The CellML project is being coordinated by a team based at the Auckland Bioengineering Institute at The University of Auckland.

Note that questions or feedback relating to CellML should be sent to the CellML discussion mailing list. Correspondence relating to this website should be sent to webmaster@cellml.org

The project team consists of : 

Associate Professor Poul Nielsen

Poul Nielsen (p.nielsen@auckland.ac.nz), currently Associate Professor in the Engineering Science Department and a principal investigator in 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), currently 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 relation to the CellML effort 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. For the CellML project, Randall supervises some of the 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 currently 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.

Sarala Dissanayake

Sarala Dissanayake (sarala.dissanayake@auckland.ac.nz) is doctoral student at the University of Auckland Bioengineering Institute. Her work involves investigating ways to link CellML models to formal representations of biological knowledge (e.g. to ontologies such as BioPAX and Gene Ontology) so that the models can be graphically represented in biologically meaningful ways by ascribing appropriate glyphs to the model components.

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. He is currently a Research Fellow in the Auckland Bioengineering Institute and supported by The Maurice Wilkins Centre for Molecular Biodiscovery. 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, which includes CellML.

James Lawson

James Lawson (j.lawson@auckland.nz), MSc Biological Sciences, comes from a background in neuropharmacology and protein biochemistry. He is based at the Auckland Bioengineering Institute and is the curator of the CellML model repository. James is primarily concerned with validation of existing and new CellML models and management of associated metadata.

Catherine Lloyd

Catherine Lloyd (c.lloyd@auckland.ac.nz), PhD in Biological Sciences, is currently a Research Scientist at the Auckland Bioengineering Institute. From 2001 to 2004 she worked at the Institute, mainly translating published models into CellML and adding them to the model repository. In 2007 she returned to the Institute after completing a PhD in biological sciences (University of Auckland) and has resumed the task of model translation and curation.

Justin Marsh

Justin Marsh (j.marsh@auckland.ac.nz) PGDipArts in Logic and Computation, is a Software Developer at the Auckland Bioengineering Institute. He is working on the development and extension of CellML tools, particularly PCEnv.

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 PCEnv, a graphical CellML editor. He also has an interest in the development of CellML and the associated meta-data 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 (david.nickerson@nus.edu.sg), PhD in Bioengineering, is currently a Research Fellow in the Division of Bioengineering at the National University of Singapore. Prior to his posting in Singapore, David was at various times a student, employee, and postdoctoral research fellow at the Auckland Bioengineering Institute. His current research interests include all aspects of cardiac modelling and simulation, motion capture with application to disease assessment in the hand, and CellML and related technology.

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. He is the programmer for the Physiome Model Repository and is responsible for keeping it running and building its features.