Phyloinformatics Summer of Code Mentors
From Phyloinformatics
This map shows the distribution of Phyloinformatics Summer of Code mentors and participants for years 2007 - 2011. Blue dots are participants, yellow are mentors, and red are folks who started as participants and then mentored for us in subsequent years.
We are applying to the 2014 Google Summer of Code. Our list of project ideas is on our 2014 Phyloinformatics page.
2014 potential mentors
If you are interesting in being a mentor or co-mentor for the 2014 PhyloSoC, add your name to this list along with contact info, photo, github page, twitter handle, etc.
- Peter Murray-Rust Reader Emeritus University of Cambridge bitbucket @petermurrayrust
- Jamie Estill Museum Informatician at the University of Michigan github
- Mark Holder Univ. Kansas Assoc. Prof. github
- Benjamin Redelings Postdoc at Duke University github
- Ethan White Associate Professor at Utah State University @ethanwhite github
- Christian Zmasek Postdoc at Sanford-Burnham Medical Research Institute linkedin google code
2013 mentors
- Karen Cranston Informatics project manager @NESCent and PhyloSoC admin @kcranstn github
- Jim Balhoff Bioinformatics specialist with NESCent Informatics
- Barb Banbury
- Jeremy Brown Asst. Prof. at Louisiana State @jembrown
- Stephane Guindon (PhyML)
- Greg Jordan Software developer & computational genomics @gjuggler (PhyloWidget, Paperpile, PhD at EMBL-EBI)
- Rob Lanfear Research Fellow at the Australian National University, short-term visitor at NESCent @RobLanfear (PartitionFinder)
- Hilmar Lapp, Assistant Director for Informatics at NESCent
- Mark Holder Univ. Kansas Asst. Prof. github
- Ben Morris UNC Biology PhD student, @bendmorris
- Anurag Priyam Research Assistant at Wurm Lab, Queen Mary, University of London.
- Andrew Rambaut (BEAST, FigTree, etc.)
- Arlin Stoltzfus Research Biologist at NIST (CDAO, sharing trees, Bio::NEXUS etc), github.
- Marc Suchard (BEAST etc.)
- Eric Talevich UGA Bioinformatics PhD student, @etalevich, github
- Chris Upton UVic Professor, @cupton1
- Rutger Vos Bioinformaticist at Naturalis, (NeXML)
- Christian Zmasek Sanford-Burnham Medical Research Institute, (forester, google+)
- Vivek Gopalan Bioinformatics Lead at Lockheed Martin ISGS Civil - Health & Life Sciences, (Nexplorer)
- Mercedes Gosby, UI/UX Designer at NESCent (Dryad)
- Abu Zaher Md. Faridee Software Engineer and MS student at BUET (google+, github)
- Kathryn Iverson Bioinformatition at the University of Michigan, department of microbiology and immunology, google+, github
- Gabriel Harp Designer, Evolutionary Ecologist @gharp
- Stephen Smith Evolutionary Biologist, Assistant Professor at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
- Stephanie Poppe @popdeez Human Computer Interaction Design Master's Candidate at Indiana University, Bloomington
- Peter Cock Bioinformatician at the James Hutton Institute, Biopython developer, @pjacock, github
- Shantenu Jha Assistant Professor at Rutgers University (interests in Computational Science and High-Performance and Distributed Computing)
2012 mentors
- Karen Cranston (organization admin): Karen Cranston is the Training Coordinator and Bioinformatics Project Manager at NESCent. She is also the lead PI of the Open Tree of Life project. She was previously a developer of PhyLoTA and currently leads the iPlant Tree of Life Visualization working group. She is kcranstn on Twitter.
- James Degnan: COAL package for gene tree distributions
- Barbara Gravendeel
- Vivek Gopalan
- Mark Holder Asst. Prof in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at the University of Kansas. A PI in the Open Tree of Life project and an AToL project working on phylogenetic inference and multiple sequence alignment. His github profile is at github.com/mtholder
- Kathryn Iverson: PhyloGeoRef
- Greg Jordan Ph.D. student at the European Bioinformatics Institute near Cambridge, UK. Wrote PhyloWidget as a student in the 2007 Summer of Code.
- Mike Keesey
- Hilmar Lapp
- Brian O'Meara
- Yann Ponty (VARNA)
- Jim Procter (organization admin).
- Jim is based at the University of Dundee and develops Jalview. He's mentored two NESCent GSOC students on the topic of RNA alignment editing and visualization, and co-chairs the VIZBI conference series.
- Andrew Rambaut (BEAST, FigTree, etc.)
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Ryan Scherle is the software architect for the Dryad Digital Repository. His research interests center on methods for storing and sharing information. This is his third year as a mentor for GSOC. - Tanja Stadler
- Arlin Stoltzfus
- Eric Talevich
- Rutger Vos
- Eamonn Maguire
- Matt Yoder (mx, HAO, github)
Mentors from previous years
2011
- Jim Balhoff
- Barb Banbury
- Jeremy Brown
- Brad Chapman
- Karen Cranston (also one of the organization administrators)
- Chris Fields
- Jamie Estill
- Luke Harmon
- Gavin Huttley (PyCogent)
- Kathryn Iverson
- Greg Jordan (PhyloWidget)
- Toshiaki Katayama
- Mike Keesey
- David Kidd
- Hilmar Lapp (also one of the organization administrators)
- Philippe Lemey
- Chris Mungall
- Brian O'Meara
- Emmanuel Paradis
- Tanya Petrossian
- Pjotr Prins
- Jim Procter (Jalview)
- Andrew Rambaut (BEAST, FigTree, etc.)
- Kevin Savidge
- Arlin Stoltzfus
- Eric Talevich
- Peter Troshin
- Kris Urie
- Todd Vision
- Rutger Vos
- Matt Yoder
- Christian Zmasek
- Vivek Gopalan
2010
- Danny Arends
- Jim Balhoff
- Nico Cellinese
- Brad Chapman
- Karen Cranston
- Chris Fields
- Laurent Gautier
- Luke Harmon
- Mark Holder
- Gavin Huttley
- Mark A. Jensen
- Greg Jordan
- David Kidd
- Rob Knight
- Sergei Kosakovsky Pond
- Steffen Möller
- Hilmar Lapp (also the organization administrator)
- Jim Leebens-Mack
- Xianhua Liu
- Peter Midford
- Brian O'Meara
- Anton Nekrutenko
- William Piel
- Enrico Pontelli
- Pjotr Prins
- Jim Procter
- Erica Bree Rosenblum
- Arlin Stoltzfus
- Eric Talevich
- Albert Vilella
- Rutger Vos
- Egon Willighagen
- Xuhua Xia
- Christian Zmasek
