CoFest 2018 introductions and cluster signups

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1	This is our introduction page for CoFest 2018, to help attendees find each other and organize into clusters. Please tell us all about yourself and what cluster(s) interest you.
2	First Name	Last Name	Company	Work City	Work State	Work Country	GitHub username	Cluster(s) of Interest	Short Introduction

3	Adrienne	Stilp	University of Washington	Seattle	WA	US
4	Alain	Domissy	TSRI Center for Computational Biology	La Jolla	CA	US
5	Alejandra	Gonzalez-Beltran	Oxford e-Research Centre, Department of Engineering, University of Oxford, UK	Oxford	England	GB
6	Alex	Buchanan	Oregon Health & Science University	Portland	OR	US	buchanae
7	Alexandru	Mahmoud	Johns Hopkins University	Baltimore	MD	US	almahmoud
8	Anastasia	Tyryshkina	Penn State University	State College	PA	US
9	Andrey	Kartashov	CCHMC	Cincinnati	OH	US
10	Angel	Villahoz-Baleta	GOBii	Ithaca	NY	US
11	Anna	Ritz	Reed College	Portland	OR	US
12	Anthony	Bretaudeau	Inria Rennes Bretagne Atlantique	Rennes		FR	abretaud	Galaxy Genome Annotation	Working mainly on galaxy tools, and Galaxy/GMOD integration (jbrowse, chad, tripal, apollo, ...)
13	Anton	Nekrutenko	Penn State	University Park	PA	US
14	ARTEM	BARSKI	CINCINNATI CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL	CINCINNATI	OH	US
15	Arthur	Eschenlauer	University of Minnesota - Twin Cities	St. Paul	MN	US
16	Aysam	Guerler	Johns Hopkins University	Baltimore	MD	US
17	Bastian	Greshake Tzovaras	openSNP / Open Humans	Berkeley	CA	US
18	Ben	Busby	NCBI	Bethesda	MD	US	dcgenomics	worldwide hackathon organization	running hackathons, visiting bioinformaticians program, and setting up data science talks and workshops
19	Ben	Carr	Curoverse Innovations	Somerville	MA	US	https://github.com/benjaminhccarr
20	Benjamin	Cordier	Oregon Health & Science University	Portland	OR	US
21	Bérénice	Batut	University of Freiburg	Freiburg	Baden Württemberg	DE	bebatut	Galaxy Training material
22	Björn	Grüning	Uni-Freiburg	Freiburg	Baden Württemberg	DE
23	Bogdan	Gavrilovic	Seven Bridges Genomics	Belgrade	11070	RS	bogdang989	CWL
24	Brad	Chapman	Harvard Chan School	Boston	MA	US	https://github.com/chapmanb	bcbio CWL	An organizer of CoFest 2018 and developer hoping to make more tools, data, people and platforms work better together.
25	Brad	Langhorst	New England Biolabs	Ipswich	MA	US
26	Brad	Langhorst	New England Biolabs	Ipswich	MA	US	bwlang	galaxy user experience, bioconda, nextflow, uBam input, long reads	I've been working with Galaxy for many years and value it's contributions to opening best-practice analysis to everyone
27	Brandi	Davis-Dusenbery	Seven Bridges Genomics	Cambridge	MA	US
28	Brian	Repko	Novartis Institutes for Biomedical Research	Minneapolis	MN	US	brianrepko		First time as BOSC - have contributed before to Biojava - not sure what I'll work on
29	Brian	Walsh	Oregon Health & Science University	Portland	OR	US
30	Caleb	Easterly	University of Minnesota	Minneapolis	MN	US	caleb-easterly	R Shiny in galaxy, CWL in galaxy, Bioconda	Galaxy-P team, tool developer and wrapper
31	Catherine	Karra	Free Geek Tech Support	Portland	OR	US
32	Charles	Strittmatter	FDA - CFSAN	College Park	MD	US
33	Charlotte	Whicher	REPOSITIVE, LTD	Cambridge	Cambs	GB
34	Chris	Ball	RTI International	Durham	NC	US	cmball1
35	Chris	Mungall	Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory	Berkeley	CA	US
36	Chuck	McCallum	Harvard Medical School	Boston	MA	US	mccalluc	CWL, visualization, docker, testing	Web developer, fairly new to bioinformatics, experience in library software (for books), QA
37	Colin	Diesh	UC Berkeley	Detroit	MI	US	https://github.com/cmdcolin		New hire on the JBrowse team but I have been involved in contributing for awhile :)
38	Concarneau	amosse	French National Museum of Natural History	Concarneau		FR
39	Cory	Maughmer	Center For Phage Technology at TAMU	College Station	TX	US
40	Cory	Maughmer	Texas A&M University - CPT	College Station	TX	US	moffmade	galaxy admin, genome annotation	Improving GMOD/Apollo integration and efficiency, Galaxy API enabled tools for external systems
41	Dan	Leehr	Duke University	Durham	NC	US	dleehr	CWL, HPC and Cloud scalable workflows	Informatics R&D at Duke GCB, interested in promoting computational reproducibility in cloud and HPC environments
42	Daniel	Blankenberg	Cleveland Clinic / CCLCM of Case Western Reserve University / Galaxy Team	Cleveland	OH	US	blankenberg
43	Daniel	Clarke	Mount Sinai	New York	NY	US
44	Daniel	Fornika	University of British Columbia	Vancouver	BC	CA	https://github.com/dfornika	CWL, Cloud Deployment, Provenance	Database & Application developer, working on the IRIDA project: https://www.irida.ca
45	Daniel	Katz	University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign	Champaign	IL	US
46	Daniela	Butano	University of Cambridge - Department of Genetics	Cambridge		GB
47	Dannon	Baker	Galaxy Team	ATLANTA	GA	US	dannon	Galaxy UI, Galaxy Visualization	A CoFest organizer very interested in the Galaxy UI, Visualizations, and UX in general.
48	Dave	Bouvier	Penn State University	University Park	PA	US
49	Dave	Clements	Johns Hopkins University	Baltimore	MD	US
50	David	Johnson	Oxford e-Research Centre, Department of Engineering, University of Oxford, UK	OXFORD		GB
51	David	Steinberg	UCSC	Santa Cruz	CA	US
52	Delphine	Lariviere	Pennsylvania State University	University Park	PA	US
53	Denis	Torre	Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai	New York	NY	US
54	Destiny	Mullens	Texas A&M University	College Station	TX	US	destinymullens	Galaxy DAT, GTN, NIH Data Commons
55	Dominique	Batista	Oxford e-Research Centre, Department of Engineering, University of Oxford, UK	Oxford		GB
56	Enis	Afgan	Johns Hopkins University	Baltimore	MD	US	afgane	Deploying Galaxy	Working on deployments of Galaxy and other related applications.
57	Evan	Bolyen	Northern Arizona University	FLAGSTAFF	AZ	US	ebolyen	CWL, provenance, QIIME2	QIIME 2 developer, interested in provenance, reproducable science, and accessible interface agnostic functionality. I'm coming to the conference to learn more about CWL and meet some of the awesome people in the Galaxy sphere.
58	Evan	Floden	Centre for Genomic Regulation	Barcelona		ES
59	Farah Zaib	Khan	The University of Melbourne	Melbourne	VIC	AU	FarahZKhan	CWL, cwltool, provenance	Member of CWL organization \| PhD researcher at University of Melbourne working on Provenance tracking of workflows \| Teacher in spare time.
60	Francesco	Strozzi	ENTEROME	PARIS		FR	fstrozzi	OpenBio, Nextflow, Cloud Computing
61	Fred	Sapet	Biogemma	Clermont-Ferrand		FR	FredericBGA	galaxy user experience	Bioinformatician, galaxy admin. I would like to learn as an example how to do this : https://github.com/galaxyproject/galaxy/issues/4162. And discuss about that : https://github.com/galaxyproject/galaxy/issues/4668. First time here, not fluent in english...
62	Frederik	Coppens	VIB	Gent		BE	frederikcoppens
63	Geet	Duggal	DNAnexus	Mountain View	CA	US
64	Geet	Duggal	DNAnexus	Mountain View	CA	US	geetduggal	CWL,WDL,Docker,Jupyter	Comp bio by training & developer @ DNAnexus. Lead the Developer Experience team.
65	Geraldine	Van der Auwera	Broad Institute	Cambridge	MA	US
66	Gerard	Lazo	USDA ARS	Albany	CA	US	grlazo	jbrowse	biologist in a computing world.
67	Hans-Rudolf	Hotz	Friedrich Miescher Institute	Basel		CH	hrhotz	sorry - I won't be able to attend
68	Hervé	Ménager	Institut Pasteur	Paris		FR			Research Software Engineer at #C3BI_Pasteur. Prob. interested in too many topics, including EDAM Ontology, CWL, Galaxy, Semantic Web applications, Usability, etc.
69	Hilmar	Lapp	Duke University	Durham	NC	US
70	Hiromu	Ochiai	National Cancer Center, Japan	Tokyo		JP
71	Hsinyi	Tsang	National Cancer Insitute	Rockville	MD	US	stevetsa	containers, workflows, cancer, microbe, multiomics	First time at GCC, BOSC. Developing use cases on the National Cancer Institute Cloud Resources - https://cbiit.cancer.gov/ncip/cloudresources
72	Isma	Gilani	RENCI	Chapel Hill	NC	US
73	Jake	VanCampen	Stowers Institute	Kansas City	MO	US
74	James	Taylor	Johns Hopkins University	Baltimore	MD	US	jxtx	Galaxy UI/UX, Galaxy+CWL	I do Galaxy stuff.
75	Janaki	Gorla	Lenovo	Snohomish	WA	US
76	Janice	Patterson	Oregon Health and Science University	Portland	OR	US	patterja		Computational Biologist at OHSU, developing clinical sequencing workflows, developing in campus-wide instance of galaxy.
77	Jared	Nedzel	Broad Institute	Cambridge	MA	US
78	Jason	Williams	Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory	Cold Spring Harbor	NY	US	JasonJWilliamsNY	Education, documentation, training, R/Rshiny, Jupyter	Interested in making tools easier for biologists to use
79	Jay	Pleyte	Oregon Health and Science University	Portland	OR	US	jPleyte	Interested in any OBF, Galaxy, or documentation efforts.	I work on a clinical informatics web application, at OHSU, which makes use of data once it has been run through a galaxy pipeline. I am now familiarizing myself with Galaxy and am interested in getting involved in development and documentation in any way i can help.
80	Jeffrey	Miller	University of Iowa - Iowa Institute of Human Genetics	Iowa City	IA	US	millerjl1701	Galaxy Dev	Systems administrator working on galaxy automation and deployment
81	Jennifer	Hillman-Jackson	Galaxy Project/Penn State	Santa Cruz	CA	US	@jennaj	Galaxy DAT; GTN Tutorials; Ref Annotation	An organizer of Co-Fest 2018 and member of the GalaxyProject.org core team based at PSU.
82	Jeremy	Goecks	Oregon Health and Science University	Portland	OR	US	jgoecks	Galaxy, Machine Learning, Cancer, Visualization	Galaxy PI. I also lead a precision oncology informatics project.
83	Jeremy	Volkening	University of Wisconsin-Madison	Madison	WI	US	jvolkening	proteomics, galaxy admin, galaxy viz, nanopore tools
84	Joachim	Wolff	Albert-Ludwig-University Freiburg	Freiburg im Breisgau	BW	DE
85	Jochen	Bick	ETH Zuich	Zurich	Zurich	CH	bimbam23
86	Johannes	Köster	University of Duisburg-Essen	Essen		DE
87	John	Bradley	Duke University	Durham	NC	US	johnbradley	CWL, provenance	Informatics R&D at Duke GCB, interested in learning ways to simplify workflow creation and collaboration
88	John	Chilton	Penn State	University Park	PA	US	https://github.com/jmchilton	Galaxy CWL Integration
89	Jonathan	Sheffi	Google Cloud	Cambridge	MA	US	sheffi		Product Manager for Biomedical Data @ Google Cloud
90	Karl	Sebby	xD Bio, Inc.	Kalispell	MT	US
91	KAUSHIK	GHOSE	Seven Bridges Genomics	Cambridge	MA	US	kghosesbg	CWL
92	Kenzo-Hugo	Hillion	Institut Pasteur	Paris		FR	khillion
93	Kieran	O'Neill	BC Cancer	Vancouver	BC	CA	oneillkza	miRNA/isomiRs
94	Kristin	Anderka	Broad Institute	Cambridge	MA	US
95	Krzysztof	Poterlowicz	University of Bradford	Bradford	West Yorkshire	GB	kpoterlowicz	Galaxy analysis and training	I am currently developing EWAS-Galaxy suite and integrating it with GTN materials https://github.com/kpbioteam/training-material/tree/ewas-suite
96	Kyle	Ellrott	Oregon Health & Science University	Portland	OR	US
97	Kyle	Ferriter	RENCI	Chapel Hill	NC	US
98	Kyle	Moad	In Silico Solutions	Falls Church	VA	US	kmoad		Developer working on variant annotator with karchinlab at JHU
99	Lerone	LaTouche	Lenovo	Morrisville	NC	US
100	Logan	Miller	Center for Genome Research and Biocomputing	Corvallis	OR	US