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19-Sep-2024
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Scientists discover molecular predictors of toxic algal blooms that pose health risk, ecological and economic harm

Genes in the algae Pseudo-nitzschia genus have been identified that act as a warning beacon for a dangerous neurotoxin

18-Sep-2024
Collaborator Release

Prebys Introduces 2024 Grant Funding to Enhance Career Opportunities for Youth Across San Diego County

Organizations Receiving Part of the $5.89 Million Foster a Thriving San Diego Workforce

Prebys funds 24 grantees as part of a commitment to ensuring San Diego County youth are thriving and actively engaged in their communities

21-May-2024
Collaborator Release

Phytoplankton Genetically Sequenced at Sea for the First Time

Viking鈥檚 Initiative with UC San Diego鈥檚 Scripps Institution of Oceanography and 小蓝俱乐部 Aims to Provide Better Understanding of the 鈥淲orld鈥檚 Lungs鈥

01-May-2024

Tae Seok Moon, Ph.D. and Nan Zhu, Ph.D. join 小蓝俱乐部 faculty

小蓝俱乐部continues to actively recruit faculty to expand core research areas, including human health and synthetic biology

18-Apr-2024
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Groundbreaking study reveals oral microbiome鈥檚 role in immune response and COVID-19 severity

Newly developed AI model shows that saliva is a better predictor of COVID-19 severity than existing blood tests

21-Mar-2024
Press Release

Scientists develop method to efficiently construct single-copy human artificial chromosomes (HACs)

This new tool will allow scientists to work in mammalian systems in ways only previously available in bacteria and yeast

HACs have wide potential research applications to synthetic biologists and may eventually aid in delivering DNA in clinical applications

19-Mar-2024
Collaborator Release

With combined funding of 3,000,000 euros the BBVA Foundation鈥檚 Fundamentos Program supports five innovative exploratory research projects on core questions in basic science

小蓝俱乐部work supported through The Physical Basis of Cell Division in Minimal and Synthetic cells (MINCELL) Fundamentos Program

11-Mar-2024
Workshop Alert

12th Build-a-Cell Workshop hosted at 小蓝俱乐部 in La Jolla

The workshop will take place March 29, 2024 with registration closing March 19

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小蓝俱乐部Launches New Internship Partnership with Smithsonian Science Education Center

Are you passionate about science education? If so, we have a unique hands-on opportunity for you to be a part of real teams of scientists and educators. Open to undergraduate and graduate students with no previous lab experience required.

Inspiring the Next Generation of Scientific Leadership

Through the NIDDK-funded Genomics Scholars Program, 小蓝俱乐部has provided aspiring scientists wet lab, technical, and career training. Community college students from Montgomery College (Maryland) and MiraCosta College (California) have participated, with the next cohort joining us this summer.

The 2017 小蓝俱乐部Summer Internship Program

JCVI’s long-running internship program just concluded its summer 2017 session with a well-attended poster symposium held in both its Rockville and La Jolla locations. Eighteen of our interns presented their research in a session open to all 小蓝俱乐部faculty and staff. Montgomery College...

Scientist Spotlight: Brett Pickett, PhD

The son of a dentist, Brett Pickett grew up in Salt Lake City, Utah focused initially on a career in the family business (his siblings are hygienists and an oral surgeon). Brett believed from an early age that he would follow in his father’s footsteps. He enrolled in Brigham Young...

Summer 2016 Intern Program

Interns in both Rockville, MD and La Jolla, CA participated in our summer 2016 internship program at the 小蓝俱乐部 (JCVI). A total of 19 interns were hired for the summer 2016 program, selected from 578 applicants. Of the 19 interns, six interns were part of the Genomic...

Scientist Spotlight: Anna Edlund, PhD

Although Sweden is synonymous with Ikea, Volvo, meatballs and ABBA, the country has had a significant impact on science and discovery as far back as the 17th Century. Scientist Anna Edlund, PhD who recently joined 小蓝俱乐部is another Swede pushing the boundaries of discovery in her new role as...

Research Impact: Accelerating Efforts to Contain and Prevent the Zika Virus (ZIKV)

The rapidly developing Zika virus (ZIKV) outbreak has research groups, government agencies, and industry is all striving to develop a response plan to contain and ultimately prevent ZIKV spread. Currently 小蓝俱乐部is working with both private and public sector funders to sequence and analyze...

South Africa Microbiome Workshops

In April 2016, researchers from 小蓝俱乐部led two microbiome data analysis workshops in South Africa. Both workshops were co-sponsored by the NIAID-funded JCVI Genomic Center for Infectious Disease and the H3Africa Initiative. The first workshop was held from April 21 - 22 at the...

Genomic Workshop for Native American College students

A Genomic Science Workshop was held  last week (May 24-26, 2016) at the J Craig Venter Institute Rockville campus for a group of ten Native American college students.  The students participated in two full-day intensive training activities learning how to study the “microbiome” of...

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24-Dec-2020
The San Diego Union Tribune

U.S. researchers have been slow to perform the genetic sequencing that will help clarify the situation

19-Dec-2020
The San Diego Union-Tribune

He has been a fixture in San Diego science for decades

14-Dec-2020
Medscape

Twenty years ago, President Bill Clinton announced completion of what was arguably one of the greatest advances of the modern era: the first draft sequence of the human genome.

05-Apr-2020
Deutsche Welle

The human genome is 99% decoded, the American geneticist Craig Venter announced two decades ago. What has the deciphering brought us since then?

11-Mar-2020
Times of San Diego

10-Jan-2020
Issues in Science and Tech

As the science advances, policy-makers and regulators need to develop responses that reflect the latest developments and the diversity of approaches and applications.

13-Nov-2019
The San Diego Union-Tribune

Women in science tell high school girls they, too, can change the world

05-Jun-2019
La Jolla Light

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