The MBP represents a clear and unifying challenge to focus the ingenuity and skills of many different individuals and organizations, whether they are directly participating in (and funded by) the MBP, or represent key partners using the MBP to leverage their efforts. The MBP requires an effective organizational structure that ensures cohesion among the various elements but delegates responsibility to maximize operational efficiency.
| Name | Position | Institution |
Team |
Taxonomy | Team Role | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Benoit Espiau | Technician | Criobe Moorea (EPHE-CNRS) | ||||
| Sabine Brels | Research Officer | University of California, Berkeley | ABS | Team member | ||
| Leonard Hirsch | Researcher | Smithsonian Institution | ABS | Team leader | ||
| Jean-Louis Menou | Researcher | IRD New Caledonia | Algae | Chlorophyta, Rhodophyta, Phaeophyceae | Team member | |
| Lydiane Mattio | Researcher | IRD New Caledonia | Algae | Chlorophyta, Rhodophyta, Phaeophyceae | Team member | |
| Claude Payri | Professor | IRD New Caledonia | Algae | General | Team leader | |
| Antoine de Ramon N'Yeurt | Researcher | IRD New Caledonia | Algae | Rhodophyta, Chlorophyta, Phaeophyceae | Team member | |
| Lydia Smith | Graduate student | University of California, Berkeley | Fungi | Team member | ||
| Todd Osmundson | Post-doc researcher | University of California, Berkeley | Fungi | Rhizopogon spp | Team member | |
| Matteo Garbelotto | Adjunct Assistant Professor | University of California, Berkeley | Fungi | General | Team leader | |
| Sarah Bergemann | Professor | Middle Tennessee St University | Fungi | Rhizopogon spp | Team member | |
| Neil Davies | Executive Director | University of California, Berkeley | General | General | Principal investigator | |
| Jérôme Petit | Researcher | University of California, Berkeley | General | General | Project Coordinator and Communications Officer | |
| Vetea Liao | Molecular lab technician | Gump Station | General | Biocode lab technician | ||
| Aimee Ellison | Molecular Laboratory Technician | University of California, Berkeley | General | General | Molecular lab technician | |
| Rosemary Gillespie | Professor | University of California, Berkeley | General | |||
| Richard Pyle | Associate Zoologist | Bishop Museum | General | |||
| Reo Terai | Technician | University of California, Berkeley | General | General | Biocode lab technician | |
| John Deck | IT | University of California, Berkeley | IT Component | Co-team leader | ||
| Joyce Gross | IT | University of California, Berkeley | IT Component | Co-team leader | ||
| Hanna Stewart | Researcher | Department of Fisheries and Oceans Canada | Marine invertebrates | Marine invertebrates | Team member | |
| George Hecht | Researcher | Florida Museum of Natural History | Marine invertebrates | Ostracoda | Team member | |
| Scott Fay | Graduate Student | University of California, Berkeley | Marine invertebrates | General | Team member | |
| Johnathan Geller | Professor | Moss Landing Marine Laboratories | Marine invertebrates | Zooplankton, Endolithic Organisms | Team member | |
| Jenna Moore | Undergraduate Researcher | Florida Museum of Natural History | Marine invertebrates | Team member | ||
| Gustav Paulay | Professor | University of Florida | Marine invertebrates | General | Team leader | |
| Kristine White | Graduate student | University of Southern Mississippi | Marine invertebrates | Marine invertebrates | ||
| Richard Hochberg | Assistant Professor | University of Massachusetts Lowell | Marine invertebrates | Marine invertebrates | Team member | |
| Cory Pittman | Researcher | Marine invertebrates | opisthobranchs/general mico-invertebrates | Team member | ||
| Jon Norenburg | Research Zoologist and Curator of Nemertea | Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History | Marine invertebrates | Team member |