Vinita Joardar, PhD
Vinita is a Staff Scientist in the RefSeq Group at NCBI and provides support for the manual curation of eukaryotic genomes. She also schedules and runs high-quality assembled genomes through the Eukaryotic Genome Annotation Pipeline (EGAP). Prior to joining NCBI in 2013, she was in the Eukaryotic Annotation group at TIGR/JCVI.
Brandi Kattman, MS/MS, CGC
Brandi is the Chief of the Medical Genetics & Human Variation (MGV) Program, which provides a suite of products and services to assist clinicians and researchers working with genetic and associated health information, including ClinVar, dbGaP, dbSNP and the NIH Genetic Testing Registry (GTR). Brandi serves on multiple committees primarily focused on data standards, data sharing and interoperability. Her clinical specialty is the genetics of rare disease, with a particular interest in X-linked Hydrocephalus.
Melissa Landrum, PhD
Melissa is the Team Lead for the ClinVar database at NCBI. Prior to leading the ClinVar team, she was a curator on the NCBI RefSeq team for 12 years. She came to NCBI from The Johns Hopkins University, where she received her PhD in human genetics.
Adriana Malheiro, MS, LCGC
Adriana is the Director of the NIH Genetic Testing Registry (GTR) which is an international database of orderable clinical and research genetic tests as well as molecular and serologic microbe tests and the laboratories that provide them. She is also the team lead for MedGen which is NCBI’s portal to medical genetics information. Adriana serves as the Editor-in-Chief for the Medical Genetics Summaries, an online resource that provides structured pharmacogenomic evidence and practical information about genetic testing to guide drug therapy. Adriana is a licensed and certified genetic counselor with a mission to help successfully integrate genetic and genomic information into the practice of medicine.
Wayne Matten, PhD
Wayne is an NCBI Customer Experience team member. Since 2000, he has provided user support including teaching courses and workshops on a wide range of NCBI resources. He is part of the BLAST-help group, maintains the NCBI section of the NLMNIH YouTube channel, and creates tutorial videos on NCBI tools and resources. His research background is in biochemistry/molecular biology focused on signal transduction mechanisms involving oncogenes.
Valerie Schneider, PhD
Valerie is the Acting Chief of the Information Engineering Branch. She oversees NCBI’s collection, creation, analysis, organization, curation, and dissemination of data and analysis tools in the areas of molecular biology and genetics, as well as the collection and management of bibliographic information. She also manages NCBI's involvement in the Genome Reference Consortium, an international collective of academic and research institutes tasked with maintaining the value of the human reference genome assembly tasked with maintaining the value of the human reference genome assembly.
Adam Stine, MS
Adam is Product Owner for the SRA Toolkit and Operations teams of the Sequence Read Archive (SRA). He joined NCBI in 2009 as a curator for SRA and has helped submitters of both public and controlled access submissions from the smallest to largest projects. Adam now focuses on improving user access to data in SRA as well as efficient storage and processing of submissions to SRA.
Wes Ulm, MD, PhD
Wes is an NCBI resource specialist and analyst originally trained in clinical medicine, genetics, and gene therapy at Harvard Medical School and MIT. Funded by an NIH Medical Scientist Training Program (MSTP) fellowship, he completed a thesis focusing on the selective viral capsid-based cellular restriction of retroviral gene therapy vectors to enhance therapeutic delivery to diseased cells and tissues. He authored the gene therapy reference in the Wiley Encyclopedia of Genetics, and later specialized in bioinformatics-guided protein and gene therapeutics and drug repurposing for muscular dystrophy and COVID-19 at Cedars-Sinai Hospital and UCLA.
Minghong (Ming) Ward, MS
Minghong (Ming) is the Product Owner for the dbGaP FHIR project, collaborating with NIH Cloud Platform Interoperability partners, including Kids First, ImmPort, University of California San Francisco, and Baylor College of Medicine, in efforts to pilot cloud computing with dbGaP data, integrating the FHIR and the Global Alliance for Genomics and Health's Data Repository Service standards. Previously, Ming served as the technical lead for dbSNP and as an advisor in NCBI's Information Engineering Branch.
Chunlin Xiao, PhD
Chunlin is a Staff Scientist and project lead for reference sample resources development for clinical sequencing at NCBI, including data management for Genome-in-a-Bottle and SEQC2 projects. His most recent efforts include designing and implementing pipeline for Sars-Cov-2 variant detection for NIH Accelerating COVID-19 Therapeutic Interventions and Vaccines (ACTIV) Initiative.
Last Reviewed: October 22, 2024