Welcome to 3CPG

The Cornell Center for Comparative and Population Genomics (3CPG) is an interdisciplinary center whose mission includes fostering research, education, and outreach in comparative and population genomics at Cornell University. The center currently has 40 affiliated faculty members from 13 departments and four colleges at Cornell. These faculty have interests spanning the basic and applied sciences and applications in agriculture, medicine, and environmental science, but they share a commitment to a comparative and evolutionary genomic approach to the study of living systems.

3CPG serves as a key source of communication and collaboration to faculty, staff, students and postdocs across campus, and also hosts an outstanding 3CPG Seminar Series each year.  To receive emails regarding seminars, workshops, resources, and news relevant to comparative and population genomics at Cornell (including those in other seminar series on campus), email Evolgen_Seminars-L-request@cornell.edu with a blank subject line and the single word “join” in the body of the message.

Courses: 3CPG helps coordinate and communicate information about undergraduate and graduate courses across campus relevant to those interested in comparative, population and evolutionary genomics. An updated list of courses is available here as a PDF. 3CPG_CourseList_1-20-2024

Workshops: 3CPG supports the Cornell Bioinformatics Facility offerings of excellent short workshops including an introduction to the Linux computing environment, use of the BioHPC Cloud, analyzing next generation sequence data, RNA-Seq data analysis, genome annotation and sequence based gene function prediction, etc. A list of upcoming and past workshops is available here. We welcome suggestions for future workshops – feel free to contact us.

Genome Science at Cornell: In addition to comparative and population genomics, Cornell has broad strengths in genomics, including functional, medical, vertebrate, invertebrate, microbial and plant genomics. Read more at our Genomics at Cornell webpage.

Administration:  Director: Charles “Chip” Aquadro; Associate Director: Andrew G Clark; Executive Committee:  Charles Danko, Philipp Messer, and Nina Therkildsen,