Zebrafish work at the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute

Dear All,

 

I am writing to update you regarding the zebrafish work at the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute. As some of you might know Derek Stemple has recently left the institute.  Derek has been at the Institute since June 2003 and has been the Head of the Mouse and Zebrafish Genetics programme since 2010.  During his time at the Sanger he has made a transformative impact on his field.  His work on the Zebrafish genome has made it one of the most comprehensively studied vertebrate genomes next to human and mouse. He also oversaw the generation of a zebrafish mutation resource knocking out over 13,000 genes. He has made an extremely substantial contribution to Sanger science and we wish him all the best for his future. 

 

I am aware that the Zebrafish Mutation Project under Derek’s leadership has collaborated with a number of groups internationally and as a result plays an important role within the zebrafish research community.   Moving forward Elisabeth Busch-Nentwich as Head of the Vertebrate Genetics and Genomics group will continue to work closely with many of you. The Institute will support Elisabeth and the team to transfer the research and resources to an appropriate new host institution in the future. During this period of change Elisabeth and I are keen to continue to support maximum access to the resources and data generated and maintain collaborations with the wider research community.  If you have any questions please contact Elisabeth in the first instance.

 

Many thanks,

 

Mike


Professor Sir Mike Stratton FMedSci FRS
Director, Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute
Chief Executive, Wellcome Genome Campus
Hinxton, Cambridge CB10 1SA, United Kingdom

Tel: +44 (0)1223 494757
email: mrs@sanger.ac.uk

Jo Jones (Executive Personal Assistant)                          Tel: +44 (0)1223 494739
Rachel Curran (Associate Director Academic Affairs)        Tel: +44 (0)1223 496979

Julia Wilson (Associate Director External Relations)         Tel: +44 (0) 1223 492357