Organisers

Phillip Lord

Phillip Lord is a lecturer at the School of Computing Science at the Newcastle University. Originally gaining his doctorate in molecular biology and genetics, he has subsequently moved into biomedical informatics. He has been responsible for the development of several ontological driven applications and conducted research into similiarity measures over the Gene Ontology. Prior to moving to Newcastle in 2005, he worked at University of Manchester, working on service discovery in bioinformatics as part of the myGrid project.

Susanna-Assunta Sansone

Susanna Sansone has been involved with several international initiatives defining reporting standards for omics-based data over the last 5 years. My activities contribute to the development of standards for data content, syntax and semantics, serving a large network of biomedical, biological and environmental user communities.

Nigam Shah

Nigam Shah is a research scientist with the Center for Biomedical Informatics at Stanford University. He conducts research on developing applications of bio-ontologies and methods for organizing biomedical knowledge using ontologies. He is an active member of the National Center for Biomedical Ontology in the USA.

Matt Cockerill

Matt has the overall responsibilty for all aspects of BioMed Central's publishing activity. He has been involved with BioMed Central since its launch in 1999, serving first as Technical Director and later as Director of Operations. Prior to BioMed Central, he played a major role in the creation of BioMedNet, a pioneering web site for biologists which incorporated the Trends and the Current Opinion review journals.