TDAI faculty director Dr. Tanya Berger-Wolf, Professor of Computer Science and Engineering, Electrical and Computer Engineering, and Evolution, Ecology, and Organismal Biology, has been elected to the National Academies Board on Life Sciences, beginning July 1.

The private, non-profit National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine convene experts from diverse sectors and disciplines, conduct studies, publish reports and journals, host events and more to provide guidance on pressing challenges to help shape policies; inform public opinion; and advance the pursuit of science, engineering, and medicine.

The Board on Life Sciences focuses on critical, emerging policy and technical issues in a variety of fundamental, emerging, and applied research areas that are critical to the bioeconomy, science, health, agriculture, energy, the environment, and national security and defense, including:

• basic, applied, and emerging life sciences research;
• biotechnology research and convergence;
• bioeconomy-related research and development;
• biosecurity and biodefense;
• ecology and biodiversity; and
• integrated human, animal, and plant health.