2017 Confirmed Participants

Partial List of 2017 Assembly Attendees:

Participant Affiliation Media
Mathew Abrams KnowledgeSpace
Mariet Allen Mayo Clinic, Florida Ertekin-Taner lab: Genetics of Alzheimer’s disease and endophenotypes
Misha Angrist Duke University, Genome Magazine “Medicine’s ground state is uncertainty.” – Atul Gawande
Meher Antia University of Washington
Pat Arean University of Washington Bio
Bruce Aronow Cincinnati Children’s Hospital  Data Mining from the New PCBC Genomics Expression Atlas
Annette Bakker Children’s Tumor Foundation Bio
Katie Baca-Motes Scripps Research Institute Bio
Madeleine Ball      Open Humans  Opening up Access- ‘Open Humans’
Douglas Bassett Celgene
Trevor Bedford Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center Bedford Lab
Tim Behrens Genentech Bio
Heidi Berthoud Kaiser Permanente Washington Health Research Institute Scientist and patient advocate
Jeremy Block Venture Catalyst Digital Health Regulations & the IRB
Jason Bobe Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai Quantified Self Public Health Symposium 
Jasper Bovenberg Legal Pathways Institute for Health and Bio-Law Bio
Elizabeth Bruce Microsoft
Diana Buist Kaiser Permanente Washington Health Research Institute Bio
Katrina Buttons-Simmons
Marc Buyse IDDI & Cluepoints PharmaVoice profile
Bruce Caron The Federation of Earth Science Information Partners Virtual Democracy
Yvonne Chan The Federation of Earth Science Information Partners  Asthma Mobile Health Study
Bao Kham Chao
Christy Collins  M-CM Network Bio
David Collier Eli Lilly
April Clyburne-Sherin Sense About Science USA &     OOO Canada Building the Grassroots of Open Clinical Research with AllTrials USA
Jennifer Couch National Cancer Institute
Frank Curci Ater Wynne Bio
Nadine Defranoux Parker Institute for Cancer Immunotherapy
Nicole Deflaux Verily
Megan Deichler Helmsley Foundation Bio 
Hany Demian FDA
Andrew Dervan Celgene
Keith Elliston TransMart Foundation Bio
Deborah Estrin Cornell Tech Research Activities
Dorothy Farrar Edwards University of Wisconsin Profile
Aled Edwards SGC Open Science: SGC
David Ernst University of Minnesota Bio
Ashley Farley Gates Foundation
Michael Ferdig University of Notre Dame
Kadija Ferryman Data & Society Research Institute
Magnus Fontes The Institut Pasteur Bio
Fredricka Foster Artist and Curator Gallery
Stephen Friend Sage Bionetworks Ted Talk: The Hunt for “Unexpected Genetic Heroes” 
Gilles Frydman ACOR Stanford Medicine
Dan Gallahan National Cancer Institute
Rachel Gary
William Faucett Geisinger
Amel Ghoulia Institut Pasteur de Tunis, H3ABionet Hacking anti-malarial drug resistance 
Sarah Greene Rapid Science Rapid Science: Discovery Through Collaboration 
Bastian Greshake “openSNP” Opening Up a Million Genomes
Melissa Haendel Oregon Health Sciences University Bio
Jennifer Hall American Heart Association
Lee Hartwell Arizona State University Bio
Andrea Hartzler Kaiser Permanente Washington Health Research Institute Bio
Laura Heiser Oregon Health Sciences University Microenvironmental Perturbagen LINCS Center
Eric Hekler Arizona State University Agile Science
Aaron Hendelman Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati
Andrew Hessel Autodesk, Inc. Hacking Cancer
Timothy Hohman Vanderbilt Resilience Initiative
Alan Honick Prosocial World
Elizabeth Horn Horn Productions
Yong Huang Text2Knowledge
Kathy Hudson
Andrew Hufton Nature Research Scientific Data
Shannon Hughes Nationlal Cancer Institute Bio
Fatemeh Jahanbakhsh Institut Pasteur
Leila Jamal Johns Hopkins Berman Institute of Bioethics Bio
Wang Jun iCarbonX
Rima Kaddurah-Daouk Duke University Bio
Peter Kapitein Inspire2Live Bio
Chris Karp Gates Foundation Bio
Nancy Kass JHU Berman Institute Bio 
 Stephen Keating MIT  The Patient is In: How Curiosity Saved His Life
Steve Kern Quantitative Sciences, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Data Sharing and Inductive Learning for Global Health Advancement
Jonathan Kiehnau Growing Vine Street Bio
Justin Kiggins Allen Institute for Brain Science Bio
Predrag Klasnja Kaiser Permanente Washington Health Research Institute Bio
Juergen Klenk Deloitte Conquering Cancer- XPRIZE 
Chitra Krishnan Transverse Myelitis Association Bio 
Matthew Krey
Nastaran Kuhn National Cancer Institute Bio
Helena Ledmyr INCF Why neuroscience needs neuroinformatics: a Q&A with Helena Ledmyr 
Jason Lerner
Dana Lewis OpenAPS
Ken Mandl Computational Health Informatics Program, Boston Children’s Hospital, Harvard University Dr. Mandl’s Research Program
Gaell Mainguy Centre de Recherches Interdisciplinaires S.A.P.I.EN.S – Sharing Knowledge, Preparing for the Future
Parag Mankeekar Neeti Solutions Bio
Mao Mao Beijing Genomics Institute
Frederick “Erick” Matsen Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center Research
Lisa Matthias
Anna McCollister-Slipp Scripps Research Institute
Sean McDonald Stanford
Randy McIntosh Rotman Research Institute, at the Baycrest Centre Bio
Daniel Mietchen NIH Data Science Team Notes on activities related to the Assembly’s theme
Jaykumar Menon Centre for International Sustainable Development Law (CISDL) and Open Source Pharma Foundation (OSPF) Bio
Ryan Merkley Creative Commons Bio
Pablo Meyer IBM Bio
 Arikia Millikan
Dusan Misevic Center for Research and Interdisciplinarity (CRI) Bio
Plavi Mittal Jain Foundation, Inc. and
In Depth Diagnostics
Bio
Arezoo Movaghar University of Wisconsin Lifespan Family Research
Walt Moyo Virtual University of Uganda
 Bernard Munos FasterCures (Milken Institute) Bio
 Camille Nebeker Scripps Translational Science Institute and UC San Diego Connected and Open Research Ethics (CORE) Initiative and Building Research Integrity and Capacity (BRIC) 
 Akpéli Nordor Institut Curie
Thea Norman Gates Foundation
Elaine Nsoesie Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation,  University of Washington Bio 
Lucy Odling-Smee Nature
 Casey Overby Johns Hopkins University  Bio
Ravi Pandya  Microsoft Genomics Bio
Eleonore Pauwels Wilson Center Bio
 Mark Patterson eLife Sciences
Ben Pierson Gates Foundation
Piarella Peralta Inspire2Live Bio
Adler Perotte Columbia University Bio
Chris Percopo Helmsley Foundation
Suzana Petanceska National Institute on Aging Alzheimer’s Disease Translational Research
Carolyn Petersen Mayo Clinic
Alexander Pico Gladstone Institutes WikiPathways
Heather Piwowar Impact Story
Jason Priem Impact Story
 Ernesto Ramirez Fitabase From Citizen Science to Precision Medicine
Allison Randal  Open Source Initiative
Gaston Remmers HABITUS
Rachel Rubin The Michael J Fox Foundation for Parkinson’s Research Incentivize the community to derive actionable conclusions from Parkinson’s Data multi-modal analysis
Jane Roskams University of British Columbia Citizen Neuroscience and BRAIN Big Data Innovation
Biliana Rotse Novartis
Nathan Salomonis Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Biomedical Informatics Researcher Spotlight
Nigam Shah Stanford University  Bio 
Samuel Sennott Universal Design Lab, Portland State University Assistive technology and augmentative communication intervention research
Geetha Senthil National Institute of Mental Health
Fabienne Serriere KnitYak Algorithmic Knitting on Knitting Machines
Joan Severson Digital Artefacts
Lea Shanley  Gaylord Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies
Ilona Schelle Inspire2live Patient Advocacy
 Nick Shockey  SPARC Bio 
 Tania Simoncelli Broad Institute Should you be able to patent a human gene? 
 Beth Simone Noveck The Governance Lab @ NYU Bio
Ben Shapiro Drugs for Neglected Diseases initiative Bio
Buster Simpson Public Art and Expression
Ida Sim UCSF Clinical and Translational Sciences Institute Open source software for using digital health data
Dinah Singer National Cancer Institute Bio
Rebecca Singer King County Metro
Geoffrey Siwo IBM Research Africa
Magdalena Skipper Altius Institute for Biomedical research Innovation in science communication and dissemination
Meredith Slota  Socrata
Daniel Smith BlackThorn Therapeutics Bio
 MacKenzie Smith University of California Davis Moving scholarly communication towards open/digital
 Paul Spellman Oregon Health & Science University Bio 
Susan Spencer Fabricatorz Valentina Project
Ellan Spero MIT
Tibet Spraque Terran Collective University collaboration tool. Coming soon!
Matthew Spitzer Center for Open Science An Open Science Framework for Connecting Institutional Research
Shawn Sweeney American Association for Cancer Research AACR Project GENIE
Kat Steele University of Washington  Bio
Steve Steinhubl Scripps Translational Science Institute Bio
Kari Stoever Lieber Institute for Brain Development Bio
Josh Stuart UC Santa Cruz Pan-Cancer Research
Lynda Stuart Gates Foundation Bio
Susan Tallarico King County Metro
Desney Tan Microsoft Research Bio
Jon Tennant Scienceopen, Imperial College London Bio
Lenny Teytelman protocols.io Open access repository of life science methods
Kaitlin Thaney Mozilla Foundation Bio
Luke Timmerman Timmerman Report
Matthew Todd University of Sydney and
Open Source Malaria
Bio
Beverly Torok-Storb Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center Featured Profile
Andrew Trister
Matthew Trunnell Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center
Freyja van den Boom Open Knowledge International How to enable Text and Data mining
Wilbert  Van Panhuis University of Pittsburgh
Project Tycho
Bio
Laura Van’t Veer UC San Francisco Bio
Christian Vanizette MakeSense MakeSense / Hold Up Introduction
Angela Walker Eli Lilly
Becky Weaver St. Baldrick’s
Dan Webster National Cancer Institute
Dan Weinberger Lieber Institute for Brain Development Bio
Emily Weisberger Helmsley Charitable Trust Bio
Kelsey Wiens UnCommon Women
Courtney Wilkins University of Washington
Gary Wolf Quantified Self
Robert Ziman Genentech