Our Collaborators

The following organizations are our collaborators.

Baylor College of Medicine

The Baylor College of Medicine is the only private medical school in the greater Southwest. Baylor is among the top 20 of the 125 U.S. medical schools in federal research funding.

DOE Joint Genome Institute

The Joint Genome Institute (JGI) established in 1996, is a consortium of scientists, engineers and support staff from the U.S. Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley, Lawrence Livermore, and Los Alamos National Laboratories. The JGI has assumed a significant role in the effort to determine the 3 billion letters ("base pairs") worth of genetic text that make up the human genome.

Hospital for Sick Children

The Hospital for Sick Children is a health care community dedicated to improving the health of children. Our mission is to provide the best in family-centred, compassionate care, to lead in scientific and clinical advancement, and to prepare the next generation of leaders in child health.

Johns Hopkins University

This interdisciplinary academic division brings together a wide range of resources and expertise in biomedical information management, communication and technology. Through the educational, research and service activities of its components, the Division seeks to advance the development and use of electronic and other information resources for decision-making, research, health care delivery and individual academic growth and to increase the awareness of these resources among the Johns Hopkins medical community.

Basic research and development involving the application of informatics to a variety of medical and basic science disciplines is also being carried out by individual members of the Division, and the results of these efforts are being applied to research and educational initiatives throughout the Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions. Current research areas include: medical informatics, genome informatics, information management, consumer health informatics, computer based documentation systems for point of care, informatics and evidence based medicine, biomedical editing and communication, and electronic publishing.

Joint Institute for Biological Sciences

The mission of the Joint Institute for Biological Scienceswill is to promote and develop support for collaborative research and development in the biological sciences. Specific projects shall be implemented pursuant to separate agreements which shall be approved in accordance with the policies and procedures of the participating organizations.

Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory's Information and Computing Sciences Division

The Information and Computing Sciences Division, (ICSD) is a part of Berkeley Laboratory Computing Sciences. Berkeley Lab Computing Sciences includes NERSC, ESNET, and Berkeley Lab computing and communications.

Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory's Life Sciences Division, LBNL

The Ernest Orlando Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory's Life Sciences Division plays an important role in investigating the basic mechanisms of human disease. The Division has established a preeminent position in four specific areas of human disease research: coronary artery disease; the biology of breast cancer; metabolic studies of neurological diseases; and disorders of red blood cell formation. These studies entail a spectrum of disciplines: high throughput genomic sequencing; molecular cytogenetics; cellular differentiation, growth, aging, and carcinogenesis; hematopoiesis; subcellular and macromolecular structure; diagnostic and functional imaging; radiation biology; nuclear and molecular medicine; and the development of bioinstrumentation. Through the integration of these various scientific pursuits, Life Sciences Division exemplifies the interdisciplinary spirit that has been the legacy of Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.

National Center for Genome Resources

The National Center for Genome Resources serves scientists in all kinds of research settings, with all of society potentially benefiting through improved nutrition, a cleaner environment, and better medicine. Scientists who use our programs or collaborate with us choose NCGR because we provide unique opportunities for understanding data. The Center's research programs focus on genomics, biochemical pathways and gene expression.

Tennessee Mouse Genome Consortium

The Tennessee Mouse Genome Consortium is a collaboration involving researchers at seven institutions that are interested in promoting the mouse as a tool for biomedical research. Members of the ORNL Genome Analysis and System Modeling Group provide the core bioinformatics for this consortium. These resources includes MuTrack, a database-backed resource that supports tracking mice through phenotype testing in the laboratories of different experts and finding variant phenotypes.

The University of Tennessee

The University of Tennessee and the Oak Ridge National Laboratory Graduate School in Genome Science and Technology (GST) offers a unique and multidisciplinary program for full time graduate study leading to a Ph.D. or M.S. degree in the emerging new field of genome science. Postdoctoral positions are available for individuals with Ph.D., M.D., D.V.M., and D.D.S. degrees.

University of California at Santa Cruz

The Center for Biomolecular Science and Engineering at the University of California at Santa Cruz is the umbrella organization for an interdisciplinary research and education program that spans the School of Engineering and the Division of Natural Sciences. This program is intended to meet the challenges of the post-genomic era, ushered in by the completion of the Human Genome Project, and the related genome projects for model organisms. The revolutionary technologies that have recently been developed to gather and analyze genomic information will help to forge a new understanding of biology with widespread applications to medicine, agriculture, and ecology. These technologies have been made possible by developments in structural biology, engineering, and computer science, and their further advancement requires a new blend of computational analysis, micromechanical robotics, microfluidics, bioelectronic chips, imaging, and new laboratory functional genomics methods. UCSC's location, in proximity to Silicon Valley and Biotech Bay, our actively collaborating groups in molecular biology, protein and RNA biochemistry, computational biology, and the support for micro- and nanoscale engineering methods from both the older and newly emerging programs in the new School of Engineering, make this a natural research and academic focus area for this campus.

University of Pennsylvania

The Department of Genetics at the University of Pennsylvania is the administrative "home department" for several core facilities, providing a variety of services to research laboratories across the School of Medicine and other affiliated institutions. All of these facilities are co-sponsored by the School of Medicine and other individual departments and centers at the University. Several also serve as Shared Resources of the University of Pennsylvania Cancer Center.

Washington University

Research interests in the Washington University Department of Genetics include the basic molecular and developmental genetics of model eukaryotic systems such as the fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster, the nematode worm Caenorhabditis elegans, the baker's yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae, the zebrafish Danio rerio, and the house mouse Mus musculus, as well as the mapping and identification of genes responsible for important human hereditary diseases.