The Project Psyche Community
The Project Psyche community consists of over 200 people across Europe. They contribute to sampling, genome generation, analysis, outreach and many other aspects of this highly collaborative project.
The Psyche community benefits from a COST Action to pay for courses, lab exchanges, joint meetings and fieldwork trips and to ensure that our genomes benefit society and conservation.
Some people have specific roles within the Psyche community:
Leaders of Project Psyche and the sequencing hub
- Charlotte Wright (Wellcome Sanger Institute, UK)
- Joana Meier (Wellcome Sanger Institute, UK)
- Mark Blaxter (Wellcome Sanger Institute, UK)
Supported by an amazing team at the Wellcome Sanger Institute (too many to name):
- Project manager: Amy Tallentire
- Sample manager: Radka Platte
- Genome Notes: Karen Houilston
- Core lab head: Caroline Howard
- Genome assembly head: Shane McCarthy
- Genome curation head: Jo Wood
- Genome standardised analyses: Matthieu Muffato
Collection hub leaders
- Roger Vila (Institut de Biologia Evolutiva, Spain)
- Kay Lucek (University of Neuchâtel, Switzerland)
- Niklas Wahlberg (Lund University, Sweden)
- Marko Mutanen (University of Oulu, Finland)
- Claudia Bruschini (University of Florence, Italy)
- Leonardo Dapporto (University of Florence, Italy)
- Pavel Matos (Biology Centre of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic)
- Irena Klečková (Biology Centre of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic)
- Vlad Dinca (NHM, Romania)
Subhub leaders
- Joaquín Baixeras (University of Valencia, Spain)
- Antonio S. Ortiz (University of Murcia, Spain)
- Brent Emerson (IPNA-CSIC, Tenerife, Spain)
- Richard Bailey (University of Lodz, Poland)
- Erki Ounap (University of Tartu, Estonia)
- Tatiana Moreira and Eduardo Marabuto (Museu Nacional de História Natural e da Ciência, University of Lisbon)
- Peter Huemer (Tiroler Landesmuseen-Betriebsgesellschaft m.b.H., Hall in Tirol, Austria)
Sample collectors
- Many people within the Project Psyche community are collecting samples for Project Psyche. Please follow the link to see the full list on Zenodo.
Genome curators
- Zsófia Fekete (University of Oulu Finland)
- Bulah Chia-hsiang Wu (Biology Centre CAS, Czechia)
- Loukia Spilani (Instituto de Biologia Evolutiva (UPF-CSIC), Barcelona, Spain)
- Michal Rindos (Biology Centre CAS, Czechia)
- Valéria Marques (Institute of Evolutionary Biology; Pompeu Fabra University, Spain)
- Josep Lancho Silva (Institute of Evolutionary Biology (IBE), Barcelona, Spain)
- Eric Toro Delgado (Institute of Evolutionary Biology (IBE), Barcelona, Spain)
- Mattia Menchetti (Institute of Evolutionary Biology (CSIC-UPF), Spain)
- Dominik Schmitz, (Student at Freie Universität Berlin, Germany)
- Laura Torrado Blanco (Universidade da Coruña, Spain)
- Jakub Opelka, (Biology Centre CAS, Institute of Entomology, Czechia)
- Pedro Ribeiro, (Biology Center CAS, Institute of Entomology, Czechia)
- Nok Ting Lam (Samuel), (University of Oulu, Finland)
- Noémie Hévin, (CNRS, Institut des Sciences de l'Évolution de Montpellier, France)
- Héloise Muller (CNRS, France)
- Tinatin Chkhartishvili (Ilia State University, Georgia)
- Claudia Bruschini (University of Florence, Italy)
- Richard Ian Bailey (University of Lodz, Poland)
- Marcin Wiorek (Institute of Systematics and Evolution of Animals Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland
- Lorenzo Pasquali (Faculty of Biology, University of Bialystok, Poland)
- Milica Zlatkovic (Institute of Lowland Forestry and Environement (ILFE), Serbia)
- Mónica Doblas Bajo (University of Oviedo, Spain)
- Jose Vicente Pérez (Santa Rita Institut Cavanilles de Biodiversitat i Biologia Evolutiva, Universitat de València, Spain)
- Clara Cavalcanti (Botanical Institute of Barcelona, Spain)
- Paula Escuer (University of Neuchâtel, Switzerland)
- Emre Keskin (Ankara University, Turkey)
- Chung-Te (David) Cheng (University of Florida, USA)
Genome Note coordinators
- Michal Rindos (Biology Centre CAS, Czechia)
- Tinatin Chkhartishvili (Ilia State University, Georgia)
Media communications team
- Laura Torrado-Blanco (University of Coruña, Spain)
- Mónica Doblas-Bajo (University of Oviedo, Spain)
- Jenny Stewart (Queen Mary University of London, UK)
Voucher photo coordinator
- Camille Cornet (University of Neuchâtel, Switzerland)
Early career ambassador
- Marcus Hicks (Queen Mary University of London, UK)
Taxonomy group
- Jadranka Rota (Lund University, Sweden)
- Niklas Wahlberg (Lund University, Sweden)
Genome analysis standardisation
- Mark Blaxter (Wellcome Sanger Institute, UK)
- Gerhard G. Thallinger (Graz University of Technology, Austria)
- Charlotte Wright (Wellcome Sanger Institute, UK)
- Joana Meier (Wellcome Sanger Institute, UK)
- Chris Wheat (Stockholm University, Sweden)