The VGP is a project of the G10K, which was founded in April 2009.

The G10K governing council, trustees, and working committees partner with scientific communities and represent over 150 members in over 50 institutions; this consortium has built an infrastructure from sample collection to genome sequencing, assembly, annotation, alignments, public data releases, and analyses for publication. The VGP started in February 2017.

 

Where We Are

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Founding Laboratories

 

VERTEBRATE GENOME LAB
New York, NY

SANGER INSTITUTE
United Kingdom

MAX-PLANCK INSTITUTE
Dresden, Germany


 

Affiliated Laboratories

 

NUCLEOME (as of August 2020)
Hyderabad, India 

 

 

Chair

 
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ERICH JARVIS
Rockefeller University, New York City

 

 

Council Members

 
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TOMAS MARQUES-BONET
Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Spain

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ANDREW CRAWFORD
Universidad de los Andes, Bogotá

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FEDERICA DiPALMA
Earlham Institute, United Kingdom

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RICHARD DURBIN
Sanger and Cambridge, United Kingdom


 
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TOM GILBERT
University of Copenhagen, Denmark

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ERICH JARVIS, Chair
Rockefeller University, New York City

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KLAUS-PETER KOEPFLI, Secretary
Smithsonian, Washington DC

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HARRIS LEWIN
UC Davis, California


 
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ROBERT MURPHY
University of Toronto, Canada

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GENE MYERS
Max Plank, Dresden

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BETH SHAPIRO
UC Santa Cruz, California

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EMMA TEELING
University of College Dublin, Ireland


 
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BYRAPPA VENKATESH
AStar, Singapore

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SIAVASH MIR ARABBAYGI
University of California, San Diego

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GUOJIE ZHANG
Zhejiang University, China

 

 

Trustees

 
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DAVID HAUSSLER
UC Santa Cruz, California

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STEVE O'BRIEN, Treasurer
St. Petersburg University, Russia

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OLIVER RYDER
UC San Diego, California

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JENNY GRAVES
Australian National University, Melbourne


 

Working VGP Committees

Sample Collections of Taxonomic Groups

 

MAMMALS
Chair: Oliver Ryder
Warren Johnson
Emma Teeling
Federica Di-Palma
Elinor Karrlson
Harris Lewin
Erich Jarvis
 

PRIMATES
Chairs: Evan Eichler and
Tomas Marques-Bonet

Harris Lewin
Federica Di-Palma
Elinor Karrlson
Erich Jarvis

BIRDS
Chair: Erich Jarvis
Guojie Zhang
Tom Gilbert
Gary Graves
 

REPTILES
Chair: Robert Murphy

 

AMPHIBIANS
Chair: Andrew Crawford

Kathryn Elmer
Dan Rokhsar
David Blackburn

FISH
Chair: Byrappa Venkatesh

Richard Durbin
Axel Meyer
Gavin Naylor
 

INVERTEBRATE OUTGROUPS
Chair: Jose Victor Lopez


 

Science and Administration

 

GENOME SEQUENCING
Chair: Olivier Fedrigo

Richard Durbin
Frederica Di-Palma
Elinor Karlsson
Kerstin Lindblad-Toh
Guojie Zhang
 

GENOME ASSEMBLY
Chair: Giuliio Formenti

Adam Phillippy Richard Durbin
Olivier Fredrigo
Erich Jarvis
Elinor Karlsson
Sergey Koren
Harris Lewin
Kerstin Lindblad-Toh
Gene Myers
Arang Rhie
Guojie Zhang
Kerstin Howe
Shane McCarthy
Martin Pipple
Michael Sohatz
Zemin Ning


GENOME ALIGNMENT & ANNOTATION
Chair: Benedict Paten
Bronwen Aken
Paul Flicek, Team Leader Ensembl
David Haussler, UCSC Browser Director
Erich Jarvis
Tandy Warnow
Francoise Thibaud-Nissen, NCBI

PHYLOGENETICS
Chair: Tandy Warnow
Tom Gilbert
Erich Jarvis
Siavash Mirarab
Alexander Suh
Guojie Zhang
 

CONSERVATION
Chair: Oliver Ryder
Erich Jarvis
Warren Johnson
Rebecca Johnson
Klaus-Peter Koepfli
Robert Kraus
Jacquelyn Mountcastle
Sadye Páez María
Beth Shapiro
Thomas Marques Bonet
 

COMPARATIVE GENOMICS
Chair: Guojie Zhang
Rebecca Johnson
Harris Lewin
Heebal Kim
Thomas Marques
Byrappa Venkatesh


SAMPLE COORDINATION
Chair: Jennifer Balacco
Andrew J. Crawford
Olivier Fedrigo
Karen Oliver
Alan Scott
Oliver Ryder
Bettina Haase Jacquelyn Mountcastle
Bob Murphy
Jonathan Coddington
Lisa Komoroske
Phillip Morin
Sylke Winkler

INFORMATICS
Chair: Bent Petterson
Benedict Paten
Eric Lyons
Adam Phillippy
Guojie Zhang
 

FUNDRAISING
Chair: Beth Shapiro
Erich D. Jarvis
Sadye Páez María
Dominik Biezonski
Tom Gilbert
 

OUTREACH & WEB
Chair: Sadye Páez María Beth Shapiro
Harris Lewin

ANNUAL MEETING ORGANIZATION
Sadye Páez María
Beth Shapiro
Erich Jarvis
Klaus-Peter Koepfli for 2017
Lauren Shanker for 2018


Members as of May 2024; please note that these lists are not exhaustive of membership. Please contact us with any questions. 

 
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