WormBase Consortium
From WormBaseWiki
WormBase is an international consortium of biologists and computer scientists dedicated to providing the research community with accurate, current, accessible information concerning the genetics, genomics and biology of C. elegans and some related nematodes. Founded in 2000, the WormBase Consortium is led by Paul Sternberg of CalTech, Richard Durbin of The Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Lincoln Stein of Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, and John Spieth of the Washington University Genome Sequencing Center.
In addition to their curation work, all sites have ongoing programs in bioinformatics research to develop the next generations of WormBase structure, content and accessibility.
People Of WormBase
Principal Investigators
Richard Durbin (rd@sanger.ac.uk) [Wellcome Trust Sanger]
John Spieth (jspieth@watson.wustl.edu) [WashU]
Lincoln Stein (lstein@cshl.edu) [CSHL]
Paul Sternberg (pws@caltech.edu) [Caltech]
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
Payan Canaran (canaran@cshl.edu)
Norie de la Cruz (noriedlc3@gmail.com)
Todd Harris (harris@cshl.edu) - CSHL project manager; lead website developer and information architect
Will Spooner (whs@ebi.ac.uk)
Lincoln Stein (lstein@cshl.edu)
California Institute of Technology
Igor Antoshechkin (igor.antoshechkin@caltech.edu)
Juancarlos Chan (azurebrd@drachma.ugcs.caltech.edu)
Wen Chen (wchen@caltech.edu)
Ranjana Kishore (ranjana@its.caltech.edu)
Raymond Lee (raymond@caltech.edu) - Anatomy Ontology; Cell Function
Hans-Michael Mueller (mueller@its.caltech.edu) -Textpresso
Cecilia Nakamura (cecilia@tazendra.caltech.edu)
Andrei Petcherski (petcherski@gmail.com)
Gary Schindelman (garys@caltech.edu)
Erich Schwarz (emsch@its.caltech.edu) - Gene functions; orthology groups; Caltech mirror
Paul Sternberg (pws@caltech.edu)
Kimberly Van Auken (vanauken@caltech.edu)
Daniel Wang (qwang@its.caltech.edu)
Xiaodong Wang (xdwang@caltech.edu)
Washington University at St. Louis
Tamberlyn Bieri (tbieri@watson.wustl.edu)
Darin Blasiar (dblasiar@watson.wustl.edu)
Phil Ozersky (pozersky@watson.wustl.edu)
John Spieth (jspieth@watson.wustl.edu)
Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute
Paul Davis (pad@sanger.ac.uk)
Richard Durbin (rd@sanger.ac.uk)
Michael Han (mh6@sanger.ac.uk)
Anthony Rogers (ar2@sanger.ac.uk)
Mary Ann Tuli (mt3@sanger.ac.uk)
Gary Williams (gw3@sanger.ac.uk)
Oxford University
Jonathan Hodgkin, Oxford University; C. elegans biologist
Scientific Advisory Board
J. Michael Cherry, Stanford University, PI SGD; GO Consortium
William Gelbart, PI, Harvard University; FlyBase
Jim Kent University of California; Santa Cruz; Bioinformatics
Cornelia Bargmann, Rockefeller University; C. elegans biologist
Tim Schedl, Washington University; C. elegans biologist
Mark Blaxter (mark.blaxter@ed.ac.uk), University of Edinburgh; Parasitic Nematode Genomics
Robin Gasser (robinbg@unimelb.edu.au), University of Melbourne; Parasitic Nematode Genomics
Martin Chalfie, Columbia University; C. elegans biologist (ex officio, Editor-in-Chief WormBook)
WormBase Alumni
Carol Bastiani (bastiani@its.caltech.edu (Caltech) -->Garbrook
Keith Bradnam (krb@sanger.ac.uk (Sanger) --> UC Davis)
Chao-Kung Chen (ck1@sanger.ac.uk (Sanger))
Jack Chen (nansheng_chen@sfu.ca) (CSHL) --> Simon Fraser University)
Fiona Cunningham (cunningh@cshl.edu (CSHL) --> Sanger)
Kerstin Jekosch (kj2@sanger.ac.uk (Sanger))
Eimear Kenny (Caltech) -->Cornell Ph.D. program
Dan Lawson (dl1@sanger.ac.uk (Sanger) --> EBI)
Slava Petcherski
Marcela Tello-Ruiz (tellorui@cshl.edu (CSHL) --> MIT)
Danielle & Jean Thierry-mieg (mieg@ncbi.nlm.nih.gov [NCBI])
Gudmundur (Mummi) Thorisson (mummi@cshl.edu (CSHL) CSHL, HapMap project)
