Nematode Net

Financial support for parasitic nematode EST sequencing at the Washington University Genome Sequencing Center is provided by:

Scientists at the Genome Sequencing Center (GSC) at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis have received a four-year, $2 million National Institutes of Health (NIH) grant to study the genetics of two groups of parasitic roundworms, ascaris and hookworm. - May 25, 2004.

Washington University School of Medicine press release

NIH-NIAID research grant AI46593 "A Genomic Approach to Parasites from the Phylum Nematoda" to PI Robert Waterston, M.D., Ph.D. Provides support for 125,000 ESTs from ~12 species, March 2000 - March 2003

National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease
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NSF Plant Genome Award 0077503 "Genomic Dissection of a Nematode-Plant Interaction: a Tool to Study Plant Biology" to PI David Bird, Ph.D., and co-PI Sandy Clifton, Ph.D. Provides support for 80,000 ESTs from Meloidogyne species, November 2000 - November 2003.

National Science Foundation Plant Genome Research
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Max-Planck-Institut, Germany. Contract for 15,000 ESTs from Pristionchus pacificus in collaboration with Ralf Sommer, Ph.D. 1999-2001.

Max-Planck-Institut für Entwicklungsbiologie, Tubingen, Germany

British Medical Research Council, UK. Contract for ~10,000 ESTs from Strongyloides ratti in collaboration with Mark Viney, Ph.D., 2001.

British Medical Research Council
University of Bristol, Viney Lab

James McCarter, M.D., Ph.D., Postdoctoral Fellow and Group Leader for Parasitic Nematode Sequencing at the GSC is supported by:

Merck Fellowship of the Helen Hay Whitney Foundation, April 1999 - March 2002.

Helen Hay Whitney Foundation, New York

N.I.H. National Human Genome Research Institute Fellowship, November 1998 - March 1999.

N.I.H. National Human Genome Research Institute

Support for nematode sequencing at Edinburgh University and Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute is provided by the Wellcome Trust.

Wellcome Trust