Speaker and Discussant Bios
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Murthy, Mala
Mala Murthy is an American neuroscientist and Professor of Neuroscience at Princeton University and leads the Murthy lab in the Princeton Neuroscience Institute – their work focuses on the neural mechanisms that underlie social communication, using the fruit fly Drosophila as a model system. Prof. Murthy received her B.S. in Biology from MIT. She was…
April 8, 2021
Myers, Eugene
Gene Myers was born on December 31, 1953. In 2012, he joined the scientific community in Dresden as the Founding Director of the Center for Systems Biology (CSBD) and Director at the MPI-CBG. Previously, he had been a group leader at the HHMI Janelia Farm Research Campus (JFRC) since its inception in 2005. Gene came…
January 27, 2021
Ngai, John
Dr. Ngai earned his bachelor’s degree in chemistry and biology from Pomona College, Claremont, California, and Ph.D. in biology from the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) in Pasadena. He was a postdoctoral researcher at Caltech and at the Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons before starting his faculty position at the University of California…
February 16, 2021
O’Mullane, William
William O’Mullane, took on the role of Project Manager for the LSST Data Management (DM) effort on April 1, 2017. In this role, he will leads a distributed team of over 100 professionals to the successful delivery of the DM system. This includes the stewardship of LSST DM’s technical and scientific vision, as well as…
January 29, 2021
Orr, Galya
Galya is a biomedical scientist at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, where she has been leading efforts in developing single molecule and super resolution fluorescence imaging techniques and their applications to better understand molecular processes in intact cells and organisms. Galya received her PhD in electrophysiology of learning and memory from the Division of Neural Systems…
April 8, 2021
Ovchinnikova, Olga
Dr. Olga Ovchinnikova graduated from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville (UTK) with a B.S and M.S. degrees in physics. She received her PhD from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville in Chemical Physics where her research focused on developing chemical imaging approaches supported by a Chemical Physics Fellowship. Following her postdoc at ORNL, she worked as…
January 20, 2021
Pedigo, Benjamin
Ben Pedigo is a PhD student in Biomedical Engineering at Johns Hopkins University advised by Dr. Joshua Vogelstein and co-advised by Dr. Carey Priebe. Ben is working to apply recent advances in statistics and data science for networks to neuron-level connectomes. He is collaborating with Dr. Marta Zlatic and Dr. Albert Cardona’s groups to help…
February 19, 2021
Perlman, Eric
Eric Perlman’s current role at The Jackson Laboratory is focused on building cloud-based workflows. He received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from the Johns Hopkins University, where his work primarily focused on building storage and analysis infrastructure for large interdisciplinary research projects. After Hopkins, he joined the Bock Lab at Howard Hughes Medical Institute’s Janelia…
January 29, 2021
Plaza, Stephen
Steve is a leader of the FlyEM project at the Janelia Research Campus, whose goal is to produce fly brain connectomes. His efforts to reconstruct connectomes and make them accessible at large scale leverage his skills in neuroscience, machine learning, data science, software engineering, and project management. FlyEM recently released the largest dense connectome called…
February 27, 2021
Priebe, Carey
Carey E. Priebe is Professor of Applied Mathematics and Statistics and a founding member of the Center for Imaging Science (CIS) and the Mathematical Institute for Data Science (MINDS) at Johns Hopkins University, where he holds joint appointments in the departments of Computer Science, Electrical and Computer Engineering, and Biomedical Engineering, as well as the…
January 30, 2021
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