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Journal: In-Depth Olena Morozova

August 14, 2017

Amanda Rotella, Santa Cruz Economic Development, August 10, 2017 Living in Santa Cruz, it can be easy to forget that we have a world class research institution right in our backyard. If you don’t interact with the University on a regular basis, you may not realize that there are BIG (we are taking gigantically important)…
UC Santa Cruz Genomics Undergrad Awarded Prestigious NIH Research Scholarship

August 7, 2017

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Treehouse Tumor Database Now Available for Research Use

August 7, 2017

UC Santa Cruz Genomics Institute’s Treehouse Childhood Cancer Initiative and the St. Baldrick’s Foundation are making a 11,000+ tumor database available for use by all researchers in the pediatric cancer community and beyond in our continued battle against childhood cancer. The tumor database, available at https://treehouse.xenahubs.net and free for any researcher to use, contains RNA-Seq…
[Friday, August 4, 2017] Human Endoplasmic Reticulum Dynamics During Mitosis: A Pathway for Cellular Diversity

July 27, 2017

BD2K Summer Up 2017 Speaker Series Blake Riggs, PhD San Francisco State University Department of Cell and Molecular Biology Friday, August 4, 2017 11:00am – 12:00pm Biomed 200 All are welcome! Abstract Cell division is classically described as the division of genetic material and the corresponding reorganization of the cytoskeleton. However, the mechanisms by which organelles are segregated…
Nanopore long-read RNAseq reveals widespread transcriptional variation among the surface receptors of individual B cells

July 26, 2017

Nature Communications – 19 July 2017 Ashley Byrne, Anna E. Beaudin, Hugh E. Olsen, Miten Jain, Charles Cole, Theron Palmer, Rebecca M. DuBois, E. Camilla Forsberg, Mark Akeson & Christopher Vollmers Abstract Understanding gene regulation and function requires a genome-wide method capable of capturing both gene expression levels and isoform diversity at the single-cell level.…
Friday 7/28/17 On Complex Systems: Coffee, Genes & Memes

July 24, 2017

BD2K Summer UP 2017 Speaker Series Speaker: C. Brandon Ogbunu, PhD University of Vermont On Complex Systems: Coffee, Genes and Memes Friday, July 28, 2017 11:00am – 12:00pm Biomed 200 All are welcome! The modern world is defined by phenomenon composed of interacting parts that combine and create unexpected and unpredictable outcomes. New breakthroughs in…
Wed. 7/19/17 11am, Advancement To Candidacy Talk: Large-Scale Solutions For Genomic Analysis

July 18, 2017

Large-Scale Solutions For Genomic Analysis John Vivian, PhD Student, Biomolecular Engineering & Bioinformatics Wednesday, July 19, 2017 – 11:00am Engineering 2, Room 599 Host – Professor Benedict Paten Abstract: Reduced sequencing costs due to rapidly advancing genomic technologies has lead to a huge increase in publicly available genomic data. It is necessary to develop…
Fri., July 21, 2017 11:00am: Rapid Evolution of the Human Mutation Spectrum

July 17, 2017

Join us for the next in our BD2K Summer Up 2017 Speaker Series! Kelley Harris, PhD Stanford University Department of Genetics Abstract DNA is a remarkably precise medium for copying and storing biological information, with a mutation rate in humans of about 1e-8 per base pair per generation. This extraordinary fidelity results from the combined…
Visualizing Human Genome Variation

July 14, 2017

A comprehensive, genomic variation graph offers an intuitive view of how human genomes vary Biomedical Computation Review | By Katharine Miller Humans share 99.5 percent of their DNA sequence, but that still leaves plenty of variation to go around. To get a handle on which variations contribute to health or disease, researchers typically compare individuals’…
[Wednesday, July 12, 2017] Healthcare As an Information Business

July 10, 2017

Healthcare as an information business Wednesday, July 12 1:00 — 2:00 PM 599 Engineering 2 Udi Manber Professor and director of Digital Transformation in the Department of Medicine at UCSF Bio Udi Manber is known for his work on search, which he started in the late 80s. After an academic career in Computer Science, he…
Nanopipette technology wins first place in NIH ‘Follow that Cell’ challenge

June 29, 2017

Biomolecular engineer Nader Pourmand has spent years developing technology to measure and track changes within a single living cell over time June 28, 2017 By Tim Stephens Nader Pourmand, professor of biomolecular engineering in the Baskin School of Engineering at UC Santa Cruz, has won the $300,000 first place prize in the Follow that Cell…
Benedict Paten Appointed Assistant Professor, BME

June 26, 2017

SANTA CRUZ, CA – June 26, 2017 – UC Santa Cruz Genomics Institute (GI) Principal Investigator Benedict Paten has accepted a position as Assistant Professor in the Department of Biomolecular Engineering at UCSC. The professorship will begin July 1, 2017. As a computational biologist and principal investigator at UCSC, Paten’s priorities are to develop the…