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Board

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Board of Directors

The board can be contacted via email at board@open-bio.org

President

Hilmar Lapp 
Representing BioPerl. Employed by the National Evolutionary Synthesis Center (NESCent). Former OBF Parliamentarian, and currently acting Secretary.

Treasurer

Chris Dagdigian 
BioPerl co-founder & O|B|F sysadmin. Employed by the BioTeam.

Secretary

Peter Cock 
Biopython core developer, bioinformatician at the James Hutton Institute. BOSC 2014 co-chair

Parliamentarian

Currently unfilled.

At-large members

Jason Stajich 
BioPerl core developer. Assistant Professor at University of California, Riverside. Former OBF President.
Nomi Harris 
Employed by the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. BOSC 2014 co-chair.
Chris Fields 
BioPerl core developer, researcher fellow at the Institute for Genomic Biology at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.


Past Board Members

Ewan Birney 
Past President and At-large Member, BioPerl core developer. Coordinator of the EBI half of the Ensembl genome annotation project.
Andrew Dalke 
Past Secretary, Represented BioPython & Dalke Scientific.
Steven E. Brenner 
Past At-large member, Professor at University of California, Berkeley.
Kam Dahlquist 
Past At-large Member, Associate Professor at Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles.

Board of Directors Meetings

Upcoming Board Meeting:

  • Pending

Minutes of past Board Meetings:

Nominating Committee

According to the bylaws, the Nominating Committee "shall attempt to contact members of the Board of Directors and active members of the OBF in an effort to identify eligible members interested in serving on the Board of Directors, and to solicit nominations from the general membership." (see Art. IV.7) It consists of "the Parliamentarian and a minimum of 2 active members of the O|B|F."

Currently serving:

  1. Nomi Harris, BoD, Parliamentarian
  2. Scott Markel, active member
  3. Aaron Mackey, active member