Meet the Team

Andrew Singleton, (Director of CARD)

CARD Administrative Personnel

• Sandra Frankton, Administrative Officer, National Institute on Aging (NIA)
• Julia Stadler, Technical Laboratory Manager, NIA
• Nicole Washecka, Technical Laboratory Manager, NIA
• Caroline Pantazis, Scientific Project Manager, NIA
• Laurel Screven, Scientific Project Manager, NIA

iPSC Neurodegenerative Disease Initiative

• Michael Ward, Principal Investigator, National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, NINDS
• Mark Cookson, Principal Investigator, NIA
• Priyanka Narayan, Principal Investigator, National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Disease (NIDDK)
• Erika Lara Flores, Scientist, Robotic Cell Culture, NIA
• Andy Qi, Scientist, Proteomics, NIA
• Daniel Ramos, Scientist, Functional Genomics, NIA
• Marianita Santiana, Scientist, Microscopy, NIA

Long-read Sequencing Project

• Bryan Traynor, NIA
• Sonja Scholz, NINDS
• Cornelis Blauwendraat, NIA
• Adam Phillippy, National Human Genome Research Institute
• Benedict Paten, University of California, Santa Cruz
• Fritz Sedlazeck, Baylor College of Medicine
• Winston Timp, Johns Hopkins University
• Mikhail Kolmogorov, National Cancer Institute
• Kimberley Billingsley, Postdoctoral Fellow, NIA
• Laksh Malik, Laboratory Technician, NIA
• Edmund Roberts, Laboratory Technician, NIA
• Breeana Baker, Laboratory Technician, NIA

AutoTac Project

• Richard Youle, NINDS
• Peng-Peng Zhu, Staff Scientist, NINDS
• Chunxin Wang, Staff Scientist, NINDS
• William Rosencrans, Graduate Student, NIH Graduate Partnerships Program, California Institute of Technology

Data Science Master’s Degree Fellowship

• Sara Bandres-Ciga, NIA
• Mike Nalls, DTI
• Faraz Faghri, DTI
• Dustin Hodgson, University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC)
• Karina Jenkins, UMBC
• Hazuki Miwa, Foundation for Advanced Education in the Sciences (FAES)
• Candace Touhey, FAES
• Melinda Maris, FAES

Data Science Expert Group

• Mike Nalls, Lead for General Data Science, Data Tecnica International, LLC (DTI)
• Faraz Faghri, Lead for Computer Science, DTI
• Hirotaka Iwaki, Lead for Clinical-Translational Applications, DTI
• Hampton Leonard, Lead for Collaborative Research, DTI

Single Cell Sequencing Expert Group

• Xylena Reed, Staff Scientist, NIA
• Carol Fangle, Laboratory Technician, NIA

Mass Spectrometry Expert Group

• Andy Qi, Staff Scientist, NIA
• Ying Hao, Fellow, NIA