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Ensembl Scientific Advisory Board

The Ensembl project receives advice and guidance from our scientific advisory board. The Ensembl SAB consists of a collection of scientists representing a spread of disciplines across and beyond biology. Our current SAB members are:

  • Deanna Church, Senior Director of Applications, 10x Genomics, California, USA
  • Erich Jarvis, Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Professor, Laboratory of Neurogenetics of Language, the Rockefeller University, New York, USA
  • Federica Di Palma, Director of Science (Vertebrate and Health Genomics), The Genome Analysis Centre, Norwich, UK
  • Felicity Jones, Max Planck Research Group Leader, Friedrich Miescher Laboratory, Tuebingen, Germany
  • Heidi Rehm, Associate Professor of Pathology, BWH and Harvard Medical School; Director, Partners Laboratory for Molecular Medicine; Massachusetts, USA
  • Mark Diekhans, Technical Project Manager, Center for Biomolecular Science & Engineering, UCSC, California, USA
  • Martien Groenen, Professor in Animal Genomics, Wageningen University, The Netherlands
  • Nils Gehlenborg, Assistant Professor of Biomedical Informatics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, USA
  • Wendy Bickmore, Director MRC Human Genetics Unit, University of Edinburgh, UK

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

  • Allan Bradley, Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute
  • Anne Ferguson-Smith, University of Cambridge
  • Ian Bird, CERN
  • Jim Reecy, Iowa State University
  • Bob Kuhn, University of California, Associate Director, UCSC Genome Browser, Santa Cruz
  • Chris Ponting, Department of Human Anatomy and Genetics, Oxford University
  • Cornelius Gross, Deputy Head of Outstation and Senior Scientist, EMBL Monterotondo
  • David Botstein, Princeton University
  • David Haussler, University of California Santa Cruz
  • Deepak Singh, Business Development Manager, Amazon Web Services, Seattle
  • Detlev Arendt, European Molecular Biology Laboratory
  • Graham Cameron, Deputy Director, EMBL-EBI
  • Hugues Roest Crollius, Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris, France
  • Ivo Gut, Centro Nacional de Análisis Genómico, Spain
  • Jim Kent, University of California Santa Cruz
  • Johan den Dunnen, Leiden University Medical Center, The Netherlands
  • Lincoln Stein, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
  • Mark McCarthy, Oxford Centre for Diabetes, Oxford University
  • Matt Hurles, Genomic mutation and genetic disease, Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Hinxton, UK
  • Matthias Hentze, EMBL-Heidelberg
  • Michael Ashburner, Department of Genetics, University of Cambridge
  • Michael Dunn, Wellcome Trust
  • Michelle Clamp, BioTeam, Boston
  • Mike Eisen, University of California, Berkeley
  • Mike Stratton, Director, WTSI
  • Nicholas A. Walton, Institute of Astronomy, University of Cambridge
  • Soren Brunak, Technical University of Denmark
  • Stephan Beck, University College London
  • Steve Cohen, EMBL-Heidelberg
  • Toby Bloom, Director of Informatics, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Boston, Massachusetts, USA