Shelby Bidwell, MA

Shelby Bidwell is a GenBank Biologist who is part of the team that processes genomes that are submitted to NCBI. Before working at NCBI, Shelby spent 10 years generating annotation for eukaryotic genomes.

• GenBank Submission: How Do I Submit My Data to NCBI?

Sally Chang, PhD

Sally is an NCBI Education Team Lead within the Outreach Program and specializes in creating workshops and supporting other outreach events for people performing eukaryotic genome analysis. Her doctoral and post-doctoral work involved exploring cnidarian genome and transcriptome sequences as useful animal models to understand key biological processes such as tissue regeneration.

• Using NCBI Datasets to Easily Gather Data from across NCBI Databases
• Using NCBI Resources to Develop Case Studies for Student-Directed Discovery

Kurtis Haro, PhD

Kurtis is a radiobiologist by training, but he currently serves as the Technical Lead for Business Intelligence (web analytics) at NCBI. His work is focused on delivering a better science and engineering research enterprise for the brilliant scientists and engineers tackling prescient problems in medicine and healthcare. He and his team analyze usage of the website to identify pain points, whether new application features were successful, and how users collect data both within a product and collectively across the site, among other areas of concern.

Vamsi Kodali, PhD

Vamsi is a Data Wrangler in the RefSeq and Gene group at NCBI where he leverages publicly available genomic, transcriptomic and proteomic datasets in improving genome annotation by the NCBI Eukaryotic Genome Annotation Pipeline (EGAP). He works closely with the RefSeq curation team in driving accurate annotation of RefSeq transcripts for high-priority eukaryotic organisms.

• Advances in Eukaryotic Annotation at NCBI

Terence Murphy, PhD

Terence oversees the Comparative Genomics Resource (CGR) project and leads development efforts for RefSeq Eukaryotes, where his team develops methods for genome annotation in eukaryotes and tools for the identification of sequence contaminants in new and existing genomes. He will be speaking in the NCBI Genome Resources and Arabidopsis workshops.

• The NIH Comparative Genomics Resource (CGR)
• Genome Annotation of Arabidopsis thaliana T2T Col-CC By NCBI Refseq

Yuriy Skripchenko, PhD

Yuriy is the Product Owner of the Sequence Read Archive (SRA), supporting NCBI's effort in open and FAIR data access. He has been working in the fields of bioinformatics and digital product development for over 15 years.

• NCBI Sequence Read Archive Database

Eric Tvedte, PhD

Eric is a Data Wrangler on the NCBI Foreign Contamination Screen (FCS) team. He designs testing and analysis protocols to improve the performance of publicly-available FCS tools on genome assemblies. He responds to scientific and technical inquiries on the FCS GitHub site and participates in FCS public outreach efforts.

• NIH Comparative Genomics Resource: An NCBI Toolkit of Data and Tools Unlocking Arthropod Research
• Rapid and Sensitive Detection of Genome Contamination at Scale with Fcs-GX