The Psyche community consists of over 100 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 Sanger (too many to name):
- Project manager: Lora Downes
- 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
- 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 Slamova (Biology Centre of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic)
- Vlad Dinca (NHM, Romania)
- 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)
- María Luisa Martínez Martínez (Universidade da Coruña, Spain)
– 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)
– Trait database coordination
- Michal Rindos (Biology Centre CAS, Czechia)
- Mathieu Joron (CNRS, France)