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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…
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Biologist Beth Shapiro’s new book explores how humans have shaped life on Earth
‘Life as We Made It’ explains how our species has been manipulating nature for the past 50,000 years and what the future may hold, depending on how we use new technologies October 18, 2021 | Tim Stephens | UCSC In her new book, UC Santa Cruz biologist Beth Shapiro argues that while gene-editing technology is…
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Stellar new faculty strengthen campus research, teaching
September 23, 2021 | Scott Hernandez-Jason | UCSC Read more of Stellar new faculty strengthen campus research, teaching and link to the source, https://news.ucsc.edu/2021/09/new-faculty.html
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Meet the Inaugural Double Helix (GIDH) Fellow, Krizia Chambers
The UC Santa Cruz Genomics Institute Double Helix (GIDH) Fellowship, a merit-based fellowship newly established in 2021, has been awarded to Krizia Chambers, a PhD candidate in the Program in Biomedical Sciences and Engineering (BMEB Track).
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Study takes unprecedented peek into life of 17,000-year-old mammoth
An adult male woolly mammoth navigates a mountain pass in Arctic Alaska 17,100 years ago in this illustration. The image is produced from an original, life-size painting by paleo artist James Havens housed at the University of Alaska Museum of the North. (Image by James Havens, The Havens Studio) Jeff Richardson | University of Alaska,…
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Can Dinosaurs Be Brought Back to Life Via Cloning? Experts Explain
One Of The Last Dinosaurs To Walk Earth Replaced Its Teeth As Fast As Sharks Ed Browne | August 6, 2021 | Newsweek Read “Can Dinosaurs Be Brought Back to Life Via Cloning?” to hear Institute associate director Beth Shapiro’s take.
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The Extinct Species Within
Snippets of DNA from extinct species linger in the genomes of many animals, including the Tibetan mastiff. Christie Wilcox | Aug 6, 2021 | The Scientist Read The Extinct Species Within to learn more about Institute associate director Beth Shapiro and Institute affiliate faculty Ed Green’s research
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NIH grant funds collaborative research on protein-RNA interactions in cancer
August 03, 2021 | Tim Stephens | UCSC Jeremy Sanford, professor of molecular, cell, and developmental biology at UC Santa Cruz, has received major funding from the National Cancer Institute for research on the role of protein-RNA interactions in cancer. Sanford and Dr. Dinesh Rao at UCLA are co-principal investigators on the grant, which will…
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David Haussler ranked 6th among top scientists in computer science
David Haussler (Photo by Josh Edelson) Tim Stephens | UCSC | July 29, 2021 David Haussler, a distinguished professor of biomolecular engineering in the Baskin School of Engineering and director of the UC Santa Cruz Genomics Institute , is among the top scientists in computer science, ranked sixth in the 2021 Seventh Edition of the…