Scientific Advisory Board

The Ensembl Genomes project receives advice and guidance from our Scientific Advisory Board (SAB). Our current SAB members are:

  • Wendy Bickmore, Director, MRC Human Genetics Unit, Institute of Genetics and Cancer, University of Edinburgh, UK
  • Nils Gehlenborg, Assistant Professor of Biomedical Informatics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, USA
  • Martien Groenen, Professor in Animal Genomics, Wageningen University, The Netherlands
  • Max Haussler, Associate Research Scientist, UCSC Santa Cruz, USA
  • Tomàs Marquès Bonet, ICREA Research Professor, Institut de Biologia Evolutiva, Barcelona, Spain
  • Monica Poelchau, Geneticist, National Agricultural Laboratory, Colorado, USA
  • Heidi Rehm, Chief Genomics Officer, Center for Genomic Medicine and Department of Medicine at Massachusetts General Hospital, USA (chair)
  • Emma Teeling, Full Professor School of Biology and Environmental Science, University College Dublin, Ireland

We thank the previous members of the Ensembl Genomes SAB for their contributions to the project:

  • Anne-Francoise Adam-Blondin, URGI, INRA, France
  • Detlev Arendt, EMBL, Heidelberg, Germany
  • Michael Bevan, John Innes Institute, Norwich, UK
  • Mario Caccamo, National Institute for Agronomical Botany, UK
  • Michele Clamp, Bioteam, Boston, USA
  • Dick de Ridder, University of Wageningen, NL
  • Martin Donnelly, University of Liverpool, UK
  • Michael Eisen, University of California, Berkeley, USA
  • Alexander Goesmann, Juastus Liebig University, Giessen, Germany
  • Inge Jonassen, University of Bergen, Norway
  • Mara Lawinczak, Sanger Institute, UK
  • Klaus Mayer, Helmholtz Institute, Munich, Germany
  • Claudine Medigue, Genoscope, Evry, France
  • Allison Miller, University of St. Louis, USA
  • Rolf Mueller, Helmholtz Institute, Bonn, Germany
  • Stephen Oliver, University of Cambridge, UK
  • Julian Parkhill, Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Hinxton, UK
  • Chris Rawlings, Rothamsted Research, UK
  • Jane Rogers, The Genome Analysis Centre, Norwich, UK
  • Jason Staijich, University of Riverside, USA
  • Denis Tagu, INRA, Rennes, France
  • Doreen Ware, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, USA