Plant Genomics Research Unit
Unité de Recherche en Génomique Végétale - URGV

• Scientific Director: Michel Caboche
• Assistant Scientific Director: Ian Small
• Administrative Director: Arnaud Charpentier

The URGV (Unité de Recherche en Génomique Végétale), located on the Evry Genopole site 30km from Paris, is a recently established unit specialising in Plant Genomics supported by INRA, CNRS and Evry University. The URGV occupies 1000 square metres of laboratories in the same buildings as the Genoscope and the CNG (Centre National de Génotypage). The URGV is fully equipped for high-throughput projects (robots, microarray facilites etc.) and has close contacts with the Genoscope and the CNG for large-scale sequencing and genotyping projects. The major goal of the URGV is to develop and apply modern genomics approaches to the study of plants.