Virtual Fly Brain Members and Their Contributions

Who We Are

3D Viewer, Online Tools, Server, and Website

Institute for Adaptive and Neural Computation, School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh

• Robert Court (Lead DevOps)
• Douglas Armstrong (current project PI)
• Nestor Milyaev (2009-2012)

Ontology Editing, FlyBase Support, and Data Annotation

Department of Genetics, University of Cambridge

• Cahir O’Kane (current project PI)
• Michael Ashburner (original PI and grant holder)
• Simon Reeve (2009-2011)
• Nicole Staudt (2015-2016)
• Alex Holmes (2017-2019)

Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience

• Clare Pilgrim (Ontology editor/Curator)
• Alex McLachlan (Curator/UX Tester)
• Aoife Larkin (Curator)
• Gillian Millburn (Senior Curator)
• Nick Brown (current project PI)

Department of Zoology, University of Cambridge

• Marta Costa (current project Co-I)

Image Processing, Registration, and NBLAST Neuron Search

MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge

• Greg Jefferis (current project PI)

Schema Development & Web Development

Wellcome Sanger Institute, Cambridge

• David Osumi-Sutherland (current project Co-I)

European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI), Cambridge

• Huseyin Kir (developer)
• Nico Matentzoglu (developer)
• Helen Parkinson (current project PI)

Software engineering, Geppetto customisation, graphics design

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