[Rdap] NEWS RELEASE: Layne Johnson is the New VIVO Project Director

[Carol Minton Morris]

*FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE*

April 18, 2014
Contact: Carol Minton Morris <cmmorris at duraspace.org>
Read it online: http://bit.ly/1iwuIe1

*Layne Johnson is the New VIVO Project Director*

*Winchester, MA*  The DuraSpace <http://duraspace.org/> organization is
pleased to announce that Dr. Layne Johnson has accepted a position with
DuraSpace as the project director for the VIVO project effective May 1,
2014. In his role as VIVO project director, Layne will work closely with
the community and steering group to set the vision and long term roadmap
for VIVO <http://www.vivoweb.org/>, the open source semantic web platform
that enables research discovery.

Layne is formally trained as a scientist and has worked in the
pharmaceutical research industry, most recently at Pfizer where he served
as Global Head, Information Management.

During 2009-2013, Layne was at the University of Minnesota where he served
as Translational Science Information Specialist in the Health Sciences
Libraries, and as a Library Fellow in the Institute for Health Informatics
where he coordinated the implementation of the University’s first research
networking system. His scholarly interest in open source research
networking and ontologies began in 2009.

His academic interests include e-science, research networking systems,
ontologies and the semantic web, and he supported biomedical informatics
and community engagement efforts for the University of Minnesota’s Clinical
and Translational Science Institute.

Dr. Johnson received a BA from Dana College. He holds an MS in bacteriology
and a Ph.D in microbiology from Iowa State University.

The DuraSpace and VIVO project teams would like to extend a warm welcome to
Layne in his new role as the VIVO project director, and look forward to his
contributions to the broad, collaborative VIVO movement that will shape the
future of research.

-- 
Carol Minton Morris
DuraSpace
Director of Marketing and Communications
cmmorris at DuraSpace.org
Skype: carolmintonmorris
607 592-3135
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