Professional Services
National Academies Committee on Science, Engineering, and Public Policy (COSEPUP) - 2009-2011
International Society for Stem Cell Research Program Committee - 2009-2011
ASCB International Affairs Committee - 2009-2011
California Institute for Regenerative Medicine, member of Scientific and Medical Research Funding Working Group - 2005–2010
NIH Pioneer Award, Advisory Committee to Director (Phase I, II and III evaluations) - 2005, 2007
Organizer, Society for Developmental Biology annual meeting - 2005
Co-chair, Cold Spring Harbor Symposium, "Germ Cells" - 2004
National Academy of Sciences, Temporary Nominating Committee, Class II - 2003-2006
International Advisory Board of the Wellcome CRC Institute, United Kingdom - 2002
Faculty of 1000, head of Developmental Biology section - 2001
External Scientific Advisory Board for the Institution, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, Washington - 2000–2006
Scientific Advisory Board for the Biological Sciences Division, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, Washington - 2000
Scientific Advisory Board of the Max-Planck-Institut für Entwicklungsbiologie in Tübingen, Germany - 1997-2009
Scientific Advisory Board for Searle Scholars Program - 1996-2001
Editor, Science - 1996-1999
Council, ASCB - 1994-1996
Organizer, International C. elegans meeting - 1993
Editor, Annual Reviews of Cell & Developmental Biology - 1992-1996
Scientific Advisory Committee of the Damon Runyon-Walter Winchell Cancer Fund - 1992-1996
Associate Editor, Developmental Dynamics - 1991-2000
Associate Editor, Molecular Biology of the Cell - 1991-2001
Editor, Journal of Cell Biology - 1991-1994
Editorial board, Mechanisms of Development - 1990-2000
Co-chair, ICN-UCLA Conference, Signal Transduction and Gene Activation During Development - 1990
Co-chair, International C. elegans meeting - 1989
Co-chair, Developmental Biology Gordon Conference - 1989
Editorial Advisory Board, Developmental Biology Seminar Series - 1988-1996
Editorial board, Cell - 1988-1997
Editorial board, Development - 1987-1998