Introduce yourself here first!

[cgreene]

Hello interested contributors! Welcome to the covid19-review project. Our goal here is to provide an up-to-date perspective on the current peer reviewed and preprinted literature around diagnostics and therapeutics relevant to COVID-19. There's more in our README, which you may have already seen: https://github.com/greenelab/covid19-review#sars-cov-2-and-covid-19-an-evolving-review-of-diagnostics-and-therapeutics

As a first step, let's get to know each other. Please answer these questions!

• Your name
• Your job other than this review
• What you hope to get out of participating
• How you feel best prepared to contribute
• What you have the most trepidation about

[cgreene]

• Your name: Casey Greene
• Your job other than this review: When I'm not doing this, I mentor folks in a computational biology lab at UPenn and help Alex's Lemonade Stand Foundation with their Childhood Cancer Data Lab
• What you hope to get out of participating: It has become increasingly clear that diagnostics and therapeutics will have key roles to play in addressing COVID-19. I'm interested in learning more about what's being evaluated and what stage it's at. I'm excited about the rapid sharing, especially on twitter and social media, but I'm concerned that a lot of nuance is being lost.
• How you feel best prepared to contribute: This will be my second massively open online review paper that I've worked on. I'm happy to review text, read some papers, and contribute in whatever way I can.
• What you have the most trepidation about: I was a PhD student in a Molecular and Cellular Biology program a while ago and have some experience reading such papers from journal club, but it's been a while. I'm excited and nervous about getting back into that literature.

[averyposey]

Your name: Avery Posey
Your job other than this review: Assistant Prof @ UPenn, CAR-T cell engineering for cancer as well as pro-inflammatory diseases
What you hope to get out of participating: I want to contribute to distilling the large body of work in this rapidly evolving area.
How you feel best prepared to contribute: I want to read papers that have assessed immune-related components of COVID-19.
What you have the most trepidation about: This is my first massive open online review and I am interested to see how this goes.

[mprobson]

• Your Name: Michael Robson
• Your job other than this review: Assistant Professor of Computer Science at Villanova University
• What you hope to get out of participating: Make a meaningful contribution to a high-impact project that will help in the ongoing crisis (by making it easier for scientists and others to contribute)
• How you feel best prepared to contribute: Software, git tutorials, GitHub maintenance, general non-biology but technical expertise
• What you have the most trepidation about: I know very little helpful biology

[KhiabanianLab]

– Your name: Hossein Khiabanian
– Your job other than this review: Assistant Professor at Rutgers (computational biology, cancer genomics)
– What you hope to get out of participating: Small contribution to a large review (my first) of literature as we learn more about this coronavirus and the pandemic it has caused.
– How you feel best prepared to contribute: I have previously worked on molecular epidemiology of influenza and ebola using simple statistical models.
– What you have the most trepidation about: I am very interested in modes of transmission and their relationship with the viral load given the wide spectrum of symptoms and severity during the infection.

[LucyMcGowan]

This is great, just saw your post in NPIS.

• Lucy D’Agostino McGowan
• Assistant Professor in Statistics, Wake Forest University
• I’ve been trying to synthesize the medical literature for my friends / family - Would be great to have lots of minds on this (and be able to contribute as well!)
• My PhD & postdoc were in biostatistics & I have a lot of GitHub experience - happy to contribute both to the stats & organization
• I’m currently committed to a lot of projects, but this is important - biggest trepidation is just finding time for everything

[luispedro]

Your name: Luis Pedro Coelho

Your job other than this review: Junior Principal Investigator in computational biology, Fudan University

What you hope to get out of participating: I hope to learn more myself most of all

How you feel best prepared to contribute: I am switching some of my time to Covid-19 related work starting this week, so I will be reading a lot in the very near future

What you have the most trepidation about: this is a bit far from my main area of expertise, although I put some of that on hold given the state of emergency

[SiminaB]

Thank you for starting this Casey!

• Simina Boca
• Faculty at the Innovation Center for Biomedical Informatics and Oncology & Biostatistics at Georgetown
• Help with a relevant and timely project! Also, I had a ton of fun with the collaborative deep review, and some fun is sorely needed right now
• Statistical and study design issues, systematizing results. My background is in biostats and I've taught evidence-based data analysis to med and grad students
• Finding the time to keep on top of everything, especially since I know many preprints are coming out daily

[abreddy8]

• Your name: Akhilesh Reddy
• Your job other than this review: When I'm not doing this, I lead a research group at Penn focused on the molecular biology of circadian (24 hour) clocks and sleep.
• What you hope to get out of participating: Some proper fact-based insights into the emerging literature in this field.
• How you feel best prepared to contribute: I am a clinician-scientist (MD-PhD) with a broad interest, and my lab has previously investigated the interactions between virus and host in the context of the circadian cycle. I should be able to provide a discerning eye for the clinical aspects, as well as the basic science. I'm happy to review text, read some papers, and contribute in whatever way I can.
• What you have the most trepidation about: Juggling lots of new COVID projects working virtually.

[cbrueffer]

• Your name: Christian Brueffer

• Your job other than this review: Bioinformatician at SAGA Diagnostics working on cancer molecular diagnostics, and PhD student in cancer genomics at Lund University.

• What you hope to get out of participating: Learning more about virology, particularly in the SARS-CoV-19 context, and getting experience in writing reviews.

• How you feel best prepared to contribute Experience with (non-virology) scientific literature, programming, data analysis/visualization, GitHub, and reviewing/writing/editing text.

• What you have the most trepidation about: Keeping on top of literature outside my area of expertise while my normal obligations continue.

[nilswellhausen]

Your name: Nils Wellhausen

Your job other than this review: Being a Pharmacology Graduate student. Learning computational biology, keeping up with the literature in general and playing guitar.

What you hope to get out of participating: Learning more about the current approaches to tackle this global issue but also being able to expand my knowledge and help writing a comprehensive review informing the community.

How you feel best prepared to contribute: We started a COVID 19 journal club in the wherry lab so I have been relatively up to date with the literature. I also worked with the high throughput screening core around David Schultz that is currently screening drugs for COVID-19.

What you have the most trepidation about: Being able to critically evaluate all the preprints coming out and of course keeping up with all commitments.

[agitter]

• Your name: Anthony Gitter
• Your job other than this review: I lead a computational biology research group at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and the Morgridge Institute for Research
• What you hope to get out of participating: This is a perfect use case for Manubot, and I want the review to thrive; I also want to better educate myself about COVID-19
• How you feel best prepared to contribute: I have experience with Manubot and collaborative reviews so I'd like to help domain experts become comfortable with this nontraditional writing process
• What you have the most trepidation about: This a fast-moving, high-stakes area; it will be difficult but imperative to summarize the literature accurately and review contributions thoroughly

[juliettemarie0405]

Your name: Juliette Rando

Your job other than this review: I'm a research specialist in a virology lab (studying HIV/SIV) at the Perelman School of Medicine at UPenn and an MPH candidate.

What you hope to get out of participating: I want to help in this time of crisis in any way possible.

How you feel best prepared to contribute: I'm ready and willing to put time into sifting through the literature. I have experience conducting a systematic review in the past.

What you have the most trepidation about: My virology knowledge is HIV-focused, and I do not have an advanced degree in biology. So I will definitely be deferring to the experts in this project!

[rays1987]

• Your name: Sandipan Ray (Ph.D., MRSB)
• Your job other than this review: I am a senior post-doctoral fellow at the Department of Systems Pharmacology & Translational Therapeutics, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania
• What you hope to get out of participating: Getting more information regarding this new SARS-CoV-2 infection. Bringing the essential information regarding this novel infection from the published and pre-print literature
• How you feel best prepared to contribute: I have considerable expertise in cutting-edge proteomics (and systems biology) for studying infectious diseases (including dengue fever, malaria and leptospirosis). I have experience of writing systematic reviews in the past.
Systems level approaches (including transcriptomics, proteomics and metabolomics) can provide extremely useful information regarding coronavirus 2 infection and may help in identifying effective early diagnostic and therapeutic (for both drugs and vaccines) targets. In this vein, the full-length genome sequences of nCoV-2019 and the phylogenetic analysis of the complete viral genome are published very recently (Wu et al., Nature 2020, PMID: 32015508; Lu et al., Lancet. 2020, PMID: 32007145, and Zhou et al., 2020, PMID: 32015507), while the proteome level studies are on their way (https://www.researchsquare.com/article/rs-17218/v1).
I would like to contribute in a section on how systems approaches are proving new mechanistic insights into the pathogenesis of nCoV-2019 and host responses towards this infection. Additionally, I will be happy to review the other sections of manuscript.
• What you have the most trepidation about: Trying to be familiar with the current trends of this novel pathogenic SARS-coronavirus 2 while working virtually.

[rmrussell]

Your name: Ronnie Russell

Your job other than this review: PhD student at the University of Pennsylvania studying HIV and SIV

What you hope to get out of participating: I hope to gain a more comprehensive understanding of coronaviruses (SARS-CoV-2 + the many others waiting to emerge!) and utilize my current knowledge of viruses in a useful way

How you feel best prepared to contribute: Part of my thesis work is studying cross-species transmission of primate lentiviruses (HIV and SIV), specifically barriers to these events (ie host receptor diversity) and viral adaptations following successful zoonoses. As SARS-CoV-2 is a zoonotic virus, a lot of basic biology lessons we have learned over the years for SIV/HIV should be directly translatable.

What you have the most trepidation about: My background on coronavirus biology is limited and papers are being published so quickly that trying to distill the accurate, peer-reviewed information from the deluge of preprints is like (as they say) trying to drink from a firehose.

[gregszetoAI]

• Your name: Greg Szeto
• Your job other than this review: about to be former TT assistant professor at UMBC. Just started my role as PI/Assistant Investigator at the Allen Institute for Immunology. I lead trainees and teams to do a lot of immunology (systems and molecular) and immunoengineering across healthy organisms and in diverse diseases, most recently cancer immunology and immunotherapy, lupus, and traumatic brain injury.
• What you hope to get out of participating: Contributing to a critical assessment of the literature, with hopefully some idea generation about host factors that may be contributing to the many differences in SARS-CoV2 vs. recent emergent coronaviruses. This also seems like a great time to refresh my domain knowledge in virology.
  How you feel best prepared to contribute: I TA'd Hopkins SPH Virology for multiple years and did my PhD in HIV latency, so I feel confident in interpreting critical readings of the literature on viral pathogenesis and drug development. I also have a solid footing in bioinformatics to help contribute to sections on -omics studies.
• What you have the most trepidation about: I have never done a fully crowd-sourced review. The rate of publications and data release has my head spinning. I am also concerned about the broader impacts of ongoing and upcoming control measures on society.

[Huiyanangelchow]

Your name: Huiyanangel(Angel) Chow
Your job other than this review: I am a research specialist in Dr. Carl June lab at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania.
What you hope to get out of participating: 1) trace the animal origin of COVID-19, 2) invalidate some rumors and disinformation about COVID-19, 3) know more about testing, metastasis, a model of this global epidemic, role of the environment in this crisis
How you feel best prepared to contribute: while I compare this outbreak with SARS in hongkong, I will look at factors that make this outbreak deviated from the SARS crisis.
What you have the most trepidation about: not being able to sleep well and think clearly

[rando2]

Your name: Halie Rando
Your job other than this review: I'm a new post-doc at UPenn working with Casey Green (@cgreene). I'm a computational biologist and typically work on animal models of complex diseases, but right now I am here almost full-time to answer questions, provide technical support, and open discussions for different topics related to this review.
What you hope to get out of participating: I'm excited to be part of a multi-disciplinary effort that will allow us to use our collective interest in this topic and varied skill sets to make a real difference during a stressful time
How you feel best prepared to contribute: I am helping run the technical side of things, recruiting subject area experts, and trying to make this project as user friendly as possible. I also love to write and edit!
What you have the most trepidation about: I don't have much virology background -- if you want a three-minute distraction, these experimentally bred foxes were the subject of my genomics-focused PhD

[orpanag]

• Name: Orestis Panagiotou
• Job other than this review: Epidemiologist and Health Services Researcher; Assistant Professor, Brown University SPH
• What I hope to get out of participating: I am just glad to join this effort
• How you feel best prepared to contribute: I have expertise in evidence synthesis, meta-analysis, bias assessments, clinical epidemiology, and evidence-based medicine. Among other things, I conduct systematic reviews for AHRQ
• What you have the most trepidation about: There are many components in this project, ranging from basic science (e.g. viral genome sequencing) to treatment (e.g. comparing drugs) to decision analysis (e.g. decisions need to be made based on limited evidence but we don't have the luxury of waiting for RCTs).

[shrutir]

• Your name: Shruti Rao
• Your job other than this review: Research Instructor at the Innovation Center for Biomedical Informatics and Dept of Oncology at Georgetown University
• What you hope to get out of participating: I am excited to be part of this crowdsourcing effort to write a such a timely review paper.
• How you feel best prepared to contribute: I have a background in molecular biology and primarily work as a biocurator on research projects, which involves extracting, organizing and standardizing information from scientific literature and presenting them in databases. Happy to critically evaluate literature on COVID-19 and summarize information for the manuscript.
• What you have the most trepidation about: Finding the time to keep up with emerging literature on this topic while simultaneously refreshing my virology and immunology knowledge. 

[soumitagh]

Your name: Soumita Ghosh
Your job other than this review: Research Associate in Dr. Garret Fitgzerald lab, University of Pennsylvania.
What you hope to get out of participating: It is timely to focus on a problem that affected the world with my current expertise. It is important to combine knowledge as well as misconception that is presently going on. T
How you feel best prepared to contribute: I am working in a lab where NSAIDs and prostaglandins are important topic for research. Previously I worked in malaria hence I read about chloroquine. I would like to focus on different drugs that has been suggested to soIve the crisis.
What you have the most trepidation about: I donot have much of virology background.

[eberwine]

Your name: Jim Eberwine
Your job other than this review: Professor of Systems Pharmacology and Translational Therapeutics
What you hope to get out of participating: Better understanding of COVID-19 biology
How you feel best prepared to contribute: I am a genomicist, neuroscientist, molecular biologist and hope the this expertise will be useful in understanding aspects of the viruses biology
What you have the most trepidation about: I hope that the literature is filled with good quality data but I worry that the data may not be as good as we want and need.

[rdvelazquez]

Your name: Ryan Velazquez
Your job other than this review: Data Scientist at Azimuth1
What you hope to get out of participating: Learn more about COVID-19 and help in any way needed
How you feel best prepared to contribute: Help people with domain knowledge who aren't familiar with GitHub or Manubot.

[aadattoli]

Your name: Anna Ada Dattoli
Your job other than this review: Postdoc in the Eberwine lab (system pharmacology and translational therapeutics) at UPenn
What you hope to get out of participating:make a substancial contribution to help the ongoing crisis
How you feel best prepared to contribute: molecular biology and data analysis expert.
What you have the most trepidation about: critical analysis of the data.

[rhagenson]

• Your name: Ryan A. Hagenson
• Your job other than this review: Bioinformatics Scientist (and HPC SysAdmin) at Omaha's Henry Doorly Zoo and Aquarium
• What you hope to get out of participating: Enable the growth and legitimization of large-scale open collaborations
• How you feel best prepared to contribute: Most of my training and career thus far has been enabling non-computational biologists to learn and utilize computational resources effectively. Beyond that I focus on taking "slow" analysis and making it "fast" via ample use of concurrency, HPC, and reproducible elements.
• What you have the most trepidation about: Literature in this collab being misinterpreted by the most willing or most available rather than the most fit to review and understand it.

[ypar]

Your name: YoSon Park
Your job other than this review: Postdoc, Greenelab, Department of Systems Pharmacology and Translational Therapeutics, University of Pennsylvania. My current research primarily focuses on large-scale -omics analyses for disease mechanism studies and in silico drug target discoveries using public data.
What you hope to get out of participating: I am thrilled to learn about how this massively multi-author online review paper will evolve.
How you feel best prepared to contribute: I have studied microbiology and immunology and got a doctorate in statistical and computational genetics. I am no expert but can contribute to evaluating some relevant aspects in this review.
What you have the most trepidation about: This is my first crowd-sourced, online review. I am excited and nervous.

[shiktadas]

Your name: Shikta Das
Your job other than this review: Honorary lecturer, data scientist
What you hope to get out of participating: I have expertise in epidemiology and systematic review and would like to contribute to a noble cause. Also, learn in the meanwhile.
How you feel best prepared to contribute: I have an MSc in Epidemiology (covering infectious disease) and a Phd in Epidemiology with several years of post-doc experience.
What you have the most trepidation about: That I can be useful!!!

[michaelmhoffman]

• Your name: Michael M. Hoffman

• Your job other than this review: Scientist, Princess Margaret Cancer Centre; Assistant Professor, Departments of Medical Biophysics and Computer Science, University of Toronto; Faculty Affiliate, Vector Institute

• What you hope to get out of participating: FOMO avoidance

• How you feel best prepared to contribute: I see a lot of papers and can contribute relevant links when I find them

• What you have the most trepidation about: The heavyweight Manubot contribution process

[bethanyd1]

Your name- Bethany Dus
Your job other than this review- MD student at the University of Pennsylvania
What you hope to get out of participating- I’m hoping to gain a deeper understanding of SARS-CoV-2, as well as understanding treatment options.
How you feel best prepared to contribute- I worked on a literature review as part of my MSc Public Health.
What you have the most trepidation about- I’ve never worked on a collaborative review on a platform like this, but I’m excited to contribute!

[byrdjb]

Your name- J. Brian Byrd
Your job other than this review- hypertension researcher, with an interest in extracellular vesicles
What you hope to get out of participating- annotate some of the weaker claims about putative effects of antihypertensive drugs in COVID-19
How you feel best prepared to contribute- I feel best prepared to summarize the strengths and weaknesses of some of the treatment papers
What you have the most trepidation about- Trepidation isn't a word that comes to mind. Glad to be here.

[tuncadogan]

Your name: Tunca Dogan

Your job other than this review: Scientist, faculty member at the Institute of Informatics / Dept. of CS at Hacettepe University, Turkey. I work on biological data science and development of predictive models in bioinformatics and cheminformatics.

What you hope to get out of participating: I am interested in computational approaches to identify potential long-term molecular solutions to COVID-19, other than the fast-track drug repurposing. I believe one of the best ways to learn on a subject is participating in a collaborative effort like this one.

How you feel best prepared to contribute: I can summarise computational studies for predictive approaches on SARS-CoV-2 mechanisms and on potential novel treatments.

What you have the most trepidation about: The great void...

[fmughal]

• Your name: Fizza Mughal
• Your job other than this review: I recently defended my PhD in Informatics at UIUC. Therefore, I'm currently in that awkward transition phase of submitting my dissertation and transitioning to my next gig, an AI residency in the AI & Quantum Computing group at Google X (moonshot factory).
• What you hope to get out of participating: I'm excited to contribute in any possible way to help in the understanding of SARS-CoV2 that would pave the way for future therapeutics and preparedness for the next pandemic.
• How you feel best prepared to contribute: I'm a generalist. I have done a little bit of everything throughout my bioinformatics training in college and grad school. My PhD research employs graph theoretical techniques to study questions in protein evolution. Additionally, I have data science and machine learning experience through my industry internships. I can review software methods, and computational techniques being used in SARS-CoV2 studies, for example, in identifying therapeutics or predicting protein function.
• What you have the most trepidation about: Again, I'm a generalist. I do not hold specialization in sequencing (I have only taken a couple of courses during my program therefore not up-to-date on the knowledge in this field) or deep expertise in molecular biology (my undergrad degree was biology heavy but I'm a bit rusty on that knowledge now). I'm also limited on time as I'm racing to finish manuscript submissions for journals. However I'm excited to be a part of such a massive collaborative effort and contribute as much as I can.

[vsharma1]

Thanks Casey for the great initiative!

• Vishakha Sharma
• I am a Principal Data Scientist in Diagnostics Division at Roche.
• Excited to be part of this timely COVID review.
• I am Computer Scientist by training with focus on Machine Learning, NLP and Computer
Vision. I serve in numerous Program Committees and can summarize findings and methods
from literature to include in this review.
• Staying on top of research.

[davidmanheim]

Your name: David Manheim

Your job other than this review: I have a PhD in public policy and decision theory, with a large part of my dissertation involving infectious disease modeling and biosurveillance. I now work with Oxford's Future of Humanity Institute on policy and mitigation of large scale risks, mostly considering pandemic events. I'm also currently involved in a number of projects on COVID-19, including several that are trying to better understand testing and how it can scale. I'm also doing a part-time postdoc at University of Haifa in their Health and Risk Communication Research Center.

How you feel best prepared to contribute: I'm primarily working on the section on testing methods. (I'm also happy to help with anything related to public policy or bio-surveillance that comes up.)

What you have the most trepidation about: My limited (i.e. nonexistent) academic preparation related to molecular virology / never actually having worked in a lab. (I've been working on understanding microbiology better as a side project for the past 3 years, but I'm nowhere near as competent as most of this group.)

[bansalvi]

Your name: Vikas Bansal
Your job other than this review: I recently (2019) accepted a group leader offer for Biomedical Data Science & Machine Learning research group at the German Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases, Tuebingen, Germany.
What you hope to get out of participating: I would like to learn more about COVID-19. Also, would learn online collab and Manubot.
How you feel best prepared to contribute: We have a paper under review related to COVID-19 https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.05.08.084806v2 While preparing the manuscript, I reviewed many papers related to COVID-19.
What you have the most trepidation about: I may criticise some papers/journals. Seems like some studies were published in rush and may have compromised quality of research.

[mzamanian]

Your name: Mostafa Zamanian

Your job other than this review: Assistant Professor, University of Wisconsin-Madison. My research lab is mainly focused on neglected infectious diseases caused by parasites.

What you hope to get out of participating: To help clarify the state of new and historical literature on antiparasitics repurposed as antivirals, and to support this mode of community review writing.

How you feel best prepared to contribute: My research program is largely focused on antiparasitics. Many antiparasitics, including anthelmintics, have been forwarded as potential COVID-19 treatments. I'd be happy to contribute by evaluating the strength of recent claims about the antiviral properties of these drugs and squaring these claims with pharmacological considerations.

What you have the most trepidation about: Learning Manubot - though I'm hopeful the learning curve isn't very steep.

[scapone01]

Your name: Stephen Capone
Your job other than this review: Third Year Medical Student in Brooklyn, NY
What you hope to get out of participating: To help provide clinical context from the epicenter of the COVID pandemic and to help facilitate the quick and accurate sharing of information.
How you feel best prepared to contribute: Have a current COVID paper under review, can provide clinical context and have time to help edit and revise the paper.
What you have the most trepidation about: Brand new to Github, so navigating the software is all new to me.

[Sergey-Knyazev]

Your name: Sergey Knyazev
Your job other than this review: Computer Science PhD candidate at Georgia State University. Next year I am joining Dr. Mangul lab at USC. I am working on NGS data analysis for viral studies.
What you hope to get out of participating: I want to highlight the benefits of SARS-CoV-2 genome data analysis for public health, summarize the successful practices of SARS-CoV-2 outbreak investigations, and discuss the challenges and limitations that one can meet during the genome analysis.
How you feel best prepared to contribute: Have papers published about viral genome analysis, benchmarks, and outbreak investigations using genome data. I will read and summarize articles about the usage of genome data for the SARS-CoV-2 outbreak response.
What you have the most trepidation about: It will be hard to summarize the whole scope of information about using SARS-CoV-2 genomes because of the big number of recently published researches of different quality.

[jharenza]

• Your name: Jo Lynne Rokita
• Your job other than this review: Supervisory Bioinformatics Scientist at the Center for Data-Driven Discovery in Biomedicine at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
• What you hope to get out of participating: Want to do my part to help put sound literature out there and love being involved in such collaborative processes.
• How you feel best prepared to contribute: Reading literature/ writing/ reviewing PRs
• What you have the most trepidation about: The pace of, and ever-changing, information coming out and how we will keep up!

[LSH2126]

Your name: Lamonica Shinholster

Your job other than this review: Biology student at Mercer University; research assistant.

What you hope to get out of participating: additional experience with scientific collaboration.

How you feel best prepared to contribute: literary review, writing/editing.

What you have the most trepidation about: Consolidating a vast amount of information about COVID-19 from multiple sources.

[tlukan]

Your name: Temitayo Lukan

Your job other than this review: Psychology/pre-med student at the University of Pennsylvania

What you hope to get out of participating: more experience with literature, academic writing, and collaborating research

How you feel best prepared to contribute: writing portions of literature review and health disparities

What you have the most trepidation about: being able to produce solid work on the literature review; consolidating information about covid-19

[smangul1]

Your name: Serghei Mangul
Your job other than this review: Assistant Professor of Clinical Pharmacy and Biological Sciences,
Titus Department of Clinical Pharmacy, USC School of Pharmacy, The Quantitative and Computational Biology, USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences,
University of Southern California
What you hope to get out of participating: Together with Sergey Knyazev, we would like to highlight the benefits of SARS-CoV-2 genome data analysis for public health, summarize the successful practices of SARS-CoV-2 outbreak investigations, and discuss the challenges and limitations that one can meet during the genome analysis.
How you feel best prepared to contribute: Both I and Sergey Knyazev have papers published about viral genome analysis, benchmarks, and outbreak investigations using genome data. I will read and summarize articles about the usage of genome data for the SARS-CoV-2 outbreak response.
What you have the most trepidation about: It will be hard to summarize the whole scope of information about using SARS-CoV-2 genomes because of the big number of recently published researches of different quality.

[SystemsResearch]

• Your name: Dimitri Perrin
• Your job other than this review: Senior Lecturer (School of Computer Science) and Chief Investigator (Centre for Data Science), Queensland University of Technology, Australia.
• What you hope to get out of participating: experience on large collaborative review, and satisfaction in helping make it as good as possible
• How you feel best prepared to contribute: reading papers / writing / reviewing pull requests
• What you have the most trepidation about: lack of sleep?

[athril]

• Your name: Patryk Orzechowski
• Your job other than this review: Data Scientist at the University of Pennsylvania and Assistant Professor of Informatics at the AGH University of Science and Technology, Krakow, Poland
• What you hope to get out of participating: get more experience with collaborative research, improving the quality of the review by looking from a different perspective
• How you feel best prepared to contribute: I have been involved in two other covid-19 reviews and some heated discussions on covid-19. I hope to bring to the paper my expertise in machine learning, Artificial Intelligence and Big Data. I also have experience in NLP, which could also be useful in the review.
• What you have the most trepidation about: Although I have been making some progress in this field, I don't have any biological background.

[ipsitak]

Your name: Ipsita Krishnan
Your job other than this review: I work in Public Health Practice at NYU’s School of Global Public Health
What you hope to get out of participating: Happy to help on this timely and important work
How you feel best prepared to contribute: I have an MPH in applied global epidemiology and feel confident in looking into the public health relevant sections
What you have the most trepidation about: I have limited knowledge on the pathophysiology and pharmacology aspects of the project

[lubianat]

Your name: Tiago Lubiana
Your job other than this review: PhD candidate in Bioinformatics at the University of São Paulo
What you hope to get out of participating: I'm quite interested in the process of collaborative scholarly manuscripts. I am mostly interested in understanding better how to do an open collaborative review.
How you feel best prepared to contribute: I've been busy with Wikiproject COVID-19 earlier this year, and I`m a biomedical scientist by training. I feel confident in looking at molecular mechanisms and fact-checking claims.
What you have the most trepidation about: I'm late to help as much as I would like. I hope I can still contribute somehow.

[rando2]

Welcome @lubianat! We are wrapping up our first checkpoint over the next week, but we are planning to keep making new versions until the crisis reaches some sort of stable point (so we'll probably be going for a while, sadly). We'd be delighted to have you onboard and you're actually joining at the perfect time! I'm also really glad to know about the Wikiproject!

[SabrinaSawhney]

Hello everyone! My name is Sabrina Sawhney
I’m a research assistant at the survivorship institute at Georgetown Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center.
I hope to learn more about the far-reaching consequences of COVID.
I feel best prepared to contribute with writing and summarizing literature since I have experience in that with other research and classes. I have the most trepidation about using GitHub and coding since this is my first time doing something like this.

[NAIKA86]

Your name: Amruta Naik
Your job other than this review: When I'm not doing this, I work on the circadian biology of lung repair and regeneration by developing 3d lung organoids.
What you hope to get out of participating: Our research group has found that outcomes of influenza infection are dependant on the time of day infection and this can be applied to many other types of infections including bacteria. It would be cool to know if it holds true for COVID from an infection and vaccination perspective.
How you feel best prepared to contribute: I have contributed to a published article in JBR that summarizes the role of the circadian clock in infections and how to tackle COVID, so would be interested in contributing on vaccine development and circadian biology.
What you have the most trepidation about: I am late to the party but excited to learn and contribute as much as I could.

[aimundo]

Your name: Ariel Mundo
Your job other than this review: PhD candidate in Biomedical Engineering at the University of Arkansas
What you hope to get out of participating: collaborative manuscripts are something new to me, and I know I am joining the party a little (very) late, but I would like to get on-hands experience with large-scale projects like this on GitHub.
How you feel best prepared to contribute: I feel confident about doing literature searches about relevant topics and collaborating on checking information.
What you have the most trepidation about: Large-scale projects in GitHub are something new to me, but I am also looking forward to learn more about the biology and pathogenesis of COVID-19 as it keeps changing.

[rando2]

Welcome @aimundo! We are able to submit updates to the papers that are already published (they are living reviews) so please feel free to hop in wherever you are interested! Also, let me know if you need any help or guidance -- the gitter chat is a particularly good way to chat informally with other contributors!

[jessegmeyerlab]

Your name: Jesse Meyer
Your job other than this review: Assistant Professor at Medical College of Wisconsin in Milwaukee
What you hope to get out of participating: learn the strengths and weaknesses of the manubot platform for collaborative publishing, contribute useful information to this summary of knowledge
How you feel best prepared to contribute: looks like the diagnostics section is missing a couple sections I can add
What you have the most trepidation about: many unknowns about this process, but excited to learn and contribute