People

Meet the people who made UniEuk possible

At its creation, UniEuk was led by a Steering Committee (SC) under the supervision of an Advisory Council (AC), with a Scientific and Technical Advisory Board (STAB) providing practical input throughout the course of the project. UniEuk is now in its implementation phase, and the original committees are no longer active. We are extremely grateful to all the members of these committees who helped make the UniEuk project a reality!

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UniEuk Steering Committee — from left to right: Eunsoo KIM, Alastair SIMPSON, Stefan GEISEN, Sina ADL, Virginia EDGCOMB, Colomban DE VARGAS, Pelin YILMAZ, Guy COCHRANE, Javier DEL CAMPO, Frank Oliver GLÖCKNER (missing: Juliet BRODIE)
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UniEuk organizational scheme

Project Implementers from the three main partner institutions (including the Taxonomy Coordinator at Station Biologique in Roscoff, France, the SILVA team in Bremen, Germany, and the ENA team at EMBL-EBI in Hinxton, UK) are responsible for developing the online interactive system and will be coordinating community input from curators and taxonomy experts. They have been maintaining the energy and cohesiveness of the UniEuk effort from the beginning, initially under supervision from the committees.

UniEuk Implementers

Cédric Berney
Cédric Berney Taxonomy Coordinator Station Biologique, CNRS & Sorbonne University, Roscoff, France
Christian Quast
Christian Quast EukMap Development Ribocon GmbH, Bremen Germany
Jan Gerken
Jan Gerken EukMap Development Coordinator Leibniz Institute DSMZ, Bremen, Germany
Jeena Rajan
Jeena Rajan UniEuk-ENA liaison European Nucleotide Archive, EMBL-EBI, Hinxton, UK
Frédéric Mahe
Frédéric Mahe EukBank analysis pipeline CIRAD, Montpellier, France
Maksym Pyatygorskyy
Maksym Pyatygorskyy former team member Jacobs University & MPI Marine Microbiology, Bremen, Germany
Vishnukumar Kadhirvelu
Vishnukumar Kadhirvelu UniEuk-ENA liaison European Nucleotide Archive, EMBL-EBI, Hinxton, UK
Nicolas Henry
Nicolas Henry EukBank analysis pipeline Station Biologique, CNRS & Sorbonne University, Roscoff, France
Andreea Ciuprina
Andreea Ciuprina former team member Jacobs University & MPI for Marine Microbiology, Bremen Germany
Stéphane Audic
Stéphane Audic former team member Station Biologique, CNRS & Sorbonne University, Roscoff, France

Steering Committee

original Steering Committee, 2016 — 2019

Colomban De Vargas
Colomban De Vargas UniEuk Director Station Biologique, CNRS & UPMC, Roscoff, France
Pelin Yilmaz
Pelin Yilmaz UniEuk co-Director MPI Marine Microbiology, Bremen, Germany
Juliet Brodie
Juliet Brodie The Natural History Museum, London, UK
Virginia Edgcomb
Virginia Edgcomb Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole, USA
Eunsoo Kim
Eunsoo Kim American Museum of Natural History, New York, USA
Sina Adl
Sina Adl University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Canada
Guy Cochrane
Guy Cochrane European Nucleotide Archive, EMBL-EBI, Cambridge, UK
Javier Del Campo
Javier Del Campo University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada
Stefan Geisen
Stefan Geisen NIOO-KNAW, Wageningen, The Netherlands
Frank Oliver Glöckner
Frank Oliver Glöckner Max Planck Institute & Jacobs University, Bremen, Germany
Alastair Simpson
Alastair Simpson Dalhousie University, Halifax, Canada

Advisory Council

original Advisory Council, 2016 — 2019

David Caron
David Caron AC chair University of Southern California, Los Angeles, USA
Sandra Baldauf
Sandra Baldauf University of Uppsala, Uppsala, Sweden
Sonya Dyhrman
Sonya Dyhrman Columbia University, New York, USA
Laura Katz
Laura Katz Smith College, Northampton, USA
Connie Lovejoy
Connie Lovejoy Université Laval, Quebec City, Canada
Alexandra Worden
Alexandra Worden MBARI, Moss Landing, USA
John Archibald
John Archibald Dalhousie University, Halifax, Canada
David Bass
David Bass CEFAS, Weymouth & NHM, London, UK
Patrick Keeling
Patrick Keeling UBC, Vancouver, Canada
Jan Pawlowski
Jan Pawlowski University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland

Scientific & Technical Advisory Board

original Scientific & Technical Advisory Board, 2016 — 2019

Micah Dunthorn
Micah Dunthorn STAB chair University of Kaiserslautern, Kaiserslautern, Germany
Linda Amaral Zettler
Linda Amaral Zettler MBL, Woods Hole, USA
Claire Gachon
Claire Gachon Scottish Association for Marine Science, Oban, UK
Laure Guillou
Laure Guillou Station Biologique, CNRS & UPMC, Roscoff, France
Line Le Gall
Line Le Gall MNHN, Paris, France
Laura Wegener Parfrey
Laura Wegener Parfrey UBC, Vancouver, Canada
Matthew Brown
Matthew Brown Mississippi State University, Mississippi State, USA
Enrique Lara
Enrique Lara University of Neuchâtel, Neuchâtel, Switzerland
Frédéric Mahé
Frédéric Mahé CIRAD, Montpellier, France
Ramon Massana
Ramon Massana Institut de Ciències del Mar, Barcelona, Spain
Alexandros Stamatakis
Alexandros Stamatakis HITS, Heidelberg, Germany