Sinead Chapman

Sinead is a Director, Global Genetics Project Management at the Stanley Center for Psychiatric Research. She manages the Stanley Center Project Management team and works closely with Broad’s central administrative offices and Genomics Platform to facilitate collaborations, sample management, compliance, data generation and process optimization. Her primary areas of focus in the Neale lab are […]

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Sam Bryant

Sam is the Associate Director, Stanley Center Data Management and heads the Data Management group at the Stanley Center where he is responsible for managing over 500 terabytes of data. He is naturally curious, has a love for science and computers, and enjoys a good challenge.  He’s a ‘data wrangler’ – herds data to logical […]

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Christine Stevens

Christine Stevens, a Senior Project Manager, joined The Broad Institute in 2003.  Christine possesses a diverse knowledge of genomic technologies, and analyzes, and has strong experience in funding regulations and compliance.  She is well versed in project management, high-throughput processes, and large-scale data.  Christine oversees the Autism and Inflammatory Bowel Disease genetics projects. […]

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Cotton Seed

Cotton Seed is a Senior Advisor to the Hail team at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard. Prior to joining the Broad, he did a PhD in Mathematics at Princeton University and spent over a decade building high-performance computing systems with a focus on advanced compiler technology at Connected Components Corp, Intel, and Reservoir Labs, […]

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Claire Churchhouse, PhD

Claire completed a doctorate in the department of Statistics at Oxford University, under the supervision of Jonathan Marchini, where her thesis work focused on statistical methods of ancestry deconvolution in admixed populations. She joined to the Broad Institute in 2012 as a postdoc in David Altshuler’s group where she developed QC methods for untargeted metabolomics […]

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Dan Howrigan, PhD

Daniel oversees the SNP array and sequence analysis pipeline in the Neale lab, with a primary focus on furthering genetic discovery in complex psychiatric disease through collaborative partnerships and high-throughput data analysis. His post-doctoral research has been focused on deciphering the role of rare genetic variation in schizophrenia.  Daniel received his PhD in 2012 from […]

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Matthew Solomonson

Matt is an Associate Director of Genomic Data visualization and is interested in developing interactive visualization tools for exploring large biological datasets. He studied protein structural biology during his PhD at the University of British Columbia. […]

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Mitja Kurki

Mita is a software engineer transformed into bioinformatician with general research interests in application of genomic and computational methods to elucidate the genetic basis of complex diseases. His current projects focus on intellectual disability, Alzheimer’s disease, familial migraine and intracranial aneurysms. A long-term goal of his research is in development of Finnish genetic reference database […]

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