Month: November 2021
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List of most highly cited researchers features 20 UCSC scientists and engineers
November 16, 2021 | Tim Stephens | UCSC A new list of the world’s most highly cited researchers includes 20 scientists and engineers at UC Santa Cruz. The 2021 Highly Cited Researchers list, released November 16 by Clarivate’s Web of Science Group, identifies researchers from across the globe who have demonstrated exceptional influence in their…
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UCSC researchers double-down on data sharing’s key role in global health
Scientists present framework for freely and safely sharing health data on a global scale in a brand new, open access journal SANTA CRUZ, CA – Nov. 16, 2021 – Consistent with its long tradition of championing sharing of genomic data, UC Santa Cruz is represented among Global Alliance for Genomics & Health (GA4GH) paper authors…
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Genome Traces, Beavers and Wildfire, Halloween DIY, Volcanoes. Oct 22, 2021, Part 2
The Ancient Neanderthal Traces Hidden In Your Genome October 22, 2021 | Science Friday Just how much of your genome is uniquely human? It turns out the number of genetic components in the human genome that trace back only to modern humans, and not to other human lineages or ancient ancestors, are surprisingly small. In…
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Giving Day 2021 Update
Giving Day, UCSC’s 24-hour, grassroots fundraiser held on Wednesday, Nov. 3, was an engergizing kick-off to the holiday giving season for two Genomics Institute flagship project teams. Treehouse Undergraduate Bioinformatics Immersion program raised $8,300 from 37 donors. The entire team is grateful to Ted Goldstein, Jessica Bernhardt, and Lou & Leslie Grate, who generously matched…
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Nature Papers Present Chromatin Analysis Approach, Gene Targets to Improve Bread Wheat, More
GenomeWeb | November 04, 2021 A haplotype-aware genotyping pipeline for producing state-of-the-art variant calling results with nanopore data is described in Nature Methods this week.
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Adaptable Academics
Amid pandemic upheaval, flexibility finds opportunity Mary-Russell Roberson | Inquiry | UCSC Research Magazine | 2021-2022 In March 2020, just after the COVID-19 pandemic abruptly turned the world upside down, Music Department lecturer Brian Baumbusch spent a sleepless night alternating between attending to his baby and anxiously pondering how he would manage during lockdown as…
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De-extinction Could Reverse Species Loss. But Should We Do It?
What would it mean to reintroduce woolly mammoths and passenger pigeons now? Leah Worthington | California Magazine | Fall 2021 THE MOST BELOVED BIRD IN HISTORY may very well have been a 29-year-old pigeon by the name of Martha. It was the early 1900s, shortly before the United States entered the First World War, and…