If you are interested in organizing a local group of scientist volunteers, please follow these three easy steps:
Location: State of New York
Organizers: Nadia Khan, PhD. Postdoctoral Fellow in Neuroscience at Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai & Alexandria Trujillo, PhD (Pharmacology and Toxicology)
Contacts: nadiankhan1@gmail.com; alexandriajtrujillo@gmail.com; volunteer sign-up form HERE.
Location: University of Wisconsin-Madison; Madison, Wisconsin
Organizers: Nicole Piscopo, Graduate Research Fellow in Biomedical Engineering & Katie Mueller, Graduate Research Fellow in Cellular and Molecular Biology (both University of Wisconsin-Madison)
Contacts: npiscopo@wisc.edu; kmueller22@wisc.edu; volunteer sign-up form HERE.
Location: Broad Institute; Cambridge, MA
Organizers: Tatiana Mansurova, Project Coordinator at Broad Institute
Contacts: tatiana@broadinstitute.org, volunteer sign-up form HERE.
Location: Amherst, MA at the University of Massachusetts Amherst
Organizers: Peter Reinhart
Contacts: phr@umass.edu, volunteer sign-up form [HERE]
Website: https://www.umass.edu/ials/covid19
Location: Storrs, CT at University of Connecticut
Organizers: Katherine Morris, Mateo Escobar, Ashely G. Benítez, Alex Trouern-Trend
Contacts: Katharine_225@yahoo.com, mescobar2798@gmail.com, ashley.benitez1@gmail.com, geneticatt@gmail.com
Location: Houston, TX and Slack (htx-covid.slack.com)
Organizers: Emily Reiser & Will Clifton (Enventure)
Contacts: Tracy.faustermann@gmail.com (Tracy Faustermann)
Location: Orange County, CA
Organizers: Theresa Loveless, PhD. Postdoctoral Fellow, Biomedical Engineering & Katrine Whiteson, PhD, Assistant Professor, Molecular Biology and Biochemistry
Contacts: tberens@gmail.com, katrine@uci.edu; volunteer sign-up form HERE
Location: Columbia University
Organizers: Ken Olive (Faculty Advisor), Natalie Steinemann (Chief Project Officer), Miles Richardson (Chief Operation Officer)
Contacts: “Chiara Bertipaglia (Social Media Manager) at columbiaresearcherscovid19@gmail.com; Columbia Researchers Against Coronavirus
Note: group membership is restricted to Columbia University affiliates, but collaboration proposals are being accepted from outside groups
Location: Washington, DC/Georgetown University
Organizers: Michael Parker PhD (Assistant Dean), Alexandra Mushegian PhD (Postdoctoral Fellow), & Zeeba Manavi MS (Research Assistant/Prospective Graduate Student)
Contacts: michael.parker@georgetown.edu (Michael Parker), amushegian@gmail.com (Sasha Mushegian),zm114@georgetown.edu (Zeeba Manavi)
Location: Rochester, NY
Organizers: Derek Crowe (University of Rochester)
Contacts: dcrowe13@gmail.com (Derek Crowe)
Location: San Diego, Grassroots movement of researchers from University of California San Diego, Salk, Scripps, Sanford-Burnham, San Diego State University
Organizers: Gene Yeo, PhD MBA. Professor of Cellular and Molecular Medicine, UCSD & Stefan Aigner, PhD, Project Scientist Yeo Lab.
Volunteer sign-up form HERE
Organizers: Christina Van, PhD, Scientist at biotech, & Amy Strasner, PhD, Scientist at biotech
Contacts: christina_van@att.net and astras10@gmail.com
Location: Canada
Organizers: Guillaume Bourque, PhD, Professor, McGill University & Tara Moriarty, PhD, Associate Professor, University of Toronto
Contacts: https://covid19resources.ca/
Location: State of Florida
Organizers: Vincent Law, Senior Research Associate in Neuro-Oncology at H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center & Research Institute
Contacts and volunteer sign up: nsvd@floridataskforce.com