People

People

Eilbeck Lab

Department of Biomedical Informatics, University of Utah, Salt Lake City

• Karen Eilbeck – PI
• Barry Moore – is the contact for file format issues
• Shawn Rynearson – variant terminology – ClinGen, and VMC data model
• Michael Watkins – PhD student (NLM) – interest in clinical decision support
• Mike Bada at UC Denver is a key ontology developer for the re-engineering of the MSO.
• David Sant – Post Doc working with greekC community on gene expression terminology

Historical contributors

Utah Department of Health

• Nicole Ruiz-Schultz managed the development of SO terms during her PhD work. She graduated from BMI and now leads the newborn screening exome and genome efforts.

University of Maryland

• Michael Sinclair now works as a post-doc on the Disease Ontology. He is a key developer of MSO.

Royal Society of Chemistry

• Colin Batchelor is a group leader at the RSC and came to SO from an NLP perspective.

European Bioinformatics Institute

• Sandra Orchard is the biosapiens protein feature contact.
• Fiona Cunningham contributed to the variant terminology used in the VEP tool

Lawrence Berkleley National Labs

• Chris Mungall is a key member of OBO and has much genomics experience.