COMPANY: Leadership

The BioTeam leadership group is actively involved with our customers, our community, and our industry's future. Each plays an important role in contributing to the advancement of informatics as a tool to enables great science to happen.

Chris Dagdigian
Founding Partner and Director of Technology

Contact: chris@BioTeam.net
Toll-free: 877.246.2992 x103
Direct: 866.957.9996
iChat / AOL IM: bioteamdag@aol.com

Formerly of Blackstone Computing and Genetics Institute, Dagdigian specializes in research computing and infrastructure technology issues in the life sciences. A supporter of free software and open standards for life science research, he is a founding member of the Bioperl Project, co-founder of the Bioclusters mailing list and serves on the board of directors as Treasurer of the Open Bioinformatics Foundation. While at Blackstone Dagdigian was project manager and technical lead for the creation and integration of the Vertex Pharmaceutical VAMPIRE cluster, which replaced an existing Top500 supercomputer used for cutting edge discovery research and informatics. Dagdigian received his bachelor's degree from Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) in Biotechnology and occasionally finds the time to continue his graduate coursework at Harvard Extension School.

Chris Dwan, MS
Director of Products and Principal Investigator

Contact: cdwan@BioTeam.net
Toll-free: 877.246.2992 x104
Direct: 866.958.4848
iChat / AOL IM: cdwan2000@aol.com

Chris Dwan trained in Computer Science, with a focus in Artificial Intelligence, at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. As a research engineer at the Environmental Research Institute of Michigan, Dwan developed pattern recognition algorithms for identifying military vehicles based on infrared and radar imagery. He also developed sensor fusion algorithms for the detection of land mines and unexploded ordinance, in collaboration with researchers at the Army Research Lab in Adelphi, MD. At the University of Minnesota's Center for Computational Genomics and Bioinformatics, Dwan provided technical support and software development for a wide variety of life sciences researchers. While there, he developed a customized version of the EnsEMBL genome annotation system for use with the Medicago truncatula and Lotus japonicus genome projects. This system was notable for its use of grid computing techniques to distribute workload across a variety of geographically and administratively discrete clusters. Dwan is an international lecturer and consultant on distributed computing for bioinformatics, and is a Principal Investigator with the BioTeam.

Stan Gloss
Founding Partner and Managing Director

Contact:  stan@bioteam.net
iChat :  stan_gloss@mac.com
Toll-free:  877-246-2992 x101
Direct:  866-957-9994
Fax: 866-957-9994

Stan Gloss joined with founding partners Van Etten and Dagdigian to form BioTeam following his tenure in business development with AVAKI Corporation, a pioneer in global grid software solutions. At Blackstone Computing, a computing and IT consulting company for scientists, Gloss led the sales initiative that launched the company in the life sciences market. Gloss earned his MS at the University of Buffalo and was a department chairman and faculty member at Quinnipiac University.

William Van Etten, Ph.D.
Founding Partner and Director of Services

Contact: Bill@BioTeam.net
Toll-free: 877.246.2992 x102
Direct: 866.957.9995
iChat: williamvanettenphd@mac.com

Van Etten contributes the perspective of a biologist in helping BioTeam's academic, government, biotech and pharma clients solve their computer-aided research problems. His mission to provide "ease-of-use" to scalable research computing is expressed through his contribution to the development of BioTeam's iNquiry software product.

Van Etten received his PhD in Genetics at Indiana University in Bloomington, Indiana. Following his graduate research, Van Etten was Senior Software Engineer at the MIT/Whitehead Institute Center for Genome Research where he contributed to the genetic mapping of the rat, and was the Head of Informatics for the Mouse Radiation Hybrid Mapping Project as well as Whitehead's contribution to the SNP Consortium. Van Etten took these high-throughput computing (HTC) research skills to Blackstone Computing as Principal Bioinformaticist where he designed, built and configured HTC environments to support computer-aided research for many academic, biotech, and pharmaceutical institutions.

Michael Cariaso
Senior Scientific Consultant

Contact:  cariaso@bioteam.net
Toll-free: 877.246.2992 x105
Direct: 866.958.7799

Michael is a Scientific Consultant for BioTeam, specializing in Bioinformatics.  While completing a bachelor's degree at University of Florida, Michael developed IMAGEne to analyze human ESTs on an LLNL.gov computer cluster. At Gene Logic, he developed numerous Perl pipelines including a system for bidirectional integration of Wyeth's Affymetrix microarray data. After extensive travels through South East Asia, Michael returned to the DC area to work for Celera and SAIC.  While at Celera he developed software to detect indels and methylations in the human genome. His work with mpiBlast for SAIC allowed bench scientists to design microarrays to detect and distinguish strains of bacteria and viruses.  He continues his education through classes at the NIH, Georgetown and online.

Brian Osborne, Ph.D.
Principal Investigator

Contact:  briano@bioteam.net
Toll-free: 877-246-2992 x106
Direct: 845-314-0110

Brian Osborne is a Principal Investigator for BioTeam, specializing in informatics and next-generation sequencing. He brings a deep understanding of molecular biology and bioinformatics and has collaborated extensively with biologists, chemists, and software developers in academia and pharma.

Osborne studied the molecular biology of the yeast Saccharomyces at MIT and did post-doctoral work on plant genetics and genomics at UC Berkeley. Subsequently he was a lead bioinformaticist for the group that sequenced and annotated Arabidopsis chromosome 1. He has been Director of Information Technology at OSI Pharmaceuticals, a Group Leader of Bioinformatics at Cadus Pharmaceuticals, and CTO at Cognia Corporation. At his own consulting company he worked on a variety of open source and commercial projects, with an emphasis on data integration, technical documentation, and data visualization. He is a long-time core contributor to the open source community, including the Bioperl bioinformatics toolkit and the Generic Model Organism Database (GMOD).

Jason Zhang, MS
Senior Software Architect

Contact: jason@bioteam.net
iChat / AOL IM: jasonzhang2345@aol.com

Jason's skills in software engineering are rooted in his diverse experiences in life sciences and commercial environments. He received his Masters degree at Ohio University in Molecular Biology and Computer Science. While at Blackstone Computing, Jason was the lead engineer behind highly innovative cluster computing enabling software. He has successfully deployed tools that enable high scalablity and performance on commodity computing platforms and networks. Prior to joining BioTeam, Jason was Project Leader at redzero.com where he implemented the U-Sync product.

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