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JCVI Scientist Tackles Global Sanitation Challenges
Orianna Bretschger received her B.S. in Physics and Astronomy at the University of Northern Arizona. After a five- year career in aerospace and consulting, she completed a PhD in Materials Science at the University of Southern California. Eager to focus her efforts on alternative energy and sustainability, she joined the J. Craig Venter Institute in 2008. Over the course of her research tenure, Dr. Bretschger has established a productive team of researchers dedicated to understanding...
New LongCOVID research launched by PolyBio’s global consortium of scientists
Medford MA, February 22, 2024 – PolyBio Research Foundation, a global collaboration convening the world’s leading chronic disease scientists, today announced the second phase of its LongCovid Research Consortium (LCRC), including the distribution of $15M to fund scientific research, treatment innovation, and clinical trials for LongCOVID. Founded and run by scientists with expertise in microbiology and neuroscience, PolyBio connects the world’s leading...
2019 Summer Internship Program
The 2019 Summer Internship Program which wrapped up in August was another rousing success at the J. Craig Venter Institute. Faculty and staff in both the Rockville (MD) and La Jolla (CA) campuses mentored and trained 25 students (high school, undergraduate, and graduate students) from across the country in cutting-edge technologies related to the biomedical field. High school students participated in the internship for 8-weeks and undergraduate and graduate students took...
About James Smith
James Smith, PhD is an adjunct faculty at the J. Craig Venter Institute. He focuses on biological risks from new and future technologies, and his previous experience spans industry, academic and policy roles. He has recently held positions at think tanks focused on biosecurity, as a senior fellow at the Center for Long Term Resilience and a Research Fellow at RAND.
Genomic and Antigenic Analysis of Seasonal H3N2 Influenza a Virus From 2012-2013
Haley Hochstein1, Karla M. Stucker1, Seth Schobel2, Xudong Lin1, Randall J. Olsen3, Anju Subba1, Rebecca A. Halpin1, Asmik Akopov1, Nadia Fedorova1, Timothy B. Stockwell2, James M. Musser3, Suman R. Das1, David E. Wentworth1 1Virology Group and 2Informatics Department, J. Craig Venter Institute, Rockville, MD 20850 3Center for Molecular and Translational Human Infectious Diseases Research, The Methodist Hospital Research Institute, Houston, TX 77030 Influenza is an acute...
Ocean Microplastics Explained
As we wrap up sampling in the waters off of Maine, Dr. Chris Dupont discusses how collections of plastic particles in the water – or “plastisphere” – may be harboring fish or human pathogens. There may also be microbes responsible for degrading plastic, which are being investigated. Dr. Dupont's work on microplastics is a continuation of J. Craig Venter Institute's Global Ocean Sampling (GOS) program.
VIGOR extended to annotate genomes for additional 12 different viruses.
A gene prediction program, VIGOR (Viral Genome ORF Reader), was developed at J. Craig Venter Institute in 2010 and has been successfully performing gene calling in coronavirus, influenza, rhinovirus and rotavirus for projects at the Genome Sequencing Center for Infectious Diseases. VIGOR uses sequence similarity search against custom protein databases to identify protein coding regions, start and stop codons and other gene features. Ribonucleicacid editing and other features are accurately...
Every Day is World Food Day at JCVI
World Food Day is a global initiative of the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations to ensure that people have access to enough high-quality food to lead active and healthy lives. After a period of decline, world hunger is on the rise again. Today, over 820 million people are suffering chronic undernourishment, according to the latest FAO 2018 State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World report. At JCVI we have several programs aimed at tackling world hunger....