Genomics:GTL Research Awards
Research to Better Understand Microbial Communities and to Develop New, Biological Methods to Capture Carbon Dioxide from the Atmosphere and to Produce Hydrogen
J. Craig Venter Institute
Craig Venter, Principal Investigator
$12 million over 3 years
Funded: FY2003
Dr. Venter’s research team is addressing three scientific challenges: research on photosynthesis and hydrogen production to determine if the efficiency, and thus the utility, of these natural microbial processes can be greatly improved; strategies to create a synthetic minimal genome that may speed our ability to develop biology-based solutions for some of our most pressing energy and environmental challenges; and environmental genomics research that uses genomics approaches to discover new microbial capabilities that can be used to address DOE energy and environmental needs.
Website
Abstracts
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2005 Contractor-Grantee Workshop
- J. Craig Venter Institute (PDF, 156 kb)
- Estimation of the Minimal Mycoplasma Gene Set Using Global Transposon Mutagenesis and Comparative Genomics
- Progress toward a Synthetic Cellular Genome
- Development of a Deinococcus radiodurans Homologous Recombination System
- Development of a Novel Recombinant Cyanobacterial System for Hydrogen Production from Water
- Biotechnology For the Production of Ethanol and Butanol from Cellulose
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2004 Contractor-Grantee Workshop
- Estimation of the Minimal Mycoplasma Gene Set Using Global Transposon Mutagenesis and Comparative Genomics
- Whole Genome Assembly of Infectious fX174 Bacteriophage from Synthetic Oligonucleotides.
- Development of a Deinococcus radiodurans Homologous Recombination System
- Environmental Genome Shotgun Sequencing of the Sargasso Sea
News Articles
- March 4, 2004 Press Release "Researchers Discover 1.2 Million New Genes in Sargasso Sea Microbes"
- March 4, 2004 Genome News Network Article "Exploring the Sargasso Sea: Scientists Discover One Million New Genes in Ocean Microbes"
- April 23, 2003 Press Release "Energy Department Awards $9 Million for Energy Related Genomic Research"
