Our Team

Leadership Team

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Maowei Dong
Project Manager
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James Egenrieder
External Evaluator
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Justin Graham
Strategic Research Partnership Liaison
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Vasant Honavar
Associate Director for AI and Strategic Initiatives
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Camelia Kantor
Associate Director of Assessment & Outreach
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Nicole Lazar
Open Science Liaison
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Brian Manata
Team Science Liaison
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Melanie McReynolds
Associate Director of Education & Training
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Daniel Nissley
Chief Scientific Officer
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Ed O'Brien
Director
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Justin Petucci
Associate Director
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Tyson Swetnam
CyVerse Liaison
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Brian Uzzi
Team Science Lead

NCEMS Staff

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Maria F. Anglero
Staff Scientist Assistant
Penn State
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Tram Ha
Staff Scientist Assistant
Penn State
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Kobie Kirven
Scientific Consultant
Penn State
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Jill C. Miller
Administrative Assistant
Penn State
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Alexis Morrissey
Postdoctoral Scholar
Penn State
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Danying Shao
Staff Scientist
Penn State
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Ian Sitarik
Staff Scientist
Penn State
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Varun Venkatakrishnan
Scientific Consultant
Penn State

Former NCEMS Staff

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Ishika Verma

External Advisory Board

  • Adam Arkin, University of California Berkeley
  • Jennifer Balch, University of Colorado Boulder
  • Michael Cherry, Stanford University
  • Erin Dolan, University of Georgia
  • Henning Hermjakob, European Bioinformatics Institute
  • Michael Johnson, University of Arizona
  • Zan Luthey-Schulten, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
  • Gabriela Popescu, University at Buffalo
  • Mathias Uhlen, Royal Institute of Technology 
  • Juan A. Vizcaino, European Bioinformatics Institute
  • Ben Hitz, Stanford University
  • Chuck Pavloski, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

Internal Advisory Board at Penn State

  • Guido Cervone, Director of Institute for Computational and Data Sciences
  • Christina Grozinger, Director of the Huck Institutes of the Life Sciences
  • Kenneth Knappenberger Jr., Department Head and Professor of Chemistry and Professor of Physics
  • Tracy Langkilde, Verne M. Willaman Dean of the Eberly College of Science
  • Carleen Maitland, Associate Dean for Research and Graduate Affairs of College of Information Sciences and Technology
  • Emily Martell, Managing Director of Huck Institutes of the Life Sciences
  • Andrew Read, Senior Vice President for Research at Penn State