Organization The leader of the center is Frank Aarestrup. The Center is located on DTU Campus in Lyngby and the project management and project members come from the 2 DTU Institutes: DTU Food and DTU CBS. DTU FOOD The National Food Institute focuses on public health in relation to human nutrition, food safety, food quality, food technology, environment and health. www.food.dtu.dk DTU CBS The Center for Biological Sequence Analysis conducts basic research in the field of bioinformatics and systems biology. The group has a highly multi-disciplinary profile (molecular biologists, biochemists, medical doctors, physicists and computer scientists) with a ratio of 2:1 of bio-to-nonbio backgrounds. CBS represents one of the large bioinformatics groups in academia in Europe. www.cbs.dtu.dk Project group The leaders of the Work Packages are: WP 1. Thomas Sicheritz-Pont�n WP 2. Ole Lund WP 3. Frank Aarestrup WP 4. David Ussery WP 5. Ole Lund WP 6. Frank Aarestrup WP 7. US CDC Centers for Disease Control and prevention Advisory Board Dag Harmsen, Universit�tsklinikum M�nster, Germany Flemming Konradsen, Copenhagen University, Denmark George Weinstock, Washington University School of Medicine, USA John Besser, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, USA J�rgen Schlundt, DTU, Denmark Karen E. Nelson, J. Craig Venter Institute, USA Lars V. Pallesen, Statens Serum Institut SSI, Denmark Lone Gram, DTU, Denmark Ran Lu, CDC China, China Wolfgang Witte, Robert Koch Institute, Germany External Partners K�benhavns Universitet, Denmark Statens Serum Institut, Denmark Hvidovre Hospital, Denmark Herlev Hospital, Denmark Hiller�d Hospital, Denmark Chr. Hansen A/S, Denmark DHI, Denmark Armed Forces Health Surveillance, USA Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, USA Transnational Genomics Research Institute, USA Universit�tsklinikum M�nster, Germany Washington University School of Medicine, USA Food and Drug Administration, USA National Center for Biological Information, USA Oxford University, UK Kilimanjaro Clinical Research Institute, Moshi, Tanzania French Agency for Food, Environmental and Occupational Health & Safety, France Copyright DTU 2011 / All rights reserved Center for Genomic Epidemiology, DTU, Kemitorvet, Building 204, 2800 Kgs. Lyngby, Denmark Contact: Vibeke Dybdahl Hammer, Telephone: +45 3588 6420, E-mail: [email protected] Funded by: The Danish Council for Strategic Research