The Virtual Fly Brain Team
Meet the interdisciplinary team behind Virtual Fly Brain based in leading UK institutions. Our collaborative approach brings together expertise in informatics, neuroscience, ontology development, and data curation to maintain and enhance this comprehensive Drosophila neuroscience resource.
Current Team Members
Robert Court (Lead DevOps) [1]
Clare Pilgrim (Ontology Editor/Curator) [2]
Alex McLachlan (Curator/UX Tester) [2]
Gillian Millburn (Senior Curator) [2]
Douglas Armstrong (Current Project PI) [1]
Nick Brown (Current Project PI) [2]
Greg Jefferis (Current Project PI) [4,5]
David Osumi-Sutherland (Current Project Co-I) [3]
Marta Costa (Current Project Co-I) [4]
Past Team Members
Nestor Milyaev (2009-2012) [1]
Alex Holmes (2017-2019) [2]
Aoife Larkin (2017-2019) [2]
Huseyin Kir (2021-2024) [6]
Nico Matentzoglu (2018-2022) [6]
Simon Reeve (2009-2011) [7]
Nicole Staudt (2015-2016) [7]
Helen Parkinson (Former PI) [6]
Cahir O’Kane (Former PI) [7]
Michael Ashburner (Original PI and Grant Holder) [7]
Affiliations
- Institute for Adaptive and Neural Computation, School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh
- Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience
- Wellcome Sanger Institute, Cambridge
- Department of Zoology, University of Cambridge
- MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge
- European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI), Cambridge
- Department of Genetics, University of Cambridge
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.