Oliver Ryder

Oliver Ryder

Zoological Society of San Diego
Dr. Oliver Ryder serves San Diego Zoo Wildlife Alliance as the Kleberg Endowed Director of Conservation Genetics. He oversees research activities in the areas of molecular genetics, genomic studies, and genetic rescue efforts, including stem cell applications – all focused on reducing extinction risk and contributing to species recovery and sustainable populations. He guides the strategic development of efforts to develop and expand a global network of cryobanking facilities, especially for viable tissue culture cells.

Interests

  • Conservation biology, genetics, advocacy, and education

Education

  • Ph.D. in Biology
    University of California, San Diego
  • B.S. in Biology
    University of California, Riverside

Publications

G Formenti, DE Absolon, LAL Abueg, F Ackerman, FO Al-Ajli, A Aleixo, A Antunes, D Arcila, J-N Audet, JR Balacco, AJS Beavan, K Belov, R Betancur-R, SL Bidwell, MT Biegler, I Bista, M Blaxter, K Boyer, I Braasch, IR Bradbury, N Brajuka, AM Bronikowski, T Brown, G Butler, S Cao, E Charvel, Y Chen, C Ciofi, HM Clawson, JC Collins, S Correard, S Corrigan, M Couture, AJ Crawford, ND D’Alessandre, HB da Conceicao, RR da Fonseca, M Daigavane, J Dalapicolla, M de Bruyn, E de Jong, DN De Panis, HW Detrich III, C DeWeese Scott, M Diekhans, E Duarte, R Durbin, M Escalona, M Eschenbrenner, O Fedrigo, J Fenn, P Flannery, N Forde, SM Gable, PA Galante, R Ganesan, A Gardiner, E Garrison, NJ Gemmell, MTP Gilbert, F Giudicelli, TM Gonçalves, GDA Guardia, A Guarracino, A Gupta, B Haase, D Hays, G Hickey, M Hiller, PM Hime, CJ Hogg, KM Horan, K Howe, D Jackson, N Jain, L Kang, S Kliver, Byung June Ko, K-P Koepfli, A Komissarov, LM Komoroske, B Koo, S Koren, J Korlach, I Kovacic, K Krasheninnikova, LF Kuderna, RA Langlois, D Lariviere, DM Larkin, C Lee, YH Lee, HA Lewin, D Lim, RN Lou, SS Mak, Kateryna Makova, Ph.D., L Marín-Gual, T Marques-Bonet, FJ Martin, TC Mathers, CJ Mazzoni, K McCaffrey, SA McCarthy, JA Medico, RLV Mercuri, A Meyer, P Michalak, S Mirarab, PA Morin, J Mountcastle, RW Murphy, TD Murphy, EW Myers, GJ Naylor, T Near, Anton Nekrutenko, Z Ning, BJ Novak, MF O’Brien, MJ O’Connell, BP O’Toole, S Paez, B Paten, M Paulini, SE Pelan, M Pennell, AR Pfenning, Adam M. Phillippy, B Pinto, M Pippel, M Popova, M Prylutskyi, A Rhie, H Roest Crollius, A Ruiz-Herrera, O Ryder, Y Safonova, CA Santos, MC Schatz, S Secomandi, HB Shaffer, L Shalmiyev, B Shapiro, JJ Smith, M Sollitto, CG Sotero-Caio, CC Steiner, PH Sudmant, DJ Sweeney, SC Talbot, CH Taylor, EC Teeling, F Thibaud-Nissen, T Tilley, N Timoshevskaya, P Traore, Y Turakhia, M Uliano-Silva, C Venditti, B Venkatesh, SC Vernes, WC Warren, CV Whelan, Melissa A. Wilson Sayres, S Winkler, JM Wood, G Zhang, G Zhao, ED Jarvis, the Vertebrate Genomes Project Consortium Phase I (2026). The Vertebrate Genomes Project Phase I: A global reference genome resource. BIORXIV.
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D Yoo, A Rhie, P Hebbar, F Antonacci, GA Logsdon, SJ Solar, D Antipov, BD Pickett, Y Safonova, F Montinaro, Y Luo, J Malukiewicz, JM Storer, J Lin, AN Sequeira, RJ Mangan, G Hickey, GM Anez, P Balachandran, A Bankevich, CR Beck, A Biddanda, M Borchers, GG Bouffard, E Brannan, SY Brooks, L Carbone, Laura Carrel, AP Chan, J Crawford, M Diekhans, E Engelbrecht, C Feschotte, G Formenti, GH Garcia, L de Gennaro, D Gilbert, RE Green, A Guarracino, I Gupta, D Haddad, J Han, Robert Harris, GA Hartley, WT Harvey, M Hiller, K Hoekzema, ML Houck, H Jeong, Kaivan Kamali, M Kellis, B Kille, C Lee, Y Lee, W Lees, AP Lewis, Q Li, M Loftus, YHE Loh, H Loucks, J Ma, Y Mao, JFI Martinez, P Masterson, RC McCoy, Barb McGrath, S McKinney, BS Meyer, KH Miga, Saswat Kumar Mohanty, KM Munson, Karol Pal, M Pennell, PA Pevzner, D Porubsky, T Potapova, FR Ringeling, JL Rocha, Oliver Ryder, S Sacco, S Saha, T Sasaki, MC Schatz, NJ Schork, C Shanks, Linnéa Smeds, DR Son, C Steiner, AP Sweeten, MG Tassia, F Thibaud-Nissen, Edmundo Torres-González, M Trivedi, W Wei, J Wertz, M Yang, P Zhang, S Zhang, Y Zhang, Z Zhang, SA Zhao, Y Zhu, ED Jarvis, JL Gerton, I Rivas-González, B Paten, ZA Szpiech, CD Huber, TL Lenz, MK Konkel, SV Yi, S Canzar, CT Watson, PH Sudmant, E Molloy, E Garrison, CB Lowe, M Ventura, RJ O’Neill, S Koren, Kateryna Makova, Ph.D., Adam M. Phillippy, EE Eichler (2025). Complete sequencing of ape genomes. NATURE.
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Kateryna Makova, Ph.D., BD Pickett, Robert Harris, GA Hartley, Monika Cechova (Michalovova), Karol Pal, S Nurk, D Yoo, Q Li, P Hebbar, BC McGrath, F Antonacci, M Aubel, A Biddanda, M Borchers, E Bomberg, GG Bouffard, SY Brooks, L Carbone, Laura Carrel, A Carroll, PC Chang, CS Chin, DE Cook, Sarah J. Carnahan Craig, L de Gennaro, M Diekhans, A Dutra, GH Garcia, PGS Grady, RE Green, D Haddad, P Hallast, WT Harvey, G Hickey, DA Hillis, SJ Hoyt, H Jeong, Kaivan Kamali, SL Kosakovsky Pond, TM LaPolice, C Lee, AP Lewis, YE Loh, P Masterson, RC McCoy, Paul Medvedev, KH Miga, KM Munson, E Pak, B Paten, BJ Pinto, T Potapova, A Rhie, JL Rocha, F Ryabov, Oliver Ryder, S Sacco, K Shafin, VA Shepelev, V Slon, SJ Solar, JM Storer, PH Sudmant, Sweetalana, A Sweeten, MG Tassia, F Thibaud-Nissen, M Ventura, Melissa A. Wilson Sayres, AC Young, Huiqing Zeng, Xinru Zhang, ZA Szpiech, CD Huber, JL Gerton, SV Yi, MC Schatz, IA Alexandrov, S Koren, RJ O’Neill, Evan E. Eichler, Adam M. Phillippy (2024). The Complete Sequence and Comparative Analysis of Ape Sex Chromosomes. NATURE.
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A Rhie, SA McCarthy, O Fedrigo, J Damas, G Formenti, S Koren, M Uliano-Silva, W Chow, Arkarachai Fungtammasan, GL Gedman, LJ Cantin, F Thibaud-Nissen, L Haggerty, C Lee, Byung June Ko, J Kim, I Bista, M Smith, B Haase, J Mountcastle, S Winkler, S Paez, J Howard, SC Vernes, TM Lama, F Grutzner, WC Warren, C Balakrishnan, D Burt, JM George, M Biegler, D Iorns, A Digby, D Eason, T Edwards, M Wilkinson, G Turner, A Meyer, AF Kautt, P Franchini, HW Detrich III, H Svardal, M Wagner, GJP Naylor, M Pippel, M Malinsky, M Mooney, M Simbirsky, BT Hannigan, T Pesout, M Houck, A Misuraca, SB Kingan, R Hall, Z Kronenberg, J Korlach, I Sović, C Dunn, Z Ning, A Hastie, J Lee, S Selvaraj, RE Green, NH Putnam, J Ghurye, E Garrison, Y Sims, J Collins, S Pelan, J Torrance, A Tracey, J Wood, D Guan, SE London, DF Clayton, CV Mello, SR Friedrich, PV Lovell, E Osipova, FO Al-Ajli, S Secomandi, H Kim, C Theofanopoulou, Y Zhou, Robert Harris, Kateryna Makova, Ph.D., Paul Medvedev, J Hoffman, P Masterson, K Clark, F Martin, K Howe, P Flicek, BP Walenz, W Kwak, H Clawson, M Diekhans, L Nassar, B Paten, RHS Kraus, H Lewin, AJ Crawford, MTP Gilbert, G Zhang, B Venkatesh, RW Murphy, KP Koepfli, B Shapiro, WE Johnson, F Di Palma, T Margues-Bonet, EC Teeling, T Warnow, JM Graves, Oliver Ryder, D Hausler, SJ O’Brien, K Howe, EW Myers, R Durbin, Adam M. Phillippy, ED Jarvis (2021). Towards complete and error-free genome assemblies of all vertebrate species. NATURE.
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Rahulsimham Vegesna, Marta Tomaszkiewicz, Oliver Ryder, Rebeca Campos-Sanchez, Paul Medvedev, Michael DeGiorgio, Kateryna Makova, Ph.D. (2020). Ampliconic genes on the great ape Y chromosomes: Rapid evolution of copy number but conservation of expression levels. GENOME BIOL EVOL.
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Marta Tomaszkiewicz, Samarth Rangavittal, Monika Cechova (Michalovova), Rebeca Campos-Sanchez, HW Fescemyer, Robert Harris, Danling Ye, PCM O'Brien, R Chikhi, Oliver Ryder, Malcolm Ferguson-Smith, Paul Medvedev, Kateryna Makova, Ph.D. (2016). A time- and cost-effective strategy to sequence mammalian Y Chromosomes: an application to the de novo assembly of gorilla Y. GENOME RES.
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CC Steiner, Kateryna Makova, Ph.D., Oliver Ryder (2013). Mitochondrial Genome: Clues about the Evolution of Extant Equids and Genomic Diversity of Horse Breeds. EQUINE GENOMICS.
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Hiroki Goto, Oliver Ryder, Allison Fisher, Bryant Schultz, SL Kosakovsky Pond, Anton Nekrutenko, Kateryna Makova, Ph.D. (2011). A Massively Parallel Sequencing Approach Uncovers Ancient Origins and High Genetic Variability of Endangered Przewalski's Horses. GENOME BIOL EVOL.
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Allison Lau, Lei Peng, Hiroki Goto, L Chemnick, Oliver Ryder, Kateryna Makova, Ph.D. (2009). Horse Domestication and Conservation Genetics of Przewalski's Horse Inferred from Sex Chromosomal and Autosomal Sequences. MOL BIOL EVOL.
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