NP-MRD PROJECT - Key Persons


Amy M. Jystad

Job Titles:
  • Postdoctoral Research Fellow / Cort and Renslow Research Group

Carin Li


Dr. David Wishart

Job Titles:
  • Co - Investigator )
Dr. David Wishart (Ph.D. Yale, 1991) is a Professor in the Departments of Biological Sciences and Computing Science at the University of Alberta. He has active research programs in metabolomics, proteomics, genomics, bioinformatics, cheminformatics, machine learning, molecular biology, organic chemistry, structural biology and nanotechnology. Some of his lab's most significant contributions have been in the area of protein chemical shift analysis and the prediction of protein structure.

Dr. Niri Govind

Job Titles:
  • Co - Investigator )
Dr. Niri Govind is a physicist on the Chemical Physics Theory Team at PNNL.

Dr. Rajarshi Ghosh

Job Titles:
  • Research Fellow

Dr. Saurav Sarma

Job Titles:
  • Research Specialist II / University of Missouri

Ella Poynton

Job Titles:
  • Data Scientist / Linnington Group / Simon Fraser University

Harrison Peters


Jay Koller


Jeffrey Van Santen

Job Titles:
  • Data Scientist / Developer / Linington Research Group / Simon Fraser University

John K Everett

John K Everett, Roberto Tejero, Sarath B K Murthy, Thomas B Acton, James M Aramini, Michael C Baran, Jordi Benach, John R Cort et al. A Community Resource of Experimental Data for NMR / X-ray Crystal Structure Pairs. Protein Sci. 2016 Jan;25(1):30-45. DOI: 10.1002/pro.2774. Epub 2015 Sep 22. PubMed: 26293815

John R. Cort

Job Titles:
  • Project Lead
Dr. Cort received his Ph.D. in Chemistry from University of Washington in 1997. He is a Senior Research Scientist in the Biological Sciences Division at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, and is also a Research Associate Professor (WSU-PNNL Joint Appointment) in the Institute of Biological Chemistry at Washington State University. Some of his research interests are biomolecular NMR spectroscopy and mass spectrometry, structure-based functional genomics and characterization of complex mixtures of metabolites and products of biomass conversion. Dr. Cort is the project lead of NP-MRD Project.

Lloyd Sumner

Job Titles:
  • Co - Investigator )
  • Professor
Dr. Sumner is a Professor in the Departments of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology and the Director of Metabolomics Center at the University of Missouri. His research focus includes the development, integration and application of large-scale biochemical profiling of plant metabolites, proteins, and transcripts (metabolomics, proteomics and transcriptomics) for the discovery and characterization of the molecular and biochemical components related to plant natural products/specialized metabolites biosynthesis.

Matthew Pin

Job Titles:
  • Data Scientist / Linnington Group / Simon Fraser University

Roger Linington

Job Titles:
  • Associate Professor
  • Co - Investigator )
Dr. Linington is an Associate Professor in the Department of Chemistry at Simon Fraser University. His research is focused on contemporary applications of marine natural products chemistry to biological problems with specific interests in the development of new high-content screening technologies, the discovery and hit-to-lead development of lead scaffolds for drug development, and the determination of compound modes of action.

Vasuk Gautam


Zachary Budinski