Janelia Farm HHMI

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research campus of HHMI; &nbsp;opened in Oct 2006</p>

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in Loudon County, VIRGINIA near Ashburn.

Exec Direc is Gerald Rubin, who is Vice Pres of HHMI.</p>

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budget 300M per year;</p>

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689 acres;

424 on staff;</p>

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HHMI as of 2011 had 330 investigators at 70 instits.</p>

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But Janelia built to do interdis probs.</p>

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Campus focuses on interdis resch:</p>

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1) &nbsp;ID genl principles that gover info proc in neuronal circuits and

2) &nbsp;develop imaging techs and computational methods for image analysis.</p>

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Three large scale &nbsp;intedisc projects at Janelia:</p>

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1) &nbsp;thruput charact. of behavioral phenotypes on genetic, defined small neural lesions in Drosophila

2) &nbsp;two projects doing large-scale neuroanatom for Drosophila at light and EM levels</p>

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Janelia arims to emulate &nbsp;collab enviro of ATT Bell Labs and Cambridges &nbsp;Lab of Molec Bio.

Researchers on 6 year contracts and fully internally funded, indep of res grants.</p>

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also see Karol Svoboda and Sydney Brenner.</p>

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