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Vaccine Ontology (VO) Development Team
The Vaccine Ontology (VO) Development Team currently includes the following members:
- Yongqun "Oliver" He, DVM, PhD, Associate Professor, University of Michigan Medical Center; VIOLIN and VO project PI.
Expertise: Immunology, Brucella vaccine development, and ontology development.
VO Contribution: Primary VO developer, VO project management, vaccine domain expert, and VO web development and maintenance.
- Barry Smith, PhD, Professor, University at Buffalo; NCBO Co-PI; OBO; OBI; IDO.
Expertise: Ontology expert, creation of the BFO, the top level ontology of VO.
VO Contribution: Ontology expert development and dissemination.
- Lindsay Cowell, PhD, Associate Professor, UT Southwestern Medical Center; IDO project PI.
Expertise: Infectious disease and ontology development.
VO Contribution: Close interaction with the Infectious Disease Ontology (IDO)
- Alexander Diehl, PhD, Senior Scientific Curator, University at Buffalo, Previously at The Jackson Laboratory; Scientific curation of Mouse Genome Informatics and Gene Ontology (GO).
Expertise: Immunology and ontology development.
VO Contribution: interaction of VO with the Gene Ontology (GO).
- Harry Mobley, PhD, Professor, University of Michigan Medical School.
Expertise: E. coli vaccine research and development, vaccine domain expert.
VO Contribution: Vaccine domain expert.
- Bjoern Peters, PhD, Professor, La Jolla Institute for Allergy & Immunology; OBI, OBO.
Expertise: Epitope / immunology, ontology development.
VO Contribution: integration of VO into OBI and the epitope / immunology related modeling.
- Alan Ruttenberg, MS, Science Commons; An active participant in W3C Semantic Web activities; a chair of the OWL Working Group specifying OWL 2; a coordinating editor of the OBO Foundry; OBI.
Expertise: OWL, Semantic Web, ontology development.
VO Contribution: technical support on VO development.
- Richard H. Scheuermann, PhD, Director of Informatics, Director of J. Craig Venter Institute (JCVI)’s La Jolla Campus and an adjunct professor of pathology at U.C. San Diego.
Expertise: Immunology, influenza virus research, ontology development.
VO Contribution: integration of VO into OBI and Influenza Ontology.
- Melanie Courtot, Metadata Standards Coordinator, Archival Infrastructure and Technology Team, European Bioinformatics Institute (EBI), previously Bioinformatician,
BC Cancer Research Centre (BCCRC), Vancouver, Canada; OBI
Expertise: Ontology development.
VO Contribution: Use and improve VO for Canadian Flu Pandemic Preparedness network.
- Allen Xiang, MS, Software developer and bioinformatician, University of Michigan Medical School; VIOLIN software developer and manager during 2007-2012.
Expertise: Software development, database administration.
VO Contribution: VO-related software development such as the VO Browser development, data parsing, VO-based literature mining tool development.
- Brian Athey, PhD, The Michael Savageau Professor and founding Chair of the Department of Computational Medicine and Bioinformatics in the University of Michigan Medical School and co-director of the Michigan Institute for Data Science (MIDAS).
Expertise: Bioinformatics, machine learning, pharmacovigilance.
VO Contribution: VO development guidance, vaccine-induced cell response study, and vaccine safety.
- Gil Omenn, PhD, Harold T. Shapiro Distinguished University Professor, Director, Center for Computational Medicine and Bioinformatics Professor of Computational Medicine & Bioinformatics, Professor of Molecular Medicine & Genetics, Professor of Human Genetics, Professor of Public Health, School of Public Health, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA.
Expertise: Bioinformatics, infectious diseases, epidemiology, pharmacovigilance
VO Contribution: VO applications, host responses to vaccine, vaccine safety, and infectious diseases and epidemiology.
Membership in the VO Development Team is determined only by participation. We welcome the participation of new members. To join, let us know of your interest by emailing Oliver He.
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