Chris Grove
Staff at California Institute of Technology
Massachusetts, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolChris Grove is a Staff-level product owner and biocurator with 11+ years bridging biological research and software delivery for the Alliance of Genome Resources and WormBase. He leads a scrum team of developers to build knowledge‑base curation tools and public web infrastructure for multi‑organism genomic and phenotype data, with a specialty in Caenorhabditis elegans. Trained as a PhD molecular biologist, he combines wet‑lab experience (genetics, RNAi, microscopy, yeast two‑hybrid assays) with hands‑on curation of allele, phenotype, and interaction data since 2010. His work has driven data model harmonization across diverse model organisms and supported public-facing resources used by researchers worldwide. Beyond curation and product delivery, he built an interactive cellular‑resolution 3D model of the C. elegans hermaphrodite, highlighting a rare blend of biological insight and interactive visualization. Based in Massachusetts, he translates complex domain requirements into practical tooling that accelerates reproducible biological knowledge discovery.
11 years of coding experience
BS, Biology and Physics, BS, Biology and Physics at Worcester Polytechnic InstitutePhD, Molecular Biology, PhD, Molecular Biology at University of Massachusetts Medical School
Github Skills (60)
foundry10
open-science10
genome10
ontologies10
ontology10
semantic-web10
metadata10
semantics10
geneontology10
bioinformatics10
rdf10
owl10
database10
linkml9
persistent-data9
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
obophenotype/c-elegans-development-ontology
May 2019 - Jan 2023
C. elegans Development Ontology
Contributions:47 releases, 88 commits, 85 PRs in 3 years 8 months
nematodeswormbasecaenorhabditis-elegansowlsemantics
obophenotype/c-elegans-phenotype-ontology
Oct 2018 - Feb 2023
Ontology for phenotypes pertaining to the nematode Caenorhabditis elegans and related nematodes used by the nematode genome database WormBase
Contributions:59 releases, 1 review, 419 commits in 4 years 4 months
nematodesgenomeowlcaenorhabditis-eleganswormbase
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