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Minimal Cell Workshop
4th Minimal Cell Workshop The Minimal Cell Workshop virtual series is an annual event that brings together the worldwide community of researchers working with JCVI's minimized cell, JCVI-syn3.0 (or one of its variants). JCVI-syn3.0 is based on the naturally occurring Mycoplasma mycoides, but with roughly half as many genes. This model organism has proven to be a platform for exploring the first principles of life, a chassis for engineering, computational modeling, and more. Interested...
Genomic-Based Prospective Medicine Collaboration Announced by Duke University Medical Center and The Center for the Advancement of Genomics
5/29/2003 - ROCKVILLE, Md. and DURHAM, N.C. -- The Center for the Advancement of Genomics (TCAG) and Duke University Medical Center (DUMC) today announced a formal collaboration to create the first fully integrated, comprehensive practice of genomic-based prospective medicine. Through this new collaboration, Duke and TCAG plan to generate predictive and prognostic data on specific diseases that can aid both doctors and patients in the earlier detection and better treatment of these...
Media Day Circus On Sorcerer II
June 23nd On Monday June 21st we announced the official start of the Mediterranean leg of the Sorcerer II Global Ocean Sampling Expedition. Dr. Venter took time from his busy schedule to fly into Valencia and attend the event as well as representatives from The Life Technology Foundation. The first part of the day was dedicated to media (newspapers, radio and T.V.), which included local Valencia and national outlets from Madrid. For more on press information please click here, on the...
Leg 2: exploring the Mid-Cayman Spreading Center
Editor’s note JCVI Staff Scientist Erin Garza, Ph.D., was selected to embark on a unique research expedition aboard the HOV Alvin submersible, a crewed deep-ocean research vessel owned by the United States Navy and operated by the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, that has brought explorers to extraordinary places for more than 50 years. During the deep-sea expedition, she will be collecting plastic samples from the bottom of the ocean and analyzing them using scanning electron...
Genomics Conference Expands Focus To New Frontiers of Research
September 12, 2003 Rockville, MD - The expansion of the genomics revolution into medicine, the environment, systems biology and an array of other scientific fields will dominate discussions among leading researchers at the 15th International Genome Sequencing and Analysis Conference. GSAC 15, which is organized by The Institute for Genomic Research (TIGR), will be held in Savannah, GA, from September 21-24. The conference will feature presentations by some of the...
Claire Fraser, Ph.D. is named new TIGR President
September 21, 1998 ROCKVILLE, MD -- September 21, 1998 -- The Institute for Genomic Research (TIGR), the Nation's leading microbial genomics institution, announced today the appointment of Claire M. Fraser, Ph.D., as TIGR's new President. Dr. Fraser is replacing TIGR's founder, J. Craig Venter, who is now President of Celera Genomics Corporation. Her appointment is effective immediately. Dr. Venter served as TIGR's President and Chairman of the Board of Trustees for the last 6 years....
About the Genomic Center for Infectious Diseases
Overview The J. Craig Venter Institute (JCVI) Genomic Center for Infectious Diseases (GCID) was established by the National Institute for Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) to develop basic knowledge of infectious disease biology through the application of DNA sequencing, genotyping and comparative genome analysis. The central theme of the JCVI GCID is the application of innovative genomics-based approaches to study pathogens and determinants of their virulence, drug-resistance,...
Scientists Discover Genetic Basis for Toxic Algal Blooms
Scientists from the J. Craig Venter Institute (JCVI) and Scripps Institution of Oceanography at the University of California San Diego have discovered how certain types of algal blooms become toxic, producing a harmful substance known as domoic acid. Microscopic view of domoic acid producing Pseudo-nitzschia diatom in a seawater sample from Monterey Bay, Calif. This diatom species, when in active growth typically typically forms long chains of individual cells. Credit: G. Jason Smith...
'Twas the night before Christmas
'Twas the night before Christmas, when all through the building All our creatures were stirring, even our mold; The dishes were placed in the incubator with prayer, In hopes that pure growth soon would be there; The scientists were nestled all close to their screens instead While swirls of DNA danced in their heads; My coworker in her labcoat, and I with my pipettor, Had just settled down for a long...
Strausberg, Leading Genomic Scientist, to Become TIGR's V.P. for Research
April 24, 2003 Rockville, MD - Genomics innovator Robert L. Strausberg, who directs the National Cancer Institute's (NCI) Cancer Genomics Office, has been named as Vice President for Research at The Institute for Genomic Research (TIGR). Strausberg has played an important role in the development of innovative tools and technologies for genome research, both at the NCI - where he helped devise new ways to collect and apply genomic information that is important to cancer research - and...