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.