She sits on numerous advisory boards and has presented to members of the US Congress. Silver was awarded the BBS Mentoring Award for Graduate Education at Harvard Medical School. She is also one of the founders of the International Genetically Engineered Machines competition (iGEM) and currently sits on the Board of iGEM.org. Silver founded and was the first Director of the Harvard University Graduate Program in Systems Biology. Silver was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2017. External links The Silver Lab Silver profile page, Wyss Institute Department of Systems Biology at Harvard Systems Biology PhD Program iGEM References Systems biologists Harvard Medical School faculty Living people American molecular biologists Women molecular biologists Scientists from California People from Atherton, California University of California alumni Year of birth missing (living people) Synthetic biologists Castilleja School alumni