Biography
I have been engaged in creating the future of science from the start. As a young child, I was fascinated by futuristic stories of science in Omni Magazine and Wired, leading me to get my PhD in the cutting edge field of stem cell biology. My first-hand experience with the inefficiencies and antiquities of "modern" academic research led me to join the team at Mendeley where I work on bringing modern network efficiencies to academic research.
I currently serve as the Head of Academic Outreach for Mendeley, a research management tool for collaboration and discovery.
Most recently, I did assay development for Genalyte, a molecular diagnostics startup. My work involved developing protein, DNA, and small molecule assays on their novel high-throughput assay platform.
I received my PhD from the Tulane University, where I studied under Dr. Darwin Prockop at the Tulane Center for Gene Therapy. My dissertation is entitled "Investigating the Role of Human Multipotent Mesenchymal Stromal Cells in the Repair of Bone", in which I developed a model of multiple myeloma in mice and used it to test small molecule inhibitors of the interaction between multiple myeloma and bone precursor cells, promoting bone regeneration and repair of osteolytic lesions.
Specialties:
My work at Tulane involved self-guided experimental research on the relationship between Human Adult Stem Cells and cancer. My areas of expertise are bone biology, multiple myeloma, adult stem cells, and development of disease models.
Industry Expertise (3)
Internet
Library and Information Management
Research
Areas of Expertise (5)
Scholarly Communication
Open Access
Open Science
Data Visualization
Big Data
Education (1)
Tulane University School of Medicine: PhD, biomedical science 2008
My work at Tulane involves self-guided experimental research on the relationship between Human Adult Stem Cells and cancer.
Affiliations (3)
- Science Online
- Mendeley
- International Society of Cellular Therapy International Society for Stem Cell Research
Links (4)
Event Appearances (2)
Big Data and Bibliometrics: Crowdsourcing the World's Largest Database of Research
O Reilly's Strata Conference Santa Clara, CA
2012-02-28
Building Research Applications with Mendeley: Opening up content discovery for your catalog.
Code4Lib Seattle, WA
2012-02-06
Sample Talks (1)
Big Data and Bibliometrics: Crowdsourcing the World's Largest Database of Research
Come learn how the Mendeley team built the largest crowdsourced database of research literature, scaled to handle 120M uploaded documents, and how they’re using technologies such as Hadoop, Apache Mahout and Thrift to generate daily statistics and recommendations on over 7 TB of academic research data. William Gunn will talk about the lessons learned in building the service and how this is shaking up the stodgy old field of academic publishing.
Style
Availability
- Keynote
- Moderator
- Panelist
- Author Appearance
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