Nomenclature Committee of IUBMB (NC-IUBMB)

IUPAC-IUBMB Joint Commission on Biochemical Nomenclature (JCBN)

Membership:

NC-IUBMB:

Dr A. McDonald (Ireland)
Dr G.P. Moss (UK, Chairman of both Committees)
Dr. I. Schomburg (Germany)
NC-IUBMB and JCBN:

Dr K. Axelsen (Switzerland)
Prof. K.F. Tipton (Ireland)
JCBN:

Dr R Caspi (USA, Secretary of both Committees and Treasurer)
Dr G. Owen (UK)
Associate members:

NC-IUBMB:

Prof M. Kotera (Japan)
Prof. J.F.G. Vliegenthart (Netherlands)
JCBN:

Dr T. Damhus (Denmark)
Prof. A.P. Rauter (Portugal)
Ex Officio:

Dr Michelle M Rogers (USA)
Database Representatives:

BRENDA Prof. Dr D. Schomburg (Germany)
KEGG Prof. Minoru Kanehisa (Japan)
wwPDB Prof. H. Berman (USA)
Emeritus Members:

Prof. R. Cammack (UK)
Dr A. Cornish-Bowden (France)

Alphabetical List of Members & Addresses

Dr Rolf Apweiler
European Bioinformatics Institute
Hinxton Hall
Hinxton
Cambridge CB10 1SD
UK
Tel: +44 1223 494 435
Fax: +44 1223 494 468
E-mail: apweiler@ebi.ac.uk
Database representative
Expertise: UniProtKB and EMBL databases; sequence analysis; sequence databases.

Dr Kristian Axelsen

Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics
Swiss-Prot group
CMU - 1, rue Michel Servet
CH-1211 Geneva 4
Switzerland
Tel: +45 35 28 25 93
Fax: +41 22 379 58 58
E-mail: Kristian.Axelsen@sib.swiss
NC-IUBMB and JCBN member
Expertise: Swiss-Prot enzyme database, Rhea, UniProtKB/Swiss-Prot databases

Prof. Helen Berman

Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology
Rutgers University
610 Taylor Road
Piscataway NJ 08854
USA
Tel: +1 732 445 4667
Fax: +1 732 445 4320
E-mail: berman@rcsb.rutgers.edu
Database representative
Expertise: nucleic acid structures; crystallography; protein structure; protein/nucleic acid interactions; nucleic acid database, woldwide protein data bank

Dr Ron Caspi

Scientific Database Curator
Bioinformatics Research Group
SRI International
Room AE217
333 Ravenswood Avenue
Menlo Park, CA 94025-3493
USA
Tel: +1 650 859 5323
Fax: +1 650 859 3735
E-mail: ron.caspi@sri.com
Secretary of both Committees and Treasurer, JCBN member
Expertise: The MetaCyc metabolic pathway database and enzyme nomenclature

Dr Ture Damhus

DK-2100 Copenhagen Ø
Denmark
E-mail: turedamhus@outlook.dk
JCBN associate member
Expertise: chemical nomenclature

., The Lubrizol Corporation, Chagrin Falls, Ohio, United States Dr Michelle M Rogers
Product Safety and Compliance
The Lubrizol Corporation
Chagrin Falls, Ohio
USA
Tel: +27-21-650 2550-->
email: michelle.m.rogers@gmail.com
ex officio President of Division VIII
Expertise: Chemical nomenclature

Prof. Masaaki Kotera
Laboratory of Molecular and Cellular Assembly
Tokyo Institute of Technology
2-12-1 Ookayama, Meguro-ku, Tokyo, 152-8550
Japan
Tel: +81 3 5734 3432
Fax: +81 3 5734 3630
E-mail: maskot1977@gmail.com
NC-IUBMB associate member
Expertise: bioinformatics, Kyoto Encyclopedia of Genes and Genomes (KEGG) databases, metabolic pathways

Dr Andrew McDonald

Department of Biochemistry and Immunology
Trinity College Dublin
Dublin 2
Ireland
Tel: +353 1 896 1853
Fax: +353 1 6772 400
E-mail: amcdonld@tcd.ie
NC-IUBMB member
Expertise: ExplorEnz database

Dr Gerard P. Moss

School of Physical and Chemical Sciences
Queen Mary University of London
Mile End Road
London E1 4NS
England
Tel: +44 20 7882 5555
Fax: +44 20 7882 7794
E-mail: g.p.moss@qmul.ac.uk
Chairman of both JCBN and NC-IUBMB; NC-JCBN member
Expertise: natural product chemistry; organic chemical nomenclature.

Dr Gareth Owen

EMBL-EBI
Wellcome Genome Campus
Hinxton
Cambridgeshire CB10 1SD
England
Tel: +44 1223 494 556
Fax: +44 1223 494 468
E-mail: gowen@ebi.ac.uk
JCBN member
Expertise: ChEBI Database.

Prof. Amélia Pilar Rauter

Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry
Faculdade de Cincias da Universidade de Lisboa
Ed C8, Piso 5, Campo Grande
1749-016 Lisboa, Portugal
Tel: +351 217500952
Fax: +351 217500088
E-mail: aprauter@fc.ul.pt
JCBN associate member
Expertise: carbohydrates, natural product chemistry, chemicalnomenclature

Prof. Dr Dietmar Schomburg

Department for Bioinformatics & Biochemistry
BRICS, Braunschweig Integrated Centre for Systems Biology
Technische Universität Braunschweig
Rebenring 56
38106 Braunschweig
Germany
Tel. +49-531-391-55206
Fax +49-531-391-55199
E-mail: D.Schomburg@tu-bs.de
Database representative
Expertise: structure and function of proteins, bioinformatics, BRENDA enzyme database

Dr Ida Schomburg

Department for Bioinformatics & Biochemistry
BRICS, Braunschweig Integrated Centre for Systems Biology
Technische Universität Braunschweig
Rebenring 56
38106 Braunschweig
Germany
Tel. +49-531-391-55206
Fax +49-531-391-55199
E-mail: I.Schomburg@tu-bs.de
NC-IUBMB member
Expertise: structure and function of proteins, bioinformatics, BRENDA enzyme database

Prof. Keith F. Tipton

Department of Biochemistry and Immunology
Trinity College Dublin
Dublin 2
Ireland
Tel: +353 1 608 1802
Fax: +353 1 6772 400
E-mail: ktipton@tcd.ie
NC-IUBMB and JCBN member
Expertise: enzyme nomenclature.

Prof. J.F.G. (Hans) Vliegenthart

Bioorganisch Laboratorium der Universiteit
Postbus 80.075
NL-3508 TB Utrecht
The Netherlands
Tel: +31 30 253 21 68 or 21 84
Fax: +31 30 254 09 80
E-mail: j.f.g.vliegenthart@chem.uu.nl
NC-IUBMB associate member
Expertise: carbohydrate nomenclature

Last updated 30 September, 2020.

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