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JAX Frontend Platform

About JAX GDI

The JAX Genetic Diversity Initiative is a strategic effort to increase the awareness and availability of diversity mouse populations and associated tools across the research community. These populations are powering a revolution in model organism research that will enable major advancements in the understanding of complex genetic traits.

Sponsors

Steering Committee

  • Bill Buaas, Ph.D., Associate Director, Operational Efficiency and Platform Development,JAX Mice®, Clinical and Research Services
  • Elissa Chesler, Ph.D., Professor, Ann Watson Symington Chair in Addiction Research
  • Gary Churchill, Ph.D., Professor, Karl Gunnar Johansson Chair
  • Beth Dumont, Ph.D., Assistant Professor
  • Michael Ellis, Associate Director, Product Management and Business Analytics,JAX Mice®, Clinical and Research Services
  • Dan Gatti, Ph.D., Senior Computational Scientist, Computational Sciences
  • Cat Lutz, Ph.D., M.B.A, Sr. Director, Mouse Repository & In Vivo Pharmacology Genetic Resource Science, Senior Research Scientist
  • Laura Reinholdt, Ph.D., Associate Professor
  • Charlie Wray, Ph.D., Vice President, Education

Diversity Strain Informatics Project Team

  • Alex Berger, Scientific Software Engineer, Computational Sciences
  • Mandy Chen , Ph.D., Computational Scientist, Computational Sciences
  • Sejal Desai, Manager, Software Quality Assurance, Computational Sciences
  • Matt Dunn, Scientific Software Engineer, Chesler Lab
  • Dan Gatti, Ph.D., Senior Computational Scientist, Computational Sciences
  • Hao He, Ph.D., Associate Computational Scientist, Computational Sciences
  • Beena Kadakkuzha, Ph.D., Senior Research Project Manager, Computational Sciences
  • Aaron McDivitt, System Administrator, Research Information Technology
  • Gaurab Mukherjee, Ph.D., Scientific Curator, Blake Lab
  • Vivek Philip, Ph.D., Director, Biostatistics & Technologies, Computational Sciences
  • Gregg TeHennepe, Director, Operations, Computational Sciences
  • Matt Vincent, Senior Scientific Software Engineer, Churchill Lab
  • Dave Walton, Principal Scientific Software Engineer, Computational Sciences

For general questions associated with effort, send email to [email protected].

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