU Organizers:
- Justin Merry, Associate Professor, Chair of Biology Department, Saint Francis University, Loretto, PENNSYLVANIA, USA
- Pete Skoner, Professor, Dean of the School of STEAM, Saint Francis University, Loretto, PENNSYLVANIA, USA
Course Staff
- Pavel Dobrynin: Junior Researcher, Smithsonian Institution. USA
- Walter Wolfsberger: Department of Biological Sciences, Oakland University, Rochester, Michigan, USA