Plant Ontology curators

Current Plant Ontology Curators

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

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

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

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

• Justin Elser, Post-doctoral researcher, Oregon State University

• Justin Preece, Reserach assistant in bio-informatics and software development, Oregon State University

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

• Barry Smith, Ontology consultant to the PO, University at Buffalo, Ontology site, Department of Philosophy site

• Chris Mungal, Ontology consultant to the PO, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley BOP web page

Former Plant Ontology Curators

• Tanya Beradini (with TAIR)

• Katica Ilic (with TAIR)

• Anuradha Pujar (with Gramene)

• Leonore Reiser (with TAIR)

• Chih-Wei Tung (with Gramene)

• Felipe Zapata

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

Translators

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

• Spanish: Maria Alejandra Gandolfo, POC