Leadership and guidance
Dr Rolf Apweiler, Joint Associate Director; Professor Dame Janet Thornton, Director and Dr Ewan Birney, Joint Associate DirectorEMBL is an inter-governmental organisation with 20 member states and one associate member. EMBL is led by the Director General, Professor Iain Mattaj, as appointed by EMBL Council. The Council is composed of all member states of the Laboratory. You can read more about EMBL leadership and guidance on the EMBL website.
The Director of EMBL-EBI is Professor Dame Janet Thornton, who is also a Senior Research Group Leader and heads the EMBL-EBI Research Programme. As Joint Associate Directors, Dr Rolf Apweiler and Dr Ewan Birney are responsible for the smooth running of EMBL-EBI services, which serve millions of researchers worldwide.
Strategy and management committee (SMC)
At EMBL-EBI, strategic decisions including budget, funding and the creation of new posts are deliberated by this committee. It comprises Senior Scientists, Senior Team Leaders, the Head of Administration and select others chosen by the Director.
- Rolf Apweiler - Associate Director
- Alex Bateman – Protein & protein family services
- Ewan Birney - Associate Director
- Alvis Brazma – Molecular atlas services
- Paul Flicek – Genes, genomes & variation services
- Nick Goldman – Research group leader and Coordinator of research
- Mark Green - Head of Administration
- Petteri Jokinen - Systems & networking Technical Team Leader
- Gerard Kleywegt – Molecular & cellular structure services
- John Overington – Chemical biology services and Molecular systems services
- Janet Thornton - Director
Group and Team Leaders
In addition to the SMC, EMBL-EBI Group and Team Leaders are a crucial element in decision making. These include:
- Pedro Beltrao - Research group leader
- Paul Bertone – Research group leader
- Cath Brooksbank - Head of Training
- Dominic Clark - Industry programme manager
- Guy Cochrane - Team Leader, European Nucleotide Archive
- Lindsey Crosswell – Head of External relations
- Anton Enright – Research group leader
- Henning Hermjakob - Team Leader, Proteomics services
- Sarah Hunter - Team Leader, InterPro
- Paul Kersey - Team Leader, Nonvertebrate genomics
- Sue Lee – Head of Human Resources
- Rodrigo Lopez - Team Leader, EMBL-EBI Web production
- John Marioni – Research group leader
- Maria Jesus Martin - Team Leader, UniProt development
- Johanna McEntyre - Team Leader, Literature services
- Brian Nsonga – Head of Finance
- Claire O'Donovan - Team Leader, UniProt content
- Tom Oldfield - Team Leader, PDBe databases & services
- Helen Parkinson - Team Leader, Functional genomics production
- Justin Paschall – Team Leader, Variation
- Julio Saez-Rodriguez- Research group leader
- Ugis Sarkans - Technical Team Leader, Functional genomics development
- Oliver Stegle – Research group leader
- Christoph Steinbeck - Team Leader, Cheminformatics & metabolism
- Sarah Teichmann, Research group leader
- Sameer Velankar – Team Leader, PDBe content & integration
- Brendan Vaughan - Team Leader, EMBL-EBI Web development
Scientific Advisory Committees
EMBL Scientific Advisory Committee
Council establishes a Scientific Advisory Committee (SAC), which shall give advice to Council, in particular with regard to proposals from the Director General on the realisation of the programme of the Laboratory. Current SAC members are listed on the EMBL website.
Bioinformatics Advisory Committee
EMBL-EBI has an established guidance structure in the form of a Bioinformatics Advisory Committee (BAC). The Committee gives advice to the institute with regard to scientific strategy, future directions and proposals on the realisation of its programme.
The BAC is composed of distinguished scientists appointed in their own right, not as representatives of member states. Membership of the Committee is drawn from experts in the field of bioinformatics and other relevant scientific disciplines. Some are also members of EMBL's Scientific Advisory Committee and data resource advisory boards.
2012 Membership
- Philippe Sanseau of GlaxoSmithKline, United Kingdom
- Roderic Guigo of the Centre de Regulacio Genomica, Barcelona, Spain
- Tim Hubbard of the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Hinxton, UK
- Olli Kallioniemi, Institute for Molecular Medicine Finland (FIMM), University of Helsinki, Finland
- Jonathan Knowles, Institute for Molecular Medicine Finland (FIMM), University of Helsinki, Finland
- Matthias Uhlén of the Royal Institute of Technology (KTH), Stockholm, Sweden
Scientific Advisory Committees - Services
Our bioinformatics services largely represent global collaborations, and these are advised by individual scientific advisory boards and committees. A full list of members is available here.
Contact: Deborah Howe
Assistant to the Director
EMBL-European Bioinformatics Institute
Tel: +44 (0) 1223 494 648
Fax: + 44 (0) 1223 494 468
E-mail: doffice@ebi.ac.uk
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