Plant Ontology curators

Current Plant Ontology Curators

• Pankaj Jaiswal, lead PI of the Plant Ontology, Oregon State University, lab web site

• Laurel Cooper, PO Project Coordinator and Research Associate, Oregon State University

• Dennis Stevenson, PI of the Plant Ontology, Vice President for Laboratory Research, New York Botanical Garden, NYBG web page

Ontology Consultants

• Barry Smith, University at Buffalo, Ontology site, Department of Philosophy site

• Chris Mungall, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley BOP web page

Bioinformatics Team

• Justin Elser, Post-doctoral researcher, Bio-informatics and software development, Oregon State University

• Justin Preece, Research assistant, Bio-informatics and software development, Oregon State University

Former Plant Ontology Curators

• Ramona Walls, formerly Post-doctoral researcher, New York Botanical Garden, NYBG web page

• Maria Alejandra Gandolfo, PI of the Plant Ontology, Senior Research Associate, Cornell University, lab web site

• Laura Moore, PO project undergrad research assistant, Oregon State University

• Tanya Beradini (with TAIR)

• Katica Ilic (with TAIR)

• Anuradha Pujar (with Gramene)

• Leonore Reiser (with TAIR)

• Chih-Wei Tung (with Gramene)

• Felipe Zapata

• MaizeGDB:lv (see tassel inflorescence; PO:0020126)- Need to update this

• Brian Atkinson, PO project graduate research assistant, Oregon State University

• Austin Meier, Postdoctoral scholar, Oregon State University.

Wood Curators

The curators have participated in a three day workshop and an ongoing project to extend PO terms for wood anatomy and development stages.

• Andrew Groover, USDA Forest Service, Institute of Forest Genetics

• Jill Wegrzyn, TreeGenes Database at UCDavis

• Frederic Lens, Netherlands Centre for Biodiversity Naturalis

• Barb Lachenbruch, College of Forestry, Oregon State University

• Rachel Spicer, Connecticut College

• Margeret (Meg) Staton, Fagaceae Genomics Web

Root terms Curator

Richard Zobel, of the International Society for Root Research (ISRR) has contributed a set of terms to the PO, based on the ISRR root nomenclature framework. Some of these terms were revisions to existing terms, and some were new terms.

These terms are being identified with ISRR:Richard_Zobel as a definition database cross reference (dbxref). See page ISRR_references.

Translators

• Japanese: Yukiko Yamazaki, National Institute of Genetics, Japan

• Spanish: Maria Alejandra Gandolfo, POC