{"id":1193,"date":"2005-05-19T20:56:19","date_gmt":"2005-05-20T00:56:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dwan.org\/?p=1193"},"modified":"2019-10-26T20:57:49","modified_gmt":"2019-10-27T00:57:49","slug":"venter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dwan.org\/index.php\/2005\/05\/19\/venter\/","title":{"rendered":"Venter"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I&#8217;m at a speech by J. Craig Venter. My heart is filled with envy, because he&#8217;s so damn smart. How smart? Well, he&#8217;s making scientific history by sailing the world (in his tax deductible yacht). He takes environmental samples (from the Sargasso sea, for example) and sequences all the DNA he finds. It&#8217;s changing our understanding of genomic biology. Now he&#8217;s giving a keynote using his travel pictures as slides. He&#8217;s very quotable:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Back at the beginning, we had this idea that we had if we couldn&#8217;t make a single large machine to sequence the entire genome, we had failed.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Once we did drosophila, the rest was really just cranking through it.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Here&#8217;s one of me, with two Apple guys, in front of the India Gate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"480\" height=\"625\" src=\"https:\/\/dwan.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/DSC_0738.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1194\"\/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m at a speech by J. Craig Venter. My heart is filled with envy, because he&#8217;s so damn smart. How smart? Well, he&#8217;s making scientific history by sailing the world (in his tax deductible yacht). He takes environmental samples (from the Sargasso sea, for example)&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1193","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwan.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1193","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwan.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwan.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwan.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwan.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1193"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dwan.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1193\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1195,"href":"https:\/\/dwan.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1193\/revisions\/1195"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwan.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1193"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwan.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1193"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwan.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1193"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}