People
Project coordinator: Jyl Boline, jylboline@gmail.com
Oversight Committee
Chair: Maryann Martone, University of California, San Diego, USA
• Douglas Bowden, University of Washington, Seattle, USA
• Erik De Schutter, University of Antwerp, Belgium, and Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology, Japan
• Nat Heintz, Rockefeller University, New York, USA
• Colin Ingram, Newcastle University, United Kingdom
• Ryuta Kawashima, Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan
• Mary Kennedy, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, USA
• Rolf Kötter*, Radboud University, Nijmegen, Netherlands
• Henry Markram, L’Ecole polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland
• Clifford Saper, Harvard Medical School, Boston, USA
• David Van Essen, Washington University, St. Louis, USA
• Rob Williams, University of Tennessee, Memphis, USA
• Laszlo Zaborszky, Rutgers University, Newark, USA
• Karl Zilles, Forschungszentrum Jülich, Germany
* The INCF community gratefully acknowledge the contributions of our colleague Dr. Rolf Kotter, who passed away in 2010
Structural Lexicon Task Force
This group will help shape the technical development and population of the NeuroLex, with a focus on the gross anatomy, cells, synapses, and connections in the adult brain of four species (mouse, rat, macaque monkey, and human).
Lead: David Van Essen, Washington University, St. Louis, USA
• Rembrandt Bakker, Radboud University, Nijmegen, Netherlands
• Douglas Bowden, University of Washington, Seattle, USA
• Ryuta Kawashima, Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan
• Stephen Larson, University of California San Diego, USA
• Clifford Saper, Harvard Medical School, Boston, USA
• Laszlo Zaborszky, Rutgers University, Newark, USA
Neuron Registry Task Force
The goal of this group is to create a registry in which one can browse and search for neuron types based on their properties, as well as for neuronal properties based on the types in which they are found.
Lead: Giorgio Ascoli, George Mason University, Fairfax, USA
• Gyorgy Buzsáki, Rutgers University, Newark, USA
• Javier DeFelipe, Cajal Institute, Madrid, Spain
• Sean Hill, L’Ecole polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland
• Ed Lein, Allen Institute, Seattle, USA
• Nicolas Le Novere, EMBL European Bioinformatics Institute, Cambridge, UK
• Gordon Shepherd, Yale University, New Haven, USA
• Ivan Soltesz, University of California Irvine, USA
• Peter Somogyi, Oxford University, UK
• Gábor Tamás, University of Szeged, Hungary
• Alex Thomson, University of London, UK
• Menno Witter, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway
• Rafael Yuste, Columbia University, New York, USA
Representation and Deployment Task Force
This Task Force provides support for the representation, curation, and deployment infrastructure of this Program, and will ultimately be responsible for establishing the formal ontology based on the efforts of the other two Task Forces.
Lead: Alan Ruttenberg, Creative Commons and University of Buffalo, USA
• Thomas Bittner, State University of New York, Buffalo, USA
• Mihail Bota, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, USA
• Albert Burger, MRC Human Genetics Unit and Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, UK
• Gully Burns, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, USA
• Bernard de Bono, European Bioinformatics Institute, Cambridge, UK
• Alexander Diehl, University of Buffalo, New York, USA
• Melissa Haendel, University of Oregon, Eugene, USA
• Fahim Imam, University of California San Diego (NIF), USA
• Paul Katz, Georgia State University, Atlanta, USA
• Anja Kuß, Zuse Institut Berlin (ZIB), Germany
• Stephen Larson, University of California San Diego, USA
• Onard Mejino, University of Washington, Seattle, USA
• Chris Mungall, Lawrence Berkeley National Labs, Berkeley, USA
• Kousaku Okubo, National Institute of Genetics, Mishima, Japan
• David Osumi-Sutherland, University of Cambridge, UK
• Stefan Schulz, University of Freiburg, Germany
