Piotr founded SBGrid in 2000 and continues to coordinate all SBGrid and BioGrids activities. He is an associate professor in Pediatrics at Boston Children’s Hospital, and in the department of Biological Chemistry and Molecular Pharmacology at Harvard Medical School. He is also the Director of Research Information, Technology, and Services at Boston Children’s Hospital and an Advisor for Research Data Technology Resources and Training at Harvard Medical School. Piotr obtained his Ph.D. degree in X-ray crystallography from University of Toronto where he trained with Emil Pai. After his Ph.D. he worked as an HHMI bioinformatician with Profs. Don Wiley and Stephen Harrison at Harvard University.
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Jason oversees all technical activities of SBGrid and BioGrids, including software curation and infrastructure development. He acts as the XSEDE Campus Champion for SBGrid/BioGrids and collaborates with members of the consortium on research projects. Prior to joining SBGrid, Jason trained as a postdoctoral fellow with Kevin Garner, at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical School, and with Profs. Rienk van Grondelle and Klaas Hellingwerf at the University of Amsterdam. He completed his graduate studies in macromolecular crystallography in Prof. Keith Moffat’s laboratory at the University of Chicago.
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Carol compiles and maintains software for the SBGrid/BioGrids collections. She came to us with a background in computer science and has over 10 years of experience in software configuration management and quality assurance. Carol received her Bachelor of Science and Master’s degrees in computer science from East Stroudsburg University of Pennsylvania.
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Jim is our resident bioinformatics specialist with a focus on providing bioinformatics software support and curating, configuring, and installing our software collection. Jim worked most recently as the Director of the Bioinformatics Core in the Vermont Genetics Network at the University of Vermont, leading a small team of bioinformatics scientists. His background is in Chemistry and Computer Science with dual BS degrees from the University of Vermont and a PhD in Computational Chemistry from Pennsylvania State University. After completing his postdoc at the National Cancer Institute, where he employed protein modeling techniques to refine the structures of novel cancer drugs, Jim accepted a permanent position at the NCI in the Bioinformatics and Molecular Modeling Section of the Laboratory of Molecular Biology before returning to Vermont.
Michelle manages business operations and communications for SBGrid. She acts as the primary point of contact for membership inquiries and software licensing and coordinates all financial and legal contracts. Michelle also leads outreach and education initiatives, organizing SBGrid's computing workshops and monthly webinar series, writing newsletters, and developing website content.
Pete is the chief curator for the SBGrid Data Bank that was described in our recent Nature Communication manuscript. He moderates data uptake, develops automated data validation tools, and works on implementation of the Data Locality module that will propagate a subset of SBDB datasets to various supercomputing sites. Dr. Meyer joined the SBGrid team in 2014 after completing his postdoctoral training at the Medical College of Wisconsin. He holds a Ph.D. degree from Cornell University. During his graduate and postdoctoral work, he studied a variety of RNA Polymerase II Transcription Factor Complexes, using and improving methods for studying large complexes with low-resolution x-ray crystallography. He is also an experienced computing programmer and has 10 years of Linux administration experience.
Matthew joined SBGrid in 2017 as a Data Science Engineer for the SBGrid Data Bank project. Embedded in Dataverse Team at Harvard IQSS, Matthew is charged with integrating SBGrid's pilot Data Bank management system with Dataverse and extending Dataverse to meet the needs of the structural biology community. He has a background in software development, a M.S. in Computer Science from the University of Calgary, and a B.Sc in Computer Science and Philosophy from Christopher Newport University.
Sakthyda works with Michelle Ottaviano to support members and developers with billing, licensing and contact management. She provides support to the whole SBGrid team for scheduling and organizing events.
Dmitry supports off-campus structural biology laboratories that are members of the SBGrid Core. Before joining Dr. Sliz's group in 2017, he worked at Children's Hospital as a System Administrator / Network Analyst. Dmitry brings with him over 10 years of experience managing complex computer networks and file servers, , implementing networking services, and providing end-user support.
Justin O'Connor
Sr. System Administrator
Justin manages Linux and OS X server infrastructure, including storage, virtual machines, and networking for the SBGrid Consortium, BioGrids, and for 25 structural biology laboratories in the Boston area. Prior to joining our group in 2013 he worked as a Network and Systems Administrator at the Immune Disease Institute and as a Network Analyst at Boston Children’s Hospital.
Mick oversees management of the SBGrid Core Services and directly supports 14 member laboratories at Harvard Medical School. He also maintains and develops the SBGrid science portals, and works directly with the Open Science Grid to support access to high performance computing. Mick has a BSc degree in Computer Science and has been working with Linux and Open Source technologies since 1999. Before joining the group he worked as a Chemical Computing Administrator at the Center for Molecular Library Development at Boston University and as a Senior Software Engineer at Fidelity Investments.
Shaun joined SBGrid in 2018 to manage the Harvard Medical School Electron Microscopy Facility and maintain an up-to-date library of electron microscopy research software applications optimized to run on local resources. He came to us after working as a CryoEM Support Scientist at the University of Leeds and completing his PhD on EM as a platform for structure based inhibitor design. Shaun also received a Masters in Chemistry from the University of York.
Meriam Bezohra, M.A., M.Sc.
Marketing Strategist
Meriam joined the SBGrid/BioGrids in 2017 to focus on strategic planning and development. She joins us with close to 10 years of experience in different international research environments and has a background in Linguistics and Science Marketing. Before coming to Boston she held positions at the EMBL in Heidelberg and the MDC for Molecular Medicine in Berlin.
Carol Cruzan Morton
Science Writer
Carol interviews SBGrid/BioGrids members and contributing developers and writes stories for publication on the SBGrid and BioGrids websites. She is an independent science journalist with a background in research communications and has specialized in science-related topics for more than 30 years.
