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 - Round 1 (RFA-RM-23-018)

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

Tools/Methods - Round 2 (RFA-RM-24-009)

Computational methods for benchmarking and development of best practices for virus discovery and characterization in the HVP consortium (RePORTER Link)

  • Park, Daniel, PhD — Broad Institute

Function-based annotation and classification of uncharacterized eukaryotic viruses in the human virome (RePORTER Link)

  • Gilbert, Wendy, PhD — Yale University
  • Thoreen, Carson, PhD — Yale University

Developing computational, experimental and ecological approaches to study integrated phages and their hosts (RePORTER Link)

  • Bhatt, Ami, MD, PhD — Stanford University

Hiding in plain sight: integrating AI with targeted bench methods to discover and characterize viruses in the human body (RePORTER Link)

  • Kauffman, Kathryn, PhD — State University of New York at Buffalo
  • Kelly, Libusha, PhD — Albert Einstein College of Medicine

Leveraging primary cell and organoid culture to identify and map the human virome (RePORTER Link)

  • Foxman, Ellen, PhD — Yale University

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

BerkeleyLab
Broad
Caltech
HarvardTHChan
Michigan
NorthShore
PennMedicine
SloanKettering
Stanford
UCDavis
UCSF
UMD
UNC
UtahMedicine
Vanderbilt
Washington