Organizations Filed Purposes:
Revive & Restore, with a mission to enhance biodiversity through the genetic rescue of endagered & extinct species, is building a new conservation toolkit for the 21st century by applying genetic technologies to biodiversity and threatened ecosystems.
The Advanced Coral Toolkit program was created to promote the development and fielding of new biotechnologies that have the potential to greatly benefit coral resilience and restoration efforts. Current projects include methods to cryopreserve coral nanofragments for coral restoration with researchers at Smithsonians Hawaii Institute of Marine Biology; the development of coral stem cells for recovery and restoration efforts at The University of Miami in partnership with Ben Gurion University of Israel; and the investigation of Montipora coral by researchers with One People One Reef who are using genomics to better understand the weedy corals stress resilience.
The General Catalyst Science Fund supports early stage, highly innovative research aimed at advancing the science of wildlife conservation. The goal of these grants is to build new tools for the genetic rescue toolkit, and to test the feasibility of these new tools for genetic rescue of wild species. Projects funded in 2020 include Avian Genetic Rescue work at Texas A&M AgriLife Research to develop primordial germ cell techniques for germline transfer; the sponsorship of 12 teams from around the world showing how synthetic biology can enhance conservation at the iGEM annual Jamboree; and the births of two endangered species a Przewalskis horse and a Black-footed ferret both cloned from cryopreserved cell lines with ViaGen Pets & Equine, in partnership with San Diego Zoo Wildlife Alliance and US Fish & Wildlife Service.
In June 2020, Wild Genomes launched a competitive funding program through the Catalyst Science Fund for researchers assembling high-quality reference genomes from species facing conservation challenges. Fifty-eight applications were submitted from 19 countries and 10 teams were selected for funding in the first round. Lab closures in 2020 due to COVID caused many project delays. However, research was advanced with the Sunflower Sea Star at The University of California Merced, while the Chinook salmon genome collection started at Michigan State University. The University of Otago, in collaboration with the Vertebrate Genomes Project and the Takahe Recovery Programme, in New Zealand began work to produce a platinum quality reference genome for the worlds most rare and largest flightless rail, the Takahe.
Executives Listed on Filing
Total Salary includes financial earnings, benefits, and all related organization earnings listed on tax filing
| Name | Title | Hours Per Week | Total Salary |
|---|
| Ryan Phelan | EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR | 0 | $175,000 |
| Bridget Baumgartner | PROGRAM MANAGER | 0 | $165,000 |
| Michele Weber | DIRECTOR OF CONSERVATION INNO | 0 | $163,202 |
| Megan Palmer | DIRECTOR | 0 | $0 |
| Tom Chase | DIRECTOR | 0 | $0 |
| Stewart Brand | DIRECTOR | 0 | $0 |
| Matthew Winkler | DIRECTOR | 0 | $0 |
| Brad Stanback | DIRECTOR | 0 | $0 |
| Beth Shapiro | DIRECTOR | 0 | $0 |
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