2015-2016 Biological Sciences Area Committee and Tenure Appointments Committee

The Tenure, Appointments and Promotions Committees (TACs) include a group of Full Professors from the relevant area (Humanities; Social Sciences; Biological Sciences; Physical Sciences, Engineering and Applied Sciences) who serve as members of the area committee, along with a representative from a department or program outside the area (the “outside member”). In cases involving faculty from one of the School of Engineering and Applied Science (SEAS) departments, the Dean of the SEAS also sits on the committee as a voting member.

Each Area Committee is chaired by the Divisional Dean or Director of its corresponding academic division, and the Dean of the FAS oversees the four TACs. TACs review all appointments and promotions to the ranks of Associate Professor on term (Nontenured associate, AOPN); Associate Professor without term (Tenured associate, AOPT); and Professor (PROF).

Committee Membership

Daniel (Dan) DiMaio​ | Committee Chair; Chair, Biological Sciences Advisory Committee; Scientific Director, Yale Cancer Center; Deputy Director, Yale Cancer Center; Waldemar Von Zedtwitz Professor of Genetics and Professor of Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry and of Therapeutic Radiology

John CarlsonEugene Higgins Professor of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology

Barbara EhrlichProfessor of Pharmacology and of Cellular and Molecular Physiology

Antonio GiraldezProfessor of Genetics

Jonathon (Joe) HowardEugene Higgins Professor of Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry and Professor of Physics

Christine Jacobs-WagerWilliam H. Fleming, M.D. Professor of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology

Daeyeol LeeProfessor of Neuroscience and of Psychology

Craig RoyProfessor of Microbial Pathogenesis and of Immunobiology

Martin SchwartzRobert W. Berliner Professor of Medicine (Cardiology) and Professor of Biomedical Engineering and of Cell Biology

Joan SteitzSterling Professor of Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry

Gunter Wagner (spring only) | Alison Richard Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

Tenure Appointments Committee Members Only

Tamar Szabó GendlerDean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences; Vincent J. Scully Professor of Philosophy and Professor of Psychology and Cognitive Sciences

Robert AlpernDean, School of Medicine; Ensign Professor of Medicine (Nephrology)

Claudia ValeggiaProfessor of Anthropology