Month: November 2014
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As species decline, so does research funding
Ecology and evolutionary biologist Terrie Williams from the UC Santa Cruz Genomics Institute responded to a dubious distinction with an op-ed in the Los Angeles Times. She was named in Sen. Tom Coburn’s (R-Oklahoma) “Wastebook 2014” for her research on mountain lions. Coburn said Williams had squandered $856,000 of taxpayer money on training mountain…
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NCI Cloud Pilot program to boost cancer genomics data sharing, accessibility
By Tim Stephens, UCSC Public Information Office The UC Santa Cruz Genomics Institute is part of a team led by the Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT that was awarded one of three National Cancer Institute (NCI) Cancer Genomics Cloud Pilot contracts. The goal of the project, which also involves scientists at UC Berkeley, is to build…