Sorger Development Team
Harvard Medical School, Cambridge, MA, USA
Peter is in charge of the
SorgerLab
at Harvard Medical School. Peter Sorger is a Professor of Systems Biology with a
Ph.D. from Trinity College Cambridge. Peter did is doctoral research with
Tony Crowther and Hugh Pelham at the MRC Lab in Cambridge, UK, and his
postdoctoral work with Harold Varmus and Andrew Murray at UCSF. The
Sorger Lab works on kinetochores and chromosome segregation in yeast and
humans, and on the systems biology of cytokine signaling in human cells.
Peter is a co-founder of OME and was once Ilya Goldberg's supervisor - at
least insofar as anyone claim to have supervised Ilya.
Past OME developers in the Sorger Lab
Jeremy Muhlich is a Research Scientist in the Sorger Lab.
He has a B.S. in both Computer Science and Computer Engineering from Johns
Hopkins University. He previously worked on a public cheminformatics
database and in-house data- and workflow management tools at the Harvard
Institute of Chemistry and Cell Biology. His research interests lie
mainly in visualization, exploration, and classification of large,
high-dimensional data sets.
Sheldon Chan was a research assistant in the MIT Department of Biology
and a Master's student in the MIT Department of Electrical Engineering and
Computer Science. He has worked in a number of areas, including several
years of software product development experience at IBM, the MIT Media
Laboratory, the Laboratory for Computer Science, and the Laboratory for
Electromagnetic and Electronic Systems. His primary role within OME was to
help develop a pluggable architecture for performing external analysis and
properly manipulating the data from the analyses. When not coding and going
to classes, he enjoys rock climbing, hockey, and Texas Hold 'Em poker.
Doug Creager was a Visiting Scholar in the MIT Department
of Biology, currently living in lovely and cosmopolitan
Somerville, Mass. For his Master of Engineering thesis in
Computer Science, he developed the OME analysis engine and
helped flesh out the semantic type model on which it is
built. He has also contributed significantly to the
database access code on the back-end and to the remote
framework. Though an unabashed lover of Scotch whisky and
Newcastle Brown Ale, he is not, as often suspected,
British in any way. He is an avid sports fan, wasting
hours each day reading
ESPN.com
and cheering for (among others) the
Boston Red Sox,
Duke Blue Devils,
Tennessee Volunteers,
and the
Newcastle United Football Club.
Jeff Mellen was a research assistant in the MIT Department
of Biology and Master's student in the MIT Department of
Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. He has
worked in a variety of disciplines, including a wireless
startup, a defense contractor, the MIT Media Lab,
Laboratory for Computer Science, and as an ESL teacher in
Cambridge, MA. His primary role within OME has been to
develop the image browser and help engineer the
architecture of the Java client. When not developing OME
modules and completing classwork, he enjoys rooting for
the Boston Red Sox, New England Patriots and UConn
Huskies, playing hockey and Texas Hold 'Em, and producing
the blockbuster hit of the summer, OME: The Movie.
His favorite color is black.
Tony Scelfo was a research assistant in the MIT Department of Biology,
a Master's student in the MIT Department of Electrical Engineering and
Computer Science and an undergraduate in the MIT Department of
Mechanical Engineering. His primary role within OME was to help
engineer a framework for handling the results of automated analysis
outside of OME. This interest has naturally led him to work on the
development of the image browser in order to display the results of
automated analysis. When not sitting in front of a computer, he
enjoys sitting in front of the controls of anything that
accelerates quickly, brakes hard and handles well.