The URGV, located on the Evry Genopole site 30 km south 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 Centre National de Séquençage (CNS) and the Centre National de Génotypage (CNG). The URGV is fully equipped for high-throughput projects (robots, microarray facilities, etc.) and has close contact with the CNS 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.

The research work is divided into four principal areas:

Genome Organization Comparative Genomics
OEPG - Organization and Evolution of Plant Genomes		 Boulos Chalhoub
  Grapevine and Forest Trees Genomics Anne Françoise Adam- Blondon
Patricia Faivre Rampant
  Poplar and Oak joined in Dec 2008 with
Grapevine and Forest Trees Genomics		  
Functional Genomics Crop Genomics Abdel Ihafid Bendahmane
Christian Clepet
Bénédicte Sturbois
  Arabidopsis Functional Genomics Claire Lurin
Jean Pierre Renou
  Gene Function and Transcriptome joined in 2009 to
Arabidopsis Functional Genomics		  
Proteomics Phosphoproteomics Heribert Hirt
  Protein Kinases Heribert Hirt
Bioinformatics Bioinformatics for Predictive Genomics Alain Lecharny
Sébastien Aubourg