Partner 1.
Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research, Netherlands
Genomics Initiative (NGI/NWO) -
The Netherlands (ERA-PG Project
Coordinator)
http://www.nwo.nl/
http://www.genomics.nl/
Dr. Ir. Christine Bunthof
Coordinator and contactperson ERA-NET Plant Genomics
Programme Manager Plant Genomics (at NGI),
ERA-NET Plant Genomics executive coordinator,
ERA-PG Call Coordinator The Netherlands (for call)
ERA-PG coordinator The Netherlands, call coordinator 1st call and 2nd call
Dr. Wilma van Donselaar
Principle coordinator of ERA-PG, chair National Steering Committee
(NSC)
Ms. Brenda van der Zee
Assistant coordinator
Dr. Gionata Leone
PRI and Centre for Biosystems Genomics (CBSG)
Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) Workgroup
Prof. dr. Willem Stiekema
Centre for Biosystems Genomics (CBSG)
http://www.biosystemsgenomics.nl/
Scientific representative
Prof. Dr. Ir. Evert Jacobsen
Wageningen University and Research Centre (WUR)
Scientific representative
About the NGI
The Netherlands Genomics Initiative was established at the end
of 2001 by five Ministries (Education & Science, Economic Affairs, Agriculture,
Health, and Environment) with the objective of providing an optimum combination
of the opportunities offered by genomics research and the specific knowledge and
expertise available in the field of scientific research in the Netherlands,
with the view to setting up a genomics knowledge infrastructure on a par with
the world’s leading institutes. The Netherlands Genomics Initiative has
been given the assignment, the resources and the mandate to stimulate, facilitate
and direct the developments in this area, which implies that it plays a key
role in evaluating and rewarding initiatives. It has a budget of € 189
million with which to fund Genomics Centres of Excellence and other genomics
projects for a period of five years.
One of the awarded Centres of Excellence is the Centre for Biosystems Genomics (CBSG) in Wageningen (budget € 50 million for five years) aimed at improving the environmental and processing quality of food (products) by plant genomics research. As consortium leader this Centre plays a key role in the proposed ERA-NET for plant genomics.