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J. Craig Venter, Ph.D. to Receive National Medal of Science From President Obama
ROCKVILLE, MD — September 18, 2009 — J. Craig Venter, Ph.D., founder, president and chairman of the J. Craig Venter Institute (JCVI), has been named a recipient of this year's National Medal of Science. Dr. Venter will be awarded the Medal from President Obama on October 7 at a White House ceremony. The National Medal of Science, the highest honor awarded to scientists by the United States government, was created by statute in 1959 and is administered for the White House by the...
President Honors Nation's Top Scientists and Innovators
President Obama today named nine eminent researchers as recipients of the National Medal of Science, and four inventors and one company as recipients of the National Medal of Technology and Innovation, the highest honors bestowed by the United States government on scientists, engineers, and inventors. The recipients will receive their awards on October 7 at a White House ceremony. The National Medal of Science was created by statute in 1959 and is administered for the White House by the...
J. Craig Venter Institute Researchers Clone and Engineer Bacterial Genomes in Yeast and Transplant Genomes Back into Bacterial Cells
ROCKVILLE, MD — August 20, 2009 — Researchers at the J. Craig Venter Institute (JCVI), a not-for-profit genomic research organization, published results today describing new methods in which the entire bacterial genome from Mycoplasma mycoides was cloned in a yeast cell by adding yeast centromeric plasmid sequence to the bacterial chromosome and modified it in yeast using yeast genetic systems. This modified bacterial chromosome was then isolated from yeast and transplanted into a...
The NIAID-Supported Pathogen Functional Genomics Resource Center at the J. Craig Venter Institute Offers New Affymetrix Array for Faster Identification of E. Coli and Shigella
SANTA CLARA, Calif. and Rockville, Md., August 5, 2009 — Affymetrix, Inc. (Nasdaq: AFFX) and the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID)-supported Pathogen Functional Genomics Resource Center (PFGRC) at the J. Craig Venter Institute (JCVI) today announced the launch of the Affymetrix FDA-ECSG custom microarray for identifying and discriminating between different strains of E. coli and Shigella. This custom array was developed for the FDA and is now available...
J. Craig Venter Institute Awarded $43 Million, Five Year Contract from NIAID to Continue to Develop and Provide Sequencing, Genotyping, and Bioinformatics Expertise and Services in Infectious Diseases
ROCKVILLE, MD — May 29, 2009 — The J. Craig Venter Institute (JCVI) announced today that they have been awarded a $43 million, five year contract from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), part of the National Institutes of Health, as part of their Genomic Sequencing Centers for Infectious Diseases (GSCID). Led by co-principal investigators, William Nierman, Ph.D., and Robert Strausberg, Ph.D., the contract will enable JCVI to continue to expand its...
International Team of Researchers Develops New Tool to Elucidate the Epigenome
MILAN, ITALY — March 24, 2009 — An innovative technology for the rapid and reliable screening of the human epigenome (the set of functional DNA elements that regulate gene state and activity) is being developed by an international team of scientists at the IFOM-IEO Campus in Milan, in collaboration with a group from the J. Craig Venter Institute led by Samuel Levy, Ph.D., and a team from Sangamo BioSciences, Inc., led by Fyodor Urnov. The technology provides a new tool for disease...
Venter Institute Launches the J. Robert Beyster and Life Technologies 2009-2010 Research Voyage of the Sorcerer II Expedition
SAN DIEGO, CA — March 18, 2009 — The J. Craig Venter Institute (JCVI) today announced the launch of a new Sorcerer II Expedition — the J. Robert Beyster and Life Technologies 2009-2010 Research Voyage. This two year sailing voyage will sample the microbial diversity in the Baltic, Mediterranean, and Black Seas and is being funded by the Beyster Family Foundation of The San Diego Foundation and matching support from Life Technologies Corporation and other anonymous donors....
J. Craig Venter Institute's Professional Development Program to Train USDA Scientists on Latest Tools and Methods for Eukaryotic Genome Analysis
ROCKVILLE, MD — March 2, 2008 — As part of the ongoing mission to train and educate scientists on the latest tools, methods and advances in genomics, the J. Craig Venter Institute's (JCVI) Eukaryotic Genome Annotation and Analysis Team will travel to Lubbock, TX March 3rd-5th to train 40 United States Agriculture Department (USDA) scientists at the Agricultural Research Service. The training session will focus on the use of JCVI's eukaryotic annotation methods, and tools and...
Complete Genomes of All Known Human Rhinoviruses Are Published
ROCKVILLE, MD — February 12, 2009 — A team of researchers from the J. Craig Venter Institute (JCVI); the University of Maryland School of Medicine and the University of Wisconsin, Madison; announced today they have sequenced and analyzed the genomes of all known human rhinoviruses (HRVs). David Spiro, Ph.D., JCVI, Steve Liggett, M.D., the University of Maryland School of Medicine, and Ann Palmenberg, Ph.D., University of Wisconsin, Madison led the team whose work was published...
Research Teams at J. Craig Venter Institute and Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research Uncover New Chromosomal Alterations in Cancer Using Transcriptome Sequencing Approach
ROCKVILLE, MD and NEW YORK, NY — January 27, 2009 — Researchers from the J. Craig Venter Institute (JCVI) and the Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research (LICR) have uncovered new genomic alterations that lead to gene fusions in a breast cancer cell line by using 454 Life Sciences sequencing technology. The work, led by Qi Zhao of JCVI and Otavia L. Caballero, of LICR, is being published the week of January 26 in the early online edition of the Journal of the Proceedings of the...