NASC

The Nottingham Arabidopsis Stock Centre (NASC) provides seed and information resources to the International Arabidopsis Genome Programme and the wider research community.

It was established in April 1991 as part of the Plant Molecular Biology initiative of the Agricultural and Food Research Council (AFRC). It is based in the Plant Science Division of the School of Biosciences at the University of Nottingham, Sutton Bonington Campus, UK. Maps of the campus and directions to get here are available. The Centre is funded by the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC) and the University of Nottingham.

The Stock Centre is Directed by Sean May and managed by Marcos Castellanos-Uribe.

NASC's activities are coordinated with those of the Arabidopsis Biological Resource Center, (ABRC) based at Ohio State University, USA. This facilitates a unified and efficient service for the research community.

The stock centres have a distribution agreement. NASC distributes to Europe and ABRC distributes to America. Laboratories in other locations may establish their primary affiliation with either centre.

NASC Oversight

• Director:

• Prof. Sean May – Chair of Plant Cyberinfrastructure, University of Nottingham

• Operations Manager:

• Dr. Marcos Castellanos-Uribe – NASC Operations Manager, University of Nottingham

  Advisory Board:

• Chair: Prof. Don Grierson OBE, FRS, Emeritus Professor - Nottingham University.
• Prof. Matt Dickinson (Nottingham) – Professor of Plant Biotechnology, Head of Plant and Crop Science.
• Prof. Keith Lindsay (Durham) – School of Biological and Biomedical Sciences; senior advisor to BBSRC/DEFRA.
• Prof. Hugh Shanahan (Royal Holloway) - Lecturer in Computer Science, Centre for Systems and Synthetic Biology.
• Dr. Sabina Leonelli (Exeter) – Philosophy, history and sociology of data-intensive science specialising in model organisms.
• Dr. Andrew Harrison (Essex) - Senior Lecturer in Bioinformatics/Applied Mathematics.