Ferocious Beauty: Genome Collaborators

Artistic Collaborators

Liz Lerman, Choreographer
John Boesche, Media Designer
Logan Kibens, Video and Effects Editing
Michael Mazzola, Lighting Designer
Darron L West, Soundscape
Liz Lerman Dance Exchange Company &Guests from theater, science, and dance communities, Performers

Collaborators include representatives of such institutions as NIH, John Hopkins University, Stanford University, Howard University, the Genetics and Public Policy Center, the Institute for Genomic Research and the U.S. Department of Energy. Scientists and scholars have not only advised on content, but also contributed choreographic and narrative ideas, as scientists appear in the staged work through projected video segments. They have also helped to leverage media coverage and design interactive programming such as town hall discussions on bioethics and art/science workshops.

Laurel F. Appel
Visiting Associate Professor
Department of Biology
Shanklin & Hall-Atwater Labs
Wesleyan University

Howard Bilofsky, Ph.D.
Senior Fellow
University of Pennsylvania

Bonnie Bassler
Professor of Molecular Biology
Princeton University

Mary F. Bullock
Consultant

Denise K. Casey
Science Writer/Editor
Human Genome Management Information System
Oak Ridge National Laboratory

Barbara Culliton
Deputy Editor
Health Affairs

Anna DiRienzo
Department of Human Genetics
University of Chicago

Daniel Drell
Human/Microbial Genome Project
Office of Biological and
Environmental Research
US Department of Energy

Georgia Dunston
Professor and Chair, Dept. of
Microbiology
Howard University
College of Medicine

Irene Anne Eckstrand
Scientist

Claire M. Fraser
President/Director
The Institute for Genomic Research

Laura Grabel
Fisk Professor of Natural Science
Biology Department
Wesleyan University

Lori Gruen
Associate Professor of Philosophy
Wesleyan University

Marti S. Head
Manager, Computational Chemistry
Computational, Analytical, and Structural Sciences
GlaxoSmithKline Pharmaceuticals

Manju Hingorani
Professor of Molecular Biology and Biochemistry
Wesleyan University

Kathy Hudson
Director, Genetics and Public Policy Center
Associate Professor, Berman Bioethics Institute
Institute of Genetic Medicine, Department of Pediatrics
Johns Hopkins University

Eric Jakobsson
Professor, Department of Molecular and Integrative Physiology, and of Biochemistry, and of the Center for Biophysics and Computational Biology
Senior Research Scientist, National Center for Supercomputing Applications
Professor, Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Elke Jordan
Deputy Director (retired) of the
National Human Genome Research Institute, National Institutes of Health

Harris Lewin
Director, Post Genomic Institute
University of Illinois at Urbana- Champaign

Chip Lovett
Professor of Chemistry
Williams College

Jane Maienschein
Director, Center for Biology and Society
School of Life Sciences
Arizona State University

Marissa Mills
Science Communication Specialist
US Dept. of Energy Genome Programs

Julia A. Moore
Senior Advisor, Office of International Science & Engineering
National Science Foundation

Sayan Mukherjee
Assistant Professor
Duke Institute for Genome Sciences and Policy

Richard J. Mural
Director, Scientific Content and Analysis
Celera Genomics

Uwe Ohler
Assistant Professor
Duke Institute for Genome Sciences and Policy

Gary Olsen
Associate Professor of Microbiology and Biophysics
University of Illinois at Urbana– Champaign

Stephen Palumbi
Professor in Marine Sciences
Hopkins Marine Station
Stanford University

Brian Schwartz
Professor of Physics and
Vice President for Research and Sponsored Programs, The Graduate Center
City University of New York

James A. Shapiro
Dept. of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
University of Chicago

Greg Simon
President
Center for Accelerating Medical Solutions (CAMS)

Charles F. Sing
Department of Human Genetics
University of Michigan

Aaron Turkewitz
Associate Professor in Molecular Genetics & Cell Biology
University of Chicago

Michael P. Weir
Director, Hughes Program in the Life Sciences
Professor of Biology
Wesleyan University

Nancy S. Wexler
President, Hereditary Disease Foundation
Higgins Professor of Neuropsychology
Columbia University