ADVISORY COMMITTEE
Essential to the successful running of GARNet is the GARNet Advisory Committee, which links GARNet to the community and keeps us up to date with the day to day experiences and issue of researchers. The committee currently consists of 10 elected members, who contribute their time on a voluntary basis. The committee provides GARNet with an oversight body that ensures direct community input to GARNet’s strategy and actions.
Each member serves a term of three years and annual elections are held in November/December to elect new members. The committee is elected from the community to represent and serve the needs of the community. If you would like to know more about becoming a GARNet committee member please get in touch.
In addition to the elected members the committee also includes the GARNet PI (Jim Murray), GARNet Coordinator (Geraint Parry) and three ex-offico members; Ruth Bastow, Sean May and Sabina Leonelli.
From time to time the GARNet Committee receives requests for letters of support for community resource grants. Information regarding letters of support can be found here.
Ruth Bastow
Centre for Crop Health and Protection (CHAP)
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Ruth Bastow has been associated with GARNet for over a decade, holding the role of co-ordinator from 2004-2017. She is currently the Innovation Director for the Centre for Crop Health and Protection (CHAP) based in York. Ruth remains an ex officio member of the GARNet advisory board. Before joining GARNet Ruth worked as a post doctoral researcher in the labs of Prof Caroline Dean (John Innes Centre) and Prof Julie Gray (University of Sheffield). She carried out her Ph.D in the lab of Prof Andrew Millar (University of Edinburgh).
During her time with GARNet she took a particular interest in the issues surrounding the use of big data in plant sciences. Her publications have included:
Leonelli S, Davey RP, Arnaud E, Parry G, Bastow R (2017) Data management and best practice for plant science. Nature Plants 6 3.
Leonelli S, Smirnoff N, Moore J, Cook C, Bastow R (2013) Making open data work for plant scientists. Journal of Experimental Botany 64 (14) 4109-17
International Arabidopsis Informatics Consortium (2012) Taking the next step: building an Arabidopsis information portal. Plant Cell 24(6) 2248-56.
Bastow RM, Leonelli S (2010) Sustainable digital infrastructure. Although databases and other online resources have become a central tool for biological research, their long-term support and maintenance is far from secure. EMBO Reports 11(10) 730-4