Dave Clements

I work on the Generic Model Organism Database (GMOD) project for the National Evolutionary Synthesis Center (NESCent). I run the GMOD Help Desk where I write documentation, maintain the web site, write and teach tutorials, provide user support, and generally help build the GMOD community. I am hosted by the Patrick Phillips lab in the Center for Ecology and Evolutionary Biology (CEEB) at the University of Oregon.

See my GMOD home page for contact information, a list of publications, and more about me.

Background

I have been at the University of Oregon for most of the past 12 years, and for most of that time I have been either directly or indirectly associated with Computer and Information Science department. From 2000 to 2005 I worked as a database administrator and software engineer for ZFIN, the model organism database for zebrafish researchers. ZFIN is a collaboration between CIS and Neuroscience at the University of Oregon. In 1999 I wrote the curriculum for and taught the first sections of Database Systems for the then new Computer and Information Technology Minor. From 1996 to 2000 I was a research programmer at the Computational Intelligence Research Laboratory (CIRL) where I applied artificial intelligence techniques such as systematic and non-systematic search to optimization problems.

From 2005 to 2007 I lived in Edinburgh, Scotland where I worked as a database manager on the European Renal Genome Project (EuReGene) as part of the Edinburgh Mouse Atlas Project (EMAP). In the fall of 2007 I returned to Eugene and my current position (see above).