Jeffersonian Institute

The  is a fictional government funded institution located in the city of Washington, D.C. It is analagous to the real-world educational and research center, the Smithsonian Institution. The Jeffersonian is the primary setting of the FOX Network television series Bones.

The most notable department of the Jeffersonian featured in the series is the Medico-Legal Lab, which houses the institute's forensic anthropology laboratory. The director of the institute in 2005 was Doctor Daniel Goodman. He left in 2006 to go on sabbatical and was replaced by Doctor Camille Saroyan. The Medico-Legal team is headed by Doctor Temperance Brennan and her team of specialists, which includes computer rendering artist Angela Montenegro, entomologist Doctor Jack Hodgins and a crew of rotating interns like Zack Addy, Clark Edison, Wendell Bray, Colin Fisher and Vincent Nigel-Murray.

FBI psychiatrist Lance Sweets also has an office at the institute and works closely with both the FBI and the Medico-Legal Lab team.