Month: March 2017
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CANCELLED: Inferring Temporal Signaling Pathways and Regulatory Networks, and Classifying Cell Types from High-Throughput Data
Due to inclement weather, flights out of Pittsburgh are grounded. Please stay tuned for a rescheduled event. Siddartha Jain PhD student, Computer Science Department Carnegie Mellon University Friday, April 7, 2017 11:15 – 12:15 PM 599 Engineering 2 Abstract Cells need to be able to sustain themselves, divide, and adapt to new stimuli. Proteins are key…
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UC Santa Cruz Genomics Institute Director Feted
Pictured from left to right: Ravi Jain, Isabel Bjork, Rob Currie and Ann Pace SANTA CRUZ, CA – March 24, 2017 – Today, the UC Santa Cruz Genomics Institute held a going-away party for its Managing Director, Ravi Jain, at Santa Cruz’s Discretion Brewery. Jain, who has been with the Institute for two years, says…
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The evolutionary and phylogeographic history of woolly mammoths: a comprehensive mitogenomic analysis
Abstract: Near the end of the Pleistocene epoch, populations of the woolly mammoth (Mammuthus primigenius) were distributed across parts of three continents, from western Europe and northern Asia through Beringia to the Atlantic seaboard of North America. Nonetheless, questions about the connectivity and temporal continuity of mammoth populations and species remain unanswered. We use a…
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Feel good, do good! she.is.beautiful pediatric cancer fundraiser run
he She is Beautiful run in Santa Cruz is fast approaching, and we would like to share the opportunity to sign up for it. It is such a great event! The race will be on Sunday, March 19, 2017 at 8:30am. More info can be found on the registration page here. If you can’t participate, but would like to donate,…
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Ravi Pandya: Accelerating Genomics in the Cloud
Thursday Mar 16, 2017 3:30pm – 4:30pm, E2-599 Abstract: I will describe an optimized version of the Broad Institute best practices BWA/GATK pipeline that we have developed to run in the Microsoft Azure cloud as an easy-to-use web service. This pipeline gives similar accuracy to standard BWA/GATK, but can process a 30x whole-genome FASTQ into…
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Bison phylogeography constrains dispersal and viability of the Ice Free Corridor in western Canada
The Ice Free Corridor has been invoked as a route for Pleistocene human and animal dispersals between eastern Beringia and more southerly areas of North America. Despite the significance of the corridor, there are limited data for when and how this corridor was used. Hypothetical uses of the corridor include: the first expansion of humans…
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The Controversial Origin of a Symbol of the American West
UC Santa Cruz research to trace bison’s common ancestor helps put to rest the date of its arrival in North America SANTA CRUZ, CA – March 13, 2017 – New research by Professor Beth Shapiro of the UC Santa Cruz Genomics Institute and University of Alberta Professor Duane Froese has identified North America’s oldest bison…
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Conferences explore genomic science – from biodiversity to biomedicine
For the first time, the Earlham Institute will host the Genome 10K (G10K) and the Genome Science conferences, simultaneously. This dual event, organized by EI’s Director of Science and council member of Genome 10k Prof Federica Di Palma, will bring together comparative and conservation genomics, with technological advances and innovative applications of genomics and computational…