Vicki Chandler, Ph.D
Chief Program Officer | Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation
Education
Dr. Chandler received her BA from the University of California, Berkeley, and her Ph.D. from the University of California, San Francisco.
Expertise
Dr. Chandler has conducted pioneering research on the control of gene expression in plants and animals.
Affiliations
Dr. Chandler is a regents' professor in the departments of plant sciences and molecular and cellular biology, and she is former director of the UA's BIO5 Institute.
She has received numerous honors and awards including a Presidential Young Investigator Award, Searle Scholar Award, the NSF Faculty Award for Women Scientists and Engineers, and the NIH Director's Pioneer Award. She was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2002 and has served extensively on national advisory boards and panels for NSF, DOE, NIH and HHMI. She served on the NSF Biological Directorate Advisory Committee from 2001-2004 and on the NRC Committee on Defining and Advancing the Conceptual Basis of Biological Science. She has chaired or co-chaired national conferences for Keystone, FASEB, and the Gordon Research Conferences, serving on the GRC board of trustees, and in 2001 as chair of the board. Dr. Chandler was elected to the International Society of Plant Molecular Biology Board of Directors, 1999-2003, and elected president of the American Society of Plant Biologists, 2001-02. In 2007 she was elected to the Council of the National Academy of Sciences.
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