2011 HPS Informatics Instructors
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- Holly Miller, MBL, hmiller@mbl.edu- Holly Miller is the director of the MBLWHOI Library and the associate director of the Center for Library and Informatics at the Marine Biological Laboratory. She received a B.S. in chemistry and biology from Bloomsburg University, and a Ph.D. in biochemistry from Wake Forest University. Following postdoctoral positions at Wake Forest and Stony Book University, she served as faculty in the department of pharmacological sciences at SUNY Stony Brook and as a reference and outreach librarian at the Rockefeller University. In 2009 she obtained a master of library and information science (MLIS) from Syracuse University. Dr. Miller joined the MBL in 2008 and had been the scientific informatics project leader for the Ellison Medical Foundation-funded Biology of Aging Project, which focuses on computational techniques to extract information about aging-related genes and organisms by mining biomedical literature, databases, and other sources. In that position, Dr. Miller has managed the Aging Project team, as well as the entire Library informatics group and its expanded initiatives.
Holly Miller
- Grant Yamashita, ASU, grant.yamashita@asu.edu - Grant Yamashita is currently a post-doctoral fellow in the Center for Biology and Society at Arizona State University. He has a B.A. in philosophy and biology from Northwestern University and received his Ph.D. in Population Biology from the University of California, Davis. Grant's research interests are in the evolution of multicellularity and the germ-line and in the history and philosophy of evolutionary biology. He is the senior project manager for the NSF-funded Embryo Project, which takes an innovative and informatics-centered approach to understanding the historical, ethical, religious, political, and scientific research and contexts that surround embryo research. In addition, Grant is the Acting Director of the digitalHPS consortium. In 2010 he was a visiting research scholar with informatics teams at both the MBL and the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science in Berlin under an NSF professional development fellowship. In his free time he enjoys riding motorcycles, playing golf, roasting coffee, and hiking and camping with his wife.
Grant Yamashita - Diane Rielinger, MBL, drielinger@mbl.edu - Diane Rielinger is the Assistant Director for Administrative and Financial Services at the MBLWHOI Library. She is also the Head Archivist and Records Manager for the Marine Biological Laboratory. Additionally, she helps develop and implement special projects such as the Biodiversity Heritage Library and the new MBL Center for Library and Informatics. Diane received a Bachelor of Arts degree from Rice University with majors in Biology and Philosophy, a Masters of Science degree from the University of Miami's Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science with a major in Marine Biology and Fisheries, and a Masters of Library and Information Science degree from the University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee. Prior to joining the library world, Diane was a scientist, environmental consultant, policy analyst, and scientific educator.
- Cathy Norton, MBL, cnorton@mbl.edu - Cathy is a graduate of Regis College and Simmons Graduate School of Information and Library Science. Since the late '80s she has been involved in building the network infrastructure for the laboratory and the digital library that serves affiliates worldwide via high-speed networks. She has served as PI on an HHMI grant for building a virtual library; Andrew W. Mellon Foundation grant for building taxonomic information services, tools and communities; NIH contract for outreach in Medical Informatics; NOAA, USGS, Office of the Navy contracts for library services; and a Sea Grant for digitizing the Woods Hole herbarium collection. Currently she is serving as chair of the Biodiversity Heritage Library. Cathy recently retired from the directorship position in the MBLWHOI Library and is now a Library Scholar in the new Center for Libraries and Informatics and the MBL.
Cathy Norton - Jane Maienschein, ASU, maienschein@asu.edu - Dr. Maienschein is director of the Center for Biology and Society at Arizona State University and Adjunct Scientist at the MBL. She specializes in the history and philosophy of biology and the way that biology, bioethics, and biopolicy play out in society. Focusing on research in embryology, genetics, and cytology, Dr Maienschein combines detailed analysis of the epistemological standards, theories, laboratory practices and experimental approaches with study of the people, institutions, and changing social, political, and legal context in which science thrives. She loves teaching and is committed to public education about biology and its human dimensions. Jane Maienschein has received numerous faculty and teaching awards, including the 2000 Parents Association Professor of the Year Chair, a Regents’ Professorship in 2002, and she was named an ASU President’s Professor in 2007.
Jane Maienschein - Manfred Laubichler, ASU, mlaubichler@mbl.edu - Dr. Laubichler is CoDirector of the Center for Social Dynamics and Complexity at ASU, a member of the Center for Biology and Society, an external faculty member of the Konrad Lorenz Institute for Evolution and Cognition Research in Altenberg, Austria, a visiting scholar at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science in Berlin and a collaborator of the Institute for Theoretical Biology at the Humboldt University in Berlin, Germany. Dr Laubichler's research covers three distinct yet overlapping areas. His work in theoretical biology is focused on conceptual and mathematical issues, such as the problem of defining biological characters in development and evolution, the homology problem, and the theory of epistatic and epigenetic effects. In evolutionary developmental biology Dr Laubichler is interested in problems of phenotypic evolution focusing on social insects as a model system. His ultimate interest is to contribute to an understanding of evolutionary innovations through the integration of genetic, developmental, physiological, and behavioral perspectives. In History of Biology Dr. Laubichler specializes on 19th and 20th century biology. He is especially interested in the history of theoretical biology and the history of embryology and developmental biology. He is writing one book on the history of theoretical biology and a second one on twentieth century theories of development in context and is working on several collaborative projects in the history of developmental biology and the cultural history of Fin-de-Siecle biology.
Manfred Laubichler - Julia Damerow, ASU, julia.damerow@asu.edu - Julia Damerow is a Ph.D. student in the Biology and Society program of the School of Life Sciences at Arizona State University. Her research focuses on the development of new software applications in the field of digital history and philosophy of science. She received a Diplom (FH) in media informatics from the Technische Fachhochschule Berlin (University of Applied Sciences in Berlin) in 2008.
Julia Damerow - Wally Hooper, Indiana University, whooper@indiana.edu - Wally Hooper is Assistant Scholar/Scientist at Indiana University and Programmer-Analyst for the IU Digital Library Program. He has been Project Manager for the Chymistry of Isaac Newton Project since 2007. With Bill Newman of the Department of History and Philosophy of Science at IU, Wally is co-Principal Investigator on a three-year NSF project to carry out a computational analysis of the language of alchemy in Isaac Newton’s alchemical corpus.
Wally Hooper
Wally received a Ph.D. in the History and Philosophy of Science from Indiana University in 1992 and wrote his dissertation on Galileo’s development of his theories of motion. Wally held two Post-Doctoral Fellowships at the Istituto e Museo di Storia della Scienza (now the Galileo Museum) in Florence, Italy, between 1993 and 1996. While there, he collaborated with physicists at the Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Sezione Firenze, to conduct a study of the inks and papers in Galileo’s manuscripts using proton-induced x-ray emissions in an attempt to determine the order of composition of undated collections of manuscript fragments on the problem of motion. Between 1996 and 2007, as a research faculty member at the American Indian Studies Research Institute at IU, Wally worked closely with historians, anthropologists, and linguists studying the languages, cultures, and ethnohistory of North American Plains Indians. He worked with field linguists and computational linguists to develop software for the documentation and analysis of North American languages. He was directly involved in the compilation and publication of dictionaries and corpora of Siouan and Caddoan languages and the digitization of records of U.S. government commissions and treaties with northern plains peoples. He has become familiar with current trends in lexicography, computational linguistics and information retrieval, and writes code in most major programming languages and mathematical processing environments.
- Dave Sherman, WHOI
- Alex Dorsk, WHOI, adorsk@whoi.edu - I'm a data and systems librarian in the WHOI Data Library and Archives, a branch of the MBLWHOI library. My work involves making historical collections accessible online. It involves a combination of website development, systems administration, tool development, and data cleanup. Prior to joining the MBLWHOI Library I sailed as a shipboard technician on WHOI research vessels. In my free time I enjoy reading, photography, cycling, and composing silent film scores.
Alex Dorsk - Lisa Raymond, WHOI, lraymond@whoi.edu - Lisa Raymond is the Associate Library Director at the MBLWHOI Library. She is responsible for administration of the WHOI side of the MBLWHOI Library and manages staff and daily operations for the Data Library and Archives (DLA) at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI). The DLA houses an extensive collection of material ranging from early paper collections to current digital formats from WHOI research vessels and underwater vehicles. Lisa’s research activities focus on data publication, curation, accessibility, and long term preservation of legacy data. Lisa has been associated with the Library for over 20 years.
Lisa Raymond - Anthony Goddard, MBL, agoddard@mbl.edu - Anthony Goddard is a developer and systems administrator with the Center for Library and Informatics at the Woods Hole Marine Biological Laboratory. He specializes in Linux, Ruby, OS X, virtualization and distributed architecture. He is a member of the Biodiversity Heritage Library's technical infrastructure team, working on distributed storage and processing clusters. He has worked on informatics projects for the Encyclopedia of Life, Global Biodiversity Information Facility, Ellison Medical Foundation and the American Society for Cell Biology.
Anthony Goddard
He is currently interested in bringing innovative technology solutions to traditional scientific research and data management problems.
- Nathan Wilson, Encyclopedia of Life, nwilson@eol.org - Nathan Wilson is the Director of the Center for Library and Informatics at the Marine Biological Laboratory (MBL) and Director of the Biodiversity Informatics Component of the Encyclopedia of Life (EOL). For the EOL he leads the technical team responsible for the software development and hardware infrastructure for the project. He is a software professional and an avid field naturalist specializing in fungi. Prior to coming to the MBL, Nathan was a software architect and manager in the R&D department at DreamWorks Animation where he focused on collaboration tools and open source software. He has also worked for Digital Domain, Apple Computer and SRI International as well as some Silicon Valley startups. He has an masters in computer science from University of California, Santa Cruz where his thesis was on using computers to identify fungi and an masters in experimental psychology from the University of Pennsylvania. His interests in computers, fungi and citizen science has led him to create several mushroom related websites including the Mushroom Observer (http://mushroomobserver.org).
Nathan Wilson - John Furfey, MBL, jfurfey@mbl.edu - John Furfey is the Senior Automation Services Officer at the MBLWHOI Library. His work in Woods Hole includes technical management of the institutional repository, the Woods Hole Open Access Server (WHOI) which runs on the DSpace platform. He is also involved with the BibApp and VIVO projects, and works to collect, organize and promote the scholarly output of Woods Hole. John graduated from Colgate University in 1998, and he has a masters in Library and Information Science from Simmons College.
John Furfey - John Hufnagle, MBL, jhufnagle@mbl.edu -
- Robert Casties, Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, casties@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de - Robert Casties is a scholar and a programmer in the IT-Group of the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science since its inception in 2002 working on pushing the evolution of computer tools for humanities scholars (and vice versa). The IT-Group of the MPIWG enables projects ranging from language technology for Latin and ancient Greek to databases of arabic manuscripts to online presentations of laboratory knowledge in the 19th century. Robert has a Ph.D. in history and philosophy of science (University of Bern) and a Diplom in Physics (Experimental High Energy Physics at DESY, Hamburg). He has no CS degree but he's been programming since 1983 and besides being involved in numerous other projects he's the lead programmer of the digilib image server since 2001.
Robert Casties - Dirk Wintergrün, Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, dwinter@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de -
- Charles Kazilek, ASU, kazilek@asu.edu - Charles Kazilek is the Director of Technology Integration and Outreach in the Arizona State University School of Life Sciences (SOLS). He is the creator and developer of Ask A Biologist (AAB) and has been building K-12 web content for more than 14 years. His recent work includes moving the large static HTML AAB website into a Drupal environment. In addition, a new tool was developed using an existing Drupal Module (oai2forCCK, renamed NSDL OAI Configuration) that exposes Metadata within Drupal websites for inclusion into the National Science Digital Library (NSDL).
Charles Kazilek
- Lee Wood, Encyclopedia of Life, lwood@eol.org -
