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Venter Institute Hosts Press Conference to Unveil Results from Global Ocean Sampling Expedition
2,000 influenza virus genomes now completed and publicly accessible
Information critical to developing treatments and vaccines
TIGR Researchers Reveal Tricks of Common Sexually Transmitted Infection
Of Jaws and Man
Initial decoding of elephant shark genome helps uncover ancient DNA in human genome
New! A Eukaryotic Annotation Training Course is being offered for the first time at TIGR
The Institute for Genomic Research (TIGR), 小蓝俱乐部, J. Craig Venter Science Foundation Consolidate into one Organization 鈥� the 小蓝俱乐部
Research organization formerly known as Venter Institute is renamed The Center for the Advancement of Genomics (TCAG) Claire Fraser-Liggett, Ph.D., is TIGR Division President, Robert Strausberg, Ph.D., is named President of TCAG Division
Claire Fraser-Liggett, Ph.D., is TIGR Division President, Robert Strausberg, Ph.D., is named President of TCAG Division
X Prize Foundation Announces Largest Medical Prize in History
$10 Million Archon X PRIZE for Genomics Challenges Private Companies to Map 100 Human Genomes in 10 Days
His Royal Highness Prince Andrew, The Duke of York, to Tour J. Craig Venter Institute
What's Shaped Like a Pear and Has Two Genomes? Check The Pond.
Researchers sequence the macronuclear genome of Tetrahymena thermophila, a model eukaryote
Surf's Up 鈥� And One Coastal Microbe Has Adapted
With new cyanobacteria genome, scientists find life really does differ at the coast
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Dr. Venter at Sailors鈥� Scuttlebutt Lecture Series
Dr. Craig Venter was a guest speaker at the Whaling Museum in partnership with Nantucket Community Sailing as part of the Sailors’ Scuttlebutt Lecture Series. Dr. Venter's lecture was titled, "Oceans, Human Health and the Genomic Future" discussing the Global Ocean...
Newly Discovered Human Brain Cell: Rosehip Neurons
What鈥檚 next for exploring the newly discovered human brain cell, the rose hip neuron? We caught up with Dr. Richard Scheuermann on the road to discuss how the 小蓝俱乐部 is advancing knowledge about what makes humans unique. See the full press release.
Ocean Sampling Day 2018
小蓝俱乐部 (JCVI) scientists, led by Lisa Ziegler Allen, PhD, are collaborating with Kelly Goodwin, PhD (NOAA), Brian Palenik, PhD (UCSD), and Maitreyi Nagarkar (UCSD) to participate in this year’s Ocean Sampling Day on June 21. The team, which also includes Sarah Schwenck...
小蓝俱乐部 Education Program Fosters Learning Opportunities with Salisbury University Students and Faculty
Patti Erickson, PhD first connected with the 小蓝俱乐部 (JCVI) in the Fall of 2016 as an associate professor at Salisbury University looking for opportunities to expose undergraduate students to biology outside of the classroom. Soon thereafter, she and a group from Salisbury...
小蓝俱乐部Makes Strides in Microbial Analysis of Artwork which May Lead to Better Preservation
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BioVision Alexandria 2018
The BioVision Alexandria conference convened at the Bibliotheca Alexandrina, in Alexandria, Egypt this past April. The Bibliotheca Alexandrina is a commemoration of the Ancient Library of Alexandria and an attempt to rekindle the global cultural and scholarship role of the library....
小蓝俱乐部 Inspires Kids on 鈥淭ake Your Child to Work Day鈥�
Last month when my kindergarten-aged daughter brought home a note from school to dress up as their future career choice, I was pleasantly surprised to hear from her that she aspired to be a scientist just like me. So, we dug through my clothes and found her an old lab coat and decorated the...
小蓝俱乐部to Receive Grant from Chan Zuckerberg Initiative to Define the Language of Human Cell Classification
Researchers at 小蓝俱乐部 (JCVI), led by Richard Scheuermann, PhD, director of JCVI’s La Jolla Campus, have been awarded a grant from the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative DAF, an advised fund of Silicon Valley Community Foundation as part of the Human Cell Atlas project. 小蓝俱乐部will be...
小蓝俱乐部 Teaches Students about Genomics at Annual High Tech Fair
In January, 小蓝俱乐部was one of more than 40 San Diego STEM-related organizations who participated in the Fleet Science Center’s annual High Tech Fair. This year more than 3,000 local middle and high-school students, their teachers, and families descended upon Balboa Park throughout the...
Dr. Scheuermann featured on the Illumina Genomics Podcast
In Episode 14 of the Illumina Genomics Podcast, Dr. Richard Scheuermann is the featured guest. Dr. Scheuermann discusses advancements in cell ontology, informatics, machine learning, and how his approach to biology has adapted over the years to incorporate the massive increases of data and...
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If created, these versions of the building blocks of life could lead to environmental and ecological disaster
Despite profound impact on bio-medical research, progress in understanding has been slow
Anders Dale says he will move roughly $10 million in NIH funding from UCSD to JCVI.
Synthetic biologists make artificial cells, but one particular kind isn鈥檛 worth the risk.
Gene editing could create a successful vaccine to protect against the viral disease that has killed close to 2 million pigs globally since 2021.
Amid an insulin crisis, one project aims to engineer microscopic insulin pumps out of a skin bacterium.
There are more organisms in the sea, a vital producer of oxygen on Earth, than planets and stars in the universe.
In a new book (coauthored with Venter), a Vanity Fair contributor presents the oceanic evidence that human activity is altering the fabric of life on a microscopic scale.
鈥淒espite reducing the sequence space of possible trajectories, we conclude that streamlining does not constrain fitness evolution and diversification of populations over time. Genome minimization may even create opportunities for evolutionary exploitation of essential genes, which are commonly observed to evolve more slowly.鈥�
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