HHMI's Janelia Farm Research Campus is a world-class biomedical research center where outstanding scientists from diverse disciplines use emerging and innovative technologies to pursue biology's most challenging problems. Our research goals include the identification of general principles guiding how information is processed by neuronal circuits, in addition to the development of new imaging technologies and computational methods for image data analysis.
JULY 22, 2010
Neuroscience: Watching and Learning from Flies on the March
Janelia Farm researchers show it takes steady hands to measure the brain activity of a fruit fly while it is walking.JULY 04, 2010
New Microscope Lets Scientists Make Movies of Early Animal Development
A new imaging method will allow researchers to study speedy cell processes over hours and days rather than seconds, and to examine how morphological defects arise in developing animals.
MAY 04, 2010
The Silicon MarvelNew Janelia supercomputing cluster puts a premium on expandability and speed.
689 GREEN ACRESThe campus occupies 689 wooded acres along the Potomac River, featuring lab space and housing facilities with distinctive “landscape” architecture. And the roof is actually landscaped—at 180,000 square feet, it’s the second-largest green roof in the United States. |
250 RESIDENT STAFFUp to 250 resident staff will include 24 group leaders and as many as 20 fellows, as well as the postdocs and graduate students in their research groups. A support staff of 80 will provide the necessary infrastructure for efficient research. |
TALLER THAN THE EIFFELIf stood on end, the Landscape Building would equal the height of an 85-story building—that’s taller than the Eiffel Tower. |
UNDERFOOTThe Landscape Building’s first floor has 43,000 square feet of Italian Basaltina, the same stone flooring used in portions of the Vatican. |
RAISON D’ETRE143 attendees at five planning workshops focused Janelia Farm’s scientific agenda into two main topics: neuronal networking and imaging. |
GOOD VIBESThe Landscape Building’s infrastructure, a hybrid of steel frame and reinforced concrete, was designed to mitigate floor vibration—a necessary standard for some lab research. |
SEE FOR MILESThe Landscape Building is one of the largest examples in the U.S. of what architects call structurally glazed systems, a technique that supports exceptionally large sheets of glass windows—some 147,000 square feet, all told. |
100% RECYCLEDAll trees cut during Janelia Farm’s construction were recycled. Stumps and softwoods were ground into mulch. Small trees and limbs were chipped in a waste-to-energy plant. 35,000 board feet of hardwoods were milled into random-width plank flooring for use onsite. |
