Participants of the first NCBI Advanced Workshop for Bioinformatics Information Specialists, August 5-9, 2002

Kneeling: Jennifer Lyon;  Standing, left to right: Nancy Samp (Beckman Coulter, Inc.), Renata Geer (NCBI), Kathryn Robbins (University of Minnesota), Thomas Moloshok (Fox Chase Cancer Center), Inhye Kim Son (University of Virginia Health System), Mark E. Minie (University of Washington), Ansuman Chattopadhyay (University of Pittsburgh), Susan Barned (Johns Hopkins University), Sheila Gorman (Dartmouth College), Sara Rutter (University of Michigan), Donna Messersmith (NCBI), Stephen Cammer (UCSD), Kathleen Clark (University of Illinois Urbana/Champaign)

Included in the photo are course developers and participants, all of whom are forming the foundation of a bioinformatics support network based in medical libraries, and serving the research and clinical communities. Not shown are the other course developers and instructors who got away before we could catch them with the camera, some of whom were caught in another photo...