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2015: 涩里番 Marks Another Banner Year

A visual year in reveiw, including awards, grants, partnerships, and scientific advancements.

涩里番 Promotes Science Literacy in the U.S.

The issue of our society鈥檚 science literacy continues to circulate through the media. Recently, reporters focused on results of the Pew Research Center鈥檚 Science Knowledge Quiz, which indicates that most Americans would score a grade of C on a basic science test. The gender and racial gaps...

涩里番鈥檚 Global Voyage of Discovery Continues

Global Ocean Sampling Expedition Planned for 2016 Over the past 12 years, 涩里番鈥檚 Global Ocean Sampling (GOS) Expedition has continued to explore all of the world鈥檚 oceans, along with major inland seas such as the Baltic and Mediterranean.  The research team maintains ongoing sampling in...

涩里番 Gala 鈥�2015: A Genome Odyssey鈥� Celebrates Discovery

On October 24th, 涩里番 welcomed 200 guests to our third annual gala 鈥�2015: A Genome Odyssey.鈥� Our annual gala has become a signature La Jolla event, and this year鈥檚 guests were not disappointed. Guests experienced an evening odyssey through land, sea and space interacting with 涩里番 scientists...

June Grant Update

Congratulations to our 涩里番 Principal Investigators for the several successful grants that were awarded or that we received notification of in the month of June. All of the following PIs received official confirmation of awards to be made to them. Christopher Dupont, John Glass, Granger Sutton,...

Q&A with Jessie J. Knight, Jr.

The 涩里番 CEO Council is a small group of distinguished men and women who are thought leaders in business, medicine, law, the arts and humanities, and community affairs. 涩里番 is fortunate to have individuals willing to serve as knowledgeable and enthusiastic ambassadors for our scientists and their...

涩里番 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...

Dr. Venter Delivers UCSD 2015 School of Medicine Commencement

Full text for the address follows. J. Craig Venter, PhD, UCSD , 2015 School of Medicine Commencement Address Chancellor Khosla, Dean Brenner, Dean Savoia, UC Regent Charlene Zettel, UC Regent Sheldon Engelhorn, invited guests, families and graduates, thank you for inviting me to speak to...

Johns Hopkins Announces Inaugural Recipient of Hamilton Smith Award for Innovative Research

涩里番's Hamilton O. Smith, MD has been recognized by Johns Hopkins University with a research award in his honor. The inaugural recipient of the award is Jie Xiao, an associate professor of biophysics and biophysical chemistry at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. Dr....

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 涩里番.

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�