The J. Craig Venter Institute has appointed Mark D. Adams as scientific director.

Adams will be responsible for directing all research projects at JCVI's Rockville, Md., and San Diego, Calif., campuses and will be based in the San Diego facility.

Adams joins JCVI from Case Western Reserve University, where he worked from 2003 to 2011 as an associate professor in the department of genetics and was also director of the Case Western Genomics Core Facility.