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[Biopython](https://biopython.org/) core developer, bioinformatician at the James Hutton Institute. [BOSC 2016 co-chair](https://www.open-bio.org/wiki/BOSC_2016).
[BioPerl](http://bioperl.org/) core developer, Assoc. Dir. of HPCBio, Carver Biotechnology Center and [The Institute for Genomic Biology](http://www.igb.illinois.edu/) at the [University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign](http://www.uiuc.edu/).
Co-founder of [openSNP](https://opensnp.org) and Director of Research at [Open Humans](https://www.openhumans.org).
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# Past board members
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*[Malvika Sharan](https://malvikasharan.github.io/) - Former at-large member
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*[Ewan Birney](https://www.ebi.ac.uk/about/people/ewan-birney) - Former OBF President
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*[Andrew Dalke](http://www.dalkescientific.com/) - Former Secretary
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*[Steven E. Brenner](http://plantandmicrobiology.berkeley.edu/profile/brenner) - Former At-large member
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*[Kam Dahlquist](http://kdahlquist.github.io/DahlquistLab/) - Former At-large member
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*[Chris Dagdigian](https://bioteam.net/bio/chris-dagdigian/) - Former Treasurer
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*[Jason Stajich](http://stajichlab.fungalgenomes.org/) - Former OBF President
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*[Karen Cranston](https://github.com/kcranston) - Former At-large member
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*[Yo Yehudi](https://twitter.com/yoyehudi) - Former At-large member
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# Joining the Board
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Nominations for the Board of Directors may be made by the general membership at any time throughout the year by contacting any Board Member.
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- Participate in **public Board meetings**, including **voting in elections** and on matters brought before the OBF Board for approval. Public Board meetings take place about **once a year** via conference call, are about 1 hour in duration, and are usually scheduled in place of a Board hangout.
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- Help **promote the causes and objectives** of the OBF, as set and approved by the Board, such as **lobbying funders, employers, and other decision makers** in your network about these objectives and ways to achieve them, as well as promoting the causes of the OBF at community gatherings you attend.
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- Contribute to identifying strategies, opportunities, and mechanisms to better **sustain the OBF**, to **grow its member communities**, and to increase its overall **diversity**, including demographic diversity.
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You can [find more information in the bylaws of the OBF](https://github.com/OBF/obf-docs/blob/master/OBF%20Bylaws.md).
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