Community survey for phytopathogen resources
FungiDB and Ensembl are teaming up to enhance resources for fungal and oomycete plant pathogen research - a collaboration funded by the BBSRC.
We need feedback from the phytopathogen community to help shape which genomes and functional datasets we prioritise.
Please provide your input by completing our short community survey by November 1, 2025:
https://qualtricsxmpy46tq866.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_dakZl8LMNBvHpVs

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