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James Cuff

James has a D.Phil. in Molecular Biophysics from the University of Oxford. During his studies he worked at the European Bioinformatics Institute, focusing on protein structure prediction. James then headed into the field of research IT, building the computing infrastructure for the Ensembl genome project at the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute. In 2003 he moved from the UK to the Broad Institute, as group leader for applied production systems. Subsequently he went on to focus on large-scale mammalian genome analysis. James is currently the Director of Research Computing for the Life Sciences Division in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences.

Amir Karger

Amir received a Ph.D. in Computational Chemistry from University of Pennsylvania in 2001, performing molecular dynamics simulations of proton transfer in a proton channel. He then worked in programming, bioinformatics and system/business analysis for CuraGen and Wyeth Pharmaceuticals. In the Computational Biology Group, Amir provides user support for data analysis and integration, and for use of the cluster. His other role is in infrastructure, obtaining resources and making them available to the Harvard Life Sciences community.

Reddy Gali

Reddy obtained his Ph.D. (Molecular Medicine) in July 1996 from the John Curtin School of Medical Research, Australian National University. During his graduate studies he carried out genetic analysis, structure prediction and computational work on human glutathione synthetase. He then joined Daniel Finley’s laboratory at Harvard Medical School for postdoctoral work on the ubiquitin–proteasome pathway in yeast and mammals. While a postdoc, Reddy took evening classes in Oracle database administration, and graduated as a database administrator, after which he joined a dotcom company to gain experience on Oracle databases. He joined the Computational Biology Group at the Bauer Center in 2001, working both as a database administrator and on microarray informatics. His primary responsibilities include Oracle database administration of the Resolver and Facility databases, and helping users with microarray analysis using Rosetta Resolver.

Jiangwen Zhang

Jiangwen is a Senior Computational Biologist with an M.S. in Computer Science, a Ph.D. in Molecular Biology, and postdoctoral training in biostatistics. He obtained his advanced degrees and training at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. He has extensive experience and strong expertise in protein/DNA sequence analysis, microarray and proteomics data analysis, identification of gene regulation networks, and data modeling and mining using biostatistics and bioinformatics algorithms.

Wenxuan Zhong

Wenxuan is a statistician, whose responsibilities include developing new statistical tools for biological application. Her current research includes developing methods for identifying transcription factor binding sites, constructing regulatory networks using graphical models, clustering temporal microarray data, and identifying differentially expressed genes from temporal microarray analysis. Wenxuan has a Ph.D in Statistics from Purdue University, and is currently a postdoc with Jun Liu in Harvard’s Statistics department.

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