Our Mission

Sudhir Kumar
Laura H. Carnell Professor

Our mission is to harness molecular evolutionary knowledge and tools to advance research and for product development in biomedicine to biodiversity. We are accomplishing this mission by making fundamental discoveries, developing informatics resources, and training the next generation of young scientists.

Come, join us!

DID YOU KNOW? that iGEM faculty serve on the MBE editorial board?

DID YOU KNOW? that iGEM faculty have created the myPEG web resource?

DID YOU KNOW? that iGEM faculty have created the HyPhy software package?

DID YOU KNOW? that iGEM graduate students have received NSF research awards?

DID YOU KNOW? that iGEM faculty are among the members of the NAS?

DID YOU KNOW? that iGEM faculty have created the TimeTree web resource?

DID YOU KNOW? that iGEM faculty have created the datamonkey web resource?

DID YOU KNOW? that iGEM faculty offer graduate training in evolutionary medicine, population genetics, and genomic epidemiology?

DID YOU KNOW? that iGEM faculty serve on the Malaria Journal editorial board?

DID YOU KNOW? that iGEM faculty have created the MEGA software package?

DID YOU KNOW? that iGEM faculty are among the AAAS fellows?

DID YOU KNOW? that iGEM faculty are among the members of the AAAS?

DID YOU KNOW? that iGEM core faculty have been collectively cited over 430,000 times?

DID YOU KNOW? that iGEM faculty have created the FlyExpress web resource?

DID YOU KNOW? that iGEM faculty serve on the PLoS Computational Biology editorial board?

DID YOU KNOW? that iGEM offers an undergraduate certificate in genome medicine?

DID YOU KNOW? that iGEM is spearheading the Temple Genomics and Analytics Collaborative?

DID YOU KNOW? that iGEM students have received Temple's MARC undergraduate research award?

DID YOU KNOW? that iGEM faculty have created the flyDivas web resource?

DID YOU KNOW? that iGEM hosts several diverse genomic compute environments?