SBGrid Staff:
The SBGrid consortium is managed and based out of the Sliz Lab at Harvard Medical School.
Piotrek Sliz, PhD, established SBGrid and coordinates all SBGrid activities. Piotr's structural biology research interests combine a mechanistic understanding of microRNA biogenesis regulation and pervasive computing infrastructures. He is an assistant professor in pediatrics at Harvard Medical School in the department of Biological Chemistry and Molecular Pharmacology. Piotr is a member of the Open Science Grid Council and the Harvard Medical School Research Computing Governance Committee.
SBGrid Consortium Staff
Ben Eisenbraun, BA, maintains and improves the SBGrid Software Suite and is the primary support contact for users in SBGrid member labs. A philosopher-cum-software-engineer, Ben started using and administering UNIX machines in 1999, spent several years working in wide area networking and has discovered the meaning of life, which he uses as his SSH key.
Longfei Wang, PhD, works as a software curator of SBGrid's Software Suite. He has experience maintaining UNIX workstations and writing software to support structural biology research. His structural biology interests include protein-protein interactions in plant biology.
Andrew Morin, PhD, works on computational science policy for SBGrid. He has experience in both laboratory and computational structural biology and now focuses on issues affecting SBGrid and the broader scientific computing community.
Michelle Ottaviano handles relationship management for SBGrid, including billing and licensing agreements, coordinating webinars and workshops and managing other miscellaneous administrative needs.
SBGrid Structural Biology Research Computing CoreStaff:
Ian Levesque, MSE, is an HHMI associate and an infrastructure architect heavily involved in structural biology computing projects at HMS. Ian supports scientific applications, manages UNIX infrastructure components, such as storage, networking, databases and authentication.
Stephen Jahl, BA, is a front-line contact for all local laboratories subscribing to SBGrid Core system administration services. He provides technical support, systems troubleshooting and deployment services. With a background in psychology, his main interest is human-computer interaction.
SBGrid Research Coordination Network (RCN) Staff:
Ian Stokes-Rees, PhD, is establishing a grid infrastructure for SBGrid members that will run a range of software packages through web interfaces while using computing resources from around the world. In separate efforts, Ian is working on a National Science Foundation funded project to create a high performance computing portal for structural biology and is an expert consultant in the ETSI Grid Specialist Task Force, a European Union commissioned project, where he advises on grid standards and interoperability. Ian gained his expertise in large-scale grid architectures working in particle physics computing at Oxford and computational finance at INRIA Sophia (France).
Daniel O'Donovan, PhD, is applying his expertise in numerical techniques to new and emerging areas of structural biology with the help of the SBGrid team and the grid computing portal. He completed his thesis on Bayesian analysis in the Laue NMR lab at the University of Cambridge, UK.
Meghan Porter-Mahoney, BA, is a web developer for SBGrid's Research Coordination Network. With a background in biotechnology, she brings the perspective of a scientist to her web designs. She is a summer intern pursuing an MA in Information Systems Management at Harvard University Extension School.