Virtual Fly Brain Members and Their Contributions

Virtual Fly Brain Team

Virtual Fly Brain is developed and maintained by an interdisciplinary team of researchers, developers, and curators across multiple UK institutions. Our collaborative approach brings together expertise in informatics, neuroscience, ontology development, and data curation.

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 (Senior 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

MetaCell

MetaCell collaborates with Virtual Fly Brain on the development and enhancement of the open source Geppetto visualization platform that powers our 3D brain viewer.

For questions about team members or collaboration opportunities, please contact us.