A core interdisciplinary staff at ASU will include taxonomists, curators, computer engineers, philosophers, historians and others who will reach out to colleagues, students, museums, herbaria and sister universities to begin building an international community of institutions, researchers and educators to transform taxonomy. Faculty and postdoc searches are underway.

Core Staff

• Anthony Gill (Ichthyology)
• Andrew Hamilton (Philosophy of Science)
• Leslie Landrum (Botany)
• Roy Larimer (Imaging Engineering)
• Thomas Nash (Lichenology)
• Kathleen Pigg (Paleobotany)
• Quentin Wheeler (Entomology)
• Martin Wojciechowski (Botany)

ASU Collections

ASU collections are being consolidated as vital infrastructure within the IISE under the direction of Assistant Director Anthony Gill. Collections include DNA and Tissues, Fossil Plants, Insects, Lichens, Vascular Plants, Shells and Vertebrates. For more information, see the Natural History Museum.

Partners

The IISE is developing a network of partner institutions who are committed to species exploration and the advancement of the science of taxonomy. Partners of the IISE include:

• American Museum of Natural History, New York, USA
• California Academy of Sciences, San Francisco, USA
• Departamento de Zoologia, Universidade Federal do Paraná, Curitiba, Brazil
• Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico D.F., Mexico
• Faculty of Natural Sciences, Comenius University, Bratislava, Slovakia
• Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
• International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature, London, UK
• Marine Biological Laboratory/Woods Hole Institute of Oceanography Library, Woods Hole, USA
• Missouri Botanical Gardens, St. Louis, USA
• Museo National de Ciencias Naturales, Madrid, Spain
• Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle, Paris, France
• National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C., USA
• The Natural History Museum, London, UK
• New York Botanical Garden, New York, USA
• Royal Museum for Central Africa, Tervuren, Belgium
• Systematic Entomology Laboratory, United States Department of Agriculture, Beltsville, USA
• Zoological Institute of Russian Academy of Sciences, St. Petersburg, Russia
• Roy Larimer at Visionary Digital

Advisory Board (Campus)

• Dr. Sethuraman Panchanathan
• Dr. Manfred Laubichler
• Dr. Steven Goodnick

International Advisor e-Board

• Dr. Malcolm Scoble (The Natural History Museum, London)
• Dr. Antonio Valdecasas (Museo National Ciencias Naturales, Madrid)
• Dr. Dennis Stevenson (New York Botanical Garden, New York)
• Dr. Thierry Bourgoin (Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle, Paris)