Steering commitee

Development of MIAPPE is currently overseen by a steering committee whose members represent a variety of interested countries, institutes and projects. Members of this committee can also be active developers of the standard. The current committee comprises:

• Daniel Arend (Leibniz-Institut Für Pflanzengenetik und Kulturpflanzenforschung, Gatersleben, Germany)
• Elizabeth Arnaud (Bioversity International, Montpellier, France)
• Noah Fahlgren (Danforth Plant Science Center, United States of America)
• Paweł Krajewski (Institute of Plant Genetics, Polish Academy of Sciences, Poznań, Poland)
• Mohsen Yoosefzadeh Najafabadi (University of Guelph, Ontario, Canada)
• Cyril Pommier (INRAE, Versailles, France)

Among the current projects of the steering committee is the development of a full governance mechanism including the election of future versions of the committee. Minutes of the committee's meetings are published on GitHub; read them here.

Previous members

• Paul Kersey (Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, United Kingdom)
• Matthias Lange (Leibniz-Institut Für Pflanzengenetik und Kulturpflanzenforschung, Gatersleben, Germany)
• Carolyn Lawrence-Dill (Iowa State University, United States of America)
• Bjoern Usadel (Forschungszentrum Jülich, Germany)

Developers

The following people are among those who are or have been actively involved in MIAPPE development:

• Anne-Françoise Adam-Blondon (INRAE, Versailles, France)
• Elizabeth Arnaud (Bioversity International, Montpellier, France)
• Daniel Arend (Leibniz-Institut Für Pflanzengenetik und Kulturpflanzenforschung, Gatersleben, Germany)
• Hanna Ćwiek-Kupczyńska (Institute of Plant Genetics, Polish Academy of Sciences, Poznań, Poland)
• Paweł Krajewski (Institute of Plant Genetics, Polish Academy of Sciences, Poznań, Poland)
• Daniel Faria (BioData.pt, Lisbon, Portugal)
• Cyril Pommier (INRAE, Versailles, France)
• Fabio Fiorani (Forschungszentrum Jülich, Jülich, Germany)
• Astrid Junker (Leibniz-Institut Für Pflanzengenetik und Kulturpflanzenforschung, Gatersleben, Germany)
• Célia Miguel (INRA, Lisboa, Portugal)
• Pascal Neveu (INRA, Montepellier, France)
• Eliana Papoutsoglou (WUR, Wageningen, Nederlands)
• Philippe Rocca-Serra (University of Oxford e-Research Centre, UK)
• Paul Kersey (Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, United Kingdom)
• Bjoern Usadel (Forschungszentrum Jülich, Germany)
• Matthias Lange (Leibniz-Institut Für Pflanzengenetik und Kulturpflanzenforschung, Gatersleben, Germany)
• Susanna-Assunta Sansone (University of Oxford e-Research Centre, UK)
• Uwe Scholz (Leibniz-Institut Für Pflanzengenetik und Kulturpflanzenforschung, Gatersleben, Germany)
• Ümit Seren (Gregor Mendel Institute, Vienna, Austria)

If you have also been involved, and would like to have your name added here, please send a mail to miappe-steering@ebi.ac.uk.

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