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
Lee Ann's background is in computational biology and microbiology. On the NMDC, she contributes to strategic planning and project coordination.
Lee Ann McCue (PNNL)
Co-PI, Leadership Team
Patrick's background is in microbial ecology and evolution, genomics, and bioinformatics. On the NMDC, he leads the LANL team efforts.
Patrick Chain (LANL)
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
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
Kjiersten's background is applied mathematics, high-peformance computing, and data management. On the NMDC, she contributes to strategic planning and close coordination with JGI and KBase.
Kjiersten Fagnan (LBNL)
Co-PI, Leadership Team
In 2017, Nigel became the Director of the Joint Genome Institute at Berkeley Lab after nearly 19 years leading Industry research and development teams. He also leads the Secondary Metabolites Group.
Nigel Mouncey (LBNL)
JGI Director, Leadership Team
Douglas oversees the entire EMSL user program and serves as the primary interface with BER, PNNL and the user community for science, management, and operations of EMSL. He is responsible for establishing a scientific vision to attract outstanding staff scientists and users to EMSL facilities and programs, promoting innovative research, and fostering the creation of robust scientific teams and communities.
Douglas Mans (PNNL)
EMSL Director, Leadership Team
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
Julia's background is in neuroscience, biotechnology, microbiome science, and sequencing. On the NMDC, she is the Engagement Team Lead and Product Owner for NMDC EDGE.
Julia Kelliher (LANL)
Engagement Lead & Product Owner
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)
Data Scientist & 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
Camilo's background is in mathematics. On the NMDC, he is working on a denovo metaproteomics workflow that does not require a matched metagenome.
Camilo Posso (PNNL)
Data Scientist
Chienchi's background is in bioinformatics and computer science. On the NMDC, he develops workflows and workflow result visualization.
Chien-Chi Lo (LANL)
Research Technologist
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
Donny’s background is in electrical engineering and computer science, nanofabrication, and web systems engineering. On the NMDC, he designs and deploys infrastructure for FAIR-Principled metadata management.
Donny Winston (Polyneme, LLC)
Metadata Infrastructure 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
Francie's background is in microbial ecology, mycology, and microbiome science. On the NMDC, she is the Community Manager and leads the Ambassador and Champions programs.
Francie Rodriguez (LANL)
Community Manager
Grant's background is in computer science and software engineering. On the NMDC, he is working on a standard metaproteomics workflow.
Grant Fujimoto (PNNL)
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 Pangillinan (LBNL)
Staff Data Scientist
Kaelan's background is in Marine Biology and comparative cellular physiology. On the NMDC, Kaelan develops user tutorials and training materials, and supports outreach and engagement efforts.
Kaelan Prime (LANL)
Engagement Team Member
Kaitlyn's background is in biochemistry, bioinformatics, and genomics. On the NMDC, she is involved with workflow creation, upkeep, and documentation.
Kaitlyn Li (LANL)
Software Developer
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
Kaylee's backround is in business analytics. On NMDC she works on tools to display and diagnose workflow failures, usage statistics, and workflow statuses for NMDC EDGE.
Kaylee Kudish (LANL)
Software Developer
Leah's background is in plant hormone signaling, genetics, and molecular biology. On the NMDC, she leads User Research to collect community feedback for product development.
Leah Johnson (LANL)
User Research Lead, Scientist
Mark is responsible for the development, deployment, and support of the NMDC-EDGE platform and other various NMDC software development.
Mark Flynn (LANL)
Software Developer
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
Mary's background is in computer science and software development with a special focus on web development and accessibility. On the NMDC team, she maintains and develops new features for the data portal.
Mary Salvi (Kitware)
R&D Engineer
Michael's background is in biology, genomics, bioinformatics and software development. On the NMDC he works on software development, integration, and automation.
Michael Thorton (LBNL)
Data Scientist
Mike's background is in computer science and software development. On the NMDC he maintains and develops new features for the data portal and submission portal.
Mike Nagler (Kitware)
R&D Engineer
Natalie's background is in Microbiology and Bioinformatics. On the NMDC, she contributes to data standards and schema development.
Natalie Winans (PNNL)
Data Scientist
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 - Engagement Team
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
Shalki’s background is in data management using ontologies and knowledge graphs. On NMDC, she develops software infrastructure to support efficient storage and retrieval of NMDC data.
Shalki Shrivastava (LBNL)
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
Valerie's background is in Computational and Systems Biology. On the NMDC, she helps with automation.
Valerie Li (LANL)
Data Scientist
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
Yan’s background is in computer science. On the NMDC, she develops the NMDC EDGE web application.
Yan Xu (LANL)
Software Developer
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
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