INFECTIGEN | Association for the study of infection genetics

Association pour l’étude de la génétique des Infections

Infectigen brings together members of the scientific community of the Lemanic region with an interest on host and pathogen genetics and genomics. Infectigen receives funding from the Leenaards Foundation and the Jeantet Foundation.

Direction:

Amalio TELENTI
Institute of Microbiology / CHUV / UNIL – President

Didier TRONO
School of Life Sciences / EPFL

Stylianos ANTONARAKIS
Medical Genetics & Development / UNIGE

Jacques SCHRENZEL
Laboratory of Bacteriology and Genomics / HCUG

Philippe MOREILLON
Dpt of Fundamental Microbiology / UNIL

Technical Platforms: Infectigen supports the high-throughput genotyping platform at the “Frontiers in Genetics” genomics facility in Geneva.

Call for Proposals: Infectigen funds innovative interdisciplinary research in the following fields:

• Pathogen genome analysis, new genomes.
• Human whole genome association analysis in the investigation of human susceptibility to infectious diseases.
• Large-scale pharmacogenetic analyses of anti-infective agents.
• Development of bioinformatic, statistical, mathematical and bio-engineering tools and solutions for the analysis of genomes, and genome scans/association analysis data.
• Evolutionary genetics and genomics, co-evolution of host and pathogen genes.

Funding level:
Funding is provided for one year, and up to CHF 100'000 (seed funds).

Five projects awarded by infectigen for the year 2009

Contacts:

Infectigen
c/o Institute of Microbiology
CHUV
1011 Lausanne, Switzerland

email: Brigitte Lefebvre