Introduction

     In 1992, the National Center for Gene Research (NCGR) was established jointly by the Ministry of Science and Technology, the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), and the Shanghai local government to provide a major focus in China for mapping and sequencing the rice genome, and genomes of other organisms.

    Since 1998 NCGR has been a member of the International Rice Genome Sequencing Project (IRGSP) to completely sequence the entire rice japonica genome. NCGR has been fully working on the chromosome 4 sequencing in close collaboration with the IRGSP members, the Chinese National Human Genome Center at Shanghai , and Institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology of CAS.

    NCGR has a staff size of 42, consists of three research groups: Sequencing Department, Large Scale Platform, Bioinformatics Department. And over 50 million base pairs of rice genomic DNA sequences are now in the public database.

Current status of NCGR

STAFF

1 ） Director

Bin Han

2 ） Sequencing Department

Qi Feng Head of Sequencing Department

Qijun Weng, Yiqi Lu, Yang Yuan, Zhen Yu, Danlin Fan, Juan Yang, Jie Mu, Yunyun Zou, Yingying Shangguan

3 ） Large Scale Platform

Shuliang Yu Head of Large Scale Platform

Xiaohui Liu, Yuchen Huang, Tingting Lu, Ying Li, Zheng Yan

4 ） Bioinformatics Department

Yujun Zhang Head of Bioinformatics Department

A ） System: Kai Ying

B ） Data Analysis: Qiang Zhao, Yu Zhang, Lei Zhang, Xiaolei Liang, Ji Zhang, Tao Huang

C ） Genomic Analysis: Yilei Liu, Jingjie Zhu, Jianping Guan, Yiwen Yan

5 ） PhD student

Ying Lu, Peixin Jia, Hao Hu, Yongrui Wu, Tongguo Sun, Wenhuo Hu, Chenxi Gao, Bo Chen, Xingnan Zheng, Xilin Liu, Lu Wang, Hui Liu, Ahong Wang, Guojun Lu, Zhenyu Gao

•  Office:

Jingru Shao administrative assistant/secretary

Qing Chen, Lizhen Zheng

•  Visiting Reserchers

Wei Zhou Ruijin Hospital

Shengchuan Dai Ruijin Hospital

Ming Chen East China Normal University

Haiyan Lin National Key Laboratory of Crop Genetic In Improvement

Hongji Zhang Zhejiang Academy of Agricultural Sciences (ZAAS)

Guo Huang Zhejiang Academy of Agricultural Sciences (ZAAS)

Rongrong Yang Zhejiang Academy of Agricultural Sciences (ZAAS)

8 ） Former Staff

A ） Researchers

Xin Hu, Zhaoqing Jin, Kai Wang, Tingjie Tong, Mei Wu, Yesheng Tang, Yueqing Zhang, Yilin Yu, Runquan Zhang, Jia Zhu, Lei Zhang, Pei Hao, Yuemin Qian, Ling Chen, Danqi Wen

B ） PhD students

Can Li, Tao Li, Rong Wang, Haiyan Lei, Bo Zhou, Zehua Chen, Xianliang Zhang, Wenhui Zhao ,Yu Zhang