Halmos Faculty Session Leader at International Earth Biogenome Project (EBP) Conference

This past August, Halmos faculty member Jose Lopez, Ph.D. was the session leader for the Global Invertebrate Genome Alliance/Community of Scientists (GIGA) at the broader Earth Biogenome Project (EBP) Conference. The conference session gathered experts who discussed their research and recent advances that included full genome sequencing of invertebrate taxa such as Cnidaria, Mollusks, Placozoa, and Planaria.

The annual conference was held at historic Rockefeller University in New York City and was designed to further advance the mission of the Vertebrate Genomes Project (VGP) and Earth BioGenome Project.

Additionally, for the first time during the Annual Meeting, the Earth BioGenome Project (EBP) will partner with GIGA in a joint effort to engage and integrate with other large-scale genome projects, including previous G10K partnerships with B10K, Bat1K, GAGA and GIGA for non-insect invertebrates as well as other EBP-affiliated projects. The Earth Genome Project plans to eventually sequence all 1.5 million animals, plants and protists.

For more information: https://www.earthbiogenome.org/