Company: Leadership
BioTeam is actively involved with our customers, our community, and our industry’s future. Each individual plays an important role in contributing to the advancement of informatics as a tool to enables great science to happen.
Michele Clamp, PhD
Senior Scientific Consultant
After studying physics at Oxford and for a PhD at Manchester, Clamp discovered the exciting field of computational biology through modeling protein structure. The following 15 years saw her initiate high throughput bioinformatics analysis at Oxford University and head the development of widely used visualization tools such as Jalview (at the EBI) and Apollo (in collaboration with UC Berkeley). She has spent the past decade at the forefront of genome annotation, was one of the founders of the EnsEMBL genome annotation database, and spent six years at the Broad Institute. Michele is recognized as a leading expert on the human gene catalog and comparative genomics. Immediately prior to joining Bioteam she was involved in many projects, including the mammalian sequencing project and the consortium to sequence 10,000 vertebrate genomes. She is excited to be working with next generation sequencing and helping to integrate and streamline bench and computational analysis.
Chris Dagdigian
Founding Partner and Director of Technology
Contact: chris@BioTeam.net
Toll-free: 877.246.2992 x103
Direct: 866.957.9996
iChat / AOL IM: bioteamdag@aol.com
Formerly of Blackstone Computing and Genetics Institute, Dagdigian specializes in research computing and infrastructure technology issues in the life sciences. A supporter of free software and open standards for life science research, he is a founding member of the Bioperl Project, co-founder of the Bioclusters mailing list and serves on the board of directors as Treasurer of the Open Bioinformatics Foundation. While at Blackstone Dagdigian was project manager and technical lead for the creation and integration of the Vertex Pharmaceutical VAMPIRE cluster, which replaced an existing Top500 supercomputer used for cutting edge discovery research and informatics. Dagdigian received his bachelor’s degree from Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) in Biotechnology and occasionally finds the time to continue his graduate coursework at Harvard Extension School.
Chris Dwan, MS
Principal Investigator and Director of Professional Services
Contact: cdwan@BioTeam.net
Toll-free: 877.246.2992 x104
Direct: 866.958.4848
iChat / AOL IM: cdwan2000@aol.com
Chris Dwan trained in Computer Science with a focus in Artificial Intelligence at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. His early career was spent as a research engineer at the Environmental Research Institute of Michigan. There, Dwan developed pattern recognition algorithms for identifying military vehicles based on infrared and radar imagery. He also worked on sensor fusion systems to detect land mines and unexploded ordinance. A move to Minnesota brought a transition to the life sciences. At the University of Minnesota’s Center for Computational Genomics and Bioinformatics, Dwan built both software and cluster computing systems for a wide variety of life sciences researchers. This allowed him to work on diverse topics from plant and pathogen genomics through clinical applications. Within Bioteam, Dwan specializes in high performance cluster computing and large scale data storage.
Stan Gloss
Founding Partner and Managing Director
Contact: stan@bioteam.net
iChat : stan_gloss@mac.com
Toll-free: 877-246-2992 x101
Direct: 866-957-9994
Fax: 866-957-9994
Stan Gloss joined with founding partners Van Etten and Dagdigian to form BioTeam following his tenure in business development with AVAKI Corporation, a pioneer in global grid software solutions. At Blackstone Computing, a computing and IT consulting company for scientists, Gloss led the sales initiative that launched the company in the life sciences market. Gloss earned his MS at the University of Buffalo and was a department chairman and faculty member at Quinnipiac University.
Adam Kraut
Principal Investigator
Contact: kraut@bioteam.net
Toll-free: 877-246-2992 x107
Direct: 724-582-4309
Adam Kraut trained in Information Science at the University of Pittsburgh. He went on to study Computational Biology at Carnegie Mellon University. As a researcher at the Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center and National Resource for Biomedical Supercomputing, he developed new methods for protein structure prediction to compete in multiple rounds of CASP. While at the PSC he also contributed to core projects in biomolecular simulation, enzyme design, and multi-scale modeling. In addition to high-performance computing support and software development, Kraut brings practical experience in structural bioinformatics and macromolecular modeling to the BioTeam.
Aaron Kitzmiller
Senior Scientific Consultant
Contact: aaron@bioteam.net
Toll-free: 877-246-2992 x109
Direct: 888-334-7673
Aaron’s 15 years in the development of scientific software began during his Neurosciences PhD at the University of North Carolina, but quickly turned toward genomics and bioinformatics. While working first in the pharmaceutical industry and later in next gen sequencing companies, he’s developed solutions within many of the major threads of the last decade of bioinformatics (EST mining; genome and Affy array annotation; analysis and execution frameworks; text mining; chemical and biological data integration; short read analysis) in a variety of technological contexts (Java GUIs; Oracle and MySQL database systems; SMP machines; 3 tiered Web architectures; compute clusters; command line tools; Web 2.0; cloud computing). His biggest pleasure is in the development of simple software tools that make analysis and data accessible to the growing number of scientists that can no longer get by on Excel alone.
Brian Osborne, Ph.D.
Principal Investigator
Contact: briano@bioteam.net
Toll-free: 877-246-2992 x106
Direct: 845-314-0110
Brian Osborne specializes in informatics and next-generation sequencing. He brings a deep understanding of molecular biology and bioinformatics and has collaborated extensively with biologists, chemists, and software developers in academia and pharma.
Osborne studied the molecular biology of the yeast Saccharomyces at MIT and did post-doctoral work on plant genetics and genomics at UC Berkeley. Subsequently he was a lead bioinformaticist for the group that sequenced and annotated Arabidopsis chromosome 1. He has been Director of Information Technology at OSI Pharmaceuticals, a Group Leader of Bioinformatics at Cadus Pharmaceuticals, and CTO at Cognia Corporation. At his own consulting company he worked on a variety of open source and commercial projects, with an emphasis on data integration, technical documentation, and data visualization. He is a long-time core contributor to the open source community, including the Bioperl bioinformatics toolkit and the Generic Model Organism Database (GMOD).
William Van Etten, Ph.D.
Founding Partner and Principal Investigator
Contact: Bill@BioTeam.net
Toll-free: 877.246.2992 x102
Direct: 866.957.9995
iChat: williamvanettenphd@mac.com
Van Etten contributes the perspective of a biologist in helping BioTeam’s academic, government, biotech and pharma clients solve their computer-aided research problems. His mission to provide “ease-of-use” to scalable research computing is expressed through his contribution to the development of BioTeam’s iNquiry software product.
Van Etten received his PhD in Genetics at Indiana University in Bloomington, Indiana. Following his graduate research, Van Etten was Senior Software Engineer at the MIT/Whitehead Institute Center for Genome Research where he contributed to the genetic mapping of the rat, and was the Head of Informatics for the Mouse Radiation Hybrid Mapping Project as well as Whitehead’s contribution to the SNP Consortium. Van Etten took these high-throughput computing (HTC) research skills to Blackstone Computing as Principal Bioinformaticist where he designed, built and configured HTC environments to support computer-aided research for many academic, biotech, and pharmaceutical institutions.
Jason Zhang, MS
Senior Software Architect
Contact: jason@bioteam.net
iChat / AOL IM: jasonzhang2345@aol.com
Jason’s skills in software engineering are rooted in his diverse experiences in life sciences and commercial environments. He received his Masters degree at Ohio University in Molecular Biology and Computer Science. While at Blackstone Computing, Jason was the lead engineer behind highly innovative cluster computing enabling software. He has successfully deployed tools that enable high scalablity and performance on commodity computing platforms and networks. Prior to joining BioTeam, Jason was Project Leader at redzero.com where he implemented the U-Sync product.
