Governance
The DGEMap project finished in July 2009 but activities are continuing via the Human Developmental Studies Network (HUDSEN). Please visit the HUDSEN website with links to the electronic atlas of the developing human brain and human spatial gene expression database for the latest resources and information. These web pages have been left up as a record only.
DGEMap is coordinated by Professor Susan Lindsay from the Institute of Human Genetics at Newcastle University (Newcastle upon Tyne, UK) who is assisted by Dr Marie-Laure Muiras as DGEMap Project Manager and, as of April 2009, Dr Rosa Spencer as Assistant Project Manager.
In addition, two committees oversee DGEMap activities:
- the Steering Committee
- the Scientific Advisory Committee
Steering Committee
A Steering Committee (SC) has been established with one duly authorised representative for each of the design study tasks (DS Leaders), the Project Manager and the Bioinformatics Advisor. The SC is chaired by the Coordinator.
The SC meet quarterly and its main task is to monitor the overall direction and priorities of the Project. If required these meetings would also be the forum for discussing any major changes to project strategy. It is expected that decisions will be reached by consensus at these meetings. If this is not possible then the issue would be voted on with the the lead participants, the Bioinformatics Advisor and the project manager each having a single vote. In the event of a tied vote, the Co-ordinator would have the casting vote.
Scientific Advisory Committee
The Scientific Advisory Committee (SAC) include senior scientists from relevant fields such as genetics, ethics, developmental biology and bioinformatics. They come from centres of excellence, primarily in Europe but may include leading experts from other areas of the world:
- Prof. Bob Anderson, ICH - Cardiac Unit, University College London, London, UK
- Prof Peter Brezany, Professor at the Institute of Scientific Computing, University of Vienna, Austria.
- Dr. Irina Bystron, Department of Physiology, Anatomy and Genetics, Oxford, UK (and St Petersburg, Russia)
- Prof. Andy Copp, Professor of Developmental Neurobiology, ICH (HDBR-London Director), London), London, UK
- Prof. Søren Holm, Director of Cardiff Centre for Ethics, Law and Society, Cardiff, UK
- Dr Peter Kunszt, Head of Unit at the Swiss National Supercomputing Centre CSCS, Switzerland
- Prof. Vladimir Otellin, Joseph Levy Professor of Paediatric Cardiac Morphology, Institute of Experimental Medicine, St. Petersburg, Russia
- Prof. Aurora Plomer, Prof. of Law & Bioethics; Director, SIBLE (Sheffield Institute of Biotechnology, Law and Ethics) School of Law, University of Sheffield,UK
- Prof. Luis Puelles, Head of the Human Anatomy and Psychobiology Department, University of Murcia, Murcia, Spain
- Prof. Joel Saltz, Professor and Chair of the Department of Biomedical Informatics, The Ohio State University (OSU), Columbus,US
- Dr Robert Stevens, Bioinformatics Lecturer in the BioHealth Informatics Group, University of Manchester, Manchester, UK
- Prof. Niels Tommerup, Director of Wilhelm Johannsen Centre for Functional Genome Research, Copenhagen, Denmark.
- Dr. Michel Vekemans, Department of Genetics and INSERM, Hospital Necker-Enfants Malades, Paris, France
- Prof Paul Watson, Professor of Computer Science and Director of the North East Regional e-Science Centre, Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK
The following DGEMap partners are also members of the SAC:
- Prof. Susan Lindsay, Professor of Human Developmental Genetics, HDBR-Newcastle Director and Coordinator of DGEMap, Institute of Human Genetics, Newcastle University, UK
- Dr. Marie-Laure Muiras, DGEMap Project Manager and Feasibility Analyst, Institute of Human Genetics, Newcastle University, UK
- Dr. Simon Woods, Senior lecturer at the Policy, Ethics and Life Sciences Research Institute (PEALS), and Director of Learning, Newcastle University, UK
- Prof. Malcolm Atkinson , Professor of e-Science in the School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh and Director of the e-Science Institute in Edinburgh, UK
- Prof. Richard Baldock, MRC-Human Genetics Unit in Edinburgh, UK
The Scientific Advisory Committee will enable the Design Study to draw on an international perspective to advise on the development of the new research infrastructure and to evaluate the overall implementation of the project including the research results, training, dissemination and exploitation and the required reports to the Commission. It will also advise on potential areas for new development.
The 1st SAC meeting took place on the 18th of October 2007 in Newcastle upon Tyne, UK (see pictures below)
