Chair
Leslie Bickel
Veternary Genetics Lab UC Davis
Davis, CA United States

Term of service (2nd, 2023-2027)

Co-Chair
Tomasz Zabek
National Research Institute of Animal Production
Balice, Poland

Term of service (2nd, 2023-2027)

Member
Felipe Avila
Veterinary Genetics Laboratory - UC Davis
Davis, CA United States

Term of service (1st, 2021-2025)

Member
Samantha Brooks
University of Florida
Gainesville, FL United States

Term of service (1st, 2021-2025)

Member
Robin Everts
Etalon Dx
San Diego, CA United States

Term of service (1st, 2023-2027)

Robin Everts, PhD, is the head of Research & Development at Etalon Equine Genetics and brings over 20 years of molecular and genetics experience. He graduated with an MSc. in Animal Sciences from Wageningen Agricultural University, The Netherlands in 1995. He received a PhD from the Department of Veterinary Medicine, Universiteit Utrecht, The Netherlands in 2000 for his thesis on genetic research in dogs. He was a postdoc and visiting assistant professor at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign from 2000-2007 doing research in embryo/fetal functional genomics in cattle. From 2007 - 2014 he worked at Sequenom Biosciences, Inc developing their overall assay portfolio and their Pharmacogenetics program. In 2014 he joined Agena Bioscience, Inc., San Diego, CA, where he led the Pharmacogenetics effort globally and developed the original DNA panel for Etalon Equine Genetics. As of early 2023 he moved back into animal genetics, one of his passions. He is on the scientific Advisory Board of Etalon Equine Genetics and ADx Health.

Member
Carrie Finno
University of California, Davis
Davis, CA United States

Term of service (1st, 2021-2025)

Member
Sebastian Peyrás
Departamento de Genética, Universidad de Cordoba, España
Cordoba, Spain

Term of service (1st, 2023-2027)