Shelby Bidwell, MA

Shelby is a GenBank Biologist who is part of the team that processes genomes that are submitted to NCBI. Before working at NCBI, Shelby spent 10 years generating annotation for eukaryotic genomes.

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Kurtis Haro, PhD

Kurtis is a radiobiologist by training, but he currently serves as the Technical Lead for Business Intelligence (web analytics) at NCBI. His work is focused on delivering a better science and engineering research enterprise for the brilliant scientists and engineers tackling prescient problems in medicine and healthcare. He and his team analyze usage of the website to identify pain points, whether new application features were successful, and how users collect data both within a product and collectively across the site, among other areas of concern.

Vamsi Kodali, PhD

Vamsi is a Data Wrangler in the RefSeq and Gene group at NCBI where he leverages publicly available genomic, transcriptomic and proteomic datasets in improving genome annotation by the NCBI Eukaryotic Genome Annotation Pipeline (EGAP). He works closely with the RefSeq curation team in driving accurate annotation of RefSeq transcripts for high-priority eukaryotic organisms.

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Dong-Ha Oh, PhD

Dong-Ha is a Data Wrangler in the RefSeq group at NCBI. He supports development of NCBI Orthologs and other resources such as the Comparative Genome Viewer. Recently, he has been working to expand data available in NCBI Orthologs to include more arthropod/insects, including disease vectors, pests, pollinators, and others with important research implications.

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Nuala O'Leary, PhD

Nuala is the product owner of NCBI Datasets, a new resource for web and programmatic access to NCBI sequence data. In this role, she leads a team of subject matter experts and developers that create new web and command line interfaces that make it easier for users to browse and download genome-scale sequence, annotation and metadata for organisms across the tree of life.

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Sanjida Rangwala, PhD

Sanjida is the product owner of the sequence visualization tools and genome browsers at NCBI. She leads the team that creates new viewers for comparative genome visualization for the NIH Comparative Genomic Resource (CGR), including the new Comparative Genome Viewer (CGV). Before she worked at NCBI, Sanjida did research in academia on transposable elements and epigenetics.

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Alexa Salsbury, PhD

Alexa is an NCBI Outreach Team Member within the Customer Services Section where she focuses on data science outreach and community engagement in areas like cloud computing, large-scale sequence search, machine learning, algorithmic bias, and more. She has extensive experience in computational education and a research background of computational chemistry, structural biology, and biophysics.

Pooja Strope, PhD

Pooja is a Bioinformatics Data Wrangler on the RefSeq team at NCBI with a focus on quality assessment of the products, including the EGAPx and Foreign Contamination Screen tools. She joined NCBI in 2016 as a curator for fungal sequences and annotation. Before joining NCBI, she worked on population genomics for Saccharomyces cerevisiae.

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Françoise Thibaud-Nissen, PhD

Françoise leads the prokaryotic annotation operations team at NCBI, which aims at enhancing the value of eukaryotic genomes submitted to GenBank, ENA and DDBJ by decorating them with high quality gene annotation in a timely and consistent manner. She is also the head of the NCBI Prokaryotic annotation and curation resources team who is responsible for maintaining the RefSeq collection of archaeal and bacterial genomes with rich, up-to-date and consistent annotation. Her team also publishes expert-created statistical models for protein families and develops easy-to-use tools, including PGAP, so that research scientists, bioinformaticians and lay users can annotate and analyze their own genomes.

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