Participants

Name	GitHub ID	Institution	Interests & Skills
Anne Thessen		Ronin Institute for Independent Scholarship	machine learning, semantic traits, analysis of large data sets, text mining
Annika Smith		Florida Museum of Natural History, University of Florida	floral evolution, computable phenotypes, plant ontologies, phylogenies
Austin Meier		Oregon State University
Ben Redelings	bredelings	Duke University
Claus Weiland		Senckenberg Biodiversity and Climate Research Institute (S-BIKF)	Flora Phenotype Ontology, plant trait semantics, machine learning of multi-modal plant data
Emily Jane McTavish	snacktavish	UC Merced	phylogenetics using genomic data, automated phylogenetic updating, Open Tree of Life
Ethan Smith		Biomimicry Institute	Bio-inspired design, innovation, ux, frontend design/development
Gaurav Vaidya	gaurav	University of Colorado Boulder; Florida Museum of Natural History	Phyloreferencing, Wikipedia, concept taxonomy, taxonomic checklists
Guanyang Zhang		Florida Museum of Natural History, University of Florida	Phyloreferencing, insect systematics, bacterial endosymbionts, comparative biology
Hilmar Lapp		Duke University	Phenoscape, computable semantics for analysis of trait evolution (SCATE), APIs, RPhenoscape, Phyloreferencing, machine reasoning
István Mikó	teleaslamellatus	Pennsylvania State University	curator of the Hymenoptera Anatomy Ontology, insect morphology, insect taxonomy, phylogenetics, functional genomics, microscopy "Know your insect"
Jim Balhoff		RENCI - UNC Chapel Hill	Phenoscape developer, semantic tools for Monarch Initiative & Gene Ontology, semantic traits, ontology development tools, machine reasoning
Josef Uyeda		Virginia Tech	Phylogenetic comparative methods development and trait evolution. Interested in developing comparative methods that can use phenotypic ontologies to improve inferences.
Julie Baker Phillips		Cumberland University	using public data repositories to address research questions in evolutionary medicine, interested in creating teaching modules primarily for use in undergraduate classrooms
Laurel Cooper	cooperl09	Oregon State University	Planteome Project, plant ontologies, phenotypes, traits, morphology, data standards
Lorena Endara	clendara	Department of Biology - University of Florida	phenotypic traits, character evolution, systematics, phylogenetics, orchids, flagellate plants, Natural Language Processing
Marjan Sadeghi		Florida State University	I am interested in Scientific Computing, Phylogenetics, and Neural Networks.
Mark Holder		Univ. Kansas
Martha Kandziora		UC Merced - School of Natural Science	historical biogeography, phylogenetics, using public databases for evolutionary research
Matt Collins		U. Florida & iDigBio, Gainesville	computing infrastructure like Spark, data mining of large datasets, workforce development
Matt Yoder	mjy	University of Illinois, INHS
Pasan Fernando		Department of Biology, University of South Dakota
Scott Chamberlain	sckott	rOpenSci	software (esp. R, Python, Ruby), web APIs
Sergei Tarasov		Nat. Inst. for Mathematical and Biological Synthesis (NIMBioS), Univ. of Tennessee	integration of ontologies and phylogenetic methods, semantic descriptions, insect systematics
Shameer Khader		Northwell Health
Todd Vision	tjv	UNC Chapel Hill	Connecting evolutionary phenotypes to phylogenetic and genomic resources
Wasila Dahdul		U. South Dakota	Phenoscape, SCATE, phenotype ontologies, data curation, vertebrate morphology and evolution
Zhiliang Hu		Iowa State University	Developer of Animal QTLdb and CorrDB; Interested in web tools for trait ontology developments, user-end data scrutinizations; and management of trait hierarchies with modifiers.
Rebecca Tarvin		University of Texas at Austin	evolutionary biology, scicomm, biocomputing

Organizers are in bold. Melissa Haendel (OHSU) is a co-organizer, but unable to attend in person.