Jen is Co-Director and Senior Research Support Specialist in the VGL. She leads the wet-lab team in data production, protocol development, and sample coordination. She is an expert in all things sample prep to sequencing for long-read technologies and high quality genomes across a wide variety of challenging taxa.

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Giulio is Co-Director and Research Assistant Professor in the VGL. He leads the computational team in genome assembly and curation, as well as software and workflow development. He is an expert in chromosome level genome bioinformatics and has developed several methods for genome assembly, polishing, and evaluation.

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Lauren is Management and Administrative Coordinator in the VGL. Lauren implements her years of expertise to oversee VGL finances, communications, and to act as a liaison for the lab.

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Frankie is a Research Support Assistant specializing in Hi-C sequencing in the VGL. Her focus is in Hi-C and 3C methods data generation for a variety of animal samples.

Ying is a Bioinformatics Specialist at the VGL. She assembles high-quality reference genomes and improves the VGL assembly pipelines.

Mélanie is a Research Assistant and Field Biologist and Import-Export Assistant in the VGL. She implements her extensive knowledge of sample collection, import, and export permits.

Erick is a Bioinformatics Assistant II at the VGL. He focuses on the refinement of high-quality reference genomes through curation and the optimization of processing workflows.

Nivesh is a Research Support Associate II and expert in long read sequencing in the VGL. He specializes in high molecular weight DNA isolations, long read sequencing technologies such as ONT and PacBio. Nivesh uses his expertise to spearhead the lab’s sequencing R&D.

Bonhwang is a Bioinformatics Assistant at the VGL. He supports the lab in wrangling genomic data and metadata, as well as in optimizing data pre- and post-processing.

Kirsty is a Bioinformatics Assistant II at the VGL. She uses her expertise in bioinformatics to work on the curation of high-quality, chromosome level genomes and to streamline the manual curation process.

Jack is a Graduate Fellow at Rockefeller University. At the VGL, he is developing software for genome assembly annotation and is interested in the evolution of vertebrate genomes and chromosomes.

Brian is a Research Support Associate II and expert in data generation for genome assemblies in the VGL. He uses his expertise as a wildlife biologist and genomics expert to generate data for assemblies and annotations here at VGL. He is adept at sample acquisition/management and is also a budding bioinformatician.

Simona is a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Jarvis lab. Her experience spans from fieldwork to wet lab to bioinformatics.

Patrick is a Research Assistant specializing in high molecular weight DNA isolations in the VGL. He focusses in the isolation of high-quality DNA and QC from a wide variety of tissue types across species.