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NHGRI commemorates 20th anniversary of White House event announcing draft human genome sequence
Prabarna Ganguly, Ph.D. | NHGRI News | June 26, 2020 The signature goal of the Human Genome Project (HGP) was to generate a sequence of the three billion letters (A, C, G and T) in the human DNA instruction book. The multidisciplinary, international consortium worked tirelessly towards this goal, recognizing the incredible resource it would…
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Angela Brooks Named Director, Diversity, for the Genomics Institute
Dr. Brooks has enhanced diversity and inclusion in STEM by creating new training opportunities for students from underrepresented groups UC Santa Cruz Genomics Institute | June 22, 2020 As a splicing specialist, Angela Brooks’s goal is to identify weaknesses in the cancer genome. As a research community member, Brooks’s goals include building strength through diversity.…
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Gavilan College student wins Karl S. Pister Scholarship to UCSC
Mario Escudero plans to study medicine Jan Bernstein Chargin | Patch | Jun 18, 2020 Mario Escudero dealt with death in the family, survived his kids’ teen years, worked full time and explored multiple educational programs and leadership paths on his way to receiving the UCSC Karl S. Pister Leadership Opportunity Award. “He has been…
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Domain-Specific Hardware Accelerators Communications of the ACM
From the simple embedded processor in your washing machine to powerful processors in data center servers, most computing today takes place on general-purpose programmable processors or CPUs. CPUs are attractive because they are easy to program and because large code bases exist for them. The programmability of CPUs stems from their execution of sequences of…
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The Human Genome Project in 2020 Hindsight
Mark Wilson / Newsmakers/Getty Images Two decades after the working draft of the human genome was completed, it is clearer than ever that analysis of the text is just getting started Julianna LeMieux, PhD | GEN | June 5, 2020 On June 26, 2000, President Bill Clinton stood between J. Craig Venter (left) and Francis…
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Statement on Racial Justice
June 10, 2020 | UC Santa Cruz Genomics Institute We are writing to express our outrage and sorrow at the recent murders of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, and Ahmaud Arbery, and to condemn the systemic racism that is at the root of ongoing violence against Black people in this country. We stand firmly against violence…
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Campus, Santa Cruz Community Health unite to test underserved community members
June 04, 2020 | UCSC | Scott Hernandez-Jason Compelled by values of social justice and equity, UC Santa Cruz and Santa Cruz Community Health, a nonprofit primary care provider for low-income patients, are working together to test the area’s underserved residents for COVID-19. As news outlets published stories about celebrities and athletes unnecessarily getting tested for…
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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…