Using the Community Search

This page allows you to search in the database for members of TAIR's community, and to register as a new user. If you are registered with TAIR, you can also use the links from this page to add your lab or add another type of organization. If you will be placing orders for stocks you must be affiliated with a lab. For information on adding your personal profile, adding a lab and making affiliations, see Registration help.

Community Search Options

TAIR's community consists of People and Organizations. You can choose to restrict your search to include only People or only Organizations and within these two groups to search for Organizations by type and People by job title. The default searches all types of People and Organizations.

Searching by name, email, city, state/province, email address, keywords and URL can be done using wild cards. For more information about using wild cards in searches see "Using Wildcards".

Search for Person or Organization

TAIR's community includes people and organizations. You can choose to search both community types or only people or only organizations.

Search by type

Use this option to search by Organization type or Persons job title

Search by name

You can search by the name of the organization or the persons last name. If you are searching for a person and know their first name or initial, you can further restrict your search by including the persons first name. First name does not work for organization searching.

Search by Email Address

If you know the person or organizations email address, enter it here. You can also include a partial email address (e.g. @arabidopsis.org) if you want to retrieve all entries based on email domain name.

Search by State/Province

To identify community members based on their location you can choose to search by state or province. For states/provinces in the US and Canada, choose one from the drop down menu. For states and provinces outside of the US/Canada, enter the name of the state/province in the input box provided.

Search by Country

To restrict your search by Country, choose a country from the drop down menu.

Search by URL

If you know all or part of the Uniform Resource Locator (URL) for a community members website, enter it here if you want to restrict your search to a specific web address.

Search by keywords

Use this option if you would like to search using keywords to find community by interests. For example to find researchers working on Arabis or organizations working on K-12 outreach try using the keywords 'K-12' or 'Arabis'.

Output Options

You can choose the format for the output of the results of your community search using the following options.

Records per page

You can choose to display 25,50,100,200 or 500 records per page for the results of your query.

Sort Records by

You can choose to display the list of results sorted according to name (ordered alphabetically by last name), community type (e.g. organization type), or location (ordered alphabetically by country then state/province).

A list of the current types of Organizations and some examples are shown in the following table.

OrganizationType	Example/Definition
Lab	A lab can be a research lab or classroom lab. To order stocks, a person must be associated with an organization of this type.Lab names generally have the format: Persons last name + Lab.
4 year college	A four year degree granting institution. e.g. Colby College.
Center	e.g. Stanford Genome Sequencing Center
Collaboration	A group of people or organizations who work together on a shared project. (e.g. Arabidopsis Genome Initiative.)
Committee	A body of persons delegated to consider, investigate, take action on, or report on some matter (e.g. Multinational Arabidopsis Steering Committee).
Company	e.g. Monsanto, Syngentia
Database	e.g. The Arabidopsis Information Resource
Education/Outreach Program	e.g. Bio-Link
Facility	e.g. U.C. Berkeley Biological Imaging Facility
Foundation	e.g. American Society of Plant Biologists Education Foundation
High School	A school that generally has students from grades 8-12.
Institute	e.g. Whitehead Institute
Lab	Can be a research lab, classroom lab or any organization for which there is a principal investigator or other party who is responsible for payments for stock orders. Only people affiliated with LABs can order stocks via the ABRC.
Middle School	A school that generally consitsts of grades 6-8.(e.g. West Valley Middle School).
Other	Any organization that does not correspond to the available selections
Primary School	A school that generally has students in grades K-5.
Professional Society	e.g. American Society of Plant Biologists
Project	A undertaking by students or researchers (e.g. Functional genomics projects).
Stock Center	Centers that supply seed or DNA stocks (e.g. ABRC, NASC).
University	an institution of higher learning providing facilities for teaching and research and authorized to grant academic degrees; specifically : one made up of an undergraduate division which confers bachelor's degrees and a graduate division which comprises a graduate school and professional schools each of which may confer master's degrees and doctorates (e.g. University of California, Yale Univeristy).
Unknown	Any organization whose type has not been specified.

The current list of job titles is shown below.

Job Title
Advisory Board Member
Assistant Professor
Associate Professor
Board Member
Coordinator
Curator
Director
Elementary School Student
Elementary School Teacher
Graduate Student
High School Student
High School Teacher
Lecturer
Librarian
Middle School Student
Middle School Teacher
Post-doctoral researcher
President
Professor
Programmer
Project Leader
Research Assistant
Research Associate
Research Fellow
Research Scientist
Senior Lecturer
Senior Research Officer
Teacher
Undergraduate Student
Unknown
Other