Table 2 Hub laboratories of the MetaSUB International Consortium

1

Buenos Aires

Argentina

1. Genetics and Genomic Sciences; 2 Computational Biology Center; 3. Departamento de Fisica

1. Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai; 2 IBM; 3. University of Buenos Aires

Gustavo Stolovitzky^1,2/Ariel Chernonetz³

gustavo@us.ibm.com/achernomoretz@leloir.org.ar

2

Sydney

Australia

Computational Metagenomics

University of Technology

Aaron Darling/Catherine Burke

aaron.darling@uts.edu.au/Catherine.Burke@uts.edu.au

3

Vienna

Austria

Bioinformatics/Bioinformatics

Boku University Vienna/University of Applied Sciences

Paweł P. Łabaj/Alexandra Graf

pawel.labaj@boku.ac.at/alexandra.graf@fh-campuswien.ac.at

4

Ribeirão Preto

Brazil

Department of Genetics, Laboratory of Epigenomics and Bioinformatics

University of Sao Paolo

Houtan Noushmehr

houtan@usp.br

5

Rio Da Janeiro

Brazil

Oswaldo Cruz Institute

FIOCRUZ

Milton Ozorio Moraes

milton.moraes@fiocruz.br

6

São Paulo

Brazil

Medical Genomics

AC Camargo Cancer Center

Emmanuel Dias-Neto

emmanuel@cipe.accamargo.org.br

7

Santiago

Chile

Universidad del Desarrollo

Juan Ugalde

jugalde@udd.cl

8

Beijing

China

Beijing Children's Hospital/Translational Bioinformatics Research Institute

Capital Medical University/Capitalbio Corp

Yongli Guo/Yiming Zhou

ylgyongliguo@163.com/yimingzhou@capitalbio.com

9

Guangzhou

China

1. Zhongshan ophthalmic Center, Center for Precision Medicine; 2. Department of Environmental Health; 3. Division of Laboratory Medicine at Zhujiang Hospital

1. Sun Yat-sen University; 2.Southern Medical University

Zhi Xie1,1/Daisy Zheng2,2/Hongwei Zhou2,3

xiezhi@gmail.com/180553957@qq.com/811807859@qq.com

10

Hong Kong

China

School of Energy and Environment

City University of Hong Kong

Patrick K.H. Lee

patrick.kh.lee@cityu.edu.hk

11

Shanghai

China

School of Life Science

Fudan University

Leming Shi/Sibo Zhu/Anyi Tang

lemingshi@fudan.edu.cn/sibozhu@fudan.edu.cn/491269854@qq.com

12

Bogota

Colombia

Molecular Genetics

Corporación Corpogen

Carlos A. Ruiz-Perez/Maria M. Zambrano

cruiz_perez@hotmail.com/mzambrano@corpogen.org

13

Zagreb

Croatia

Department of Microbiology

University of Zagreb

Tomislav Ivanković

tomislav.ivankovic@biol.pmf.hr

14

Cairo

Egypt

Department of Biology

American University of Cairo

Rania Siam

rsiam@aucegypt.edu

15

Marseille

France

Department of Virology

Aix-Marseille University

Nicolas Rascovan

nicorasco@gmail.com

16

Paris

France

Laboratory of Computational and Quantitative Biology

Sorbonne Universite's, University Pierre et Marie Curie Univ. Paris 06, CNRS, Institut de Biologie Paris-Seine

Hugues Richard/Ingrid Lafontaine

hugues.richard@upmc.fr/ingrid.lafontaine@upmc.fr

17

Berlin

Germany

Public Health

Robert Koch Institute

Lothar H. Wieler/Torsten Semmler

wielerlh@rki.de/SemmlerT@rki.de

18

Hyderabad

India

Department of Biotechnology and Bioinformatics

University of Hyderabad/Noble Foundation/ClonzBio Tech

Niyaz Ahmed/Bharath Prithiviraj/Narasimha Nedunuri

ahmed.nizi@gmail.com/bharath.prithiviraj@gmail.com/narasimha.nedunuri@clonzbio.com

19

New Delhi

India

Computational Biology

Memorial Sloan Kettering

Sikander Hyat

hayat221@gmail.com

20

Tehran

Iran

Ecology/Medical Sciences

American Museum of Natural History/Ministry of Science

Shaadi Mehr/Kambiz Banihashemi

smehr@amnh.org/kbanihashemi@yahoo.com

21

Rome

Italy

Molecular Biology Section

Army Medical and Veterinary Research Center

Florigio Lista/Anna Anselmo

romano.lista@gmail.com/annanselm@gmail.com

22

Sendai

Japan

Institute for Advanced Biosciences

Keio University

Haruo Suzuki

haruo@sfc.keio.ac.jp

23

Tokyo

Japan

Institute for Advanced Biosciences

Keio University

Haruo Suzuki

haruo@sfc.keio.ac.jp

24

Mexico City

Mexico

National Institute of Public Health

IANPHI Mexico Secretariat

Celia M. Alpuche Aranda/Jesus Martinez

celia.alpuche@insp.mx/jmbarnet@insp.mx

25

Auckland, Hamilton and Rotorua

New Zealand

Environmental Research Institute

Univeristy of Waikato

Ayokunle Christopher Dada

cdada@waikato.ac.nz

26

Lagos

Nigeria

Microbiology

University of Lagos

Folarin Oguntoyinbo

foguntoyinbo@unilag.edu.ng

27

Oslo

Norway

Protection and Societal Security Division

Norwegian Defense Research Establishment FFI

Marius Dybwad

marius.dybwad@ffi.no

28

Lisbon

Portugal

Department of Biology, i3S Population Genetics and Evolution Group

University of Porto

Manuela Oliveira/Andreia Fernandes

manuelao@ipatimup.pt/afernandes@ipatimup.pt

29

Porto

Portugal

Department of Biology, i3S Population Genetics and Evolution Group

University of Porto

Manuela Oliveira/Andreia Fernandes

manuelao@ipatimup.pt/afernandes@ipatimup.pt

30

Doha

Qatar

Ecology/Medicine

Weill Cornell Medical College - Qatar

Aspassia D. Chatziefthimiou/Salama Chaker

a.chatziefthimiou@richenvironments.com/salama.b.chaker@gmail.com

31

Moscow

Russia

Bioinformatics

Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology, Institutskii Per. 9, Moscow Region, Dolgoprudny 141700, Russia

Dmitry Alexeev/Dmitry Chuvelev

alexeev@knomics.ru/dch@knomics.ru

32

Singapore

Singapore

Biochemistry and Molecular Biology

Pennsylvania State University

Stephan Schuster

scschuster@ntu.edu.sg

33

Johannesburg

South Africa

Data Driven Healthcare

IBM Research-Africa

Geoffrey H Siwo

gsiwo@za.ibm.com

34

Seoul

South Korea

Microbiology/Institute for Allergy and Immunology/Cancer Risk Appraisal & Prevention Branch

Institut Pasteur Korea/Korea University College of Medicine/National Cancer Center

Soojin Jang/Sung Chul Seo/Sung Ho Hwang

soojin.jang@ip-korea.org/sungchul_seo@korea.ac.kr/9954074@daum.net

35

Barcelona

Spain

Genomic and Epigenomic Variation

1. Center for Genomic Regulation (CRG), The Barcelona Institute of Science and Technology, Dr. Aiguader 88, Barcelona 08003, Spain 2. Universitate Pompeu Fabra (UPF), Barcelona, Spain

Stephan Ossowski1,2/Daniela Bezdan1,2

Stephan.Ossowski@crg.eu/bezdan.daniela@googlemail.com

36

Stockholm

Sweden

Department of Molecular Biosciences, The Wenner-Gren Institute

Stockholm University

Klas Udekwu/Per O. Lungjdahl

klas.udekwu@su.se/per.ljungdahl@su.se

37

Zurich

Switzerland

Institute of Molecular Life Sciences

University of Zurich

Olga Nikolayeva

olga.nikolayeva@gmail.com

38

Izmir

Turkey

Department of Biostatistics and Medical Informatics

Acibadem University

Ugur Sezerman

sezermanu@gmail.com

39

Sheffield

UK

Department of Animal & Plant Sciences

University of Sheffield

Eran Elhaik

e.elhaik@sheffield.ac.uk

40

Montevideo

Uruguay

Informatik

ETH Zurich

Gaston Gonnet

gonnet@ethz.ch

41

Baltimore

USA

Institute for Genome Sciences

University of Maryland School of Medicine

Emmanuel Mongodin

emongodin@som.umaryland.edu

42

Boston

USA

Biostatistics

Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health

Curtis Huttenhower

chuttenh@hsph.harvard.edu

43

Chicago

USA

Microbial Ecology

Argonne National Laboratory

Jack Gilbert

gilbertjack@uchicago.edu

44

Denver

USA

Mechanical Engineering

University of Colorado

Mark Hernandez

mark.hernandez@colorado.edu

45

Fairbanks

USA

Institute of Arctic Biology

University of Alaska Fairbanks

Elena M. Vayndorf

elena.vayndorf@alaska.edu

46

New York City

USA

Physiology and Biophysics

Weill Cornell Medicine

Christopher Mason

chm2042@med.cornell.edu

47

Sacramento

USA

Department of Ecology and Evolution

UC Davis

Jonathan Eisen

jonathan.eisen@gmail.com

48

San Francisco

USA

Department of Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences

University of California, Davis

Christopher Beitel

chris.w.beitel@gmail.com

49

Seattle

USA

Department of Genetics and Genomics

University of Washington

David Hirschberg

dhberg@uw.edu

50

Washington DC

USA

Institute for Genome Sciences

University of Maryland School of Medicine

Lynn Schriml

lschriml@som.umaryland.edu

51

London

UK

Department of Twin Research

Kings College London

Frank Kelly/Sarah Metrustry

frank.kelly@kcl.ac.uk/sarah.metrustry@kcl.ac.uk