The Voyage of Sorcerer II Book Signing with J Craig Venter

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| Dear Niki, |
| I am excited to announce that my newest book about exploring microbial life in our oceans will be published September 12. As a friend and supporter of JCVI, you are invited to a book talk and signing at Warwick’s in La Jolla, where I will be discussing some of the many adventures and discoveries we made during our more than 15-year quest to collect DNA from the world’s oldest and most abundant form of life: microbes. |
| Published by Harvard University Press, The Voyage of Sorcerer II: The Expedition That Unlocked the Secrets of the Ocean’s Microbiome follows me and a team of JCVI scientists and crew, along with global collaborators aboard the Sorcerer II, a 95-foot sailboat turned research vessel, on a journey over 65,000 miles around the globe. The experiences we had and discoveries we made were beyond anything we could have imagined. |
| Tuesday, September 12 at 7:30pm

Warwick’s

7812 Girard Ave

La Jolla, CA 92037

Event website |
| This event is free and open to the public, but seating is limited. To reserve seating in advance, pre-order a copy of The Voyage of Sorcerer II from Warwick's. |
| Don’t miss this opportunity to meet Dr. Venter, hear his stories from this great adventure, and learn more about how this research is continuing to impact society today. |
| I hope you’re able to join me. |
| Sincerely, |
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| J. Craig Venter

Founder, Chairman, and Chief Executive Officer, JCVI |
| Proceeds from book sales will directly support the ongoing science happening at the J. Craig Venter Institute, a nonprofit genomic research institute focused on driving advances in human health and environmental sustainability. |
| If you are unable to attend but would like a copy of the book and to support JCVI, you can get it directly from Harvard University Press. |
| Learn more about the Global Ocean Sampling Expedition and the book it inspired on The Voyage of Sorcerer II website. |
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| Upon completing his historic work on the Human Genome Project, J. Craig Venter declared that he would sequence the genetic code of all life on earth. Thus began a 15-year quest to collect DNA from the world’s oldest and most abundant form of life: microbes. Boarding the Sorcerer II, a 95-foot sailboat turned research vessel, Venter traveled over 65,000 miles around the globe to sample ocean water and the microscopic life within. |
| In The Voyage of Sorcerer II, Venter and science writer David Ewing Duncan tell the remarkable story of these expeditions and of the momentous discoveries that ensued―of plant-like bacteria that get their energy from the sun, proteins that metabolize vast amounts of hydrogen, and microbes whose genes shield them from ultraviolet light. The result was a massive library of millions of unknown genes, thousands of unseen protein families, and new lineages of bacteria that revealed the unimaginable complexity of life on Earth. Yet despite this exquisite diversity, Venter encountered sobering reminders of how human activity is disturbing the delicate microbial ecosystem that nurtures life on earth. In the face of unprecedented climate change, Venter and Duncan show how we can harness the microbial genome to develop alternative sources of energy, food, and medicine that might ultimately avert our destruction. |
| A captivating story of exploration and discovery, The Voyage of Sorcerer II restores microbes to their rightful place as crucial partners in our evolutionary past and guides to our future. |
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| THE VOYAGE of SORCERER II |
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| THE EXPEDITION THAT UNLOCKED THE SECRETS OF THE OCEAN’S MICROBIOME |