Michele Markstein

Michele is a postdoctoral fellow at Harvard Medical School studying transcription, position effects and insulators in Norbert Perrimon's lab. She developed the idea for Fly Enhancer and MERmaid while a graduate student in Chip Ferguson's lab at the University of Chicago and she guided the initial development of these programs while a visiting student in Mike Levine's lab at UC Berkeley. She co-founded Open Genomics to make Fly Enhancer and other bioinformatics tools accessible to the research community, and guides the design of the Genome Enhancer website and user interface. Michele can be reached at mmarksteinopengenomicsorg.

Ka-Ping Yee

Ping is a Ph. D. student in Computer Science at UC Berkeley. He designs and implements the bioinformatics software, user interface elements, and graphics on our websites. He brings his expertise in software engineering, human-computer interaction, and Web development to our projects. Ping has a home page at zesty.ca and can be reached at pingopengenomicsorg.