Annabel Beichman is the Scientific Program Manager for Science Initiatives at the Allen Institute. She earned her bachelor's degree summa cum laude in Organismic & Evolutionary Biology from Harvard University and her Ph.D. in Biology from the University of California, Los Angeles, followed by a four-year postdoctoral fellowship in the Department of Genome Sciences at the University of Washington with Dr. Kelley Harris. She first joined the Allen Institute as a Program Officer for The Paul G. Allen Frontiers Group before stepping into her current role.

Annabel is a population geneticist by training, with a research career spanning demographic inference, comparative and conservation genomics, and the evolution of mutational processes across the tree of life, from whales to SARS-CoV-2. Her work includes assembling and analyzing the sea otter genome to reconstruct the genetic toll of the maritime fur trade and studies of how patterns of DNA mutation differ across species, with implications for the evolution of lifespan and cancer resistance. Throughout, she has been committed to advancing open and reproducible science, including developing methods and guides to make population genetic modeling accessible to conservation biologists.

At the Allen Institute, Annabel directs internal scientific programs that build shared frameworks for how science is conducted and how its impact is measured. This includes developing authorship and publication guidelines, designing approaches to measure scientific impact, and landscaping emerging areas for impact and open science policy. Her work helps strengthen the rigorous, collaborative, and open culture of team science at the Allen Institute.