Cooperation

From the very beginning, the Laboratory met the best world standards. It was our team that was chosen to create the Northern Eurasia Scientific Centre in GENOGRAHIC largest international project (National Geographic Society «The Genographic project" (2005-2014). The purpose of the project was to establish a virtual museum of the human gene pool and history. The project involved 10 scientific centers worldwide, covering the population of the inhabited world. Our Northern Eurasia Center studied the indigenous population of the vast region of the former USSR and its neighbors. Markers of mitochondrial DNA and Y-chromosome, and in the «GENOGRAPHIC-2» project – by wide-genome autosomal markers, did the research.

The Laboratory created unique databases and cartographic analysis technologies that allowed us to participate actively in global cooperation not only in the field of DNA-collections and their genotyping creating, but also in analytical fields. The team effectively cooperates with a wide range of specialists from different countries and different fields of human sciences - population genetics, molecular genetics, anthropology, archeology, linguistics, history, ethnology, paleogeography and cartography as part of extensive interdisciplinary researches.

We are constantly expanding international cooperation with the global leading genetic centers, such as Max Planck Society for Human History Institute (Germany), Sanger Institute (Great Britain), Geogenetics Center of Copenhagen University (Denmark), Fudan University (China), Harvard Medical School in Boston (USA ), Estonian Biocenter, National Center for Biotechnology of the Republic of Kazakhstan, the University of La Verne, Department of Biology, (USA), Australian Center for the Study of Ancient DNA, University Pompeu Fabra (Spain), the Medical University of Bergen (Norway), the Department of Archeology and Anthropology, University of Cambridge (UK), the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, the University of Arizona (USA) and others. This ensures the Laboratory’s participation in major international research and allows scheduling the tactics of work to be at the forefront of the world science.

Russian teams cooperate most closely with the Genomic Geography Laboratory of the Institute of General Genetics of the Russian Academy of Science. They also carry out the joint work with St. Petersburg University (Russian Genomes project), Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology, Department of Genetics, Kazan University, Kemerovo University, Kuban Medical University and other scientific organizations.

The Russian Foundation of Basic Research, as well as the Russian Humanitarian Scientific Foundation and the Russian Scientific Foundation Laboratory have supported the research of the Laboratory by 56 grants. Since 2017, the team has been participating in the DNA-Identification program of the Union State. This program aims to cover all populations in the territory of the Union State (Russia and Belarus) with the research by highly informative markers associated with certain features of a person’s appearance and his/her ethno-geographical origin.

The Laboratory is engaged in active social and educational work with young scientists as part of numerous annual internships organized on its research base for teaching modern methods of work with collections, practices of biobanking, genotyping, phylogeographic and gene geographic analysis. These internships become the basis for theses, candidate and doctoral theses performed by researchers in their organizations in various regions of Russia and neighboring countries. More than 50 young scientists from different regions and countries have received such training, for example: Adygea, Armenia, Arkhangelsk region, Bashkortostan, Belgorod region, Dagestan, Kazakhstan, Kemerovo region, Kirgizia, the Crimea, Lithuania, Macedonia, Mongolia, Mordovia, Novosibirsk region, Rostov-on-Don, Tyva, Udmurtia, Uzbekistan, Ukraine, Khabarovsk Territory, Chita Region, Chuvashia, Sri Lanka.