by rmiyatsu | Jan 26, 2024 | Nature News, News
Terrie Williams, University of California, Santa Cruz, will receive the 2024 NAS Award in the Evolution of Earth and Life – Daniel Giraud Elliot Medal. Williams has made fundamental contributions to understanding how large mammals function in their diverse...
by apolozio | Nov 28, 2023 | Nature News, News
The eDNA Explorer allows users to find information on specific organisms, projects in their area, and even the people who have worked on those projects and their methodology. November 28, 2023 By Rose Miyatsu CALeDNA, a UC-wide consortium project to document...
by apolozio | Oct 2, 2023 | Nature News, News
A Common Cactus finch, one of the species of birds in the Darwin finch family. (photo by Erik Enbody) October 02, 2023 By Uppsala University and Emily Cerf An international team of researchers has released a landmark study on contemporary evolutionary change in...
by rmiyatsu | Aug 10, 2023 | Nature News, News, Sequencing
“One goal of the E.B.P. is to compare and contrast large numbers of genomes, revealing how they are related. Benedict Paten, a computational biologist at the University of California, Santa Cruz, has developed software to align genomes and determine which genes...
by rmiyatsu | Apr 27, 2023 | health news, Nature News, News, Platforms, Sequencing
This article is about a series of 11 papers published in a special issue of Science. The research was made possible in part by the Cactus alignment tool created at UC Santa Cruz and contains exciting discoveries by a number of our scientists. For additional coverage...
by rmiyatsu | Mar 20, 2023 | Education News, Nature News, News
Last September, Madeline Slimp had just completed the first year of her Ph.D. program at UC Santa Cruz when she found herself headed on a research trip to South Africa. She was joining her advisor Rachel Meyer, associate professor of ecology and evolutionary biology,...