Our Projects
Virome Characterization Centers
Penn VCC: The Oro-Respiratory-Gut Virome Axis Over Space and Time (RePORTER Link)
- Collman, Ronald G., MD — University of Pennsylvania
- Bushman, Frederic D., PhD — University of Pennsylvania
BROAD VCC: Virome Investigation in Diverse Human Populations (RePORTER Link)
- Sabeti, Pardis Christine, MD, D.Phil — Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard
- Wang, Dong — Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard
Vanderbilt VCC: Vanderbilt-coordinated human Virome Collaborative Center (V2C2) (RePORTER Link)
- Das, Suman Ranjan, PhD — Vanderbilt University
- Fisher-Hoch, Susan P., MD — University of Texas Health Science Center
- North, Kari E., PhD — University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
- Shah, Ravi, MD — Vanderbilt University Medical Center
STANFORD VCC: VAST Center: Viromes Across Space(s) and Time (RePORTER Link)
- Snyder, Michael P., PhD — Stanford University
- Bhatt, Ami Siddharth, MD, PhD — Stanford University
- Mason, Christopher Edward — Weill Cornell Medicine
UCLA VCC: Human Virome Characterization Center for the Oral-Gut-Brain Axis (RePORTER Link)
- Kapila, Yvonne L., DDS, MD — University of California, Los Angeles
- Cerhan, James R., MD, PhD — Mayo Clinic
- Lajonchere, Clara M — University of California, Los Angeles
- Lee, Janice S, DDS, MD — NIH/NIDCR
- Petrosino, Joseph Frank, PhD — Baylor College of Medicine
Functional Studies
Dynamic changes in virome-host interactions during pregnancy and postpartum (RePORTER Link)
- Wylie, Kristine M., PhD — Washington University
- Ernst, Linda M., MD — NorthShore University HealthSystem
- Stout, Molly, MD — University of Michigan
The Human DNA virome: from petabase scale to single-cell resolution (RePORTER Link)
- Lareau, Caleb Andrew, PhD — Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
Antibody targeting of the virome (RePORTER Link)
- Round, June Louise, PhD — University of Utah
- Stephens, W. Zac, PhD — University of Utah
Whole Body Deep Tissue Characterization of the Human Virome (RePORTER Link)
- Henrich, Timothy Jensen, MD — University of California, San Francisco
- Tseng, Zian H., MD — University of California, San Francisco
Functional characterization of viral-bacterial-human interactions during antimicrobial and inflammatory perturbations across different lifespans (RePORTER Link)
- Dantas, Gautam, PhD — Washington University
- Baldridge, Megan T, MD, PhD — Washington University
Tools/Methods
Computational tools for illuminating the dark matter of the human virome (RePORTER Link)
- Mcdermott, Jason Edward, PhD — Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
- Wheeler, Travis John, PhD — University of Arizona
Concentration and single virion analysis of the virome (RePORTER Link)
- Dittmer, Dirk P., PhD — University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Advanced analytics for uncovering virus dynamics and functional potential (RePORTER Link)
- Kyrpides, Nikos C., PhD — Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Establishing laboratory methods for quantitative recovery of diverse DNA and RNA viral sequences from human biosamples (RePORTER Link)
- Emerson, Joanne, PhD — University of California, Davis
Viral MEM: Viral Enrichment and Precise Stochastic Quantification with Microbial Context Preservation for Rigorous Virome Analysis of Challenging Human Samples (RePORTER Link)
- Ismagilov, Rustem F., PhD — California Institute of Technology
Data Coordination Center
A consortium facilitation, coordination, and data management center for the HVP (RePORTER Link)
- White, Owen R., PhD — University of Maryland, Baltimore
- Huttenhower, Curtis, PhD — Harvard University
Affiliates