It is our great pleasure to announce the recipient of the 2020 Biocuration Award:
Midori Harris from PomBase, University of Cambridge, UK was unanimously selected for the Biocuration Career Award.
Midori started her career in biocuration at Saccharomyces Genome Database as a curator and Gene Ontology (GO) developer. Her colleague, Val Wood, the PomBase project manager, attributes a large part of the success of GO to Midori’s insight, precision and clarity. Midori currently works for PomBase, which now benefits from her skills in both curation best practice, and in the development of the Fission Yeast Phenotype Ontology (FYPO). Midori is currently collaborating with EBI and Monarch Initiative to integrate FYPO into uPheno which will help to provide much needed generic phenotype terms for describing cell level phenotypes. She also now maintains the Fungal Anatomy Ontology FAO. All of these projects have far reaching benefits across many areas of biocuration and biology.
Thank you to the Award committee:
- Tiffany Callahan, Computational Biology PhD Candidate at University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, USA
- Violeta Ilik, Head Digital Collections and Preservation Systems at Columbia University in the City of New York, USA
- Varsha Khodiyar, Data Curation Manager at Springer Nature, UK
- Michael Livstone, Senior Scientific Data Curator at Bristol-Myers Squibb, USA
- Luana Licata, Scientific Database Curator at University of Rome “Tor Vergata”, Italy
- Zhang Zhang, Professor at National Genomics Data Center, China
Congratulations to Midori!
