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 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | ||
| Willow Jorgensen | Graduate student | University of Hawaii | Marine invertebrates | Team member | ||
| Chris Meyer | Research Zoologist, Curator | Smithsonian Institution | Marine invertebrates | Mollusks | Project Director | |
| Andrea Crowther | Graduate student | University of Kansas | Marine invertebrates | Team member | ||
| Les Watling | Researcher | Marine invertebrates | peracarids | Team member | ||
| Seabird McKeon | Graduate Student | University of Florida | Marine invertebrates | Team member | ||
| Viacheslav Ivanenko | Researcher | Moscow State University | Marine invertebrates | Copepods (Crustacea) | Team member | |
| Hsiu-Chin Lin | Post-doc | Marine invertebrates | Crustacea Decapoda | |||
| John Deck | IT | University of California, Berkeley | IT Component | Co-team leader | ||
| Joyce Gross | IT | University of California, Berkeley | IT Component | Co-team leader | ||
| 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 | |
| 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 | |
| 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 | |
| Sabine Brels | Research Officer | University of California, Berkeley | ABS | Team member | ||
| Leonard Hirsch | Researcher | Smithsonian Institution | ABS | Team leader | ||
| Benoit Espiau | Technician | Criobe Moorea (EPHE-CNRS) |