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Long-Term Maintenance of Genome Sequence Assemblies:
Human and Other Genomes

National Human Genome Research Institute

Hyatt at Dulles International Airport
Herndon, Va.
November 8-9, 2004

Participants List

Rolf Apweiler

Head, Sequence Database Group
European Molecular Biology Laboratory
European Bioinformatics Institute
Wellcome Trust Genome Campus
Hinxton, Cambridge
United Kingdom

Jennifer Baldwin, M.B.A.
Director
Genome Sequencing and Analysis Platform
Eli and Edythe L. Broad Institute

Ewan Birney, Ph.D.
Senior Scientist
European Molecular Biology Laboratory
European Bioinformatics Institute
Hinxton, Cambridge
United Kingdom

Allan Bradley, Ph.D.
Director
Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute
Wellcome Trust Genome Campus
Hinxton, Cambridge
United Kingdom

Michael R. Brent, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Computer Science and Genetics
Washington University in St. Louis

Lisa D. Brooks, Ph.D.
Program Director
Genetic Variation Program and
Genome Informatics Program
National Human Genome Research Institute
National Institutes of Health

J. Michael Cherry
Associate Professor (Research)
Department of Genetics
Stanford University School of Medicine

Asif Chinwalla, Ph.D.
Director of Informatics
Genome Sequencing Center
Washington University in St. Louis

Deanna Church, Ph.D.
Staff Scientist
National Center for Biotechnology Information
National Library of Medicine
National Institutes of Health

Francis S. Collins, M.D., Ph.D.
Director
National Human Genome Research Institute
National Institutes of Health

Valentina Di Francesco, M.S.
Bioinformatics Program Director
Division of Microbial and Infectious Diseases
National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases
National Institutes of Health

Ian Dunham, Ph.D.
Head, Molecular Genetics and Proteomics
Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute
Wellcome Trust Genome Campus
United Kingdom

Richard Durbin, Ph.D.
Head, Informatics Division
Deputy Director
Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute
Wellcome Trust Genome Campus
United Kingdom

Janan T. Eppig
Senior Staff Scientist
The Jackson Laboratory

Adam Felsenfeld, Ph.D.
Program Director, Large-Scale Sequencing
National Human Genome Research Institute
National Institutes of Health

William M. Gelbart, Ph.D.
Professor of Molecular and Cellular Biology
The Biological Laboratories
Harvard University

Richard Gibbs, Ph.D.,
Director
Human Genome Sequencing Center
Wofford Cain Professor
Baylor College of Medicine

Thomas R. Gingeras, Ph.D.
Vice President for Biological Sciences
Transcriptome Project
Affymetrix, Inc.

Maria Y. Giovanni, Ph.D.
Assistant Director for Microbial Genomics and Advanced Technologies
National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases
National Institutes of Health

Peter Good, Ph.D.
Program Director
National Human Genome Research Institute
National Institutes of Health

Eric D. Green, M.D., Ph.D.
Director
Division of Intramural Research
Chief, Genome Technology Branch
Director, Intramural Sequencing Center
National Human Genome Research Institute
National Institutes of Health

Chris Gunter, Ph.D.
Senior Editor
Nature

Mark Guyer, Ph.D.
Director
Division of Extramural Research
National Human Genome Research Institute
National Institutes of Health

Tim Hubbard, Ph.D.
Head, Human Genome Analysis
Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute
Wellcome Trust Genome Campus
United Kingdom

Howard J. Jacob, Ph.D.
Director
Human and Molecular Genetics Center
Warren P. Knowles Endowed Chair in Genetics
Professor
Department of Physiology
Medical College of Wisconsin

David Jaffe, Ph.D.
Manager
Whole Genome Assembly
Eli and Edythe L. Broad Institute

Barbara R. Jasny, Ph.D.
Supervisory Senior Editor
Science Magazine
American Association for the Advancement of Science

Shira Katseff
Scientific Program Analyst
National Human Genome Research Institute
National Institutes of Health

Robert Kuhn, Ph.D.
Software Engineer
Genome Bioinformatics Group
School of Engineering
University of California, Santa Cruz
Baskin Engineering

Eric Lander, Ph.D.
Director
Eli and Edythe L. Broad Institute
320 Charles Street

Donna R. Maglott, Ph.D.
Staff Scientist
National Center for Biotechnology Information
National Library of Medicine
National Institutes of Health

Webb Miller, Ph.D.
Professor of Biology
Pennsylvania State University

Ilene Mizrachi, Ph.D.
Staff Scientist
National Center for Biotechnology Information National Library of Medicine National Institutes of Health

Jim Mullikin, Ph.D.
Associate Investigator
Genome Technology Branch
National Human Genome Research Institute
National Institutes of Health

Gene Myers, Ph.D.
Professor
University of California, Berkeley

Richard M. Myers, Ph.D.
Professor and Chairman
Department of Genetics
Director
Stanford Human Genome Center
School of Medicine
Stanford University

Zemin Ning
Project Leader
Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute
Wellcome Trust Genome Campus
United Kingdom

Chad Nusbaum, Ph.D.
Co-Director
Genome Sequencing and Analysis
Eli and Edythe L. Broad Institute

James Ostell, Ph.D.
Chief
Information Engineering Branch
National Center for Biotechnology Information
National Library of Medicine
National Institutes of Health

Jane L. Peterson, Ph.D.
Associate Director
Division of Extramural Research
National Human Genome Research Institute
National Institutes of Health

Matthias Platzer
Genome Analysis
Institute of Molecular Biotechnology
Germany

Kim Pruitt, Ph.D.
Supervisor
National Center for Biotechnology Information
National Library of Medicine
National Institutes of Health

Karen A. Remington, Ph.D.
Vice President, Bioinformatics Research
J. Craig Venter Institute

Jane Rogers, Ph.D.
Head, Sequencing
Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute
Wellcome Trust Genome Campus
United Kingdom

Daniel S. Rokhsar, Ph.D.
Computational Genomics Department Head
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

Steven L. Salzberg, Ph.D.
Senior Director, Bioinformatics
The Institute for Genomic Research

Jeremy Schmutz
Informatics Group Leader
Stanford Human Genome Center
Stanford University

Greg Schuler, Ph.D.
Staff Scientist
National Center for Biotechnology Information
National Library of Medicine
National Institutes of Health

Douglas Smith, Ph.D.
Director
Agencourt Sequencing Center
Agencourt Bioscience Corporation

Robert L. Strausberg, Ph.D.
Vice President, Human Genomic Medicine
J. Craig Venter Institute

Todd Duane Taylor, Ph.D.
Team Leader
Human Genome Research Group
RIKEN Genomic Sciences Center
Japan

Elizabeth Thomson, M.S., R.N.
Program Director
Ethical, Legal, and Social Implications Program
National Human Genome Research Institute
National Institutes of Health

Robert H. Waterston, M.D., Ph.D.
William H. Gates III Endowed Chair in Biomedical Sciences
Chair
Department of Genome Sciences
University of Washington

George Weinstock, Ph.D.
Professor and Co-Director
Human Genome Sequencing Center
Baylor College of Medicine

Jean Weissenbach, Ph.D.
Genoscope
France

Monte Westerfield, Ph.D.
Professor
Department of Biology
Institute of Neuroscience
University of Oregon

Kris Wetterstrand, M.S.
Genetics Program Analyst
National Human Genome Research Institute
National Institutes of Health

Richard K. Wilson, Ph.D.
Professor of Genetics
Director
Genome Sequencing Center
Washington University in St. Louis

Huanming Yang, Ph.D.
Director and Professor
Beijing Genomics Institute
Chinese Academy of Sciences
China

Last updated: September 21, 2012