John Johnston is the Bioinformatics Domain Specialist for the Institute for Cyber-enabled Research at Michigan State University. He specializes in scientific analysis in a high-performance computing environment, and the development of software for the interpretation of biological data. He is an experienced Linux systems administrator and scientific consultant. He previously worked for 18 years as a Senior Groundwater Scientist for several prominent engineering firms, where he specialized in the delineation and mitigation of environmental contamination and site restoration.

Kristopher Opron is a PhD student at Michigan State University studying Computational and Mathematical Biology. For his undergraduate research, he worked under Professor Zachary Burton on molecular dynamics simulations of RNA polymerase II. He is currently working on the development of new computational tools for scientists under Professor Guowei Wei.