Editing Craig Venter (section)

==Personal life==
After a 12-year marriage to [[Barbara Rae-Venter]],<ref>{{cite news |last1=Graham |first1=Flora |title=Thursday briefing: Barbara Rae-Venter is the hobbyist genealogical detective who tracked a serial killer |url=https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-018-06137-2 |access-date=January 29, 2019 |journal=Nature |agency=Nature |date=August 30, 2018 |language=EN |doi=10.1038/d41586-018-06137-2}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last1=Murphy |first1=Heather |title=She Helped Crack the Golden State Killer Case. Here's What She's Going to Do Next |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/29/science/barbara-rae-venter-gsk.html |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220101/https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/29/science/barbara-rae-venter-gsk.html |archive-date=January 1, 2022 |url-access=limited |access-date=January 29, 2019 |work=The New York Times |date=August 29, 2018}}{{cbignore}}</ref> with whom he had a son, Christopher, he married [[Claire M. Fraser]]<ref name="Okie-2011">{{cite news|last1=Okie|first1=Susan|title=Is Craig Venter going to save the planet? Or, is this more hype from one of America's most controversial scientists?|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/magazine/is-craig-venter-going-to-save-the-planet-or-is-this-more-hype-from-one-of-americas-most-controversial-scientists/2011/06/07/gIQAfr2c8I_story.html|access-date=February 1, 2017|newspaper=Washington Post|date=August 11, 2011}}</ref><ref name="The Sydney Morning Herald-2007"/> remaining married to her until 2005.<ref>{{cite journal |last=Wadman |first=Meredith |date=May 2007 |title=High-profile departure ends genome institute's charmed run |journal=[[Nature Medicine]] |volume=13 |issue=5 |pages=518 |doi=10.1038/nm1594 |pmid=17479082|s2cid=40959134 |doi-access=free }}</ref> In late 2008 he married Heather Kowalski.<ref name="Lin, Sara-2010" /> They live in the [[La Jolla]] neighborhood of San Diego, CA.<ref name="Lin, Sara-2010">{{cite news|author=Lin, Sara|title=Craig Venter's Hangout|url=https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424052748704548604575098131101212908|date=March 12, 2010|work=The Wall Street Journal|publisher=Dow Jones|access-date=January 9, 2011}}</ref> Venter is an atheist.<ref>[[Steve Kroft]] asked Venter on CBS' ''[http://www.scienceandreligiontoday.com/2010/11/22/craig-venter-on-60-minutes/ Sixty Minutes] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150109003819/http://www.scienceandreligiontoday.com/2010/11/22/craig-venter-on-60-minutes/|date=January 9, 2015}}'', November 21, 2010: "Do you believe in God?" Venter replied, "No. The universe is far more wonderful."</ref>

Venter was 75 when he sold his main research building to UCSD in 2022. The institute had out grown the space and will be moving to a new facility in 2025. The Venter Institute campus in Rockville MD also continues to expand. He said he has no intention of retiring.<ref name="Robbins-2022"/> He has a home in La Jolla and a ranch in [[Borrego Springs, California]], as well as homes in two small towns in Maine. He indulges in two passions: sailing and flying a Cirrus 22T plane, which he calls "the ultimate freedom".<ref name="Robbins-2022"/>