About PortEco

PortEco is a next-generation resource for knowledge and data about the biology of Escherichia coli K-12 group strains (these are laboratory strains and are not pathogenic), its bacteriophages, plasmids, and mobile genetic elements. PortEco is being developed by a national consortium of both laboratory biologists and computational biologists, and is funded by a grant from the U.S. National Institutes of Health.

PortEco is dedicated to serving research and education aims related to E. coli as a model biological system. E. coli is the best studied free-living organism and our knowledge about E. coli informs almost all aspects of basic and applied microbiology.

Contact us at portecohelp@gmail.com.

PortEco Leadership Team

• Paul D. Thomas, University of Southern California, PI
• Jim Hu, Texas A&M University, PI
• Catherine Ball, Stanford University, PI
• Peter D. Karp, SRI International
• Deborah Siegele, Texas A&M University

PortEco Steering Committee

• Carol Gross, University of California, San Francisco, chair
• Richard Gourse, University of Wisconsin, co-chair
• Michael Reddy, National Institutes of Health
• Carol Bult, The Jackson Laboratory
• Rex Chisholm, Northwestern University
• Roger Hendrix, University of Pittsburgh
• Terence Hwa, University of California, San Diego
• Arkady Khodursky, University of Minnesota
• Tricia Kiley, University of Wisconsin
• Robert Landick, University of Wisconsin
• Philip Matsumura, University of Illinois-Chicago
• Amy Vollmer, Swarthmore College