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STEPHEN F KINGSMORE |
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Stephen F Kingsmore, President
Dr. Kingsmore is a physician-scientist with significant experience in senior leadership roles in the biotechnology industry. Dr. Kingsmore's previous roles included Chief Operating Officer of Molecular Staging Inc. and Vice President of Research of CuraGen Corporation, both of New Haven, CT. Prior to that, he was Assistant Professor at the University of Florida in Gainesville, where he positionally cloned 5 disease genes and published over 90 peer-reviewed research papers. Dr. Kingsmore received a B.Sc. in medical microbiology with first class honors and graduated in medicine (M.B., Ch.B., B.A.O.) from the Queen's University of Belfast, Northern Ireland. He completed internship and residency in Internal Medicine, and a fellowship in Rheumatology, at Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC.
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GREGORY D MAY |
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Gregory D May, Vice President & Director, NM Genome Center
Gregory D. May is Vice President and Genome Center Director of the National Center for Genome Resources, Santa Fe, NM. NCGR is a non-profit, research institute, whose mission is to improve human health and nutrition by genome sequencing and analysis. Dr. May.s research focuses on crop improvement applications of new sequencing technologies.
Previously, Dr. May was an Associate Scientist and Head of the Genomics Program at the Samuel Roberts Nobel Foundation, Ardmore, Oklahoma. Dr. May, along with his colleagues, built Noble.s Genomics program from its inception. While there, Dr May published and patented his work on gene targeting and DNA repair in plants.
Dr. May has published over 45 peer-reviewed research papers. He received a BS in Biology from Southeast Missouri State University in 1987 and received his PhD in Plant Physiology from the Biochemistry and Biophysics Department at Texas A&M University in 1992. He completed his postdoctoral fellowship at the Institute of Bioscience and Technology (IBT), Houston, Texas and has served on the faculty of IBT, the Boyce Thompson Institute, Ithaca, New York and Cornell University.
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| ERNEST F RETZEL |
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Ernest F Retzel, Program Lead
Ernie Retzel has worked in informatics since 1989. During this time, he worked on several plant EST and genome projects, including /Arabidopsis/, soybean, pine and /Medicago truncatula/. Bioinformatics efforts have included developing databases for legume projects, as well as forest crops [poplar and a variety of conifers]. Prior to joining NCGR, Retzel was the founder and director of the Center for Computational Genomics and Bioinformatics at the University of Minnesota, and led bioinformatics development efforts under a variety of NSF, USDA and private grants and contracts. Development work included software for visualization, data mining, protein families and distributed computing.
Dr. Retzel obtained his Bachelor's degrees in microbiology and chemistry from Michigan State University in East Lansing, Michigan, and his Ph.D. in microbiology and biochemistry from the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota.
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| JOHN T SPECK |
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John T Speck, CFO / VP for Administration
Mr. Speck is a CPA and has an MBA from the University of Texas at San Antonio. From 1984 until 2006, Mr. Speck held leadership roles at the Southwest Foundation for Biomedical Research in San Antonio, Texas. Mr. Speck served as the Controller from 1984 through 1989 and the Treasurer from 1989 through 2006. From 1981 until 1984, Mr. Speck served as the Controller at Stanley Smith Security Inc. a national security company. Mr. Speck started his career in 1973 as an accountant at the University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio.
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CALLUM J BELL |
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Callum J Bell, Program Lead
Dr. Bell graduated with a B.Sc. degree in biological sciences from Edinburgh University and obtained his Ph.D. Degree in the genetics of gravity responses in Arabidopsis thaliana from the same institution in 1988. Prior to joining NCGR in 2008, Dr. Bell has held a variety of positions in academia and industry, with interests in Arabidopsis and human genome mapping, gene discovery in multifactorial diseases, bioinformatics and software engineering.
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Kingsmore, Stephen F