2019-2020 Executive Committee (EC)

Members of the CPI Executive Committee (EC) are selected each year by the CPI Chair and ratified by the full Council. The EC meets for a coordination meeting the first Wednesday of every month from 11:30 a.m. to 1:15 p.m. and invites research administrative representatives from Texas A&M, HSC, TEES, TTI, and AgriLife Research to attend.

The CPI EC also meets regularly with the Texas A&M President, Provost and Vice President for Research; Distinguished Professor’s Executive Committee; The Texas A&M University System Chancellor; and Congressman Bill Flores and other representatives or administrators upon request.

The CPI-EC can be contacted by sending an email to cpi-ec@listserv.tamu.edu.

2019-2020 CPI Officers (officers are standing members of the Executive Committee)

Darren DePoy, Chair
Department of Physics and Astronomy
College of Science
depoy@physics.tamu.edu
979.862.2082
CPI Membership Term: 2018 – 2021 (2nd Term)
External Committees: Export Control Designated Liaisons Network; TAMU IT Committee

Stephen Maren, Vice Chair
Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences
College of Liberal Arts
maren@tamu.edu
979.458.7960
CPI Membership Term: 2017-2020
External Committees: Animal Research Advisory Committee; Research Development Fund Advisory Committee

David Threadgill, Immediate Past Chair
Department of Molecular and Cellular Medicine
College of Medicine and College of Agriculture and Life Sciences
dwthreadgill@tamu.edu
979.862.2569
CPI Membership Term: 2016 – 2019
External Committees: 

2019-2020 Executive Committee (terms extend from September 1st through August 31st)

Kayla Bayless
Department of Molecular and Cellular Medicine
Texas A&M Health Science Center College of Medicine
kaylajb@tamu.edu
979.436.0763
CPI Membership Term: 2017-2020
External Committees: Texas A&M Research Compliance Committee; Research Development Fund Advisory Committee

Russell Cross
Department of Animal Science 
College of Agriculture and Life Sciences
hrcross@tamu.edu
979.845.1543
CPI Membership Term: 2017-2020
External Committees: n/a

Nancy Downing
College of Nursing
downing@tamu.edu
979.436.0157
CPI Membership Term: 2018 – 2021
External Committees: n/a

Kerri Gehring
Department of Animal Science
College of Agriculture and Life Sciences
kbgehring@tamu.edu
979.862.3643
CPI Membership Term: 2018-2021
External Committees: Open Access Policy Committee

Melissa Grunlan
Department of Biomedical Engineering
College of Engineering
mgrunlan@tamu.edu
979.845.2406
CPI Membership Term: 2017-2020
External Committees: n/a

Dennis Perkinson
Environment & Air Quality Division
Texas A&M Transportation Institute
d-perkinson@tti.tamu.edu
979.317.2246
CPI Membership Term: 2017-2020
External Committees: n/a

Elizabeth ‘Betsy’ Pierson
Department of Horticultural Sciences
College of Agriculture and Life Sciences
eapierson@tamu.edu
979.862.1307
CPI Membership Term: 2017-2020
External Committees: Council for the Built Environment (CBE)

Jayanth Ramadoss
Department of Physiology and Pharmacology
College of Veterinary Medicine and Biomedical Sciences
jramadoss@tamu.edu
979.845.7261
CPI Membership Term: 2018-2021
External Committees: n/a

Brendan Roark
Department of Geography
College of Geosciences
broark@geos.tamu.edu
979.862.1775
CPI Membership Term: 2018 – 2021 (2nd Term)
External Committees: Mass Spectrometry Core Collaborative, Research Development Fund Advisory Committee

Scott A. Socolofsky
Department of Civil Engineering
College of Engineering
socolofsky@tamu.edu
979.845.4517
CPI Membership Term: 2018 – 2021
External Committees: n/a