BioMicroCenter:BioInformaticsStaff - Revision history

Stuart S. Levine at 18:24, 30 April 2013

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-	As part of our mission statement, the BioMicro Center is designed to assist users in computational challenges. One key aspect of this is providing our users with the bioinformatics support to interpret their data readily and to assist them in analyzing data for publications and grants. To accomplish this, the BioMicro Center has a team of informatics scientists on staff able to assist labs with experience in a broad number of methodologies. Bioinformatics consultations are available by appointment for CORE lab members. Bioinformatic projects are undertaken by the BioMicro Center on a collaborative basis. Prices for Bioinformatics support are [[BioMicroCenter:Pricing\|available.]]	+	As part of our mission statement, the BioMicro Center is designed to assist users in computational challenges. One key aspect of this is providing our users with the bioinformatics support to interpret their data readily and to assist them in analyzing data for publications and grants. To accomplish this, the BioMicro Center has a team of informatics scientists on staff able to assist labs with experience in a broad number of methodologies. Bioinformatics consultations are available by appointment for CORE lab members. Bioinformatic projects are undertaken by the BioMicro Center on a collaborative basis. Prices for Bioinformatics support are [[BioMicroCenter:Pricing\|available.]]<BR><BR>
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		+	January 2013 began a year long experiment in joining the BioMicro Center Informatics team and the [http://ki.mit.edu/sbc/bioinformatics KI Bioinformatics and Computing Core] in to a single team. Our two teams have been collaborating for several years, sharing computational infrastructure, etc. but this year we will be formalizing and expanding the relationship with the goal of creating a more efficient unified core. Informatics analysis requests should still be sent to Charlie Whittaker or to Stuart Levine as usual, but will be spread across the joint team based on expertise and on availability. <BR><BR>

	== COMPUTATIONAL STAFF ==		== COMPUTATIONAL STAFF ==

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SUPPORT

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	== SUPPORT ==		== SUPPORT ==
-	Bioinformatics staff members receive some direct salary support from the Departments of Biology and Biological Engineering as well as the MIT Center for Environmental Health Sciences.	+	Bioinformatics staff members receive some direct salary support from the Departments of Biology and Biological Engineering as well as the MIT Center for Environmental Health Sciences and the MIT Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research.

Stuart S. Levine: /* COMPUTATIONAL STAFF */

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COMPUTATIONAL STAFF

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-	~~=== Stephen Goldman ===~~	+
-	~~[[Image:Stephen.JPG\|right\|100px]]'''Systems Administrator'''<BR>~~	+
-	Stephen Goldman has been involved in IT at MIT for 21 years. Stephen manages BioMicro's on site data storage servers and is working with Tech Square Consultants to manage our computational cluster that we share with the Koch Institute Bioinformatics and Computing Core. Stephen has been a critical member of the team in managing data integrity, data security and data access concerns as the core has transformed over the past few years.	+

	=== UROPS ===		=== UROPS ===

Vincent L. Butty at 03:12, 15 August 2012

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	=== Vincent Butty, MD, PhD ===		=== Vincent Butty, MD, PhD ===
	[[Image:VincentBMC.jpg\|right\|100px]]'''Informatics Scientist'''<BR>		[[Image:VincentBMC.jpg\|right\|100px]]'''Informatics Scientist'''<BR>
-	Dr. Vincent Butty is the newest member of the core. He is an MD/PhD with a strong background in RNA sequencing methodologies and immunology. Vincent obtained his MD at the University of Geneva and received a PhD in Immunology from Harvard where he studied the population genetics of autoimmune diseases such as Type-I diabetes in the Benoist/Mathis lab. Vincent did his postdoctoral training here at MIT in Dr. Chris Burge's group, where he investigated the regulation of RNA processing across a broad variety of disease contexts using RNA sequencing. In the core, Vincent is currently involved in the analysis of long non-coding RNAs, the role of chromatin in development and the response to genotoxic and infectious stresses.	+	Dr. Vincent Butty is the newest member of the core. He is an MD/PhD with a strong background in RNA sequencing methodologies and immunology. Vincent obtained his MD at the University of Geneva and received a PhD in Immunology from Harvard where he studied the population genetics of autoimmune diseases such as Type-I diabetes in the [http://cbdm.hms.harvard.edu Benoist/Mathis lab]. Vincent did his postdoctoral training here at MIT in [http://genes.mit.edu/burgelab Dr. Chris Burge's group], where he investigated the regulation of RNA processing across a broad variety of disease contexts using RNA sequencing. In the core, Vincent is currently involved in the analysis of long non-coding RNAs, the role of chromatin in development and the response to genotoxic and infectious stresses.
	''Specialties''		''Specialties''
	* RNAseq		* RNAseq

Vincent L. Butty at 03:06, 15 August 2012

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	=== Vincent Butty, MD, PhD ===		=== Vincent Butty, MD, PhD ===
	[[Image:VincentBMC.jpg\|right\|100px]]'''Informatics Scientist'''<BR>		[[Image:VincentBMC.jpg\|right\|100px]]'''Informatics Scientist'''<BR>
-	Dr. Vincent Butty is the newest member of the core. He is an MD/PhD with a strong background in RNA sequencing methodologies and immunology. Vincent obtained his MD at the University of Geneva and received a PhD in Immunology from Harvard where he studied the population genetics of autoimmune diseases such as Type-I diabetes. Vincent did his postdoctoral training here at MIT in Dr. Chris Burge's group, where he investigated the regulation of RNA processing across a broad variety of disease contexts using RNA sequencing. In the core, Vincent is currently involved in the analysis of long non-coding RNAs, the role of chromatin in development and the response to genotoxic and infectious stresses.	+	Dr. Vincent Butty is the newest member of the core. He is an MD/PhD with a strong background in RNA sequencing methodologies and immunology. Vincent obtained his MD at the University of Geneva and received a PhD in Immunology from Harvard where he studied the population genetics of autoimmune diseases such as Type-I diabetes in the Benoist/Mathis lab. Vincent did his postdoctoral training here at MIT in Dr. Chris Burge's group, where he investigated the regulation of RNA processing across a broad variety of disease contexts using RNA sequencing. In the core, Vincent is currently involved in the analysis of long non-coding RNAs, the role of chromatin in development and the response to genotoxic and infectious stresses.
	''Specialties''		''Specialties''
	* RNAseq		* RNAseq

Vincent L. Butty at 15:36, 20 June 2012

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	== COMPUTATIONAL STAFF ==		== COMPUTATIONAL STAFF ==

-	=== Vincent Butty, PhD ===	+	=== Vincent Butty, MD, PhD ===
	[[Image:VincentBMC.jpg\|right\|100px]]'''Informatics Scientist'''<BR>		[[Image:VincentBMC.jpg\|right\|100px]]'''Informatics Scientist'''<BR>
-	Dr. Vincent Butty is the newest member of the core. He is an MD/PhD with a strong background in RNA sequencing methodologies and immunology. Vincent obtained his MD at the University of Geneva and received a PhD in Immunology from Harvard where he studied the population genetics of autoimmune diseases such as Type-I diabetes. Vincent did his postdoctoral training here at MIT in Dr. Chris Burge's group, where he investigated the regulation of RNA processing across a broad variety of disease contexts using RNA sequencing. In the core, ~~Vincentis~~ currently involved in the analysis of long non-coding RNAs, the role of chromatin in development and the response to genotoxic and infectious stresses.	+	Dr. Vincent Butty is the newest member of the core. He is an MD/PhD with a strong background in RNA sequencing methodologies and immunology. Vincent obtained his MD at the University of Geneva and received a PhD in Immunology from Harvard where he studied the population genetics of autoimmune diseases such as Type-I diabetes. Vincent did his postdoctoral training here at MIT in Dr. Chris Burge's group, where he investigated the regulation of RNA processing across a broad variety of disease contexts using RNA sequencing. In the core, Vincent is currently involved in the analysis of long non-coding RNAs, the role of chromatin in development and the response to genotoxic and infectious stresses.
	''Specialties''		''Specialties''
	* RNAseq		* RNAseq
-	* Immunology	+	* Immunology & Immunogenetics

	=== Ryan Abo, PhD ===		=== Ryan Abo, PhD ===

Stuart S. Levine: /* COMPUTATIONAL STAFF */

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COMPUTATIONAL STAFF

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	== COMPUTATIONAL STAFF ==		== COMPUTATIONAL STAFF ==

-	=== Vincent Butty ===	+	=== Vincent Butty, PhD ===
-	'''Informatics Scientist'''<BR>	+	[[Image:VincentBMC.jpg\|right\|100px]]'''Informatics Scientist'''<BR>
		+	Dr. Vincent Butty is the newest member of the core. He is an MD/PhD with a strong background in RNA sequencing methodologies and immunology. Vincent obtained his MD at the University of Geneva and received a PhD in Immunology from Harvard where he studied the population genetics of autoimmune diseases such as Type-I diabetes. Vincent did his postdoctoral training here at MIT in Dr. Chris Burge's group, where he investigated the regulation of RNA processing across a broad variety of disease contexts using RNA sequencing. In the core, Vincentis currently involved in the analysis of long non-coding RNAs, the role of chromatin in development and the response to genotoxic and infectious stresses.
		+	''Specialties''
		+	* RNAseq
		+	* Immunology
		+
	=== Ryan Abo, PhD ===		=== Ryan Abo, PhD ===
	[[Image:Rabo.jpg\|right\|100px]] '''Informatics Scientist'''<BR>		[[Image:Rabo.jpg\|right\|100px]] '''Informatics Scientist'''<BR>

-	Ryan has recently joined the Biomicro center as a bioinformatics scientist. He received his undergraduate education in computer science from the College of Idaho. He then ~~pursued~~ a Ph.D. ~~in Biomedical~~ Informatics, ~~where~~ his ~~computational background~~ and ~~interests influenced his Ph~~.~~D. thesis work~~ in ~~developing, implementing,~~ and ~~applying~~ statistical ~~methods~~ and ~~computation tools for genetic data analysis~~. ~~A postdoctoral opportunity at~~ the ~~Mayo Clinic led him to performing bioinformatics~~ and ~~statistical genetics research and analysis for pharmacogenomic~~-~~related projects~~.	+	Ryan has recently joined the Biomicro center as a bioinformatics scientist with a strong background in genetic and genomic analysis. He received his undergraduate education in computer science from the College of Idaho. He received his PhD in biomedical informatics from the University of Utah where he studied genetic influences on breast cancer. Ryan then did his postdoctoral work at the Mayo Clinic where he modeled relationships between DNA sequence variation, gene expression and cytotoxicity traits for pharmacogenomic biomarker discovery. He has been involved in a range of projects including Chip-seq motif finding, de novo mutation identification, and the role of transcription at enhancer sites.
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		+	=== Huiming Ding, PhD ===
		+	[[Image:Huiming_Ding.JPG\|right\|100px]]'''Informatics Scientist'''<BR>
		+	Huiming is the longest serving member of the team, joining just over a year ago. He received his PhD in Physics from Jilin University in China before working for nearly a decade as a senior research associate in bioinformatics at the University of Toronto where he supported the work of Dr. Charlie Boone in studying cellular networks and pathways using synthetic genetic array (SGA) and synthetic dosage lethal (SDL) screens. Huiming has significant experience in deriving interaction networks and in creating statistical scoring algorithms and databases. His current collaborative projects involve the study of functional interaction networks from time course data and generation of genome-scale metabolic pathway models.
		+	''Specialties''
		+	* Statistical Analysis
		+	* Network Analysis

-	~~=== Huiming Ding ===~~
-	~~'''Informatics Scientist'''<BR>~~
	=== [[User:Stuart S. Levine\|Stuart Levine, PhD]] ===		=== [[User:Stuart S. Levine\|Stuart Levine, PhD]] ===
	[[Image:SL_07.jpg\|right\|100px]]'''Core Director'''<BR>		[[Image:SL_07.jpg\|right\|100px]]'''Core Director'''<BR>
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	* Chromatin IP		* Chromatin IP
	* expression analysis		* expression analysis
		+	* Transcription mechanism

	=== Stephen Goldman ===		=== Stephen Goldman ===
-	'''Systems Administrator'''<BR>	+	[[Image:Stephen.JPG\|right\|100px]]'''Systems Administrator'''<BR>
		+	Stephen Goldman has been involved in IT at MIT for 21 years. Stephen manages BioMicro's on site data storage servers and is working with Tech Square Consultants to manage our computational cluster that we share with the Koch Institute Bioinformatics and Computing Core. Stephen has been a critical member of the team in managing data integrity, data security and data access concerns as the core has transformed over the past few years.
		+
	=== UROPS ===		=== UROPS ===

Stuart S. Levine: /* COMPUTATIONAL STAFF */

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COMPUTATIONAL STAFF

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	'''Informatics Scientist'''<BR>		'''Informatics Scientist'''<BR>
	=== Ryan Abo, PhD ===		=== Ryan Abo, PhD ===
-	'''Informatics Scientist'''<BR>	+	[[Image:Rabo.jpg\|right\|100px]] '''Informatics Scientist'''<BR>

	Ryan has recently joined the Biomicro center as a bioinformatics scientist. He received his undergraduate education in computer science from the College of Idaho. He then pursued a Ph.D. in Biomedical Informatics, where his computational background and interests influenced his Ph.D. thesis work in developing, implementing, and applying statistical methods and computation tools for genetic data analysis. A postdoctoral opportunity at the Mayo Clinic led him to performing bioinformatics and statistical genetics research and analysis for pharmacogenomic-related projects.		Ryan has recently joined the Biomicro center as a bioinformatics scientist. He received his undergraduate education in computer science from the College of Idaho. He then pursued a Ph.D. in Biomedical Informatics, where his computational background and interests influenced his Ph.D. thesis work in developing, implementing, and applying statistical methods and computation tools for genetic data analysis. A postdoctoral opportunity at the Mayo Clinic led him to performing bioinformatics and statistical genetics research and analysis for pharmacogenomic-related projects.

Stuart S. Levine at 01:47, 11 May 2012

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	'''Systems Administrator'''<BR>		'''Systems Administrator'''<BR>
	=== UROPS ===		=== UROPS ===
		+
		+	== SETTING UP SUPPORT ==
		+	If you are looking for informatics support, the easiest way to begin is with an email to ''biomicro@mit.edu'' with a brief description of your experiment. One of the members of our informatics staff will reach out to you to schedule a one on one meeting. This meeting is free for CORE lab members. Once an experimental plan is approved we will begin work on your project, checking in with you at regular intervals to be sure the project is on track. The project can be paused at any time by the researcher.
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		+	=== PRIORITY ===
		+	Significant portions of the informatics staff salaries are paid by direct support from faculty members. As such, these "sponsors" of the informatics groups have priority access on their projects. Additional blocks of time are reserved for each informaticist to work on projects that are billed hourly with priority given to CORE labs. A small number of hours may remain to assist non-MIT labs with data analysis but such projects are always considered low priority. Labs interested in sponsoring the informatics staff at the BioMicro Center should contact [[User:Stuart S. Levine\|Stuart Levine]].
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		+	=== AUTHORSHIP ===
		+	Informatics projects through the BioMicro Center are considered collaborative efforts. Publications resulting from statistic or bioinformatics work frequently merit co-authorship: the order of authorship is not of concern. Placing BioMicro Center staff on publications significantly increases our ability to obtain financial support through grants and is helpful in the renewal process for CEHS and KI core grants.

	== OTHER RESOURCES ==		== OTHER RESOURCES ==
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	* [http://luria.mit.edu/CCR_BCC/ The Bioinformatics and Computing Core Facility] at the [http://web.mit.edu/ki/index.html Koch Institute for Integrated Cancer Research]		* [http://luria.mit.edu/CCR_BCC/ The Bioinformatics and Computing Core Facility] at the [http://web.mit.edu/ki/index.html Koch Institute for Integrated Cancer Research]
	* [http://jura.wi.mit.edu/bio/ Bioinformatics and Research Computing] at the [http://www.whitehead.mit.edu/ Whitehead Institute]		* [http://jura.wi.mit.edu/bio/ Bioinformatics and Research Computing] at the [http://www.whitehead.mit.edu/ Whitehead Institute]
		+
		+	== SUPPORT ==
		+	Bioinformatics staff members receive some direct salary support from the Departments of Biology and Biological Engineering as well as the MIT Center for Environmental Health Sciences.

Stuart S. Levine at 01:09, 11 May 2012

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-	As part of our mission statement, the BioMicro Center is designed to assist users in computational challenges. One key aspect of this is providing our users with the bioinformatics support to interpret their data readily and to assist them in analyzing data for publications and grants. To accomplish this, the BioMicro Center has a team of informatics scientists on staff able to assist labs with experience in a broad number of methodologies. Bioinformatics consultations are available by appointment for CORE lab members. Bioinformatic projects are undertaken by the BioMicro Center on a collaborative basis. Prices for Bioinformatics support are [[BioMicroCenter:~~Prices~~\|available.]]	+	As part of our mission statement, the BioMicro Center is designed to assist users in computational challenges. One key aspect of this is providing our users with the bioinformatics support to interpret their data readily and to assist them in analyzing data for publications and grants. To accomplish this, the BioMicro Center has a team of informatics scientists on staff able to assist labs with experience in a broad number of methodologies. Bioinformatics consultations are available by appointment for CORE lab members. Bioinformatic projects are undertaken by the BioMicro Center on a collaborative basis. Prices for Bioinformatics support are [[BioMicroCenter:Pricing\|available.]]

	== COMPUTATIONAL STAFF ==		== COMPUTATIONAL STAFF ==