Committees
2025 IZFS Committees
Awards Committee
The Awards Committee oversees the nomination process for IZFS awards. The committee determines eligibility criteria, solicits nominations from the membership and recommends recipients to the Board. IZFS awards include: George Streisinger Award, Chi-Bin Chien Award and Christine Beattie Travel Award
Cecilia Moens (Chair)
Steffen Scholpp
Katie Drerup
Gage Crump
Chengtian Zhao
Richard White
Committee for Broadening Scientific Engagement (CBSE)
The IZFS Committee for Broadening Scientific Engagement (CBSE) aims to promote and support the increased participation of zebrafish researchers, including those with backgrounds and perspectives that are not well represented in scientific research. We celebrate the scientific contributions of IZFS members of all identities. We strive to foster an open and welcoming environment where all members are encouraged to engage in dialogue, question, learn, and contribute to their fullest potential. We endeavor to offer scientific exchange that emphasizes respect for differences in culture, language, and life experience. By engaging with a broad and varied community of researchers, all members of the society will benefit from enhanced idea exchange and innovation.
Read more about the IZFS CBSE goals here.
Carola Ulrike-Niesler (chair)
Senior PI representative
Kirsten Sadler Edepli
Senior PI Representative
Rachel Brewster, PhD
Senior PI representative
Myra Chavez Rosas
Post-doctoral Fellow Representative
Megan Leask
PhD Early Career Representative
Beatriz Mercado
Graduate Student Representative
Wael Mohammad
Senior PI Representative
See more about the Committee Members here.
Education and Outreach Committee
The IZFS Education and Outreach Committee aims to promote the use of zebrafish in science education and outreach activities by the international scientific community. We seek to encourage and support the development of teaching and outreach activities by the IZFS membership spanning from elementary, secondary, undergraduate, and graduate education to outreach activities for the general public.
Jason Meyers (Chair)
Kara Ceverny
Jenny Liang
Carmen Gloria Feijoo
Raquel Brañas i Casas
Kelly Monk
Environmental Sustainability Committee
The Environmental Sustainability Committee (ESC) provides strategic recommendations to IZFS leadership regarding initiatives that can maximize the benefits of international scientific interactions and activities whilst minimizing environmental impact.
Follow the Environmental Sustainability Committee on Twitter for tips and tricks to make research activities more environmentally sustainable and to learn more about research that helps save the planet.
Maximilian Breuer (Chair)
Viviana Vedder (Chair)
Ashley Bruce
Tom Carney
Judith Eisen
Erez Raz
Gaia Gestri
Manjari Trivedi
Nathalie Jurisch-Yaksi (EZS Representative)
Eirini Trompouki (ZDMS Representative)
Newsletter and Publications Committee
The Newsletter and Publications Committee helps to publish quarterly IZFS e-Newsletters, writing newsletter content and soliciting additional content from the officers, board, and membership of the society. The committee works with IZFS staff to assemble the e-Newsletter for distribution to the membership.
Cecilia Moens (Chair)
Pascale Bomont
Karuna Sampath
Brant Weinstein
Han Wang
Kate Whitlock
Yevgenya Grinbalt
Maria Blumenkrantz
Megan Leask
Nominations Committee
The Nomination Committee plans and schedules the annual election. The Committee solicits suggestions for nominations for IZFS Officers and Board Members from the IZFS membership, and formulates a slate of candidates for the annual election with approval of the IZFS board.
Corinne Houart (Chair)
Mayssa Mokalled
Natascia Tiso
Tohru Ishitani
Marc Ekker
Monica Ryff Moreira Roca Vianna*
Webinar Committee
The Webinar Committee provides strategic guidance for the IZFS Webinar Series. The Committee identifies topics and secures speakers for the monthly schedule.
Chengtian Zhao
Francouis Kroll
Carola Niesler
Saba Perez
Randall Peterson
Florence Marlow