Funding

The GSC was launched in 2005 with funding from NIEeS and a NERC International Opportunities Award called “‘Cataloguing our Complete Genome Collection” NE/3521773/1 2005-2008 and NERC granted further funding to build essential infrastructure NE/D01252X/1. Funding from NSF in the form of a Research Co-ordination Network RCN4GSC is further supporting knowledge exchange between GSC members and external communities, exchange visits of early career scientists to tackle GSC implementation projects, and helped launch the GSC’s Developer Group and the Biodiversity Working Group. The DOE has also now given funds to support the earliest stages of the development of the vision for the M5 project.

While the vast majority of GSC efforts are contributed on a volunteer basis by a wide range of participants, the GSC gratefully acknowledges our generous sponsors for each of the GSC annual meetings.

GSC Sponsorship

The GSC always has annual sponsorship opportunities. Usually, there are three levels of sponsorship – Platinum, Gold and Silver, each with specific benefits for the sponsor, but we are also happy to discuss bespoke levels of support. Please contact us for more information.

Corporate Sponsors

The GSC thanks and acknowledges the support of our previous corporate sponsors.

GSC23 (2023) Meeting Sponsors:

GSC22 (2022) Meeting Sponsors:
Pineapple Platinum Sponsors: GenapSys, Illumina, Innovaprep, Zymo Research GOLD Sponsors: New England BioLabs, PacBio Silver Sponsor: QIAGEN

GSC21 Meeting Sponsors: GOLD Sponsors: Universitat Wien - Computational Life Sciences, QIAGEN Titanium Sponsors: PHASE Genomics Bronze Sponsor: International Society for Microbial Ecology ISME

GSC20 Meeting Sponsors Platinum Sponsor: Zymo Research Silver Sponsor: Illumina

Prior Meeting Sponsorships

454 Life Sciences
(BGI)
Biomatters
CLCbio
Digibio
EdgeBio
Eppendorf
LifeTechnologies
LuxBio

GSC Meeting Hosts

The GSC acknowledges the support of the following institutions and companies which have hosted and/or supported GSC Meetings :

NIeES at the University of Cambridge, UK (GSC1 and 3)
European Bioinformatics Institute, Hinxton, UK (GSC2, 4, 5, 6)
UCSD (GSC 7), DOE Joint Genome Institute (JGI) (GSC8, GSC17)
J. Craig Venter Institute (JCVI) (GSC9)
Argonne National Laboratory (ANL) (GSC10)
Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Hinxton UK (GSC11)
Max Planck Institute Bremen, Germany (GSC12)
BGI Shenzen, China (GSC13), Oxford University (GSC14, GSC16)
National Institute of Health, (NIH), Bethesda, MD (GSC15)
Hellenic Center for Marine Research, Crete, Greece (GSC18)
University of Queensland, Australian Centre for Ecogenomics (GSC19)
University of California San Diego, Center for Microbiome Innovation (GSC20)
University of Vienna, Austria (GSC21)
Berkeley University’s Gump Research Station and CRIOBE - Center for Insular Research and Observatory of the Environment, Moorea, French Polynesia (GSC22).
Siriraj Hospital Mahidol University and the National Center for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology in Bangkok, Thailand. (GSC23)