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Venter Institute Announces Summer Fellowship in Memory of Local Resident
ROCKVILLE, MD — March 10, 2006 — The J. Craig Venter Institute announced today a dedicated summer fellowship focusing on cancer research in honor of local resident Daniel Benjamin Stryer, MD, who passed away at age 41 from brain cancer in May 2005. Funds for the fellowship totaling $20,000 were raised by a local group of student athletes who published a cookbook, Cooking for a Cure, to raise money for cancer research. Funds include contributions made by key scientists at the...
Government of Victoria, Australia and Venter Institute to Survey and Sequence Microbes in Soil and Bovine Digestive System
CHICAGO, IL and MELBOURNE, AUSTRALIA — APRIL 10, 2006 — The state of Victoria, Australia and the J. Craig Venter Institute (Venter Institute), the prestigious non-profit genomics institute, today announced at BIO 2006 a collaborative research project to study microorganisms found in two agriculturally significant soil types in Victoria, as well as microbes found in bovine digestive systems. The project will help researchers better understand overall species diversity and build the...
Leading Department of Energy Genome Scientist to Direct Joint Marine Microbial Metagenomics Cyberinfrastructure Initiative
San Diego, CA — APRIL 27, 2006 — An experienced genomics science program administrator has been recruited to direct a $24.5-million effort to develop an innovative cyberinfrastructure that will allow scientists to organize and analyze a vast amount of data on the genomes and community ecologies of ocean-dwelling microbes. Paul Gilna will become the executive director of the Community Cyberinfrastructure for Advanced Marine Microbial Ecology Research and Analysis (CAMERA)...
His Royal Highness Prince Andrew, The Duke of York, to Tour J. Craig Venter Institute
ROCKVILLE, MD — September 27, 2006 — The J. Craig Venter Institute (JCVI) today announced that His Royal Highness, Prince Andrew, The Duke of York will visit the JCVI research facilities. Prince Andrew will be given tours and presentations led by J. Craig Venter, Ph.D., Chairman and CEO, JCVI, on the pioneering genomic research conducted at JCVI's Rockville, Maryland campus. Prince Andrew will be in the Washington, DC metropolitan region in his role as spokesperson for UK Trade...
X Prize Foundation Announces Largest Medical Prize in History
Washington D.C. (October 4, 2006) — The X PRIZE Foundation announced today the $10 million Archon X PRIZE for Genomics — A multi-million dollar incentive to create technology that can successfully map 100 human genomes in 10 days. The prize is designed to usher in a new era of personalized preventative medicine and stimulate new avenues of research and development of medical sciences. On hand to help the X PRIZE Foundation make this historic announcement were some of the...
The Institute for Genomic Research (TIGR), J. Craig Venter Institute, J. Craig Venter Science Foundation Consolidate into one Organization — the J. Craig Venter Institute
ROCKVILLE, MD — October 16, 2006 — The Boards of Directors of the J. Craig Venter Institute (JCVI), The Institute of Genomic Research (TIGR) and the J. Craig Venter Science Foundation (JCVSF) today announced the consolidation of these affiliated organizations into one organization, the J. Craig Venter Institute. The research organization formerly known as JCVI will be renamed The Center for the Advancement of Genomics (TCAG). J. Craig Venter, Ph.D., was named as the Chairman...
Of Jaws and Man
SINGAPORE AND ROCKVILLE, MD, December 21, 2006 — A joint team of scientists from Singapore A*STAR's Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology (IMCB) and the United States-based J. Craig Venter Institute have completed an initial sequence of the elephant shark genome. By comparing this genome to the human genome they have discovered a large number of ancient DNA fragments in the human genome. These ancient DNA fragments in the human genome do not make proteins; instead they regulate...
Venter Institute Hosts Press Conference to Unveil Results from Global Ocean Sampling Expedition
WHAT: A press conference with live web cast announcing the results from the Sorcerer II Global Ocean Sampling (GOS) Expedition. Researchers, led by J. Craig Venter, PhD, circumnavigated the globe on a two year sailing research expedition and have discovered millions of new genes, thousands of new protein families and have greatly expanded our understanding of microbial biodiversity through genomic analysis. Results will be published in PloS Biology and cover sampling from Halifax, Nova...
Launching the Global Community Cyberinfrastructure for Advanced Marine Microbial Research and Analysis (CAMERA)
Scientists and engineers at the University of California, San Diego and the J. Craig Venter Institute (JCVI) have flipped the virtual switch on the first cyberinfrastructure customized to serve the marine microbial metagenomics community. At the heart of the cyberinfrastructure is a new, high-performance computer and storage complex funded by the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation and located in UC San Diego's Atkinson Hall, headquarters of the California Institute for Telecommunications and...
More than Six Million New Genes, Thousands of New Protein Families, and Incredible Degree of Microbial Diversity Discovered from First Phase of Sorcerer II Global Ocean Sampling Expedition
ROCKVILLE, MD — March 13, 2007 — Researchers from the J. Craig Venter Institute (JCVI) today announced the publication of several studies from the Sorcerer II Global Ocean Sampling Expedition (GOS) in PLoS Biology (www.plosbiology.org) detailing the discovery of millions of new genes, thousands of new protein families and specifically the characterization of thousands of new protein kinases from ocean microbes using whole environment shotgun sequencing and new computational tools....