I'd like to join the Open Traits Network

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layout: member
id: melissa-haendel
name: Melissa Haendel
email: melissa@tislab.org
homepage: https://monarchinitiative.org/
lat: 44.5646
long: -123.2620 
affiliation: Department of Environmental and Molecular Toxicology, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR, USA 
github: mellybelly
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Melissa is an ontologist and translational scientist based in Corvallis, Oregon. 

## Collaboration statement
I enjoy working on translational and open science problems in biomedicine. I am also interested in phenomics in health, evolutionary biology, and biodiversity contexts.  I co-lead the Monarch Initiative, which is program that aims to semantically integrate genotype-phenotype data from across many animal species to support disease diagnosis and mechanistic discovery. We are also the developers of a number of ontologies, such as the Uberon anatomy ontology, the Human Phenotype ontology, the uPheno Ontology, and the Ontology of Biological Attributes (OBA).

I can offer expertise in data modeling and phenotype representation. I also love connecting people together around traits by running working groups, hosting visitors in my lab, organizing symposia at conferences. We have a small conference grant that supports these activities in the area of phenomics.

Editors @open-traits-network/editors: please see https://github.com/open-traits-network/open-traits-network.github.io/tree/master/_members#readme for information on registration process.

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