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Technical Advisory Board

The Technical Advisory Board purpose is to support the Bioconductor mission by

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.
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. Website	Levi Waldron, CUNY Graduate School of Public Health and Health Policy, New York, NY. Vice-Chair Website	Charlotte Soneson, Friedrich Miescher Institute for Biomedical Research, Basel, Switzerland. Secretary. Website
Aedin Culhane, University of Limerick, Ireland. Website	Sean Davis, University of Colorado Anschutz School of Medicine, USA. Website	Laurent Gatto, Institut de Duve, Belgium. Website
Robert Gentleman, Harvard Medical School, Boston, USA. Website	Shila Ghazanfar, University of Sydney, Australia. Website	Kasper Daniel Hansen, Bloomberg School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University. Website
Stephanie Hicks, Department of Biostatistics, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, USA. Website	Wolfgang Huber, European Molecular Biology Laboratory, Heidelberg, Germany. Website	Rafael Irizarry, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, USA Website
Lori (Shepherd) Kern, Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center, Buffalo, NY, USA. Website	Michael Love, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, USA. Website	Davide Risso, University of Padova, Italy. Website

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.