Droparcon - the Drosophila Parasitoids Consortium

Drosophila parasitoids are important model species for ecological and evolutionary research, which will benefit from the availability of good quality genomic data. The Drosophila Parasitoids Consortium (Droparcon) aims to sequence, assemble, annotate and analyse the genomes of Drosophila parasitoids. By coordinating the on-going Drosophila parasitoid genome sequencing efforts, Droparcon will be able to move the field a step forward. Our focus is currently on Leptopilina and Asobara, two of the most researched Drosophila parasitoid genera.

Droparcon is a collaboration between

• ​Evolutionary Genetics • Rijksuniversiteit Groningen (RUG) • the Netherlands.
• ​Genetics and Evolution of Host-Parasite Interactions • Laboratory of Biometry and Evolutionary Biology • Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1 (UCBL) • France
• ​Genomics Coordination Center • University Medical Centre Groningen (UMCG) • the Netherlands.
• ​Laboratory of Genetics • Wageningen University (WUR) • the Netherlands.
• ​Leiden Genome Technology Center (LGTC) • the Netherlands.
• ​Department of Ecology and Evolution • The University of Lausanne (UL) • Switzerland.

Droparcon is funded by generous support from NWO, NGI, CNRS and a Van Gogh grant for French-Dutch collaboration to Fabrice Vavre and Bart Pannebakker.

Steering group:

• ​Bart Pannebakker • WUR
• ​Bregje Wertheim • RUG
• ​Fabrice Vavre • UCBL
• ​Julien Varaldi • UCBL
• ​Louis van de Zande • RUG
• ​Ken Kraaijeveld • LGTC
• Pieter Neerincx • UMCG

Members:

• Adil El Filali • LBBE
• Ammerins de Haan • RUG
• Anastasia Gardiner • LBBE
• David Monnin • LBBE
• Elzemiek Geuverink • RUG
• Eveline Verhulst • RUG
• Natacha Kremer • LBBE
• Tanja Schwander • UL
• Vicencio Oostra • WUR
• Wen-Juan Ma • RUG