| Name | Email address | Affiliation | Role | |
| Principal Investigator | Jan Dvorák | jdvorak@ucdavis.edu | UC Davis | Overall Project management, Coordinator for Objectives 5 and 6: Genome Structure & Evolution and Outreach & Education |
| Co-Principal Investigator | Yong Qiang Gu | yong.gu@ars.usda.gov | UC Davis/USDA Albany | Coordinator for Objective 1: Sequencing |
| Co-Principal Investigator | Steven L Salzberg | salzberg@jhu.edu | Johns Hopkins U | Coordinator for Objective 2: Assembly |
| Co-Principal Investigator | Katrien M Devos | kdevos@uga.edu | U of Georgia | Coordinator for Objective 3: Annotation |
| Co-Principal Investigator | Ming-Cheng Luo | mcluo@ucdavis.edu | UC Davis | Coordinator for Objective 4: Pseudomolecule Construction & Databases |
| Co-Principal Investigator | Olin D Anderson | olin137@sbcglobal.net | UC Davis/USDA Albany | Contributor to Objective 1: Sequencing and liaison to GrainGenes (for Objectives 1, 4, and 6) |
| Collaborator | Hans-Georg Müller | hgmueller@ucdavis.edu | UC Davis | Contributor to pseudomolecule construction & databases and genome structure & evolution (Objectives 4 and 5) |
| Collaborator | Jeffrey L Bennetzen | maize@uga.edu | U of Georgia | Contributor to transposable element annotation (Objective 3) |
| Collaborator | W Richard McCombie | mccombie@cshl.edu | Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, New York | Contributor to sequence assembly (Objective 2) |
| Collaborator | Qixin Sun | sunqx@nwsuaf.edu.cn | Northwest A&F U | Contributor to sequencing (Objective 1) |
| Collaborator | Klaus FX Mayer | k.mayer@helmholtz-muenchen.de | Helmholtz Center, Munich Germany | Contributor to gene annotation (Objective 3) |
| Collaborator | Thomas Wicker | wicker@botinst.uzh.ch | U of Zurich, Switzerland | Contributor to transposable element annotation (Objective 3) |
| Collaborator | Eric Lyons | elyons@iplantcollaborative.org | Collaborator iPlant, U of Arizona | Contributor to sequence assembly and analysis with iPlant resources (Objective 2, 4, 5, and 6) |
| Collaborator | Cari Soderlund | cari@agcol.arizona.edu | U of Arizona | Contributor to SyMap database development (Objectives 4 & 6) |
| Collaborator | Frank M You | youf@agr.gc.ca | Agriculture Canada, Winnipeg | Contributor to sequence assembly, analysis and databases (Objectives 2, 4 & 5) |
| Collaborator | Zhiyong Liu | zhiyongliu@cau.edu.cn | Chinese Agricultural U | Contributor to sequencing (Objective 1) |
| Collaborator | Long Mao | maolong@caas.net.cn | Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences | Contributor to sequencing (Objective 1) |
| Collaborator | Zhengqiang Ma | zqm2@njau.edu.cn | Nanjing Agricultural U, China | Contributor to sequencing (Objective 1) |
| Collaborator | Jaroslav Dolezel | dolezel@ueb.cas.cz | InExpBot, Olomouc, Czech Republic | Contributor to pseudomolecule construction (Objective 4 & 6) |
| Collaborator | Philippe Leroy | philippe.leroy@clermont.inra.fr | INRA/UBP France | Contributor to gene annotation (Objective 3) |
| Senior staff | Karin Deal | krdeal@ucdavis.edu | UC Davis | DNA Isolation, NanoMapping (Objective 1) |
| Senior staff | Naxin Huo | nhuo@ucdavis.edu | UC Davis/USDA Albany | Sequencing (Objective 1) |
| Senior staff | Daniela Puiu | dpuiu@jhu.edu | Johns Hopkins U | Assembly (Objective 2) |
| Senior staff | Geo Pertea | gpertea@jhu.edu | Johns Hopkins U | Assembly (Objective 2) |
| Senior staff | Aleksey Zimin | alekseyz@ipst.umd.edu | U of Maryland; Johns Hopkins U | Assembly (Objective 2) |
| Senior staff | Hai Long | hailong@ucdavis.edu | UC Davis/Chengdu Institute of Biology | Genomics (Jan. 2014-Dec. 2014) |
| Senior staff | Karl Kugler | karl.kugler@helmholtz-muenchen.de | Helmholtz Center, Munich Germany | Gene annotation |
| Senior staff | Sven O. Twardziok | sven.twardziok@helmholtz-muenchen.de | Helmholtz Center, Munich Germany | Gene annotation |
| Postdoc | Yi Wang | UC Davis/USDA Albany | Bioinformatics (Sep. 2013-June 2015) |
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| Postdoc | Tingting Zhu | tngzhu@ucdavis.edu | UC Davis | Bioinformatics |
| Postdoc | Hao Wang | wanghao@uga.edu | U of Georgia | Transposable element annotation |
| Postdoc | Le Wang | lerwang@ucdavis.edu | UC Davis | Bioinformatics |
| Grad student | Xiongtao Dai | dai@ucdavis.edu | UC Davis | Statistics/bioinformatics (Current) |
| Grad student | Matthew W Dawson | mwdawson@ucdavis.edu | UC Davis | Statistics/bioinformatics (Current) |
| Grad student | Mengyuan Xiao | myxiao@ucdavis.edu | UC Davis | Genomics (Current) |
| Grad student | Zhenzhong Wang | UC Davis/China Agricultural U | Genomics, China
collaboration trainee (Jan. 2014-Aug. 2014) |
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| Grad student | Shuhong Ouyang | USDA Albany/China Agricultural U | Genomics, China
collaboration trainee (Sept. 2013-Feb. 2014) |
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| Grad student | Yong Liang | USDA Albany/China Agricultural U | Genomics, China
collaboration trainee (Apr. 2014-Mar. 2015) |
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| Project Coordinator | Patrick E McGuire | pemcguire@ucdavis.edu | UC Davis | Assistance with overall Project management |
