CAMBIA is an international, independent non-profit research institute. For more than a decade, CAMBIA has been creating new tools to foster innovation and a spirit of collaboration in the life sciences. These tools are aimed at enabling people in disadvantaged communities and developing countries to choose their own methods, to help themselves meet their own challenges in food security, health, and natural resource management.

It is the mission of the Caribbean Conservation Corporation to ensure the survival of sea turtles within the Wider Caribbean basin and Atlantic through research, education, training, advocacy and the protection of the natural habitats upon which they depend. CCC has chosen sea turtles as the focus of its conservation efforts in part because these ancient creatures are among the most important indicators of the health of the worlds marine and coastal ecosystems. CCC believes that whether sea turtles ultimately vanish from the planet or whether they remain a wild and thriving part of the natural world, will speak volumes about both the general health of the planet and the ability of humans to sustainably coexist with the diversity of life on Earth.

We use mathematical models and computer simulations to study a wide range of problems in population biology, animal behavior, and evolutionary theory. Our current research efforts are concentrated in two areas: (1) Information in biological systems. How do living organisms acquire, store, and make use of information? How and why does communication evolve? (2) The ecology and evolution of infectious disease. How do pathogens evolve and spread through populations? How do populations evolve in response to pathogen challenge?

The Carnegie Institution is a private organization that conducts basic research for the benefit of humanity. Its Department of Global Ecology, founded in 2002 on the campus of Stanford University, conducts basic research on the interactions among the earth's ecosystems, land, atmosphere, and oceans. The goal of this research is understanding the ways these interactions shape the behavior of the earth system, including its responses to future changes. The Department of Global Ecology includes faculty members, post-doctoral fellows, graduate students, and undergraduates, plus technical and administrative staff. There are opportunities for volunteers who wish to be involved in the research.

Celera Genomics' mission is to discover and develop meaningful new therapies that improve human health. We are engaged in the discovery and development of targeted therapies for cancer, autoimmune and inflammatory diseases (a category that includes diseases such as asthma and rheumatoid arthritis). To identify and validate drug targets and diagnostic marker candidates, and to discover novel therapeutic candidates, we are leveraging capabilities in proteomics, bioinformatics and genomics. We are also seeking to advance therapeutic antibody and selected small molecule drug programs in collaboration with global technology and market leaders. Our scientists are also working with their colleagues at Celera Diagnostics to better understand associations between diseases and patterns of genetic variation. This information could be useful in the development of new diagnostic and therapeutic products, and in identifying which people will best respond to certain drugs. Read more about our Targeted Medicine concept.

The Census of Marine Life is a growing global network of researchers in more than 70 nations engaged in a ten-year initiative to assess and explain the diversity, distribution, and abundance of marine life in the oceans -- past, present, and future.

CBC examines the mechanisms sustaining crucial regional and global processes that underlie our life-support systems. The research approach combines empirical and theoretical work, documenting emergent laws of organization, and examining through sophisticated modeling the mechanisms that generate and maintain biocomplexity and predictable features of ecological organization. The CBC is directed by Simon Levin, Moffett Professor of Biology, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology.

The Center for Biodiversity and Conservation (CBC) was created in June 1993 by the American Museum of Natural History in order to bring the Museum's extensive scientific and educational resources to bear in conservation decisions and actions. The CBC's programs focus on areas of the world where biodiversity is both rich and of great conservation concern. Currently, the CBC has projects in the Bahamas, Bolivia, Madagascar, Vietnam, and the greater New York metropolitan region.

The Center for BioDynamics (CBD) is a multidisciplinary, interdepartmental center whose mission is to advance training and research at the interfaces among dynamical systems, biology and engineering. The CBD develops and implements techniques from dynamical systems theory to gain insight into the functioning of physiological systems, as well as to improve clinical devices and techniques. In addition, the CBD serves as a home for the development and sharing of dynamical systems techniques for use in diverse applications.

The mission of the Center for Human Information Processing (CHIP), which is now being renamed Center for Brain and Cognition (CBC) is to bring together faculty, students, and researchers who share an interest in neural mechanisms underlying human perception, cognition and emotions (and the application of knowledge about cognitive mechanisms to addressing real-world human problems).

The Center for Genome Research and Biocomputing at Oregon State University facilitates the development of molecular biological and genetic research with the ultimate goal of improving health, natural and agricultural resources, and environmental quality. The center offers leadership and services to faculty, staff and students through core laboratories, seminars, and retreats. It also provides a focal point for researchers to establish contacts, initiate collaborations, and establish new technologies in their own laboratories.

Economic progress in developing countries depends on healthy citizens and environments. The Mailman School of Public Health and The Earth Institute at Columbia University are launching the Center for Global Health and Economic Development (CGHED), as a joint venture based at the Mailman School, to mobilize global health programs that help resource-poor countries address the burden of disease.

The Center for Integrative Genomics is a research center which brings together researchers from several traditionally isolated fields of study to analyze and compare the genome sequences of a broad spectrum of organisms to determine the mechanisms responsible for evolutionary diversity among animals, plants and microbes. Faculty at the Center are drawn from a number of academic departments at UC Berkeley and Lawrence Berkeley National Labs, including molecular and cellular biology, integrative biology, statistics, computer science, bioengineering, plant and microbial biology, biostatistics, mathematics, physics, and public health. One of the Center's primary objectives is to decode regulatory DNA - the regions of the genome that control gene expression - and the protein factors that bind to them. By understanding how a common set of genes is deployed differently in various organisms, we hope to reveal the mechanisms of evolution.

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The CNBC is dedicated to the investigation of the neural mechanisms that give rise to human cognitive abilities, broadly construed. The outstanding faculty of the CNBC includes researchers investigating normal processes and disorders of cognition, and there is a great deal of interest in learning and development. We stress the convergent use of a wide range of methods to investigate topics ranging from sensory processing and motor control to language, semantic cognition, and reasoning. The CNBC is a joint project of the University of Pittsburgh and Carnegie Mellon, integrating the strengths of the University of Pittsburgh in basic and clinical neuroscience with the strengths of Carnegie Mellon in psychology, computer science and statistics.