Our Team

Leadership Team

Thematic Leads

Internal Advisory Board

External Advisory Board

Leadership Team

Ed O'Brien

Director

epo2@psu.edu

Justin Petucci

Associate Director

jmp579@psu.edu

Vasant Honavar

Associate Director for AI and Strategic Initiatives

vuh14@psu.edu

Camelia Kantor

Education, Training and Outreach Director

cmk6719@psu.edu

Melanie McReynolds

DEIA Lead

mrm45@psu.edu

Justin Graham

MSI Liaison

jwgraham01@uncfsu.edu

Tyson Swetnam

CyVerse Liaison

tswetnam@cyverse.org

Nicole Lazar

Open Science Lead

nfl5182@psu.edu

Brian Manata

Team Science Liaison

manata@psu.edu

Brian Uzzi

Team Science Lead

uzzi@northwestern.edu

James Egenrieder

External Evaluator

jime@vt.edu

Thematic Leads

Emergence of Mesoscale Biomolecular Organization and Function

Stephen Fried

Johns Hopkins University

sdfried@jhu.edu

Eugene Shaknovich

Harvard University

shakhnovich@chemistry.harvard.edu

Jerelle Joseph

Princeton University

jerellejoseph@princeton.edu

Discovering Emergent Properties - Signals Across Scales

Kimberly Reynolds

University of Texas Southwestern

kimberly.reynolds@utsouthwestern.edu

Wout Bittremieux

University of Antwerp

wout.bittremieux@uantwerpen.be

Adrian Serohijos

University of Montreal

adrian.serohijos@umontreal.ca

Dissecting Emergent Properties through Cross-species Comparisons

David Thirumalai

University of Texas Austin

dave.thirumalai@gmail.com

Tamar Schlick

New York University

schlick@nyu.edu

Soojin Yi

University of California Santa Barbara

soojinyi@ucsb.edu

Modeling Emergent Properties using Dense Mesoscale Data

Adriana Dawes

Ohio State University

dawes.33@osu.edu

Jeremy Schmit

Kansas State University

schmit@phys.ksu.edu

Kelsey Gasior

University of Notre Dame

kgasior2@nd.edu

Cross-cutting Data Sciences, AI, and ML

Vasant Honavar

Penn State

vuh14@psu.edu

Shaun Mahony

Penn State

mahony@psu.edu

Hyebin Song

Penn State

hps5320@psu.edu

External Advisory Board

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

Internal Advisory Board at Penn State

• Costas Moranas, Systems Biology
• Howard Salis, Computational Bioengineering
• Istvan Albert, Bioinformatics
• Lu Bai, Gene Regulation
• Igor Aranson, Mathematical Biology
• Ross Hardison, Genomics
• Denise Okafor, Molecular Biophysics