Craig Venter

John Craig Venter (born October 14, 1946) is an

American scientist. He is known for leading one of the John Craig Venter
first draft sequences of the human genome[1][2] and led
the first team to transfect a cell with a synthetic
chromosome.[3][4] Venter founded Celera Genomics,
the Institute for Genomic Research (TIGR) and the J.
Craig Venter Institute (JCVI). He was the co-founder
of Human Longevity Inc. and Synthetic Genomics. He
was listed on Time magazine's 2007 and 2008 Time
100 list of the most influential people in the world. In
2010, the British magazine New Statesman listed Craig
Venter at 14th in the list of "The World's 50 Most
Influential Figures 2010".[5] In 2012, Venter was
honored with Dan David Prize for his contribution to
genome research.[6] He was elected to the American
Philosophical Society in 2013.[7] He is a member of
the USA Science and Engineering Festival's advisory
board.[8] Venter in 2007
Born October 14, 1946
Salt Lake City, Utah, U.S.
Early life and education
Alma mater University of California, San
Venter was born in Salt Lake City, Utah, the son of Diego
Elisabeth and John Venter.[9][10]: 14 His family moved Occupation Biologist
to Millbrae, California during his childhood.[11] In his Awards Gairdner Award (2002)
youth, he did not take his education seriously, Nierenberg Prize (2007)
preferring to spend his time on the water in boats or Kistler Prize (2008)
surfing.[10]: 1–20 According to his biography, A Life ENI award (2008)
Decoded, he was said never to be a terribly engaged Medal of Science (2008)
student, having Cs and Ds on his eighth-grade report Dickson Prize (2011)
cards.[10]: 1–20 Venter considered that his behavior in Leeuwenhoek Medal
his adolescence was indicative of attention deficit Edogawa NICHE Prize (2020)
hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), and later found Scientific career
ADHD-linked genetic variants in his own DNA.[12] He
Fields DNA
graduated from Mills High School. His father died
suddenly at age 59 from cardiac arrest, giving him a Human genome
lifelong awareness of his own mortality. He quotes a Metagenomics
saying: "If you want immortality, do something Synthetic genomics
meaningful with your life."[13] Shotgun approach to genome
sequencing
Although he opposed the Vietnam War,[14] Venter was Institutions State University of New York at
drafted and enlisted in the United States Navy where Buffalo
he worked as a hospital corpsman in the intensive-care National Institutes of Health
ward of a field hospital. [15] He served from 1967 to
J. Craig Venter Institute
1968 at the Naval Support Activity Danang in
Vietnam. While in Vietnam, he attempted suicide by Website www.jcvi.org (http://www.jcvi.org)
swimming out to sea, but changed his mind more than
a mile out.[16] Being confronted with severely injured and dying marines on a daily basis instilled in him
a desire to study medicine,[17] although he later switched to biomedical research.

Venter began his college education in 1969 at a community college, College of San Mateo in California,
and later transferred to the University of California, San Diego, where he studied under biochemist
Nathan O. Kaplan. He received a Bachelor of Science in biochemistry in 1972 and a Doctor of
Philosophy in physiology and pharmacology in 1975 from UCSD.[18][19]

Career
After working as an associate professor, and later as full professor, at the State University of New York at
Buffalo, he joined the National Institutes of Health in 1984.

EST controversy
While an employee of the NIH, Venter learned how to identify mRNA and began to learn more about
those expressed in the human brain. The short cDNA sequence fragments Venter discovered by automated
DNA sequencing, he named expressed sequence tags, or ESTs. The NIH Office of Technology Transfer
decided to file a patent on the ESTs discovered by Venter. patent the genes identified based on studies of
mRNA expression in the human brain. When Venter disclosed the NIH strategy during a Congressional
hearing, a firestorm of controversy erupted.[20] The NIH later stopped the effort and abandoned the patent
applications it had filed, following public outcry.[21]

Human Genome Project

Venter was passionate about the power of genomics to transform healthcare radically. Venter believed that
shotgun sequencing was the fastest and most effective way to get useful human genome data.[22] The
method was rejected by the Human Genome Project however, since some geneticists felt it would not be
accurate enough for a genome as complicated as that of humans, that it would be logistically more
difficult, and that it would cost significantly more.[23][24]

Venter viewed the slow pace of progress in the Human Genome project as an opportunity to continue his
interest in trying his shotgun sequencing method to speed up the human genome sequencing so when he
was offered funding from a DNA sequencing company to start Celera Genomics.[25] The company
planned to profit from their work by creating genomic data to which users could subscribe for a fee. The
goal consequently put pressure on the public genome program and spurred several groups to redouble
their efforts to produce the full sequence. Venter's effort won him renown as he and his team at Celera
Corporation shared credit for sequencing the first draft human genome with the publicly funded Human
Genome Project.[26]
In 2000, Venter and Francis Collins of the National Institutes of Health and U.S. Public Genome Project
jointly made the announcement of the mapping of the human genome, a full three years ahead of the
expected end of the Public Genome Program. The announcement was made along with U.S. President
Bill Clinton, and UK Prime Minister Tony Blair.[27] Venter and Collins thus shared an award for
"Biography of the Year" from A&E Network.[28] On February 15, 2001, the Human Genome Project
consortium published the first Human Genome in the journal Nature, followed one day later by a Celera
publication in Science.[29][30] Despite some claims that shotgun sequencing was in some ways less
accurate than the clone-by-clone method chosen by the Human Genome Project,[31] the technique became
widely accepted by the scientific community.

Venter was fired by Celera in early 2002.[32] According to his biography, Venter was fired because of a
conflict with the main investor, Tony White, specifically barring him from attending the White House
ceremony celebrating the achievement of sequencing the human genome.

Global Ocean Sampling Expedition

The Global Ocean Sampling Expedition (GOS) is an ocean exploration genome project with the goal of
assessing the genetic diversity in marine microbial communities and to understand their role in nature's
fundamental processes. Begun as a Sargasso Sea pilot sampling project in August 2003, the full
Expedition was announced by Venter on March 4, 2004. The project, which used Venter's personal yacht,
Sorcerer II, started in Halifax, Canada, circumnavigated the globe and returned to the U.S. in January
2006.[33]

Synthetic Genomics
In June 2005, Venter co-founded Synthetic Genomics, a firm
dedicated to using modified microorganisms to produce clean
fuels and biochemicals. In July 2009, ExxonMobil announced a
$600 million collaboration with Synthetic Genomics to research
and develop next-generation biofuels.[34] Venter continues to work
on the creation of engineered diatomic microalgae for the
production of biofuels.[35][36][37]

Venter is seeking to patent the first partially synthetic species J. Craig Venter Institute, Rockville,
possibly to be named Mycoplasma laboratorium.[38] There is Maryland, location
speculation that this line of research could lead to producing
bacteria that have been engineered to perform specific reactions,
for example, produce fuels, make medicines, combat global warming, and so on.[39]

In May 2010, a team of scientists led by Venter became the first to create successfully what was described
as "synthetic life".[40][41] This was done by synthesizing a very long DNA molecule containing an entire
bacterium genome, and introducing this into another cell, analogous to the accomplishment of Eckard
Wimmer's group, who synthesized and ligated an RNA virus genome and "booted" it in cell lysate.[42]
The single-celled organism contains four "watermarks"[43] written into its DNA to identify it as synthetic
and to help trace its descendants. The watermarks include

1. Code table for entire alphabet with punctuations

2. Names of 46 contributing scientists
 3. Three quotations
4. The secret email address for the cell.[44]
On March 25, 2016, Venter reported the creation of Syn 3.0, a synthetic genome having the fewest genes
of any freely living organism (473 genes). Their aim was to strip away all nonessential genes, leaving
only the minimal set necessary to support life. This stripped-down, fast reproducing cell is expected to be
a valuable tool for researchers in the field.[45]

In August 2018, Venter retired as chairman of the board, saying he wanted to focus on his work at the J.
Craig Venter Institute. He will remain as a scientific advisor to the board.[46]

J. Craig Venter Institute

In 2006 Venter founded the J. Craig Venter Institute (JCVI), a nonprofit which conducts research in
synthetic biology. It has facilities in La Jolla and in Rockville, Maryland and employs over 200 people.

In April 2022 Venter sold the La Jolla JCVI facility to the University of California, San Diego for $25
million. Venter will continue to lead a separate nonprofit research group, also known as the J. Craig
Venter Institute, and stressed that he is not retiring. The Venter Institute has out grown its current building
with multiple new facility hires and will be moving into new space in 2025.[13]

Individual human genome

On September 4, 2007, a team led by Sam Levy published one of the first genomes of an individual
human—Venter's own DNA sequence.[47] Some of the sequences in Venter's genome are associated with
wet earwax,[48] increased risk of antisocial behavior, Alzheimer's and cardiovascular diseases.[10]

The Human Reference Genome Browser is a web application for the navigation and analysis of Venter's
recently published genome. The HuRef database consists of approximately 32 million DNA reads
sequenced using microfluidic Sanger sequencing, assembled into 4,528 scaffolds and 4.1 million DNA
variations identified by genome analysis. These variants include single-nucleotide polymorphisms
(SNPs), block substitutions, short and large indels, and structural variations like insertions, deletions,
inversions and copy number changes.

The browser enables scientists to navigate the HuRef genome assembly and sequence variations, and to
compare it with the NCBI human build 36 assembly in the context of the NCBI and Ensembl annotations.
The browser provides a comparative view between NCBI and HuRef consensus sequences, the sequence
multi-alignment of the HuRef assembly, Ensembl and dbSNP annotations, HuRef variants, and the
underlying variant evidence and functional analysis. The interface also represents the haplotype blocks
from which diploid genome sequence can be inferred and the relation of variants to gene annotations. The
display of variants and gene annotations are linked to external public resources including dbSNP,
Ensembl, Online Mendelian Inheritance in Man (OMIM) and Gene Ontology (GO).
Users can search the HuRef genome using HUGO gene names, Ensembl and dbSNP identifiers, HuRef
contig or scaffold locations, or NCBI chromosome locations. Users can then easily and quickly browse
any genomic region via the simple and intuitive pan and zoom controls; furthermore, data relevant to
specific loci can be exported for further analysis.

Human Longevity, Inc.

On March 4, 2014, Venter and co-founders Peter Diamandis and Robert Hariri announced the formation
of Human Longevity, Inc., a company focused on extending the healthy, "high performance" human
lifespan.[49][50] At the time of the announcement the company had already raised $70 million in venture
financing, which was expected to last 18 months.[49][50] Venter served as the chairman and chief
executive officer (CEO) until May 2018, when he retired. The company said that it plans to sequence
40,000 genomes per year, with an initial focus on cancer genomes and the genomes of cancer patients.[49]

Human Longevity filed a lawsuit in 2018 against Venter, accusing him of stealing trade secrets.
Allegations were made stating that Venter had departed with his company computer that contained
valuable information that could be used to start a competing business.[51] The lawsuit was ultimately
dismissed by a California judge on the basis that Human Longevity were unable to present a case that met
the legal threshold required for a company, or individual, to sue when its trade secrets have been
stolen.[52]

Human Longevity's mission is to extend healthy human lifespan by the use of high-resolution big data
diagnostics from genomics, metabolomics, microbiomics, and proteomics, and the use of stem cell
therapy.[53]

Published books
Venter is the author of three books, the first of which is an autobiography titled A Life Decoded.[10] In
Venter's second book, Life at the Speed of Light, he announced his theory that this is the generation in
which there appears to be a dovetailing of the two previously diverse fields of science represented by
computer programming and the genetic programming of life by DNA sequencing.[54] He was applauded
for his position on this by futurist Ray Kurzweil. Venter's most recent book, co-authored by David Ewing
Duncan, The Voyage of Sorcerer II: The Expedition that Unlocked the Secrets of the Ocean’s
Microbiome,[55] details the Global Ocean Sampling Expedition, spanning a 15-year period during which
microbes from the world's oceans were collected and their DNA sequenced.

Personal life
After a 12-year marriage to Barbara Rae-Venter,[56][57] with whom he had a son, Christopher, he married
Claire M. Fraser[58][19] remaining married to her until 2005.[59] In late 2008 he married Heather
Kowalski.[60] They live in the La Jolla neighborhood of San Diego, CA.[60] Venter is an atheist.[61]

Venter was 75 when he sold his main research building to UCSD in 2022. The institute had out grown the
space and will be moving to a new facility in 2025. The Venter Institute campus in Rockville MD also
continues to expand. He said he has no intention of retiring.[13] He has a home in La Jolla and a ranch in
Borrego Springs, California, as well as homes in two small towns in Maine. He indulges in two passions:
sailing and flying a Cirrus 22T plane, which he calls "the ultimate freedom".[13]

In popular culture
Venter has been the subject of articles in several magazines, including Wired,[62] The Economist,[63]
Australian science magazine Cosmos,[64][65] and The Atlantic.[66]

Venter appears in the two-hour 2001 NOVA special, "Cracking the code of life".[67][68]

On May 16, 2004, Venter gave the commencement speech at Boston University.[69]

On December 4, 2007, Venter gave the Dimbleby lecture for the BBC in London.[70]

Venter gave the Distinguished Public Lecture during the 2007 Michaelmas Term at the James Martin 21st
Century School at Oxford University. Its title was "Genomics – From humans to the environment".[71][72]

Venter delivered the 2008 convocation speech for Faculty of Science honours and specialization students
at the University of Alberta.[73]

In February 2008, he gave a speech about his current work at the TED conference.[74]

Venter was featured in Time magazine's "The Top 10 Everything of 2008" article. Number three in 2008's
Top 10 Scientific Discoveries was a piece outlining his work stitching together the 582,000 base pairs
necessary to invent the genetic information for a whole new bacterium.[75]

On May 20, 2010, Venter announced the creation of first self-replicating semi-synthetic bacterial cell.[76]

In the June 2011 issue of Men's Journal, Venter was featured as the "Survival Skills" celebrity of the
month. He shared various anecdotes and advice, including stories of his time in Vietnam, as well as
mentioning a bout with melanoma on his back, which subsequently resulted in his "giving a pound of
flesh" to surgery.[77]

In May 2011, Venter was the commencement speaker at the 157th commencement of Syracuse
University.[78][79]

In May 2017, Venter was the guest of honor and keynote speaker at the inauguration ceremony of the
Center for Systems Biology Dresden.[80]

Awards and nominations

1996: Golden Plate Award of the American Academy of Achievement[81]
1999: Newcomb Cleveland Prize[82]
2000: Jacob Heskel Gabbay Award in Biotechnology and Medicine[83]
2001: Biotechnology Heritage Award with Francis Collins, from the Biotechnology Industry
Organization (BIO) and the Chemical Heritage Foundation[84][85]
2002: Association for Molecular Pathology Award for Excellence in Molecular Diagnostics[86]
 2007: On May 10, 2007, Venter was awarded an
honorary doctorate from Arizona State University,[87] and
on October 24 of the same year, he received an
honorary doctorate from Imperial College London.[88]
2008: Double Helix Medal from Cold Spring Harbor
Laboratory[89]
Dr. Craig Venter, being awarded the
2008: Kistler Prize from Foundation For the Future for
2020 Edogawa NICHE Prize in
genome research[90] Toronto
2008: ENI award for Research & Environment[91]
2008: National Medal of Science from President
Obama[92]
2010: On May 8, 2010, Venter received an honorary doctor of science degree from Clarkson
University for his work on the human genome.[93]
2011: On April 21, 2011, Venter received the 2011 Benjamin Rush Medal from William &
Mary School of Law.[94]
2011: Dickson Prize in Medicine[95]
2020: Edogawa NICHE Prize "2020 Edogawa NICHE Prize Awardee" (https://www.edogawa
nicheprize.org/prizewinner.html). for his contribution to research and development pertaining
to the Human genome[96]

Works
Venter has authored over 200 publications in scientific journals.[97]

Fleischmann, Robert D.; Adams, Mark D.; White, Owen; Clayton, Rebecca; ... Venter, J.
Craig (July 28, 1995). "Whole-Genome Random Sequencing and Assembly of Haemophilus
influenzae Rd". Science. 269 (5223): 496–512. Bibcode:1995Sci...269..496F (https://ui.adsa
bs.harvard.edu/abs/1995Sci...269..496F). doi:10.1126/science.7542800 (https://doi.org/10.1
126%2Fscience.7542800). PMID 7542800 (https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/7542800).
S2CID 10423613 (https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:10423613).
Tomb, Jean-F.; White, Owen; Kerlavage, Anthony R.; Clayton, Rebecca A.; Sutton, Granger
G.; Fleischmann, Robert D.; ... Venter, J. Craig (August 7, 1997). "The complete genome
sequence of the gastric pathogen Helicobacter pylori" (https://doi.org/10.1038%2F41483).
Nature. 388 (6642): 539–47. Bibcode:1997Natur.388..539T (https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/a
bs/1997Natur.388..539T). doi:10.1038/41483 (https://doi.org/10.1038%2F41483).
PMID 9252185 (https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/9252185).
Adams, Mark D.; Celniker, Susan E.; Holt, Robert A.; Evans, Cheryl A.; Goccayne, Jeannine
A.; Amanatides, Peter G.; ... Venter, J. Craig (March 24, 2000). "The genome sequence of
Drosophila melanogaster" (https://web.archive.org/web/20180722001126/http://faculty.evan
sville.edu/be6/b4456/genomep/adams.pdf) (PDF). Science. 287 (5461): 2185–95.
Bibcode:2000Sci...287.2185. (https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2000Sci...287.2185.).
CiteSeerX 10.1.1.549.8639 (https://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.549.
8639). doi:10.1126/science.287.5461.2185 (https://doi.org/10.1126%2Fscience.287.5461.21
85). PMID 10731132 (https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/10731132). Archived from the
original (http://faculty.evansville.edu/be6/b4456/genomep/adams.pdf) (PDF) on July 22,
2018. Retrieved October 24, 2017.
 Venter, J. C.; Adams, M.; Myers, E.; Li, P.; Mural, R.; Sutton, G.; Smith, H.; Yandell, M.;
Evans, C.; Holt, R. A.; Gocayne, J. D.; Amanatides, P.; Ballew, R. M.; Huson, D. H.;
Wortman, J. R.; Zhang, Q.; Kodira, C. D.; Zheng, X. H.; Chen, L.; Skupski, M.;
Subramanian, G.; Thomas, P. D.; Zhang, J.; Gabor Miklos, G. L.; Nelson, C.; Broder, S.;
Clark, A. G.; Nadeau, J.; McKusick, V. A.; et al. (2001). "The Sequence of the Human
Genome" (https://doi.org/10.1126%2Fscience.1058040). Science. 291 (5507): 1304–1351.
Bibcode:2001Sci...291.1304V (https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2001Sci...291.1304V).
doi:10.1126/science.1058040 (https://doi.org/10.1126%2Fscience.1058040).
PMID 11181995 (https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/11181995).
Venter, J. C.; Remington, K.; Heidelberg, J.; Halpern, A.; Rusch, D.; Eisen, J.; Wu, D.;
Paulsen, I.; Nelson, K.; Nelson, W.; Fouts, D. E.; Levy, S.; Knap, A. H.; Lomas, M. W.;
Nealson, K.; White, O.; Peterson, J.; Hoffman, J.; Parsons, R.; Baden-Tillson, H.;
Pfannkoch, C.; Rogers, Y. H.; Smith, H. O. (2004). "Environmental Genome Shotgun
Sequencing of the Sargasso Sea". Science. 304 (5667): 66–74.
Bibcode:2004Sci...304...66V (https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2004Sci...304...66V).
CiteSeerX 10.1.1.124.1840 (https://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.124.
1840). doi:10.1126/science.1093857 (https://doi.org/10.1126%2Fscience.1093857).
PMID 15001713 (https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/15001713). S2CID 1454587 (https://api.s
emanticscholar.org/CorpusID:1454587).
Rusch, Donald B.; Halpern, Aaron L.; Sutton, Granger; Heidelberg, Karla B.; Williamson,
Shannon; Yooseph, Shibu; Wu, Dongying; ... Venter, J. Craig (March 13, 2007). "The
Sorcerer II Global Ocean Sampling expedition: Northwest Atlantic through Eastern Tropical
Pacific" (https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1821060). PLOS Biology. 5 (3):
398–431. doi:10.1371/journal.pbio.0050077 (https://doi.org/10.1371%2Fjournal.pbio.005007
7). PMC 1821060 (https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1821060).
PMID 17355176 (https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/17355176).
Yooseph, Shibu; Sutton, Granger; Rusch, Donald B.; Halpern, Aaron L.; Williamson,
Shannon; Remington, Karin; Eisen, Jonathan A.; ... Venter, J. Craig (March 13, 2007). "The
Sorcerer II Global Ocean Sampling Expedition: Expanding the Universe of Protein Families"
(https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1821046). PLOS Biology. 5 (3): 432–466.
doi:10.1371/journal.pbio.0050016 (https://doi.org/10.1371%2Fjournal.pbio.0050016).
PMC 1821046 (https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1821046). PMID 17355171
(https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/17355171).
Venter, J. Craig (2007). A Life Decoded: My Genome: My Life (https://archive.org/details/life
decodedmygen00vent). New York: Viking Adult. ISBN 978-0-670-06358-1.
OCLC 165048736 (https://search.worldcat.org/oclc/165048736). editor Roger Highfield
Venter, J. Craig (2013). Life at the Speed of Light: From the Double Helix to the Dawn of
Digital Life. New York: Viking Adult. ISBN 978-0-670-02540-4. OCLC 834432832 (https://sea
rch.worldcat.org/oclc/834432832). editor Roger Highfield

See also

Biography portal
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biology portal
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Technology portal

Marine life portal

Artificial gene synthesis

 Full genome sequencing
Genetic testing
Genome: The Autobiography of a Species in 23 Chapters
Personal genomics
Pharmacogenomics
Predictive medicine
Synthetic Organism Designer

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Further reading
Ewing-Duncan, David (2006). Masterminds: Genius, DNA, and the Quest to Rewrite Life.
New York: Harper Perennial. ISBN 978-0-00-716184-3.
Shreeve, James (2004). The Genome War: How Craig Venter Tried to Capture the Code of
Life and Save the World (https://archive.org/details/genomewarhowcrai00shre). New York:
Alfred A. Knopf. ISBN 978-0-375-40629-4.
Sulston, John; Ferry, Georgina (2002). The Common Thread: A Story of Science, Politics,
Ethics and the Human Genome (https://archive.org/details/commonthreadsto00suls).
Washington, D.C.: Joseph Henry Press. ISBN 978-0-309-08409-3.

External links
Human Longevity, Inc. (http://www.humanlongevity.com/)
HuRef Genome Browser (http://huref.jcvi.org)
J. Craig Venter Institute (http://www.jcvi.org/)
Sorcerer II Expedition (http://www.sorcerer2expedition.org/version1/HTML/main.htm)
Synthetic Genomics (http://www.syntheticgenomics.com/) Archived (https://web.archive.org/
web/20081221120502/http://www.syntheticgenomics.com/) December 21, 2008, at the
Wayback Machine
The Institute for Genomic Research (TIGR) (http://www.jcvi.org)

Media

Craig Venter (https://www.ted.com/speakers/craig_venter) at TED

 Craig Venter (https://charlierose.com/guests/2497) on Charlie Rose
Craig Venter (https://www.nytimes.com/topic/person/craig-venter) collected news and
commentary at The New York Times
Cracking the code to life (https://www.theguardian.com/science/2007/oct/08/genetics.scienc
eandnature), The Guardian, October 8, 2007
Craig Venter interview (https://www.pbs.org/kcet/wiredscience/video/289-craig_venter.html),
Wired Science, December 2007 (video)
Video of interview/discussion with Craig Venter (http://bloggingheads.tv/diavlogs/398) by
Carl Zimmer on Bloggingheads.tv
Craig Venter: A voyage of DNA, genes and the sea (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E5X
6Qy772YU) on YouTube – TED (Technology Entertainment Design) conference (video)
Webcast of Venter talk 'Genomics: From humans to the environment' (https://web.archive.or
g/web/20081222163006/http://www.21school.ox.ac.uk/video/200710_venter.cfm) at The
James Martin 21st Century School
The Richard Dimbleby Lecture 2007 – Dr. J. Craig Venter – A DNA Driven World (http://vide
o.google.com/videoplay?docid=4893602463025557866)
A short course on synthetic genomics. Edge Master Class 2009 (http://www.edge.org/3rd_c
ulture/church_venter09/church_venter09_index.html)
"J. Craig Venter: Designing Life" (http://www.cbs.com/primetime/60_minutes/). 60 Minutes.
November 21, 2010. CBS.

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