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ARCS Foundation scholarships support UCSC graduate students
Tim Stephens | UCSC | September 14, 2020 Sixteen UC Santa Cruz graduate students have received scholarships worth a total of $160,000 from the Achievement Rewards for College Scientists (ARCS) Foundation for the 2020-21 academic year. Since 1976, the ARCS Foundation’s Northern California Chapter has given more than $2 million in scholarships to UCSC students.…
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NSF advances 25 projects to explore bold ideas for transformative research
UCSC & HHMI Research Investigator Sofie Salama (left) and UCSC undergraduate student Taylor Real (right). Photo taken by Sandra Ramirez. Sept. 15, 2020 – NSF priorities require bold approaches, built on core research. For our long-term agenda to have the greatest effect, we must venture beyond traditional paradigms to invite input from trusted stakeholders as…
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Alumni spotlight: A UCSC Genome Browser alum continues to explore “the edge of what is possible” at Google
September 10, 2020 By Rose Miyatsu When Chuck Sugnet began his graduate research with Baskin School of Engineering professor David Haussler, the lab was in the midst of a desperate race to complete an assembly of the human genome before a private competitor, Celera, could patent it. “[Haussler and Kent] really had a vision,” Sugnet says.…
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20 years after its debut, UCSC Genome Browser critical to pandemic-era research
Researchers worldwide using UC Santa Cruz’s “one-stop shop” for visualizing SARS-CoV-2 genome mutations SANTA CRUZ, CA – September 9, 2020 – With campus COVID testing capacity at hundreds of tests a day and the start of the online fall quarter just around the corner, UC Santa Cruz Genomics Institute’s paper discussing its much-hailed coronavirus assembly…
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Alumni Spotlight: Human Genome Project alumnus is using genomics to find new solutions for disease
August 12, 2020By Rose Miyatsu When Terry Furey enrolled in the Ph.D. program in Computer Science at the Baskin School of Engineering, he had no idea that he would soon become a part of one of the greatest scientific feats in modern history. As a computer scientist with an interest in biology, Furey had originally been…
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Scientists achieve first complete assembly of human X chromosome
The first end-to-end (‘telomere-to-telomere’) completely gapless DNA sequence of a human chromosome is a major milestone for genomics research
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Congratulations Baskin Engineering Faculty Genomics Institute Faculty & Affiliate on 2020 Promotions and Advancements
Benedict Paten (BME): Granted tenure and promoted to associate professor Benedict Paten has launched a series of high-profile projects that he leads or co-leads, has published numerous journal articles, and is considered a leader in the field of computational biology. He developed a new “human reference genome” to represent the diversity of the human population,…
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Campus marks 20th anniversary of posting the assembled genome to the Internet
UC Santa Cruz researchers played a critical role in ensuring the human genome would be free for everyone, forever SANTA CRUZ, CA – July 7, 2020 The human genome sequence — spelled out in 3.2 billion units of DNA strung together on chromosomes — represents the complete genetic instructions for human life. Decades ago, interest…
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AMELIE speeds Mendelian diagnosis by matching patient phenotype and genotype to primary literature
Finding a gene in the stacks Genetic disease diagnosis can be time-consuming because of the extensive literature searching required. To speed this process, Birgmeier et al. developed AMELIE (Automatic Mendelian Literature Evaluation), an end-to-end machine learning approach with web interface that finds relevant literature supporting the disease causality of genetic variants and their association with different…
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How DNA revealed the woolly mammoth’s fate – and what it teaches us today
DNA evidence has revealed why woolly mammoths died out on St Paul Island, Alaska. World Economic Forum | 24 Jun 2020 | Kate Whiting Dr Beth Shapiro is a paleo-geneticist who uses genomics techniques to understand how species became extinct to help conservation efforts today. By extracting DNA from a frozen lake on an Alaskan…
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Comprehensive Analysis of Genetic Ancestry and Its Molecular Correlates in Cancer
Highlights This large analysis identified ancestry correlates in cancer Ancestry-associated artifacts and confounders were identified Ancestry effects are profoundly tissue specific Rates of FBXW7, VHL, and PBRM1 mutations and immune activity vary by ancestry Summary We evaluated ancestry effects on mutation rates, DNA methylation, and mRNA and miRNA expression among 10,678 patients across 33 cancer…
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Solved: For 43 years, she was ‘Precious’ Jane Doe
She was murdered near Everett in 1977. Years of detective work finally revealed her name: Lisa Roberts, 17.