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:

Shinya Fushinobu (Japan)
Prof. K.F. Tipton (Ireland)
JCBN:

Dr K. Axelsen (Switzerland)
Dr R Caspi (USA, Secretary of both Committees and Treasurer)
Associate members:

NC-IUBMB:

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

Prof. A.P. Rauter (Portugal)
Ex Officio:

Dr Michelle M Rogers (USA)
Database Representatives:

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

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

Alphabetical List of Members & Addresses

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, worldwide 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

Shinya Fushinobu

Department of Biotechnology,
The University of Tokyo, Tokyo,
1-1-1 Yayoi, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113-8657, Japan.
Tel: +81-3-5841-5151.
E-mail: asfushi@mail.ecc.u-tokyo.ac.jp
Expertise: enzymology especially glycoside hydrolases

Dr. Antje Jäde

Department for Bioinformatics & Biochemistry
BRICS, Braunschweig Integrated Centre for Systems Biology
Technische Universität Braunschweig
Rebenring 56
38106 Braunschweig
Germany
Tel +49 531 391 55206
E-mail antje.jaede@dsmz.de
Expertise: BRENDA enzyme database

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 1737 765 508
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.

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, chemical nomenclature

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. 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 6 June, 2024.

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