Board of Directors
The Board can be contacted via email at board@open-bio.org (or, in case of mailing list problems, try obf-board@googlegroups.com as a fallback) You can also find us on LinkedIn. The minutes of the previous public Board meetings can be found on our GitHub repository (pre-2019 meeting minutes are linked here).
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At-large MemberAssociate Professor at Iowa State University. Chair, Function COSI. Early contributor to the Biopython project.
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At-large MemberAPBioNET ExCo
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At-large memberBioinformatician at the International Center of Insect Physiology and Ecology, Kenya; Founder OpenScienceKE.
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At-large MemberRepresenting BioPerl, Director of Informatics at the Center for Genomic and Computational Biology (GCB) at Duke University. Former OBF President.
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PresidentBiopython core developer, bioinformatician at the James Hutton Institute. BOSC 2016 co-chair.
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At-large MemberBioPerl core developer, Assoc. Dir. of HPCBio, Carver Biotechnology Center and The Institute for Genomic Biology at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
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SecretaryProgram Manager at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory; BOSC chair.
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TreasurerSoftware engineer at Hosted Graphite.
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At-large MemberCo-founder of openSNP and Director of Research at Open Humans.
Past board members
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At-large memberSenior researcher, The Turing Way at The Alan Turing Institute; Co-director, Open Life Science
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Former SecretaryRepresented Biopython & Dalke Scientific.
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Former At-large memberProfessor at University of California, Berkeley.
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Former At-large MemberAssociate Professor at Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles.
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Former Treasurer.BioPerl co-founder & OBF sysadmin. Employed by the BioTeam.
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Former OBF PresidentBioPerl core developer. Currently Professor at University of California, Riverside.
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At-large Member
Research Scientist, Duke University, and PI, Open Tree of Life.
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At-large MemberSoftware engineer and community outreach. Tech lead for Wellcome Trust. Cofounder of Open Life Science. Left the Board in March 2021 after serving for three years.
Joining the Board
Nominations for the Board of Directors may be made by the general membership at any time throughout the year by contacting any Board Member.
The Board tries on an ongoing basis to create opportunities for members of the community to serve, while also ensuring stability of the Board, through expansion of the Board, by replacing a Board member whose term expires, or by volunteers from the community interested in serving.
Board Expectations
- Participate in the (informal) regular meetings of Board members. Meetings are currently about 1 hour, once a month, held by Google Hangout. These meetings are for communicating and discussing current OBF operations and issues, as well as brainstorming strategic directions and initiatives.
- Participate in public Board meetings, including voting in elections and on matters brought before the OBF Board for approval. Public Board meetings take place about once a year via conference call, are about 1 hour in duration, and are usually scheduled in place of a Board hangout.
- Help promote the causes and objectives of the OBF, as set and approved by the Board, such as lobbying funders, employers, and other decision makers in your network about these objectives and ways to achieve them, as well as promoting the causes of the OBF at community gatherings you attend.
- Contribute to identifying strategies, opportunities, and mechanisms to better sustain the OBF, to grow its member communities, and to increase its overall diversity, including demographic diversity.