Dr. Barry Dellinger and Dr. Wayne Backes
The Administrative Core provides the overall program coordination, management, record keeping, and budget administration functions for the program. The Director and Co-Director coordinate the functions of the research projects, research support cores, and non-technical cores and oversees the transfer of samples among projects and cores to ensure efficiency of the research efforts. Both internal and external advisory committees provide advice to the Director and co-Director on management and technical progress of the program.