Meet the Galaxy-P team
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Tim Griffin, PhD, Professor, and Principal Investigator
Tim is a Professor in the Department of Biochemistry, Molecular Biology and Biophysics at the University of Minnesota. His research interests are in developing analytical and bioinformatics tools, focused on biological mass spectrometry, and applying these tools to interesting questions in biology and biomedical research.
Pratik Jagtap, Ph.D., Research Assistant Professor, and Galaxy-P Project Manager
Pratik Jagtap is a Research Assistant Professor at the Department of Biochemistry, Molecular Biology and Biophysics at the University of Minnesota. He has helped manage the Galaxy-P project from its inception. His current research interests include developing analytical workflows for analysis of complex data, with particular emphasis on on MS-based proteomics applications in metaproteomics, proteogenomics and data-independent acquisition (DIA) data analysis.
Subina Mehta, M.S., MBA, Senior Bioinformatics Researcher
Subina has expertise in bioinformatics and biotechnology. She works with the Galaxy-P team to test, evaluate, and implement new software tools and workflows for applications in multi-omic data analysis and informatics.
Reid Wagner, Application Developer
Reid is an application developer at the Minnesota Supercomputing Institute to develop and maintain applications utilizing HPC resources. He received his bachelor’s degree in Physics & Mathematics in 2014 and has worked in various software domains including application & web development and system administration.
Michael Milligan, Ph.D., Head of Application Development and Scientific Computing Consultant
Michael heads the Application Development group at the Minnesota Supercomputing Institute, and assists in the management and administration of infrastructure supporting the Galaxy-P project.
Katherine Do, B.S., Junior Researcher
Katherine is a junior researcher with experience operating tools and workflows for mass spectrometry-based metaproteomics. She received her Bachelor of Science in Cell Biology and Microbiology in 2023. In the fall of 2025, she will begin the Master of Science in Bioinformatics and Computational Biology program at the University of Minnesota.
Nicole Nightingale
Nicole is a graduate student in the Biochemistry, Molecular Biology, and Biophysics (BMBB) program at the University of Minnesota. She is developing a method to enrich for microbial biomass in clinical samples to enable deep metaproteomic characterization of microbial contributors to tumorigenesis.
Galaxy-P collaborators
From the beginning, the Galaxy-P project has benefitted from numerous collaborators. These include collaborators assisting in software development as well as those assisting with optimization through application to biological research questions.
Software and workflow development collaborators
- Smith research group, University of Wisconsin-Madison
- Martens research group/Compomics, Ghent University and VIB
- Galaxy-proteomics community developers
- Matt Chambers, software developer and consultant
- Jetstream: A national science and engineering cloud
- Ray Sajulga, BA , Bioinformatics Researcher
- Brian Searle
- Bing Zhang
- Bjorn Gruening
- Magnus Arntzen
- Alexey Nesvizkii lab, Department of Pathology- University of Michigan
Biological research collaborators
- Reddy research group, Johns Hopkins University
- Wendt research group, University of Minnesota
- Rudney research group, University of Minnesota
- Bhargava research group, University of Minnesota
- David Largaespada Research Group, University of Minnesota
- Theresa Laguna Research Group, Lurie’s Children’s Hospital/Northwestern University
- Brook Nunn Research Group, University of Washington
- Frank Ondrey, Masonic Cancer Center
Galaxy-P Alumni – Members and Collaborators
- Hegeman research group, University of Minnesota
- Shane Hubler, Rhapsody Data, LLC, software developer
- Globus Genomics
- Marie Crane, Graduate Student, Washington University
- Caleb Easterly, B.A., Bioinformatics Researcher, Medical Student, University of North Carolina
- Praveen Kumar, Ph.D., Senior Bioinformatician, AstraZeneca
- Art Eschenlauer, Ph.D., Bioinformatics Analyst, University of Minnesota Informatics Institute
- Candace Guerrero, Ph.D., Facility Manager, Center for Mass Spectrometry and Proteomics, University of Minnesota
- Thomas McGowan, Informatics Computing Consultant
- Andrews research group, University of Minnesota-Duluth
- Burgener Proteomics Lab, University of Manitoba
- Skubitz research group, University of Minnesota
- Andrew Rajczewski
- James Johnson