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The Consortium for Comparative Genomics is a multi-departmental and multi-institution initiative to develop genomics research in the Colorado region.
The Consortium is a collaborative computational and intellectual infrastructure and is building next-generation sequencing capability and technical support. It also promotes the use of these core facilities to assist attracting faculty in Comparative Genomics among participating departments.
The Consortium has just purchased and installed a Roche/454 FLX next-generation high-throughput sequencing machine in December 2007, and will be running user samples in mid-January 2008. Our target pricing point for Consortium members is $9000 per plate (may change without notice). Limited joint funding for collection of preliminary data is also possible.
The Consortium has obtained funding from the Dean of the University of Colorado School of Medicine, the University of Colorado Cancer Center, the Diabetes and Endocrinology Research Center, and the UC Boulder Departments of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology, Chemistry and Biochemistry, and Psychology, and the Colorado Initiative in Molecular Biotechnology and Graduate School (Vice Chancellor for Research). We are actively seeking additional consortium members and matching funds to allow further purchase of equipment and for technical and computational operations, and have had expressions of interest from faculty at Colorado State University Fort Collins, the University of Wyoming, the University of Texas Arlington, and Louisiana State University.
Please contact David Pollock for further information on pricing, colloboration, project development, and institutional or individual membership. We would like to know as soon as you are even thinking you might want to do a project. We are also actively seeking individuals to serve as computational biology directors and consultants.
We will be advertising shortly for PhD-level positions in molecular genetics/genomics, and computational biology/bioinformatics, or some combination. We will especially encourage applicants with experience and ambition towards publication and grants acquisition to develop or maintain a personal research program in addition to collaborative research. Please contact David Pollock.
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