Participants

Name	GitHub ID	Institution	Interests	Skills
Sergei Tarasov	sergeitarasov	University of Helsinki	Phylogenetic methods, Ontologies, Taxonomy	R and Python; Statistics; Ontology development; Describing Species.
Christopher Lawrence	C-G-L	Princeton University	Ecology and Evolutionary Biology; Mimicry, Behavior; Genome Evolution	Research and Developer w/Imageomics (Imageomics); Gene and Organismal Evolution; Phylogenetic Comparative Methods; Museum Collection, Photography, and curtion of Biological datasets for Machine Learning Applications; GIS)
Meghan A. Balk	megbalk	National Ecological Observatory Network	Vertebrate Anatomy Ontologies; Trait Ontologies, traits; paleoecology	Ontology development of FuTRES Ontology of Vertebrate Traits (FOVT); basics of collaborative work using GitHub; FAIR data principles; R programming (rfutres and RShinyFuTRES); vertebrate anatomy; trait datastores (FuTRES)
Jennifer C. Girón	JCGiron	Texas Tech University	Insect Anatomy Ontologies (AISM; COLAO); Beetle anatomy, taxonomy and systematics; applications of and for anatomy ontologies	Ontology development using the Ontology Develoment Kit; basics of collaborative work using GitHub
Hilmar Lapp	hlapp	Duke University	Tools for reducing barriers to harnessing computable semantics for evolutionary data science, including fast semantic similarity algorithms	Collaborative research software engineering, in particular R package development (Rphenoscape) and API programming; Containers as reproducible software environments; FAIR software and data
István Mikó	teleaslamellatus	University of New Hampshire	Developing and using Biomedical Anatomy Ontologies in semantic descriptions; Insect functional anatomy, taxonomy and systematics	Lead curator and developer of HAO, ontology term conceptualization, phenoscripts, semantic statements
Wasila Dahdul	wdahdul	University of California, Irvine	Developing and applying vertebrate anatomy ontologies for evolutionary bio; phenotype annotation	Lead curator for Phenoscape; ontology term development; data curation using Phenex
Elie Alhajjar	mahmouha	United States Military Academy	Phylogenetic Trees; Ecological Diversity	Mathematical Modeling; FAIR data principles; Physics-informed machine learning
Michele Rossini	rossmich83	University of Padova	Beetle morphology, taxonomy, systematics and biogeography; Application of ontology-based approaches to descriptive taxonomy; Beetle-fungus trophic interactions; Entomological collections management	Alpha taxonomy of Scarabaeinae dung beetles and Bolboceratinae beetles; Museum collections; Macrophotography; Data curation using [TaxonWorks] (https://taxonworks.org/); Basics of R programming
Basanta Khakurel	basanta33	Southeastern Louisiana University	Phylogenetic Trees; Fossilized Birth-Death methods	Bayesian methods; RevBayes
Jim Balhoff	balhoff	RENCI, UNC Chapel Hill	bio-ontologies, data integration	ontology development, automated reasoning, software tools for working with ontologies
Israel Borokini	tbisrael	University of California Berkeley	Biogeography; Plant Ecology; Community Phylogenetics; Conservation Biology; Invasion Ecology; Ecological Modeling	Distribution modeling and niche dynamics, biodiversity metrics (phylogenetic, taxonomic, functional, genetic diversity metrics), spatial phylogenetics
Joseph Keating	evo-palaeo	University of Bristol	Understanding the evolution of animal body plans and morphological complexity using fossils	modelling morphological evolution, phylogenetic comparative methods in R, ancestral state estimation, palaeontology, early vertebrate evolution, skeletal histology
Arthur Porto	agporto	Louisiana State University	Computer vision, Genetics, Evolutionary Biology, Morphology	Computer Vision-based Software tools for biology (ml-morph, ALPACA, DeepBryo), Morphometric tools (both 2D and 3D), Museum collections research
Diego Sasso Porto	diegosasso	Finnish Museum of Natural History	Bee systematics and morphology, Insect Anatomy, Phylogenetics, Phylogenetic Comparative Methods, Trait Evolution, Anatomy Ontologies	Ontology-informed models of trait evolution, modelling complex traits, assessing Bayesian phylogenetic information of morphological data (ontobayes), comparative morphology of bees, collaborator of the SCATE project
Lin Yan	linnyan	University of California, Berkeley	evolution of complex multimodal courtship, quantify motion, acoustic and visual signal complexity. Combine with phylogenetic data and introgression analysis	phylogenetic comparative methods in R, imaging using microCT
Giulio Montanaro	g-montanaro	Finnish Museum of Natural History	Taxonomy and evolution of dung beetles (Scarabaeinae); application of ontology-based approaches to descriptive taxonomy	Dung beetle taxonomy; morphological and single-locus molecular species delimitation; basics of molecular phylogenetic inference
Anahí Espíndola	AnahiEspindola	University of Maryland, College Park	Ecology and evolution of plant-pollinator interactions	Phylogenomics, phylogeography, geospatial analyses, biogeography, eco-morphological trait evolution, natural history, plant and insect systematics
Katja Seltmann	seltmann	Cheadle Center for Biodiversity and Ecological Restoration, UC Santa Barbara	Describing functional traits of bees and other insects; Taxonomy and systematics; Biodiversity data sharing and natural history collection digitization; Plant-bee interactions; photogrammetry	Project lead Big Bee, developer HAO
Caleb Charpentier	calcharp	Virginia Tech	Ontology-Informed Deep Learning, Computer Vision, Imageomics, Phylogenetics and PCMs	R programming (RPhenoscate and Revticulate). Python programming, PyTorch. RevBayes.