Meet The Team


Vertebrate Genomics at the Broad Institute
Identifying genes and mutations of relevance for canine and human disease.

Lindblad-Toh Lab, SciLifeLab | Uppsala University
Studying the importance of evolutionary constraint and acceleration for mammalian evolution and canine and human disease.

The Karlsson Lab at the UMass Medical School
Using evolution as a tool for understanding how the human genome works.

The San Diego Zoo
Generating, sharing, and applying scientific knowledge vital to the conservation of animals, plants, and habitats worldwide.

Baylor School of Medicine
Finding molecular mechanisms underlying regulatory genomics and the onset of diseases.

Gladyshev Lab at BWH
Uncovering the molecular basis for natural changes in longevity.

Pfenning Lab at Carnegie Mellon
Building a set of computational and genomic tools to study how genome sequence influences neural cells, neural circuits, disease, and behavior.

Earlham Institute
Characterising functional non-coding sequences and the evolutionary constraints acting on these elements across many species.

Fauna Bio
Finding genes in animals that are responsible for disease protection and that have strong connections to related human genes.

Pollard Lab at Gladstone
Developing novel methods and using them to study genome evolution, organization, and regulation.

Harvard School of Public Health
Developing statistical methods for uncovering the genetic basis of human disease.

Institute for Systems Biology
Tracking the evolution of transposable elements and their impact on the host.

Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine
Characterising the functional activity of venoms and developing new treatments to combat pathologies caused by envenoming.

Narwhal Org
Discovering the purpose and function of the erupted tusk of the narwhal.

Xing Lab at Rutgers
Detecting inter-individual genomic diversity, and the impact of genomic variation.

Smithsonian-Mason School of Conservation
Developing and applying state-of-the-art genomic tools to inform conservation management strategies of species at risk for extinction.

Texas A & M
Studying mammalian comparative genomics, phylogeny, biogeography, and molecular evolution.

David Ray Lab at Texas Tech
Studying genomes and genome evolution with an emphasis on transposable elements.

Lewin Lab at UC Davis
Tracking how mammalian genomes evolve and the role of chromosome rearrangements in adaptation, speciation, and the origins of cancer.

UC Riverside
Using molecules to unravel mammalian evolutionary history.

Bat Lab at UC Dublin
Examining a broad range of evolutionary research questions from mammalian phylogenetic relationships to the molecular mechanisms of sensory perception, innate immunity and the speciation process in bats and other eutherian mammals.

Hughes Lab, University College Dublin
Using comparative genomics, phylogenetics and bioinformatics to explore the evolutionary history of vertebrates, with a focus on sensory perception

UCSC Genomics Lab
Examning how we as a species became human, and how genomes relate to states of health and disease.

UCSC Paleogenomics Lab
Applying genomics techniques to better understand how species and populations evolve through time.

UNC School of Medicine
Dissecting the genetic composition of complex traits, including schizophrenia, major depressive disorder, postpartum depression, anorexia nervosa, and autism.

Hindle Lab at UNLV
Studying cardiovascular regulation and hypoxia tolerance in animals that naturally possess extreme physiological traits.

Comparative Genomics Lab at UPF
Determining processes, genomic variants, and molecular features that are intrinsic to our species.

Comparative Genomics Lab at UPF
Determining processes, genomic variants, and molecular features that are intrinsic to our species.
Karlsson Lab at Broad Institute
and UMass Medical School
Elinor Karlsson
Bruce Birren
Diane Genereux
Justin Turner-Meier
Ross Swofford
Shirley Xue Li
Lindbald-Toh lab at Uppsala University
Kerstin Lindblah-Toh
Michael Dong
Voichita Marinescu
Jennifer Meadows
Eva Murren
Ola Wallerman
Elisabeth Sundström
Bejerano Lab at Stanford
Gill Bejerano
DiPalma Lab at at the University of East Anglia
Federica DiPalma
Haerty Group at the Earlham Institute
Wilfried Haerty
Will Nash
David Wright
Graham Etherington
Hindle Lab at University of Nevada – Las Vegas
Allyson Hindle
Cornelia Fanter
Gazal Lab at University of Southern California
Steven Gazal
Institute for Systems Biology
Arian Smit
Robert Hubley
Kivioja Lab at University of Helsinki
Teemu Kivioja
Lewin Lab at University of California – Davis
Harris Lewin
Joana Damas
Marques-Bonet Lab at
Pompeu Fabra University
Tomas Marques-Bonet
Aitor Seres
David de Juan
Murphy Lab at Texas A&M
Bill Murphy
Nicole Foley
Narwhal Tusk Research at Harvard
Martin Nweeia
Paten Lab at University of California
– Santa Cruz
Benedict Paten
Joel Armstrong
Pfenning Lab at Carnegie Mellon University
Andreas Pfenning
Irene Miriam Kaplow
Morgan Wirthlin
Pollard Lab at Gladstone Institute and UCSF
Katie Pollard
Kathleen Keough
Ray Lab at Texas Tech
David Ray
Carlos J. Garcia
Nicole Paulat
San Diego Zoo Global
Oliver Ryder
University of California – Santa Cruz genome institute
Mark Diekhans
Shapiro Lab at University of California – Santa Cruz
Beth Shapiro
Koepfli Lab at the Smithsonian-Mason School of Conservation
– George Mason University
Klaus-Peter Koepfli
Springer Lab at University of California
– Riverside
Mark Springer
University of Bern
Victor Mason
Meyer Lab, Lehigh University
Wynn Meyer
Katie Foley
Reilly Lab at Yale School of Medicine
Steve Reilly
Teeling Lab at University College, Dublin
Emma Teeling
Zixia Huang