Meet our Team

Emiley's background is in microbial ecology and computational biology, program development, and strategic planning. On the NMDC, she collaboratively develops the scientific vision and sets the strategic direction for the program.

Emiley Eloe-Fadrosh (LBNL)

PI, Leadership Team

Chris's background is in genomics data resource and knowledge base creation and development. On the NMDC he oversees the application of metadata standards and ontologies, and the development of the NMDC data model.

Chris Mungall (LBNL)

Co-PI, Leadership Team

NMDC Technical lead with a background in data, hpc and web infrastructure

Shreyas Cholia (LBNL)

Technical Lead & Co-PI, Leadership Team

Montana's background is in environmental biology and sample metadata management. On the NMDC, she works on schema development and is the Submission Portal Product Owner.

Montana Smith (PNNL)

Co-PI, Leadership Team

Setareh's background is in Agile/Scrum and project management. On the NMDC, she serves as the software delivery manager, organizing the work of the team, and removing blockers to help the team succeed.

Setareh Sarrafan (LBNL)

Software Delivery Manager

Alicia's background is in biology and bioinformatics. On the NMDC, she works on sequencing-based workflows, coordination with JGI, and is the Data Portal Product Owner.

Alicia Clum (LBNL)

Microbiome QA/QC Manager & Product Owner

Bea's background is in bioinformatics and clinical research. On the NMDC, she works on metadata standards, bioinformatics workflows, and user-facing Jupyter notebooks.

Bea Meluch (PNNL)

Research Associate

Cameron's background is in electrical engineering and software development. On the NMDC, he works developing the metaproteomics workflow.

Cameron Giberson (PNNL)

Software Engineer

Cody is a Frontend Software Engineer in the Scientific Data Division at LBL. He works on the NMDC Data Portal and User Interface development.

Cody O’Donnell (LBNL)

Software Engineer

Cristina's background is in software engineering. On the NMDC, she works on software development for the Submission Portal.

Cristina Stone Pedraza (PNNL)

Software Engineer

Eric's background is in computer engineering and web development. On the NMDC, he works as a software engineer.

Eric Cavanna (LBNL)

Software Engineer

James' background is in software engineering. On the NMDC, he works on schema development and contributes to various software development tasks when needed.

James Tessmer (PNNL)

Software Engineer

Jasmyn’s background is in bioinformatics and computer science. On the NMDC, she works on software development and workflow automation.

Jasmyn Pangilinan (LBNL)

Staff Data Scientist

Jonelle’s background is in microbial ecology, host-phage interactions, and plant-microbe interactions. At the JGI, her research focuses on quantifying the impact of phage genes on root colonization and on the molecular underpinnings of a presumptive plant-bacterial-phage interaction. On the NMDC, she is spearheading engagement program strategies and activities.

Jonelle Basso (LBNL)

Biologist Research Scientist

Katherine's background is in environmental chemistry, microbial ecology, and scientific computing. On the NMDC, she works on standardizing workflows for metabolomics and lipidomics data.

Katherine Heal (PNNL)

Computational Scientist

Mark's background is in biomedical ontology, biomedical informatics and vaccine discovery. He supervises the development of the NMDC schema and tools at the interface between the schema and data.

Mark Miller (LBNL)

Software Developer

Olivia's background is in Computer Science. On NMDC she develops Python packages to help access the NMDC API as well as metdata generation.

Olivia Hess (PNNL)

Software Developer

Patrick's background is in electrical and software engineering. On the NMDC, he works on web development and DevOps.

Patrick Kalita (LBNL)

Software Developer

Paul's background is in analytical chemistry, mass spectrometry and proteomics. On the NMDC, he leads efforts on metaproteomics workflows and functional annotation.

Paul Piehowski (PNNL)

Senior Scientist

Samantha's background is in ecology and environmental science. On the NMDC, she is contributing to outreach and engagement.

Samantha Miller (PNNL)

Project Manager

Samantha's background is in biology and bioinformatics. On the NMDC she works on data modeling and Jupyter Notebooks.

Samantha Obermiller (PNNL)

Research Associate

Sam’s background is in mass spectrometric proteomics and related data analytics. On the NMDC, he contributes to metaproteomics workflow development, schema development, and data archaeology.

Samuel Purvine (PNNL)

Computational Scientist

Sanjay's background is in electrical engineering and Kubernetes architecture. On the NMDC, he contributes to the data infrastructure.

Sanjay Janarthanan (PNNL)

Software Engineer

Sierra's background is in database systems, models, data validation and ingest, and ontologies for genomic and environmental databases. On the NMDC, she contributes to data model definition and software development.

Sierra Moxon (LBNL)

Staff Software Engineer

Simon's background is in metagenomics and viral genomics. On the NMDC, he coordinates the development of the virus and plasmid workflows, and contributes to outreach and engagement activities.

Simon Roux (LBNL)

Staff Scientist

Sujay's background is in computer science and engineering, but he is also well-versed in the development of bioinformatics pipelines and workflows. On the NMDC, he mainly works on writing data ingest pipelines to bring in new datasets/metadata into NMDC. He also helps maintain the NMDC schema as well as schemas for standards like MIxS.

Sujay Patil (LBNL)

Software Developer

Wendi's background is in office organization and administration. On the NMDC, she provides administrative support to the NMDC team.

Wendi Lynch (LBNL)

Sr. Administrator

Yuri's background is in analytical, organic chemistry, general mass spectrometry, software development and computational science related to complex mixture analysis. On the NMDC, he leads efforts on metabolomics and natural organic matter workflows and annotation.

Yuri Corilo (PNNL)

Computational Scientist