A riveting account of the unparalleled drama of the quest for the human genome by the scientist who went on to be the first to read and interpret his own genome.
J. Craig Venter is one of the leading scientists of the twenty-first century. A pioneer in the world of genomic research, he is recognized for his visionary contributions to the field. In February 2001, Venter published the completed sequence of the human genome. He is the founder and president of the J. Craig Venter Institute. He lives near Washington, DC. Michael W. Quick, Ph.D., is Executive Vice Dean of USC College of Letters, Arts, and Sciences, and a Professor of Biological Sciences. He received his Ph.D. in Neuroscience from Emory University in 1992. The Quick lab at USC uses the tools of modern molecular neurobiology to examine the cellular and subcellular processes that underlie diseases such as epilepsy, cocaine and amphetamine abuse, nicotine addiction, and which underlie the action of therapeutics such as anti-depressants.