Craig Venter: Geneticist (You need to know him)

Craig Venter:
  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nKZ-GjSaqgo

Craig Venter Institute: (San Diego and Maryland)
  http://www.jcvi.org/cms/research/groups/

First Synthetic Genome Made:
  http://www.wired.com/science/discoveries/news/2008/01/synthetic_genome