blog posts Ambitious project to sequence genomes of 1.5 million species kicks off Nov 6, 2018 12:30 pm by Smithsonian MagazineIllinois in the News Share on Facebook Tweet Email Images Smithsonian Magazine (Nov. 5) Last week, a global consortium of scientists, including Illinois' Gene Robinson, officially launched the Earth BioGenome Project to sequence the DNA of most species of life Share on Facebook Tweet Email