Susan Bello, Ph.D.

Senior Scientific Curator

Developing phenotype and disease ontologies to capture data from research and support cross-species analyses

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Topics

Bioinformatics
Genetics and Genomics
Resource Development and Dissemination

I work as a Senior Scientific Curator on the Mouse Genome Informatics MGI database and on the Alliance of Genome Resources. I also help to develop the Mammalian Phenotype Ontology, the Unified Phenotype Ontology and the Human Disease Ontology.

Biocuration 2020 Conference

Susan Bello on ORCID

Selected Publications

63 Köhler S, Carmody L, Vasilevsky N, Jacobsen JOB, Danis D, Gourdine JP, Gargano M, Harris NL, Matentzoglu N, McMurry JA, Osumi-Sutherland D, Cipriani V, Balhoff JP, Conlin T, Blau H, Baynam G, Palmer R, Gratian D, Dawkins H, Segal M, Jansen AC, Muaz A, Chang WH, Bergerson J, Laulederkind SJF, Yüksel Z, Beltran S, Freeman AF, Sergouniotis PI, Durkin D, Storm AL, Hanauer M, Brudno M, Bello SM, Sincan M, Rageth K, Wheeler MT, Oegema R, Lourghi H, Della Rocca MG, Thompson R, Castellanos F, Priest J, Cunningham-Rundles C, Hegde A, Lovering RC, Hajek C, Olry A, Notarangelo L, Similuk M, Zhang XA, Gómez-Andrés D, Lochmüller H, Dollfus H, Rosenzweig S, Marwaha S, Rath A, Sullivan K, Smith C, Milner JD, Leroux D, Boerkoel CF, Klion A, Carter MC, Groza T, Smedley D, Haendel MA, Mungall C, Robinson PN. Expansion of the Human Phenotype Ontology (HPO) knowledge base and resources. Nucleic Acids Res. 2019 Jan 8; 47(D1):D1018-D1027
12 Smith CM, Hayamizu TF, Finger JH, Bello SM, McCright IJ, Xu J, Baldarelli RM, Beal JS, Campbell J, Corbani LE, Frost PJ, Lewis JR, Giannatto SC, Miers D, Shaw DR, Kadin JA, Richardson JE, Smith CL, Ringwald M. The mouse Gene Expression Database (GXD): 2019 update. Nucleic Acids Res. 2019 Jan 8; 47(D1):D774-D779
26 Bello SM, Shimoyama M, Mitraka E, Laulederkind SJF, Smith CL, Eppig JT, Schriml LM. Disease Ontology: improving and unifying disease annotations across species. Dis Model Mech. 2018 Mar 12; 11(3)
103 Köhler S, Vasilevsky NA, Engelstad M, Foster E, McMurry J, Aymé S, Baynam G, Bello SM, Boerkoel CF, Boycott KM, Brudno M, Buske OJ, Chinnery PF, Cipriani V, Connell LE, Dawkins HJ, DeMare LE, Devereau AD, de Vries BB, Firth HV, Freson K, Greene D, Hamosh A, Helbig I, Hum C, Jähn JA, James R, Krause R, F Laulederkind SJ, Lochmüller H, Lyon GJ, Ogishima S, Olry A, Ouwehand WH, Pontikos N, Rath A, Schaefer F, Scott RH, Segal M, Sergouniotis PI, Sever R, Smith CL, Straub V, Thompson R, Turner C, Turro E, Veltman MW, Vulliamy T, Yu J, von Ziegenweidt J, Zankl A, Züchner S, Zemojtel T, Jacobsen JO, Groza T, Smedley D, Mungall CJ, Haendel M, Robinson PN. The Human Phenotype Ontology in 2017. Nucleic Acids Res. 2017 Jan 4; 45(D1):D865-D876
27 Dolan ME, Baldarelli RM, Bello SM, Ni L, McAndrews MS, Bult CJ, Kadin JA, Richardson JE, Ringwald M, Eppig JT, Blake JA. Orthology for comparative genomics in the mouse genome database. Mamm Genome. 2015 Aug; 26(7-8):305-13
34 Bello SM, Smith CL, Eppig JT. Allele, phenotype and disease data at Mouse Genome Informatics: improving access and analysis. Mamm Genome. 2015 Aug; 26(7-8):285-94
38 Park CA, Bello SM, Smith CL, Hu ZL, Munzenmaier DH, Nigam R, Smith JR, Shimoyama M, Eppig JT, Reecy JM. The Vertebrate Trait Ontology: a controlled vocabulary for the annotation of trait data across species. J Biomed Semantics. 2013 Aug 9; 4(1):13
33 Arighi CN, Carterette B, Cohen KB, Krallinger M, Wilbur WJ, Fey P, Dodson R, Cooper L, Van Slyke CE, Dahdul W, Mabee P, Li D, Harris B, Gillespie M, Jimenez S, Roberts P, Matthews L, Becker K, Drabkin H, Bello S, Licata L, Chatr-aryamontri A, Schaeffer ML, Park J, Haendel M, Van Auken K, Li Y, Chan J, Muller HM, Cui H, Balhoff JP, Chi-Yang Wu J, Lu Z, Wei CH, Tudor CO, Raja K, Subramani S, Natarajan J, Cejuela JM, Dubey P, Wu C. An overview of the BioCreative 2012 Workshop Track III: interactive text mining task. Database (Oxford). 2013; 2013:bas056
7 Bello SM, Richardson JE, Davis AP, Wiegers TC, Mattingly CJ, Dolan ME, Smith CL, Blake JA, Eppig JT. Disease model curation improvements at Mouse Genome Informatics. Database (Oxford). 2012; 2012:bar063
0 Bello SM, Heideman W, Peterson RE. 2,3,7,8-Tetrachlorodibenzo-p-dioxin inhibits regression of the common cardinal vein in developing zebrafish. Toxicol Sci. 2004 Apr; 78(2):258-66
0 Hill AJ, Bello SM, Prasch AL, Peterson RE, Heideman W. Water permeability and TCDD-induced edema in zebrafish early-life stages. Toxicol Sci. 2004 Mar; 78(1):78-87
0 Bard SM, Bello SM, Hahn ME, Stegeman JJ. Expression of P-glycoprotein in killifish (Fundulus heteroclitus) exposed to environmental xenobiotics. Aquat Toxicol. 2002 Sep 24; 59(3-4):237-51

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Additional resources

The uPheno Ontology
Disease Ontology
Mammalian Phenotype Browser
Mouse Genome Informatics
Alliance of Genome Resources

Education and experience

Education

The University of Wisconsin - Madison
Postdoctoral fellow
Adv: Dr. Richard Peterson
2000-2004

Massachusetts Institute of Technology/Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution Joint Program
Ph.D., Biological Oceanography
Adv: Dr. Mark Hahn
1993-1999

Michigan State University
B.S., Fisheries & Wildlife, Biology, Zoology
1989-1993