Month: October 2009
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Nanopore project wins $1.1 million NIH grant
By Tim Stephens, Public Information Office The National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI) has awarded a $1.1 million grant to researchers in the Jack Baskin School of Engineering at UC Santa Cruz to support their work on nanopore technology for analyzing DNA. Led by biomolecular engineers Mark Akeson and David Deamer, the UCSC nanopore group…
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Databases and Genome Browsers
The advent of the human genome project and subsequent projects to sequence genomes of other species and multiple individuals has driven the need for tools that can visualize vast amounts of genomics data. Software for genome browsing has had a vast impact in the arenas of human medical and genetics research, enabling researchers to process…
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Five faculty members win 2009 NSF CAREER awards
By Daniel Strain, UCSC Public Information Office Five UC Santa Cruz faculty members have won prestigious Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) awards from the National Science Foundation (NSF) in 2009. Three of the recipients are faculty in the Jack Baskin School of Engineering: William Dunbar, assistant professor of computer engineering; Pascale Garaud, assistant professor of…
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UCSC arts and science faculty collaborate for exhibition at Sesnon Gallery
By Scott Rappaport, University Relations “Full Disclosure”–an exhibition opening on October 7 at UCSC’s Sesnon Gallery–is built upon the idea of “failure” as a path to learning. The show is an intimate look at the process of trial and error that lies behind the complex work of artists and scientists. Co-curated by associate professor of…
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Antarctic expedition studies survival strategies of Weddell seals
By Tim Stephens, UCSC Public Information Office Eight years after her last major expedition to Antarctica, biologist Terrie Williams is back on the ice. This time, however, her team began the expedition during the Antarctic winter, the harshest season in the harshest environment on Earth. From a remote field site on the Antarctic sea ice,…
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UCSC bioinformatics experts are partners in national cancer genetics project
By Tim Stephens, UCSC Public Information OfficeResearchers in the Jack Baskin School of Engineering at the University of California, Santa Cruz, will establish a Cancer Genome Data Analysis Center as part of The Cancer Genome Atlas (TCGA), a $275 million collaborative project led by the National Cancer Institute and the National Human Genome Research Institute.The…