Personnel

Current Group Members
	Carolyn Lawrence	Research Geneticist, USDA-ARS and MaizeGDB Director Trained as a plant evolutionary cellular biologist, I am interested in how plants segregate their chromosomes and in finding novel ways to store, link, and analyze data to enable research. For more information, see my CV.
	Carson Andorf	MaizeGDB Bioinformatics Engineer Carson is the go-to guy for getting things done at MaizeGDB! He is responsible for many of the innovative tools and is planning to do a site redesign in the near future.
	Darwin Campbell lurks in corn fields	MaizeGDB Database Administrator Darwin is able to do just about anything! Not only is he an excellent DBA, he also is a craftsman with wood and recently built his own home!
	Ethalinda Cannon	POPcorn Solution/Application Architect Ethy is creative both at work and at home. She is an avid cross-country skier and maintains an impressive home garden.
	Lisa Harper	MaizeGDB Curator (Albany, CA) Lisa is trained in maize development and cytogenetics and has become a self-proclaimed evangelist for MaizeGDB.
	Mary Schaeffer	MaizeGDB Curator (Columbia, MO) Mary is the person who can remember and describe how to do just about any type of data load at MaizeGDB and she has ties to the past MaizeDB project. Her interests include fishing and wine making.
	Taner Sen	MaizeGDB Computational Biologist Taner has training in protein structure prediction and polymer biology. He implemented the MaizeGDB Genome Browser and holds an appointment as a Collaborator/Assistant Professor in Iowa State's GDCB Department.
Alumni
	Von Mark Cruz	Postdoctoral Associate Led the lab effort for the Plant Genome Research Outreach to Native Americans program in 2006. Von Mark, an outstanding teacher and researcher, is now a researcher at the International Rice Research Institute in the Philippines. His CV (circa September 2006) can be viewed here, and Von Mark can be reached via email.
	Joan Peterson	Postdoctoral Associate Led the lab effort for the Plant Genome Research Outreach to Native Americans program in 2007. Joan now works for BASF in Ames, Iowa.
	Trent Seigfried AKA the Jolly Green Giant	MaizeGDB Bioinformatics Engineer Trent is a web developer and programmer. He also is an excellent writer, and tells marvelous stories.
	Timothy Goodman	PhD Student, ISU Bioinformatics and Computational Biology Tim was a shared student with Phil Becraft. He coded the MuTAlyzer tool.