Experience

Center for Genomic and Computational Biology (GCB), Duke University

• United States
• Biotechnology Research
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Director of Informatics

  • Jun 2014 - Present

  Durham, NC, USA



Open Bioinformatics Foundation (O|B|F)

• Member, Board of Directors

  • 2001 - Present

• President, Board of Directors

  • Dec 2011 - Dec 2019


BioPerl Project
• Biotechnology
• Core Developer

  • 2000 - Present


National Evolutionary Synthesis Center (NESCent)

• Research Services
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Assistant Director for Informatics

  • May 2006 - Jun 2015

  Durham, North Carolina I managed and led NESCent's Informatics program, which supported the informatics needs of the scientists sponsored by the Center, and promoted community-driven cyberinfrastructure initiatives towards sharing, reuse, and interoperability of software and data. I brought the Hackathon program as well as the Google Summer of Code participation to the Center (see http://informatics.nescent.org/wiki/). I also serve as senior personnel in the NSF-funded Phenoscape project (http://phenoscape.org) and… Show more I managed and led NESCent's Informatics program, which supported the informatics needs of the scientists sponsored by the Center, and promoted community-driven cyberinfrastructure initiatives towards sharing, reuse, and interoperability of software and data. I brought the Hackathon program as well as the Google Summer of Code participation to the Center (see http://informatics.nescent.org/wiki/). I also serve as senior personnel in the NSF-funded Phenoscape project (http://phenoscape.org) and the Dryad digital repository for data supporting scientific publications (http://datadryad.org). Show less



Genomics Institute of the Novartis Research Foundation (GNF)

• Group Leader Bioinformatics

  • Sep 2001 - Apr 2006

  Database and application design and development for different kinds of high-throughput genomics data, and for the integration of gene functional data and annotation. Image analysis and defect detection of high-density oligo arrays.



Novartis Research Institute Vienna, Austria

• Laboratory Head Computational Biology & Data Mining

  • May 1997 - Jul 2001

  Research Associate until 1998. Worked on high-density array image and data analysis, relational database development for large-volume data, automation of sequencing and sequence annotation. Data mining for genes differentially expressed between healthy and diseased.