Oversees the building of resources and determines its priorities.
| Principal investigator | Dr TL Wang, Metabolic Biology, JIC |
| Co-investigator | Dr J Clarke, Genome Centre, JIC |
| External representative | Dr M Schultze |
Consists of four experts in their field who will advise the steering group and play a role in monitoring the platform and developing the self-sustainability of the project
Professor Robbie Waugh, Scottish Crop Research Institute (http://www.scri.ac.uk/)
Professor Waugh is head of a programme at SCRI and is familiar with reverse genetics platforms, set up the barley TILLING Platform at SCRI
Dr Michael Udvardi, Noble Foundation (http://www.noble.org/PlantBio/index.htm)
Dr Udvardi is an international expert who has workded for many years on Lotus and Arabidopsis and now heads the Medicago group at the Noble Foundation
Dr Sean May, NASC
(http://arabidopsis.info/)
Dr May is the Director of NASC , the European Arabidopsis Stock Centre and has considerable experience of resource management.
Mr Mike J Ambrose, JIC Germplasm Manager
(http://www.jic.ac.uk/corporate/about/index.htm)
Mike Ambrose is the Germplasm Curator at JIC and has experience of storage, cataloguing and the distribution of seed.


