The JAX Genetic Diversity Initiative is a strategic effort to increase the awareness and availability of diversity mouse populations and associated tools across the research community. These populations are powering a revolution in model organism research that will enable major advancements in the understanding of complex genetic traits. 
Sponsors
Steering Committee 
- Bill Buaas, Ph.D., Associate Director, Operational Efficiency and Platform Development,JAX Mice®, Clinical and Research Services
 - Elissa Chesler, Ph.D., Professor, Ann Watson Symington Chair in Addiction Research
 - Gary Churchill, Ph.D., Professor, Karl Gunnar Johansson Chair
 - Beth Dumont, Ph.D., Assistant Professor
 - Michael Ellis, Associate Director, Product Management and Business Analytics,JAX Mice®, Clinical and Research Services
 - Dan Gatti, Ph.D., Senior Computational Scientist, Computational Sciences
 - Cat Lutz, Ph.D., M.B.A, Sr. Director, Mouse Repository & In Vivo Pharmacology Genetic Resource Science, Senior Research Scientist
 - Laura Reinholdt, Ph.D., Associate Professor
 - Charlie Wray, Ph.D., Vice President, Education
 
Diversity Strain Informatics Project Team
- Alex Berger, Scientific Software Engineer, Computational Sciences
 - Mandy Chen , Ph.D., Computational Scientist, Computational Sciences
 - Sejal Desai, Manager, Software Quality Assurance, Computational Sciences
 - Matt Dunn, Scientific Software Engineer, Chesler Lab
 - Dan Gatti, Ph.D., Senior Computational Scientist, Computational Sciences
 - Hao He, Ph.D., Associate Computational Scientist, Computational Sciences
 - Beena Kadakkuzha, Ph.D., Senior Research Project Manager, Computational Sciences
 - Aaron McDivitt, System Administrator, Research Information Technology
 - Gaurab Mukherjee, Ph.D., Scientific Curator, Blake Lab
 - Vivek Philip, Ph.D., Director, Biostatistics & Technologies, Computational Sciences
 - Gregg TeHennepe, Director, Operations, Computational Sciences
 - Matt Vincent, Senior Scientific Software Engineer, Churchill Lab
 - Dave Walton, Principal Scientific Software Engineer, Computational Sciences
 
For general questions associated with effort, send email to [email protected].