The CellML project team
The CellML project is being coordinated by a team primarily based at the Auckland Bioengineering Institute at The University of Auckland and the Cardiac Electrophysiology Group at Oxford University.
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Project team
Associate Professor Poul Nielsen
Poul Nielsen (p.nielsen@auckland.ac.nz), Associate Professor in the Engineering Science Department and a principal investigator at the Auckland Bioengineering Institute. He leads the CellML project and has been the main architect of the language. He is currently supervising several PhD projects that are developing new aspects of CellML.
Professor Peter Hunter
Peter Hunter (p.hunter@auckland.ac.nz), Professor of Engineering Science and Director of the Auckland Bioengineering Institute. He heads the IUPS Physiome Project under which CellML is being developed. His main role in the CellML Project is to to ensure continued funding for developing the website, model repository and associated CellML tool development in Auckland and to coordinate CellML with the Physiome Project.
Randall Britten
Randall Britten (r.britten@auckland.ac.nz) is the Software Development Leader at the Auckland Bioengineering Institute. Randall supervises CellML related software development.
Mike Cooling
Mike Cooling (m.cooling@auckland.ac.nz) PhD, has a background in software development and management consulting. He is a Research Scientist at the Auckland Bioengineering Institute with interests in modularity and reuse of CellML models, mathematical cardiology, computational immunology, modelling workflow, signal transduction pathways and synthetic biology.
Dougal Cowan
Dougal Cowan (dj.cowan@auckland.ac.nz) is the technical writer for the Auckland Bioengineering Institute software projects group. He is involved in writing documentation for CellML tools, especially OpenCell, and is also involved in creating documentation and content for the CellML website.
Sarala Wimalaratne
Sarala Wimalaratne (sarala.dissanayake@auckland.ac.nz) has recently submitted her doctoral thesis, "A framework for annotating and visualizing CellML models." Her work involved investigating methods to link CellML models to formal representations of biophysical knowledge using ontologies so that the models can be graphically represented in biologically meaningful ways by ascribing appropriate glyphs to the biophysical concepts.
Alan Garny
Alan Garny (alan.garny@dpag.ox.ac.uk) was trained as a software engineer (Eng and MSc) before completing his DPhil in the field of cardiac electrophysiological modelling. As part of his modelling work he became involved in the CellML project, developing the first CellML-based environment tool (COR). His interest in CellML lies in the development of a generic mathematical modelling environment for specialist and non-specialist users with specific scientific needs.
Matt Halstead
Matt Halstead (matt.halstead@auckland.ac.nz), PhD (Biology) in experimental and computational neuroscience of animal sensory systems. Matt still contributes heavily to the CellML project but is no longer involved in the day to day activities of the CellML project team. His focus is: the evolution of CellML specifications and the development of related software, and the research and development of ontologies for the Physiome Project, of which CellML is a component.
Andrew Miller
Andrew Miller (ak.miller@auckland.ac.nz) is based at the Auckland Bioengineering Institute and develops a range of CellML tools, including the CellML DOM API (and the associated code generation and integration services), as well as OpenCell, a graphical CellML editor. He also has an interest in the development of CellML and the associated metadata specifications, especially with regard to the simulation of models and the display of simulation results. Andrew is also working towards a PhD on methods to combine biological knowledge with knowledge inferred by machine learning methods. He is using CellML to apply this to problems in Systems Biology.
David Nickerson
David Nickerson (d.nickerson@auckland.ac.nz), PhD in Bioengineering, is a Research Fellow in the Auckland Bioengineering Institute at The University of Auckland where he leads the Auckland Kidney Physiome project. David is also involved in many aspects of the CellML project as well as various cardiac modelling projects. He also develops several CellML-related software tools.
Penny Noble
Penny Noble (penny.noble@dpag.ox.ac.uk) has been a member of the Oxford Cardiac Electrophysiology Group (OCEG) in England since 1996. Her initial work was in the maintenance of the group's simulation software package Oxsoft HEART, initially developed by Prof Denis Noble and others. More recently she has been involved in the curation work to ensure that all published cell models are publicly available in the form of CellML files. She uses the OCEG's new software Cellular Open Resource (COR) (http://cor.physiol.ox.ac.uk/) for model validation.
Tommy Yu
Tommy Yu (tommy.yu@auckland.ac.nz) is a software engineer at the Auckland Bioengineering Institute. His responsibility is to continue development of the Physiome Model Repository, and support other software development related tasks for the CellML website such as the Zope/Plone based infrastructure it is built upon.
Past members
- David Bullivant
- Autumn Cuellar
- Warren Hedle
- James Lawson
- Catherine Lloyd
- Justin Marsh
- Fred Livingston
- Melanie Nelson
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