
Emily Cerf | UCSC | April 6, 2023
The California Institute for Regenerative Medicine (CIRM) will provide more than $2.6 million in total funding for two major stem cell research projects led by scientists at UC Santa Cruz, the organization announced.
One of the two projects will be led by Professor of Biomolecular Engineering and Director of the UCSC Institute for the Biology of Stem Cells (IBSC) Camilla Forsberg and Bryce Manso, a postdoctoral scholar in her lab. The second will be led by Max Haeussler, Associate Research Scientist at the UCSC Genomics Institute.
For Haeussler’s project, he and his team will build a user-friendly database that brings together a wide range of single cell RNA-sequencing data, which reveals information about the gene expression levels of an individual cell, from the developing and diseased human cerebral cortex. The database is imagined as a “virtual microscope” which will improve the curation and visualization of this data and allow scientists to investigate the role of a specific gene in the development of the cerebral cortex without special computational training.
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