Janelia Research Campus
| Janelia Research Campus | |
|---|---|
| motto | Open for Discovery (Open for Discoveries) |
| founding | 2006 |
| place | Ashburn , Virginia |
| management | Gerald M. Rubin |
| Professors | 15 (2008) |
| Website | www.hhmi.org |
The Janelia Research Campus (formerly Janelia Farm Research Campus ; founded 2006) is a research institute in Loudoun County near Ashburn ( Virginia ) in the USA . Janelia Research Campus is the first and so far only freestanding research facility of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute .
Goal setting
Janelia Research was founded to enable the processing of fundamental questions in biomedical research that are difficult to deal with by industry or other academic research institutions.
This includes projects that
- Need expertise in different areas
- are too long-term to be processed within a funding period
- lie outside the main interests of other donors.
campus
The 275 meter long arched main building on the 279 hectare park-like campus was designed by the architect Rafael Viñoly and completed in September 2006. The building is architecturally adapted to the natural course of a slope on the Potomac River and is therefore called 'Landscape Building'. If it were to stand upright, it would have a height of 85 stories . In addition to office and conference rooms, it includes modularly divided laboratories that can be redesigned as required in a short time.
The campus also includes a large number of residential buildings to accommodate researchers and a hotel-like facility with around 100 rooms to accommodate conference participants. The facility is difficult to reach by public transport, but is conveniently located near Washington Dulles International Airport .
Research focus
The thematic focus of Janelia Research is the interdisciplinary research of neurobiological processes. Of particular interest are:
- Identifying general principles of how neural networks process information
- The development of new imaging processes and computer-aided image analysis
education
In cooperation with the University of Chicago in Illinois and the University of Cambridge in England , Janelia Research offers a Ph.-D. Program. Like the institute's standards, the requirements placed on applicants are also high. Students must first apply successfully to the partner universities and can then be selected for Janelia Research in a second process. Janelia Research advertises its program with the slogan: “Don't just study great science. LIVE IT. ” (Don't just learn great science. LIVE IT .)
The culture of Janelia Research
The goal of Janelia Research is to provide an informal and collaborative research environment as known from AT&T Bell Laboratories or the Laboratory for Molecular Biology at the University of Cambridge. A special feature of Janelia Research is the concept of employing an unusually high proportion of guest researchers at the institute at all times.
Scientists are usually employed on a six-year term . In addition to the salary, all other necessary research and personnel resources are made available from the internal budget of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, so that scientists do not have to use resources on applying for third-party funds and can concentrate exclusively on scientific issues.
Personalities
- Sydney Brenner - biologist, Nobel Prize in Medicine and Physiology 2002
- Eugene Myers - bioinformatician, at Janelia Farm until 2012
- Eric Betzig - physicist, Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2014
- Gerald M. Rubin - molecular biologist and geneticist, director of Janelia Research
literature
- Gerald M. Rubin: Establishing a new Research Institute: The Howard Hughes Medical Institute's Janelia Farm Research Campus. in: Perspectives of Research - Identification and Implementation of Research Topics by Organizations - Ringberg-Symposium 2006 (Max-Planck-Forum 7) Max-Planck-Gesellschaft (Hrsg.), Munich 2007, ISSN 1438-8715
Web links and sources
- Janelia Research Campus
- Janelia Research Internet presence on the website of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute
- For Basic Researchers, Janelia Farm Will Offer Unparalleled Resources . In: Journal of the National Cancer Institute , August 20, 2003: Volume 95, No. 16, pp. 1193–1194 (in English)
Coordinates: 39 ° 4 ′ 17.8 " N , 77 ° 27 ′ 53.3" W.