Technical Advisory Board
The Technical Advisory Board purpose is to support the Bioconductor mission by
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Developing strategies to ensure long-term technical suitability of core infrastructure for the Bioconductor mission. Core infrastructure includes: all aspects of package addition, management, and distribution; end-user engagement (e.g., web, support site, and slack); developer support; and development of packages for use by the broader developer community.
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Identifying and pursuing technical and scientific aspects of funding strategies for long-term viability of Bioconductor.
The Technical Advisory Board governance document (PDF) outlines membership, procedures, and committees and working groups of the board. Governance was formalized in February, 2019.
Current members
Vince Carey, Brigham & Women’s, Harvard Medical School, USA. Chair
Levi Waldron, CUNY Graduate School of Public Health and Health Policy, New York, NY. Vice-Chair
Charlotte Soneson, Friedrich Miescher Institute for Biomedical Research, Basel, Switzerland. Secretary
Aedin Culhane, University of Limerick, Ireland
Sean Davis, University of Colorado Anschutz School of Medicine, USA
Laurent Gatto, Institut de Duve, Belgium
Robert Gentleman, Harvard Medical School, Boston, USA
Shila Ghazanfar, University of Sydney, Australia
Kasper Daniel Hansen, Bloomberg School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University
Stephanie Hicks, Department of Biostatistics, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, USA
Wolfgang Huber, European Molecular Biology Laboratory, Heidelberg, Germany
<Rafael Irizarry, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, USA
Lori (Shepherd) Kern , Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center, Buffalo, NY, USA
Michael Love, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, USA.
Davide Risso, University of Padova, Italy
Meeting minutes
The Technical Advisory Board meets monthly. Minutes of the last meeting are made available after being approved by the board on the following meeting. The first meeting for which public minutes were maintained was on 2 May, 2019.
- 2023-06-01, 2023-05-04, 2023-04-06, 2023-03-02, 2023-02-02, 2023-01-05
- 2022-12-01, 2022-11-03, 2022-10-06, 2022-09-01, 2022-08-04, 2022-07-07, 2022-06-02, 2022-05-05, 2022-04-07, 2022-03-03, 2022-02-03, 2022-01-06
- 2021-12-02, 2021-11-04, 2021-10-07, 2021-09-02, (no August meeting), 2021-07-01, 2021-06-03, 2021-05-06, 2021-04-01, 2021-03-04, 2021-02-04, 2021-01-07
- 2020-12-03, 2020-11-05, 2020-10-01, 2020-09-03, 2020-08-06, 2020-07-02, 2020-06-04, 2020-05-07, 2020-04-02, 2020-03-05, 2020-02-06
- 2019-12-05, 2019-11-07, 2019-10-03, 2019-09-05, 2019-08-01, 2019-07-10, 2019-06-06, 2019-05-02
Contact
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Technical Advisory Board