Our Team

See the Phoenix Bioinformatics website for more details about our current team. 

TAIR Curation Team Members

Tanya Berardini, Ph.D TAIR Director

Erica Bakker, Ph.D Curator

Leonore Reiser, Ph.D Curator

Bioinformatics Team Members

Alyssa Proia, M.S. Bioinformatician

Shabari Subramaniam, Ph.D Bioinformatician

Former Staff

Eva Huala, Ph.D, Executive Director, Phoenix Bioinformatics Co-founder
Bob Muller, Ph. D, Tech Team lead, Phoenix Bioinformatics Co-founder, CFO, CTO
Donghui Li, Ph. D, Curator, Phoenix Bioinformatics Co-founder, Director of Business Development
Andrey Vetushko, Software Developer
Bill Nelson, Bioinformatics Programmer
Larry Ploetz, Systems Administrator
Shanker Singh, Database Administrator
Phillipe Lamesch, Ph.D, Curator
Margarita Garcia-Hernandez, Ph.D., Curator
Kate Dreher, Ph.D, Curator
April Wensel, Programmer
Cynthia Lee, Senior Software Developer
Chris Wilks, Programmer
Raymond Chetty, Senior Software Developer
David Swarbreck, Ph.D, Lead Scientific Curator, Structural Annotation
Peifen Zhang, Ph.D, Lead Scientific Curator, Metabolism/Proteomics
Tom Meyer, Software Engineer
Rajkumar Sasidharan, Ph.D., Scientific Curator, Structural Annotation
Anjo Chi, Junior Programmer
Vanessa Kirkup, Webmaster
Suzanne Fleshman, Assistant Curator
Christophe Tissier, Ph. D., Curator
Hartmut Foerster, Ph. D., Curator
Joseph Filla, System Administrator
Julie Horvath, Web Developer
Katica Ilic, Ph.D., Curator
Suparna Mundodi, Ph.D., Curator
Jon Slenk, Programmer,Tech Team Lead
Thomas Yan, Intern
Iris Xu, Programmer
Danny Yoo, Programmer
Doug Becker, Tech team lead
Brandon Zoeckler
Shijun Li, Ph.D., Post-Doc
Nick Moseyko, Ph.D., Curator
Yigong Lou, Ph.D., Post-Doc
Behzad Mahini, Bioinformatics Specialist
Lukas Mueller, Ph.D., Curator
Rashmi Nunn, Programmer
Jungwon(J) Yoon, M.S., Curator Assistant
Gabriel Lander, Curator Assistant
Aisling Doyle, Curator Assistant
Mark Lambrecht, Ph.D., Post-Doc
Bryan Murtha, Programmer
Bengt Anell, Bioinformatics intern
Debika Bhattacharyya, Bioinformatics intern
Wen Huang, Software Engineer Smita Mitra, Exchange Student
Devaki Bhaya, Ph.D., Curator
Seung Yon (Sue) Rhee, Ph.D., Co-Principal Investigator
A.S Karthikeyan, Ph.D., Scientific Curator
Debbie Alexander, Ph.D., Scientific Curator
David Huang, Software Developer

Phoenix Bioinformatics

Shimantika Sharma, Software Developer
Yarik Mezheritsky, Principal Software Developer

Andrey Vetushko, Software Developer

Qian Li, Software Developer

Peifen Zhang, Ph.D., Scientific Project Manager

Former Interns at Phoenix Bioinformatics

  • Phylogenes Project
    • Efrain Cuellar, Chabot College
    • Nicholas Tai, Chabot College
    • Thu Nguyen, Chabot College
  • MorphoBank Project
    • Timothy John, Stony Brook University
    • Aidan Furey, Stony Brook University
    • Alvaro Quintanilla, Stony Brook University
    • Bidane Martinez Huerta, UC Berkeley
    • Katherine Walton, UC Berkeley
    • Joyce Song, UC Berkeley

NCGR
Dan Weems, Database Developer
Neil Miller, Software Developer
Mary Montoya, Project Leader
Guanghong Chen, Software Developer
Yihe Wu, Software Developer
Allan Dickerman, Ph.D., NCGR Project Leader
Bruno Sobral, Co-PI
Don Kiphart, IT Architect
David Hanley, IT Architect
Frank LaFond, Web Developer
Wen Huang, Web Developer