Prof. Sean Mooney, PhD is a group leader and the director of the bioinformatics core at the Buck Institute. Previously, he was an Assistant Professor at Indiana University School of Medicine. He develops and applies new solutions to bioinformatic problems in biomedicine.

Greg has a bachelor's degree in Mathematical Science from the University of California at Santa Barbara.  He is honored to be working at the Buck Institute as it allows for unbounded learning opportunities and offers a challenging environment for adopting new technologies.  When he isn't coding, nomalizing or learning about the deep well that is Bioinformatics, Greg plays and coaches soccer, reads paper books, and plays drums and guitar.

Tal has a bachelor degree in computer science and biology from the Hebrew University in Israel, and a passion for both. She feels lucky to work at the Buck Institute, in Bioinformatics, where she can combine those two disciplines.

Janita is a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Mooney Lab. She got her Master's degree in Biotechnology and her PhD in Bioinformatics at the Institute of Medical Technology, University of Tampere in Finland. Janita has studied the effects of mutations and molecular mechanisms of hereditary disease, and continues her work in the field of mutation analysis at the Buck Institute. Her main interest lies in the question why and by what mechanisms some genetic variations lead to hereditary disease, cancer, or individual differences in drug response, while others seem to have no phenotypic effects. In her free time, Janita enjoys literature, music and traveling.

Tobias Wittkop is a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Mooney lab. Tobias got his Masters degree in Mathematics and his PhD in Bioinformatics at the Center for Biotechnology (CeBiTec) at the University of Bielefeld in northwestern Germany. Focusing on the identification of protein families, he developed a clustering model based on a graph modification problem and the concept of transitivity in graphs. He combined existing methods and novel algorithms in the corresponding software framework TransClust, which can be found at http://transclust.cebitec.uni-bielefeld.de. He spent four months as a visiting scientist at the International Computer Science Institute (ICSI) in Berkeley. In the Mooney lab, Tobias will be working on developing a supervised learning model for discovering and comparing age-related genes and drug screenings.In his spare time he likes to play handball, he also plays the bass guitar.

Artem enjoys doing new things, and was very lucky to participate in developing new high-throughput method, Bind-n-Seq, for analysis of protein-DNA interactions in grad school. He enjoys teaching and recently started teaching a Perl programming course here at Buck. He also likes to play tennis, foosball, and listen to books in his spare time.