Author: Rose Miyatsu
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UC COVID-19 seed funding supports UCSC coronavirus genome browser
June 05, 2020 | Tim Stephens | UCSC The UC Santa Cruz Genomics Institute’s Genome Browser Team has received seed funding from the UC Office of the President for its work on the UCSC Genome Browser for SARS-CoV-2, which supports biomedical research aimed at developing therapeutics and a vaccine for COVID-19. The team fast-tracked efforts…
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Could we bring back the wooly mammoth? Should we?
Brad Kava and Suki Wessling | Jan 29, 2020 | All Talk, Local, Talk of the Bay KSQD Santa Cruz Community Radio hosted a conversation with Sabrina Shirazi and Molly Cassatt from the Paleogenomics Lab at UC Santa Cruz. In this wide-ranging chat, they discuss ancient DNA, what you can find in a soil sample,…
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VISUALISE THE SARS-CoV-2 CORONAVIRUS GENOME – UCSC Genome Browser Tutorial series
Genomics Gurus | Apr 6, 2020 | YouTube The SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus emerged in December 2019 as a novel human pathogen causing a severe acute respiratory syndrome, called “COVID-19”. In the following months, the disease has spread internationally and was declared a pandemic by the World Health Organization on March 11, 2020. The UC Santa Cruz…
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Guide2Research 2020 Computer Science and Electronics Ranking
We are proud to share that our Scientific Director David Haussler ranks #5 in the world and #5 in the United States, this according to Guide2Research’s 2020 Ranking of Top 1000 Scientists in the field of Computer Science and Electronics. The ranking is based on the H-Index metric provided by Google Scholar and includes only…
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Multi-omic analyses and organoid models for identification of therapeutic vulnerabilities and developmental origins in childhood cancer
Dissertation Defense Lauren Sanders, PhD Candidate, Biomolecular Engineering & Bioinformatics Thursday, June 4, 2020 – 10:00 am Zoom – https://ucsc.zoom.us/j/95333252052 Abstract Pediatric cancers are different from adult cancers in that they often have few targetable DNA mutations, and in most cases are thought to be developmental in origin rather than environmental. While overall survival rates…
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COVID Catalyst Fund supports work on rapid serology test at UC Santa Cruz
Biomolecular engineer Nader Pourmand is evaluating the use of a novel nanosensor to provide rapid, low-cost, and accurate serology tests for coronavirus antibodies May 14, 2020 | Tim Stephens | UCSC Researchers at UC Santa Cruz are testing a novel nanosensor technology that could provide rapid, low-cost serology tests with high sensitivity for detecting and…
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Dr. Salama receives NIH support to research normal and disordered brain development
IBSC | Catharina Lindley | May 7, 2020 Dr. Sofie Salama received an R01 research grant from the National Institute of Mental Health to study molecular and cellular defects that underlie complex neurodevelopmental diseases like autism and schizophrenia. Understanding these mechanisms will help in the development of approaches to prevent or ameliorate these conditions. Multiple…
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New DNA technology leads to DNA match in Daralyn Johnson murder case
Idaho News 6 | Jessica Taylor | May 6, 2020 Cutting edge DNA technology led to a match and arrest in the Daralyn Johnson case. Boise State professor and director of the Idaho Innocence Project Greg Hampikian had a critical hand to play in the discovery. Hampikian knows DNA; he’s been studying samples of it…
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The UCSC SARS-CoV-2 Genome Browser
The UCSC Genome Browser features a Coronavirus Browser to help researchers visualize the coronavirus genome that causes COVID-19. Refer to the tutorial and video here: http://bit.ly/3qzPyQd. UCSC’s coronavirus browser maps gene and protein alignments, global variants, and even the genomes of variants from other species like bats and pangolins. It draws on sequencing data from around the world,…
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Nanopore sequencing and the Shasta toolkit enable efficient de novo assembly of eleven human genomes
Abstract De novo assembly of a human genome using nanopore long-read sequences has been reported, but it used more than 150,000 CPU hours and weeks of wall-clock time. To enable rapid human genome assembly, we present Shasta, a de novo long-read assembler, and polishing algorithms named MarginPolish and HELEN. Using a single PromethION nanopore sequencer and…
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UC’s CITRIS launches COVID-19 response with 25 awards for innovative technologies
Initial round includes potential “game-changing” innovation for diagnostics, therapeutics, and mitigation
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Genome of beloved sea otter Gidget now available for browsing
UC Santa Cruz Genomics Institute | May 13, 2020 A sea otter genome browser — featuring the Monterey Bay Aquarium’s beloved Gidget – is now available to the public. The visualizable genome for the Southern sea otter, Enhydra lutris nereis, comes following work by the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) and UC Santa Cruz software bioinformaticians to make available the…